MSMD - Color Blocks

This manicure is inspired by Lovely In Lacquer : Designer Inspired: Kate Spade Color Blocks, and tiny bit inspired by The Nailasaurus Half/Stud/Half which I though was such a cute idea.

 Great bloggers both of them.

For this manicure I started out with one coat of FNUG - Fashion Show, my go-to nude color. I picked up ALL my neons. Which basically means I got all four of them.
My neon collection might be small, but they are good colors. I like them. If I see more neons from Sinful Colors, I'm thinking about getting them, but we will see. This is the third, or fourth manicure using neons.
Savina - Dazzle, Sinful Colors - Neon Melon, Sinful Colors, Irish Green, and Sinful Colors - Summer Peach.

I taped half my nail, colored one part with the neon, leaving the rest in the nude polish, next time I do something like this I will use a white between those two layers to make the neon pop more, as the Neon Melon changed color.
Looking away from that little mishap I am very happy with how this manicure turned out.

To finish of the look, I added studs.

Summer Challenge - Cocktails

Hi girls, I am so glad its finally weekend!
Its been a long week, for sure.

I have been filing documents, and working in the archive all week, and my cuticles are starting to feel it. I had to swap lotion, and have been using Hemp protector from Body Shop since Wednesday, my hands are just so dry. Usually I don`t swap to the Hemp Protector until winter arrives, but it was needed. They feel a bit better, but they will be needing a lot of love and care.

Tomorrow there is going to be a market, close to where I live. A Farmers Market. I love those. And my favorite supplier of Honey is going to be there, and that's good, cause I am almost all out of my lovely honey. And I would die, without my honey in the morning tea.

So, that's why my manicure today, kinda looks like my Hony-mani, I did last month. haha!
I better stop talking now, before I cry over my empty honey jar.

As Michelle from Lacquer or Leave Her, pointed out, I totally forgot to mention how I achieved this look. 

Polishes:

H&M - Yellow

H&M - Lemon Tree

Sinful Color - Neon Melon

Depend - nr. 124

You need:

a plate/sheet of paper, somewhere to pour  polish.

A makeup sponge.

I started with 5-6 drops of Yellow, dabbing it over the nails from the base and upwards. 

Then 3 drops of Lemon Tree, and went a bit higher up, and focused on getting it on the sides. 

3 large drops of Neon Melon and just dabbing all over.  Going in with 124 and the bald spots, and the tips. Some Yellow at the tips at the end. 

I used the same piece of sponge for all of these steps, I wanted it to look like the "muddiness" you sometimes find in some Whiskey Sours. 

To finish it of, I took the wheel I bought at Claire`s in Spain, with Fimo citrus. 

Neon Melon - Back to Work

I was inspired by Fingers Polish Mania , that does a lot of funky french. The neon marble I did last night, really didn't work out for me. I hated it. Wore it for a couple of hours, and it was like it kept looking at me. Drove me nuts. Don`t get me wrong, it was cool and all, but I wish it was on someone else nails.
Ever had that?

But I wanted to get this Yellow to work for me. So I reached for my BM 225. BM plates are not big enough to cover my thumb, so I decided to make a french with buttons, since I am going to work tomorrow, after having two weeks for vacation.

I used Sinful Colors - Neon Melon (3-4 coats) and Wet N Wild - Black Creme.
What do you think of this combo?

Neon marble

Fingers Polish Mania , has done some really awesome nails using Yellow.

Normally I hate everything Yellow. It was never really a colour I was buddy with, like my love for Blues, or purple.
So I ran out, and got the first yellow polish I could find, only to come home and find out it was a Neon.
But I wasn't going to be afraid of it, and plunged into it, and made a Neon marble.
Truth be told, this is my first marble-nail art. And I think I did pretty well. The clean-up was a mess thou.

For this mani I used: Snow Me White, Cream Pink, Summer Peach, Neon Melon, Irish Green.

What do you think?
Got other tips on how to use Yellow?