A St. Patrick's Day Kitchen Sink Manicure
9:00:00 AM
St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner!! Sunday, to be exact! I'm rather surprised by the lack of green, festive manicures on Instagram and Blogger. I sign on daily looking for them, but alas, the green is missing in action from my feed. Maybe I'm still a bit early and they will start appearing later this week. *crosses my pretty painted fingers*
For this manicure, I had so many ideas. I of course wanted to use my green polish, incorporate a rainbow, some shamrocks, and add some gold with glitter. The question: how could I do this all at once. Answer: the kitchen sink mani! If you still do not know what a kitchen sink manicure is, well it is everything but the kitchen sink!!! Basically, you throw a bunch of different techniques or designs into one manicure. That way, you can get all your ideas out creating an awesome manicure.
So, I sat down, grabbed my polishes, and started brainstorming. I'm not sure I am in love with the final product, but you can be the judge. Let's take a look!!!
Colors Used:
- Thumb
- Sinful Colors - Sugar, Sugar, Country Orange, Let's Meet, HD Nails, Midnight Blue
- Orly - Black Vinyl
- Sally Hansen - Golden-I
- China Glaze - I'm Not Lion
- Pointer/Pinkie
- Revlon - Sassy
- Sally Hansen - Disco Ball
- Sinful Colors - HD Nails
- Middle Finger
- Sally Hansen - Golden-I
- China Glaze - I'm Not Lion
- Ring Finger
- Ulta - Snow White
- Sally Hansen - Moonstone
- Revlon - Sassy
- Sinful Colors - HD Nails
I started with my thumb nail first. I painted on one coat of Ulta Snow White, then grabbed a make up sponge. I have never done a rainbow gradient using five colors in a straight line. Just last post, I did the amazing zebra gradient using 6 polishes, but that sponging technique was different. For that, I painted the colors in a separate corners of the sponge so it formed a circle of color. For this, I painted each color in a straight line. After I painted the colors on, I looked at the sponge and I became nervous that all the colors wouldn't fit on my nail. I took a deep breath and dabbed the sponge on and to my surprise, all the colors fit!!!! Sure, a little of the red and blue got on the edges and I had to touch it up a tad, but it fit!!! Since the Sinfuls all were shimmer polishes, I decided to just use a plain top coat to blend the colors. With my nail art brush, I painted on the little pot, then with the dotting tool used Golden-I to add the gold coins. To make the coins sparkle, I then added some I'm Not Lion.
I was loving how I'm Not Lion was looking over Golden-I so I wanted to have a single nail with that amazing glitter. I picked the middle finger, but now that I look at it, I wish I kind of did it on the ring finger so it matched the gold coin accents on the thumb. Either way, the nail looked fabulous!
I wanted to have my green nails frame the manicure, so I painted two coats of Revlon Sassy on my pointer and pinkie. I could have gotten away with one coat, but I really wanted the green to pop. I added a thin coat of Disco Ball so it wouldn't be a flat creme...you have to have glitter. Since it was a St. Patrick's Day manicure, I needed to put some shamrocks on, so I took HD nails and my dotting tool and painted two big ones on. Shamrocks are shockingly easy!!! All you have to do is make three hearts and then add a little stem!
Finally, for the ring finger, I put some Moonstone over Snow White so the white wasn't flat since the other nails were glittery and popped. I was in love with the dots I did on my previous kitchen sink mani, so I copied that with Sassy and HD Nails. Gorgeous, right?
Now that I'm done rambling....what do you think?? Good kitchen sink mani? Appropriate for St. Patrick's Day?
Until next time, <3
8 comments
In LOVE with your pot of gold!
ReplyDeletethank you!!! that ended up being my favorite nail!
DeleteThis looks awesome! I really like your thumbs, they're gorgeous! Plus the 2 greens look good as a dotticure =)
ReplyDeletethank you! i'm so happy the rainbow gradient worked out!!!! I kind of wish I did it on two nails!
DeleteADORABLE! I love the pot of gold :)
ReplyDeletethank you so much!!!! the glitter made it even more perfect!
DeleteGorgeous! I have i'm Not Lion and i love it too! That pot of gold thumbnail is brilliant! x x x
ReplyDeleteI just wish I'm not Lion didn't chip as fast as it did...le sigh. Thank youu <33
DeleteOh how I love reading all of your comments! I truly appreciate each and every single one!