Fourth of July Stamped Nails #2!!

Yes, my lovelies, I really did just redo my freakin nails!! Haha!! I was just SOOOOO disappointed with how the last ones turned out--half the stamps didn't work, and half of them were crooked, and there was nail glue everywhere...! 

So...the fake nails got ripped off (yes, I know that is completely terrible for your natural nail), and the mani got re-done.

I used Winstonia stamp plate W107, Zoya polish in Yummy, and Nailtini polish in Bloody Mary. My gosh, Yummy stamped SO MUCH EASIER than Blue Blazer!!! Anyway, I decided to use only the one stamp that I really really loved from the last mani, and then flip flop colors on each hand. I'm loving this one! :) hooray for re-do's!! 

Fourth of July Stamped Nails

So some of these did NOT turn out like I had hoped, but oh well I guess! 

Polishes used: Zoya's Purity (white), Nailtini Bloody Mary (red), Nailtini Blue Blazer (blue), Nailtini Bottle Green (green), Nailtini Absinthe (green), Zoya Raven (black), Zoya Arizona (orange), Zoya Pippa (yellow). I'll also edit the post to include the numbers of the stamping plates I used. 

If you noticed my nails are a little different than usual, it's because they're fake nails! Haha! I just got the inkling to put some on so there you have it! 

I started with a base of white. When dry, I stamped a full-nail stamp of grills, spatulas, a meat mallet, and a ketchup/mustard bottle with blue on the left/red on the right. Then I stamped a bigger grill with black and fireworks with yellow and orange (this one didn't turn out like I hoped). For the pointer finger, I stamped a star full-nail stamp that alternates with negative and positive space; I used blue on the left, red on right. On the middle finger, I used a swirly patterned full-nail stamp (red on left, blue on right). Then using Absinthe on the left, I stamped a Statue of Liberty. That one obviously didn't turn out because it was too light, so I tried Bottle Green on the right. On the ring fingers, I used a sporadic star full-nail stamp (blue left, red right). On the pinkies, I used a full-nail stars-with-stripes stamp (red left, blue right).

So the Blue Blazer was SO HARD to get to stamp! Some polishes are just not good for stamping and this was one of them. I love the color but it just refused to transfer to the stamping tool :( That's why a lot of the images aren't quite complete on the blue fingers. I really love the pinky fingers--which is your favorite?

Patriotic Nails!

I saw this nail design on YouTube from Meliney's channel. I will probably also do a stamped fourth-of-July nail art post also so keep your eye out! 

I started with a white base (Zoya's Purity). Then using a blue (Zoya's Robyn) I made a squiggly line (different directions on each nail) and filled in one half with the blue. Using a thin nail art brush and a red (Zoya's Tamsen) I made small wavy stripes next to the blue. I then took a small dotting tool and the white and made dots in the blue areas. I put on a top coat, and added a star-shaped rhinestone in different positions on each nail. That's all there was to it! I thought these turned out really cute!