#NailArtApr: Day 05

Welcome back!

Today's theme is Easter, since it is Easter after all!

In honor of the holiday and its true meaning, I did some crosses over a sunset.

White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost

Yellow: Color Club Almost Famous

Orange: Studio M Orange Hot

Red: OPI Coca-Cola Red

Black: Salon Perfect Nail Art Striper Black Ink

I decided to write a tutorial for what I did to create there's nails!

1. Paint a base of one coat of white polish. Once dry, top with a quick drying top coat.

2. Tape off the skin around all of the nail. On a latex free makeup sponge, paint half of the area that will cover the nail in yellow. Next paint most of the rest orange, and then just a thin red line at the bottom.

3. Once the top coat is dry, sponge the color onto the nail, dabbing up and down the nail to blend it in. Repeat this one or two more times in order to make it more opaque.

4. With the black striper, paint a small half circle at the bottom of each nail, and then extend a straight vertical line up, and then a short horizontal line through the vertical line to make the cross. I thickened these up to make it look more like the cross. I only drew crosses on three of the nails.

Thanks for reading <3

Easter: Galaxies

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Today I created some galaxy nails (again), but this time they were Easter themed!

Black: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Night Fright

White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost

Pink: Maybelline The Color Show Bleached Neons Pink Punch

Purple: Maybelline The Color Show Bleached Neons Ultra Violet

Blue: Maybelline The Color Show Bleached Neons Day Glow Teal

Green: Maybelline The Color Show Bleached Neons Lime Accent

Peach: Maybelline The Color Show Bleached Neons Bleached in Peach

Fine Glitter: Claire's White Hot

Chunky Glitter: Zoya Monet

White Striper: Salon Perfect Nail Art Striper White Out

I did these nails just like I've done any other galaxies. For these, I'll write it out step by step, because I haven't done that before!

1. Start by painting nails with a black polish for a base.

2. Using a piece of a makeup sponge and tweezers, I spotted on white polish in the shape that I want the galaxy to be on each nail.

3. Using the pink, purple, blue, green, and peach polish, I sponged them on the same way as the white. I did any touch ups as I went, too.

4. Next, I painted on the fine glitter to look like small stars in the distant.

5. I placed some of the chunky glitter on a palette and picked out a few large glitters and placed them on some of the black spaces on my nails.

6. Using the white striper, I painted a couple of eggs on my nails in place of heat would normally larger stars drawn on in a normal galaxy.

Thanks for reading <3

Easter: Baby Chicks

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The other day I decided to do some baby chick nail art! I know I have seen the baby chick hatching before, but I don't know who originally did them!

Yellow: OPI Good Grief!

Yellow Texture: Nicole by OPI Roughless Sand in My Shoe

White: OPI Alpine Snow

Black: OPI Black Onyx

Other Supplies:

B.M.C. Flocking Powder

Icing Nail Wheel

Dotting Tool

Chevron Nail Vinyls

For these nails, I started by painting my thumb, middle and ring fingers with Good Grief!, and then quickly put a layer of the flocking powder on the thumb and ring finger. For the eyes, I used a couple of black round studs. To make the beak, I used a gold diamond stud and cut it in half so I would have a beak for both chicks. I attached them using OPI Top Coat.

On the middle nail, once it and a top coat were dried on there, I used the chevron nail vinyls to create the cracked looking egg. I used a dotting tool to create the eyes.

Thanks for reading <3

Easter: Decorated Egg Nails

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The past couple of days I have been working on some Easter egg nail art which I'm sharing with you today! It was easy, and only uses a few colors, even though at first glance it looks like a million.

Pink: Sinful Colors Cotton Candy

Purple: Sinful Colors Sweet Tooth

Blue: Sinful Colors Sweet Nothing

Green: Sinful Colors Pistache

Yellow: Sinful Colors Unicorn

White: Sinful Colors Snow Me White

I started this manicure by using each color, besides white, and painting one nail that color for a base, then top coated them. 

Next, I went in with white and drew all the designs out using dotting tools, stripers and Nail Vinyls. Once it dried, I top coated again. 

Finally, I repeated the process exactly on each nail, just using colors instead of white! It was easy!

This could definitely be simplified a little, but I was having so much fun that I think I got a little carried away!

Thanks for reading <3