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!

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Have a great weekend; thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen; Day 4, Black n White

Back to black and white basics for Day 4 of the Black and White challenge.



Started with a base of two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls (no pix as have shown before).

Stamped using assortment of images; MJ XXII (pinky), Handy 50 (thumb and middle finger), SdP D-20 (index), SdP 118 (ring) using black Konad special polish.



Added a little hat to the ring finger using an image from Handy 44. Then topped with HongKong QD topcoat.  For those who think or have heard it doesn't cause smear, well, as you can see, that's not the case.



See the wrinkles on the middle finger near the mouth?  This was because I had a really bad smear of black polish on the topcoat brush but I redragged it off to remove it.  In the process, there is an abundance of tc there...but I knew from past experience that the wrinkles would magically iron themselves out, which they did as you can see in the pix below.  There's also a fairly large topcoat smear on the index finger in the white void.  If you wait for the topcoat to try and take a very light hand with a brush, you can remove the smear with acetone, then topcoat again.



This is a little bland too for my taste; I wanted to add some silver stars or dots or something but was trying to keep it to black and white only.

Here's pix of a few of the plates used.

Handy 50  (I used the Charlie image on the top left hand corner.  It's a very cool image and says Chaplin along the side but I couldn't capture it on the nail as my nails are aren't very wide.  Perhaps on the thumb it may have fit but it was the only nail long enough to capture the full size image and even then, it barely fit on my nail!  It was bad timing using the full length Charle image so soon after cutting down my nails as I'm sure he would have fit on almost any of them otherwise.)


MJ XXII










SdP 118


Thanks for looking....and don't forget to check out the other ladies Day 4 mani's....I'm almost afraid to look myself to see what they have come up with today as I feel so unworthy because I'm just adding a few stamped imaged to my nails when they are doing off the charts freehand work and other awesomeness!