The Digit-al Dozen: Pattern on Pattern Day 2 Easter Pastel Nail Art

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Day 2 of Digit-al Dozen Week!! The theme for this month is Pattern on Pattern. So for today's mani I have a cutesy Easter-themed design with freehand scrolls and some stamping.

The Digit-al Dozen: Pattern on Pattern

For this mani I started with spring pastel skittles: Zoya Blu, Neely and Kitridge and Elevation Polish Mount Ventoux (all sent for review). I then did some quick freehand scrolls with white acrylic paint. (Shown below pre-stamping. For the stamping I used Nails Inc. Belgrave Place (purchased by me) and 2 stamping plates: BM-302 for the mushroom and bunny and Nailways "Spring Time-Flowers" for the little flowers and butterflies. I finished off with a coat of Zoya Matte Velvet Top Coat (purchased by me).

Again, not dead chuffed about my stamping, but it's better than many other previous attempts!

Thanks for checking in! Be sure to check the links below to see what creations the other lovelies in The Digit-al Dozen have for you!

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Weekend Bits and Bobs: March 23, 2014 - A Surprise Custom, My Hyponychium is Showing and GIVEAWAY REMINDERS

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Happy Spring! Yes, the first weekend of Spring. *sigh of relief* I know we haven't even really HAD winter here compared to some of you, but it's been enough for me. Over it.

Another busy and totally unexciting week around here, although I did get a couple of lovely, awesome surprises!

Continued after the jump...

Easter Basket Weave Nail Art

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Now that St. Patrick's Day is over, I feel comfortable posting Easter-themed nail art! I sort of resent seeing St. Patrick's Day get skipped all the time, so I'm just stubborn enough not to want to post Easter stuff until after. Today's mani could have passed muster though really because it's just Spring-themed. But still...

Easter Basket Weave

If you follow me on Instagram, you've seen these already (@pointlesscafe) but without the "Happy Easter."

With these, I just really wanted to show that "nail art" doesn't have to be intimidating. For the longest time, I was scared to death of it because it never looks perfect enough in photos. But the beauty of it is it doesn't have to be perfect! At arm's length, these looked AWESOME! Close-up, cropped photos show every detail, which is great for swatches, but they show every flaw so I shied away from nail art because of it and there was no need!

These are just free-handed, random stripes in Spring shades. I didn't get out the striping tape, which I'm convinced has conspired to take me down, or anything difficult. And they're still just cute as they can be.

For this mani, I used Elevation Polish Mount Ventoux (yellow), Jordana Love Bug (berry), Milani Vivid Violet and Power Periwinkle and Zoya Shelby (pink) and Mira (purple). Nothing planned out, just random stripes with a striping brush.

As you can see in the close-up shots, it's certainly not perfect and I think that's part of the fun of it. If you look closely, I liked them so much and they were so easy that I did them twice and wore the heck out of them. There are two different versions in the photos. The first and 3rd pics were just an afterthought before I removed the mani I was wearing. The 2nd photo was later when I decided to wear it again so I used one base color to make it easier.

What do you think? Do you think this is something you would try?

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Easter Nail Art - Deranged Bunny and Runny Eggs?

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Since I missed Copy-Caturday last Saturday and I'll likely miss it this Saturday as I'll be going out of town, I thought I'd drop a little Easter Nail Art on you that I came up with this morning.

And it shows a semi-success and a fail. LOL!

First, the semi-success...

Easter Nail Art - Flowers bunny and Easter egg

I used Dior Lilac Colorvision as the base on all but the middle nail which is The Nail Junkie Matte Daffodil and layered on Different Dimension Wide Awake (holo) on 3 nails. I used Illamasqua Smash as the green and the following: Zoya Blu, The Nail Junkie Matte Rose, AquaDaisy Shazaam, Cult Nails Time Traveler, Pure Ice Superstar and Zoya Neely.


Sort of a deranged bunny and a rather crooked Easter egg, but I'm okay with it. LOL! It was the top coating that did me in. I top coated all nails except the middle nail with Poshe and decided to go matte on the middle nail.

Wrong choice. Even though I was SURE it was 100% dry, THIS is what happened...

Easter Nail Art - Flowers bunny and Easter egg
The matte top coat on the middle nail was very poor decision!

EWWWWWWW!!!! Runny eggs!


EDITED TO ADD: This is how I "fixed" it - I removed the runny egg and layered Dior Lilac Colorvision and Lynnderella LavenDear, Forget You Not and Ice the Snowcake.

There you have it! I enjoyed creating it even if I did promptly ruin it! Please feel free to share any Easter or Spring nail art on my Facebook page and HAPPY EASTER!

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