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OMD3 – Lipstick Stamping Nail Art

19 Sunday Jul 2015

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Oh. Mon. Dieu. I am finally caught up! I knocked out THREE prompts! Unfortunately, today, my phone camera decided to bring on it’s attitude full on and my photos are less than ideal…

I am not the biggest lipstick fan. I have well over 20 lip balms, sticks, tinted balms, glosses, and hybrids in nudes and light pinks and rarely wear them! There are three, however, I wear more than the others and those are the YSL glossy lip tints and Chanel Coco Rouge Shines. I would always rather spend money on something I wear more often than something that gets shoved into the back of the cupboard!

I was so excited for this manicure…it came out the way I wanted!…Except..it looks more like blood than melted lipstick…whoops…Does that ever happen to you? Everything turns out EXACTLY the way you imagined it but doesn’t look the way you thought it would?

 

#OMD3NAILS - Stamped Liquid Lipstick Nail Art | The Rite of AgingBase: Formula X for Sephora Platinum Prime, Boundless Berry (from the Infinite Ombre kit! — I won one of the giveaways sponsored by Preen.Me ** I never win Instagram giveaways!!!)

Stamping: Bundle Monster 303

 

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.


OMD3 – Sugarspun Shoelaces Nail Art

19 Sunday Jul 2015

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I don’t even want to talk about this one. I had this great idea and unfortunately execution of said idea was less than ideal. However, I am happy I tried it…and I think with a little practice I can definitely get the look I’m after!

 

#OMD3NAILS - Sugarspun Shoelaces Nail Art | The Rite of AgingBase: Sinful Colors Snow Me White, acrylic paint

Sugar-spun: Wet n Wild Black Creme

 

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.


OMD3 – Watercolor and Freehand Nail Art

18 Saturday Jul 2015

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I was actually on top of the fish prompt but I attempted the look twice and both  looked horrendous. I was already very tired that evening so I lost all motivation to continue.

I had so many cute stamps I wanted to use and every time I stamped (yes, I mean every FINGER) the image looked different and warped. I just couldn’t do it. I shrugged and said ‘I’ll try them again on the weekend’. Well, the weekend is here and I thought, “obviously I cannot stamp so I might as well do something else”. These freehand fishes aren’t super intricate but I think they are kind of cute!

Hope you like it!

 

#OMD3NAILS - Watercolor and Freehand Fish Nail Art | The Rite of AgingBase: Glitter Gal Bluemerang

Watecolor: Emily de Molly Candy Coated, Milani Power Periwinkle, China Glaze UV Meant to Be, Picture Polish Serenity

Detail: acrylic paint

 

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.

OMD3 – Stamping and Water Decal Nail Art

18 Saturday Jul 2015

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Playing catch up with some of the prompts today! Thankfully, I already had an idea of what I wanted to do but was just too fatigued to execute them! Here is my very RA-friendly kitty nail art!

Disclaimer: There will not be a whole lot of writing in the next few posts. I am trying to catch up and my fingers are still super swollen!

 

#OMD3NAILS - Cat Decal Nail Art | The Rite of AgingBase: Color Club Twiggie

Stamping: Pueen Cosmetics plate 48 + Creative Shop stamper + Barry M Matte Rhossili

Decals: Pueen Cosmetics

 

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.

OMD3 – Sugar-Spun Fast Food Nail Art

17 Friday Jul 2015

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Not a lot to say because I am so freaking tired from this week except I am now two days behind. ICK. Hopefully, I can catch up this weekend!

I’ve become a sugar-spun snob!! I am so bummed with how this came out but I never re-do my sugar-spins because it takes so long to begin with! I’ve come to the realization that fast-dry polishes do not spin well. Even with constant “stirring” the polish thickens clumpy and just doesn’t move well. Ah well…I can always fix it, right? Nope, while I usually don’t have trouble with white polishes, the white I mixed to get this pink became ashy and kind of dulled the base. Best thing to do is just make sure I don’t have to fix anything and use polishes that are better for this technique!

It’s not my best sugar-spin but I still hope you like my pink frosted doughnut nails!!

 

#OMD3NAILS - Pink Frosted Doughnut Sugar-Spin | The Rite of AgingBase: Milani Dark Coffee

Sugar-spin: Milani Quick Dry + Sinful Colors Snow Me White + Sally Hansen Insta-Dry Petal Pusher

 

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.

OMD3 – Stamped Book Nail Art

13 Monday Jul 2015

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I am making it right under the wire today! I am teaching two half-day summer camps this week so in an attempt to make myself feel less tired today, I did all my chores yesterday but that just made me too tired yesterday to paint my nails! Ah, irony.

Just as well, though, because today’s prompt was a no-brainer. I only have one “handwriting” stamp and I wanted to create an old parchment watercolor base.

I am really digging this new watercolor technique. I use torn up pieces of latex-free makeup sponge completely saturated in acetone. I dilute the polishes completely and dab them on the nail to build up opacity until I am happy!

Hope you like it!

 

#OMD3NAILS Stamped Handwriting Nail Art | The Rite of AgingBase: Barry M Chai

Watercolors: Barry M Chai, Zoya Severine, SpaRitual Bismuth, Milani Dark Coffee

Stamping: Creative Shop stamper, Bundle Monster plate BM311, Zoya Louise

 

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.

OMD3 – Watermelon Gradient Nails

12 Sunday Jul 2015

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Well hello everyone!! I was really scared about today’s prompt! I have never attempted watermelon nails so the first idea that came to mind was to freehand them. Nothing new here but I chickened out!

I was so unsure about today’s nails I took to Instagram and searched hashtag “watermelon nails”. I ran across a matte gradient by IG@b_jessica_3 and knew immediately I had to re-create that look. I decided not to matte the final result or add seeds. I wanted to, but in the end decided to leave well enough alone. It might have looked alright but I think given how soft, blurred and pastel the colors are stark harsh dark seeds would look really odd!

 

In real life the pink is a lot more prominent but unfortunately, we know my track record with photographing whites. I tweaked my hand position a little to capture the pink a little more but it still came out a bit wonky…

Hope you like it!

 

#OMD3NAILS Watermelon Gradient Nail Art | The Rite of AgingBase: Sinful Colors Snow Me White

Gradient: damp makeup sponge, acrylic paints

 

Hi, my name is Monica and I have RA.