Sponge Nail Art with China Glaze - Highlight of my Summer

I felt like doing some nail art with a sponge once again and chose some nice colors that would hopefully look good together. I used two coats of Sally Hansen - So-nata Problem as my base color. Then I sponged on some random spots with Sally Hansen - New Wave Blue of which I needed two coats as well. In a final step I added the star of this design: China Glaze - Highlight of my Summer. I love that color! On top is one coat of Essence - High Gloss.

Splatter & Sponge

Today's design was inspired by this pillow on Society6 from the artist Melissa Smith. I love the color and the technique used, but it was not until five minutes ago, that I realised it's called Iron Man and that it actually shows Iron Man. Well, my nails don't show Iron Man! I used a combination of sponging and splattering polish on the nails with a straw which I think looks really cool together! I used two coats of Essie - Blanc as my base and then sponged on Essie - Angora Cardi, Zoya - Dree mixed together with Essie - The More The Merrier and Essie - Licorice. Then I splattered it with the red, green and white using a straw and finished with one coat of BTGN Top Sealer.

Beauty Staffellauf Sommerzeit / Summertime

I'm participating in a contest! I had to creat nail art inspired by a theme that was chosen for me: Summertime! My posting today is in german, since the contest is open for Germany, Austria and Switzerland only.

Jule von lackfein hat mich zu Ina's Beauty Staffellauf getaggt. Als Thema für mein Design hat sie "Sommerzeit" gewählt und das hab ich draus gemacht:

Sommer Skittles! 

Zeigefinger / Wasser: Essie - Mesmerize + China Glaze - Nova 

Mittelfinger /  Wasserball: Essie - Too Too Hot + Gelbe Acrylfarbe 

Ringfinger / Wassermelone: Essie - Too Too Hot + Essie - Mojito Madness + Catrice - Sold Out Forever 

Kleiner Finger / Wellen: Essie - Blanc + Essence - Speed Of Light Blue + H&M - Blue My Mind + Essie - Mesmerize

Ich tagge Lani von Lani's Random Blog mit dem Thema Sugar & Sweets. 

Gradient Nails with Catrice - Strawberry Fields Forever and Essie - Velvet Voyeur

Today I'm gonna show you my pink gradient nails from last week. 

I used Catrice - Raspberry Fields Forever as a base coat and then Essie - Velvet Voyeur as my second color. For the gradient I used a sponge obviously and dripped a drop of each color on a piece of paper. Then I pressed the sponge into the nail polish and applied it onto the nails.

Gradient Nails are not my favorite ones. The process of creating them is sometimes really annoying for me, I don't really know why. It's messy, I don't achieve the expected results and it always takes me a lot of time. I even prefer water marbling!