***Purple Sparkle***

My sister got me these awesome sparkly colors: Zoya pixie dust, in a purple, black, silver and blue. I've been wanting to do something fun with them, and this week I tried something. I only used 2 this time, but I'll do more. I started with a bright purple, knowing it wouldn't be that visible by the end. On the bottom third I used this polish I got ages ago, but haven't been that happy with until now. It's called Butter London, and the color is The Black Knight. It seemed so pretty and sparkly in the bottle, but on the nails it just has made a sorta brownish mess of glitter. Over the purple though (especially with the others to contrast) it worked really well- and it's definitely good stuff to paint with. Expensive, but I want to get more of the brand. Then came a bit of the light purple Zoya in the middle, and silver on the top. I liked that the silver had a bunch of big glitters in it. Unfortunately covered a bit of the middle when I did the silver (and I think the top coat smudged some too) but overall I thought it had a pretty effect. Not quite as creative as I usually go, but I think it ended up quite elegant.

Gave you two views, just so you could appreciate the colors and effect.

<3 Laura <3

"Dino" Nails? Ok, alien frogs...

Well I found this youtube video with a tutorial to paint these adorable dinosaur nails:

Dino nails!  I decided to try it for myself!

It seems it was a little harder than I thought. But these are pretty cute alien frogs...! 

If anyone else wants to give it a try, I'd love to see what you come up with!

<3 Laura <3

Happy Die Hard Christmas!

A very happy Die Hard Christmas to you all.  

Now I have a machine gun.

Not that you can see it, but I tried to use cotton to make the hat there cool and somewhat three dimensional.  You can sort of tell in person, but it doesn't really fit the Die Hard theme...

Mother *Russia*

<3Laura<3

Winter is coming!

I haven't seen or read the game of thrones, but I believe winter is coming is someone's house words? Regardless, winter is indeed coming to Delaware. As I get colder outside, and attend holiday parties... Always nice to have some fun winter nails. Light blue on all, with hand drawn snowflake on thumb, white and silver crackle, some cool fluffy white and blue stuff on the middle, and white and silver dots on pinky. Fun but simple. Did the same on my right hand, though slightly less well.

Happy winter!!

<3Laura<3

COMIC!

Well, my husband is running Dialogue Free Comic Day, so I made a quick comic out of some old nail pictures to be included.  Here it is:

Very silly, and rough, but I had fun.  To see a bunch of other Dialogue Free Comics (that are much better!) go to http://dialoguefreecomicsday.wordpress.com/

<3 Laura <3

Thanksgiving(ish) nails

Well, I guess they're not really that thanksgiving-y, but I guess I was going for autumnal, and I think they work... I used this method:
From a cool blog
Which is something I've heard about but never really tried.  It worked pretty well, I think I took off a little too much from some mails, and they are a little too bare or thin, but it's a fun effect.  It feels bad though, because it seems like it wastes a lot of polish!  I'll probably experiment with it more another time.

<3 Laura <3

Fall polka dots

Just a simple polka dot pattern over a shiny brown- tried to do autumn colors. Nothing too exciting, I just needed something new.

<3 Laura<3