The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!

While my nails may not taste like the fruit they show, they do smell like them! When deciding what to do with this prompt, I realised that I have a few different polishes that smell like fruit. How perfect! I started off with Chic from Revlon as the base colour for my nails.

My index finger is a raspberry. I used Raspberry Rapture from Revlon. I also added some of the Blackest Black from Designer Brands so that I could have the darker part inside of the raspberry.

My middle finger is a bunch of grapes. I used Grape Icy from Revlon with Envious from Kmart as the vine.

My ring finger is a slice of watermelon using Ginger Melon from Revlon Parfumerie. I also used Lily White from Ulta 3 and Envious to make the rind. Blackest Black is used for the seeds.

My pinkie is an apricot. I used Apricot Nectar from Revlon Parfumerie. For the stem, I used A-piers to be Tan from OPI. A combination of the two was used for the indentation mark.

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Violet

I was pretty sick on Saturday so I didn't have a chance to do my nails. Then I was busy on Sunday so I didn't get a chance to catch up until Monday! But since it's for a daily challenge, I'm backdating this blog post.

I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do for violet nails, so I looked at my polishes and chose Grape Icy by Revlon, which is a scented one but not one of the current parfumerie ones. I also chose Pink Diamonds by L.A. Colors.

I started with painting my accent nail Pink Diamonds. It took a more than a few coats to get it to show up enough that I was happy with it. I painted the others with Grape Icy and added the tape to my accent nail when it was fully dry.

I then painted over the nail and tape with Grape Icy. I realised that the lighting inside makes it look pink when I take a picture, so I went outside in the natural light. Usually it's late and dark, since it's winter, by the time I do my nails, so I was glad to be able to go outside. I shows a much more accurate colour of my nails.

I took the tape off and this is how it looked. I like the concept, but this Grape Icy was definitely the wrong polish to use. It kept smudging and not drying. I think it just dries at a slower rate than my other polishes. When I took off the tape, the Grape Icy polish sort of stretched and covered up the Pink Diamonds part. I used a pencil to separate it so that you could see the lines. I'll definitely do this design again, just not with the same polishes!

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Roses

Day 25 of OMD2 is Roses. I'm painting them the same day as the lavender ones, so I chose to paint that as my base colour. It was my first time attempting to do roses, but I had seen tutorials and pictures online. These are the polishes that I used.  From left to right, they are Lavender Soap, Summer Rose, and Koala-Berry.

I am sad that I forgot to take a picture of my nails during the process of painting them, but it was quite simple. I just made light pink blobs with Summer Rose. Then I did some board lines with the Koala bear-y and made a dot or brought the outer lines into the middle. It was actually really similar to the leopard print but with pinks instead of browns.

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Chevron

I chose to use some new nail polishes. I got them when I was in Sydney when my family was visiting for my wedding and they were on sale. Since I have a rule that I can't buy nail polish until I have a job, my now-husband bought them for me. He's pretty awesome like that. Both nail polishes are from Revlon and they are from an older version of the scented ones, but most of the labels have been worn off.

The purple is Grape Icy. That one smells so good! Most scented nail polishes don't have a strong scent until after it dries, but this one was a blast of grape right when I opened it. My husband even noticed. I tried to take a picture of just the purple on my nails, but neither with or without the light really captured the colour. It's a shame because I really like the colour. The one without the desk light (the first one) is probably a better indicator because it's a really vivid purple. The desk light made it look too pink.

I then added some chevrons freehand using a pink polish called Raspberry Rapture. That one smelled good as well, but the grape was definitely more fragrant.

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Lavender

Day 3 of the OMD2 is lavender and I had the perfect polish. It's Lavender Soap from Revlon and it smells like lavender.

I chose to use that as the base colour for my nails. I decided to do only an accent nail because I wanted to keep the scent and wasn't sure if the nail art would mask it. When sketching out my designs, I decided to do a swirls in a deeper purple on top.

My colours were Lavender Soap by Revlon Parfumerie and Pretty in Plum from Nicole by OPI's Selena Gomez collection.

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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!