The Nail Art Guild: February 14

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Time for another bi-weekly Nail Art Guild prompt today! The prompt was "out of this world."

I was trying to think of a good, creative idea, but all I could think of was galaxy nails. I'd set my heart on that, but decided I would try different colors and maybe different effects than the last time or two I'd done them. Then it hit me: Valentine galaxies. It was simple, really. All I had to do was trade out all of the usual designs and colors for pinks and hearts! You can find my classic galaxy nails here.

Black: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Night Fright
White: Nicole by OPI Yoga Then Yogurt
Pink: L'Oreal Acid Watermelon
Purple: Maybelline The Color Show Bleached Neons Ultra Violet
Fine Glitter: Finger Paints He-Art Auction
Chunky Glitter: Essie Pinking About You

I did this just like any other galaxy nails, starting by painting my nails black, then topping with a quick dry top coat. After that, I took pieces of sponge and sponged on white, then pink, and finally a little bit of purple. The next common step would be to take fine glitter and paint it to look like little stars, so I did this, just with fine pink glitter! I also used chunky glitter to look like big stars, and of course it was somewhat pink. The final step would be to draw larger stars with white polish, but I drew hearts!

I'm so happy with the outcome of these nails! When I thought of it, I immediately tried it out on a nail wheel, and could not wait to do it again on my actual nails!

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Valentine's Day: Kisses and Lipstick

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Today I did some lips with lipstick to go with it! I've seen both of these done by many people, so I'm not sure of the original creator, or who to credit as my inspiration even.

White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost

Red: Salon Perfect striper Laser Beam

Silver: Salon Perfect striper Silver Pleated

Black: Salon Perfect striper Black Ink

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Valentine's Day: Love Letters

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Today I did some cute love letters for Valentine's Day!

I was inspired to do the large letters by Nailstorming and The Nail Trail. They both did cute manicures like them, and it reminded me of something I did last year, but bigger! The smaller letters were based off a nail I did last year, which I do not remember seeing anyone else do just like that. Finally, my mailbox was based off of a clip art image I found on Google. I thought it would be fun to bring in a mailbox for this, because where else would we put all those letters?!

White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost

Pink: Essie I Pink I Can

The details were all Salon Perfect stripers in White Out, Black Ink, Silver Pleated and Red Laser.

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Valentine's Day: No Tools Dotticure

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The other day when I was scrolling through Instagram, I saw the Chalkboard Nails had posted a new quick video tutorial. It was kind of like a dotticure, but she didn't use any tools! All this takes is the polish brush! I thought it looked awesome, so I decided to try it with Valentine's Day colors.

She taped off half of the nail for all of her fingers, but in only did it on some, just to make it more fun. Plus, if your tape accidentally peels up some of the polish, (like it did on my thumb and index finger) you can just cover the mistake or smudge by adding dots to the other half of the nail!

Base: Essie Tuck It In My Tux

Light Pink: Essie Back in the Limo

Dark Pink: Essie Bump Up the Pump

If you want to see a tutorial, check out Chalkboard Nails on Instagram!

Thanks for reading <3

Superbowl XLIV Nails: Patriots

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I created nails for both teams this year, because I am not a huge sports fan in general. I do enjoy the Superbowl, though, which is why I still made nails for it!

These nails were similar to my Seahawks nails. You can find the details about those here.

My thumb was done the exact same, using Zoya Pixie Dust Chita, for the field, and the Salon Perfect Nail Art striper in white. My accent nail with the Patriots logo was done with Nicole by OPI in Yoga Then Yogurt for the base, and then Sally Hansen nail art pens for the details!

My red and blue nails were Wet 'n Wild Megalast in Echo Dark and Rouge 66. These were both from their fall 2014 collection. For the football nail, I used Essie Partner in Crime as the base, and Salon Perfect striper in white. This time, I used OPI Ice-Bergers and Fries for some dots on the football. I felt like this made the football look more realistic, and fun!

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Valentine's Day: Mini Matte Multi-Colored Hearts

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Today's mani was brought to you by the letter "m!" These actually originally started out as going to be conversation hearts, which is why I chose the colors that I did, and had them multi-colored. Once I got into them, though, I realized that they were way to small to have to go in and write letters on.

I really liked the end result, though, especially once I added the matte top coat on top. Mattifying it did give more of a conversation heart feel, but it still was not exactly what I wanted for that effect. These were super simple though, and did not take as long as I feared they would. I worked fairly quickly, though, because I put all polish colors on my palette at once, and I wanted to be able to layer them. That meant working with some speed, or else the polishes would goop up on the palette.

My colors were:

White: Nicole by OPI Yoga Then Yogurt

Orange/Peach: Maybelline Color Show Bleached Neons Bleached in Peach

Green: Maybelline Color Show Bleached Neons Lime Accent

Blue: Maybelline Color Show Bleached Neons Day Glow Teal

Purple: Maybelline Color Show Bleached Neons Ultra Violet

Pink: L'Oreal Acid Watermelon

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Superbowl XLIV Nails: Seahawks

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Congratulations to the Patriots on their big win on Sunday!

I painted my nails for both teams this weekend, because I'm not a big football person, so I was indifferent on who won. I enjoyed doing them both!

First up is the Seattle Seahawks! For the blue polish, I used Revlon Urban, and the green was Finger Paints Silkscreen Green. The white base for the logo nail was Nicole by OPI Yoga Then Yogurt, and for the design I used Sally Hansen Nail Art Pens in silver and blue.

The football was done using Essie Partner in Crime, and the football field base was Zoya Pixie Dust in Chita. For both nails, the details were Salon Perfect striper in white. I put matte top coat on all but the football field, using OPI Matte Top Coat.

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