Autism Awareness Nails!

Sorry about the bad cell phone picture, my Canon has been acting up lately.

 

April is Autism Awareness Month; doing gel nails is more of a hobby for me than it is my full time job. I am a full time University student and I work as a behavioural therapist with four young boys all with autism spectrum disorder. I have been working with children with ASD for four or five years now and I love it. I love the boys I work with, they are each amazing, talented, kind individuals. 

 

 

 

Originally I wanted to have the letters A-U-T     I-S-M on the puzzle pieces, but at the same time, I feel that labeling autism and those with autism can be unfair. Instead I just used the symbolic puzzle pieces, and will explain to those that puzzle pieces are symbolic of autism awareness. 

Working with Acrylic Paints - Tatty Bear and Flowers

I've been wanting to start using acrylic paints for designs on my nails for quite some time now, and I'm finally getting the opportunity to practice on myself and some brave clients.

 

I love working with the paints, and I think I will be able to use them much more extensively in the future. Below are two of my best painting experiences: The tatty bear I actually just did this morning on one of my thumb nails, and I'm in LOVE with it, so cute!

 

Below that one are some one stroke flowers a client let me practice painting on her for her Cuba trip. I think they look quite beautiful for my first attempt on gel nails.

 

So excited about expanding these new skills in the future! Hope you like the designs, leave any ideas in the comments!!

 

 

 

 

The Beginning of Christmas Nails!

 

Below are my sisters new nails! She actually chose a couple of her own nailpolishes to use for these nails. I used Amore Primary White, a bit of Go Green and some Red Glitter as well :)

 

This is a new client! She asked for the dangle Jingle Bells, I love them!

 



 

These next pictures are my first set of Christmas Nails, the pictures are always a little worse quality, it's hard to hold the camera with one hand to take pictures of the other!

 

 

This Hand is all glitter and snowflakes!

 

On this hand: The Pinky is Rudolph, done with brow flocking powder; the Ring finger is all red Flocking Powder (wanted to see how long it would last, which was  about two days, now it's a green present with pink striping tape); the Middle finger is a snow man!; my Index finger is red on red, trying out my new gold nail decals; and my Thumb (my favourite), I cut up red and green gift wrap, and embedded it into the gel! The picture just doesn't do them justice :(





Halloween Nails to Leopard/Tiger Nails!

These are my own Halloween Stiletto nails! Sorry about bad quality, pictures are off of my cell phone, but pictures never do nail art justice anyways!

 

Below are my sisters new Animal print nails!

 

 

October 2012 -- First Batch of Halloween Nails

 

Hand Painted all these Pumpkin/Jack-o-Lantern Nails!

 

Used Neon Orange to make these bright Halloween Nails!

 

Ghost Toes!

 

My mom asked for angled nails this time, this was my first attempt at angled nails; they match the Halloween design really well!!

September Nails - Autumn and the beginning of Halloween Nails!

Halloween is a month away and already people are eager for Halloween Nails!

 

September 8th, 2012 - Autumn Tree's

I saw some similar nails to this on pinteret (http://pinterest.com/pin/200269514650455061/) . My sister saw them, and asked if we could do something similar! So we tried a similar design, but with crushed sea shells :)

August 2012 - Monster Nails!!

Been away on holidays for this past week, and while away my sister asked me to give her these crazy/fun Monster Nails! I also got a chance to do my toes and my own new set of nails, not quite as funky as my sisters, but still fun! Enjoy!

 

 

 

Monster Nails!

 

My Calypso and Atomic Orange Toes!

And my matching Calypso Nails!

 

July 26th, 2012 - Tropical Trees and Turtles!

Sorry I haven't put up any pictures lately, haven't had any new designs to show off lately, until tonight! My mom and I brainstormed for awhile deciding what to do for her fill. She dug through my heap of nail art stuff and found my turtle decals, and then I had a couple of colours (Go Green and Copper Crush) that matched perfectly, and made cool palm trees! Ta-Da, we fluked it all into a cool nail design!



July 09th, 2012 - Painted Flowers and Glitter Toes!

I finished my other hand to match my fruity/citrus-y nails on my Right Hand!

Flowers! Flowers! Flowers!

Also did a set of toes today!



July 07th, 2012 - Fruit and Glitter Nails!

I used Atomic Orange, Go Green and Tickled Pink Amore Pixie Gel Colours and some Clay Cane Fruit Decals!

I also did this new set this afternoon for a friend!

July 05th, 2012 - Neon Orange Tips!

My little sister's Birthday Nail Fill! She chose my newest colours for tips, Neon Orange and Atomic Orange; Check them out!

June 24th, 2012 - Pink Nails with Zebra Stripes!

These were so fun to do! They turned out really pretty!

June 20th, 2012 - Leopard Print Nails!

First time free handing Leopard print pattern! Pretty nifty job :)

June 14th, 2012 - Pink Flower Nails and Dragonfly Toes

June 13th, 2012 - Tinkerbell Nails!

June 9th and 10th, 2012 - Crushed Sea Shells and Tango and Calypso Tips!

Sort of got my camera working so here's a few updates!

Tickles Pink Tips with Butterfly Decals - These were long nails! My first client that wanted them extended past the first line of the foils, yay!

Three different Pink shades of crushed sea shells!

These are also three different colours of sea shells - light skin toned and some lighter green (hard to spot in the pictures but in real life they look like mermaid tails!!)

Finally, Tango and Calypso tips with some free hand lines - I really really love these! So proud of myself, slowly getting a steadier hand! :D