Halloween Nail Tutorials: Cleopatra

This year I'm doing as many Halloween-themed nail tutorials as I can, starting with these Cleopatra inspired nails.

Owl Nailart NOTD

Owl Nail Of The Day

This design isn't very easy but if you get a friend to do it on your dominant hand or just do accent nail with an owl then it'll be a lot easier.

Materials:

• an owl-colored nail polish: Revlon Streetwear Polish in Jelly
• white acrylic paint
• orange polish: OPI mini from a halloween kit
• yellow polish: Sinful Colors in Pullover
• a color that compliments your owl color (you could do pink and blue or black and grey, whatever you want!): Revlon in Copper Penny
• Toothpick
• Nail dotting tools or something similar in a few sizes

Steps:

• Base coat (optional): I use Essie Trillionails
• Paint your nails the base color
• Paint a big semi circle tummy for your owl
• With a little toothpick paint some little feather lines
• Use your toothpick again and make little triangles one for the beak, and two for the feet
• Then use all your different size dotters to make the eyes

Here's the result!

Splatter Paint NOTD + Video Tutorial!

I've finally made another video tutorial, I hope you like it! Here are a few pics of my adventures in nail-splatter painting! Make sure you've got a nice big area covered for this design!


Materials:

• Base polish (I used Essence Nail Color in "You Belong To Me*)
• Acrylic Paints (I used Craftsmart and Apple brands from Michaels Craft Store)
• Top Coat (I used a crap one from Nina Pro, I don't recommend it- chips in a day)
• I also used a base coat it's totally optional but in case you're wondering it's Sally Hansen maximum growth daily nail treatment.
• Nail art brush (or any brush really!)
• Water, this should be in a container you don't care about because it will get the acrylic paint all over it, it's also best if it's rather shallow and close to your working surface that way the paint has less space to travel around and get all over stuff. 

The materials I used, my work surface was the backside of an oversized calendar from last year.

My final result...

Just a quick picture of the bottle...I meant to include the swatch picture, oh well.

And if you'd like to see a video tutorial of how to achieve this design in the comfort of your own home (or someone else's if you're not too messy) here's it is! Take a moment to subscribe to my channel and comment if you like. I don't post videos often, but I find them very helpful to watch so I hope you do too!

*Quickie: I LOVE these essence polishes they're great for nail polish hoarders because they're cheap, cool/unique colors, and they're small so 1) they fit in your collection and 2) you don't feel guilty about wasting product because there's not a lot. And OF COURSE- they are amazing quality! Especially the brush, better than any comparably priced nail polish out there. The formula is right up there with my favorites like Revlon and OPI. 

Playful Polkadots Nail Art

Playful Polka-dots

A fun fresh polka-dotted design for any occasion!

1. Apply a base-coat to your nails, I use Sally Hansen Maximum Growth
2. Paint your nails your desired background color, I used Sinful Colors in Pullover (golden yellow creme)
3. (optional) *after waiting more than 4 hours* Tape off your nail so that you can only make polka-dots along a set area, this will give you cut off polka-dots as seen on second finger from the left.
4. Get a large dotting tool or the fat side of a wooden skewer and make a few big dots. I recommend doing this in one or two colors. I used Sinful Colors Folly (hot pink creme) and Sinful Colors Aquamarine (aqua creme).
5. Take a small dotting tool, a pin, or the other side of the wooden skewer to paint little dots around the big ones. I recommend using two or three colors for this step. I used the same pink and blue as before.
6. (optional) Find another object to make dots with (bobby pin, pencil tip) and add some medium sized dots for more dimension.

Remember you can change the color combination for any season/occasion!

Enjoy (:

Pansy NOTD

Products:
Brown- Pumping Gas by Spoiled
Petals- Diva of Geneva by OPI and an old weird shimmery pink.
Petals- Vanilla acrylic paint
Center- Pullover by Sinful Colors

These are inspired by Blognailedit, check out her blog, she does wonderful drawn picture tutorials.







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Spring Cartoon Flowers NOTD

Colors used:
Sassy by Revlon (spring green)
Prospect Park Pink by New York Color

The colors ended up kind if looking like the flowers from Spongebob.






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Blue on Blue Stitched NOTD

Stitched Nail of the Day

A cute blue on blue design inspired from a lovely nail-blog I've just discovered!

Products used:

• Sinful Colors (lighter blue) in Aquamarine


• LA Colors Art Deco nail polish striper in white


• Pure Ice (darker blue) 

From afar you don't really see the two different colors as much. If you have two colors that are even closer together, I highly recommend that to get a more subtle effect.

Up close you can see all I did was paint the nail lighter blue, add stripes of dark blue and dashed lines of white.

I just put the white lines wherever I wanted to make the blue lines end. Some lines were a little too thick or wispy along the edges so I just covered it with the "stitches"!

Here is my inspiration from blognailedit!

see her original blog post here:

Stitched Together