Sonoma Nail Art Parasol

Here is another polish in my Handcar Regatta set of custom nail polishes. This is a delicate glitter polish with light pink, pale gold, and white glitters in a creamy base. It looks great over pink polishes! I present: Parasol.

This is one coat of Parasol over Color Club Blushing Rose, with a bit of artwork on my ring finger done with acrylic paints. 

Here is Color Club Blushing Rose on its own, and you can see that Parasol kind of mutes the pink a bit and makes it look a little more romantic with sort of a sepia effect. :)

Here is a progression of the artwork I did on my ring finger. I use acrylic paints from Michael's craft store to do my artwork. Always thin down your acrylic paint with water to make it easier to work with and be sure to seal the artwork with a good topcoat. 

Here is a pic of Parasol, part of my Handcar Regatta themed set of Sonoma Nail Art polishes. 

Side shot of Parasol, so you can see the pretty lady with her paper parasol. Hello Pretty Lady!

Macro shot of Parasol. It actually took me a while to finish this polish, the fourth and final one in the Handcar Regatta set. Special thanks to Sarah of Chalkboard Nails for brainstorming with me to get the right mix of colors and glitters. :)

Parasol is one of six colors I will be putting up for sale on Friday, June 1st in my etsy shop! Here are all of the colors I will have for sale, starting at 2pm Pacific Time (that's 5pm Eastern). I will have at least 100 full sized (15ml) bottles available during this sale, which is twice the amount I have had in my previous sales. So hopefully that will make it easier for you to get the colors you want. And yes, I will bring back colors I had in previous sales, but this is the selection for my sale on June 1st.

Thanks so much!

Revolution Moto Scooter Nails

I am an avid scooter rider (in fact, I don't even own a car!) and my favorite scooter shop is Revolution Moto in Santa Rosa. I worked together with Johnna Gattinella (co-owner of RevMoto) to develop this special glitter topcoat and named it Revolution Moto. It is only for sale at their shop and is available now! Check out the fun manicure I did to launch the new polish:

I painted my nails with Sinful Colors Snow Me White first, then topped most of them with Revolution Moto. On my thumbnail I painted this cute scooter profile with black acrylic paint.

You can see a bit of the shiny bling coming off of my nails in this picture. I think this glitter topcoat looks amazing over hot pink and bright teal. 

Here's another look in the shade. You can see the little rainbows in the glitter, they have a great holographic flash. I was inspired by the awesome disco ball that Johnna has hanging out in front of her shop. Yes, my scooter store has a disco ball. And that is why it rules.

Here are a few bottles of Revolution Moto lined up all pretty like. Revolution Moto polish is $11 per bottle, and available exclusively at Revolution Moto. While you are there getting your polish, be sure to check out their rad scooters. My buddy Coco just bought one so now we are starting our own scooter gang!

Revolution Moto

518 College Avenue

Santa Rosa, CA 95404

We Love You So

My heart broke yesterday.

Base color: Maybelline Iced Queen.

R.I.P. Maurice Sendak.

Skull and Roses Inspired by Robin Moses

Hey, that rhymes! Robin Moses recently did a tutorial with this gorgeous design. I modified it a bit when I did it this past weekend.

I used Cult Nails Mazo as a base and painted the skull and roses by hand using acrylic paints. Robin's design was a modified french manicure. I put the roses at the top of the nail bed.

Here's Cult Nails Mazo on its own. It is a really interesting nude shade with a gorgeous green/yellow/orange shimmer. I just love it. This is two coats.

ACTION SHOT! I actually did this mani (the nail art part of it) while I was at a broadcast for my radio station. We had to get there really early due to road closures, so I sat at our booth and did this nail art waiting for the broadcast to start. :) And I really need to wash that grey right outta my hair, LOL.

See, there's my palette and my tiny little nail brush. This was a fun design to do (although I realized as I painted this on Cinco de Mayo that I had my Mexican holidays mixed up). 

Another shot of the skull and roses mani. This is a fairly simple manicure to do with really only three colors of acrylic paint to work with. 

