Show Off Your Talent - The Nail Art Thread!

Alright, so there's a thread for nail stamping and one for notd but I haven't seen one for nail art. I don't own any stamping supplies (yet) and I always feel a little out of place posting my nail art in the notd thread so I thought it would be a good idea to have a separate thread just for nail art.

So everyone show off your talents and post your nail art here in this thread.

I'll start!

My nails yesterday:




(This is not my design, it came from the blog "Daily Nail" but I had a whole Back to School theme going on so I wanted to try this one out and I really like it!)

I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
China Glaze - White on White (paper)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Baby Pink (the side margin)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Sky Blue (lines)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Red (grades)
China Glaze - Liquid Leather (paper holes)
China Glaze Matte Magic Top Coat (all over to give the paper a flat finish)
Seche Vite Top Coat (I used this only on the letters to give those a little shine as if they had actually been written with a pen)

And my nails today:



I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
GOSH - Silk
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Red
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Dee-Lite
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Yellow
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Mint Green
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Sky Blue
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Dark Blue
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Vibrant
L.A. Colors Art Deco - White
Seche Vite Top Coat


I have also posted a number of my designs in the notd thread and you can also see some of my older designs on my blog (link in my signature).

Happy posting!

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^Very nice! The colours are very complimentary.

My very simple nail art of the day:



I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
China Glaze - Liquid Leather
L.A. Colors Art Deco - White
China Glaze - White On White
Seche Vite Top Coat

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^The pattern on all of your nails is great! Sometime when doing water marbling I only like the pattern on a few of the nails but I like all of the patterns on yours.

My nautical themed nails:



I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
OPI - Suzi Says Feng Shui (darker blue diagonal)
China Glaze - Flyin' High (lighter blue diagonal)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - White (stripes)
OPI - I Get a Kick Out Of Gold! (anchor)
Seche Vite Top Coat

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Come on people, I know there's more talented nail art lovers out there!

I'll try to keep this thread alive by showing my Chomp (from the Mario games) design:



I was thinking about giving the design a little dimension by doing some shading on the grass and trees but I actually liked the two dimensional effect so I think I'll wait until a day or so before I plan to remove this and then play around with shading.

I used:
- China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
- Zoya - Robyn (sky)
- China Glaze - Entourage (grass)
- Orly - Green Apple (tree things)
- OPI - Suzi Skis in the Pyrenees (chain chomp body)
- China Glaze - White On White (clouds, chain chomp's eye and teeth)
- China Glaze - Solar Power (block)
- China Glaze - Ingrid (shading/outline of block)
- China Glaze - Platinum (chain)
- OPI - Red My Fortune Cookie (chain chomp's mouth)
- China Glaze - Liquid Leather (eyes of clouds and trees)
- Seche Vite Top Coat

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My nails today are Pac-Man inspired:


(Left hand)


(Right hand)

I used:
- China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
- China Glaze - Liquid Leather (background, ghost's eyes)
- L.A. Colors Art Deco - Dark Blue (grid walls)
- China Glaze - White On White (pellets, ghost's eyes)
- OPI - The "It" Color (pac-man)
- Zoya - Robyn (blue ghost)
- Zoya - Jolene (pink ghost)
- Seche Vite Top Coat

Re: Show Off Your Talent - The Nail Art Thread!

Thank you very much.
And yes, my nails are 100% natural. I also used to get mine done professionally but after dealing with how horrible my nails were after taking them off, I just couldn't handle it anymore!

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Thanks! I have many ideas floating around my head for Halloween designs so I'm really excited to start trying them out once October starts.

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Thank you! And I hope to see you post here when you play with your new polishes.

Tips for keeping nails long and healthy:
- Be conscious of your nails at all times (I know this may sound silly but I really do try to avoid anything that poses a risk to my nails such as opening soda cans or anything like that)
- If your nails are really thin (and mine are), use a strengthening base coat
- If you're not wearing polish, use several coats of a strengthener or your strengthening base coat
- When filing your nails, only file in 1 direction (filing both ways can cause splitting/peeling)
- When applying polish, even if the colour is opaque in 2 coats, apply a third one anyways since the more coats you have on, the more your nails are protected from breakage
- If you do happen to break a nail, try and salvage it by using a nail rescue kit (such as Orly Nail Rescue) or try silk wraps (which wrap around the break and allow you to polish over them while the break grows out)

Hope that helps!

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Daph_: Those colours look GORGEOUS together! Very nice.

Today's mani is inspired by a design that I have seen around many blogs/youtube channels and that I absolutely love. I also used one of my all time favourite polishes to create the design which is Strawberry Fields by China Glaze. It's such a beautiful raspberry pink colour that's packed with gold shimmer.





I used:
- China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
- China Glaze - Strawberry Fields
- L.A. Colors Art Deco - Black Sparkle
- China Glaze - White On White
- Seche Vite Top Coat

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^Love the colours together!

And yeah, like I said in my post, the design isn't mine but I have seen it around quite a few blogs and I've also seen video tutorials on youtube. Maybe the author of lacquerized. was the first to do it and if so, credit definitely goes to her. I just didn't know who had started the trend.

Also, here's my current mani, a very simple, classy and girly design:


(Left hand)


(Right hand)

I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
GOSH - Silk (base)
China Glaze - Rainbow (on top of base)
Zoya - Nova (pink glitter tip)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Silver Glitter (line under pink glitter tip and on top of black design)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Black Sparkle (black design)
Seche Vite Top Coat

Unfortunately, now matter how many pictures I took, my camera wouldn't pick up on the pink opalescent effect of China Glaze - Rainbow.

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Oh no, I didn't take it that way, I just wanted to clarify that it wasn't my design! No worries.

And I know what you mean, I have so many beautiful polishes and some of them just don't get the used as much as they deserve!

Today's mani is inspired by one of the best shows (imo) on TV right now - Dexter.





I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
China Glaze - White On White
Nicole by OPI - Deeply In Love
Seche Vite Top Coat

*The author of The Daily Nail (check it out if you haven't already, it's an awesome nail blog) did a Dexter themed mani not long ago so I'm giving her credit for the design because she did it first. I will admit that I have wanted to do a Dexter themed mani for a while now but since she was the first to do it (and she did it awesomely, I might add), she definitely deserves the credit.

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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month so today's design is based on that:



I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
OPI - La-Pazitively Hot (base colour)
Revlon - Belle (glitter top coat)
OPI - Mod About You (ribbons)
Seche Vite Top Coat

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Daph_: Your ribbon is so much nicer than mine; very precise!

And I LOVE the Frankenstein nails, they're so cute!
I might have to try something like that when I start my Halloween designs!