Day 5: Blue nails

 On to Day 5 of Chalkboard Nails Challenge. Today I wanted to try out these awesome cloud nails inspired by nailsbymh on Tumblr. When I first saw these I was in awe. They just looked so cool compared to all the cartoon clouds out there.

Since she didn't have a how to on this design I took on the task of creating a step by step on how I was able to achieve this affect...

Step 1

I used a medium blue in the top of my nail down to about 1/2 of my nail.

 

Step 2

With a lighter blue I painted the other 1/2 of my nail

Sep 3

With the darker color I sponged a cross the middle of the 2 colors to blend.

Step 4

Then I did the same with the lighter color to achieve a better blend

Step 5

Again with a piece of sponge I added white patches to create the clouds.

Step 6

With a dotting tool I used black & gray polish and semi blended it together to create the shadows in the clouds. I left a little of the polish darker to go under the gray.

 

 

And there you have It!

 

 

 







 

 

Colors I used:

 

Pure Ice "French Kiss"

 

OPI "No room for the Blues"

 

Sally Hansen "Wet Cement" & "Black Out"

 

Sinful Colors "Snow me White"

 



Day 4: Green

Day 4 of this wonderful challenge. Today's theme is "green" nails. I was looking at my nail art boad trying to figure out what to do for green.

I wanted to do frogs but, I didn't like the frogs that I had done before. So, I was looking for cartoon frog images and came across Keroppi. He is so freakin cute. I had to do him. initally I wanted to do pastel back grounds but, since this was a "green" day challenge I went with a green background...



Colors I used: Sally Hansen: green with envy China glaze: starboard Sinful colors: snow me white & soul mate So easy striper in black

Day 3: Yellow

Well it's Day 3 now of this challenge and the theme today is Yellow

Please excuse my cuticles, there are rather dry today... I'm having issues.

So, when I saw that the theme was going to be yellow the first thing that popped in my head was... Street Signs! Since they are mostly yellow I thought that this design would be great to feature today's theme.

There are so many street signs to choose from but, I went along with these.

Colors I used:

Sinful Colors pull over & ruby ruby

China Glaze starboard

Sally Hansen mellow yellow

So Easy Stripers black , white, & red

Day 2: Orange

I'm not a big fan of the color orange but when I saw that today's Challenge was the color Orange I got a little excited.

I bought this color at Clare's the other day. It's a Clare's Cosmetic Brand ant the name of the collection is "Starstruck". The color is "little dipper"

When I bought it I had the intention of using it in my Halloween nail art for next month. But, since today's challenge is Orange, I had to use it. I didn't want to pair it with colors that would make it look like fall or Halloween so I paired it with teal to make it look more like summer since summer isn't unofficially over till Tuesday.

I really like this color because of the shimmer behind it. It almost looks like a holographic in the sun. Its really pretty.

Colors I used:

Clare's: little dipper
Santee: beach blue
Sally Hansen: lickety split lime
So Easy Striper in black

Chalboard Nails 31 Day Challenge: Day 1

Here it is Day 1: RED

Today's challenge is RED. I couldn't just do plain red so I added some black checks using my "Checkered technique" from a previous post Checker Rainbow

Colors I used:
Sinful Colors "Ruby Ruby"
China Glaze "Ruby Pumps"
So Easy Striper in Black
Black acrylic Paint

Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge

So, I came across Chalkboard Nails 31 Day Challenge yesterday on Tumblr and I decided that I'm going to give it a go.

I've been having some inspirational problems so I thought that this would be a great way to get some posting done.

This will be my second challenge. The first challenge I did was My Wah Nail Art Book Challenge, where I attempted each nail technique featured in the book according to their tutorials. That was a 23 day challenge I believe. i had fun doing it an I know that I will have fun again doing this challenge. I hope that I can keep up. If not then there will probably be some double posting by me.

OG Booster Club Fundraiser

All of these little nails were part of the fundraiser I did last week for The Olympic Carnival at Oceanside Gymnastics in Cali where my daughter goes. Myself and 2 other wonderful mothers from our Booster Club painted nails and charged $5-$15 per set. It was so much fun and all the girls were so happy with their manis.

The most popular was obviously the Olympic set. It was a pain in the butt to do but after seeing how happy each girl was it made it all worth the hard work.... Not to mention the $170 we made in just a couple of hours.

I totally recommend other nail artists to do events like this if you have the time to donate. It is so simple to raise money and you feel accomplished and satisfied with all of the art you get to put on little girls' nails.

I wish I would have taken pictures of all the nails that we did. Unfortunately I only got these pics. I get caught up in the art and forget to take pictures after each mani is done. I also forget to collect the money so I always make sure to have someone else doing that.

If you would like to do a fundraiser like this These are some recommendations...

1. Have at least 2 other people helping you with the event. Their duties would be to do base coats, base colors, and top coats. Also to collect money and organise a waiting list.

2. Create a display of your Art. This is also great for advertising your event. That way people can see what kind of work you can do.

3. Take pictures of the nails. Make sure your not taking pictures of the faces because then you have deal with release forms and its just too much drama.

I can't think of anything else right now.

4. Oh yeah... Have Fun!