Pinterest Zoyas arrived AND Dandelion Nails

Found these in the mail today:)  Now I'm just waiting for my three full size bottles of Zoyas to arrive from their buy three for $15 deal. 

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I tried Zuza on right away and started to paint on daisies but they just didn't look quite like I wanted them to so I turned them into dandelions.  This is not my first set of dandelion nails but I do think they are the best so far.

I started with one coat of Zuza over base coated nails.  I then used Tokyo Pearl and drew intersecting lines to form fuzz balls on my thumb and ring fingernails.  I then used White On to draw the stems. accent the dandelions and draw dandelion tufts floating in across the other nails.  I used Recycle to shadow the centers of the dandelions and the ends of the dandelion tufts.  I colored over the dandelion stems with Irish Green and used Tokyo Pearl to draw in wind swirls.  For a finishing touch, I applied Nails, Inc. Electric Lane Holographic top coat to the edges of the dandelion and the dandelion parts floating in the wind.  Last, I covered each nail with Pro FX Complete 3 topcoat. 

These nails turned out very ethereal looking, especially after applying the holographic and regular topcoat.  I'm happy!  What do you think?

Dandelion Nails

A friend and I are going to Sipping N Painting tomorrow night and we will be learning to paint the following painting while having a drink or two (non alcoholic btw, since we both will be driving home):

Since I also learned today that my current favorite polish, Julep's Helena, was voted their 2011 color of the year, I decided to get a head start on painting dandelions and used Helena as my star color.

After prepping my nails with Julep's Nail Therapy, I painted my nails with two coats of Helena.  I then sponged on a fuzzy backdrop in Whirlwind White with a cosmetic sponge.  Next I used Trina to draw in the lines of the dandelions.  I outlined the centers of the dandelions in Whirlwind White and used a dotting tool in Whirlwind White to put random white dots throughout the lines.  I then used the dotting tool and placed larger dots of Skull & Glossbones and Let's Talk around each set of lines.  Last, I made a circular pattern throughout the dots with iridescent glitter. 

Ok, so I have a problem.  Hi, this is Nails, Actually and I'm addicted to glitter. *sigh*

Even so these nails turned out cute enough for me:)  On to the Sipping N Painting!

UPDATE:  Megan and I had a blast painting our dandelions!