Cheery Cherry Nail Art

Next step with using our dotting tool, is creating art with it! On the manicure today, I decided to use my dotting tool to create some cute cherries! I actually got the idea for this manicure from a YouTube video by CutePolish. Creating cherries with your dotting tool is really easy. You just need two red dots next to each other, and then you can use your dotting tool to draw three little lines for the stem and leaf. I couldn't decide if I liked the white "shine dots" on my cherries or not, so I did one hand with each ;)

Base color for this manicure was a Sally Hansen Whirlwind White. The red in the cherries is Zoya Sookie, and the green is Four Leaf Clover by China Glaze.

Don't have a dotting tool yet?  Here is the set I use all the time from Born Pretty Store.

Summer Fruit Week - Day 4: These nails are GRAPE!

These nails would be great for a wine festival! I started with a base of Revlon Lily.  OMG, what a stunning lilac color!  I just love it!  The color went on really smooth and dried fast, yay!

On top of Lily, I stamped grapes from Bundle Monter's BM108 plate using Zoya Pinta.  I added the green stems using Sally Hansen Lickity Split Lime and an art brush. Note to self, when the camera says it needs new batteries, it means it!  And will not focus properly without them :(  Sorry about the blurry photo.  I hope you get the idea of what it looked like.  I really liked how this came out. 

Are you excited about the stunning conclusion of Summer Fruit Week tomorrow?  I'm definitely excited about having another giveaway!

Summer Fruit Week - Day 3: Strawberries for Pink Wednesday!

Happy Pink Wednesday, Lovelies!  It's day three of summer fruit week.  Hope you are enjoying the manicures so far!  For pink Wednesday I decided to create a strawberry themed manicure! 

I didn't take pix of the steps this time (Sorry!) but here is what I did:

1. Painted all nails, except one accent nail on each hand in Zoya Portia.
2. Painted accent nail in Zoya Dana.
3. On Portia painted nails, add polka dots in Zoya Flora using dotting tool.
4. On Dana nail, add smaller polka dots in Zoya Pippa using dotting tool.
5. On Dana nail, add green lines at the base of the nail for the stem.
6. On Portia nails, add red strawberry shapes using a thin nail art brush.
7. Add yellow dots and tiny green stems to strawberry shapes.

I like using the ring finger as my accent nail, but as you can see in the pictures, I accidentally made my middle finger the accent on my left hand.  Oops!  lol.   I think I like my other strawberry manicure better than this one.  What do you think?

Summer Fruit Week - Day 2: Citrus Fimo French Twist!

Check out that title!  It's like how many concepts can I fit in one manicure?  This manicure is soooooo bright and fun and awesome, and the best part?  I got to use Zoya Pippa again! I love Pippa!  For this mani, I paired her with her bff Jancyn.  Don't they look great together?

Zoya Pippa = yellow nails, Zoya Jancyn = orange nails.

I couldn't stop there though, I had to try the french twist manis that have been circulating lately.  I think these two colors look awesome with it.

Then, since this is summer fruit week, I cut up some orange and lemon fimo sticks and stuck them on with my top coat.

This is such a fun festive summer manicure!  It feels JUICY to me! :)  Hope you're liking fruit week so far!  Any guesses on what other fruits I'm going to take on this week?

Summer Fruit Week - Day 1: Watermelon Nails

Since we are in the middle of summer, I thought it would be appropriate to celebrate with some rooty tooty fruity nails! :P  Everyday this week I will feature different fruit inspired nail designs.  This fun week of nails will end on Friday with a fruity polish giveaway!!!!!  So stay tuned!

Today's nails are watermelon nails.  My hubby LOVES watermelons.  He says these are his favorite nails I've ever done!  lol.

I started my watermelon nails with Orly Hot Shot.  Please forgive the lack of cleanup, I forgot to cleanup before taking the picture.

To complete the look I used China Glaze Four Leaf Clover on my tips, then used my white striper to separate the green from the red.  To finish off the look, I added the seeds with a wet n' wild black with my dotting tool.  Then, I went a little crazy and added some Fairy Dust.

This manicure definitely inspired this whole week of fruity nails!  I can't wait to share the rest of the looks with you!  I know this whole watermelon look is nothing new, so if you've done watermelon nails, I'd love to see them, feel free to link up in the comments!

Lemonade Nails

Recently Nail Art Stamping Chick hosted a contest on Facebook calling for nail art stamping designs using the color yellow.  I decided to enter with a lemonade inspired manicure.  I started this manicure with Zoya Pippa!  What a CUTE yellow!  Then, I turned it into a ruffian with dollar store white.  I really love this style.  I think I might've done this without tip guides too, which is like a miracle!  I notice that as I paint my nails more and more for this blog, I'm really getting much more steady and clean with my application.  Do you guys have trouble with that?  Would it help if I posted some things I've learned so far?

 So, here is the ruffian,  Then I added the lemons using BM04.  These were stamped with Konad Special Yellow Polish and then took a green striper to color in the leaves.

I love this fresh summery manicure.  Totally matching this lovely weather right now.  Needless to say I didn't win the contest - whomp whomp!  But that's okay!  I'm hoping I will be getting the new plates as a bday gift soon!  Are you following Nail Art Stamping Chick on Facebook, yet?  You totally should!  She often will post about great finds on eBay for cheap plates, and it is a great resource for stamping inspiration.