Funky Fingers Mood Ring and panel nail art

I was lucky enough to win In The Gray Area’s 300 follower giveaway!  How exciting!  And I’m so grateful!  Today I’m sharing one of the polishes I received in my nail mail package.  It’s called Mood Ring by Funky Fingers.  I love it!  I wore this for 24hrs and got a bunch of random compliments on it.  It’s kinda funny that strangers don’t comment on my nail art… they usually only compliment me when I’m wearing a solid color.  Hope that doesn’t mean that my nail art sucks lol!

A day later I wanted to spice up my mood ring manicure… so I went with some boxes that I call ‘panels’.  I don’t know… they need a name, so panels sounds good enough.  Last time I did my PINK PANELS they were pretty popular so I figured I’d give it another go.  For this design I chose colors that usually show up when I wear a real mood ring:  blue, purple and green.  I used a dotting tool and China Glaze First Mate (blue), Dutch ‘Ya Just Love OPI? (purple), and Sally Hansen Emerald City (green).  I didn’t take as much care when doing this design since last time it took foreverrrrr….  so I worked quickly and here’s the results….

The panels aren’t too symmetrical- but it still looks cool and I like the color combo.  I can’t wait to try my other polishes that I won in the giveaway!

Summery Pink Panels

Today is PINK  DAY as part of the 30 Day Nail Challenge.  I created a nail art design I’ll call pink panels using only a dotting tool .  I started with two coats of Orly Kiss The Bride– which is pretty watery and streaky.  If I was wearing Kiss the Bride on it’s own then I would definitely have needed three coats.  Then I selected the following three pink polishes for my panels/squares:

OPI ♥ Elephantistic Pink

Zoya ♥ Ali

China Glaze ♥ Dance Baby

I used my smallest dotting tool to shape the squares.  I got pretty good control and clean corners from using that tool-  I’m sure I woulda muffed it up if I used a paintbrush!  This design was pretty easy to do, but a little time consuming.  I’d say the squares took me about an hour from start to finish.  I like the outcome and how the Zoya Ali looks like so bright against the other pinks!  I didn’t realize how neon Ali is- I will definitely be wearing it this summer!

Now I’m inspired to try this look with green polishes – I bet it would look like a tortoise shell 🙂