Sat-ART-day: 60's Theme

Brace yourselves, these nails are awesome! I haven't done a water marble in a while because my last one gave me a lot of trouble, but this one was so successful!

 

 

If this isn't 60's, I don't know what is! Look at that pinky o__o

I knew when I read that today's Sat-ART-day theme was 60's, I wanted to do a cool 60's mod pattern. I found this picture and knew immediately what I was going to do!

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I really wanted to incorporate red, but I still don't have a red creme! You can see this pattern has dots, so I decided to add some, too:

 

I don't like how the dots turned out, but I LOOOVE the pinky!

Onto what I used! I started off with a base coat of OPI- My Boyfriend Scales Walls. The colors on my index finger are China Glaze- Dance Baby (Electropop 2012) and China Glaze- Def Defying (Cirque De Soleil 2012). Middle finger: Def Defying again and OPI- Fly (Nicki Minaj 2012). Ring Finger: Fly again and OPI- Planks A Lot (Pirates of the Caribbean 2011). And the pinky is the same purple and pink again, so are the dots.

These colors were very easy to work with for water marbling. I know it is hard to find colors that work and spread evenly on the surface of the water. These were perfect, except you can tell the pink didn't spread as well, but that isn't a problem.

Hope you enjoyed these! I don't want to take it off!

Sat-art-day: Dotting Tools

I decided to participate in this weeks Sat-art-day challenge, organized by The Crumpet. She has so many challenges going on, it's hard to keep up! But this morning I looked at the few submissions and just knew I had to submit a cute dotticure. My boyfriend helped pick out the colors :)

 

A nice simple dotticure gradient!

I started off with two coats of China Glaze- Gaga For Green, from their Electropop collection for Spring 2012, and two coats of China Glaze- Happy Go Lucky. I love this yellow actually. I have only used it for nail art, but it applies smoothly after the second coat!

Then of course I started off with larger dots at the end of the nail, then small dots, slowly making a grandient. The white I used is OPI- My Boyfriend Scales Walls. I love the look of layered dots for some reason. Like towards the end of my ring finger and pinky, I don't know why. I guess it just gives a better effect.

What'd you think? Check out some of the other dotticures this from this week!