Request Filled- Water Lilies by Claude Monet

This was definitely a hard challenge and I know I can do better with more practice(and more colors) but this is what I came up with as my interpretation of 'Water Lilies' by Claude Monet as a nail design. I gave different angles the best I could so can see. The pics are kind of blurry, but I am saving for a new camera! Hope this is kind of what you were looking for, John and per your request, came this design. I hope you like it and I will continue practicing this one to make it better and nicer! Thanks for reading!

Practice Flowers

 I decided to practice doing flowers. I didn't have any type pf design going here, just practicing. I used a black base coat because I knew I wanted to do bright colored flowers. I think the large white flower with pink came out nice. On top of the large white flower, I did a pink rose and off to the right side, I did a purple flower accented with a little white accent. The purple was a deeper tint, so it may be a little harder to see against the black.

 Not too bad for some practice right? Any ideas for more flowers or other designs? I would love to hear or see other ideas or interpretations. Hope you enjoyed and feel free to leave questions or comments below! Thanks for reading!

Acrylic French Tips with Rhinestone Flowers

 So, last night I decided to give myself a full-on set of acrylic french tips. I don't really mess with acrylics too much and this was first time doing it full-on. I was actually pretty happy with the results. For a first-timer with the acrylic, I think I did well. Once the french tips were done, They looked good....but plain. So I wanted to add a little something but I didn't have a whole lot of time so painting was out of the question. I decided to go with some good old rhinestones. Quick and easy to apply and look very nice. I decided to do a flower of rhinestones on my thumb and ring finger and do a smaller heart with red dots on the pointer, middle, and pinkie fingers. First, I started with the flowers. I used 6 red oval rhinestones(teardrops or diamond could work too) for the petals and a silver circle rhinestone for the middle. I added 4 pink rhinestones coming away from the flower, curving toward the cuticle a little. I used another pink and put it at the tip of the nail, close to the middle. The thumb nail is pictured below.

 For the other fingers, I used a pink heart rhinestone, which  placed off to the side, very close to the edge of the tip and added 4 little red dots(not rhinestones but tiny decals) starting at the heart and curving upward, as seen in the picture to the left.

 Here a few extra pics of the design. Very quick and easy once the acrylic once finished. I had to do this fast and was able to make it look pretty good. Please comment, or respond with an interpretation. I would love to see some other rhinestone designs or other french manicure ideas. This could be for Valentine's Day too, I suppose but it wasn't really what I had in mind while doing it. Anyway, thanks for reading, hope you liked it and give it a try!

Random French Manicure/Flower Design

So this is what I did after Christmas passed while on down time in between holidays. Christmas is over and Valentine's isn't here yet....so French Manicure it is! lol So I started by doing a regular French manicure tip on my big toe nail. I cheated on this and used a flower nail decal. It was a decal from a filo cane(i bought the decal pre-sliced but you can buy entire filo canes too). I added some top coat to my nail and placed the flower. i then used 4 small rhinestone pieces, although you can only see 3 in the pic. I put them in a small cluster next to the flower. The color for the rhinestones I used were dark purple, yellow, red, and pink. After those were in place, I used more top coat to seal. I used the same rhinestones and design on my smaller toes, without flowers. I didn't have enough space for the flowers on my smaller toes so I just replicated the rhinestone design and it came out nice. I also ended up painted small green leaves onto my nail, coming off the flower, but that is not shown in this picture(I did it the next day). After the leaves were painted on, I sealed it again with top coat and was finished. This was an easy way out, I usually try to paint everything but there still looked nice and kind of professional. Hope you enjoy!