Breast Cancer Awareness

I worked on a project to do some nail designs for Breast Cancer Awareness and Jacksonville Jaguars. 

My favorite was this one with sculpted glitter acrylic pink ribbon!! I'm so glad there are so many people now promoting awareness of Breast Cancer and working towards a cure!!

These designs were chosen to be used in the ad for my school, North Florida Academy. The ad was in the Mint Magazine, I'm official! I'm Published!! :D

I worked on another design in memory of 9/11. Always remember the heroes!!

Happy October Everyone!! Happy Polishing!!

All About Sara!!

My nail buddy is such a talented artist!!! I love sharing her beautiful work!!

These are a couple designs she did for a project we worked on. It was for the Jacksonville Jaguars and Breast Cancer Awareness. She did a football with a pink ribbon wrapped around it and the most beautiful Jaguar face with a pink ribbon hanging on his ear!!

This is a design she was working on for a lush wave 

And she was so proud of a full set she did at school!! Gorgeous!!!

Great Job as always Sara!!!

More to come!! Happy Polishing!!

Fun with Acrylic!

Acrylic nails have made huge advances since back when they first became popular! They are thinner and look more natural! But acrylic aint so plain anymore!!! There are a plethora of colors and glitters available to nail techs to add into their polymer powder to customize a look for each guest.

I created some glitter acrylic and worked on using it to spice up some french styles.

Maddie had some fun ideas that inspired me to make these Halloween tips with a fun surprise! From the top it looks like black glitter tip, but turn your nails over and its ORANGE!!

I have seen his technique in NailPro magazine and wanted to try it. It is inlaying a ribbon of colored or glitter acrylic into clear to create this look. Still need practice, but I think it looks pretty cool!! 

Another trend in acrylic techniques is sculpting the acrylic into shapes and forms. I have seen some very extreme creations for art contest that push the boundaries of nail art!! I started simple teaching myself as I go. I made this cute paw print. It was for a design that mixed Jacksonville Jaguars with Breast Cancer Awareness.

Another Jaguar inspired design for the new owner of the Jags Shad Kahn. He has a huge trademark mustache, although the mustache logo is all over these days.

These are a few of my early designs I did at school when I was first starting to play with sculpting acrylic. Hello Kitty accent nail and the pink french with the bow on the other nails.

 Worked on making some simple flowers with it too

 

I got lots more to practice on! More to come!!!

Happy Polishing!!

A bit of Poish

I know I had said I was gonna post about water marbeling, but I'm still working on it. I really want to get it right and share some tips that helped.

Sometimes, nail club time is client time!! lol Its lots of fun when we get to share our talents with real customers (intead of plastic hands and fingers!!lol) Recently I had a chance to do some simple art on some great ladies!! 

Maddie (an aspiring Nail Club member) was doing a pedicure and the lady mentioned she wanted something fun. Maddie called me over and I did a cute Jaguar print on her toe for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Maybe if I did some Jag Art on MoJo (Maurice Jones Drewis) he would decide to sign his contract and start playing ball, lol. 

A young girl I dd acrylics on fell in love with a new OPI turquoise blue color. I did a blue tipped french manicure with some simple purple flowers for an accent nails.

and ever now and then I get time to polish my own nails!!! I did a fancy french style with ORLY  Beverly Hills manicure in Plum as my base, I  did a wide tip on the nails in OPI Prussian Bronze then I did the edge in ORLY Its up to blue. Finally i used Sinful Colors All about you to blend the copper to the blue. I think they tuned out cute!!

Thats all for now!! Until next time, Happy Polishing!!