Category Archives: Orly

Spring Brocade

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Spring Brocade www.chelseasgetnailed.com

Happy Spring! This past winter I did these brocade nails – they are one of my favorite designs! I thought it would be fun to do an updated version for Spring :) Who says you can’t switch up your favorite Winter time nail looks for Spring?

Tomorrow I am leaving on a week long trip for Spring break all around California…stopping in San Francisco and Yosemite! Being the nail art addict that I am, I thought “what am I going to do for a week without nails?!” I decided to do this design with gel polish so my nails will last the whole week without chipping :) I love doing gel, and since I change my nails so often I don’t get many opportunities to do them!

If you aren’t familiar with how gel polish works, you need a UV lamp. You first apply a gel base coat, and then cure it in the lamp. Once that was ready I applied the gel polish and cured that! I then used regular nail polish to do my designs, applied gel top coat, and ta-da!

The specific colors I used are: Orly Gel FX Mirror Mirror and CND Shellac Gotcha

The metallic things on my nails are “nail foils”…my new obsession :) Super easy to do, if you google it tons of sites and tutorials will come up.

Anyways…I’ll be up and posting next week along with some exciting news to share! I will have access to internet so feel free to shoot me an email if you have any questions or want to share your nail art ♥
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Dr. Martens Floral Inspired

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So I’ve been obsessing over these Dr. Martens floral shoes for quite some time now. It never occurred to me to do some nails inspired by them until tonight! I love love love floral prints on nails and I really wanted to go for a more realistic print this time around. I must say…this was a bit time consuming, there’s really no trick to this other than hand painting this design! Here’s the shoes these nails were inspired by:

Oh boy…I used quite a bit of colors in this! I needed to make a “What I Used” image regardless so this image is a bit crowded :)

I used Essie Licorice as my base, and really just went on from there using each of these colors.
PS: NCLA Like…Totally Valley Girl is the most perfect and prettiest light pink ever.

One more close up shot:

If you have any questions regarding how I did this feel free to email me – I’d be happy to help!

Matted Stud Nails

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I love matte nails. If you’ve never experimented with matte polish before…I definitely think now is the time! Whether you use a matte polish or use a matte top coat the possibilities are endless. With this design I wanted to show you how you can play with matte and regular top coats to give the nails a textured look. There are tons of matte options out there which I’ll list links to at the end of this post!

A couple days ago I got photoshop and I thought a fancy little graphic showing what I used would be extremely helpful! It’s a bit frustrating going to a blog and seeing a list of products someone used, and then having to go google each one because I want to know what it looks like!

I purchased Orly Viridian Vinyl quite some time ago but never got around to using it. This one is a matte polish…so what that means is that it dries matte (unless you put on a top coat then it’s shiny!). These are fun to use and its great that they can be either matte or shiny, but its not as versatile as a matte top coat…

This Julep matte top coat came in my November (? I think?) box. I love matte top coats because you can use it over any polish in your collection and it can instantly make it matte, which makes it very economical. I used this top coat over the black (Essie Licorice) on my index and ring fingers, let that dry, and then used regular top coat (Seche Vite) to paint the designs.

After everything dries I glued on the studs (size 2mm, bornprettystore.com) with super glue. I know I know…that sounds a bit harsh, but I’ve found that its the best option to get them to stay on for a while. You can also get nail glue which works equally as well (I ran out!).

Here’s a couple more pictures!

Here are a few links to some matte top coats:
Julep Matte Top Coat 

Essie Matte About You

SEPHORA by OPI Matte Top Coat

ManGlaze MatteAstrophe

Matte Polish:
Orly Viridian Vinyl 

What do you think of matte polish? Let me know in the comments!

Glitter

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As many of you probably know, I have an insane obsession with glitter. I’m embarrassed to say how long these took, but lets just say these are the most time consuming nails I’ve ever done ;) But they’re definitely worth it!

What I Used:
China Glaze Aquadelic
Orly Decoded
Recollections glitter from Michael’s Craft Store