Lemon Mandalas // Spring Yellow Mandala Nail Art

Yes, those are my nails. They were getting a bit to long again and instead of lopping them off I decided to try the square style that appears to be all the rage with nail artists....these nails are not for me. Not only do they look very strange without polish but there's just something about them that makes me go "eurgh". On me anyway. I love how they look on others but this isn't my style. I filed them back into some sort of curved oval shape but now my nails are little too short because of it.

Anywho, the prompt for Clairestelle8's March challenge on the 12th was Mandalas and I love doing mandala nails. In fact, this nail plate was part of my first nail plate order. I was also thinking about this shade as well and how I hadn't used it in a while. It's called Lemon Sugar by Avon and it's my absolute favourite nail polish shade; I just think it's perfect and I always get asked about it when I'm wearing it.

How I did it:-
I started off with 1 layer off Blanc then sponged on four layers of Blanc and Lemon Sugar. After a layer of top coat and I then stamped on some mandala designs in #4 and followed it up with Pink Planet on top.  An easy peasy one today!

Polishes/Tools Used:-

- Essie // Blanc (white)

- Avon Nailwear Pro+ // Lemon Sugar (pastel yellow - this is the old formula, the new one is the Avon true colour)

- Born Pretty Stamping Polish // #4 (white)

- Born Pretty Stamping Polish - The Universe Series // BPU03 Pink Planet (gold to pink duochrome)

- Avon Mark Gel Shine // Top Coat

- Born Pretty Stamping Plate // BP-L051

Sweet Dreams // Pink Glitter & Mandalas

So I couldn't leave it alone. This is what I added to last look I did here. I really wanted to put some white mandala designs on the pink nails but I didn't want it to cover the entire nail, so I ended up sticking it at the bottom. But then the tips felt bare and I just can't stop staring at that glitter polish, so I dab dab dabbed it on.

This turned out way better than what I saw in my head. In fact, I was slightly annoyed I had applied a peel off base coat first as my favourite one is more for swatching and only lasts around 12 hours before peeling off. I think I've also gotten the hand of applying glitter on the tips now with that soft ombre. I use the small rectangle side of sponges and concentrate it at the tip, dabbing it further down when there's only a small amount let on the sponge.

Polishes used:

- OPI // Sweet Memories (light pink sheer cremé)

- Morgan Taylor // Sweetest Thing (rose gold holographic glitter)

- Revlon // Quick Dry Top Coat

- Revlon // Colorstay Diamond Top Coat

- Born Pretty // Stamping Polish #4 (white)

- Born Pretty // Liquid Latex

- Born Pretty // Stamping Plate BP L051