Nail Art with Shimmer Polish in Jennifer & Color Club Cherubic

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I recently tried my hand at a little bit of nail art. Those of you who do this well make it look easy. I found it to be nothing of the sort!

Glitter toppers lend themselves perfectly to extending a manicure from either regrowth at the cuticle or to use as tip wear camouflage as I did long ago HERE with Wendy that consists of purple, copper & multicolored various sized glitter.

Let me just show you a quick picture of one of my favorite Shimmer Polish colors - Jacki - which contains fine glitter in violet, navy & maroon. Again, an early picture but quite lovely. I prefer fine glitter as it is easier for me to work with.

indoors under OttLite

 

On to the nail art. I used 2 coats of Color Club Cherubic holographic polish as a base. Then I thought I would play around with various shapes and a bit of fine nail striping tape. I hope you enjoy my first attempts at playing with polish using Shimmer Polish in Jennifer which contains soft blue, periwinkle, gold and other various colors of glitter. Just look at those amazing close up bottle shots ☼

Color Club Cherubic (indoors under OttLite)

outdoors

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bottle close up outdoors

 

 bottle close up outdoors

 



indoors under OttLite

To look at Jennifer directly:
Jennifer

Buy Shimmer Polish on her lovely Etsy site here:
Shimmer Polish

For her stunning line up of different blogger's pictures of all colors & endless possibilities, visit:
shimmy shimmer

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Zoya Jelly Nail Art

The lovely and uber talented UK nail blogger, Sam, is sharing one of my posts with her community. Yay ♥ Take a look at her witty blog, Polished Art and join her site for fantastic nails and tutorials. You know you want to ☼

My contribution to *cough*cough* my rough interpretation of nail art involves Zoya Jelly Professional Lacquer in 3 shades of supremely buildable colors that would do wonders in the hands of just that - a professional. Funny thing - I don't do nail art!

Initially my intent was to just wear these colors alone so I did a skittle manicure to test the colors. After 3 coats, it still didn't feel right because they are so sheer and my nails were getting dangerously thick so I decided to try some random nail art "blobs" instead. Not a pretty word but the manicure turned out to be quite lovely at a distance. I am showing macro shots so you can see the different colors but the effect was much prettier IRL. I received many compliments because no one looks at another person's nails in macro mode!

Here were the steps:

Zoya Paloma, a sheer deep fuchsia-berry as an overall base color followed by Zoya Katherine, a sheer, dark, red-toned aubergine/oxblood with Zoya Frida, a sheer, dark, warm-toned teal blue randomly blobbed about. The always puurrrfect Hong Kong Girl top coat made them shine like glass. The manicure lasted a good 4 days without any tip wear.

The colors are actually gorgeous and would be perfect for jelly sandwiches. This was a fun experiment but as most of my readers know, I like my thin nails and tend to get frustrated by the amount of build up required for a novice at nail art. Don't let that dissuade you. 

A big thank you to Sam. I will be watching and learning from you, my dear ☼