Breast Cancer Awareness Nail'd

This is the nail art design that I came up for this week. It is to bring awareness to breast cancer since October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I personally nor anyone that I know of in my family has battled with this disease, but I have had friends who have beat it and others that were victim. My heart goes out to the people that are battling with any type of cancer.

Polishes used:

• Wet&Wild Wild Shine 402 Tickled Pink
• Essie 757 Super Bossa Nova
• Sinful Colors 125 Cream Pink
• Finger Paints Steal My Beating Art
• China Glaze 1182 Scattered & Tattered
• Orly WhiteOut

This is what my nails look like with the base colors.

Thumb- Tickled Pink

Index- Super Bossa Nova

Middle-Cream Pink

Ring- Steal My Beating Art

Pinky- WhiteOut

Ring finger-  Scattered & Tattered on top

Pinky- Used a Pink Panther themed water decal

Thumb- Used rhinestone around cuticle

Thanks for reading

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Nail'd Fall

This is the nail design I came up with for this week. Since we are now 1 week into the fall season what better way to express it through nail art.

 These are the polishes I used to create this nail design

• Art Deco Nail Stripping Brush- Black
• Finger Paints-Art Nouv Yellow
• Finger Paints- Hue Are You?
• Sinful Colors-Exotic Green 1105
• Sinful Colors- Vacation Time 264
• O.P.I.-Love.Angle.Music.Baby
• Essie- Braziliant 754
• Revlon Chroma Chameleon- Rose Gold
• Orly-White Out

 

These are the tools I used to create and enhance the design. For the paper re-enforcers I cut them in half.

This is how I started my design of. I used Hue Are You for all my fingers except my index. On my index finger I used Love.Angle.Music.Baby.

 I used Art Nouv-Yellow in the upper section

The dragon fly is painted with the Rose Gold

And the finished look...

Hope you enjoined....

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NOTW Pearls of Music

So this mani was created this week. The intention was to be simplistic enough for an interview I had coming up this week, but also not boring enough for me to was to take it off the same night. It was a little hard for me to do this manicure because of my shaky and sweaty hands (Hyperhidrosis).  So half way through I had to modify one of the designs or I would have been up for hours. Sorry for the lack of content I was unprepared for the waterfall my hand were creating and just plain frustrated, but I prevailed.

The items you will need to  complete this look are:

• Flat-back Pearls in an assortment of sizes
• Musical themed nail water decals
• Cup for water marbling
• Top/Base coat- 
• Orly White Out
• Sally Hanson complete SALON MANICURE 340 Black Platinum

Can you see the sweat starting to bead up? I should have known then that hard times were coming,

 I started off with a base color of white on all my finger. I made sure on my pinky, middle and index finger to have the white opaque. On the thumb and ring finger one coat is enough.

 I used these musical water decals for my middle fingers.

I used these pearls for my pinky, index and thumb

For my thumb I used 340 Black Platinum as the base color and with the aid of nail stripe tape I painted the middle section White Out. I place one medium pearl in the top section.

For the index finger I did the same as the thumb just reversed the colors.

For the middle finger I planned on doing horizontal stripes, but my hands were not having it, So as a back up I used musical themed water decals and just cut them to size.

For my ring finger I did a water marble design.I started with a white base coat. It was my first time trying water marbling and I think I did a dandy job.

For my pinky finger I just placed large, medium, and small pearls in a diagonal line.

Hope you enjoyed this design and check out the video for bloopers and takeout!

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MidWeek Mani Green scene 2.0

So I was getting a little bored with my manicure and decided to change it up a little bit. I did not have much time so it is a more simplistic view of my original design.

 This is the finished look. The base color is "Kiwi Bikini" and to add some sparkle I topped it off with "Sparkling Garbage". Then I placed a small black stone in the upper middle of each finger.

• Orly "Sparkling Garbage"
• Sally Hanson Xtreme wear "470 Kiwi Bikini"
• Small circle black rhinestones

Thanks for reading I hope you enjoined!

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NOTW: Green Scene

Being inspired by nature, it is my favorite inspiration, I came up with this design.

I used a total of 4 polishes ranging in different shades, one them being a glitter. The polishes I used to create this are:

• Orly "Sparkling Garbage"
• NYC Long Wearing 118 "Big Money Frost"
• FingerPaints "Mistful Thinking"
• Sally Hanson Xtreme wear "470 Kiwi Bikini"

Here are all the tools that I used to create this look:

large dotting tool, striping tape, circle rhinestone(medium and small size), paper reinforcements, base coat, top coat, and brush for clean up

I start my design of with a base coat

Next I began painting of my base colors:

 On my pinky the Sparkling Garbage, my ring finger Mistful Thinking, my thumb and middle finger Kiwi Bikini and my index finger Big Money Frost

I cut one of the reinforcement in half and place it on my ring finer then paint  Big Money Frost on top. On the middle finger I randomly placed the striping tape and painted Mistful Thinking on top and removed immediately.

On my pinky I places one medium circle rhinestone and on my index finger I places one medium followed my small rhinestones.  I finished my thumb off with dots in Big Money Frost and Mistful Thinking.

I hope you enjoined this word pictorial and feel free to try this using your favorite colors!

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Coming back to my passion...

Wow! I can't believe how long it has been since I last started this nail blog. When my trusted laptop I  had since  2007 died on me a few months ago I let my blog go to the back burner while other priorities to head.  I am back now; I didn't stop painting my nails I just didn't blog about it, so occasionally I will post some pictures that I have of old nail art design. My polish  collection has grown a lot and I am excited to pump out new and creative designs. You are welcome to follow my instagram and pinterest. Thanks for reading and stay polished!

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Ready Set......POLISH!

Hello Chicas!

So this will be the intro blog to my site Paint a Hand. I am one of the many polish lovers that you will find over the Internets and I decided that I would add my two stripes in when it comes to my style and input in this genre. I am by no means a professional nor experts in this industry, but am will to share what I know in this vast subject. I mainly will be using this to scrapbook my ideas that I create, but you never know what this blog will turn out to be.

Base color: Orange

Crackle: NYC Purple

This is just an old picture I found while scrolling through my phone...don't have the details on the polishes, I wasn't a fan of the crackle so I gave it away and the orange is somewhere in storage (sorry :( ), but in the coming weeks I plan on adding some old and new pics along with a few other surprises. Hope you find this blog  intriguing if not at least entertaining.

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