Inspired by a Movie: Moana

Sally Hansen Pacific Blue + Essie Shine of the Times

Pink Holo + Geometric Print

Hi everyone! Today's Twinsie Tuesday theme is "non-dominant hand mani" I can't do much nail art with my left hand so I usually just wear the same base color on both hands, but have stamping instead on my Cinderella hand. 

I started with two coats of Sally Hansen Ruby Diamond, a gorgeous pink linear holo, as my base

Then I stamped with Born Pretty Store plate BP-L013  and white stamping polish also from Born Pretty Store. Use my code SL10K31 for 10% off!

What do you think of this mani? Do you normally have the same thing on both hands?

An InLinkz Link-up

Pink Holo + Leopard Print

Mod Blue Colorblock

Sally Hansen Ruby Diamond

Turquoise Stone Nails

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Monday Blues Ziploc bag smoosh mani

Twinsie Tuesday: Inspired by your Pet

Sally Hansen - Berried Under

St. Patty's Day Polka Dots

Hard Candy Black Tie Optional vs. Sally Hansen Pixel Perfect

OMD2 - 31DC - Bridal (28th)

OMD2 - 31DC - Roses (25th)

OMD2 - 31DC - 3D (12th!)

OMD2 - 31DC - Coral

Sally Hansen - Fearless Fog

Sally Hansen - Fearless Fog (2 coats) with Seche Vite

Mavala - Barrier Base Coat

Application was AMAZING with this polish! 2 easy coats that went on smoothly and self leveled. The brush is probably the best I've ever used. It is flat like the OPI one so it smooths out the polish nicely but it is skinnier than the OPI brush and tapered. This makes it really easy to get a nice arc shape around the cuticles and makes the brush extremely accurate. It also dried pretty quickly and was probably the fastest mani I've ever done. I didn't do any clean up at all on these nails! This is a polish I've had forever and kind of forgot about with all the other polishes I have to choose from haha

Unfortunately it didn't work well with Seche Vite and the amount of shrinking I got was kind of ridiculous. The picture above was taken the next day. The polish on my thumb nail also cracked somehow. When I first saw it I was really worried my actual nail had split but luckily that was not the case it was just the polish. Since the application was so amazing I will definitely give this polish another chance sometime and try it with another top coat. Hopefully it will work better with another top coat.

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Update: I didn't really notice this when I was wearing it, but next to my other gray polishes it looks much more brown/purple. I think maybe I should reclassify this as a taupe.

American Apparel - Echo Park

Sally Hansen - Fearless Fog

Avon - Grey Flash

OPI - Skull & Glossbones

Black Water Spotted Splotches/Rorschach over OPI Meet Me on the Star Ferry

Here's my second attempt at a Water Spotted Mani. You can see my first attempt here. I think the pattern is more obvious on this one because there is much more contrast with the base color. 

For this mani I used OPI - Meet Me on the Star Ferry (2 coats), Sally Hansen - Black Heart, and Garnier Fructis Aqua Styler Long Hair hairspray.

I'm pretty happy with the way my right hand turned out. I think my favorite nail is my right pinky nail since I got so many little bubbly looking water spots on it.

I like my pinky on my left hand too. II also like how my ring finger kind of looks like a tree or something. I don't like my middle finger at all though. There's too much black and it reminds me of a ski mask or something haha

The first time I tried to do this nail, I only got a bit of black on it. So I decided to dunk my finger in again before cleaning up. I didn't aim my dip very well though and ended up going over the same spots twice. The end result reminds me of something from a Rorschach test.

I originally watched cutepolish's tutorial before attempting this technique. After my second attempt, I watched Colette's tutorial. I found that while cutepolish gave a good quick overview Colette was more helpful with trouble shooting especially if you aren't able to find the spray hand sanitizer. I have been using Garnier Fructis Aqua Styler Long Hair hairspray but found that the "spots" were more like large splotches. No matter how far away I spray, once those droplets hit the water they expand pretty quickly. If I don't get myself lined up with the water immediately, I'll end up with larger spots (which I like too it's just a different look). I'll try out some other chemicals for spraying next time. Here's Colette's video

Water Marble with American Apparel Malibu Green + Sally Hansen Whirlwind White

I really couldn't decide what to do with my nails last night. I had a kind of... nail painting block? Usually I have so many ideas... These days I don't really know what to do. I don't even feel like buying more polish... something must be wrong with me haha

Anyway since I haven't done a water marble mani in forever that's what I went with

Instead of using tape around my nails I decided to try applying a generous amount of Vaseline to keep the water marble polish from sticking to my skin. In a way this worked better because it was more precise and much easier to get it right along the edge of my nails, and I could apply it on my cuticles and under my nails. Unfortunately, wiping it away was trickier than I thought it would be. You need to wipe away from the nail, and don't lift off that tissue/paper towel until you are at least at your second knuckle! I tried wiping sideways, along my cuticle, and the polish that was on my skin ended up rolling up into a wad and landing on my nail. That is what happened on my right middle finger. I tried to wipe off the wad of polish and ended up with no marble there just the base coat was left. Blah. On a few of my other nails I lifted the paper towel off my skin too soon and the leftover polish stretched into this kind of goo and again landed on my nail. And that led to more blank spots. There are also a few blank spots due to accidentally getting Vaseline on the nail.

So because it was my first time trying this with Vaseline instead of taping around the nail, this ended up a bit sloppy in terms of random blank spots and ruined the final result a bit. I think I also maybe swirled a bit too much on my right hand as you can see on my right ring finger. I like my lines really fine when water marbling but I think maybe I did too much. I managed to only dip 6x though (thumbs and pinkies alone; index, middle, and ring fingers together) which saved a lot of time. Now that I've got dipping multiple fingers mastered maybe I will marble more often :)

***EDIT I forgot to mention that I also used 2 drops of Malibu Green for every 1 drop of Whirlwind White when I was making my "bulls-eye" on the water for my left hand. For my right hand I just used 1 drop of each polish for each ring. I think that made the stripes of green thicker and more vibrant on my left hand. Also I really like the gradient fade on my left index finger. I somehow "popped" one of the rings on my "bulls-eye" when I was trying to create the marble design and so the colors were kind of bleeding together in one of the rings. I wonder if I could somehow master that technique....?***