Here's Cult Nails Mazo. I love Maria's polishes and this one was really easy to apply and covered in two coats. Now for a little begging: I have entered a nail stamping contest with Bundle Monster. If you would take a second to click this link and vote for me, I would really appreciate it! And be sure to check out the other entries, there are some really talented ladies out there! https://apps.facebook.com/winnailplates/contests/216667/voteable_entries/48985009

Grape Stomp and Winner!

Here is a quick post showing a polish I am working on. It is not finalized but it will eventually be called Grape Stomp.

Here is one coat of Grape Stomp over Sally Hansen Anemone of Mine. I want to have this polish remind you of grapes being squished between toes and juice squirting out everywhere. :-)

Here is Anemone of Mine pre-cleanup. This was a really easy shade to apply!

And here is is in the sun. I like it, but it is not quite right. 

And congrats to Jen Cote who is the winner in my 100th post contest! Jen will get a bottle of Sister Sparkle The Exalted One (newly renamed). Thanks to everyone who entered!

Clockwork Tape Mani

Some of my polish buddies decided to do tape manicures today, and I sighed because this is another of my NOT strong suits. The tape usually pulls up whatever base polish I have on, and if it doesn't, then it is not sticky enough to actually keep the secondary polish from seeping under the tape edge. Ah well. So here is my attempt at a tape manicure.

The idea was to have this be a sort of 'behind the scenes' glimpse manicure, where you see a glitter mani and peek behind it to see the cogs and gears making it work. Meh, not really successful.

I started with a base of OPI San Tan-tonio and then taped off the upper half of my middle and ring fingers on a diagonal. Then I painted on my Sonoma Nail Art polish called 'Clockwork', added some cogs with acrylic paint, and then hand painted the black stripe following the tape line. That black stripe makes it look like I didn't use tape at all in this mani. Ug. But I did this last night at midnight, so dang it, it will have to do. 

Here is a look at Clockwork, one of the 4 polishes in my Great Handcar Regatta themed set. I really love this glitter polish because it creates gorgeous instant artwork. No tape required (HALLELUJAH)!

Frog Eats Cupcake and a Giveaway

Hello! I am cramming a bunch of stuff into this post so I hope you have a minute or two to check it out. First of all, the Frog Eats Cupcake mani. What the.... okay, so my friend Amber is having a nail art contest and you can  create a mani using her favorite things as themes. Her favorite things include: frogs, pink, cupcakes, animal print,  and stars. I crammed almost all of those things into this mani. :D

See!? It's a frog on a pink background eating a cupcake. There's even a little fly buzzing next to him and he don't care, he just wants the cupcake! And really, who doesn't love cupcakes?! (This is actually the first time I have even done a cupcake mani and it was kind of fun!) I did not take any pics during the painting of this manicure, but I started with the frog, then did the cupcake, and finally added his little tongue zipping out, and the fly on my pinkie. The base of the cupcake is China Glaze For Audrey, but everything else was done with acrylic paints.

I started the mani with this bright pink shade from Sally Hansen. It is called Speedy Sunburst. This is two coats and it has great coverage and is easy to apply. (And look, I am just like Sarah of Chalkboard Nails. She doesn't own this hand pose you know, so I am rockin' it! Moo hoo ha ha ha ha! I kid, I kid. I love Sarah, so I have to give her a hard time.)

And to seal the deal and hopefully help me win Amber's contest, I added stars. What the heck, why not?!? Now I have to win. :D This was with a Bundle Monster stamp and Konad special white polish.

Here are the polishes I used in this manicure: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Speedy Sunburst, and China Glaze For Audrey. Ok, now for some fun! Every 20 posts I make a donation to a local women's shelter as a way to give back to my community and make my blog do some good. We all know a little makeup or a nice manicure can really boost ones self esteem. And for women transitioning out of substance abuse, a little boost in self esteem is so important. With my 100th post I am donating another $10 to Women's Recovery Services. I encourage you to find a way to make your blog help your community. 

And to celebrate my 100th post even MORE, I am giving away one bottle of my Sonoma Nail Art custom polish: Sister Sparkle The Exalted One! I just did my first sale of polishes on etsy and it was an overwhelming success. Thanks to everyone for your support. To win this bottle of polish, you need to follow my blog. You can also enter by following Sonoma Nail Art on Facebook. Entry deadline is Tuesday, May 1st at 9:01pm Pacific Time. Open to everyone, international entries welcome! 

You could win this! ^^