Fugly Multi-Layered Sally Hansen Ruffian

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!

Yellow Sponged Tape Mani

Day 3 of the Nail Challenge is today… and the theme is yellow.  I had to brainstorm a lot for this design, mostly because the majority of my yellow polishes suck!!  They are not very opaque and do not work well for nail art.  Why does yellow always have to be like that??

I decided on a white base coat of NYC Nail Enamel in French White Tip.  Then I taped some random criss crosses onto my nails using striping tape.  Then I sponged some different shades of yellow on top using little pieces of a cut-up makeup sponge.  I like cutting my makeup sponges into much smaller pieces because it’s less messy and easier to apply that way.  After I peeled the tape off I was left with this cool white and yellow cross hatch design.

I was inspired to do this mani by viewing this: Wacky Laki- Striping Tape and Gradient.   If you are into tutorials then you will love this page of hers… it’s chock-full of pretty stuff!

Here’s the yellow polishes I used:

China Glaze ♥ Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

Wet n wild ♥ The Wonder Yellows

Sally Hansen ♥ Mellow Yellow

Nicole by OPI ♥ My Favorite Gold

View the other participants designs here!