Sinful Colors - Endless Blue

Are you looking for an "in-your-face" bright cobalt blue for a great price? Check out this beauty.

 I love how affordable this brand is, and they can have a great formula too. Pictured is just 2 coats of Endless Blue, and it is in fact that bright when on your nails.

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Gradient Pedicure

A quick look at my current pedicure.

It's a gradient with China Glaze Too Yacht To Handle, Color Club Power Play, & Sinful Colors 24/7

The black I used is Sinful Colors Black on Black. 

The stamp is from Bundle Monster BM03. I applied a single black rhinestone to the center of the image.

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Twilight Gradient

Not like the movie Twilight, just in that this is reminiscent to the sky at dusk.

China Glaze Too Yacht to Handle

OPI Dating A Royal

Sinful Colors Black on Black

These pictures were after a days worth of wear, so that's why they are kind of dinged up if you look close.

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Mosaics

I wanted to experiment with a random pattern of striping tape to get a mosaic look. I felt like these colors made for a unique combination.

I used Sinful Colors Snow Me White (let it dry THOROUGHLY) then masked off the geometric shapes with striping tape. I then filled in each section with polish and removed the tape before it had a chance to dry much. 

The polishes I used were: 

• China Glaze Lemon Fizz
• Orly Ancient Jade
• Sinful Colors Rainstorm
• China Glaze Passion For Petals
• China Glaze Sea Spray

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Mint & Coral Combo

I can't seem to get tired of mint and coral as a color combo. For this look I threw in some lilac and black for a funky striped skittle mix.

I used China Glaze For Audrey, Rimmel I Lilac You, & the coral is a franken I made up. For the accent nail I used a base of white polish and then striping tape to mask off the stripes of varying widths. The black polish was just my Sinful Colors black striper polish.

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Dots & Hearts

Simple, but inspired by a Pinterest find. (here)

I used China Glaze Laced Up and Precision Sandstorm. The black details were done with a dotting tool and Sinful Colors Black on Black.

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Born Pretty Store Stencil

Another attempt at the Born Pretty stencils found here for $3.09. You get 5 different patterns with 11 different sizes per sheet. My first attempt was the skull and crossbones here.

I used China Glaze Electric Beat & Sinful Colors Snow Me White. 

The stencils are easy to use, but provide only the most basic nail art designs. It is also hard to get intricate designs with these. I would think this would work best if you then chose to do some type of additional coloring on top of the white. The only hitch with these it that you really have to allow enough dry time for your bottom polish. Otherwise it'll pull it off.

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Neon splatter/shredded/hair spray marble

I tried to play around again with the shredded effect/hair spray on a water marble (first attempt was here) I wanted to see if I could mimic this look from amkuch15, white base with neon splatter.

This is Sinful Colors Snow Me White, Wet N Wild Pom Pom Kelly, & Wet N Wild Nerd Alert: Screech.

I first tried layering 4 different neon shades, but I couldn't get consistent splattering sizes so it was just a garbled mess. :( Too, this entire process was a big pain in the butt. These 4 nails took me several hours. No joke! It was ridiculous. Maybe it was the particular aerosol hairspray I was using, but sometimes it would just create big spots in the polish, then the next time it would blow all the polish to the edges and shred it into tiny little specks. So frustrating.

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Sinful Shine - Man Hunt

Sinful Colors has a new line called "Sinful Shine with Gel Tech." Not promising to last as long as an official gel manicure, but that it is "Five times more glossy than a patent leather shoe." These are exclusively sold at Walgreens for $2.99. 

I picked up just one color because it stood out to me.

Man Hunt

 2 coats. No topcoat, you can see just how shiny it is on it's own.

Army green with silver/gray shimmer.

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Experimenting with "shredded alcohol/hair spray water marble"

I saw this Nail Pop tutorial on Pinterest for turquoise stone type water marble. 

You just drop the polish in the water and then spray it with rubbing alcohol (I used hair spray). 

I used Wet N Wild I Need A Refresh-mint, and Sinful Colors Black on Black just to test run. Sorry that they are not more pictures, but after I uploaded them, I realized most came out blurry. :/

I think it looks awesome and I want to play around with it some more! I'll be sure to better document the process next time around ;)

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Shimmer Polish - Julie, Sarah, & Vivian

More Shimmers!

 Check out Cindy's Etsy shop, website, or facebook for more information on purchasing. Or you can always email her directly with your paypal address and the colors you would like to purchase:

shimmer484(at)gmail(dot)com

Julie is a crazy mix of all different colors, but a heavier concentration of purple and silver. Here I paired 1 coat of Julie over China Glaze Spontaneous.

Sarah is described as a tropical green/blue combination. 

Here I layered 1 coat of Sarah over Sinful Colors Rainstorm

Vivian is a antique, dusty pink mix. I layered 1 coat of Vivian over Orly Lollipop

Cindy always does a great job at mixing unique glitter combinations. There is obviously a lot of planning that goes into these beautiful polishes and I wish her all the success possible!

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Stripes & Drips

These nails were inspired by Nancy Mc and her Mickey nail wheel.

I don't think I've ever done drippy nails before, but these were a lot of fun.

 I used Sinful Colors Snow Me White as a base and started taping off the stripes to create them. After 2 nails I got sick of that slow process, so I just freehanded them with Sinful Colors Time Out which is a black striper brush polish.

 I then applied white for the drippy sections because I wanted the neon to be vibrant. The neon dark pink is Color Club Raspberry Rush. Then black striper polish to outline the drips and a white acrylic paint and a tiny brush for the shine marks.

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Herbie The Love Bug Inspired

Anybody else love these movies as a kid? I loved watching the ones from the 60s, I wasn't as big a fan of the Lindsay Lohan versions.

These nails were inspired by his racing stripes and number.

 

 

Tutorial:

I used 3 coats of Lime Crime Milky Ways and then I topped it with a coat of Seche Vite to speed things along. I waited about 10 minutes before applying the striping tape. I started along the middle of my nail and applied one piece. Then a second piece touching along the side of the first piece. Place the next piece with enough spacing to accommodate another imaginary piece of tape between them. And repeat again with skipping another imaginary space.

Then I used a small nail art brush to apply Sally Hansen Insta Dri Rapid Red & Sinful Colors Rainstorm. 

Then I removed all of the strips of tape EXCEPT for the very first strip. That one I trimmed with some cuticle nippers to the edges of my nail. Top with Seche Vite topcoat.

 Voila!

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Lotsa Hearts

These ended up looking like generic stickers, but I swear I painstakingly applied each and every heart. I used a dotting tool and a tiny nail art brush. They were inspired by Rebecca's nails here.

The polishes I used:

Base of Sinful Colors Snow Me White

China Glaze Laced Up & Electric Beat

Sally Hansen Insta Dri Heat Flash & Lightening

Orly Fresh

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