40 Great Nail Art Ideas Does Films

Today is 40 Great Nail Art Ideas featuring films.  I thought about doing an actual movie and actually had plates set aside to do Monsters Inc. but went in another direction was films in general.  Monsters Inc. will have to wait for another time!  Here's what I came up with!

For the base, I decided to do the alcohol spray water marble; first time ever doing a water marble type of design!  It didn't turn out the best; the first nail I did was the index finger using hair spray but it hardly bubbled at all.  So I used a spray bottle of 70% alcholol that I keep on hand to clean my stamper heads and got better results.  There's room for improvement; including the cleanup; O M G!  Even though I used Girly Bits Border Patrol which helped a great deal, the backside of my fingers had a ton of polish on them still.  I guess when I watched tutorials, they used the stick to remove excess polish and I haven't mastered it well enough so had a lot of polish on a couple of fingers on the back.  Next time, I'll latex the fingers all around.  After I was done, I was like....why am I doing this anyway; there's image plates with these type of designs!  Anyway, I might do this again and see how it goes!  I used Cupcake Polish Down For The Count in the marble, which was over OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls.  Accent is Funky Fingers Dark Knight.

After cleanup, but before top coat.

Added a coat of Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC before stamping.  I picked this gold holo for the water marble as it seemed to closest match the gold stamping polish that I was going to use, which was CND Gold Chrome.  It matched pretty good, I think!

Image plates used were Chez Delaney Cinema 001 (index and top figure on thumb), SdP 78 (middle), SdP 118 (pinky and lower image on thumb) and Canadian Nail Fanatic 001 with Fig Tree Stamps on ring which was stamped using CND Gold Chrome.  The rest of the images are stamped with Funky Fingers Dark Knight.  

Chez Delaney Cinema 001

Top coated with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC to finish.  I had only taken a few pix when I nicked my middle finger with a polish bottle; the very first pix was one of the few taken but not the best.  

I wanted to go glitz and glamour like the night of the Oscars, which I think this was achieved with this colour scheme!

Here's the other ladies film nails!

An InLinkz Link-up

Have a great weekend; thanks for looking!

A Wedding Tribute Mani for @honeybee_nails

I did this mani for @honeybee_nails who got married this past Saturday!  I met  Melissa at the end of May when a bunch of nail gals (KarenD from Frazzle and Aniploish; Tracey from @traceyloveslacquer on instagram, Melissa from @honeybee_nails on instagram, nailxchange {who I don't think has an active blog right now but is still actively painting her nails}and I got together.  We made polishes at Girly Bits headquarters; Melissa made a polish to wear for her wedding that day; I remember her working so diligently to get just the perfect shade! I made a note to check her IG account to see when she was getting married (I'm sure she said that day, but there was lots said that day and couldn't remember!) and once I did, made a mental note of the date as I thought it would be a nice gesture to do a mani for her to mark the occasion!  I did both hands slightly different from one another; here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats each of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls with blue accent nails using OPI No Room for the Blues, top coated with HKGirl.  The right hand base was all OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls.



Stamped using MoYou Bridal Collection-04 (index, middle and ring plus do on the thumb), Wistonia Wedding Bliss (rings on thumb), SdP 73 (pinky) and HB34 (bees on thumb) using black Konad special polish. As there was only one size for the "I" in the I do image on the plate and it was too big for the nail design, I used a smaller "do" from the plate and hand painted in "I"....whcih I'm sure is pretty obvious!  I think this pix is the best of the little honeybees on the thumb!



Added a few random hearts from SdP 78 using red Konad special polish.



Top coated using HKGirl topcoat to finish.  (I waited a good 15 to 20 minutes before top coating and still had some stamping drag; I'm thinking it was because of temperature/humidity?)  I should also point out that these are not from the XL size of images (which is MoYou Bridal 05) and the images are still plenty big.  I also had a reallyyyyy hard time lining up the middle finger which isn't the plates fault but just to share how some of these have to be placed just so to look somewhat decent; I think this was attempt 5 and just left it even though not perfect.....)



On the right hand, plates used where MoYou Bridal Collection-04 (index, ring and love and ring on thumb), Wistonia Wedding Bliss (ring) and Apipilia Colecao Fofuras C on middle (noted as Cuteness C on the estore).  Random hearts are again from SdP 78.  The stamping polishes were red, black and blue Konad special polishes.  This is my favourite hand out of the two!



Wistonia Wedding Bliss



MoYou Bridal Collection-04





Congrats to Melissa and Sean on their special day!  May you have a lifetime of happiness!

Thanks for looking!

Valentine's Day Proposal

I was contacted by Brilliant Earth and was asked if I'd be interesting in doing a mani using the them of love for an upcoming Create a Little Love feature; thought it would be fun idea so agreed!  When sitting down to do the mani, I thought would be more appropriate for the theme than a romantic Valentine's Day proposal?  Here's what I came up with!



Started with a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales walls on three fingers; Duri Taming of the Shrew on pinky. (I can't recall the pink polish but I know it was a CND; will update later!).  After the white base had dried, did sponging on the same three fingers with the same red and pink accent colours.  Polish on the thumb wasn't the best but at this point, I wasn't worried; it worried as I had premade a stamper decal for it!



Added stamper decal on the thumb from an image on Infinity 07, and stamped using assortment of other image plates; MM03 (pinky), MoYou Landscape-01 (index and middle), Nailz Craze NC 04 (ring on ring) and Handy 57 (lettering on ring) using black and white Konad special polishes.



A closer look at MoYou Landscape Collection-01.





Nailz Craze NC04


Added random hearts using red and white Konad polishes using an image from SdP 78.



Topped with SV to finish.



Brilliant Earth will be doing a feature on the Create a Little Love highlighting various medias with a collage of various bloggers; I'll update the link here when I see it!

Thanks for looking!

Edited June 4 2014 to remove link to Brilliant Earth at their request!

Digit-al Dozen, Love and Heartbreak; Day 3

Here's yet another Valentine's Day themed mani I came up!  Is anyone tired of them yet?  I don't even think I'll get all the V-Day mani's I've done so far posted before Valentine's.....this one's kinda lovey-dovey....



Started with a base of two coats of OPI Bride's Bouquet and OPI Red My Fortune Cookie; topped with SV.



Stamped using MM03 (Be Mine wording), SdP 60 (couple on ring), SdP 78 (balloons on thumb), SdP 85 (pattern on pinky) and Big SdP L (images on index and middle fingers) using black, red and white Konad special polishes. I wasn't entirely happy with the way that the index finger stamped so I hand painted it in but didn't do that great of a job unfortunately. Added a few accent hearts here and there as well.



Topped with SV.



On a side note and totally unrelated to Valentine's, I believe the stamped couple here are the couple from Twilight...Edward and Bella...I have the series of books and movies but have never read or watched them...I don't want to watch the movies until I read the books simply because I like to read a book before watching any movie or anything because I find that a lot in the movies get missed or interpreted differently  then the book, but hey, that's just me.....anyway, just haven't gotten around to it yet...some day!






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Movie Mani

I'm on holidays right now...have very limited internet connection so am going to quickly post a mani I did a few weekends ago.

Started with a base of two coats of OPI Bride's Bouquet.  No pix as this is the white base I use most of the time and its been posted before.  Stamped using XL U for the faces and SdP 78 for the movie reel using black Konad special polish.

Added a few random stars by isolating them on an image from SdP 69 and a few gold dots using Orly Luxe. Topped with SV.  I had a little drag on the movie reel but as I didn't leave enough drying time as the sun was fading fast, but it was hardly noticeable IRL.  

Hope you're having a fantastic weekend.....thanks for looking!