Green Floral Dress

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Morning!

Today I have some semi abstract floral nails to share with you. Pure Ice has recently made its way into Canadian Wal-Marts and I just haaaaad to pick up a few and I got to use two in this manicure!

I was watching What Not To Wear the other day and saw this dress that was lime green with huge bright purple flowers all over it and I thought, that would look gorgeous on nails! One of the Pure Ice polishes I picked up was the fabulous chartreuse Pure Ice Wild Thing. I knew this would be the perfect base for this dress inspired manicure.

Using a striping brush I used Cult Nails Tempest to create the largest parts of my flowers. Then I took the same brush and Pure Ice No Means No and made the next layer of my flowers. Finally I took Rimmel Night Before and created the centers. Then while it was still tacky I took a dotting tool and pressed into the centers of the flowers to give the centers a little texture.

I love florals in the spring and this was a tad on the abstract side which is totally cool to me. I didn't quite capture the dress, but I still like this none the less!

Do you like the floral print on top of the ugly pretty base? Hope you're having a wonderful day!

The Digit-al Dozen Does Animal Week: Octopus

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Morning loves! Here we are at Day 4 in the Digit-al Dozen's Animal Week and I have some more under the sea themed nail art to share with you. I absolutely love octopuses for a number of reasons. First of all they are incredibly cool looking and amazingly smart animals. I watched a documentary on octopuses and apparently they are on the same level of intelligence as humans but they broke off development somewhere early on and have almost a completely different biological makeup!

I google image searched octopus to get some inspiration and one of the first images that popped up was this post by Sonoma Nail Art. I absolutely loved her octopus so decided to take it as my inspiration but switch up my colours as well as where I placed him.

I started with China Glaze For Audrey as my background and then used a variety of purple polishes and my smallest nail art brush and dotting tool to create my octopus.

On my thumb and pinky I decided to create a glitter gradient using Jordana Cosmic and Icing Disco Ball. I used Cosmic on the octopus nails to create some more visual interest.

Here are all the purples that I used! I almost pulled out every one in my stash ;)
Barielle Grape Escape
China Glaze Gothic Lolita
Nail The B.Y.T.C.H. Fruity Cutie Butte
Zoya Keiko
Wet n Wild On A Trip
Rimmel Night Before
Sally Hansen Insta Dri Vigorous Violet
I'm also trying out this new hand position, what do you all think?

I really enjoyed creating this octopus look, and love having sea creatures on my nails! I am a huge fan of all BBC productions such as Planet Earth, Blue Planet and Life and the underwater portions are my favourites to watch! What are your favourite kinds of animals?

Make sure you come back tomorrow I have some of my best nail art ever to share with you :D Check out the rest of the Digit-al Dozen's posts below!

A Royal Skittlette

Afternoon! So many double posts going on up in here! I've got a skittlette manicure to share with you today. Marta of Chit Chat Nails is having a skittlette nail art contest. She defines skittlette as a manicure with two or three different accent nails. Y'all know how much I love to mix up my nails so I was super excited to enter this contest!

The inspiration for these nails was OPI Can't Let Go Liquid Sand. I had recieved it in the mail the day before I did these, but knew I wouldn't have time to swatch it and then create a look. So I put it on my middle nail and thumb and completely fell in love.

I love the combination of purple and gold so I ran with that for the rest of my nails. My index is Alter Ego Goldpanner with a dotted gradient using, Nail the B.Y.T.C.H. Fruity Cutie Butte, China Glaze Creative Fantasy and Rimmel Night Before. My ring nail is my reverse fishtail using Creative Fantasy, Essie As Good As Gold and Night Before. My pinky is Night Before with an ikat print using Good As Gold and a black and white.

I love the colour purple. Sometimes I go through phases were I become obsessed with a colour and this happens quite often with purple. When I was in first year of university one of my friends made me a purple box with purple candy and a plethora od purpleness.

I'm really excited to see the rest of the entries in the nail art competition! What do you think of my royal skittlette? Do you like the purple and gold colour combination?
You can check out the rest of the entries in the contest here!

Hope you're having a great day!

Wal-Mart Wednesdays! Eyeliner Nails

Hey Guys! Today I am starting a new feature on my blog which I'm calling Wal-Mart Wednesdays!

