August!

With August comes the start of the school year, so I've been too busy to do elaborate nail art. So I'm making yet another update post, because these designs are so simple. I'm also going to mention that for a couple of days I wore Stone Cold by China Glaze, only, without top coat, because I didn't have the time to do it properly. It started chipping the next day, so even if it's wonderful it requires a top coat. 

I bought a glow in the dark polish a while ago, and it was finally time to test it out! These are my glow in the dark zebra nails! 

I loved wearing these, I wore them for a week. Zebra print is so easy to make with any old striper. I did these just before a party, so I had to be quick, and zebra was the perfect choice since it looks amazing and takes barely any time at all. I'm also wearing a coat of glitter, which you can actually see when it glows in the dark! It looks kind of like this, but my polish is yellow and not green. It has to be almost completely dark for them to glow, and my phone couldn't take a picture of it. 

I fell in love with the glowing polish, so I wore it again. This time as a gradient with a neon green!

Both polishes were thin, so I had to go over it about 5-6 times with my sponge. But it was worth it! I should also mention that I'm of course wearing a white base coat, for the neon to pop.
I added another glitter this time, I call it my fairy-glitter. It's by CK and it's called hallucinate. It's absolutely gorgeous. Then I added some black stripes with different thickness, since I just cut my nails, and I feel it makes them look longer.


This month I also tried making vampire nails. It.. failed quite a bit. I removed them almost immediately, so here's a pre-cleanup pic. 

I'm not pleased with these at all, except for the gradient, which turned out awesome. Black and red never goes wrong ever. But the champange color I chose as background was too thin, and when I tried adding the little stripes to the lips to make them look more real, it just smudged it. And the vampire fangs I tried adding turned out awful. I wasn't being careful anymore at this point because I could see it would turn out horrible, and that didn't exactly help. As I said, I ended up removing them the next day. 

So, I've been mostly wearing neons for this month. I adore the glowing polish, and I'll be wearing it a lot more. I just wish it glowed a bit more often, it seems to require a very special lighting to work. 
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Graceling!

So, I recently read the Graceling Trilogy, and it was awesome. At one point, Leck gets attacked by a midnight blue leopard with golden spots. The second I read that sentence I knew I had to do a nail art. So it's very loosely inspired by the books, but a tribute none-the-less. 

I started with my favorite french manicure polish, and sponged on a medium blue. Then I sponged on a darker blue at the tips. I added light and dark blue glitter, and topcoated. Then I added golden spots with acrylic paint. I mixed in a bit of gold with black paint and made the leopard print. Then I top coated again and added a blue stone. Super easy, and super adorable. I would've done it over my full nail, but I feel that it makes your nails look shorter. And since mine were very long at this point, I wanted to show it off. I love long nails. 
But of course, it also looks super cute on short nails. 

They are growing back, slowly but surely!

I loved the way these sparkled, the glitter hid in the polish and only shone through sometimes. It was really pretty.
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