Nail Fail

Like I almost don't even want to talk about this because I hate it so much. I tried (obviously really badly) to do a really cool cosmic-nebula-outer space type thing that I've seen look really awesome before...and it just didn't work. If you do it right, you get a base of a dark color (mine was OPI's Russian Navy) and dab on random colors to make it look like a spacy type scene. I don't even want to list all the colors because it would be a waste of time since it just sucked overall haha. But look at the picture to make you feel better about yourself. 

Two Easy Bracelets

 I'm trying something new by putting the pictures on the left and typing over here...I hope this ends up like I intended. Anyhow, I just made some bracelets this morning. I'm REALLY bad at making jewelry that doesn't involve metal, so these will probably break really soon and the rhinestone one doesn't fit at all.

Supplies for Turquoise Bracelet (all bought at Michael's):
-Turquoise-looking round beads
-Wooden beads 
-Small clear bead
-Stretchy cord
The wooden beads I bought were weird, so I had to saw them into three beads. I cut a length of that clear stretchy stuff to make the bracelet and tied the clear bead onto it to prevent the others from falling off. Then I just strung the beads on and tied a million knots at the end with the hopes that it wouldn't break. Which it will, at some point.

Here's a picture without flash. 

I'm not even going to try to explain how I made the rhinestone bracelet, I didn't even do it right haha. It's way too small because I never measure anything like I'm supposed to. And my camera was dead, so I couldn't take pictures of the process. So here's what I got my inspiration from: http://honestlywtf.com/diy/diy-wrap-bracelet/

Nail Art #8- Dots!

 The polishes I used.

I started with a really crappy thick base coat of white which has now developed tiny bubbles because I was impatient and applied it badly. Then I used my teeny paintbrush to add circles and added even tinier dots all around the larger dots. I got too impatient and didn't clean them up before posting..oh wells.

Nail Art #7- Bolts

This was super easy so I won't even explain much. All I did was draw a thick stripe of purple, then a thick stripe of blue. After all that dried, I drew a thin lightning bolt shape in silver. I went back later on and extended the blue so it looked better...that doesn't make sense but I can't explain it any better than that haha.

Bible Verse Painting

 

I was at Michael's the other day, and I finally got the big 7 (I think) pack of canvases that I'd been eyeing for basically forever. I chose the square ones because I made the mistake of asking my mom's opinion when really I wanted the rectangle ones, but oh well. So I got it home and wasn't sure what I was going to do with all of them, but I figured that at some point in my lifetime I'd find something to do with them (plus I had a coupon, so really I HAD to buy them.) 

I've had this idea for a while, so I decided I'd give it a try. I started out by picking my colors and doing some mixing on my palette. Then I just got to work painting random stripes all over the background so it was pretty much covered. I didn't intend for this to be perfect, and it's not, so that's good. I just did what I wanted to do and created this kind of cool multicolored background. Then I got the darkest/brightest color I'd made and drew a cross as the picture in the background, and detailed the edges with a few strokes of white. Then after everything dried completely, I wrote one of my favorite Bible verses in Sharpie. 

1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 and 1 Corinthians 13:13

I'd really like to do this again with the same general idea: stroke-y background, main solid picture, and verse or quote. It was almost too easy and really fun :)

Nail Art #6- Roses

My cuticles look really nasty in this picture, my apologies. And I had some trouble with the blue because it's about 10 years old , so they don't look that great. But I've been wanting to do roses for a long time now and It was the best blue I could find that I already had that matched the picture in my head.

So I just painted my nails a few coats of blue so it was completely opaque, then let it dry completely. Later on, I did some pink dots using the end of a paintbrush. Then before the pink could dry all the way, I went back with the paintbrush end of the paintbrush (?) and swirled in some white. Finally, I used the paintbrush to draw little "leaves." I think it's really cute and sweet, but some people probably think they look nothing like roses, because they don't really. But I know what they're supposed to be!

Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips

A while back I used the Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips (a little longer name, please?) in Girl Flower. I LOVED them and the design and everything about them except how hard it was to get them perfectly on (definitely a perfectionist here.) Recently, I did the nail strips in Fly With Me. This time was not so fun, and it was probably mostly my fault. It was a lot harder this time to get them perfectly on my nail with no bare nail exposed, so I'd have the sides completely messed up. It's hard to explain, but if you have a lot of patience I'd go for them. If not, stay away from these things. I think they're like $11? Maybe... anyhow..