Hunt The VMAs - Katy Perry inspired look!

How's everyone's Sunday night going? Did anyone watch the VMAs? I partnered up with The Hunt to do a mani inspired by Katy Perry's VMA dress and I am pleasantly surprised with the outcome :) She wore a leopard print dress that was covered in gold dragonflies and it seemed like such a daunting and tough look to replicate! I tried a few different looks but eventually ended up with leopard print and an accent nail with a gold dragonfly! The dragonfly is actually 6 different stud rhinestones that I got from the Born Pretty Store and it seemed like fate that I had all the right shapes to make this happen!

I used OPI's My Vampire is Buff as the base, Zoya's Flynn as the brown center dot, and black acrylic paint for the outlines. I actually really loved the leopard print so I also painted the accent nail with them!

What do you think of these? Pretty out there but somehow, I think I really like them! ;) 

Happy Polishing :)

Sparkly Tribal Goodness

Hello, my dears! Tonight I've got another post inspired by something I came across on The Hunt! I am kind of obsessed with this site. I saw this fabulous tribal print sequin skirt and new immediately that it was meant to be on my nails. 

This was an all Zoya nail polish manicure, with 2 of the polishes coming from their latest Pixie Dust collection - he silver is Tomoko and the purple is Arabella. I never would have thought that these would be great nail art polishes, but they are so incredibly forgiving that it was incredibly easy to create sharp lines with them. Surprising, right?? The red is one of my favorites, Maura, and the base is a creamy yellow called Jacqueline. 

I freehanded this design and it was super easy to pull together with my no. 10/0 brush. This brush is great because it is long enough to do striping work with, but just thick enough that you can do detail work with no issues.

I hope to have some swatches of all my new Zoya babies up soon. I've been wearing Tomoko by itself nonstop for the past few days and am truly in love with it. Hope everyone had a great Monday! 

Happy Polishing :)