FingerPaints

The One With a Re-Creation of a Gradient Splatter Manicure

9:00:00 AM

Nothing to Disclose 


Welcome to yet another Sunday!  How was your week last week?  Are we all ready for yet another fun filled week?  I know I am....not.  One thing I am excited for is the weather.  It's been very cold and blustery here the last few days, and next week it's going to be in the 40s and 50s.  While to many this seems horribly cold, it's a lot better than the 20s and 30s.

Today's manicure is a re-creation of one I did a few years ago which so happens to be one of my all time favorite manicures.  It came up on my FaceBook memories and I just had to re-create it.  Now if I can only figure out how to re-create my nail photos to look just like they did back then, I'll be all set.

Let's take a look!


Colors Used:
  • FingerPaints - The Mural of the Story
  • ORLY - White Tips
  • ORLY - Liquid Vinyl
Ahhhhhh isn't it gorgeous?!  I literally love everything about this manicure.  the gradient, the splatter, the colors.  I cannot find one thing wrong.  This is one of those manicures that I wore for more than my usual 3 day period because I love it so much.  Does anyone remember how to do these splatter manicures?  I feel it's been forever since I've seen anyone create them.  Wait....is the splatter out?

Regardless, to get the look you take one of those mini coffee stir straws and you dip it into the nail polish.  Then you hover it over your nail and just blow through the straw.  It's one of the messiest things ever, but the payoff is so worth it.


I forgot how much I love The Mural of the Story by FingerPaints, and well, how much I love my FingerPaints polishes all together.  Is this brand still around?  I haven't stepped foot into a Sally Beauty Supply in over a year and feel like I'm way out of the nail polish loop.  If the polish isn't coming in the mail to me, then I'm not going looking for it. 

What do you think?  Fan of this manicure?  Love the look as much as I do?


Until next time, <3.


FingerPaints

The One With the First Snowflake Manicure of Winter

9:00:00 AM

Nothing to Disclose


Good Morning, Polished World!  How are you all doing today?  It's December 4th, which means we are only 21 days away from Christmas.  I need to get my butt in gear and start doing some Christmas manicures!  I have a few ideas of what I want to create or re-create, it's just getting around to doing it!  Work has been crazy this week and I wore a swatch on my nails for most of the week, so that took away some of my Christmas design time.  Might sit down this weekend and bust through a few ideas....maybe do another nail art wheel?

In the meantime, today I'm sharing with you my first snowflake manicure of the season.  You know me and my love of snowflake nails, so of course I jumped right to it even though there was no snow on the ground yet.  Sure enough, the day after I painted them, we got our first snowfall of the season.

Let's take a look!


Colors Used:
  • FingerPaints - Sterling Sculpture
  • INM - Granite
  • ORLY - White Tips
At first I wasn't sure if I was going to like this color combination, but when it was all said and done, I was obsessed.  I forgot about how perfect of a silver glitter Sterling Sculpture is.  It contains large and small flecks, which you would assume would be impossible to remove, but shockingly it isn't.  Clearly glitter removal isn't difficult due to the size of the glitter or density, but the base itself which is practically gluing it to the nail.  Anyways, it's the perfect accent for this manicure blending the white into the dark grey. 


Short little nubby nails again due to a few breaks, but what can you do.  Back to square one of growing them out.  Despite them being short, I was able to get some pretty good detail with those snowflakes.  I think I need to switch up my snowflakes a bit this year.  Go for some different patterns.  We shall see.

What do you think?  Like this look?

Until next time, <3.


FingerPaints

The One With the FingerPaints Gold Negative Space Manicure

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing today?  I've been better.  Friday I ended up getting sick with some sort of allergic reaction where my breathing got all messed up and I've had the WORST stomach cramps for the past 24 close to 48 hours.  I'm hoping today it gets better and I can leave my house for more than 5 minutes.  Especially because it's supposed to be a perfect Fall day today.  Sunny, in the 70s...really hope I get outside.

Since I've been since, I haven't wanted to edit my latest Fall themed manicure.  Lucky for me, I had edited all my old photos over this past week and have 8 posts to share.  After looking through all the photos, I felt this negative space, gold, daisy manicure was fitting for a nice, sunny, Fall day.  Maybe.  

Let's take a look!


Colors Used:
  • FingerPaints - Beverly's Touch
  • ORLY - White Tips
Pretty sure this is a re-creation of a manicure I did a few years ago.  I painted it back in April when I was feeling very uninspired but wanted some sort of floral design.  I remember looking on Instagram and finding a negative space manicure, and this one flew back into my mind.  Now you know me, I'm not a huge fan of gold, so this was a manicure that was way out of my comfort zone then, and was again when I recreated it.  Both times though, I absolutely loved the white and gold color combination.



