Black & White Chevron Nail Art

Here is some more nail art for you guys! I was looking for some ideas when I came across this post and I absolutely loved it.  Sadly mine did not turn out quite as good but here you go.  I did not have the beautiful gold silver color used so instead I decided to just use a silver metallic color by Creative called Times Square.

I started off with one coat of Times Square which is a beautiful polish but the application is absolutely dreadful! It is thick and streaky, not nice at all.  After that dried I used nail tape to add the design with relatively straight lines.  I used Confetti Black Tie and Sinful Colors Snow me White for the other colors.  The black was easy one coat no problems but the white needed 2 coats to be completely opaque.  

Polka Dot Nail Art

I was feeling like doing something fun so I decided to try out some different polka dot designs for my manicure today.  I started off with three coats of OPI's Shootout at the O.K. Coral which is a bright hot-pink, coral color.  The polish was a bit translucent so it needed three coats to be completely opaque.  I then used Sinful Colors Aquamarine for some fun dots.

On my thumb I just did diagonal rows of dots which turned out quite pretty.  The pointer finger was just dotted normally.  On my middle finger I tried out a gradient dot design which I really liked.  My ring finger I left plain and just dotted three large dots on my pinkie.  For all of the dots I just used the back of a nail art brush and it worked fine.  

OPI Is That Silvia?

I got this polish a little while back for christmas and I finally got a chance to try it out.  It is one of the magnetic polishes from OPIs Skyfall collection that came out at the end of 2012.  It is a shimmering light grey with a pattern of a darker grey that varies in darkness depending on how long you hold it under the magnet.   The two contrast beautifully and the pattern definitely shows up which I was worried about before trying it.  It came with the diagonal stripe design magnet but it works with any other magnets as well, however the stripe is the only one I have right now.

The application is a bit tricky just because you need to do the design quickly before the polish starts to dry.  This meant I had to paint one nail, use the magnet, paint the next nail ect. and that took a little longer than normal.  The polish was also a bit translucent with one coat, although you could probably still just do one, so I used two, painting the two coats quickly as I could before using the magnet.  Besides the slight rush the application was pretty great, the brush as always with OPI was amazing, and the polish was a good thickness and it also dried remarkably fast.  For a first try with magnetic polishes it worked amazing now I just can't wait to try out some others, and maybe some different magnet designs as well.

Essie Sand Tropez

I have been looking for a nice beige for a while now and the other day when I was at Target I grabbed this and I love it!  Essie describes it as "a soft sandy beige" but to me it seemed to have a more grey undertone than a sand colored one.  However, even with the poor name choice I thought it was a beautiful beige that worked well with my skin tone which is always an issue with beiges.  The application was a little thick but with two coats it smoothed out and looked great.  

OPI Conga Line Coral

This color is an old one that I got so long ago I can't even remember but I decided to show it to you guys anyway.  It is called Conga Line Coral by OPI and it is pink tinted slightly orange.  I know it looks very dull and orange in the picture below but I was just having a lot of difficulty getting the color to show well, and it is actually much more pink.  As usually with OPI the application was easy and it is a truly beautiful, eye-catching color.

 I was experimenting with some nail art so for my ring finger I tried to do a cheetah freehand design.  I started with Sinful Colors Snow Me White for a base coat and then used Conga Line Coral for the inside of the spots which I lined with Sinful Colors Secret Admirer.  Obviously it was not amazing but for by first try I liked how it turned out.

Spoiled Your Fly's Down

So first I have to say the name of this nail polish really made me laugh, Spoiled a brand by Wet n Wild always has the best names!  So for this mani I decided to do a little patriots nail art for the big championship game tonight. On my ring finger I started off with Snow Me White by Sinful Colors and then used Your Fly's down, I Don't give a Rotterdam by OPI, and a red whose name I don't know also by OPI for the Pats logo.  I really liked how it turned out despite the fact that it was one of my first attempts at free hand nail art.  The rest of the nails however I did not like as much, the polish was too thick and came out quite poorly in my opinion but overall a pretty good mani.  Only disappointment was the actual football game.

NYC Starry Silver Glitter

This is NYC's Starry Silver Glitter over gorgeous by Sinful Colors.  This polish is a thin silver sparkle with cobalt blue and mauve colored small hexes.  The sparkles are pretty dense but the hexes are hard to find and I had to dig around about to find some.  I really like this glitter however because of the different colors that will go over basically any color, I especially want to try it over a black and maybe white too.  The application was a bit tricky due to the small amount of hexes and the polish was also a bit thick but one coat was definitely enough.  I think two coats would have been too much of the silver sparkles as it was already so densely packed.