Haven't posted in awhile, i've been super busy with life. I have been doing great at school, doing full sets are no problem anymore, i'm learning "pink and white", but i'm twisting the technique with cracked ice,colored acrylic, and such.
Here are a few of my October designs. October is breast cancer awareness month, so in honor i have done a TON of toes with ribbons. I didn't take any pictures, but they're all pretty much just pink toes, with pink ribbons on them with some glitter to jazz it up. below are my pumpkin toes and Halloween designs.
Black nail polish i picked up at Sally's. Pro something is the brand, then i painted the pumpkins with acrylic paint, topped it with some nail glitter and topped it with OUT THE DOOR top coat. which seems to be my favorite top coat so far. super shiny and dries really quickly!
french with pumpkin-acrylic paint, candycorn-acrylic paint, black with pumpkin-acrylic paint and glitter, spider and web-acrylic paint with glitter, bat-acrylic paint then outlined with glitter polish stick, frankestein is also acrylic paint. This picture doesn't show very well the TINIEST of details in the ribbons, or the halloween designs. the ribbons have 2-3 different pinks.Below are my "pink and whites". I got bored with regular pink and white and decided to play around with it... 
i first designed the heart out of dark pink acrylic. then carefully used white to edge it and make the tip. cut, and voila! heart in tip!
These are some designs my friend copied from the internet, and i then copied her. the last one is my own creation using glitter. I didn't add the clear acrylic over it as i would've liked to. Sadly i was all out of clear. the other designs are super cute. The one on far left is asian inspired. i used the nail art striping paints(i can't figure out the right name for those things), the rose buds were done with nail art paint thingys as well, the purple nail design was used with half acrylic paint and half nail art sticks(again, still struggling with the technical term for those things) a dotter and some glitter. The black and white nail was created using acrylic paint, and a touch of glittter. For the red nail i used polish and nail art stripers.pretty cool designs right?
tiny flower using a dotter and a tooth pick to make the lines in the petals, and nail art stick thingys for lines and "leaves", then dotter again for black mini dots and center of flower. looks pretty cool on a longer nail bed.
my zebra toes, inspired by my friend Dani. We used bright medium pink for top half, white for bottom half, and used a black nail art pin stripe thingy for the zebra lines. glitter line to seperate the two and BAM! you've got really awesome toes! I got ALOT of compliments on these.
the last picture is pretty dark, but i used LA colors art stick polish thingys for all the designs.
I have been using an art box with lots of different compartments to hold all my nail polish accessories, but its overflowing, and the snap locks are coming off! I have been on the search for a Train Case. I seem to take a liking to the OPI cases since they have 32 slots for polishes. Only problem is that they're super expensive. I found one at walmart, but it wasn't big enough, and i haven't looked at Sally's, Sephora has a few, but they're overpriced in my opinion. Ebay seems to be a hotspot(as usual), but i am afraid of buying one and it not being big enough for all my stuff.
i first designed the heart out of dark pink acrylic. then carefully used white to edge it and make the tip. cut, and voila! heart in tip! i bought a cheap set of acrylic colors and have been playing around with the "pink and white" technique. This picture doesn't show how bright the neon yellow really was, and i originally thought i was using magenta, but after adding nail monomer, it turned dark blood red-bummer.
For these i used blue and purple acrylic, then topped it with blue and purple cracked mylar ice. regular pink and white style, but jazzed up. this was my first attempt, and i didn't file or drill for this picture... so yea.... don't hate on the shape!
I've also been playing with designs, copied a few from my friend(who copied them from somewhere online), and came up with a ton of my own. I am not posting pictures of ALL of the designs today.
These are some designs my friend copied from the internet, and i then copied her. the last one is my own creation using glitter. I didn't add the clear acrylic over it as i would've liked to. Sadly i was all out of clear. the other designs are super cute. The one on far left is asian inspired. i used the nail art striping paints(i can't figure out the right name for those things), the rose buds were done with nail art paint thingys as well, the purple nail design was used with half acrylic paint and half nail art sticks(again, still struggling with the technical term for those things) a dotter and some glitter. The black and white nail was created using acrylic paint, and a touch of glittter. For the red nail i used polish and nail art stripers.pretty cool designs right?
tiny flower using a dotter and a tooth pick to make the lines in the petals, and nail art stick thingys for lines and "leaves", then dotter again for black mini dots and center of flower. looks pretty cool on a longer nail bed.my zebra toes, inspired by my friend Dani. We used bright medium pink for top half, white for bottom half, and used a black nail art pin stripe thingy for the zebra lines. glitter line to seperate the two and BAM! you've got really awesome toes! I got ALOT of compliments on these. the last picture is pretty dark, but i used LA colors art stick polish thingys for all the designs. I have been using an art box with lots of different compartments to hold all my nail polish accessories, but its overflowing, and the snap locks are coming off! I have been on the search for a Train Case. I seem to take a liking to the OPI cases since they have 32 slots for polishes. Only problem is that they're super expensive. I found one at walmart, but it wasn't big enough, and i haven't looked at Sally's, Sephora has a few, but they're overpriced in my opinion. Ebay seems to be a hotspot(as usual), but i am afraid of buying one and it not being big enough for all my stuff.
I have 51 hours left of school, and then i graduate. In florida you only need 240 hours to get your Nail Technician Certificate. So i'm ALMOST there!!!
That's it for now, life is calling me.
