Tuesday 7 April 2015

Watercolour Easter Egg Nail Art for Nail Crazy in April!

 Hey everyone! Today I have some Easter egg inspired nails to share!

My last day of school was last Thursday so I've been relaxing, spending time with family and cleaning my room and my house. I think I'll start studying for finals today as I have four to write this month. They are nicely spread out which I'm very thankful for! I do this stupid thing where I worry about my exams because I haven't started studying for them, despite having lots of time. This means I can't fully relax because I'm constantly worrying about finals. So like most of my problems, there is an obvious and easy solution but I'm just too lazy to do it :P. However, now that my room is quite clean, I think I'll be able to start studying!

Anyways, onto the nails! Be ready for a ton of pictures!

Watercolour Easter Egg Nail Art Featuring American Apparel Polishes for Nail Crazy in April

For this look I started off with two coats of American Apparel T-shirt and a coat of top coat (Essie Good to Go). T-shirt is an okay white, it seems really great on the first coat but you have to do a thick second coat to avoid balding. The second coat doesn't seem to distribute evenly or self-level at first, but it does somewhat as it dries. And it's close enough to opaque at two coats for a design like this which is nice!

Watercolour Easter Egg Nail Art Featuring American Apparel Polishes for Nail Crazy in April

The other day I picked up six bottles of Wet N Wild Wild Shine Clear Nail Protector from Dollarama, with the intention of making six jelly polishes for nail art. For this look though, I decided to mix a tiny bit of a coloured polish with a bunch of Clear Nail Protector on a piece of paper to get a watercolour effect. I mixed and applied the sheer polishes with a medium-sized paintbrush.

Watercolour Easter Egg Nail Art Featuring American Apparel Polishes for Nail Crazy in April

I used all American Apparel polishes for the watercolour blobs including: The Valley (dusty robins egg blue, the lightest blue shown here), Mount Royal (navy blue, looks blurple here), African Violet (dark/medium purple), Berry (dark burgundy/berry), Sunshine State (yellow), Dance (pale orangey nude) and Rose Bowl (dusty orange-leaning pink).

Watercolour Easter Egg Nail Art Featuring American Apparel Polishes for Nail Crazy in April

Next, I decided to go in with some acetone on the same brush to spread the colours around and mix them together! It ended up making some white spots which I think looks cool!

Watercolour Easter Egg Nail Art Featuring American Apparel Polishes for Nail Crazy in April

To further blend the colours and to lighten up the look, I applied one coat of a sheer white polish (Essie Waltz).

Watercolour Easter Egg Nail Art Featuring American Apparel Polishes for Nail Crazy in April

After some cleanup and a coat of top coat (again, Essie Good to Go) I was finished! The same day I ended up doing this look on my mom and her best friend, except they wanted all of their nails to be blue and green so I used The Valley, Mount Royal and Malibu Green (a green-leaning teal, link to a post where I used it as a base for some brain/vine nail art here)!

Watercolour Easter Egg Nail Art Featuring American Apparel Polishes for Nail Crazy in April

Since it was Easter Sunday that I did these, my mom actually ended up ruining basically all of her nails getting the turkey dinner ready right at the end :P. But my mom's best friend's nails are still going strong and I can just do my mom's nails again!

Watercolour Easter Egg Nail Art Featuring American Apparel Polishes for Nail Crazy in April

What do you guys think of these nails? I might be doing this technique a bunch from now on so I'm really glad I didn't make the clear polishes into jelly polishes right away! I think it looks quite cool when all of the nails are the same colours so I'll have to try that soon!

Watercolour Easter Egg Nail Art Featuring American Apparel Polishes for Nail Crazy in April

Be sure to check out all of the other lovely ladies' Easter nails down below!


Thanks so much for taking a look everyone! I hope you guys all had a chocolate-filled long weekend! Happy Tuesday! :)

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