Recent Nail Art

I guess I've been doing a lot of nail art lately, so I am just going to show you three designs I've done lately with some thoughts about the polishes and tools I used for them.

1. Star Trek Galaxy Nails

For the pink base on the pinkie, middle and index, I used Zoya "Dot." For the galaxy nails, I stamped some blue and purple neon polish on the nails, added stars with a white striper and added glitter with Sally Hansen "Disco Ball." For my starfleet uniform nail, I painted the nail blue Julep "Iona"and added a wavy black line to the tip. For the Commbadge, I cut up a nail sticker in the desired shape and put it on the nail.
I freehanded the Enterprise with a black nail art pen and covered it with the same glitter as the galaxy nails.

2. Starfleet Uniform Nails

A simpler version of the ring finger on the previous design with red, yellow and blue polishes. I suppose you could add some rhinestones to show ranks on some of your nails.

3. Neon Leopard Print

These I did with my Kleancolor neon polishes, white striper and black nail art pen. The key to this look is a high density of spots.

Julep- Paulette

This polish is one of Julep's limited edition monthly polishes from the May "Fresh Twist" collection. It's one designed for the "Boho Glam" girl, but I still really like it a lot. It's a beautiful color: a light purple with a gold shimmer.
The formula is really thick, and I guess I really could have gone with only one coat. However, like most Julep polishes, the first coat dried a little matte, so I felt the need to add another one. One thing I like about the polish, as with most "indie" polishes is that it's high quality enough to not smell like the toxic sludge that goes into some mass market polish.
To create my "fishnet" or "quilted" design, I just positioned some pieces of striping tape over the dry polish at 90 degree angles from each other and painted black over it, allowing no dry time and peeling the tape off right away so that the polish wouldn't chip while reveling the design.