Dots, stripes and flower nail art

Initially, I wanted to replicate a YouTube tutorial on plaid nail art using the long striping brush. My lines came out horrible and in the wrong direction.  In an attempt to fix it, one crooked line became an angled french tip and that was followed by more lines, dots, glitter and a fimo flower.
When it comes to nail art, sometimes I don't know where to stop! lol

What I Used:

Sinful Colors Starfish

Color Club Psychedelic Scene

Wet n Wild Kaleidoscope

white, pink and yellow acrylic paints

tools & xtras:

dotting tool

striping brush

fimo flower

Fan brush stripes nail art

I have a small nail art brush kit and have used all of them except for the fan brush.  When used acrylic nails one of the techs would always make gorgeous flower designs over my french but never saw her (or any other tech) use the fan brush.  I was so intrigued by this cute brush that so far I've only used to apply my mud face mask!
Well, mystery solved thanks to THIS tutorial from SimpleNailArtDesigns

My result doesn't look as cool as hers, but I like it.  The colors reminds me to the Baskin Robin's ice cream called Rainbow Sherbet :)
On my ring finger I attempted the saran wrap technique for the first time.  I messed it up.Waited for it to dry, added a gold flakie topcoat an attempted again...no bueno! but well, this mishaps are part of experimenting!

What I Used:

Sinful Colors Unicorn (base color)

Sinful Colors Energetic Red (ring finger)

Essie As Gold as it Gets (ring finger)

for the striping design:

white, pink and orange acrylic paints

Wet n Wild Kaleidoscope

China Glaze Solar Power

Like I've said before, I'm not a fan of yellow nail polish -on me-but I should try to sport it for a full week to see if I can get used to it.

China Glaze Solar Power has a creme finish with a twist of golden shimmer.  The name pretty much says it all: it looks like the sun and its powerful, very bright and cheerful :)

without  flash

with flash

I'll give it a much deserved chance this summer!

Kleancolor Gold Shimmer

I'm not into yellow, but I love gold and anything glitter gets deep into my glitter-hoarding heart ;)

Being golden and a glitter is what saved this one from the dusty polish corner.

Kleancolor Gold Shimmer is a tinny golden-quite yellow, still- glitter in a pale yellow base.  The tiny glitters sparse nicely over the nail, but it might require more than the three coats I did for swatching for a full coverage effect.  I think that this one would look very nice over dark shades like black, navy blue and hunter green. 

bottle shots