Beverly's Touch is an oldie but goodie from my polish stash.  You can totally get away with one coat of this gorgeous yellow gold, but I used two.  I love how saturated it is because it makes it easier to use for nail art.

Fan of this manicure? Ever enjoyed the negative space look?

Until next time, <3.

Dry Brush Mani

The One With A Pink Dry Brush Manicure

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world, and Happy Friday!  This week has draaaaaaaged and I am so happy that Friday is finally here.  Sleep in Saturday is so close, yet so far.  And who really knows if I will be able to sleep in, there's always the risk of something happening which disrupts my slumber.  Hopefully though, that doesn't happen.

Since Valentine's Day is a week away, I figured I should get a little festive with my manicures.  You all know that I dislike the holiday because it's a Hallmark up holiday and believe we should show our love to each other everyday.  I'm also not a huge pink/red person, so painting my nails for this "holiday" really isn't something I look forward to.  But, I do it for the blog.

Let's take a look at my semi Valentine's Day design.


Colors Used:
  • Finger Paints - Hue Left a Message
  • Serendipity Polish - Summer Sunnies
  • Serendipity Polish - Building My Empire
A lovely black and pink dry brush manicure.  Kind of nice intro into the pink nails with a little splash of black.  I actually enjoyed this manicure and could maybe see myself wearing pink more often because of it.  It's kind of surprising to me how many pink polishes I own despite not being a huge fan of pink.  Most of them though are coral/dark pinks, not these light pastel pinks.



For someone not liking pink, Hue Left a Message by FingerPaints was one of the first glitter polishes I purchased when I started blogging.  Which, mind you, was six years ago.  That's right, coming up on Valentine's Day, we will be celebrating six years of The Little Canvas.  Crazy to me that it's been that long.  I'm kind of shocked this polish is still perfect after six years.  I put on two coats over one coat of Serendipity Polish Summer Sunnies.

What do you think?  Like this manicure? Fan of Valentine's Day?

Until next time, <3.

Bug Mani

The One With the Butterfly Nail Art

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!   Happy Monday to you all!  Should happy and Monday go in the same sentence?  My weekend didn't last long enough.  I did absolutely nothing.  Seriously had a "me" weekend where I lounged around.  Honestly, wish I had more days like that, probably could use at least two more then I'll be ready to go back to work.  Alas, I will be at work by the time this post is published running around not knowing my name.

Today's manicure is the annual butterfly manicure.  Last year I switched it up and did purple butterfly nails to raise awareness for Epidermolysis Bullosa.  This is a disease which commonly occurs in children.  Their skin is super fragile and sensitive and they can develop blisters easily.  Those children with this disease are known as butterfly children, because they are fragile like butterflies.  Last year, my good friend Meagan's friend Taylor passed away from this disease, giving me the idea for the post.

This year I wanted to do that again, so I turned yesterday's purple base into butterfly wings.

Let's take a look!


Colors Used:
  • FingerPaints - Lavender Love
  • FingerPaints - 50 Shades of Ashley
  • Acrylics
Now I don't need to gush again over this base like I did yesterday.  But look at how wonderful it is for the base of this design!!  I cannot get over how it gave the butterfly wings such dimension!  They shimmered and sparkled, and I received so many compliments on them.

What do you think?  Like the butterfly wings?

Until next time, <3.


FingerPaints

The One With the Random FingerPaints Swatch

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!  Happy Sunday to you all!  How are you all doing today?  I hope everyone had a happy and safe Fourth of July.  I meant to have a post up yesterday, but sleep in Saturday became an all day event, and I'm still exhausted.  That tells you how busy my week was.  It was completely thrown off too because of the holiday being right smack dab in the middle of the week.  I felt like I had two Monday's.

Here's to this week though going better, especially since there is only one Monday!!  Still though, why does there even have to be a Monday??  Anyways, I'm getting off topic.  Today I'm sharing with you the base for the manicure I'm going to share with you tomorrow.  I was obsessing over the base, so I felt I needed to dedicate a swatch post to it.

Let's take a look!


Colors Used:
  • FingerPaints - Lavender Love
  • FingerPaints - 50 Shades of Ashley
Lavender Love is one of my favorite purple polishes.  Two coats of a beautiful cream lavender which saddens me that I'm getting close to the end because I fear I will never find one just like it.  I've used Lavender Love numerous times before, that's not what I'm here to drool over.

