NOTD: Rainbow Fish

Hello!

Today, I have some nail art inspired by the book The Rainbow Fish! I remember reading that book as a kid and I just loved it! My inspiration came from the fish's scales. I haven't read the book in a long time so I can't actually remember the significance of the shiny scales but, nevertheless, it made for some great nail art. The goal with this design was to use as many of my untrieds as possible and I managed to use FOUR, woohoo!

Bottle: China Glaze Fade Into Hue

What I used:

• OPI Nail Envy
• China Glaze Sunday Funday
• China Glaze Fade Into Hue
• China Glaze Passion For Petals
• OPI Your Royal Shine-ness
• Sinful Colors Black On Black
• China Glaze Fast Forward Top Coat
• Ciate Nail Foil
• Ciate Foil Fix
• Mash-39 Stamping Plate

Bottle: China Glaze Fade Into Hue

Let me know if you want a tutorial for a look like this!

XOXO

MAD DOG

NOTD: St. Patty's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

These nails are actually from about a week ago, but I thought I should wait to post them! I was going for a tweed kind of look, but I'm not sure how successful I was. There isn't much to say today so.. Here are the nails!

Bottle: OPI Honey Ryder

What I used:

• OPI Nail Envy
• Sally Hansen Mint Sorbet
• OPI Honey Ryder
• Green Acrylic Paint.
• Color Club 0-60 Speedy Top Coat

Have a wonderful and safe St. Patrick's Day!

XOXO

MAD DOG

NOTD: Glitter Gradient

 I LOVE MY NAILS! So much sparkle!

   I did this glitter gradient for last night's Imagine Dragons concert. I had never been to a concert before but I felt like glitter was a necessity... That's probably weird. Anyway, the concert was great, I was really tired though.

   I'm starting to get the hang of blogging now; I haven't accidentally erased any posts since the first one.


   I  haven't done a glitter gradient in a really long time and I realized why, it's hard! I applied my Savina glitter to a cosmetic sponge and repeated with few layers to concentrate the glitter towards the tip of the nail. Sounds easy, right? Well, I somehow managed to get glitter all over my knee and face. I actually think it's still on my knee...

Bottle from L to R Sinful Colors Black on Black
Savina Gem Stones

What I used:

• OPI Nail Envy
• Sinful Colors Black on Black
• Savina Gem Stones
• China Glaze Fast Forward Top Coat

Bottle: Sinful Colors Black on Black

I hope you guys like my concert nails, I can't stop looking at the awesome sparklyness on my fingers! Feel free to leave comments with nail art suggestions, I'd love to do what you guys want to see. Have a great day!

XOXO 

MAD DOG

NOTD: Neon Leopard + Tutorial

Whaddup Guys?

   I couldn't sleep last night and so I did what I always do: Stalk people on Instagram. I saw that Hannah from The Nail Trail posted a super cute neon leopard manicure. She used some of the China Glaze Sunsational Cremes in her design and since I got those polishes for Christmas and still haven't used them, I decided to copy Hannah's nails. ANDD I decided to make a sort of pictorial for the nail art too. Woohoo!




   Hannah's Instagram profile is @thenailtrail in case you wanted to know. She's got some really great nail art!


What I used:

• OPI Nail Envy
• China Glaze That's Shore Bright
• China Glaze Bottoms Up
• China Glaze Sun of a Peach
• China Glaze Highlight of My Summer
• China Glaze Too Yacht to Handle
• Sinful Colors Black on Black
• China Glaze Fast Forward Top Coat

How to:

1. Apply base coat and base color. I also like to add a layer of top coat to make my polish dry faster.

Step 1

2. Using a dotting tool or bobby pin, make little dots with the color of your choice. The dots don't need to be perfectly round or evenly spaced; imperfections are important for animal print.

Step 2

3. Using a black polish or acrylic paint, use the dotting tool to drag color around the dots you made. There are four basic ways to do this. It's hard to type how to do those so just look at the photo below and use different combinations of these shapes.

Step 3

4. Add some random black dots or squiggly shapes where there's a weird gap between leopard spots. This balances everything out and really completes the design.

Step 4

5. Add top coat. Black polish really likes to smear so be careful when doing this! Wait a good amount of time to make sure the design is dry and have plenty of top coat on the brush so it doesn't drag over the design too much.

Step 5
Bottle: China Glaze Too Yacht to Handle

   

   Thank you Hannah for the nail art inspiration! I hope everyone liked my recreation of it. Thanks for reading!

XOXO

MAD DOG