St Patrick’s Day Nail Art - 5 Shades of Green

St Patrick's Day Nails

St Patrick's Day has arrived again, and it has a special meaning for me in terms of nail art because it was the first time that I ever attempted nail art J

Here are links to my  Paddy’s Day nail art from last year.

1. Pots of Gold
2. Leprechaun belts
3. Spotty Tri-colour & Shamrocks

Admittedly I didn't give myself a lot of time to get creative or inventive. I went through my polish collection to find how many shades of green I was in possession of.

I found bout 7/8, I’m not a huge green wearer, so this was a lot for me, unfortunately 2 polish's were dried up in their bottles :( and so have gone to polish heaven (or the bin)

I couldn't decide which shade would be best to use, and so decided that since I had 5 shades and 5 fingers……. Well you can guess how that panned out.

So here are my 5 shades of Green, they all needed 2 coats and I topped them all off with Seche Vite Top Coat

St Patrick's Day Nails

St Patrick's Day Nails

St Patrick's Day Nails

What do you think of these shades? I would be more inclined to choose the darker colour I think if I was to do a full mani of Green. I Like the ring finger Green tho as a Paddy's Day green as it reminds me of Shamrocks the most (random I know)

WHAT I USED

Thumb               - Rimmel London Pro -361 Mermaid Green  (Dealz 1.49)

Fore Finger        - Catrice -  35 Petrolpolitan (Sam McCauley’s 1.79)

Middle Finger     - Sally Hansen – 450 Fairy Teal (Dealz 1.49)

Ring Finger         - NYC – 298 – High line Green

Baby Finger        - Avon Speed dry – Don’t be Jaded

Are you a fan of this colour? Will you be sporting Green for the weekend that’s in it or wetting the shamrock?

If you do attempt some Paddy’s Day nail art, I’d love to see.. leave your link below 

*source google images

St Patrick's Day Nail Art #3

Happy St Patrick's Day

Hey Guys, 

Happy St Patrick's Day :) I decided to do another nail art design for today.

Yesterday I managed to smudge two sets of green nails and smash a bottle of green polish on my mothers tiles!! it wasn't pretty!! 

So I had to walk away from the polish and come back a few hours later when I was calmer and ready to sit until my nails were 100% dry with no chance of smudging!! 

LEFT HAND 

So as you can see, I decided to use my dotting tool and make vertical tri colours on my fingers :) I then did a stripey version on my thumb and chanced doing a shamrock on my accent finger

RIGHT HAND

I decided to stick to vertical tri colours for all my fingers on my right/ bad hand, and I was happy with the results in the end.

What do you think? Have you gone green for today??

Here's what I used

NYC 298 High Line Green,
W7 Green,
OPI Alpine White,
Essie Orange, its Obvious,
NYC 202 Grand Central Station,
Tin Foil + Dotter

NYC -High Line Green

For the week that is in it I've decided that green will be my colour of choice and after rooting thru my stage I've found that I have 7 different shades. I liked the look of this NYC polish in the bottle and so it was the chosen one to be tested. It needed 2 coats and was shiny on its own, but I love my Seche Vite so it HAD to be added.

What do you think? Are you turning green this week??