True Blood S6

Today is the season premier of True Blood season  6 and I could not be more excited! For the next 12 weeks I get my favourite vamp back in my life, Eric Northman. Typically I'm not into blondes, but I'll make an exception for Alexander Skarsgard any day! Last year I got great feedback from my true blood nails, so this year I had to go with an even better design.

These nails are done using my water slide decals that I print myself. After going through numerous pics on google and choosing a photo for each nail, I resized the pics to fit and printed them out on water slide decal paper. To apply the decals you simply cut out the shape, place it in water for about 10 seconds, then slide off the backing and apply to your nails. The nails should be painted with white polish before you start.

Nails done, now I just have to patiently wait for the episode....

Nails Magazine Next Top Nail Artist

I am so excited to announce that I will be competing in Nails Magazines next top nail artist competition. I got the email on friday letting me know that I made it as a semi-finalist in the top 24. The competition begins this week, with a couple challenges during the next few weeks and 2 eliminations of 6 people. After that the final 12 will be announced and we begin competing in the summer. As always I appreciate all the support I get from my followers, when the time comes for voting I will be posting links and ask that you please vote for me! Thank you in advance!!! 

Orange and Yellow Floral Fade

Today's post is a fun orange fade with some yellow flowers, perfect for this beautifully warm weather we have been having!!.

This design was done on one of my clients using Gelish in Tiger Blossom and some matching loose glitters. To create this fade look I applied the polish using a make up applicator (the double sided kind with the sponge tips) using one end of the applicator I blended the polish down the nail bed keeping it heavier at the tip and feathering it out towards the middle of the nail. Next using the other side of of the applicator I pressed the loose glitter into the polish. The flowers were painted using Orly Instant Artist Sunshine, Crisp White, Chocolate, Hot Green and Solid Gold.

TVD Las Vegas

Just returned home from a fabulous vacation in Las Vegas for the Vampire Diaries Convention. If you know me, you probably know that I am completely obsessed with Ian Somerhalder, and you can imagine how much I enjoyed meeting this beautiful man. I already have customers asking to see the photos so I'll post them after the nail pics....warning!!! you may experience jealousy, he looks exceptionally good!!

For my Vegas nails I wanted to go full glitz, but I also planned to do a little networking while I was there so I had to find a way to add something TVD. So I decided to go with eight glittery, blinged out nails and two Ian accent nails. For the main design I went with a charcoal gel polish, Gelish Midnight Caller with silver glitter pressed into it. I then painted a black leopard print using my Jet Black Instant Artist paint, to finish them off I glued on an assortment of three different sized crystals all in different color schemes. The ian accent nails were done like all my other DIY decals, I printed the picture on decal paper, cut it to size and applied it to the nails, there is more info under waterslide decals

These nails are very suitable for me, They are a combo of my four favorite things I could put on my nails; glitter, crystals, animal print and those smoldery blue eyes

As promised here is the picture... I love how it turned out and just in case you were wondering he is even more wonderful in real life. Most of the actors were good sports and did the photo ops with all their crazy fans, but you could tell Ian really enjoyed it. He was just so sweet and DAMN this man is hot!!! too sexy for words...I got to be near him on two different occasions, one for the photos and the second time was for the autograph, both times I was a star struck fool. One glimpse into his eyes and I was speechless.

 

 

Blue Bells Ring

Today's post, for my second Swatch'n Saturday is China Glaze's Blue Bells Ring. This polish is hands down my favourite Blue polish and I have quite the collection. Being from Vancouver I am constantly on the hunt for the perfect Canucks blue, so over the years I have accumulated quite a few. I had a mix emotion of pride and guilt the other day when I used my new China Glaze app to colour match my jersey, I actually owned all 18 suggestions.

The reason why I chose this beautiful metallic cobalt blue is because tonight was Earth Hour and I thought the colour would make the perfect base for a earth themed mani. My Earth Hour was pretty uneventful, after a busy day at the salon and a dark apartment I was out for the count, I fell asleep by 8:35.

This design is super simple and the combo of metallic polishes looks great together. I started with my Blue Bells Ring Base, then using my small dotting tool and my darker green polish I added in random earth like shapes over the nails. Then with a softer golden green I added some minor detail to the center of the green I previously painted. The two shades I used are from China Glaze's Bohemian Collection. The darker colour is Unpredictable and the other is Rare and Radient both stunning shades. To finish off the design I used my Black instant Artist paint ant outlined the cuticle area, this created a more rounded earth like shape on the nail.

I love this design, it is a combo of two of things I'm most passionate about, which are preserving our earth and nail art. I hope you like them as much as I do!

Four Leaf Clover

Today I am starting a new feature on my blog called Swatch'n Saturdays. Where every Saturday I will feature one of my favorite polishes and I will show the color on its own and also with some simple nail art. For my first Polish I chose China Glaze's Four Leaf Clover. I thought it would be very suitable with St Patricks Day tomorrow.

I discovered this shade last summer and I fell in love! The polish is a really nice bright cream, however the name is slightly confusing. To me this color is a definite teal not really green, when I think of four leaf clovers I picture something completely different. But either way I'm loving it, I wear tons of teals and turquoise so this polish is a great match for me.

For today's art I painted a rainbow and clovers using Orly Instant Artist paints at the end of the rainbow on my thumb I added some gold studs. There is one major tip if you are using this polish, sometimes it turns the nail art yellow after too coat is applied. To stop this I I do 1 coat of either base or top coat before doing any hand painted nail art.

Vacation French

These nails are a new acrylic set done on my cousin who is headed to Mexico...with all this rain, I'm quite jealous! This design may look familiar to some of you, last year I posted a something very similar, that design was done with a multi colored polish and different cocktails. To make the design a little more wearable we went with a blue french with some cocktails and then I added some tropical flowers as well.

The french was done using a loose blue glitter inlaid into the acrylic and the deign is painted with an assortment of acrylic paints and Orly Instant Artist paints