ASBMF #5: A Rainbow after the Rain

It's another mani from the April Showers Bring May Flowers Challenge.  This one is a rainbow after the rain.  I really wanted to do a rainbow.  But I don't have any yellow or orange polish :(  So I had to come up with some thing else.  I recently received a new polish is the mail.  A England Order of the Garter.  It's such a fantastic blue.  I thought it would make for a nice background.  I had to layer it over black, it's pretty sheer on it's own, but I only had to do one coat :)  Now to my rainbow issues.  I had this awesome idea to use rhinestones to do my rainbow.  After thinking about it I didn't want to use a bunch for one nail design.  And I am not a huge fan of tons of stuff on my nails.  I had some square rhinestones I hadn't been able to use yet.  So here is what I came up with.  What do you think?

Base Coat:  Seche Retain

Base Color #1:  Wet N Wild Ebony Hates Chris

Base Color #2:  A England Order of the Garter

Top Coat:  Seche Vite

Rainbow:  Square Rhinestones

ASBMF #2: Lady Bugs

Today I have the 2nd challenge from the April Showers Bring May Flowers Challenge, Lady Bugs.  Yet another nail art task I have yet to try.  You are seeing my first attempt.  It's ok.  Not great, but I am happy enough with it to wear it for the rest of the day :)

The process I used was this:

1.  Red french tip (2 coats with sticker guides)

2.  All red accent finger

3.  Holo top coat over all red polish (2 coats)

4.  Stripe down center of accent finger

5.  Black dots on all red polish

6.  Black accent over french tips (by hand)

7.  Top coat over all nails

8.  Added black french tip on accent finger

9.  Added eyes to my lady bug

10.  Top coat over accent nail

Seems like a lot of work.  It kind of was.  I think it will go faster if I try this design again.  There are a couple things I would change, like adding the spots after doing the black tip on the accent nail.  I would also pay more attention to the placement of the eyes.  She looks a little cross eyed LOL  You learn by doing, right?  What are your thoughts on this design?

Base Coat:  Seche Rebuild

Red French/Accent Nail:  Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby

Holo Top Coat:  Made by Me :)

Black:  L.A. Colors Striper

White:  L.A. Colors Striper

Top Coat:  Seche Vite

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

Milani 3D Holographic: Hi-Res

Spring has sprung!  I don't normally do light flowery nails,  but I thought spring was a good cause.  Plus, I just got a new polish I wanted to try out.  I have heard of the Milani 3D Holographic polishes and have been wanting to try them out.  I didn't own any Holo polishes and this is a good place to start, at least I think so.
In the store I was a bit worried about the lack of holo effect so I picked up 2 to try out.  Last night was testing night.  I layered Hi-Res over black polish to get a nice opaque color.  The coverage was pretty good :)  Then this morning I couldn't decide on what kind of stamping I wanted to do, flowers or butterflies?  So I decided to do both!

I was pleasantly surprised when I went outside to take pics.  Nice sparkly holo nails, YAY!!  Not as holo as a lot of other polishes, but this is quit pretty out in the sun.

Base Coat:  Seche Rebuild

Base Colors: L.A. Colors in Black and Milani Hi-Res

Top Coat:  Seche Vite

Stamping Plate (Flowers): Bundle Monster BM 221

Stamping Plate (Butterflies) Bundle Monster BM 205

Stamping Polish:  Konad Special White