Lacey French Tip

This is some kind of lacey looking french tip. I like it a lot, but you might notice how insanely yellow my nails are underneath haha! Such is life for an addicted nail artist!

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More Lace

I sure am posting a lot of dainty nail art immediately after showing you all the gory-ness of Ron's proposal. This is another lace design that I liked because the nude acrylic paint that I used as a base really helped to make my nails and fingers appear longer.  

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Lacey Lace

I'm swooning over the events of the last few days still, so please excuse me if I randomly just start going off on a happiness tangent.

These are some lace nails. Or, kind of lace, I don't know, what are they? I painted them when Ron and I went with a few friends to go see the band 40 Watt Sun in Philadelphia. 40 Watt Sun has the same front man as Warning, who are one of Ron and I's bands (That's right, we have a band, not a song) so we were really excited to see them! Lalalala I'm trailing off now... Too much excitement to be blogging about nails.....

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Lace nail

First, make sure your nails are clean and polish free! Then brush on Gel Resin. Next, carefully place the lace on the nail, and spray Glue Dry on for a firm hold. After the lace is in place, you can use manicure or embroidery scissors to shape the lace to fit your nail. Lastly, reapply resin, and your nails are ready to show off!

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Crazy Lace

This is a super girly crazy amped up lace design. I would most likely never wear this for a regular day. It's just not practical for my lifestyle. It was inspired by a theme I was working on at the time.... more on that later.

I figured I would show you guys in case someone might enjoy it. :)

 It kind of includes it all.... stamping, rhinestones, decals, and the kitchen sink.

Let me know what you think. Does it remind you of anything in particular? Or what is your impression of it?

P.S. The reason I was MIA earlier today was that I was working my butt off! My coworker that is getting married with the zebra print and hot pink wedding? Remember her? Well, her wedding is tomorrow and I offered to do her mani or pedi as a wedding gift. I showed her the design I had come up with and she loved it! I first offered it to just her and her bridal party. She later got in touch with me and said it would be 8 ppl getting pedi's and two of the girls wanted manis! Jeez! So my sis was kind enough to be my assistant and we got all 10 things done in 3 1/2 hours, I think.... dry time was a headache. And it was unbearably hot in her house, it made the polish all thick, goopy, and gross.... In the end, they all looked lovely and made it off to the rehearsal dinner on time. My sis and I left with a pain in our necks and backs, and polish all over our hands and nails! Although we were happy to help her out and make her day that much more special. :)

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Konad Lace Tips - Tutorial

I did an entire mani of the lace tips but this time I went ahead and used the most common "lace" technique of layering two separate image stamps. I made sure to take pics step by step, so here goes a tutorial.

Paint the entire nail one solid color. (i used sally hansen iced coffee)

 

Tape off the tips (i used scotch tape on a diagonal), and paint whatever color you want to show underneath the lace (i used zoya - jules). Remove tape.

 Tape off the tips again (i didn't want to let the jules dry with the tape still on, in case it would all pull up together). Stamp with floral image (i used konad m71 & special black polish).

Stamp using fishnet or honeycomb image (i used konad m57 & same special black polish)

Remove tape

Add black line along edge of "lace" with striping brush (i used kiss nail art striper in black)

 Topcoat & Ta Dah!

I was able to stamp two nail tips with one image pick up. You have to be quick, but stamp the image & spin the stamper around in your hand and use the other half of the image to stamp your second nail.

I'd love to hear any feedback from you guys!


(Thanks guys! The response from "hunting giraffes" was very encouraging! I will get to work on doing an entire mani and I'll work up a tutorial of that look!)

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Lace Tips

I wanted to try my hand at applying actual lace to my nails. Here's how it turned out:

 The lace trim I bought had only small sections of the honeycomb design. The other areas of the lace were too thick that they wouldn't lie down flat on the nail. So I limited it to utilizing only the honeycomb portions. French tips it is!

 I painted Iced Coffee on my entire nail, waited for it to dry. Freehanded a diagonal french tip using Jules. I then stamped the flowers from Konad m57. Thick coat of Seche Vite then immediately stuck down the lace portion I had already cut to fit into the wet polish. Carefully pressed down any loose areas with the tips of my tweezers. Kiss Nail Art Striper in black along where the lace ended. Another thick coat of Seche Vite!

I only did those three nails because I was just experimenting and I was worried it wouldn't turn out like I planned. I actually really like it though! I wanted to finish off the whole hand, but I have to go to work tomorrow and I'm afraid the lace wouldn't hold up well under frequent handwashing.

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