Neon Rainbow Nails

     I did these nails as part of a group collab with a bunch of other nail girls on youtube (yay!) and I had so much fun doing these. I wanted a nice simple design with bright colors, so I decided to use the acrylic mixes in the Sundance Collection from Organic Nails and a nice white and clear glitter mix. The mixes I used from the Sundance Collection were Boox, Chak, Chakan, Samchak, Tunich, Kan, and Yaax. I also used a mix from the Circus Collection (also from Organic Nails) called Elephant.
     The mixes in the Sundance collection are all neons and bright colors which went perfectly with the theme of the collaboration (Bright Neon). These mixes have large chunks of nail art in them. There's peace signs, squares, clovers, and a bunch of other things. And it's these chunky pieces of nail art that make these mixes so hard to work with at times. They are GORGEOUS mixes but they can be time consuming and difficult to use at times when you are doing reverse application.
     The other mix I used, called Elephant, is a sparkly white glitter mix which has, unfortunately, been discontinued along with the rest of the Circus Collection. I only used a little bit of this mix at the tip just to give a nice fade at the end of the nail.
     I knew I wanted some hand painted designs on the nail, but I had to think about whether to do different designs on each nail or do the same thing on all of the nails. I decided to keep it simple and just do the same simple design on each finger. I used Organic Nails Synergy gel to put my Swarovski crystals on, and used Young Nails Finish Gel as my topcoat.
     Check the video out below and let me know what you think!

Moonlight Masquerade Nail

     
        This design was partly inspired by Bethany Griffin's Red Death Saga, which is a retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's Masque of the Red Death. I enjoyed these books and the protagonist Araby (who loves glitter and has purple hair!) so much I decided to do some nails inspired by the book. So when bornprettystore contacted me to do a review of some of their products, I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted. The moon, the mask, and the large black pearls were sent to me and I absolutely love them!
         To do this design I used clear acrylic on the nail bed to keep the glitter from sticking to the nail (I know its fake hand, but its a habit lol). Then I used my own glitter called Arabian Nights at the top of the nail and faded it down to a little past halfway. Then I used a purple glitter mis from The Glitter Nail Shop (if I remember what it's called I'll put it here) and faded that up from the tip. I encapsulated the glitter with clear acrylic, filed and buffed the nail. I decided to use gel to secure the 3D nail art since I didn't quite know how I wanted to place everything. Gel will give you plenty of time to move things around if you don't like the way they look, unlike glue. Once I had the larger pieces in the gel, I flash cured for about 20 seconds to keep the nail art from moving around so much. Then I used nail glue on the nail and placed the rest of the nail art. The reason I used gel AND glue is because I feel like gel isn't strong enough to hold larger pieces of nail art on its own (just my opinion).
        This is definitely one of my favorite designs. I'm seriously considering doing a full set like this. The review of bornprettystore.com and the tutorial for this design is down below. Please check them out and let me know what you think.


                                            My review of bornprettystore.com:

The tutorial for this design: