Birthday Nail Art Fest!

Two ladies in our Facebook nail polish group had their birthdays recently. To celebrate, I joined in their birthday nail art fest! The designs have been posted on Instagram but I want to share the inspiration behind in this post.

For Natalsie of Cats-in-nails (http://cats-n-nails.blogspot.com.au),  I did my first ever water marble. She is a huge advocate of nail art and a proud owner of two lovely cats Nikolai (blue-grey) and Cat (black-white).

Base polish – L’Oreal  Color Riche 604 Metropolitan – a grey creme

Water marble polishes: as many of you already know, not many polish/brands work with water marble, I’d love to hear a chemist’s point of view as to why. I used OPI Skull & Glossbone and China Glaze Hook And Line

-      Kitty – Pretty Serious’ The Pink One using a art craft punch (see previous post for how)

For Kierra of "Look what the bats dragged in" http://www.lookwhatthebatsdraggedin.com/p/about-contact.html. Kierra is a very trendy photographer who love all things bats, skulls and cat, I did a mix a match mani with following details:

Base polish; Illamasqua Baptiste – such a gorgeous dark purple shimmer with maroon/purple/blue sparkles. Kierra is a Illamasqua lover not without good reasons!

Thumb: decal skeleton hand and free-hand initial “K”, flame with NufOh 58 Kierra kindly swapped at  the last SYD meetup =)

Index: a bit out of place in the whole scheme, but well – Pretty Serious’ The Pink One with silver and gold nail foils on top, finished with a kitty polish decal.

Middle: free-hand bat on flame

Ring: tape manicure with Ozotic 912 – love love love this scatter holo, finished with a stud

Pinkie: glow-in-the-dark skull water decal

Illamasqua Baptiste is so stunning! I repainted leaving the tape mani on the ring finger as accent few days after, Baptiste is totally worth the retail price!  

It is such joy doing these nail arts for my friends. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do. xx Ann