This week so far! UV Gel & Acrylics.

 Here's what I did in school this week!

We had a representative from professional nail product company Young Nails come to the school and do a demonstration, and I got to be the model!

She gave me a bunch of different Holiday themed nails :)

 Here's a simple holiday mani I did on a class mate.

It's UV gel as a base with Shellac gel polish on top, and on the accent nails I added some encapsulated glitter and hand painted candy cane stripes!

Here is a full set of tips, each nail is a completely different design!  There are various inlays of acrylic including marbles, mylar flakes, glitters and confettis :) 

The shiny stuff on her cuticles is actually just cuticle oil, I always use cuticle oil to help replenish any moisture that might have been lost during the nail service!

Another view!

 This is a sculpted set of stiletto nails.  There were no nail tips used, instead I sculpted the acrylic on a form into the shape that she wanted!  

On the accent nails there are 3D acrylic black roses and hand painted black chevron tips over OPI's "Pink Friday" polish.

Chevron is a style of a French tip, in the shape of a V rather than the classic U shape, and I suggested it to her because I thought it would look very sexy on a stiletto shaped nail!

We also did a variation of "Louboutin" nails, but instead of red bottoms, we went with black bottoms to match the pink & black theme!

I really love these nails!

You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch!

We are having a "Grinchmas" themed nail/hair competition at school, so this is my entry! 

There are 7 nail tips across the bottom covered in acrylic and painted as the floor.

The Grinch, his dog Max, the bag of toys, presents, train cars, tree & ornaments are all sculpted out of nail acrylic! 

I hope I win! :)

 Sorry the photo is so big, I wanted the small details to be visible!

More Adventures in 3D Acrylic Art

Hello my dear friends :)

I have FINALLY gotten a replacement phone (P.S.  Sprint SUCKS)

So I have uploaded some photos from the last week or 2 that I've been wanting to share with you!

Here is my first full set of sculpts and my first attempts at doing 3D acrylic rose nail art!

A sculpted nail is different than tips because there aren't any tips on these!

We use a weird looking thing called a form, it's almost like a very rigid sticker, wrap that around the finger and just mold the acrylic from the short natural nail out onto the form :)

 

I also tried a little something I had seen on Instagram a long time ago - "Red Bottoms" or "Louboutin" nails, you paint the underside of the nails red.  It's very sexy and it really does remind you of Christian Louboutin's sexy red-soled shoes!

And here is my second attempt at 3D acrylic cupcakes.  

I think they came out a little better than the first ones, practice makes perfect!

Have a great Monday :D