The Fancy Side: acrylic paint

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Winter Time Icicles

Monday, January 12, 2015 1/12/2015 08:14:00 PM

Happy Monday everyone! How is everyone doing? I hope you all had wonderful weekends. Mine was really good. I had dinner with friends, saw a Broadway show, and went to a blogger meet up. It was a super fun weekend!!

The blogger meetup had a mani theme of snow & ice. If you follow me on Instagram you saw a sneak peek of these in the group shot. It took me way too long to do these stupid nails and after I was done it occurred to me that there was an easier way to get the base, but whats done was done.

I started off with a base of Color Club In De-Nile. This was a gift from the lovely Frosso. It's the perfect pale baby blue creme. I'm wearing two easy coats for full coverage.

I then went in with Charme Whitehall for a snowy effect. (It occurred to me later that I could have used KBShimmer Snow Way for a similar look minus a step.) Ah well. One coat of Whitehall with some minor placing gave me this look!

I then used acrylic paints and a cut down striping brush to paint on some icicles following this tutorial. The girls at the meetup told me depending on how you view them they could be icicles or snowy pine trees. Either works for me. :-)

I feel like I'm getting better at free handing designs, but I really need to keep practicing. It's hard to paint things that little. :-/

What do you think...icicles or snowy pine trees?

Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee

*all products were either a gift or self purchased

Tropical Dahlia

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 9/30/2014 11:00:00 AM

I decided to have some fun with Cirque's Dear Dahlia. While I was playing with this collection I kept imagining it on my tropical honeymoon. I'm excited to get married, but I'm also excited for an extended vacation lazing around on a beach with blue waters and drinks with little umbrellas. So I decided to paint some green palm type leaves and orange & blue flowers using Dear Dahlia as a base.

I then added a matte topcoat, so you can see the details a little better. I can't decide if I like shiny or matte better. What do you think?

All of the leaves/flowers were done in acrylic paint, so I don't have color names for you. Sorry.

Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee

*all products used in this post were purchased by me

#TheLacquerRing: Supernatural

Thursday, September 25, 2014 9/25/2014 11:00:00 AM

#TheLacquerRing is back. This time the lovely Sibohan of For the Love of Nail Art had the pleasure of September picks. You already saw the gold mani I did, for the second prompt she chose supernatural. She said to think of things like mermaids, phoenix, etc. So I went with dragons because who doesn't want dragons on their nails.

I started off with a base of OPI Do You Have This Color in Stock-holm? (love the name) which is a beautiful blue leaning purple. I then used acrylic paints to add scales and a super cool dragon eye. Also, I'm terrible at posing with my thumb next to my fingers, please ignore awkward pose.

Then to spice things up, I used my Ciate Foil Kit to give my dragon scales some metallic shine. The foil applied a little thicker on the scales than I wanted but it looks awesome around the dragon eye.

Since I spiced up my mani with the Ciate Foil Kit, I thought I'd spice up yours as well. I bought an extra and I'm going to give you one too! Woo! Be sure to enter on the rafflecopter widget below!

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So what do you think? I love the dragon eye, I can't believe I freehanded that! Don't forget to check out all the other supernatural mani's that Cynthia, Amanda, Lesley, Frosso, Jessica, Siobhan, and Nicole came up with as well. You can see their looks below.

An InLinkz Link-up

Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee

*all products featured in this post were purchased by me

#TheLacquerRing: Green

Thursday, August 14, 2014 8/14/2014 11:00:00 AM

#TheLacquerRing is back. The lovely Cynthia from Of Life and Lacquer has the pleasure of picking for the month of August. As you know by now, we do a color for the first go around and then an art pick for the second theme in August.

For Cynthia's first pick she chose the color green. For my green I chose Morgan Taylor's Go For the Glow, which is from their Neon Color Collection. It is very neon!

Then for funsies because I want to see the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but I haven't had a chance to yet, I chose to create TMNT nails. Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Donatello are all accounted for, as well as "TMNT" over a turtle shell! They are all done in acrylic paint and pretend like they aren't super wonky, kay thanks!

