cherry blossoms | Craftynail

Day 14 of Chalkboard Nails’ Challenge is FLOWERS and I’ve got some brown cherry blossom nails for ya! I’ll be honest with you… I don’t really like how these nails came out. I don’t like to be negative… but it is what it is. And I realized that when I don’t like one of my designs I usually only post one pic. So here it is….

I’m wearing two coats of a cream brown called Nirvana by Sinful Colors. A few months back you may remember me whining about how I didn’t have any basic brown polishes… well, now I have one! I think Nirvana should come in handy for nail art this fall and winter. 🙂 For my floral design I painted some branches using Orly Nite Owl. I wish I used a dark polish for the branches. (On this old AriZona Green Tea mani I made the branches black and they looked amazing!) The pink flowers are China Glaze Dance Baby and Orly Kiss the Bride. I used a toothpick to make black dots in the middle of the blossoms, but the dots came out much bigger than expected (oopsy)! I topped it off with seche vite and there you go! These aren’t that fantastical, but they were quick to do, so that’s a bonus. 😀

See some of the other flower nails from #31DC2013 right here:

Day 21 of the Nail Art Challenge is FLORAL DAY and this is my chance to finally try cherry blossoms! Last month I got an Arizona Iced Tea during my lunch break- and look how cute the can is! I put green tea/ cherry blossoms on my mental to-do list and I’ve been saving the can ever since. 🙂

I did a gradient using Orly Gumdrop and a mixture of two yellows- AVON Inspire and wet n wild The Wonder Yellows. Then I free-hand painted some branches with a black polish. The cherry blossoms were dotted on with a dotting tool and a Sephora by OPI polish called Access 24/7.

Came out better than I could have hoped. Too bad I have to take it off soon in preparation of the next nail art challenge design. I woulda loved to prance around with my arizona iced tea nails a little bit longer! I hope you like them too!