Erin's Art Gallery

Secret Peri-Winkle French tip Nail Art

2012-01-07T22:55:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone. The Holidays are over and its back to doing random, fun nail art designs! I really love China Glaze's Secret Peri-Winkle polish and decided to paint my nails. Of course I couldn't just leave it at that so I dug out my stamping plates and chose a couple of designs for my tips. I used Bundle monster's stamp plates BM17 (for my fingers) and BM-220 (for my thumbs). Both patterns are very similar, but the 220 plate is a larger design and fit my thumbs better. I stamped with Konad special polish in white and dotted the bottom of the design with a dotting tool. I used Sinful colors Snow Me White for the dots. I finished the design with a coat of beauty secrets hardener and added a silver charm to each ring finger and thumb. Finally, I made sure everything was secure and dried quickly with a top coat of Seche Vite. Below are the pictures of my design and yes my very first Youtube video. I will place a water marbeling video soon ;)
Thanks for following and see you soon! -e
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjATrsuwigE <---- Link to my Youtube video :)

Ending 2011 with my Christmas nail designs

2011-12-31T20:13:00.000-08:00

The first design was created with kleancolor's jolly holly and konad white with a stamp plate from bundles monster.

The second design was created using kleancolor's metallic red as a base and green grass mixed with konad white to make the holly leaves. kleancolor white and red used with a dotting tool to make the holly berries.

The final design was created with once again kleancolor's metallic red (base) and konad white for the stamping. Sinful colors white and black for the ring fingers snow man and some nail art paints for the face. The snowman on the thumb was made with a white stamp that was filled in, dried and restamped over with konad black for effect. Scarf dotted with kleancolors green grass.

That was just a quick run through for the nail designs. If you have any detailed questions just post a comment and I will answer you. Hope you all have a happy new year and never stop being creative! -e

Christmas Water Marbles

2011-11-26T13:10:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone! Yes it has been a while but I wanted to share pics of my winter water marbling nail designs that I have done recently. I did a christmas candy nail design and a winter wonderland nail design that will be posted below. So here's to the start of the Christmas 2011 nail design blog :-) Cheers!

I used some things that are very easy to find to do this design. I used Sally Hansen's Hard as nails Xtreme wear nail color in White on, Cherry Red, and Going Green. I used the water marbeling technique (which I promise to be put a how-to video up soon) and mad these pretty awesome candy swirl design.

This is my winter wonderland desgin alson using the same brand polish that can be found at walmart or walgreens that I know of for sure and the colors used in this are again White on and Blue it. I topped this design off with China Glaze's Fairy dust for a subtle gorgeous sparkle so it really has that glistening/glittering snow effect. I promise to soon get up a video on how to water marble and do a neat little design for you all. Thanks for the support and I will write again soon. ;-) -e

My favorite nail design

2011-11-14T20:51:00.000-08:00

So I finally got China Glaze's "For Audrey" nail polish. It is an absolutely gorgeous color. I decided to put a flower design on it and I chose white. It came out to be so much more than I was expecting and I will definitely do this design again in the spring. To finish the look I placed a few jewels on each ring finger.

I thought this turned out really well and was excited to share with everyone. The flowers I stamped with were on plate BM-205 by the way ;-) Thanks everyone! -e

Wild Rainbow Nail Design

2011-11-03T19:54:00.000-07:00

So I felt a little bold today and decided to go all out and try a totally new design that I've never done before. Using a eyeshadow applicator sponge I dotted on each color of the rainbow design over top of my base coat. I used 5 kleancolor nail polishes to achieve the look. The colors are as follows; blue- 113 sea, yellow- 85 funky yellow, purple- neon purple, orange- 19 neon orange, green- 24 bikini green, pink- 22 barbie pink.
After placing the colors on I used china glaze black mesh crackle polish on the thumb, pinky and middle finger on each hand. I finished it with a top coat.
On the ring and pointer finger I used my konad art nail stamp set with bundle monsters stamp plate number BM-223. I chose the zebra print with the konad special nail polish in black.I got the zebra print idea from luxurious nails on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Ao6XlkLJ8Gc&feature=fvwp. -this is the link to her design. She does it free handed and I think that the stamp is a lot faster and efficient because both hands turn out the same. But she does a great job and free hand gives a one of a kind look ;)
So here is the finished project after the clean-up and removel of all the garb around my cuticles :)

