Throwback Thursday Nails: Flower Nail Art

Hello all,

I had a wonderful thought today about putting up pictures of past manicures (before I had my blog) and talking about what I would do differently and/or showing a picture of the same manicure redone with my new experience level. :)

To start these posts off, I'd like to venture all the way back to my first nail art manicure. I had found a video on how to complete this on the fabulous Cutepolish YouTube channel.

In order to do this one, I simply put a clear polish on my nail, then placed 5 dots of a white polish (I used Sally Hansen Insta Dry's white) and 5 dots of another colour, I used Sally Hansen Insta Dry, it was my sister's polish so I am unsure of the name of the colour) in circles alternating as you go up your nail. As soon as you do one circle, use a toothpick to pull the polish from the dots inward and when it dries, use the other colour of polish to place a dot in the centre of the flower. 

Looking back on this now, I would have used a couple of coats of a sheer nude polish (or light pink like the video prescribes) like China Glaze Inner Beauty to soften the look of my nail line. I would also have used a base coat as said in the video. I don't think I had any idea what a base coat was then :p but my nails were so thin that they could have used the extra layer of protection. The flowers don't seem bad for my first ever attempt, haha. 

What do you think of my attempt? Do you like this concept?

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French Tip Konadicure

I was pleasantly surprised while shopping in one of my favourite discount stores when I found Konad's French Set for less than half price! It includes 3 plates (m19, m45, and m62), a stamper and scraper, a nail polish correcter pen, and 2 Konad special polishes (white and black pearl).

As you can imagine, a lot of my manicures have been incorporating these polishes and plates :p. The first one I tried was the tips on m19.

I began by using OPI's Ridge Filler and then applied one coat of China Glaze's Inner Beauty. Once that was dry I figured out which tip lengths were just a bit bigger than each nail and stamped with Konad's Special Polish in White. I figured that my manicure needed something more, so I added the butterfly design from plate m57 to my thumbs. 

When I went to apply topcoat, I managed to mess up the tip on one of my thumbs. It still didn't look right after applying another tip stamp over it, so I decided to break out another plate (m45) and try the leopard print design with Konad's Special Polish in Black Pearl. 

After applying OPI's Top Coat I was very pleased with the outcome. What do you think? Also, if you haven't noticed this is my first attempt at watermarking my images. I was trying to go for a curved image, but gave up, haha. Hopefully my skills improve with time!

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Experimenting with Metallics

I was looking for an opportunity to try out my recently purchased Layla Mirror Effect polish in Red Hot and Essie's No Place Like Chrome, but since this type of polish shows every imperfection of your nails I had to wait forever for a crack to grow out :(. When my nails were ready I was dying to try something incorporating both colours!

(Excuse the photo, I had to take a picture on the run because I had just put a matte top coat on and was worried I would ruin it :p)

I started by applying one coat of OPI's Ridge Filler to my nails to hide any imperfections. Then I decided to paint all nails with the Layla polish (2 coats on each finger minus the ring which had 1). I applied striping tape to my ring finger, applied one coat of No Place Like Chrome, and carefully removed the tape. Once it was all dry, I applied one coat of NYC's Matte Me Crazy mattifying top coat. 

I have tried striping tape before, but the result was no where as nice as this! In the past attempt I was impatient and applied it to partially dry polish (big mistake, haha). I'm not too happy with the lines that remained on my nails with the Layla polish. It might have been that the ridge filler wasn't fully dry, so I will have to try this polish again in the future and see if I get better results :) 

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Welcome!

Hello and welcome to my blog!

I'll begin this blog with an introduction. My name is Megan and I'm a nail enthusiast from Newfoundland, Canada. I was inspired by different nail bloggers from around the world, beginning with the amazing Bregje from Oooh, Shinies! I know I'm nowhere near as talented as this girl, but I'd like to share my experiences anyway :).