Wal-Mart Wednesdays might not be every week, but I will do them as often as I can. The whole idea behind them is to create a manicure using only things that can be found at Wal-Mart. I got a suggestion to show some nail polish using some discount polish instead of indies or higher end brands. I think that anyone should be able to have wicked nails and there is SO much great stuff available at Wal-Mart or drugstores. Everything that I use in these manicures from my basecoat to top coat and everything in between will be able to be purchased at Wal-Mart! So let's jump into the first week's nails!

I had the thought about using other kinds of make-up other than polish on my nails, and one of the first things that came to mind was using eyeliner! So I headed over to Wal-Mart and picked up a few NYC eyeliners and also went through my old makeup stash and found a bunch of colourful eyeliners that I never use. Mostly NYC and Rimmel, I'll list which ones I used below!

So I started with Essie Grow Faster my favourite base coat and then did 3 coats of Wet n Wild Break the Ice a shimmery white. I added a coat of NYC In a Minute Grand Central Station to speed up the drying process. I then started drawing lines of varying lengths with my eyeliner on my nails. I kept going across all my nails until I was happy with the opacity and the look of the lines. Then added one more coat of top coat.

I quite liked this, but I felt like it could use a little glittah. So I grabbed Wet n Wild Kalediscope just over where I had added the eyeliner. This added just the subtle bling I was looking for!

I realized when I was editing these photos that I seem to have taken all the pictures in the same hand position! Oops! lol

What do you think of eyeliner nails? Is this something that you would try out? I would advise to either purchase new eyeliners, they don't need to be expensive, the 99 cent ones will do the trick! Or if you are going to use eyeliner you already own, make sure that you don't plan on using these around your eyes again. Just a caution! I don't know what the implications would be :)

I hope you enjoyed my first Wal-Mart Wednesday post! If you have any suggestions for or ideas to add to this series send me an email (stephanie(at)sincerelystephanienails(dot)com) or tweet me (@sincerelynails). I would LOVE to hear any ideas that you have!

Hope you're having a terrific Wednesday!

31 Day Challenge Day 6: Violet

It’s violet day! I’m not sure about you, but violet is essentially purple right? Well I’ve got some purpleiffic nails to show you today.

Candice from Mr.Candiipants posts some epically awesome manicures and awhile back when gradients were all anyone was talking about she decided to amp it up a little and do this amazing block gradient. It has been bookmarked in my Nail Inspiration folder ever since she did it and I figured it was finally time to recreate it!

These are actually super easy to do! Here is the tutorial from Candice, but I’ll do a quick run down of what I did. I started with a coat of Nail the B.Y.T.C.H. Fruity Cutie Butte the lightest purple and the colour closest to my cuticle. This does not have to be opaque because you’ll be going over it with the rest of your gradient! I took my favourite medium length striping brush and my middle colour Sally Hansen Psychedelic Purple and made a block in the middle of my nail. Then I went down the gradient using Essie Jamacia Me Crazy and Zoya Keiko creating again blocks about 1/7 of my nail long. I filled in using Fruity Cutie Butte near my cuticle making sure there were no bald spots. Then I went from the middle of my nail to the tip using, Barielle Grape Escape, Konad Special Polish in Purple and finally Rimmel Night Before on my tip.

Now if you aren’t crazy like me and don’t have 7 purple polishes that you can use to make a block gradient you can do this by mixing one colour with black and white crèmes! This was actually my initial plan, but then I hauled out all my purples and realized I had enough… I’ve got a lot of polish ok. :D

I added those two rhinestones on my thumb and ring finger to bling it up a little, buuut turns out you couldn’t really see them. Oh well. I still like them there.

I love the idea of the block gradient, and it’s pretty fly and all you need is a striping brush and all you have to do is draw lines! And even if your lines aren’t straight since it’s a gradient, who is really going to notice?! Ya I just realized I said fly… he he…

Do you love the idea of the block gradient as much as I do?! Thanks for coming up with such an awesome idea Candace!

Now head over to The Lacquerologist and see what Emily has done for violet day!

Six down, twenty-five to go. I’ll see you tomorrow with some black and white nails that I’ll be attempting tonight! I’m super excited about them! :D