Categorized: Nail Art

Happy Tuesday!

Today I’ve got a fun nail art tutorial for ya which I call a Neon 80′s Paint Splatter Manicure.

I had been wanting to get out of my comfort zone of dot manicures and thought the next easiest nail art challenge might be a paint splatter one. Seemed easy enough!

I got the idea for the colors of this one from The Carrie Diaries on the CW (this is a show about Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and The City when she was a teen in the 80′s). On one of the first episodes she has this black purse and she accidentally spilled nail polish on it. Instead of trying to fix it, she decided to splatter different nail polish shades all over it and it became this super fashionable bag. It’s like too bitchin!

In the spirit of the 80′s I went with a black base (Wet n Wild Ink Well) then three bright nail shades (Illamasqua Noble, OCC Wasabi and Orly Fancy Fuchsia).

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Welcome to Nail Art Wednesday with Cristina! Let’s do this!

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Hello and happy Nail Art Wednesday!

I am so very sorry about the minor hiatus. “Sick girl” over here has been having a few rough weeks… BUT!!! Screw that nonsense and check out this awesome, easy and fun look I tried for you guys. Now, this was slightly more frustrating than I was anticipating. That said, I managed to break down the technique enough to where I finally got it to work with ease. I saw a similar technique while at Premiere Orlando last year, at a CND presentation. The technique is called “Color Drops“.

For my attempt I decided to use my colors from the Cult Nails Deceptive collection. This technique is a great and unique way to showcase these types of layering polishes that come out over black (i.e Ozotic, Multichromes, Beams and Sugars, Cult Nails Deceptive types of shades). The final look is something reminiscent of petri dishes or even cool Agate stones.

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Welcome to the 2nd installment of Nail Art Wednesday with Cristina from Let Them Have Polish.

Enjoy!

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Good morning and happy nail art humpday!

So first thing is first!! Since you guys were SO awesome with your re-creations of my first look for Kelly, we decided to create a hashtag for you guys to share your looks with us!! Make sure to tag your looks with the hashtag #VVLTHPWednesdays to share your versions of my looks with us!! At the end of the week Kelly and I will pick out favorite looks and they will be featured on my blog !!!

This week I wanted to do something really fun and Easter-y, since the holiday is right around the corner. This was such a fun look to do, I had never tried this technique before myself. For this look you will need a small fan brush, or any fluffy brush that can create wispy effects. I used the fan brush because it perfectly “curves” over/around my nail. I really hope this makes sense haha.

For my look I decided to use my Lime Crime Desserts d’Antoinette collection. The color range was perfect for this look. The cool thing about this technique is that the possibilities are endless! I started off by painting my nails with Milky Ways, which is a lovely off-white creme. I made sure to top coat my base and let it dry completely. Then the fun begins!

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Today I’ve got a T-shirt inspired polka dot mani.

Target has some really cool multi-colored striped t-shirts out right now and I recently picked up two. I showed them on my Instagram account and someone mentioned they would make a cool manicure. So I wound up with this idea!

For this I used Orly Jealous, Much?, OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender, Color Club In The Limelight and Zoya Breezi. I also used various sizes of dotting tools.

These are the closest creams shades I could find in my collection to match the t-shirt. Pretty close I think!

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A fun holiday is just around the corner for fans of corned beef and cabbage, Guinness, the color green and all things Irish! So in honor of this green-beer drinking day (which I have never had actually) I present you with a fun St. Patrick’s Day Mod Polka Dot Mani.

I used all Orly shades for this including Fresh as the base and some dots, and Wandering Vine and Mint Mojito as most of the dots.

This is actually my first mod dot type of mani and I think it came out pretty cool, although it took a little longer than regular dots because the dots have to dry before you can dot over them again. Make sense?

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