Show Off Your Talent - The Nail Art Thread!

[Daph_]

Seriously, these are awesome! I love love love your interpretation of the pumpkins!

Love the polka dots! It's simple but the colours are great and the execution is perfect.

I decided to try the Frankenstein nails that were posted above as part of my Halloween series and this is what I came up with:

I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
OPI - Who The Shrek Are You? (face)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Black (hair, nose, mouth, stitches)
China Glaze - White on White (white of eyes)
China Glaze - Liquid Leather (black of eyes)
Seche Vite Top Coat

And my most recent Halloween manicure:

The glitter was an afterthought and I wish I would have thought about it before I started the design of the faces because it took much longer to try and get around the face designs with the glitter then it would have had I just used the glitter on top of the black base. However, when I finished it just seemed like it was missing something so I added the glitter to make it look more like night time and that the jack-o-lanterns are shining through.

I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
China Glaze - Liquid Leather (base)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - White (base for face details)
Orly - Crush On You (lighter orange)
OPI - Brights Power (darker orange highlight)
Color Club - Si Vous Please! (glitter top coat over black base)
Seche Vite Top Coat

 

[dxgirly]

This thread inspired me to try some nail art of my own. Please don't laugh. They're supposed to be spiderwebs.

 

[Kayla Shevonne]

Thanks Flaminbird and Daph_!!

Flaminbird: Yes, the China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat definitely helps to keep polish on longer and prevent chipping. I do 2 nail designs every week and I NEVER (knock on wood!) have chipping in between designs so I think I can give at least some of the credit to the CG Base Coat. Here's the link to the review of this base coat on makeupalley where others go much more in depth than I did about the benefits of this base.
And I always get my Seche Vite at Sally Beauty Supply.

 

[Flaminbird]

Thanks Kayla! I'm going to Sally's this morning to look for both of those items. Also I have to say again you have some incredible talent!! I dont know how you do so great at those designs! The other day I tried to do just basic webs much like yours and the brush was making them too wide and the n/p wasnt opaque enough so it needed another coat which ended up in a uneven ugly thing

. The spider looked like a 3 yr old painted it on

. I was using a nail art brush and a felt tip nail art pen I got at Sally's. I need to do something for the Halloween parties we're going to tonight but afraid to attempt anything you've done because it will look like a mess again and I"ll be so frustrated. You should do some tutorials on your nail designs!! It would help greatly for us ameauters

 

[dixie]

So stinkin' cute, everyone!!! Love them ALL!!

 

[Kayla Shevonne]

Thanks Kayla! I'm going to Sally's this morning to look for both of those items. Also I have to say again you have some incredible talent!! I dont know how you do so great at those designs! The other day I tried to do just basic webs much like yours and the brush was making them too wide and the n/p wasnt opaque enough so it needed another coat which ended up in a uneven ugly thing

. The spider looked like a 3 yr old painted it on

. I was using a nail art brush and a felt tip nail art pen I got at Sally's. I need to do something for the Halloween parties we're going to tonight but afraid to attempt anything you've done because it will look like a mess again and I"ll be so frustrated. You should do some tutorials on your nail designs!! It would help greatly for us ameauters

Thank you very much!

A quick tip about nail art: if you're adding a design on top of another polish colour, always do it in white first and then go over with the colour you want; it'll really stand out this way and your opacity problem will be fixed.

I actually have started filming my designs (since my jack-o-lanterns), I'm just now trying to perfect the editing, lighting, etc and once I figure all that out, I will start putting up tutorials and I'll let you guys know!

Also, here's my current design that I did for my boyfriend:

I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
OPI - Red My Fortune Cookie (all the red in the design)
OPI - Dating A Royal (all the blue)
China Glaze - White On White (all the white)
Seche Vite Top Coat

 

[Susanne]

I haven't got any talent here

But I love this look by Julia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkgbp1mOe5Y&feature=channel

 

[Avozilla]

I love doing 3D nail art, personally. These seem to be the only pictures I have.:/

 

[Kayla Shevonne]

Here's some recent nail art along with my current design for Remembrance Day.

I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
China Glaze - Lemon Fizz
China Glaze - Four Leaf Clover
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Black
Seche Vite Top Coat

(Inspired by the FCKH8 video on youtube, if you haven't already seen it, do so now! And pass it along!)

I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
China Glaze - Sugar High
China Glaze - White On White
Seche Vite Top Coat

I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
China Glaze - Liquid Leather (base)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - White (base colour for poppies)
China Glaze - Salsa (over the white base of poppies)
Orly - Star Spangled (glitter highlight on poppies)
Flower shaped rhinestones from eBay (center of poppies)
Seche Vite Top Coat

 

[finchkittie]

Kayla, your nails are fucking incredibleeeee. No joke!
How on earth do you do your other hand? Are you ambidextrious?

