Monday Mani: Easter

This week's Monday Mani theme at PAA (Polish-aholics Anonymous) is Easter. I decided to go super cutesy for today's mani, and I love how it turned out. It was super fast to do too!

On my ring finger I used a base of 2 coats of Sinful Colors Candy Coated. The formula is really nice on this, and the dry time is decent considering it's a pastel.

On my index finger, I used a base of 3 coats of Sinful Colors Unicorn. Since it's a yellow and a pastel, dry time was pretty slow though the formula was decent.

I used 2 coats of Candeo Colors Jellybean on my other fingers. I knew I had to use Jellybean for this mani, because well the name is jellybean! Plus the yellow base matched Unicorn and the purple glitter matched Candy Coated.

I painted on the bunny and the chick shell using Rimmel French White Nail Tip Liner and just the brush from the bottle. The black details on both are done with Wet n Wild Black Creme and a nail art brush.

The chick's beak is Zoya Arizona, and I just used the brush that came with Arizona. The pink details on the bunny are Ulta Encore Pink, and I again just used the bottle brush to add in those.

I topped everything off with top coat after I let it dry for a while (to prevent dragging of the colors), and tada!

I love how this turned out!

Orange Cream Easter Skittles

I recently picked up a few new Sinful Colors and thought they would be perfect for Easter themed manis! Today, I used just Sinful Colors Orange Cream.

I used one thin coat and one thick coat for this mani. Orange Cream isn't very orange, in my opinion! It's a peachy orange that leans heavily toward pink. I don't have any colors like this. While I don't usually wear pink, I decided to step out of my comfort zone, and I'm glad I did! I think Orange Cream looks great on me!

You may also notice my super short nails. Well, I had a deep side break on my middle finger that I patched. A few hours later, I got one on my index finger! So I decided to chop off all my nails! I also chopped off all my hair yesterday (went from almost mid-back to chin length). It's spring (or almost here in Wisconsin) so it's time for fresh starts all around.

Orange Cream also had a beautiful micro shimmer that is hard to see from far away, but you can see it in this macro shot.

I added some random designs on my nails using Rimmel French White Nail Tip Liner. The pinkie is sort of like a flower or sun design. Make sure you wait long enough to add top coat! I didn't on my pinkie, and the color dragged a bit.

On my other two fingers I added two coats of Lynnderella Connect the Dots. I love Connect the Dots over brighter colors. It really pops!

I hope you all enjoyed today's mani! I'll have another Easter themed one later this week that features a bit more nail art.

Easter Egg Nails

Happy Easter! For my final Easter design and another continuation of my Food Nail Art series, I have Easter Egg nails for you today.  On each nail, I painted a base coat and then used the other 4 colors to add a different design to each nail.

Here are the colors that I used:
Pinkie: Ulta Encore Pink
Ring: Pure Ice Twinkle
Middle: O.P.I. Stranger Tides
Index: China Glaze For Audrey
Thumb: China Glaze Light As Air

Peeps

For day 3 of my Food/Easter series, I have that iconic Easter treat: Peeps. Now, I'm not a big fan of Peeps. In fact, I think they are rather gross tasting, but I do think they are cute!

Here are the colors that I used:
Base coat: one thick coat of Sally Hansen Green with Envy.

Blue peep: Sinful Colors Why Not

Purple peep: Rimmel Wild Orchid

Yellow peep: Maybelline Sunshine

Pink peep: Pure Ice Peony

Peeps logo: Sinful Colors Why Not and Maybelline Sunshine

Jellybeans

For the second day of my Food/Easter series, I was inspired by this design by Nail Loopy.  I used 2 coats of Finger Paints Paper Mache as my base coat that loads of random colors to make the jellybeans.  I just used a dotting tool and made comma shapes.  I think mine turned out pretty good, but Nail Loopy's is so much better (perhaps she used better colors than I did).

Bunny and carrots

I decided that I wanted to do some Easter designs. At the same time, I didn't want to stop my Food series, so I combined them!  Today I have a bunny as accent with carrots on the other nails.

The base coat is 2 coats of Sinful Colors Nirvana.  Then I added on L.A. Girl Uninhibited to get that dirt effect.  Finally, I drew on the carrots and bunny using various polishes.

I think this turned out pretty good. I wish I would have made the bunny not look so sad though :(