Essence and Indie Tuesday No. 2: Ballerina's Charm and Slumber Party

 For my second installment of essence and Indie Tuesdays, I have essence's ballerina's charm and one of my newest indies, Lacquerhead Polish's Slumber Party.

 As you can see, ballerina's charm is a dusky pink polish with subtle silver shimmer. 

Lacquerhead Polish's Slumber Party make a gorgeous macro pic, doesn't it?!   This polish is all purple, pink, and white iridescent glitters suspended in a clear base. 

Together you get a wonderful, complimentary pairing that makes a striking, sparkly, and very feminine manicure.  I topped this manicure off with one coat of Seche Vite to seal it all in.

 

Not finished, I used one of my new Color Club holos to make a heart on my thumb and outlined it and the words "Be" and "Mine" with an un-named Color Club purple in one of my unlabeled Ross sets. 

With Slumber Party on top, ballerina's charm almost looks a bit purple.  Fine by me, because I adore purples.  Next week, I promise to change it up some and throw some different essence and Indie colors at you. 

What is your favo(u)rite essence polish?

Glitter Heart Nails

Just playing with glitter recently and did these nails.  They aren't perfect but I still love the effect!

I did a base color in Sally Hansen White On and the one coat of Julep's Ellie.  I then placed hex glitter in heart shapes on my ring and thunb nails.  Last I did one more coat of Ellie over the glitter.

Key to My Heart Nails

Pinterest how I love thee!  There I was pinning my brains out and I saw these flats that someone pinned!  I repinned them on my Nail Art board

All these nails require is two coats of Glennn, followed by a small nail art brush dipped into Gold Coin.  Freehand the heart lock and heart key and script out the word love and a free handed heart on your other set of nails.  Carefully ooutline the lock, key, and heart with black polish.  Draw a key hole on the lock in black polish and coat all nails with a protective top coat.

These nails are so darling!  Oooh, I bet these would work with some light or hot pink nails too!  Have fun with your nails, girls and guys!

Valentine's Day Chevron Heart Nails

One more set of Valentine's Day nails!

I started with Gone Grey and painted chevron tips on each nail.  Next I drew in heart shapes in the "V" of each chevron in Snow Me White.  I filled in the white hearts with Forget Now and outlined each heart with Trixie.  Last, I topped the design with a top coat.

These are cute and not as girly frou-frou as some V-day nails I've been seeing lately.  To make them Anti-V-day Nails, you could have broken hearts!  Enjoy!

Week 7 of the Year of Polish Challenge: Abstract Valentine Red & Gold French Tip Nails

Valentine's Day is almost upon us and I produced some sexy new heart nails!  To give credit, I did get a bit of inspiration from some Valentine's Day nails from Amy Blair's blog.

These nails start with a clear coat of Pro FX Complete 3.  I then painted a diagonal line in Golden-I from the middle side of one nail to the edge of the other side of the nail.  Next I drew a arch in Ruby Slippers and crossed the diagonal gold line filling in the red lines with more Ruby Slippers.  I completed the heart shape with several small dots in Ruby Slippers to the gold like.  I then painted the gold area with Oscar to add more gold color.  Last, I freehanded small, red hearts on the right side of each nail edge and glued gold confetti hearts to the left nail edge.

I love how these nails are abstract and sparkle and follow a heart theme.

Pink & Gun Metal Heart Nails

I did these nails just playing around with some pink and grey polishes.  Of course, Valentine's Day isn't far from my mind but after five years of wedded bliss, the honeymoon is over, I'm on a strict diet, and I dislike the wastefulness of cut flowers.  My husband is sweet throughout the year so one day doesn't make or break our romance!

These nails aren't great BUT in my defense, they were painted with my left hand (yes, I'm nuts like that) AND despite how messy they are I really love the Insta-Dri Gone Grey with the Wet N Wild Sparked Glitter. I think for Valentine's Day proper, I will wear just the Gone Grey with the Sparked Top Coat.  So pretty!  So yes...had my right hand not been full of lovely Julep polishes that formed some very sweet Peace Nails, this nail art would've been much better.  But, oh well! I still like 'em!