Thrift Shop nail art

I am a huge thrifter so i wanted to recognize three stores that get a lot of business from me on my nails. Along with some cute signs and symbols found when thrifting i included the Salvation Army, Goodwill, and a local thrift shop called the Sun Thrift Shop (which is also my personal favorite) on my nails.

Sugar Skull Manicure

I wanted to try out the sugar skull artwork, which proved to be very difficult, but this is what i came up with. I had to use some glitter because i just purchased two new loose glitters and they were so pretty that i couldn't resist putting them into this manicure.  

Gold Glitzy Nails

A super simple manicure for this week, just lots of gold and glitter and rhinestones.

Tacky rainbow water marble

Using the water marble technique i glued on some clay animal faces and rhinestones to make this manicure look extra tacky. It almost reminds me of lisa frank artwork.

Ice Cream Nails

I SCREAM

YOU SCREAM

WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM

For this week's manicure i went with the beloved dessert ice cream, i included lots of cones, sundaes, and even Neapolitan ice cream.

French tip with henna inspiration

To again take a different approach to the ordinary white french tip, i used flakie polishes to amp up the shine affect and then using white acyclic paint i carefully painted on designs that heavily resemble henna patterns. 

Naked nails, oh no!

This was the state of my nails after the first week of school, they are not quite as strong as they usually are so there is a lot of flaking on the tips on some of them.

I cut my nails a little and filed them and then put a coat of base coat on to keep them uniform for the weekend before i proceeded onto my next design. 

Eyes times ten

For the first week of senior year i decided that it would be fun if i painted ten different types/styles of eyes on my nails. I have no idea how i got this idea, but i thought it would be fun to incorporate so many different styles of one subject matter, plus i got to actually glue three googly eyes on one of my nails, the little pupils bounced around, it was so gratifying! 

I took this picture (above) at the end of the week to show how well the design stayed on....except for my pink nail, it sadly came off during a basketball practice.