Sunday, February 23, 2014

Nail-Art-A-Go-Go Day 23 - Oils

For today's manicure, I decided to mimic a painting that I have in my living room. It is a print of one of Claude Monet's paintings of the Path at La Cavee Pourville.


Here is how my version turned out. It's no Monet, but I'm pretty happy with this one. I had a lot of fun doing it, too!






I started out with L.A. Colors Mega Watt for my base. It is a good nude for me. It has a slight shimmer to it, too. Since I have never swatched it before, I'll show it now. This is three thin coats.


Thanks so much for looking today. Make sure you take a look at what the others did for today's challenge as well!


Thursday, February 20, 2014

Golden Oldie Thursday - Chevron

Today's post is not my best work, but it's all I can do and still keep up with this challenge. You would think I wouldn't have trouble managing only one mani a week! This poor manicure was just riddled with problems and finally I just accepted the imperfection. I started out with high hopes, too. First, I shall show you the polishes I decided to pair up for this.


This is China Glaze Prey Tell and L'oreal The Temptress' Power. In the bottles next to each other, this looked like a great idea to me. Unfortunately it did not translate so well onto the nail. :( Wahhhhh! I started off with two coats of Prey Tell. Then I pulled out a cutter that I bought for scrapbooking to make my chevrons only to find that what they referred to as zigzag was actually just wavy. Grrr. So then, I thought I would just cut the tape by hand. About ten minutes in, I gave up and decided to just freehand it. That is when I discovered that once painted over Prey Tell, The Temptress's Power lost all of it's tan/gold color and became very green/almost yellow. By then it was about 7pm, and since I wanted to get this in before midnight, I just went with it. So, here you go. I'm going to have to do a proper chevron mani with colors that actually look good together at a later date. haha


Here is Prey Tell all by its self. It's a beautiful, rich, warm brown cream. It makes me want chocolate. :) And, like every China Glaze polish I own, it goes on like a dream.


Alright, well that post was a bit more complain-y than I intended, but it's past my bedtime and I need my beauty sleep. I hope you all have a great night and a happy Friday since most of you won't see this until then! Make sure you check out what everyone else did, too!