40GNAI - Neon + Waterfall

Hello, hello!

Today's what? Yup, yup. Time for another 40GNAI post!

The prompt was neon and my personal one was waterfall. I never did a waterfall mani in my life. I was not particularly attracted to them and I thought they were way to difficult to try. Well. I didn't really have a choice, so I tried.

I thought I could be clever and do a waterfall, like a real one. But it seems to much work haha. Maybe another time!

 

I used a black base (Out of the Darkness from Renaissance Cosmetics, sadly she's not making polishes anymore :( ), because I wanted to make the neons pop!

 

I, then, applied a guide for the half-moon (I'm kind of obsessed with half-moon mani lately..!) and with acrylic paint I roughly painted the waterfall.

 

After, I went over with the A Night In Vegas collection from Pipe Dream Polish in a rainbow order and then voilà! Not so bad looking, I think?

 

I hope you like it!

 

Happy polishing!

 

Irrationails xo

 

 



An InLinkz Link-up

40GNAI - Florals

Hello, hello!

Finally Friday! Yay!

Well, for some, at least. I was "in vacation" for the week and damn it felt good. I don't want to go back to work Monday, ugh!

Today's prompt is floral and I thought it was the time to try again with the stamping! I am happy to report that this time, it worked per-fect-ly. YAAAS, finally!

 

For the base, I used "Vintage" from Orly, a gorgeous almost neon turquoise. (On the site, they say it's a green mint, but I dunno. It looks more a turquoise to me).  It looks washed off on my picture. I know.

 

It was easy to apply, a little bit on the streaky side on the first coat, but the second evened out everything. Be careful to not overdo it, because it is kind of thick.

 

And for the stamping I used a plate from BornPrettyStore and stamped with a clear jelly stamper (the main reason it was a successful attempt!!)

 

The nail art is pretty simple, but I hope you liked it!

 

Happy polishing!

 

Irrationails xo

An InLinkz Link-up

40GNAI - Kids TV

Hello, hello!

I know, I missed last week prompt. BUT. I did it and then it went horribly wrong so I have to do it again. I'll post it when I redo it, but in the meantime, it's a new week in the 40GNAI and for once I'm on time! Yeah!

I haven't watched a kid show for a very long time, so I don't know what's "on trend" right now.. so I decided to do a mani inspired by the Powerpuffs (it was playing when I was younger.. does it still play?)

My mani is pretty simple and minimalistic...I think.

My job is really draining my energy and I feel like they ask us to be Wonder Woman or to have superpowers. It's crazy. I hope it calms down soon. So I guess it was an obvious choice, right?

My inspiration for the mani is this picture of Blossom :)

 

 

 

 

It has been a reeeeeaaaallly long time since I have done a detailed character, so I am pretty pleased with how Blossom turned out on my nails. It's so tiny, I thought I would never get the details because I was shaking so much lol.

I didn't do the two others, because it was way too long and I wanted to keep it simple. Plus, Blossom was my favorite. Did you watch the show? Did you have a favorite? :P

 

A close up. She looks weird ahah. I think I'll stay a little bit more far so she doesn't look so "shaky".

 

I hope you liked it!

 

Happy polishing!

 

Irrationails xo

An InLinkz Link-up

40GNAI - Three Shades of Green + Tie Dye

Hello!

Hope you are all well today :) It's sunny where I live and that makes me sooo happy! Winter is almost over. FINALLY.

This week's prompt was three shades of green and my personal prompt was tie dye. Oh boy. I never did a tie dye before and the first I had to do it was with an unusual color scheme.

My first try was not so successful.. I looked at a hundred pictures before I finally understand how to do a tie dye. Believe or not, but there a right way to do it if you want the right effect!

 

An other challenge was to find three green polishes.. I don't usually go for the greens, luckily I seem to have few of them in my stash.

 

Well, I am not sure if this looks like a tie dye, but in person it's a pretty cool effect.

 

So, what do you think? Win or fail?

 

Happy polishing!

 

Irrationails xo

An InLinkz Link-up

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Food

Hello!

 

Today I am back with the 40GNAI challenge!

 

The theme for this week was food and my inspiration came from Katie at Harlow and co. She did a mani not too long ago and I wanted to do it too, because it was so cute!

 

P.S.: Last week's prompt is done, but I haven't write my blog post, oops. Will do it later, I promise!

 

 

Cookies, anyone?

 

 

I started off with "What's a budget" (Trust Fund Beauty) and then painted little black circles. I went over with a beige polish and added the chocolate chips later. Voila. Super easy to do!

