Featured: Valentine's Mani

Hey lovers! How's everyone doing on this fiiiiiiiine Wednesday morning?

If you've been stalking me for a while, you'd know that I'm usually not one for festive designs...

But today I have a....not so typical....Valentine's Day mani for you!

I'm pleased to also share that this mani was featured in an article on Glo.MSN.com
(see full article: here)

Now, on to this mani...
I started this mani with absolutely NO idea what I was going to end up with....I find that at times I come up with the MOST random things when that happens. You guys, I LOVE RANDOM THINGS!!
Now that I look at it some more, I figured out what it kind of looks like: INSA!!
This guy's work is amazing, so make sure you go and check out his website.

To achieve the marbled background, I used a kitchen sponge and dabbed on the following :
China Glaze- Flip Flop Fantasy, Flying Dragon, Fairy Dust, Aquadelic and OPI- DS Magic

I really love how the colours turned out!!
I then added outlines of hearts and the details around it with a very thin brush using black acrylic paint.
The results was heart pumpingly good, and I'm extremely happy with the way everything worked out!

Wanna see my other hand? OK!

It's really blurry, so I won't blind you with a huge picture...haha!
I like both! ^_^

YAY for more features in articles!
YAY for Schmalentine's!
YAY for all you good looking peoples (yes you!)
Hope you enjoyed this mani as much as I did.

Have a wonderful day, peeps!

INSA Nail Art Contest (picture heavy)

Hi lovers!

What do you get when INSA get together with Sophy Robson and Nail Porn?
A nail art contest!!
(Read more about INSA and the contest here )

Today, I want to share with you my entry for the INSA nail art contest.
I'm quite proud of the outcome :)

Here are the pictures that inspired my designs:

(source: INSA Website/Blog)

To achieve the designs, I used the following:

XXI- Silver Specks, Beige, Silver

Sally Hansen- Midnight Sky

Magic Nail- White

Acrylic Paint- Purple & Red

Missing in picture: 

Wet n Wild- Black Creme

Here's some more shots of the design.

IN OTHER NEWS...

If you're a regular visitor of RRRawr//NAILed- you may have noticed that my nails grew over night...

WHY YES!

I had the pleasure to meet the very talented Denise from Deez Nails who is currently studying to be a Kickass Nail Artist here in Vancouver! Make sure you check out her tumblr site here!

We got together on Tuesday, and she put gel stiletto nails on me

LOOK HOW PRETTY THEY ARE!!

Unfortunately I had to trim it WAY down...because it was too fabulous for an office environment.

So what you see now is the toned down version...

It makes me sad that I can't have long RAWR nails....but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do.

I really really hope my designs do well in the competition...

:D Here's to hoping!!

That's all for me today, folks! 

Have a wonderful day!