Button Nails

Colors Used:
Kleancolor Pastel Teal
China Glaze For Audrey
Julep Marion
Sally Hansen Navy Baby
Sally Hansen Fairy Teal

Glitter in the Orange Juice

Everyone has recently been pulling out the oldies but goodies from China Glaze's 2010 summer Poolside Collection, so I figured I'd join in on the fun that is blindingly bright, neon happiness.

Initially, I put one layer of Sun Worshiper over Sally Hansen Whirlwind White:

Faux Fail

It's true; you get what you pay for. This is a great example:

Rainbow Leopard

Happy Blogoversary! Although I didn't start to really focus on this blog for a few months after I started it, Nails Like Lace (with some name changes along the way) has been around for a whole year, today! Very exciting!! =D



Anyway...


I replaced the other day's tiger and leopard print fail with yet another fail today! =D

I like this one, but I don't. I wish I'd had a smaller paint brush to use (I would have just cut one down, but I use all of the ones I have the way they are), that'd I'd been more careful on base color application, and that I'd made it look more like leopard print than wonky polka dots. =P

Regardless, I used Sally Hansen Whirlwind White as the base, acrylic paints for the spots, and an unnamed L.A. Colors glitter from the High Impact Glitter collection on top.

Have you ever seen a tangerine peacock?

The tangerine that I showed you yesterday needed a little extra to prolong it's existence. 

I looked at my Sally Hansen greens, then back at my nails. Back at some teals and limes, back at my nails; and thought "peacock".

So I pulled out my Bundle Monster plates and got to work.

I used Sally Hansen Thinking of Blue to do the stamping, then dotted in the middles of the stamp with Thinking of Blue (dark blue), Fairy Teal (teal) and Grass Slipper (lime green). The pattern stamp is from plate BM 212 and the peacock is from plate BM 15.

I consider this one to be a fail because it turned out looking absolutely nothing like I had planned. I looked at my nails, imagined the stamp and other colors and it looked great. But it just didn't end up coordinating and looking how I imagined. I am thinking it's the orange background that I am having a problem with.