31 DAY CHALLENGE Day 9: RAINBOW NAILS :) ...so sweet!!! / UÑAS DE ARCOIRIS

Hey girls! Today's menu: Rainbow Nails. I must admit I was not excited about this challenge and I postponed it as much as I could because I was thinking: rainbow? that reminds me of me in kindergarden carrying around my Rainbow Brite doll!-don't get me wrong I loved her so much, but this week I had to go to take care of some affairs and I kept thinking: the people at the offices are going to look at me like: what's with this lady and her toddler nails?!...

Aww!! Remember??

 

So I tried to think of a way in which I would enjoy them and I came up with the spun sugar nails!!! And now I love the way they look!!!^^

Here is the tutorial I watched:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flOT8blujcA

Based on that, what I did was this:

I first put all the drops of all the colors at the same time on the surface (a yoghurt cap) and waited about 5 minutes for them to dry and become "stringy". I used about 4 large drops of every color on each hand.
The colors I used were:
-Base color: White On- Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear
-Noite Quente- Maybelline Colorama
-165-Bissú
-Green with Envy -Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear
-Sunshine Sparkle- Revlon
-Snappy Sorbet- Sally Hansen Insta-Dri
-Cherry Red- Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear

I know, I know. The rainbow should have 7 colors but I wanted to do only the colors we have done in the challenge :)

I didn't go nail by nail but color by color. Which means I did all the purple on the 5 nails of a hand, and then blue, and so on -to save time AND polish!-

When I finished I felt like if I didn't apply a topcoat it would be too vulnerable and I loved this mani so much I wanted to protect it. But I must say it is hard to apply a topcoat on this spun nails!!! And in the end I regretted it because it totally takes away the cool 3D effect the chubby strings had (shown below). Now they just look like plain lines :(

I also would like to say that this dries fast! I thought it would take forever but no, even before I applied my topcoat it was already superdry to the point that I could squash the little clumps and nothing happened o.O
It took me overall about two hours, but I had my baby running around and even had to change a diaper! Lol!!

Anyhow I love it!

EN ESPAÑOL:

No tenía nada de ganas de hacer este reto. Pensaba: Uñas de Arcoiris? me recuerda al jardín de niños y a Rainbow Brite. Y no es que no me gustara, pero esta semana tenía que hacer unos trámites y me daba un poco de vergüenza ir con mis uñas aniñadas.
Así que me puse a pensar de que manera podía hacerlas de un modo en que las disfrutara y entonces me tope con este vídeo en el que enseñan la técnica de "algodón de azúcar" refiriéndose a los hilitos que lo forman.
El resultado es impresionante y en 3D! Hacerlo es sencillo aunque un poco tardado. Empecé por poner 4 gotas de cada color en una superficie (por ejemplo, yo use la tapa de un yogurt) y esperé aprox unos 5 minutos a que se hiciera "chicloso" al moverlo con un palillo.
Empece a pasar los hilos color por color en todas las uñas, pero tu lo puedes hacer como te acomode, puede ser mejor uña por uña, el chiste es que funcione para ti y bueno, yo lo hice así tratando de no desperdiciar mucho esmalte ^^.
Después de limpiar lo que queda en la piel y admirar esta hermosa técnica, mi cabeza no dejaba de pensar en aplicar el topcoat (brillo). Así que lo hice. Y me arrepiento, porque le quito lo "gordito" a muchos de los hilitos :( ahora solo parecen líneas....
También quisiera mencionar que no tarda mucho en secar. Aunque parezca que esos hilitos gordos no secarán nunca, sí lo hacen.
Bueno, de cualquier modo yo quedé fascinada por el resultado ;) hasta la próxima!

I know, I stole some of my baby's toys for the pics! ^^

 

 

I will be checking out what the rest of my partners did!!

 

-Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner

-Kat at Hooked On Polish

-Diana at Nails By Diana

-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Greta at How Was Your Day?
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Gini at Sassy Paints
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish

31 DAY CHALLENGE Day 2: ORANGE NAILS / UÑAS NARANJAS

Hi! The thing I love about this challenge is that it is making me use colors that I didn't want to wear anymore. I got this shade Snappy Sorbet from Sally Hansen Insta-Dri thinking it could be a softer shade of orange, I hadn't worn it before and... surprise, surprise!, you can almost say it is neon!! ha ha ha....but I like that under white light it looks pink. And it does dry fast.

I thought of clashing it with a mysterious color that I also hadn't worn: Chic from Revlon. It is kind of an indigo blue, very different from any color I've seen. I loved the way these two look together. I didn't use scotch to paint the tips, I just took the brush and painted diagonally, it was easier than I thought although I did have to redo a few.

This time I loooved my mani! Simple but different. It reminds me of the graphic color blocking from the 80´s. I plan to wear it as long as the next challenge arrives!! ^^

I suggest you check the creations from the rest of the girls at the challenge for more tips and ideas!

-Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Greta at How Was Your Day?
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Gini at Sassy Paints
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance

 Marii

 Y AHORA EN ESPAÑOL:

Lo que me encanta de este reto es que me hace usar colores que ya no quería. Hace tiempo compré Snappy Sorbet de Sally Hansen Insta-Dri pensando que sería un tono más bajito de naranja y cual fue mi sorpresa al ver que es casi neon! pero aun asi me gustó, me gusta que bajo la luz blanca se ve casi rosa.

Lo contraste con este tono misterioso de azul Chic de Revlon, me encantó como se ven juntos estos 2.

Esta vez no use cinta Scotch para pintar las puntas, lo hice solo con mi manita! y debo decir que fue más facil de lo que pensaba.

No olvides checar los demas blogs del reto para mas tips e ideas.