Geometric Nail Art

The theme for today is geometric. I'm not sure exactly what falls in this category but because this nail art has shapes and lines I think it works.  The design kind of resembles constellations but was actually inspired by the opening credits of a TV show called Selfie.

Black and White Nails- Sleepy Hollow

Day 7's prompt is black and white nails so I'm sharing these nails I did last year but never posted.  Like my Flash nails, I also did these before PaleyFest but it was in 2014 and it was for the Sleepy Hollow panel.

Tree Silhouette Nail Art- Into The Woods Reunion

In early November, I was able to attend the Into the Woods Reunion at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts.  The reunion was amazing and included many from the original Broadway cast as well as the show's creators, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. 

Chevron Nails Inspired by Bracelet

One of my sisters made me a bracelet.  I love it!  When I was wearing it I realized that I had colors in my Kiss Nail Artist Kits that matched perfectly so I painted a design inspired by the bracelet.

First I did a clear base coat and then after it dried I added chevron lines in the yellow, green, and pink colors that I had.  The polishes in the kit have long thin brushes that make it easier to paint lines. Once it was dry, I added a clear top coat.

 

I hadn't done a design over a clear polish besides French tips so I wasn't sure how it'd come out but I ended up really liking it!  I love how it looked from far and a few people commented on them and even noticed the matching bracelet!  I was happy with these.  A very special thanks to my sister for the bracelet and providing the inspiration!  :)

Blue and White Heart Nails

Since Valentine's Day is this coming week, I'm going to share some heart nail art that I did last August while my husband and I were celebrating the 10 year anniversary of when we first met.

Blue is both of our favorite colors so I used blue polish and then some white polish to paint a heart on one my nails.  The white polish I used was older and in bad shape so it definitely didn't turn out as planned but I sort of fixed it by using a toothpick to add some white shading around the heart.  I also added some glitter polish (pixie dust!) to a couple of the other nails.
My nails are uneven because I had broken a nail but I still tried to make them look their best!  :)

It's kind of funny how when I first started this blog, it felt like I didn't have enough content and would post my nail art the same week that I painted it.  Somehow over the last months I started painting my nails more often than I was able to post so now I have several photos of different manis I still need to share.  This is one of those!  Hopefully I'll get around to sharing the rest soon.  It has been fun to look back at nail art I had forgotten about!

Bastille Day- France Nail Art

This past Sunday was Bastille Day.  It's like France's fourth of July!  We like to celebrate it because my husband is a small part French and because we love all things France.  We almost forgot about it this year because we had been traveling the weekend before but my brother-in-law reminded us just in time for us to put something together.  We even found a little French boutique to visit for some supplies!
I of course had to do some France inspired nail art for the occasion!  Last year I painted my nails to look like France's flag.  This year I wanted to do something different but with the same colors.  Here is what I came up with:

I am so happy with how these turned out!  I knew I wanted some stripes in there so on my index finger and pinkie I used a L'oreal blue polish called "Jet Set to Paris" (perfect name!).  Then I painted on the white stripes.

On the middle finger I used a Maybelline red polish called "Speedy Hot Tamale" and then I painted on white hearts using a dotting tool.  On my ring finger I tried to paint the shape of the Eiffel Tower.  I used a thin brush and a tooth pick to paint it on there.

Finally on my thumb I painted some roses!  I've always wanted to paint roses like this on my nails but could never figure out how to get the design right.  I found this tutorial on a blog called "Follow That Way".  Here is the link to it:  Follow That Way:  Rose Nail Art Tutorial.  The tutorial helped a lot and I was finally able to accomplish these roses using a small dotting tool!  I skipped the leaves because I wanted to stick to mostly just the red, white, and blue colors and the shape of the rose seemed fine on it's own.  Here are my roses with my Disney French children's book that I found at the French boutique!  I think Belle would be a fan of the roses, don't you? ;)

We had a very nice Bastille day and my nails really fit in with everything!  I found some great ideas on Pinterest that I was able to use for decor!  Here are some photos from our day!

The little French boutique we visited the day before!

French snacks and champagne!

Found templates for this bunting on Pinterest.  It came from the blog Creature Comforts

Hubby made Croque Monsieur- YUM!

It was a great day!  I had a lot of fun coming up with a new manicure for it.  What do you think of my France nail art?

Wedding Anniversary Nails

Last week I celebrated my one year wedding anniversary!  To dress up my nails for the occasion I used polishes in our wedding colors to do different designs inspired by the wedding on each nail.  This is the completed mani!

Here's what each nail represented:

Thumb- For my wedding my cousin gave me a French mani so I did a colorful French tip on my thumbnail.

Index Finger- This nail is meant to look like the Mickey stamp design on our wedding cake.

photo by Beverly Hills Photography

Middle Finger- This nail represents our blue aisle runner with white rose petals.  I loved how this one came out.  I may have to do a full mani of just this design sometime!

Photo by Beverly Hills Photography

Ring Finger- For this nail I painted on our wedding date!

Pinkie- On this nail I used the two polishes my sisters used for my wedding pedi!  You may recognize the colors from the ones I shared in my first post! I gave myself a pedi with this same look as well.

On my other hand I used the same designs except for the thumbnail on which I freehanded a Tron identity disc.  We had some Tron items in our DJ's section at our wedding to represent ElecTronica, a temporary nightly event at Disneyland that my husband and I really loved!

I was really happy with this mani and it went well with all the reminiscing we did that day.

Photo by Beverly Hills Photography

I kept them the rest of the week and even rocked them at a blogging conference I went to called Bloggy Boot Camp.  I hope you enjoyed my mani and the peek at a couple of my wedding photos!