Clawed: To Boldy Go

...where no man has gone before.

 Galaxy nails!  Don't mind my chipped and messed up nails. 

 Galaxy nails are deciptively hard to do, at least for me.  The directions are easy: sponge light green, magenta, yellow, teal, and dark blue nail polish over any dark color (black, which I used, dark blue or purple) polish.  After doing so, I slicked a silver, blue and purple glitter over all of it.   

 Some tips: making the galaxy long (up and down your nail) works better than making it wide (from side to side).  Sponge on a white polish first to make the colors more vibrant.  Use a light hand while sponging. 

I used the teal for my other fingers.  It looks more teal in real life.  And it's matte!  I wasn't going to do galaxy on all my fingers.  Have fun and show me your galaxy nails!  

Clawed: Minty

I like easy nail art, and what's easier than an ombre!  For this first try, I decided to use silver glitter (Nail Inc. Electric Lane) over a mint green (Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Mint Sorbet).  It's super-easy to do.  All you need is two colors, a makeup sponge, and a scrap piece of paper.  Here are the steps:

1. Paint your nails with your color over a base coat, if you like.  Let dry.  

2. Pour a bit of your second color onto the scrap paper.

3. Rip off a piece of the makeup sponge.  It doesn't have to be a big piece.

4. Dip the sponge into the still-wet second color.

 5. Starting about 3/4 down your nail lightly sponge the color on all the way to the tip.  Let dry.

6. Now sponge half your nail with the color, all the way to the tip.  Let dry.

7.  Sponge the color onto your tips only.  Let dry.

 8.Slick on a top coat, if you wish.

9. Clean up with a Q-tip or thin paintbrush dipped in nail polish remover.

This mani makes me so happy!  It's so cute and girly. I am going to try two colors, instead of a color and a glitter.  There is also another technique for an ombre mani, so I am definitley going to try it!  I hope this little tutorial made sense!    

Clawed: Sparkly!

I love sparkles.  This is escpecially true for nails.

 This weekend I went to Sephora.  I wanted to get an Ombre set from the New Black, but they don't have them in stores.  So I opted for this amazing Nails Inc. silver glitter.    

 So I did a silver glitter graident!

 It's easy to do: paint a base coat first, (I used an OPI polish that I don't know the name of), then add a thin coat of glitter about 3/4 down your nail.  When that's dry, add another thin coat of glitter about half way down your nail.  Then put a lot of glitter on the tips, and seal it with a topcoat!  The only downfall to this polish is that it's really thick.  I bet it will really work well covering my whole nail.

 I can't wait to get a matte topcoat to see what this baby looks like matte.