The Good Nails

Hello there everybody! How's it going? It's summer time right now in Australia and I love to use lot's of bright, happy colours for summertime! I thought a fun look for the summertime would be these bright, eye-catching mermaid scale nails. I used a stamper to create a marbled/gradient effect. I really like that technique because it requires no base colour, dries pretty fast and looks awesome! I believe that the technical term for a manicure that uses a different colour of polish on each nail is called a 'skittle-cure', isn't that just a delicious name? Now, are you ready to get some scales in your nails? Now, real quick before I take you guys through the process the colours that I used for these nails. These are in colour order starting with the oranges and ending in the blues. Sinful Colors Social Ladder, Red Earth Heat Wave , Rimmel Tangerine Queen,  Sinful Colors Yolo Yellow, David Jones Sourise , Sally Hansen Smartease, Rimmel Neon Fest, China Glaz...

Hey! Happy new year everybody! Actually, I don't know if it's the new year everywhere in the wide, wide world, but it is in Australia anyway! It's summer right now, so I thought what better nails for summer than a super duper bright neon gradient! The neon polishes I used are both really strong and brigh (the pink is Polyester Girl by Face of Australia and orange is Neon Coral by American Apparel) , and I really love the way they look with the silver foil polish (Diamonds are Forever by Revlon). You may notice that my pink and middle fingers and pointer and ring finger  look slightly different. Well, that's coz the pointer and ring fingers aere painted silver with a gradient done on top of the pattern and the middle and pinky finger are a gradient with silver done on top of the pattern. First I will take you over the methodology of my pointer and ring fingers. Ok! So to start, lay a piece of striping tape across the middle of the nail. This is done as a w...