 

[Kayla Shevonne]

Thanks so much!
I'm not ambidextrous but with practice I'm getting better and better at painting my right hand, so much so that it's almost to the point now where you can't see any differences between the two! I think the trick is to just practice and put up with the wonky looking hand for a while until you can get used to using your non-dominant hand.

I haven't posted here in a while but here's my most recent designs:

Harry Potter inspired:



I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
OPI - The "It" Color (yellow of scarf)
China Glaze - Bing Cherry (burgundy of scarf)
Nicole by OPI - Positive Energy Matte (base colour on thumb)
China Glaze - White on White (base colour for letters)
China Glaze - Liquid Leather (letters)
Revlon - Belle (glitter top coat on thumb)
Seche Vite Top Coat



Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:



I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
OPI - Green-wich Village (faces, turtle skin on thumb)
OPI - Funky Dunkey (Donatello's mask)
OPI - Flit a Bit (Michaelangelo's mask)
OPI - Ogre-the-Top Blue (Leonardo's mask)
OPI - Red My Fortune Cookie (Raphael's mask)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Black (turtle skin pattern on thumb, outline of masks, eyes, smiles)
China Glaze - White on White (white of eyes)
Seche Vite Top Coat


Retro Polka Dots inspired by this photo:




(Left hand)


(Right hand)

I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
OPI - Alpine Snow (base coat)
China Glaze - Recycle (dark stripes) mixed with OPI - Alpine Snow (lighter stripes)
OPI - Black Onyx (black dots)
OPI - Elephantastic Pink (pink dots)
Seche Vite Top Coat


And here's the first design in my Christmas series:



I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
China Glaze - Dorothy Who? (base colour)
OPI - Alpine Snow (snowflakes, snow)
Color Club - Sex Symbol (glitter highlight)
Seche Vite Top Coat

 

[Daph_]

That's incredible! *bows*

Jeesh, I'm speachless after seeing your artwork (I think it's fair to call it that)

 

[Curly1908]

(Left hand)


(Right hand)

I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
OPI - Alpine Snow (base coat)
China Glaze - Recycle (dark stripes) mixed with OPI - Alpine Snow (lighter stripes)
OPI - Black Onyx (black dots)
OPI - Elephantastic Pink (pink dots)
Seche Vite Top Coat

Come over to my house RIGHT NOW, and do this to my nails!!!!!!!

*faints*

Conservative job be damned!!!!! lol.

 

[Kayla Shevonne]

Wow, thanks guys! My ego is exploding.
Btw, the retro polka dots design is very easy to do! All you really need is a dotting tool (and patience).

Here's the next design in my Christmas series: Santa's belly!



I used:

China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
China Glaze - Ruby Deer (Santa's suit)
OPI - Alpine Snow (white fur on Santa's suit)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Black (belt)
Color Club - Sultry (belt buckle)
Black rhinestones from eBay (suit buttons)
Seche Vite Top Coat

 

[Daph_]

Hahaha that's awesome! Love that

Here's a recent marble that was inspired by Flounder the Fish from The Little Mermaid:



I used Orly Lemonade and Snowcone (over one coat of Snowcone)

 

[katred]

Kayla Shevonne, your nail art is absolutely incredible. I can barely get my regular polish to go on straight. I'm absolutely in love with you're Remembrance Day design- it's stunning!!!

 

[Kayla Shevonne]

Aaah, why haven't I checked this thread in forever!?!

Thanks katred!
And Daph_, that marble is fantastic! I can't water marble for the life of me!

I've got some posting to catch up to so this is going to be a picture heavy post of all of my recent nail art. I'll start with the rest of my Christmas manis and then work my way into what I'm sporting now.


Wrapped Presents (inspired by a tutorial by MissChievous on yt):



Candy Canes with Holly:



Christmas Wreaths:



Christmas Lights:



Poinsettias:



Holographic Zebra Print:



New Years:



Argyle Pattern:



Cookie Monster:



And finally, my current mani inspired by the press release photos for the new MAC Wonder Woman Collection:





Hope you enjoy!

 

[KatieTe]

I love your designs, Kayla. They're clean and awesome.

Here is my simple Halloween 2011 nail art:
Black Cat on the Red Roof.

 

[Magan]

Here are my rainbow nails probably my favorite design yet. Although this design was very time consuming and I used 20 different polishes it was well worth it. Possible the hardest part of the design was finding all the perfect colors.

 

[VeXedPiNk]

Wow, nice job everyone! There is TONS of great nail art inspiration in this thread.

Kayla - where did you go!?! Your ideas are so amazingly creative!!

I'd like to try to bring this thread back. I just recently got into nail art. Here's something I did last weekend. I'd been watching a bunch of tutorials on Youtube and just had to try this one. And it's SO easy!!

I used OPI Lust in the Dusk as the base colour, and then some random top coat from some nail set I have



Hooray for newspaper nails!



And here's a shot of my nails in the mirror - it'd be really neat if I could figure out a way to have the writing the right way on the nails... ideas anyone?