Galaxy / Universe Nails

All long time ago...

...in a galaxy far, far away...

What I Used:


Sally Hansen: Double Duty Base & Top Coat
Opi: Black Onyx
Sally Hansen: Hard to Get (white),
Sally Hansen: Glass Slipper (clear glitter)
China Glaze: Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini, Flip Flip Fantasy (pink), Electric Beat (blue)
Tiny pieces of Sponge
Dotting tools

After applying your base coat, paint all of your nails black.

Using small cut up pieces of sponge that you can find around the house, dip it in the white paint and carefully...

....dab patterns on to your nails like the above picture.  Each should be different than the other. It may help to google 'universe' and look at a few pictures under google images. 

Next, sponge on some yellow on top of the white.

Then add a little bit of the light pink on top of the yellow and white. You don't want to cover all of any color. Just subtly add more and more color to your galaxies.

Next, sponge on dark blue to the outsides of your galaxies to give it the effect that it is disappearing into the blackness of space. It will also give your galaxies more definition.

Using a dotting tool, add small and smaller white dots to the sides of your galaxies and randomly all of your nails. These will represent the stars. It looks better to have the tiniest of dots. The smaller, the better.

Last, paint on a coat of sparkly glitter polish, add a top coat to protect your masterpiece, and you're done! It's like having heaven on earth. :) 

FSU Nails ~ GO NOLES!

TO  MY ALMA MATER, 

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY. 

THE BEST SCHOOL IN 

THE WORLD! :) GO NOLES!

What I Used: 

Sally Hansen: Wine Not (Garnet)

Pure Ice: Excuse Me (Gold)

Milani: White Canvas

Sally Hansen: Double Duty Base & Top Coat

Two gold stones

Fine nail art brush

After applying your base coat, paint your index, pointer and pink-y fingers gold
and paint your thumb and ring finger garnet.

I painted this more simple "FSU" on one of my thumbs using white polish and a fine nail art brush...

I painted my other thumb with this FSU insignia...also using white polish and a fine nail art brush. This was much harder. I knew I wouldn't be able to do this with my right hand, so I painted the easier 'FSU' on my other thumb. It helps to have a picture of it in front of you while you are painting. Also, acrylic paint may be easier to work with than polish.

On your ring finger, using white paint and a fine nail art brush, paint a triangle in the corner of your nail and fill it in. Next, paint a long line from the middle of the triangle, outward. Paint two very small lines on each side of the stem of the Seminole arrow.

Paint a french-like manicure on the three gold nails using garnet polish.

Paint thin white lines between the gold and garnet french. Add a gold stone to your arrow nail. Apply a double top coat and you're done! You're now a Super Seminoles Fan!

F-L-O-R-I-D-A
S-T-A-T-E

FLORIDA STATE!
FLORIDA STATE!
FLORIDA STATE!

WHOOO!