Ice Cream Nails...

Ice Cream Nails...

Great for summertime or for the holiday of Shavous...

1. Make sure your nails are clean and dry. Choose 2 yummy colors as your base colors. Have a brown polish handy to create your chocolate sauce. Have some different and bright colors and a tooth pick ready to create your sprinkles.

2. Paint your nails with a good base coat to protect your natural nail

3. Paint your nails, alternating colors, with your chosen base colors

4. On the ring finger, using your brown polish, create a dripping effect by starting with a french tip and then a dotting tool to create the "drip"

5. Allow to dry and then with a toothpick dipped in a bright color, randomly place sprinkles of different colors

6. Allow to dry a bit again and protect your design with a good top coat

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Golf and Beer Nails...

Golf and Beer Nails...Is it spring yet?????

Gather all the polish and tools you need for this mani. I used a green base polish, mixed with some white for the lighter green, a red, brown, black and gold polish.
You will need a plastic baggie to mix colors on, a dotting tool, and polish remover for clean up, close by.

1. Begin with clean and dry nails.

2. Use a good base coat to protect your natural nail.

3. Use 2 coats of a green polish as your base color, leaving your ring fingers blank.

4. Create the golf theme on one hand by creating "the green" and the "flag, ball and hole". To create the "green" you will mix a bit of white polish into the green on your baggy to make a lighter green.

5. Using a dotting tool, create your flag and ball. Take your time, this should be fun and creative.

6. On the ring finger of the other hand, with your gold polish paint your nail about 3/4 of the way up.

7. With a black striper, create the beer mug lines for definition.

8. With a dotting tool dipped in white polish begin creating the foam of the beer using a "stippling" motion. 
(Wikipedia: Stippling is the creation of a pattern simulating varying degrees of solidity or shading by using small dots. Such a pattern may occur in nature and these effects are frequently emulated by artists.)

9. Allow your design to dry and then protect with a good top coat.

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And here is an alternate Tiffany design...

Tiffany Inspired Nails...

1. Make sure your nails are clean and dry

2. Paint your nails with a good base coat to protect your natural nail

3. Using a Tiffany shade of green, I used Essie Turquoise & Caicos, paint 2 coats of color

4. Draw a french tip across the nail with a white polish

5. Protect your design with a good top coat

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Tiffany Themed Nails

Tiffany Nails

In honour of my Nephew's Bar Mitzvah I did Tiffany themed nails.
The colours my sis chose were the blueish green tiffany colour, silver and white. So I did my nails to match.

1. Gather all the polishes you will need for this manicure. I used Sally Hansen Triple Shine Polish in Dive In, a silver striper, and Essie Blanc

2. Paint your nails with a good base coat.

3. Paint your nails with 2 coats of the Tiffany Blue polish allowing a few minutes of drying time between. It is important to try to make the coats thin as to prevent bubbles and depositing too much polish.

4. With a white striper, create a horizontal line and a vertical line (like the ribbons on a gift)

5. With the silver striper create a bow in the cross section of the white stripes.

6. Allow your design to dry for a bit and then add a coat of triple shine top coat to protect your design.

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