Marble Easter Egg Nails

I wanted to do a design using my new nail stamper. Unfortunately, the polish I chose didn't seem to be working well for stamping. So I decided to do kind of 'smooshy' nails. They remind me a lot of marble Easter eggs!

Polish used:

Avon - Sunshine

SinfulColors -  Rose Dust

Appeal4 - Angels Summer Snowflake

I started with the base coats. I used all 3 colors as base coats since I was originally going to do a different design. For this design, I think my favorite was using the Appeal4 as the base coat.

Then, one color at a time, I put a little dot of nail polish on my scraper. I dipped my stamper in it a few times until the polish on the stamper became a little jagged looking. Then I pressed it onto my nail a couple times until all the polish was off the stamper. After I did that, I put 1 small dot in the middle of my nail and pressed onto my nail over and over until I was satisfied with the results.

Hope you all have a lovely Easter tomorrow!

Swirly Drag Marble Flowers | Video Tutorial

Drag marbling is so fun and easy. I'm just addicted lately! I got two Essie polishes a few months ago. They're red and pink so I thought they'd go great together! People keep sending me little drag marble compilation videos so I was feeling super inspired. I made a video tutorial this time! Let me know what you think! It's only my second video tutorial, I think it's much better than my first one, but you be the judge!

Polishes Used:

Essie - With The Band (Red)

Essie - Cascade Cool (Pink)

How To:

Start with your base color. You can do 2 coats if the polish you're using is thin. If you do this, let the first coat dry and then start the next step with your 2nd coat of fresh wet polish.

While the red polish is still wet add three dots of pink quickly. Drag marbling is done on very wet nail polish. I put a big dot in the middle of the nail and two smaller ones at the tip and base.

Use a dotting tool, needle, tooth pick, etc and swirl through the polish in any pattern you like. For this design I took a dotting tool and dragged it into the dot with a curving motion. Then I picked up my tool and started a new line into the dot still doing a curving motion. The dotting tool picked up some of the pink polish and that's what makes the little pink rounded spike things on the outside of the swirls.

Honestly, this was pretty confusing to try and type out. I really hope it made sense and I made the video tutorial just for this reason! Hope you guys aren't too confused!

I also want to invite you guys to come join a new Facebook group that I just became admin for. It's Nailart Adventures on Facebook! We have contests occasionally and it's ever growing with new members all the time.

I'm also introducing a YouTube new playlist with all my nail tutorials to make it easy to find them all. Right now I only have 2 but I plan to make lots more!

 Have you gotten into drag marbling lately too? Send me your pictures for a possible shout out on my social media accounts! ❤❤

Jesperhus Blomsterpark/Flower Park

As many of you may know, I've been in Denmark for the last month or so. My mother in law bought us season passes to a beautiful flower park called Jesperhus. It's absolutely gorgeous there and I can't wait to go back and see how things have changed. While we were there they were adding some new plants in and a lot of the plants were very small so I think it will be even better later.

The season pass includes a lot of great perks, like free/discounted entry to certain zoos and other parks. So stay tuned for posts from those places, but for now enjoy all the pictures I took at Jesperhus.

Click the pictures to make them larger and keep your eyes out for more writing between some of the pictures.

Gorgeous flowers right as you enter the park. These pink and red ones were the first you see if I remember correctly.

The gift shop and entrance/exit

A giant anteater near the beginning of the park. It was so big. I don't think I've ever seen one in person before this.

Gorgeous succulents. They use these on a lot of the various 'sculptures' they have around the park.

Red and white, like the colors on the Danish flag. I love the mix of different flowers here.

Lately I've really been fond of flowering trees. I'm not sure what these were but they are so pretty. Look at the petals piled up on the steps in the above picture. Beautiful!

These are from another area of the park. I'm not sure if they're the same type of tree as the previous one but I thought I'd throw them in now since they're at least similar.

 Twice we noticed flowers that didn't seem like they belonged with the others. I'm not sure if it was accidental or if there is some kind of reason behind it. It was interesting anyways.

This was probably one of my favorite features at the park. It's a little pond and bridge with statues depicting H.C. Andersen's various stories!

The view upon exiting the little path

There are a few places to eat and get ice cream in the park. These are the 'umbrellas'. Covered in plants! I love that. I noticed it on some other roofs as well. Really whimsical feeling.

In the first part of the park there's a big open field with a big round display for about 8 Danish flags with stairs all around it. You can walk up there for a nice view. You can see the whole display by itself in the first picture of this post.

 And now just some miscellaneous pictures that didn't really group up with the rest.

Hope you all enjoyed this post and all it's pictures. Up next will be the Jesperhus Jungle Zoo!!