What I'm drooling over is 50 Shades of Ashley which was part of the Ashley Nell Tipton Collection that came out a few years ago.  Why I never used it yet is beyond me.  Maybe because I thought it was just a boring opal looking purple, but on the nail it is so much more!  I used one coat over Lavender Love and it added such a dimension to the polish!!!  I couldn't stop staring at it!

Wait until you see the design I did over it!

What do you think?  Like this swatch?  Do you think I should share more swatches?

Until next time, <3.

FingerPaints

The One With Another Floral Manicure

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing on this Friday?  It's almost time for the weekend.  I'm excited, tomorrow I'm going to Painting With a Twist for my friend's birthday!  It's going to be a fun sunflower painting.  My first time I went, the painting turned out really well and I absolutely loved it.  Who knows, maybe because it's a floral design, I'll rock it.  You know me and my love for florals.  I'll post a picture on Instagram if it turns out well!

Today's design is, can you guess, a floral one!!!!!  Sure it's not sunflowers, but it's one of my last spring time floral designs before I start getting into my summer florals!  Daisies, sunflowers, little forget-me-nots.  Ahhh how I love the summer floral season.  Do florals even have a season or is it just a year round thing?  hmmm....

Let's take a look!


Colors Used:
  • FingerPaints - Party Teal Dawn
  • Zoya - Tomoko
I'm going to stop listing the white polish I used in my posts.  If I don't list it, it's a safe bet that it's ORLY White Tips.  If I'm doing a review of white, then I'll for sure share it, but I think it's getting annoying listing my same polish over and over again.  Probably should only list the polish I'm holding.....

Anyways, I love Party Teal Dawn.  Older polish of mine but still works like I just got it yesterday.  Two coats and full coverage.  Gosh I miss FingerPaints.  I used to get their PR packages, then they just stopped coming, and I haven't had any time to get to Sally Beauty so I really have forgotten about them.  Shame too, because they are one of my favorite brands.

What do you think?  Fan of this polish?  Fan of this manicure?

Until next time, <3.


FingerPaints

The One With the Fingerpaints Floral Manicure

9:00:00 AM


Hello polished world and Happy Sunday to you all!!!  I've really failed at updating the blog, but I've been busy.  I know you've heard this about a million times, but I really need to pre-publish my posts.  Maybe when I do my next back of photo editing.  Ha, said that one before as well.  I also feel like I've been unmotivated when it comes to blogging because the weather was nice this week so I spent a lot of time outside and not inside.  Today though it's going to be in the 40s, so I'll work a tad on this.

Today's design is a spring floral design using one of my favorite purple polishes.  Glittery accent to cover up my middle finger nail injury.  It's growing out really nicely, but it's getting to that point where it's close to being fully grown out and I'm going to have to go to nub nails for a bit.  Ugh I hope I can still paint even when it's at that point.  We will see, I didn't think I was going to be painting this whole time and have been pleasantly surprised.

Let's take a look at today's design!


Colors Used:
  • FingerPaints - Lavender Love
  • ORLY - Mirrorball
  • ORLY - White Tips
Isn't it so Springy??  I don't know what type of flowers I'd call those...poppies...carnations?  Who knows, regardless they're cute.  I love how Mirrorball accents the whole manicure.  It's just perfect to me.

What do you think?  Fan of this look??

Until next time, <3.

FingerPaints

The One With Snowflakes and Zoya Rebel

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing today??  Finally the weather is evening out and we are no longer at sub-zero temperatures with negative wind chills and blowing snow.  It's supposed to get up to about 45 degrees this week, then dip back down into the freezing temperatures again.  That means I can get the Christmas lights off the house.

While we were at the sub-zero temps, of course I decided to paint a few different snowflake manicures.  The first one up is a re-creation of a design I did a few years ago.  It was originally inspired by the lovely Sarah at 25 Sweet Peas.  Actually I think most of my snowflake inspiration comes from her.

Anyways, let's take a look!


Colors Used:
  • Zoya - Rebel
  • ORLY - Liquid Vinyl
  • FingerPaints - Sterling Sculpture
I forgot how much I love Rebel by Zoya.  This polish was from the 2014 Awaken collection for Spring.  I cannot believe I've had this polish for four years.  Honestly feel like it just came in the mail yesterday.  For a four year old polish, it still works like it was brand new.  Two coats and full coverage.  Not goopy, literally seems like I just got it yesterday.

I love the black snowflakes with the black accent nail.  When I originally did this manicure, I did it using a light blue with black glitter crelly from Madam Glam.  I was going to re-create the manicure exactly, until I remembered how much I hate removing glitter polish.  Plus, I kind of like it so much better with Rebel.

