Kirby!

I just finished watching a Let's Play of Kirby's Epic Yarn (by my favorite let's player, Chuggaaconroy), and I just had to do Kirby nails.

I made Kirby, and the writing, using the plastic bag method. To make him, I started with a pink circle, and added his little arms. I added shading with the same color, just a bit darker, and then even darker feet. I made hit face, outlining the eyes and mouth with a grey. I thought that black would be too overpowering, but I'm not sure I was right. Then I outlined the whole thing in black. 
For the background, I was going to have stars, but I changed my mind and made a rainbow. On my thumb I made a big yellow star, and outlined it like a rainbow. For my ring finger I just made rainbow stripes. 
On the rest of my nails I added a nude pink base, put on a shimmery pink polish, and made a white french. I made rainbows on the french, and outlined it with a dark grey. Ta-da!
On these pictures I'm wearing a matte top coat, because my Seche Vite has started to act up when I apply it over acrylic paint. It lifts off the acrylic paint, which isn't good since I'm wearing it over my tips. The matte top coat doesn't lift.
Tialiq

Blue Christmas!

I don't very much like wearing red, and this Christmas I decided to wear a dark blue dress for Christmas Eve, so I made a blue nail design to go with it! 

I started, as you can see on the bottom picture, with a beautiful blue gradient. Excuse the messy cuticles! 
Then I added light blue and silver glitter over the whole nail, concentrating at the cuticle. I also added a very tiny bit of silver crackle polish to make it shine more. Then I added a lot of rhinestones over half my nail, and finished with a little star jewelry on my pinky. On the second picture you can see the hole in my nail.
Piercing your nails is absolutely not dangerous. I do it right after my nail bath, when my nails are soft. I use a thin needle to pierce it, first from the underside and then I go through it again from the top. If the hole needs to be bigger to get the jewelry through, I user a bigger needle to go through it again. 
If you do this when your nails are dry, they can crack. If you make the hole too close to the edge, it's more likely to break when you pierce it. When you cut your nails after having a pierced nail, you should cut away the hole, but you can have a pierced nail without using it. Just apply nail polish over it and it won't show! 
I love wearing nail jewelry, I need to buy more!
Tialiq

Playboy!

Yes, I made Playboy nails. I made these using the plastic bag method. 

I made both hands different. My right hand had a black bunny, and the text "Playmate" on the thumb. My left hand had a purple bunny and "Playboy" on the thumb, with pink glitter over it.
I started with a white and added a pearly glitter over it. I put on my decals, and on the rest of my nails I made simple black and pink glitter stripes, with purple rhinestones in the middle. I also added stripes on the ring finger, around the bunny, but I hadn't done that yet when I photographed my right hand. 
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Blue Winter!

I just love blue, as you might have noticed, and I made these sparkly, adorable winter nails! 

First I applied a nude pink polich over my whole nail. Then I started the design by making a blue french, starting about halfway up on my nail, and going down to the corner of my tip. I added small, blue dots along the edge. I added a little bit of light blue glotter over all of it. Then I outlined the dots, and made a net over the whole blue area. I also made white dots along the rounded edges, to make a lace, and dots going up the nail. I should've skipped those last dots though.
I added a bit of silver glitter over the white areas, and then finished with rhinestones and blue, starshaped glitter.
Loved wearing these!
Tialiq

FMA: BH - Barry the Chopper!

Ooooooh dear. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. I'm absolutely in love with it! While I was watching it, inspiration struck me, and I created this design!

I really tried to get a sharp picture...

In the beginning of the anime (can't find the exact episode), they meet a little character called Barry the Chopper, who's had his soul attached to an armor just like Al. The difference being that Barry was convicted to death, but instead of getting hung, he was used in human experiments. When Barry tells this story, this picture is shown: 

I started with a red polish. Then I took a darker red, it was like a red burgundy, and it's very thin. I created a line along the cuticle with a toothpick, to make sure I got full color there. Then I sponged over that to made it gradiate into the other red. After it was dry, I went over it again, this time moving into the nail to create the gradient. While it was wet I applied a little bit of deep red glitter, which really gives depth to the colors. Then I top coated, to smooth out the surface.
I painted a very tiny french, way out on my nail, in black. From it I made little crosses. As you might see from the picture, Barry was convicted for murdering 23 victims, so I made sure to paint 23 crosses on each hand! Barry himself got the ring finger all for himself, and on the other nails I added little birds.

I'm absolutely in love with this. I dislike wearing red, but for this design it's worth it! 
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Fish Scales!

Continuing my obsession with blue! I got an idea of sponging on a french, and letting it reach the cuticle on one side. It all escalated from there...

I started by sponging on a bit of white, to mark out my french, and to make the color pop a bit more. Then I added a tiny bit of blue on the edge of my sponge, and went around the edge to gradiate it. Then I took my polish brush and applied it over the tip of my nail, and again with the edge of the sponge I touched up the line where the layers overlapped, this time removing polish with the sponge and gradiating the layers together. 

Now it was time for glitter! I applied my fantastic blue glitter, that shimmers rainbow, and then I applied many large, green hexagons. They shimmer green/blue/purple. I applied a top coat, and then made a messy outline of the gradient, and added little C shapes to add more of a scale pattern. I also added tiny little white dots to represent air bubbles! 

These were so shimmery! I ended up disliking the shape of the french though, it's a bit too thick in my opinion. 

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Cute Argyle!

So I hadn't given argyle a shot yet, even though I've been wanting to do it for ages. Now was the time!

I started with a light, mint blue. Then I added white hearts, which on its own is an adorable design! 

In retrospect I should've gone through the effort of making these light blue, but oh well. 

To make the argyle pattern, many videos on youtube suggest making an X with a striper and filling two halves in. That doesn't give sharp points, though, and the color you fill in with kind of takes over in my opinion. So I made an X with a clear polish, and then filled it in. I used a nice chocolate brown for this, since light blue and brown is such a cute combo!

I mixed a golden glitter with a bronze glitter, and applied it over the brown polish while it was still wet, just to give a bit of dimension and sparkle. 

I finished off with my white striper, to complete the argyle pattern! 

Tialiq