Rainbow nails

This week's challenge over at Nail Polish Queens (NPQ) community is "ROYGBIV",

better known as the colors of the rainbow: Red - Orange - Yellow - Green - Blue - Indigo - Violet.

A rainbow is a beautiful phenomenon.

And it can bright up any dark day.

And here is the line-up of the polishes that I've used:

You are beautiful like a rainbow

My message to all my lovely readers:

You are beautiful like a Rainbow!

Polish on the pinky is:
- KOH Colours! - Platinum Silver! 133

Day 299) Nail art rainbow waterfall

So, this week's challenge on NPQ is "Waterfall nail art".
Let's start with a confession...I hadn't heard of it before this challenge (◐.̃◐)
But when I looked at the nail arts they suggested I was like: "Oh, is that a waterfall nail art!"
It is actually a pretty simple design which can be achieved by amateurs as well as pro's.

Now, I didn't bother to make a tutorial. You can find a good one at Nailasaurus.

I immediately wanted to do a rainbow waterfall (of course ✿◕ ‿ ◕✿).
And it was only after I finished my nail art that I realized that I hadn't followed the Nailasaurus tutorial...

So here is my tutorial in words (sorry!)
1) Start by painting your nails black
2) Get your rainbow colors
I chose to use my glitters.
The 7 colors of the rainbow were IMAO too much for using it on just one nail but splitting them up between 4 nails isn't easy either right?!
So, after taking a good look at my glitters I came to 12 colors: dark red, red, reddish orange, orange, yellow, light green, green, turquoise, teal, blue, dark purple, purple
Three colors per nail.
3) Each color got 1/3 part of the nail.
I used a striper brush to make stripes with the first color (dark red) on 1/3 of the Nail. Then I made stripes with the second color (red) from 1/3 to 2/3 and so on...
The stripes have different lengths

Day 292) Nail art painting rainbow flowers

After a lot of rainy days today actually started off kinda nice...of course in the afternoon the rain started again but at least there has been some sun :D
Having some sunshine makes me want to make a colorful nail art.

As inspiration for today's nail art I used this image:

 

 

I replaced the butterflies with flowers (to make it easy ;D)

 

 

Day 246) Rainbow nail art

Today's nail art has been in my mind for quite some time.

I just needed the right spirit to get to it.

Today is THE day.

This nail art has a message:

 

Whenever it's raining and you feel that life can't get any worse.

Remember that rain only needs a little sunshine to create the most beautiful phenomenon on earth:

The Rainbow!

So, never give up on your little sunshine as it might turn your life into a beautiful rainbow.

 

This nail art shows 4 kids in rain coat and boots who are painting the rainbow.

The 4 kids resemble my 4 kids as they bring sunshine and color to my life.

 

Day 209) Rainbow striping tape mani

For today a striping tape nail art.

 

Material:

-Basecoat

-White nail polish

-Striping tape

-(Tape)

-Sponge

-Rainbow colors nail polish

-Topcoat

 

Step 1:

Start with a basecoat and let it dry.

Apply the white nail polish; make sure to have good coverage.

Finish it with a topcoat and let it dry.

 

Step 2:

Use the striping horizontal and vertical to make little squares (if anyone can tell me what this kind of pattern is called in English, I would be very pleased).

Apply some regular tape around the cuticles: This way you can secure the striping tapeand you'll have less mess in the next step.

 

Step 3:

Use the sponge and your rainbow colors to sponge the colors on your taped nail.

Diagonal sponging gives a nice effect.

 

Step 4:

Remove the tape and striping tape.

Finish the nail art with a topcoat and make sure your cuticles are clean.

 

Done!

 

 



Day 199) Colorful abstract nail art

Day 172) Nail art inspired by crayons art

Like I've said before, I get my inspiration everywhere.
Pinterest has proven to be a great medium for this.
Today I came along this picture of crayons art:

I really love it and so do many other people because after this one I found like a thousand other simular ones.
I love the colors and the little twist with the umbrella. Again credits for the one who came up with this idea!
In short: Glue the crayons on top of a canvas. Use a blow dryer to melt the wax of the crayons and let it drip.

The canvas above is today's inspiration for my nail art.

Of course I'm not going to use real crayons...don't want to burn my skin.
Nail polish thinned with remover will probably work. But I didn't want to ruin my base, so I chose to use a very watery acrylic paint, which could be very fast removed with some water.

Here is my step-by-step:

Step 1: After the basecoat apply a white nail polish

Step 2: Put some pieces of tape on the nail (leaving the sides and 1/3 of the top tape-free)

Step 3: Use the acrylic paint (picture 1) and a brush to make colorful stripes on the nails (picture 2)

Step 4: Remove the tape and clean the cuticles (if a little paint got under the tape, retouch the white)

Step 5: Use a nail art brush and black nail polish to paint an umbrella at the top of your white section (and if you like, paint some people underneath it)

That's it!

Day 136) Dotted nails Rainbow

The weather is terrible in The Netherlands.
Nothing but rain, rain and more rain.
Time to compensate these dark days with of course a multicolored nail art: a rainbowy nail art to be precise.

Today I don't have a step-by-step.
I used a white nail polish as background for my nail art.
And for the artistic part I used only a dottingtool and a lot of nail polish colors ;-D

Some extra info that might be useful:
-On the ring finger I did an outline of rainbow dots
-On the pinky I placed dots that I pulled with my dottingtool into a teardrop shape. The pulling of dot into teardrop shape can also be done by using a wooden stick or something like that.

Hope you like it!

Day 79) Nail art International Day of Happiness