What do you think?  Like this manicure?  Think it's different using black instead of white for snowflakes?

Until next time, <3.


Dot Mani

The One With the New Year's Eve Manicure

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world and Happy New Year's Eve!!!  Can you believe that 2017 has come and gone?!  I honestly cannot believe it.  Now I need to do a December Monthly Mani Favs post, followed by a 2017 re-cap post of all my favorites from the year.  Jeez I have a lot of work on this blog to do today.  I'll obviously be posting those two posts in the next few days.

Today's manicure is a re-creation of my 2015 New Year's Eve manicure.  I loved the design so much and actually forgot about it until I was looking to see what I had done before.  After searching forever for a design I liked, my mind kept going back to this design.  Therefore, I had to re-create it.

Let's take a look!


Colors Used:
  • ORLY - Liquid Vinyl
  • FingerPaints - Golden Glaze
  • Serendipity Polish - Sunshine Rainbow
Isn't it wonderful??  I think when I created the manicure originally, I just randomly placed the tape on the nail and in the end it turned out looking like a star.  Can I tell you it took forever to lay the tape just right to make it look like a star again??  Finally was able to re-create it not once, but four times since I had this design on both my ring fingers and thumb.

I love this black and gold combo so much.  Topping FingerPaints Golden Glaze with Sunshine Rainbow was a wonderful idea.  The holo and gold flecks mixed together with the foiled golden polish really gave it a true New Year's Eve feel.

What do you think?  Like this design?  Tired of me doing re-creations??

I hope everyone has a happy and safe New Year!!!!  Goodbye 2017, hello 2018!!!

See you next year, <3.



Christmas

The One With The Final Christmas Manicure

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!  Merry Christmas to all of those who celebrate!!!!  Cannot believe that I have made it a whole month doing nothing but Christmas designs.  I actually took this manicure off last night and got to work on something not so Christmas-y only for the base to turn dark and give it a Christmas look.  Sigh.  I'm going neon for my next mani.

Anyways, today I am bringing you my very last Christmas design!  I believe it was NBNailArt on Instagram who posted a design with a poinsettia over a gold gradient background.  While going through my Pinterest idea board, I saw I had pinned a similar design awhile back.  I loved the look so I thought I'd give it a go.

Let's take a look!


Colors Used:
  • ORLY - White Tips
  • FingerPaints - Golden Glaze
  • Zoya - Maria Luisa
  • Acrylics
Okay, kind of love how these turned out.  If I were to do this design again, I would make the flowers a little smaller so you can see the background clearer, because it truly was gorgeous.  Overall though, I'm impressed with the outcome especially since free-hand designs that are intricate like this usually don't turn out how I want them to.  I cheated and used acrylics because I had to mix a lot of colors to get the desired tones and details.

What do you think?  Fan of this design?  Perfect last Christmas manicure??

I hope everyone has a Happy and Merry Christmas!!!!

Until next time, <3.



FingerPaints

The One With the Pineapple Manicure

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing today??  It's Sunday which means tomorrow is Monday, which means it is the beginning of yet another work week.  Sigh.  Summer is flying by and I feel like I can't enjoy it because I live at work.  Well, that and the weather has kind of been really crappy the past few weeks.  Shockingly, we had three good days last week which kept me out until late enjoying the weather.  And with those late nights, I had some really ratchet looking nails, naked toes, and a full abandonment of my blog and Instagram.  Oops.

Since my last manicure was fruit themed, I thought I would share yet another fruit manicure.  This one being a pineapple design.  If you know me than you know I have a small, tiny obsession with pineapples.  I'm so happy I'm not the only one because going into a store and feeding this obsession has become quite easy.  Pineapple tote bags, tops, decorations....I'm in love.

Let's take a look at the manicure!


Colors Used:
  • FingerPaints - To The Plinth Degree
  • FingerPaints - Paper Mache
  • FingerPaints - Black Patent
Isn't it adorable??  I love the black outlined pineapple next to the neon yellow polish.  To the Plinth Degree by FingerPaints is an amazing neon yellow.  It reminds me of Glowstick by ORLY.  I had to put a white base under it because it's very sheer and on it's own it is not as bright as when it has that white base.  I did one coat of Paper Mache, then two coats of To the Plinth Degree.  What I like about this polish over ORLY's Glowstick is that it dries so much quicker.  On the brightness scale, it is exactly the same.

What do you think?  Like this manicure?  Love the neon yellow?

Until next time, <3.