Black and Gold Tribal

I used some more of my stamping plates here, and I did actually have a hard time finding a polish that would show up on top of black, so I just stuck with my gold polish. And even that didn't really show up all that well before I put on a matte top coat, the gloss from the Seche Vite really hid the details of the design. (As you can see in the first picture)

The first picture is of my hand, because the image actually came out a little crooked. I did line it up straight but when I stamped it the stamp came down crooked onto my nail, but I actually like that lineup better than it being straight on. But I had already done my left hand.. And I didn't really feel like doing it over. 

I still need to work on placement and getting the stamp straight on my nails. 

Also, my nails are too short, so this whole stamp image didn't fit on my nails. I kind of wish that it was either smaller so it would fit, or my nails were longer.. Lol 

(Image Used)

Seche Vite Topcoat

Matte Topcoat

Matte Topcoat

Polished Used:

Wet n Wild Fast Dry - Ebony Hates Chris

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Golden-I 

Hard Candy Matte Topcoat

Plate Used:
MASH 47

Wet n Wild I got from Walgreens for about $2, Sally Hansen I got from Walgreens as well for about $2.50 and the Hard Candy topcoat I got from Walmart for $4.00

And Seche Vite topcoat I got from Amazon.

Black and Creme

I saw this design in an ad and just had to try and duplicate it, and I think I did a pretty good job. 

Here is the add:

Unfortunately, I don't have the pointed nails that really tie this look together, but my nails still came out looking good. I did match the colors pretty closely because Illamasqua is too expensive of a polish for me to buy at $17 a bottle from Sephora or $21.43 from Illamasqua.com

I used Revlon Top Speed - Cotton Sheets for the cream color and Sinful Colors - Black on Black for the black. 

I used Seche Vite top coat over these two.

I honestly thought that the hearts would have been harder to do, but I just used a small striping brush and dipped that into the bottle of Sinful Colors Black on Black to get a smooth line, and then painted the rest of my nail as usual. 

I bought the Revlon on sale from Walgreens for about $3.50 and Sinful Colors was $1.99 from Walgreens.

Black and Gold

I did this nail polish the other day, finally using the Hunger Games nail polish that I got in the mail a while ago. With it being such a bright sparkle I didn't really know how to use it, whether I wanted to wear it over something or just do a few coats and wear just that. Finally I got over my indecisiveness and just picked it up and put it on. 

I wore China Glaze Electrify over Sinful Colors Black on Black, which is just a creme black and on my ring finger I just wore it plain; 3 coats and the glitter was solid enough to cover up my nail.

Electify definitely has a fiery shine to it that I couldn't really capture in the photos. I do think it would have looked better if I had done a gradient rather than just painted it on, but I'll just have to do that next time. 

Sinful Colors - $1.99 (Walgreens)

China Glaze - Approx. $4.50 (Amazon)

Cross Design with Milani and Sally Hansen

Sorry the picture is so horrible... I don't have a very good camera. 

I made this design just a bit ago, but go easy on me I've never done this one before and I've actually only done french style tips twice before. But this is done with Sally Hansen's Black Platinum and Milani's Signature Gold. The picture does not give them credit as the black looks more blue in the first one... I did try editing them a little, but Photoshop only works so much. The polish did bubble up a little bit, I don't know why. If any one has a solution to this I would love to hear from you! I have not been able to fix this problem.

At first I thought it might be my base coat I was using, but I didn't use it on my left hand, as I chnged polish at the last minute from a flat color to this one that has a bit of shimmer. And the bubbling also happens before I put on my top coat. But anyway! I hope you like this design! I will be posting more once this one starts chipping, I've never used this gold before either so I don't know how long it generally lasts, but the black usually lasts 3-4 days and nail polish doesn't tend to last long on my nails. 

Where I got the idea: (And most of my ideas)

Link

Milani - $4.00 (Walgreens)

Sally Hansen - Approx. $6 (Wal-Mart)