So thanks for visiting and hope you all enjoy!! -e

Crackle Design

2011-10-31T23:00:00.000-07:00

Welcome to November everyone. Halloween has passed and I have created a new design using chin glaze crackle polish black mesh. First I used a base coat followed by the color polish by kleancolors called mystic grass. It is a teal/turquoise kind of color and I really like it, plus turquoise is pretty popular in nail polish right now. Over top of the main color I used one layer of the crackle polish followed by china glaze fairy dust which gives it a really nice shimmer. The fairy dust also has hardeners in it! I finished the design with beauty secrets high gloss top coat. You can get these items (excluding the mystic grass by kleancolors) at sally's beauty supply. A great substitute for this color would be "for audrey" by china glaze. Hope you enjoy this design. It is quick, easy, and affordable :) See you soon -e

Halloween Nail Art

2011-10-30T20:01:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween everyone! So I did an interesting nail design for halloween using a bunch of different nail art plates from bundle monster compatible with my konad stamp art kit. It's just a bunch of random designs and no nail is the same but, it was fun to do. Hope you enjoy the ideas!

Hope you all enjoyed my spooky nails ;D Have a safe and happy halloween everyone and I am looking forward to seeing your halloween pics on facebook. See you all soon -e

Fall Wedding Nail Desgin

2011-10-22T19:26:00.000-07:00

Happy Fall everyone! Hope everyone is enjoying the most beautiful time of year when the world prepares itself to slumber under of blankets of snow. I love the fall so much and I got married in October myself and my cousin got married today and I was a bridesmaid so I made a neat design for the wedding today inspired by the outdoor fall theme.

First I used a base coat by sinful colors from walgreens for $1.99 and the base coat is 'hot for chocolate' by revlon. I ordered a bundle pack of nail polish on amazon.com by kleancolors nail polish and used gold bright 47 for the design. I used konad nail art stamper for the design and the stencil number BM04 for the leaves on the thumb and other fingers. I used BM19 for the ring fingers. I finished it off with beauty secrets nail hardener top coat that was purchased at sally's beauty supply. The konad stamp art set it so easy to use and you can get a lot for your buck from amazon.com using bundle monster. I hope this was helpful for everyone and have a great fall. I will have pics of some halloween ideas up later this week! Thanks, and hope you enjoy. -e

A couple of new nail designs this week (nothing special.)

2011-10-09T14:32:00.000-07:00

So I decided to try a couple of new nail art techniques. I am new at this and decided to post my art discovery journey as a blog. I did a harvest/halloween design just playing around with my new konad stamp art kit that I got. I am trying to figure out a design to wear at my cousin's wedding at the end of the month.

As you can see some of the stamps are over lapped and kinda messy. This was my first time and just trying to have some fun with it. I did this design earlier in the week and I had some nails starting to chip, so I did a black and pink dot/line style also my first attempt.

Not the best in the world but it was fun! Hopefully I will have some really neat ideas and more creative art to put up soon. Thanks for the views and have a great week. P.S. Comment on what you like best and any ideas that you might have or questions. -e

Water Marbled Nail design #1

2011-09-18T23:02:00.000-07:00

So I found this neat nail desgin the other day called water marble nail art. I tried it and this is my first attempt. I didn't think that it turned out to bad! So I decided that I am going to continue art work on my nails and do makeup designs and things as well and post them here. Also I have heard people asking how to do water marbling on your feet and I did mine but it was a little messy so I have a new technique that I am going to try soon and if it works well then I am going to make a video and post it as well and on youtube.

Doing this design on my nails was a lot of fun and I thought if only I had known about this back in my slumber party days. ;) So this is something I will definitely share with my children. If you don't know what water marbling is I will post a video soon to show you how!!

Thanks xoxo

-e