NOTD: Neon Watercolor + Tutorial

Hello wonderful internet people!

I broke a nail at school on Friday so right now I'm in the nub club again! I'm not too upset about it though, nails grow back!

The weather is bumming me out today so I decided I need a little neon in my life.I thought I'd even share a tutorial with you guys. I love making tutorials, so I hope you like it!

What I used:

• Essie Grow Faster
• Color Club Look, Don't Tusk
• Color Club On The Rocks
• Color Club Sex Symbol
• China Glaze You Drive Me Coconuts
• China Glaze Celtic Sun
• China Glaze Keepin' It Teal
• Color Club 0-60 Speedy Top Coat

1. Apply a base coat and base color. The base color should be light so that the colors you apply over it will easily stand out. I opted to have a glitter accent nail as well. 
2. Apply the polishes of your choice for the water color aspect of this design to a cosmetic sponge. Apply dots of polish onto the sponge in a random pattern, you can do this using the brush that comes with the polish

   

   Step 2

3. Take the sponge and dab it up and down, left and right onto the nail to blend the colors. If you do not the vary the dabbing direction, the colors will not blend. If you vary the dabbing direction too much, the colors will look muddy.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each nail except for your glitter accent nail if you chose to have one. You may need to sponge multiple layers on your nails to get the colors to be more opaque. 

   

   Step 4

5. Using a small paint brush (I use an Elf Concealer brush), clean up around your nails by dipping the brush into polish remover or acetone. 

   

   Step 5
   Elf Professional Concealer Brush

6. Apply top coat over the design to smooth out the sponging. 

   

   Step 6

7. Add any studs or nail adornment you want.

   

   Step 7
   Assorted stud wheel from Bornprettystore.com

So that's my tutorial! I hope it was helpful. Let me know if you try this out, I'd love to see.

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