TopCoatIt

Isn’t a house with a white picket fence supposedly the American dream? I’m pretty happy with my cedar fence thanks.

Other than the base coat and top coat, this mani was done with only acrylics. I decided I didn’t have a polish that was the right color for the sky, but I did have an acrylic that was perfect. I put down my base coat so the blue acrylic had something to stick to, then added my pickets in white acrylic. I actually liked the look of this mani before I added the top coat. It was matte and lumpy like acrylics on a canvas. It looked very artsy.

I don’t love this black scratch mani as much as I liked the last one. I used different polishes underneath and they didn’t show through quite as much. Disappointment.I chose this design because I just bought my daughter a pair of flip flops that are black with neon hearts. I hate to show you my laziness, but I can’t be bothered to pull myself away from The Voice and go upstairs and look. :/ I can tell you that the black is China Glaze Liquid Leather, the blue is Zoya Robyn, the pink is NYX Girls Pink Strawberry and the yellow is NYX Girls Bubblegum. I hope that’s good enough.

These totally look like pictures from a coloring book to me. Although maybe I should’ve colored outside of the lines a bit more.
I purposely colored these stars in a little sloppily and streaky. I really did want it to resemble crayon. I’m really pleased with it. It’s a happy little mani.

I used Sally Hansen White On and acrylics to create this design.

Today we’re showing our oldest untried polish. I don’t actually have that many untried polishes. When I first started blogging, I did a 30 days of untrieds challenge and I haven’t collected many since then.

I chose two polishes that I hadn’t previously used; Wet ‘n Wild Cougar Attack and NOPI Khloe Had a Little Lam-Lam. It’s been a long time since I’ve done a burst type design, so I busted out the tape and went at it. The polka dots broke the look up a little. It’s an unconventional color match up, but I really like it.

Be sure the check out all the other manis today:

Amanda of Amandalandish
Anna of Going to the Showing
Anne of Grape Fizz Nails
Ashley of Art Evolve
Chelsea of Nailed Blog
ChiChi of I’m Just Me…ChiChi
Cordia of Seriously Swatched
Elizabeth of Did My Nails
Katherine of Haul of Fame
Kelly of Tuxarina
Lakeisha of Refined and Polished
Maribeth of Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite!
Marisa of Polish Obsession
Meredith of Polish and Charms
Nory of Fierce Make Up and Nails
Sarah of See Sarah Swatch
Traci of DrinkCitra

I seriously can’t get enough of these cartoon nails lately. Yes, I did them again.I love the gradient addition to the design though. I’m quite happy with the gradient by itself. I took extra care to make sure I blended it well. Then outlined it and added the highlight with acrylic paints.

The polishes I used for this design were Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow, Revlon Peachy and NYX Girl Pink Strawberry and topped it off with Chill Zone top coat.  If you haven’t tried Cutepolish’s animated cartoon nails tutorial yet, you should.  It’s my newest favorite.