OKC Thunder Fingernails: China Glaze - Splish Splash & Orange You Hot?

Hello Thunder Fans (and everyone else)!

After posting my last "OKC Thunder Fingernails" manicure, I stumbled upon several other far superior versions of Thunder manicures. I felt a little silly for calling my plain blue fingernails a themed manicure, so I'm back again with some improvements. 

My best rendition of the basketball in the Tunder's logo

I started by applying 2 coats of China Glaze's Orange You Hot? to my thumbnail. After that was dry, I used a smaller brush to paint the blue portion (China Glaze's Splish Splash) you see in the photo above. I then used a fine-tipped nail art brush I purchased from Sally's Beauty Supply to draw the black lines of the basketball and then outlined it in white to mimic the logo as much as I could. It's not perfect, but I think I did pretty good for my first try at free-hand nail art.

Other thumb

The black lines were done with Pure Ice - Black Rage, and the white outline was done in Finger Paints - Paper Mache.

China Glaze Splish Spash & Orange You Hot? from the Summer Neons 2012 Collection

Here's a shot of the rest of my hand. I did an accent nail in orange with three different colors of polka dots using my dotting tool (also purchased from Sally's).

Other accent nail

 The dark color is Essie - Midnight Cami. It is actually a dark blue, but it always looks black. The middle color is Splish Splash. And the last color is Pure Ice - Silver Mercedes.

After letting things dry as long as I could stand it, I topped everything off with Sally Hansen's Inta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat. Tada!

Also: The Thunder won again! :) :)

Thanks for stopping by...

--Dixie

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Revlon - Indigo Night (aka OKC Thunder Nails!)

Heyyyyyyy there, good lookin'!

Today I have a pretty blue manicure for you all. As you can tell by the photo below, it may or may not have been motivated by the OKC Thunder game tonight. No, I'm not going, but I WILL be rooting for them from my comfy chair at home. :)

Modeling my manicure :)

I realized after I started going through my photos to pick which ones I would put on this post... I've posted about a different Revlon blue nail polish that is similar to this one. Do you remember Revlon - Royal? I mean, how could you forget? Look at it!

The difference between these two polishes is that Royal is much deeper than Indigo Night. Royal is also very much a jelly polish, and Indigo Night is more of a crelly (for those not fluent in nail polish speak, that's a mix between a cream & jelly). 

With flash

Indigo Night applies very much like the other polish I have posted about from this particular Revlon Colorstay line, Revlon - Velvet Rope. It goes on smoothly, doesn't streak, self-corrects, etc, etc. I did a little clean up, but that was mainly because I got a little heavy-handed and smeared the polish too far past my nail tips. Oops.

Without flash

All of these photos have one coat of base coat, two coats of Indigo Night, and one coat of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip top coat (which promises to dry your nail polish to the touch in 30 seconds, and it does as it says).

Macro shot without flash

Thanks for stopping by! And GO THUNDER!

-Dixie

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