Peacock

My nails were chipping really badly so I repainted them yesterday. I decided to go with a peacock theme. I've been wanting to do it for a while but it was summer back when I was in America and the colours seem more wintery so I waited. Plus I don't currently have a challenge taking place.

They look better in real life as my camera is not very forgiving towards little mistakes and it seems to highlight any errors. These nails are also part of the rare occurrence where my right hand looks loads better than my left hand! I attribute that to being slightly left handed so it got messed up as it wasn't fully dry when I was trying to do other things.

Butterfly in the sky

Today's theme for the Challenge Your Nail Art group on Facebook was butterflies and gardens. I didn't do the other days because it's harder having just moved, but I've been wanting to do butterfly wings for some time now having seen it on Pinterest.

I was going to do a monarch butterfly, but I don't really like orange and it would clash with most of my clothes. Then the house that I'm staying at has a poster with a bible verse and a butterfly with green wings. I wasn't sure if the black would show up for my nail art but luckily I was already wearing the colour and did a few dots to see. I was happy with the result so I redid my nail and painted the details.

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Matte

The theme for this week is matte.  I'm not a huge fan of matte polishes because I like my polished nails to be shiny, but I do have one matte nail polish. It's part of Revlon's nail art 2 in 1 pens.  It's called pinstripe.

I just got to Australia this weekend, so I don't yet have all of my usual mail art tools plus I'm not the best using this type of polish. It's designed for nail art, so the silvery blue brush is smaller and I just used that for my accent nail.

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I've got the whole world... *on* my *fingernails*!

I'm moving to Australia tomorrow, so I wanted to make sure that I have my nails done and wanted them to be travel related. I really wanted to do a map manicure. I looked up how to do it, but I had no success. All that happened was that some of my nail polish came off and the print from the map did absolutely nothing.

Instead, I decided to paint them as the world. I made a sketch of the world and folded it to determine what parts would be on the left/right hand and what fingernails. They were pretty tricky to paint because I wanted to make sure that they lined up and even trickier to take a photo of because my mom had to take it and I couldn't see how my nails looked until after the picture was taken.

I think that they look pretty good, though. I'm very happy with how they turned out. The US is split between the index and middle finger on my left hand, but Australia is on my right pinkie.

One last manicure

I'm leaving tomorrow to move to Australia, so I did one last manicure on my mom's nails. She even said that she got complimented on them by her weight lifting friends. I like hearing compliments on my nail art when I don't have to point them out to people. It was just a variation of what I did on my own nails last weekend. Unfortunately her nails wear easily and I didn't get a picture until a few days after they were done.

Pearls

June's birthstone is Pearl, so that was this week's theme for NAIL. I wasn't sure what to do, but I found some pearl-like beads down in my mom's sewing stuff that she let me use. I am not the kind of girl that wears pearls, but I thought that pearls go well with a little black dress, so that was my inspiration this week.

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Wear Pink 2.0

On Thursday, my extended family decided that they wanted to have a party on Saturday for my aunt, who is battling breast cancer. She was starting to lose her hair, so it was going to be a head shaving party. Since this weekend was my last one in the US (I got my visa on Friday!) we were going to stay home in Michigan. Then on Friday afternoon we decided to head down to Ohio for the weekend.

Because we only had a couple of hours to get ready and I had to shower and pack in that time, I had to do my nails really quickly. I probably spent a total of 15 minutes on this mani, so I had to touch it up a few times over the weekend. I liked the idea behind it, but as I was so rushed for time the execution was pretty bad. Here's a pic of it.

They smell as good as they look!

I leave for Australia, where it will be winter, in just over a week, so I wanted to do my idea for a watermelon mani before I leave. A few weeks ago, my mom and I bought some nail polishes from Revlon's Parfumerie collection. They are scented after they dry. One of the nail polishes that we got is called Ginger Melon. It's a beautiful coralish pink, perfect for a watermelon. I looked at some watermelon manis on pinterest for some inspiration and decided to go with a French manicure design.

First I painted my nails all the Ginger Melon. I did this before I went out to the park with my parents and we actually saw some peonies that were the same colour! We walked through the peony garden and along the river and I could not stop smelling my nails. I love this scent!

When I got home, I had to add the white part of the watermelon. I decided to sponge paint the white on my nails to make it look more like the natural variation in colour of the white part of a watermelon.

The next step was to do green. I used my Con-Fused? from the China Glaze Magnetix collection.

The green part needed some striping, so I used Low Tide by Spa Ritual. I tried doing some lines with a bright green on my right hand, but this colour looked much better.

Finally I added some black seeds with the old black that is in my collection and cleaned up my nails a bit. I love how they turned out and even smell like watermelon. They're so perfect!

Leopard

The prompt for this week for the NAIL challenge is Leopard. I'm not a big fan of animal prints or neutral colours, so I decided to do this week's challenge on my mom's nails. She likes her nails to be neutral and more simple art, so I just did an accent nail. I used Barefoot in Barcelona by OPI for the base colour on her nails. The middle part of the spots is A-Piers to be Tan by OPI and the black is an old Wet 'n' Wild that has the label warn off.

It was my first time doing leopard nails and I was pretty happy with how they turned out!

The base colour is so similar to her skin colour that I didn't realise that I forgot to clean off her nail before taking the picture until I went to post it! She's already in bed and her nails wear off fast, so I'm not sure if I will be able to get another picture or not.

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