Galaxy - For the Millionth Time

Man, galaxy nails will be the death of me. Every time I do them, I love how they turned out, then I go on the internet and am reminded of how much better everyone else is at galaxies than I am. I think these are by far my best attempt and I think they would have been MUCH better if I hadn't made the galaxies quite so light. But, I'm getting closer and closer to my goal of making these look awesome. Do you have any tips for galaxy nails?

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Bad Galaxies

I went a *little* over board on sponging on more colors with these galaxies and they turned out a little crazy looking. Oh well, lesson learned. Stop while you're ahead!

Today I'm wedding dress shopping for the very first time!!!

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Galaxy Toes

In my never ending quest to make awesome galaxy nails, these are one of my newest creations. I posted some tips about galaxy nails here, so I won't bore you with that again. But I think you can see where I have corrected my mistakes... I use a light hand, and I put a TON of stars everywhere.

Sorry that (1) this is a crappy picture and (2) my feet are kinda gross here

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30 day challenge.. Day 18-20

Hello Ladies Ive been playing catch up with my 30 day challenge mani's since I started work again but Ive managed to get myself caught up. I have my manis for the past 3 days.

Half moon- I had a hard time with this one because I wanted to do a glossy bright pink and a matte black. I did 3 coats of Essie Punchy Pink with top coat and used binder paper reinforcements to create the half moon with Orly Matte vinyl. In this process I messed up my middle finger so I'm just not going to show it lol.. (not flipping you the bird)

Galaxies- For this one I kept it simple and just used a bunch of different glitters and hope that they would look like a bunch of planets and stars. 2 coats of Lippmanns Bad Romance, 1 coats of sinful colors hottie and China Glaze Techno.

Water Marbled- I am horrible at water marbling I can never get the polish to spread, do a design and actually re-create it on every nail. So I look to Youtube and seen a video of someone doing a water marbling design over a gradient of colors while using black and a translucent white. I used polishes from China Glaze poolside collection and a black and white polish. 

I liked my galaxy mani the best out of all the other were just a mess and it was also that I didn't take my time on them. 

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Tips For Great Galaxy Nails

I went to Wales for two week this summer and I wanted a set of low maintenance yet flashy nails. So I decided to do a second attempt at galaxy nails. Well, when I first finished these I loved them and thought that they turned out perfectly -- basically that I was the galaxy master. But every time that I look at them now I see where I went wrong. I now know how to accomplish the best ever galaxy nails, and by looking at this picture I can explain to you what some "beginners" mistakes are. First, when sponging on color it is INSANELY important to use a light hand. You can see in these pictures that the colorful areas don't really blend into the background, giving a stark contrast between the nebula's and sky. This makes it look more like a mash of colors than the galaxy. The second really important lesson I learned from these nails was that you can never have enough stars. Here I was doing stars from memory and they ended up looking more like sesame seeds than stars. A good technique is to make the stars really small and put them in clusters. This makes areas appear more like the milky way and less like a hamburger. I hope these tips help... I feel like in every tutorial I've ever watched no one has mentioned anything like this and I know that I would have found it to be helpful information!

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Galaxy Nails

For some reason I am under the impression that a nail artists "galaxy nails" are their announcement that they have arrived. These were my first attempt at galaxy nails, with no tools at all. All I used was a black polish as a base coat and I dabbed on a blue (I think Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear Blue) with the brush it comes with (this obviously ruined the brush). Then I used my mechanical pencil to dot on silver stars. While they were a good first attempt, I have done WAYYYYY better galaxy nails at this point... but you'll just have to wait and see how they turned out!

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