China Glaze Sun Worshiper, Japanese Koi, and OPI Kennebunk-Port

I decided to do a bright ombre because I have been feeling the need for more orange in my life.

I started with two coats of China Glaze Sun Worshiper, you can still see lines at this point, but when I put the other colours over top I couldn't see any trace of nail lines.

Natural Light - Shade

I used China Glaze Japanese Koi for my orange which I sponged on along with the OPI Kennebunk-Port (The red). They were easy to work with for a quick and dirty polish job.

Natural Light - Sun

I use a normal makeup sponge to do the ombre. To speed things up I placed one line of each colour on the sponge and then carefully move up and down to blur the line.

Natural light - Sun 

I taped around my nails so there was not very much cleanup after. Overall I was really happy with these nails, no effort, and I got great colour.

- Anna

Baby Deer Inspired Nails

I have my pictures and all is right in the world again. I got a lot of inspiration from my vacation and I was chomping at the bit to do these nails after seeing a fluffy little baby black-tailed deer.

It was all cute and spotty so I couldn't help myself! I used two coats of China Glaze Desert Sun, which is a rather nice polish. It went on nicely, and as always I liked the China Glaze brush. I thought The colour was perfect for a baby deer and I am actually really happy with it. 

Natural Light- Sun

I used OPI My Vampire Is Buff for the baby spots and the tips. I did the tips the way I did because the black tailed deer have the bottom white and then a strip of black and brown on top - so it just felt right. 

He's so fluffy it pains me

I used a brush and GOSH Nero to make the 'fluffy' lines. It went alright.

I got a free mini top and base coat with on of the Quo polishes I got, so I figured I would try it as a topcoat. Not sure if it was because it was a mini, but it went pretty horrible. I got bubbles in the topcoat as well as it softened the polish too much so even though it had been half an hour since I did my nails I got a black drag on my ring finger. This is why I shouldn't mess with a good thing.

Natural Light - Shade

I did the spots with a dotting tool before I put my top coat on, My Vampire Is Buff is opaque enough that I didn't have to double up on the dots which I was very glad for.

Natural Light - Sun

Over all I am really glad with Desert Sun, it is a lovely colour and really nice to put on too. I feel the need to buy more browns after this.

- Anna




- PS *personal* if anyone wants to see what the Olympic Peninsula looks like I made a small imgur thing of some of the places.

http://imgur.com/a/Ky9Ip