BFF Challenge: Animal Print

Who doesn't love a good animal print? ;)  Kerrie chose todays theme, and I haven't posted animal print to my blog in a while, so I am excited!

For the base of this mani I used Zoya Minka, followed by dots of China Glaze Foie Gras, and the accent nail of Sinful Colors Snow me White.  I then finished off with acrylic paint for around the spots for the cheetah print, and the zebra print.  Some of my favorite freehand nail art has been Cheetah Print, and I really love using my nail art brush. i used the long haired brush, and it works great!

I think I forgot to put topcoat on, and you can definitely tell a difference, between topcoat and not! Topcoat makes it soooooooo much more shiny!

XOX Caitlin

Check out these other amazing ladies in the challenge! They do some amazing artwork!

Thiamere of On Beauty Stuff & What Else's

Pram of My Nail Polish Addiction

Bec of Lacquer Dreams

Kerrie of PishPosh and Polish

Emma of Manicurity

Alyssa of Fancy Phalanges

Sally Of Nail Pron

Hello Kitty Nail Art!

Rebecca from Rebecca Likes Nails is hosting a nail art contest!

"THE THEME:

My favorite things! I want you to create a manicure that you think I'd love, using my favorite nail art techniques or themes, which are: gradients, animal print, bows, dots, and Hello Kitty.
Create your manicure using one (or more!) of those 5 ideas, and submit it.
Your design doesn't have to be limited to these ideas but just make sure at least one is included somewhere.
Feel free to go back through my posts and take inspiration from them!"

I chose Hello Kitty and Animal Print!

I did a Cheetah print on all of the nails except the ring finger, and I used dotting tools to freehand the hello kitty head onto my nails.

The colors used:

Color Club Poptastic - background
Color Club Hot Like Lava - inside of cheetah and HK Bow
Wet N Wild French White Creme - HK
Wet N Wild Black Creme - details
and as I stated above I used my new dotting tools from ebay!


What do you think of them? Are you entering the contest?

XOX Caitlin

Revlon Carbonite with CC Cold Metal stamp

 I decided to do some nail stamping with my plate. :)

This is Revlon Carbonite with Color Club Cold Metal stamped on.

Yes the Revlon looks a little gold in some pics, but that is just the lighting.

Enjoy!

XOX
Caitlin

Cheetah Print Tutorial

This is a video tutorial I made a while back. It's very basic Cheetah print nails.  I hope it is easy to  understand.   To help better understand I have typed them up below if you decide to paint yours too!


What you need:
3 polish colors
dotting tool or toothpick
top coat

First pick out 3 colors that you want to use.  In the video I wen for a nude polish with neutral accent colors in order to have a classic look.  I have also used neons which was awesome too. (the colors I use are Zoya Minka, Color Club Give me a Hint, and Sally Hansen Black out.

The first step is obviously to paint the base color first.

Next you choose your first accent color which for me was a neutral purple tone.  You place random dots on the nail, it doesn't matter if some of them touch, or if some are bigger than others.  This gives it character. :)

After you have your cheetah dots on the nail you take your third color and get a tad on the tip of the dotting tool.  You place the third color on the outside of the circles you painted on your nails in a half moon shape. You don't have to be perfect with it.  Just paint the half moons on either side and on the ones around them do them perpendicular to the first one.  You don't have to have them all the same way or direction it looks better when they aren't. 

Once they dry put a top coat on to seal it.

I hope this helps.  I am by no means an expert, and my skills at describing them are not the best, I hope I got the point across. lol

XOX Caitlin