Hi everyone! Alaina from The Little Canvas here taking over The Manicured Monkey for the day! I couldn't be happier to be posting for Kristin today! Back in 2012, she featured my work over here on The Manicured Monkey along with a little interview about me. Since I was a little fish in the blogging pond at the time, it meant so much to me that she wanted to feature my work!
Through my blogging years, I have gotten to know Kristin through Twitter. Her support of me and my blog has meant the world to me. Most recently, she inspired me to create my St. Patrick’s Day Nail Art Wheel, which she shared on Pinterest and it got a zillion re-pins. Okay, maybe not a zillion, but it sure got shared a lot.
For today’s post, I wanted to do something special, fun, and unique. Since Spring is here, I debated on doing some sort of floral manicure. Then I thought about doing a kitchen sink manicure with some tape, gradients, and dots. Both ideas, while awesome, I was a tad bored by. Then it hit me….The Manicured Monkey…..monkey nail art!
Let’s take a look!
Colors Used:
¨ Base
o Sinful Colors – Pistache
¨ Banana Nails
o Orly Instant Artist – White & Black
o Ulta – SunSational
¨ Monkey
o Zoya – Louise
o Zoya – Taylor
o Orly Instant Artist – White & Black
Cute, right?! I am in love with how they turned out! They are just as I imagined. I picked Sinful Colors Pistache for my base because it’s a perfect bright green polish. I thought a little monkey would look beyond adorable on top of that color and I think it’s safe to say I was right. The monkey perfectly popped off the base.
I decided to do white polka dots on the other nails since I recently figured out how to perfectly fit a dot on my nail. It only took about two years and a lot of disasticures to figure it out. Since this discovery, I’ve been kind of obsessed with polka dots. I decided was a little bored by just the plain dots, so I decided to add the little bananas. They aren’t perfect, but that’s what makes them cute!
What do you think? Think Kristin will enjoy the monkey manicure? :)
Thank you so much Kristin for letting me come back and post over here on your amazing blog! If any of Kristin’s lovely followers would like to check out more of my work, please head on over to
The Little Canvas and follow :).
Halloween time Monkeys! I'm not sure when purple became a standard Halloween color, but it's a bandwagon I was more than happy to jump on. I used two coats of Milani Imperial Purple then stamped black Halloween cats on 2 fingers only. I wanted to show off SinfulColors Splatter Spell because it has some shredded glitter mingled with hexes and all orange and black, really fun glitter! I did one coat on my index and little finger and dabbed glitter around the stamped cats. Whenever I do a single image stamp that doesn't take up my whole nail, I like to add glitter in to make it pop and be more interesting. I also used SinfulColors glow in the dark top coat under a black light to show you it's pigment (I did this mani during the day so photos in the dark was not an option). I had to restamp the ring finger cat and ended up taking off some of the glow in the dark so you can see the difference, but for this purpose, I'm ok with it, plus it kind of looks like a moon or spooky clouds.
