As promised in my last post here is my next post that is Spring nail oriented!
A while back before my two weeks of hell started I did some freehand nail art which I don't always get to do because I suck at it! I'm practicing when I can but nothing turns out the way I would like it to. I think that's why I stick to stamping so much.
Anyway enough pity party for one up there in that last paragraph lets get to it. Since Spring is FINALLY here, I cannot wait to start wearing bright clothes and spring dresses and not heavy sweaters and boots! Even though the temperatures are not Spring worthy yet, were still in the upper 30s to 40 degrees here in NY. A funny fact is that the weather guy the other day said that one year ago at this time we were actually having a heat wave, it was almost 80 degrees here last year! I wish we could have it back! We still have 3 inches of snow to get rid of! Anyway one part of spring that I love is when all the pretty little butterflies come out, so that's what I decided to recreate was butterfly wings. I have seen so many nail artist recreate these I wanted to give it a shot. My favorite butterfly is the Monarch Butterfly as seen over on the left.
So to create my version I started off with three coats of China Glaze Orange You hot from the Summer Neon (2012) collection.
Here is a swatch photo of it on its own.
My photo makes it look more golden but its not it is very much orange! I couldn't get my editing program to color correct it :(.
Then I did a gradient of Love's a Beach on my tips, and then with a fine nail art brush from my Cheeky kit I got for Christmas I did the black out lines and then the white dots with a fine dotting tool also from the same kit.
All photos were taken with top coat and in natural light with the exception of the swatch of Orange You Hot that has no top coat.
Since spring is here I hope I get inspired to do more spring nail art post and to work on my free hand more!
So until then I will talk to you all soon! <3 Nicole.
*Any and all nail polish mention in the above post was purchased by myself with my own money*
