Hey everyone! Today I’ve got a funky ruffian design for you! I got the idea from my friend Amy over at Ooh La La Nails who did this cool design a few weeks ago: Rainbow Mani. I decided to use a whole bunch of my Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Nail Colors for this ruffian. I went with colors that do not coordinate at all so it would look crazy and kinda fugly. In case you are wondering- yes, I did this on purpose! LOL
This mani took well over two hours and there’s 11 coats of polish including base and top coats! I only did two nails like this on my other hand since it was hard to paint with my left hand and it took forever. I learned an important lesson while working on this ruffian- I need to tie my hair up in a ponytail before working on my nails! My long hair was hanging all over the place while I was painting so my boyfriend kindly put a headband in my hair to help me out. But the headband didn’t cut it, and my hanging hair strands got stuck on my thumb nail while waiting for my topcoat to dry. UGH!! My thumb design got messed up so I painted it blue along with the other fingers on my right hand that didn’t have ruffian painted on them. The trials and tribulations of a nail painter!!
I made sure to alternate application of creams and shimmer polishes so the colors contrasted against each other. I think it worked, as this may be my craziest mani yet! Here’s the colors I used….
Gold ♥ Golden-I
Red ♥ Cherry Red
Silver ♥ Gunmetal
Pink ♥ Bubblegum Pink
Green ♥ Emerald City
Yellow ♥ Mellow Yellow
Purple ♥ Plum Power
Blue ♥ Blue Me Away!
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Even with my short hair I have to clip it back to keep it from falling in my face while I do my nails. I really like the gold you used for this!
It’s good to have a nice shiny gold for nail art!
Looks great! You know colour clashes are very on-trend out here 🙂
Sweet!! Glad to know I’m semi-trendy!! 🙂
LOVE IT!!!
THANKS!! 😀
So fun!!!
Fun, but slow to dry! Too many layers- my seche vite couldn’t dry it all the way through!
Love this look and the colors are perfectly fugly 🙂 in a good way 😉
Thanks!! I like that term— perfectly fugly 😀
Oh my, that’s a lot of coats. How thick is the polish at the tips? Is it measurable with a ruler? 😀
I just took it off min ago.. i shoulda measured! They were really stacked- they looked like they were fake nails! Luckily i didn’t go all the way down my nail with the earliest colors like gold, red n silver.. so that helped a little i suppose.
they look like fuzzy socks, only not fuzzy! I don’t know why, I can’t get over that feeling. It looks really cool.
Haha thanks! I see what you’re sayin! They kinda look like stockings 🙂
These remind me of Dr. Seuss socks… like long socks you’d seein one of those books. Anyway- they look really cute and fun and HOLY MOLY I never noticed how long your nails are! Good job on the nails. 🙂
Thnx! I’ve been using sally hansen nail growth miracle and my nails got long… the stuf is the bomb!
I think having a plain blue paint in thumbnail looks awesome and makes he rest of nails look less heavy. It’s a good combo.
*on thumbnail *the rest….allow me to correct my typo error
Thank you! 😀
I see Nicole said it reminded her of Dr. Seuss…. Me too – check out the cover of the book ‘Oh the places you will go”… it looks like that! I think it’s cute 🙂
I googled that… i totally see what you’re sayin about seuss!