Daily Manicure Week - Sunday Dots

Finally, Sunday.

Sunday is a day to sleep in and recover from Saturday. If you feel up to it you might have a while to spend on your nails. Then again you might not feel all that great so something simple is called for. What could be more simple than a dot manicure? By now you are probably feeling dotty for doing your nails so much. Especially if you have been using the same two colours.

The only reason why I used Red Velvet as the base colour for this manicure is because of Wednesday's post. I thought it would look too similar as the stamping plate image used was of dots.

I simply started with a large dot at the corner of my nail and then did a row of small dots. Large and small dots were alternated until the nail was filled. After the polish had dried a bit, I placed a small dot in the middle of the large dots. Dot manicures are very simple and effective. People always marvel at them and do not seem to realise how quick and easy they are.

Daily Manicure Week - Saturday Spun Sugar

Hurray! It is finally the weekend!

Today you want to wear something special and different on your nails. You prepare yet another base of Don't Feed the Hand Models and then plop some Red Velvet on a plate and wait. And wait. Then wait some more until you can draw strands of polish much like the spun sugar of fairy/candy floss. Drape these strands across your nails. Done.

This manicure does take longer to dry. The thinner you can get the strands the better because you get less dry time. To be able to form the strands the polish needs to be on the way to drying. I used the tutorial by Nails from a Fairy Tale to create this manicure.

This is ok for my first effort but I would like to try it again with a different polish to see if I can get finer strands out of the polish.

Daily Manicure Week - Friday Freehand

Thank Goodness It's Friday!

You have upgraded your current manicure twice. If you add something else to it, that might be overkill. And you can't seem to find anything else but Sephora by OPI Don't Feed the Hand Models and Mode Red Velvet.

Paint whatever you want. I thought it was simplest to paint on a smile. My artistic skills are pretty dismal. Look at my lettering there...

I tried again and ended up with another mess. There were some hearts and then I did these tulip like designs. Maybe freehand was not such a good idea. I guess these could have looked ok if I had done them on all of my fingers.

It's ok. It is nearly the weekend!

Daily Manicure Week - Thursday Tape

Good Morning Thursday. Just one more day after this until the weekend!

You liked the stamping manicure from yesterday and you don't really want to start over again with another manicure. Yes, another upgrade sounds like a brilliant idea. Out comes the tape and with some careful scissor cutting and removing some of the tackiness of the sticky tape, a new manicure is born.

Of course you can also do this manicure without having the stamping underneath. My tape skills are no where near the league of Erica from Chloe's Nails.

Below is a step by step pictorial of how I cut the tape for the manicure. For this demonstration I used masking tape as it is opaque and easier to photograph.

Daily Manicure Week - Wednesday Stamping

Oh here it is, Hump Day.

Now that you have removed the horrible manicure that looked like you went on a murder spree...

Out comes Don't Feed the Hand Models and Red Velvet because they are the only two polishes you can find. URGH! Hump Day. You apply Don't Feed the Hand Models as a base colour and then quickly stamp over it with Red Velvet.

I used an image from Bundle Monster's BM-322. Now this looks a lot better than the blood caked manicure from Tuesday. Red Velvet may not be the best polish for stamping with but it still looks pretty good. There is not a top coat in these pictures and this enhances the appearance.

Daily Manicure Week - Tuesday Cling Wrap

Hello Tuesday.

You started off with a plain manicure because you did not have much time to work on a manicure on Monday. It was that hard weekend you had. Now it is Tuesday and we get to introduce the second colour that we can use in our manicures. The polish I chose is the gloriously almost rusty coloured Mode Red Velvet. I had promised a featured spot on Red Velvet and I still have not done it yet. This colour was not the best choice as you will soon see why.

So what do you do when you have to get to work and you already have a plain base (Sephora by OPI Don't Feed the Hand Models) to work with? You can upgrade that manicure. After making those lunches and wrapping everything in cling wrap, take a little piece and bundle it up. Put a coat of polish onto your nails and dab it off with the cling wrap. I chose this way rather than using the cling wrap to apply the polish like a sponge because I had always liked the manicures from other bloggers using this method.

I think Red Velvet is the wrong colour to do this with as it looks as though I have dried blood splodged all over my nails! Then I tried to rescue the manicure. The below picture is outside of the rules I am trying to set for myself in Daily Manicure Week. I had to try to make it look better. It looks worse with China Glaze 2030 cling wrap sponged over the top. In real life my clean up does not look so bad but on macro... Blech. :(

I hope Hump Day Wednesday turns out better. This manicure would work better depending on the colours you choose. Use this as a lesson in not to use together.

Daily Manicure Week - Monday

I really liked Shatter Me Claire's 7 Days 7 Ways posts. Her last post left off in the middle of her second edition. I would love to see her finish this one off. This is such a great idea that I thought I would try my own version but with two polishes. One will be the base colour and the other can be used as the accent. I am not sure how well it will work but I can try.

So it is Monday and you had a really hard weekend. You don't feel like doing much so you just paint your fingernails with the first available colour that you lay your hands on.

For the base colour I chose the work appropriate Sephora by OPI Don't Feed the Hand Models. I could have used three coats for this but on a Monday morning you really need to get out of the door!