Don't forget to check out what Cynthia, Amanda, Lesley, Frosso, Jessica, Siobhan, and Nicole came up with as well. You can see their looks below.

An InLinkz Link-up

Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee

*all products used in this post were purchased by me

#TheLacquerRing: Geometric

Thursday, July 31, 2014 7/31/2014 11:00:00 AM

The Lacquer Ring is back for its final prompt in July. Jessica of Once Upon a Polish picked geometric for our art theme this month. I really wanted to free hand a design this time around since my freehanding failed in June.

I started off with a base of OPI My Vampire is Buff. This is a beautiful cream/off white. I love the way this polish looks and its a good alternative from stark white.

Using acrylic paints and a tiny paint brush I freehanded this plaid look. About halfway through I decided trying to freehand a geometric look was not the best decision I've ever made. However, I rather like what I ended up with, so I'm calling it a success.

Don't forget to check out what Cynthia, Amanda, Lesley, Frosso, Jessica, Siobhan, and Nicole came up with as well.

An InLinkz Link-up

Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee

*all products featured in this post were purchased by me

Glitter Mosaics

Saturday, November 16, 2013 11/16/2013 07:26:00 PM

China Glaze makes the best full coverage glitter polishes. It seems like in every holiday collection there is at least 3 or 4 amazing full coverage glitters and I have to buy them all. I love a good glitter polish.

For this look I'm using 3 full coverage glitters from their current holiday question and 2 from last years collection. They are Champagne Kisses (champagne glitter, last year), Glistening Snow (silver glitter, last year), All Wrapped Up (blurple glitter, this year), This is Tree-mendous (green glitter, this year), and Put a Bow on It (raspberry glitter, this year).

I'm in LAHOVE with this look. My line work (done in black acrylic paint) isn't as crisp as I'd like, but man, talk about sparkles! The black sets off the glitters giving them a depth that really shows their beauty even more.

I was thinking about doing a tutorial for this look. Is that something you all would be interested in? Let me know.

Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee

*all products featured in this post were purchased by me

Awaiting the Great Pumpkin...

Monday, October 21, 2013 10/21/2013 10:23:00 PM

Do you ever see a polish and think that has to be mine? Because that is pretty much my entire polish buying experience. The other day I was broswing on Nail Pattern Boldness' site, and I came across a Halloween polish called Fraken-Pussy. First off, best name ever, second it was GORGEOUS so of course it immediately went in my cart because I'm a sucker for pretty polish.

Once Fraken-pussy (ha!) arrived, I decided I wanted to pair some nail art with it. How can you not do some Halloween nail art with some Halloween themed polish?

Fraken-pussy (ha!) is an orange micro-glitter polish with a smattering of chartreuse, green, and purple glitters. Seriously it's amaze-balls! On my ring finger I applied a base of China Glaze Kalahari Kiss then used a sponge to dab on some Fraken-pussy (ha! I'm real mature, I know) in a round shape on the bottom. Once that was done I used orange, green, and brown acrylic paint to freehand the details on the pumpkin.

I loved this manicure and I was so bummed that I had to take it off, so I could put on a "interview appropriate" mani. But the good news was I got a second interview for a job I want, so yay me!

Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee

*all products featured in this post were purchased by me

Bone Tips

Saturday, October 19, 2013 10/19/2013 04:44:00 PM

A couple of weeks ago I asked on Twitter and Facebook what people thought of using acrylic paints for nail art? I've seen other bloggers use it, and I was curious. Do people consider it cheating in nail art? I ordered a little set online and tested it out on my first Halloween look ever!

I started out with a base of Bedtime Paradox by Flossy Lacquers. This is a squishy black jelly filled with holographic glitters and white hexes. It becomes opaque after 3 layers, and I love the way the polish layers and how the glitters peek through. It's so awesome.

After letting my base dry, I added on some skulls and bones to the tips in white and black acrylic paint. The acrylic paint doesn't dry as fast, so it makes it really easy to work with. Plus if you screw up, it comes right off. AND if you get any on your skin, just wash your hands after you topcoat your design. Seeing as it was my first time working with it, it wasn't perfect, but I can see why people like using them for detailed designs.