July 4th, 2012 Nail Art

Yay! Happy 4th of July... 

Yay! Happy day off from work hahaha 

The American Flag is the inspiration of my nail art

**this is my first attempt doing nail art, hopefully you guys can understand!!**

We are going to use these beautiful nail polishes from Deborah Lippmann

Lady Sings the Blue - this is a perfect navy blue polish because it already have silver glitters that represents the stars on the flag.

My Funny Valentine - just a normal true red polish.

Like a Virgin - gel-ly white polishes (this is the only white polish that I have), I like the gel-ly texture because it does not look like I am wearing a white-out.

For a simpler version, I just use the blue on the ring finger and red on the rest of the nails. But then, I showed to Wally (my hubby), he innocently said "where is the white?" 

So I dedice to remove red on my index and middle fingers and applied white polish then draw the red stripes. It took quite sometimes to do this! because I am not use to doing nail art, but I am quite happy with the result. What do you think? any tips for doing lines on your nail? I just used a toothpick - to line dots.

NARS Kutki

[this is taken sometimes last week]

I have been taking a break on my nails because they have been SUPER dry, but now I am back - I will post more nail of the day :)

Here is the NARS Kutki polish from this summer 2012 collection. It is a true sky blue color. Flat with no shimmer. Opaque with 2 coats - streaky on the first coat. It chipped within the 2nd day on my right hand (esp. on my index finger - the most used finger of all 10 hehe). I bought the entire collection - hopefully I will post the swatches of the rest soon!