FingerFood's Guest Posts - Jeanette from Jeanette-ically Manicured

Hello everyone! Today we have a guest post that I am totally bowled over by - I adore this!!! Jeanette from Jeanette-ically Manicured has some gorgeous designs on her blog and she produced several of my favourite Valentines manis this year! Enjoy! Sam xx

Hey! I'm Jeanette from Jeanette-ically Manicured (#nerdalert) and I'm I'm so excited to be guest posting! And very honored to do this for Sam who introduced me to one of my favorite mani patterns of all time. (I tried to imitate it, it went poorly AND I forgot to photograph it. But I'll try again eventually.) I haven't guest posted before and I really wanted to do this post justice. I've been pretty proud of my roses lately so I thought I'd take it up another notch and add acetone to make a watercolor roses mani. The basic idea is painting normal roses, and then dipping a small brush in acetone and gently removing some of the polish to give the roses a watercolor look.

I love the result like crazy! I tried to google the method and I couldn't find anything quite like it. I can find watercolor nails where people use drips of acetone to make drops of polish look like watercolors and I've done that before and enjoyed the results, more or less. And then when you look for "watercolor roses", you just get painted roses. This is totes different!

Since I'm doing this post for Sam, I'm going to do it right. Look, I wrote down which polishes I used! The base is Revlon Blue Lagoon, a lovely sky blue with a shimmer in it, the roses are made with a red creme from Pure Ice called Siren, lowlights added in a burgundy creme from Wet n Wild called Haze of Love and then black with China Glaze Liquid Leather. I threw some leaves on there with Fingerpaints Go Van Gogh and Revlon Brilliant Strength Entice.  

I'll be creating a tutorial about how to make these at some point and putting it here. Hopefully I have it up by the time Sam posts this! I did these the Sunday after Valentines' Day, so I had a lovely bouquet of red roses from my boyfriend and since this manicure features red roses, I got all artsy with it. He likes it when I do artsy things (I think), so it was a double whammy of adorable to be all artsy with his roses.

I hope you enjoyed these and I hope you enjoy the tutorial! --Jeanette  

 

The NCC presents "Inspired by a Tutorial" #4 - Kayla Shevonne's peacock feathers

Hello everyone! Today I have for you my final NCC mani for January and this one was inspired by Kayla Shevonne. I've always done peacock feathers in a very different way but loved this version so thought that this would be a good opportunity to have a go.

I followed the tutorial fairly closely, only really changing the polish selection, so I started with a base of Collection 2000 Hot Looks Shimmy Shake and added the black detail with LA Colors Black Velvet. For the colour detail, I used Color Club Sky High and Fly With Me, LA Colors Morning Glory and Barry M Teal.

So that's it for "Inspired by a Tutorial" month, and February welcomes "Inspired by Summer"! I'm very much looking forward to the opportunity to welcome summer several months early and bring in some bright and bold colours! In the meantime, check out all the other fab tutorial-inspired manis linked below!

Sam xx

NCC "Inspired by a Tutorial" month #3 - Green and Purple Abstract

Hello everyone! Today I have my third January mani for the Nail Challenge Collaborative and our theme this month is "Inspired by a Tutorial". Today I have picked a tutorial by Raquel Pimentel from her YouTube channel LOVE4NAILS. 

She paints a lot of abstracts using great colour combinations and I have been a fan of hers for a long time. A favourite of mine has always been this green and purple abstract design, so I decided to try my hand at that! I used all nail polish instead of acrylic paint, but other than that I followed all the instructions.

I started with two coats of Sinful Colors Glass Pink, and then added a wide French using LA Colors French White, then used Color Club Fly With Me and Revlon Impulsive to add the abstract pattern following the tutorial, and topped with Seche Vite.

I love Raquel's YouTube channel! She has such a huge variety of designs and styles. Her tutorials are concise and clear and I also adore her accent! 

I have one more tutorial-inspired mani for you this month and I'm finding it hard to pick the last one! There may have to be a few more scattered over the blog so I can get round to doing all my favourites! Check out the other NCC manis in the links below and I will be back with you soon! Happy Sunday :)

Sam xx