Mint and Coral Floral

Mint and Coral Floral

Hi everyone, welcome to Monday.  This week isn't so bad because it's a short work week, yay!  Today also marks the first day of my first no-buy.  I picked up a few polishes yesterday at Ulta to hopefully tide me over for the month.  I'm hoping I can do it :)  I'm also eight followers away from my very first giveaway.  A few months ago when I started this blog, I chose 125 followers as the goal for my first giveaway.  I haven't figured out the prize yet, but it will be something fun!

Today I have a really pretty combination of coral and mint.  A while back, I saw a tutorial on the website thebeautydepartment.com.  They had created a floral mani based on the cover of a journal and also made tutorials to go along with each floral element.  I printed out the tutorials that day and saved them so I could try them in the future.  I chose one floral element and decided to re-create it on all of my nails.  I started with a base of China Glaze Keep Calm, Paint On, a pretty pale mint with a hint of shimmer.  I created the flowers with a large dotting tool and China Glaze Mimosa's Before Mani's, a peach with a hint of shimmer.  The middle of the flowers was done with a smaller dotting tool and I swirled together Maybelline Color Show Coral Crush and Essie Limited Addiction.  I used a very small dotting tool for the black dots and black centers with Essie Licorice.  For the flowers, I used a small nail art brush and used OPI Jade is the new black and Butter London The Full Monty (gold).  I quite like the result!