Swirly Dry Marbling

About a week ago, I found this really cool nail art idea on Instagram from Girly Bits Cosmetics. I had a bunch of pretty holos from my What's In-die Box when I bought the Disney Princess and the Harry Potter themed ones that I still hadn't tried. It's Spring, so I didn't want to do black, which meant that the hardest part was figuring out which colours to use!

I ended up going with a dark blue for the main base colour. The holo colours were Minutes to Midnight from Gloss n Sparkle and Ariel and Fleur from Glam Polish.

Since it was my first time doing a dry marble, it was more than a little messy. Although probably not as messy as water marbling is. The issue was just that it used much thicker blobs of polish which meant that it took a while to dry. The actual marbling was super easy when you had enough polish, though.

I love how they turned out and will definitely be doing something similar again. Hopefully it'll be easier to clean up now that I know more of what I'm doing!

Brainiac

My husband went to Sydney for a few days last week and I asked him to get me a nail polish from Sephora, since Sydney is their only location down under. Like a good husband, he went and got me one! I told him any one that he liked the colour and/or name of, but I'd prefer a creme. He came back with a beautiful shade of purple called Brainchild.

After a busy weekend, I finally got a chance to paint my nails yesterday. I decided to do a blobbicure of Brainchild and Gray Matter, both from Sephora. I really love this technique because it's so simple and looks pretty cool. Some of my blobs ended up more like a dry marble, but that's fine with me. I always wanted to try dry marbling!

Flowers for Floriade

Today has been a crazy day! I had practice for my singing group because we are singing at Floriade, a big month-long flower festival in Canberra, tomorrow. Then after practice, I headed down to Floriade to meet my husband and some friends from our video game club. It's been a busy, but fun day.

You can't tell from these pictures, but they make really beautiful patterns and designs with different flowers. This year's theme is Refection and the patterns are all military based. It'll look even better from the Ferris wheel when more of the flowers have bloomed! My husband and I may end up going back in a few weeks.

I did some basic flowers on my nails for this weekend. I was glad to find some flowers today that matched!

It's Spring!

Spring started on the 1st of September down in Australia. I wanted to do this mani for the first day of Spring, but it's been a busy few days. I finally had a chance to finish my mani this morning! I used a sugar shimmer for the background to give it some texture like grass.

Dragonfly

My mind was out of inspiration a few weeks ago, so I posed a question on my facebook page asking what I should paint next. My mom answered with dragonfly wings. She recently got a tattoo, which I still think is weird and random. Her tattoo was my inspiration for my nails, although I don't have permission from her to post a picture of her tattoo.