St. Patrick's Day Nail Art

Hey! Hey, guys!

Once upon a time I used to celebrate St. Patrick's Day the only way Americans know how: green wearin' and copious amounts of alcohol starting at the crack of dawn, usually in the form of Killian's, Guinness and Baileys or any creative and shudder-inducing combination of the three. St. Patrick... Patron Saint of hangovers.

Now I'm all old and wrinkly and fun-resenting (but hangover free, bitches!) and I celebrate St. Patrick's Day by making corned beef and cabbage (the recipe is, like, a freaking book and kind of all over the place but i results in DELICIOUS WONDERS). Holidays seem to be the only thing inspiring nail art out of me these days. Meh. Too busy being a grumpy old person I guess.

I started with a base of Essie - Good As Gold and after that was completely dry I used page hole reinforcements to tape off  at the base of each nail. Then I applied two coats of Sinful Colors - Emerald Envy. For the accent nail, I just used my super fancy DIY detail brush and, starting at the cuticle, painted rainbow arches! I had this really great idea to use the reinforcement labels so that the arches would be super crisp and perfect buuuuut no. Nope. Too impatient for that noise.

The rainbow consists of:
Formula X for Sephora - Hyped
Color Club - Wild at Heart
Colors by Llarowe - Young Turks
Sinful Colors - Happy Ending 
Cult Nails - You're My Dandy Lion 
Essie - Meet Me at Sunset 
Colors by Llarowe - The Mighty Red Baron 
..and a coat of Essie G2G

Uh, yep! That's a potato.

Color Club - Wild at Heart Swatch & Review

Color Club - Wild at Heart was one of those colors that I saw a swatch of, fell in love, acquired a bottle and upon receipt decided that it wasn't as awesome as the pictures made it seem. It looks just okay in the bottle... I didn't make it a point to swatch it immediately. Dumb!

Now that it's on my fingers, I'm in love again. Wild at Heart is pretty crayon-purple base with medium linear holo that applied reasonably and was opaque in two careful coats.

Pictures show two coats without topcoat. I used a base coat this time because without it you could see my poor nail's ridges even more than you usually do.

Purple's one of those colors I kind of forget about until I find something that I really like in the color (liiiike nail polish). It's kind of insane that it took me as long as it did to get around to putting it on. I wonder how many other colors I've overlooked like this...