 

 

They were fun to do and fun to wear. From "far", they looked like a cheetah design (if you look reaalllllly faast and far far away haha). ANYWAYS!

 

I hope you like it and I'll see you soon!

 

Happy polishing!

 

Irrationails xo

An InLinkz Link-up

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Things That Fly

Hello!

It's the moment of the week we all know as 40GNAI! Yesterday's prompt was Things That Fly. So much possibilities! So much ideas. I had few ideas but finally decided to choose something a litte bit more "special" for the prompt.

Before we begin, I must warn you that my index nail passed away Monday and I didn't want to file all my nails down so she looks weird now haha. Traitor.

UFO. YEAH. Do you recognize it?  It looks funny, but I really like the little space ship :)

 

If you get this reference, I love you and can we be friends?

 

A clearer shot of my spaceship :)

 

I hope you liked it and I'll see you next week!

 

Happy polishing!

 

Irrationails xo

An InLinkz Link-up

WNAC - Animal Print + Gradient

Hi, Reader!

 

We seem to see each other pretty often, don't we?

 

I'm kinda back on track with my blog (also I have a month and more to catch up), SO, blog posts shall I write!

 

This one was made for the the WNAC.. Sometimes, something looks awesome in your mind and then.. not so much on your nails haha.

 

I was aiming for a tropical fish. But I don't know if we can tell. They took so much time, I couldn't just bother to redo them. It was a mildly fail, but they look weirdly cool from far away. At least, I think.

 

 

For this look I used my new beloved Pipe Dream Polish "A Night In Vegas Collection" polishes. They are wonderful for watermarble, for gradients, etc. They are. the. bomb.

 

See, what I mean when I say they look weirdly cool from far away?

Also, like you can imagine I didn't take much photos because FAIL.

 

I hope you enjoy it even though it was a fail ;P I'll be back with something that look a little bit less like a total failure!

 

Happy polishing!

 

Irrationails xo

WNAC - Reciprocal Gradient

Hello!

Gradient is, like you may know, my favorite thing to do. I could wear it all the time in every color combination possible. Reciprocal and scaled gradient are something I recently discover and MAN, I AM IN LOVE. It more time consuming, right, but the effect is so awesome that I don't care the extra time at all.

Imagine my happiness when it was the theme two weeks ago. YASS.

WNAC: Embellishment - Mermaid Nails with Glam Polish

Hello to you!

I still haven't catch up with all the blog posts so we shall continue this today! Three weeks ago I did a full in your face mani for the WNAC and I really loved it!

I bought new polishes from Harlow and Co a little while ago and I was eager to use them, so when it was time to do a mani for the WNAC I jumped on the occasion.

WNAC - Glitter Placement

Hello, Reader!

So, the catch up is going strong and today I'll be showing you my glitter placement I had done for the Weekly Nail Challenge. It was my first time doing this kind of nail art and, well, I still need practise but that was so much fun to do! I remembered that week I couldn't sleep so I woke up at like 7:30 am and I started doing this glitter placement haha.

WNAC - Dotticure

Hello to you!

 

The theme was dotticure, but since I don't really like to do dotticures, I decided to add a twist to the prompt.

 

I made a catticure :D

 

WNAC - January - Week 2 : (Scaled) Gradient

Hello, Reader!

For week two, the theme was originally gradient. SimplyNailogical decided to hijacked the theme and made it scaled gradient. Since I first did a scaled gradient, I have been wanting to do another again. Now was the perfect occasion to practice more this new-to-me technique!

I received Tuesday nailmail from NailPolishCanada.com and I had the perfect color combo. However one of the colors I chose was too jelly and wouldn't blend with the other :( I, then, went in my untried box and found something that matched exactly what I was going for!

 

 

Weekly Nail Art Challenge (WNAC) - January - Week 1: Flakies

Hello, Reader!

Happy New Year! I hope this year brings you everything you hope/want and more!

Like I said in one of my previous post, this year I want to be more involve in the nail art world. I want to try new techniques and be part of few challenges. I want to be better and I want to meet awesome new people. I like doing my nails and I like to have a goal.

So, for this first post of the year 2015, I decided to take part of the WNAC (Weekly Nail Art Challenge). @simplynailogical, @missbellatracey and  @kgrdnr on Instagram are the ones who started this challenge and it looks fun, so I will join this one for few prompts this year!

The theme for January is matte, so all the mani in this challenge must have something matte or be completely matte with a plus each week. Like, for example, this week is flakies...

MATTE ALL THE FLAKIES..!! - @mcpolish.

For my mani, I tried to do something original instead of just putting a matte topcoat over some random polish with flakies.

This is what I came up with: