Nail Art January 2016: Day 08

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Today's Prompt: Animal

Black Glitter: OPI Center of the You-niverse
White: Zoya Purity
Black: Zoya Willa
Orange: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Pumpkin Queen

These were super simple penguin nails that I did! My favorite animal is a penguin, so I really wanted to do them. If you are worried about work, because you can't wear something like this, you can totally do them without the eyes and beak, and just make it a Ruffian manicure that is inspired by penguins!

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Christmas 2015: Red and Green Galaxies

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I wanted to continue my year-long Galaxy nail series with the Christmas edition!

Black: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Black to Black

White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost

Red: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri-Dri Rapid Red

Green: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri I-Rush Luck

Small Gold Glitter: Avon Gingerbread Scented

Large Glitter: OPI I Reached My Gold

These were so much for me to do! I've always liked galaxy nails, and I made it through a whole year of doing them for every holiday! Well, aside from New Year, or New Year's Eve.

Thanks for reading <3

Christmas 2015: Nativity Scene

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These are the nails that I wore on Christmas Day, because they are very important to me. I loved this design when I saw it last year, and knew I wanted to do it this year. I was inspired by @nailstorming on Instagram.

Light Blue: Essie Mint Candy Apple

Medium Blue: Essie I'm Addicted

Dark Blue: Essie Hide & Go Chic

White: Maybelline Color Show Porcelain Party

Black: Maybelline Color Show Onyx Rush

These were fun to do, and I loved doing the gradient for the background of it.

Thanks for reading <3

Thanksgiving 2015: Galaxies

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Today, I wanted to share my galaxy nails that I made for Thanksgiving, even though it's late! These were really fun to make, and I even made a tutorial for them!

Brown: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Cococa A Go Go
White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost
Red: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Rapid Red
Orange: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Pumpkin Queen
Yellow: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Sizzlin' Saffron
Small Glitter: Maybelline Color Show Veils Rose Mirage
Large Glitter: Essie Luxeffects Summit of Style

If you want to see how I did them, check out the video on my YouTube channel here!

Thanks for reading! <3

Thanksgiving 2015: Pilgrims

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A day or two before Thanksgiving, I decided to do some cute Pilgrim nails!

Black: Salon Perfect Oil Slick

White: Salon Perfect Sugar Cube

Nude: Essie Spin the Bottle

Brown: Essie Partner in Crime

Yellow: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow

Green: Pure Ice Free Spirit

I freehanded everything for this manicure! I wasn't super excited or happy with it, honestly. Which I always hate when I'm that way, but I didn't even finish my right hand with it, because I didn't like it very much at all.

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Halloween 2015: Galaxies

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I know this is super late, but I'm finally getting around to posting about my last Halloween nails that I did for actual Halloween! I decided to do some galaxies again, because clearly I love them. These were so fun to do, and I love the way they turned out!

Black: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Night Fright
White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost
Orange: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Pumpkin Queen
Tiny Glitter: Sally Hansen Insta-Ombre Grey-diant
Small Glitter: Salon Perfect Trick-or-Treat
Large Glitter: Salon Perfect Spider Legs

These were simple to do, and not even too time consuming this time! I started with the black base, and then sponged on white, then orange in some diagonal and different shapes. I was sure to leave some white showing this time, because I only had orange otherwise! Then, I went in with the tiny glitter, and covered the nail with that. Next, I used the small glitter and was sure to not get any large glitters, because the polish is actually a mix, which includes some large circles. I took this and applied it lightly to the nails.

Then, I picked out some orange glitters out of the large glitter and placed them in certain spots to be the big stars. My final step was to hand paint some tiny pumpkins in areas to fill the space even better.

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Halloween 2015: Chevron & Candy

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Next up for Halloween nails…chevron! I love chevron, and I love candy. So what could be better than mixing them?!

Black: China Glaze Liquid Leather
White: China Glaze White on White
Orange: China Glaze Home Sweet House Music
Purple: China Glaze Violet Vibes
Green: China Glaze Treble Maker

For the chevron nails, I used some chevron nail vinyls, and started with a white base. Then I painted the desired color on top, and finished it up by using a small detail brush and adding the black lines in for accent. And then, for the candy nail, I just used dotting tools and the same small detail brush.

Happy Halloween! <3

Halloween 2015: Fuzzy Monsters

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Today I want to share my last couple of Halloween designs! First up, these cute, fuzzy monsters, inspired by Chalkboard Nails and the Sally Hansen Fuzzy Coat. The post that inspired them can be found here.

I loved these cute monsters that she created, and I recreated them back before I was blogging, and I thought they were so cute! I knew I had to do it again when I got this special Halloween Fuzzy Coat last year.

Purple: Wet 'n Wild Megalast Thrift Shopaholic
Black: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Night Fright
White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost
Orange: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Pumpkin Queen
Fuzzy Coat: Sally Hansen Fuzzy Coat Witch-ful Thinking

I love the way these turned out! I used the polish brush to create the body for the monsters, and to add the fuzzy coat. I used a small detail brush from Winstonia and dotting tools for the remainder of the details.

Happy Halloween! <3

Halloween 2015: French Tips

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Last week I went out of state to a national conference related to my work. It was a very professional event, so I needed something that was professional. I thought that wearing a french manicure would be perfect! I wanted it to still be a little festive, though, so I had one accent nail which was a black and white glitter.

For the first time, I used some long-lasting polishes, in this case OPI Infinite Shine. I was really happy with the results this time! I was not exceptionally rough with them, but I didn't always think about being careful with them. They were barely looking different at the end of the week! The nails of french tips were nearly perfect still, other than maybe one nail that chipped in the tiniest. The nails with glitter chipped more, but the glitter was not a long-lasting polish, I just topped it with that top coat.

Nude: OPI Infinite Shine The Beige of Reason
White: OPI Infinite Shine Non-Stop White
Glitter: Sinful Colors Splatter Spell

I'm really happy with these nails, and with the color of the nude for the french nails!

Thanks for reading <3

Halloween 2015: Stripes and Glitter

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I do dotticures so often, I thought I would mix it up this time and try some stripes instead! I love the way these turned out, and I love the accent nail with black glitter.

The stripes were done using some straight vinyls in different sizes. I painted the base white and then used a brush to fill in some of the stripes. Once they were done, I used the silver and added a couple accent stripes to make it stand out. To put the glitter on, I used a latex free makeup sponge to apply it.

White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost
Black: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Night Fright
Orange: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Pumpkin Queen
Silver: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Celeb City
Glitter: Sally Hansen Luxe Lace Ruffle

Thanks for reading <3

Halloween 2015: Glitter Pumpkins

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I'm so behind on posting my Halloween manicures! I've been really busy this month. I got the flu a couple weeks ago. And, since I moved recently, my parents came and visited this month for a long weekend. I also went out of state for a large national conference for almost this whole week! It's been crazy, basically. But I still have been painting my nails, so here is the first one to make up!

I wanted to do some pumpkin nails, with different sizes. The accent nail was a glitter jack-o-lantern, and I used the glitters to do a glitter placement, making a dotticure nail with tiny pumpkins, and then a mid-sized pumpkin on my index finger!

Black: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Night Fright

Green: China Glaze Treble Maker

Orange Glitter: (no name polish from Meijer last year in a pumpkin bottle)

I really love the way these turned out! I wore them for a while because they were so cute and fun! Does anyone else like the girly Halloween nails? I'm not much for gore or creepy things, but these are fun and festive still, yet cute and girly!

Thanks for reading <3

Halloween 2015: Haunted House Accent

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Today I did my first very Halloween-y manicure! I really wanted to do a plastic bag nail, so I used that and a simple dotticure so I could feature my haunted house on my index finger.

White: China Glaze White On White
Black: China Glaze Liquid Leather
Orange: China Glaze Home Sweet House Music
Gold: Pure Ice Studette

This was really simple to do. I used a medium-small sized dotting tool for the middle finger dotticure, and a nail art brush from Winstonia to paint the haunted house on my index finger. The ring finger and thumb were the plastic bag method!

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Black and Gold Line Work

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I'm finally back with more nail art! I painted these a couple of days ago, I just never got the chance to post them. I've seen this design all around before, but I don't know who the original creator is. This was really simple to do!

Black: OPI Black Onyx
Gold: OPI Liquid Sand Honey Ryder
White Striper: Salon Perfect Nail Art White Out
Gold Striper: Salon Perfect Nail Art Gold Sparkle

For this design, I started with the black base, and then freehanded the lines on there with a white striper.  Once that was dry, I went over the lines with the gold striper. I went over some areas twice just to make sure the gold was opaque enough.

Since the nails are mostly black, these are a little Halloween-y! I like how they are classy, too, though!

Thanks for reading <3

31 Day Challenge: Day 31

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Prompt: Honor Nails You Love

White: OPI Alpine Snow
Red: OPI Amore at the Grand Canal
Orange: China Glaze Home Sweet House Music
Yellow: Zoya Darcy
Black: Essie Licorice

It's the last day! I can't believe I finished the challenge again this year, and I even finished it on time! I got behind for a few days, but then I got caught back up, and I'm so excited about it. I feel so god about having it done now.

I was completely inspired by @banicured_ on Instagram. I did the gradient, and then hand painted the design on top of that.

Thank you so much for following me throughout this challenge again this year, and I can't wait to try again next year!

31 Day Challenge: Day 30

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Prompt: Inspired by a Tutorial

Silver: OPI ColorPaints Silver Canvas
Pink: Essie Brides No Grooms
Black: Essie Licorice

These were inspired by @simplynaillogical on Instagram! She did some with swirls and cat vinyls, but I just choose some swirls! I really liked the pink, black and silver, and I liked how it was sponged on in a different pattern than your typical gradient. It was fun to do, except using those swirl vinyls. Those were difficult to use, and get off of the sheet.

For the style, I made four corner in alternating colors on the sponge, and then sponged it on on top of the silver with the vinyls already down.

Check back tomorrow for the final day of the challenge!

31 Day Challenge: Day 13

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Prompt: Animal Print

White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost
Black: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Night Fright

I don't do a lot of animal print nails in general, so this is always a good day for me, because it gets me to do something different! I was trying to think of an easy animal to do, and the first thing that came to mind was zebra! So, this is clearly just a plain and simple zebra print manicure. I freehanded all of the stripes using black polish and a detail brush I got from Sally Beauty Supply.

Check back tomorrow for more nail art! <3

31 Day Challenge: Day 7

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Today's Prompt: Black & White

Black: OPI Black Onyx
White: OPI Alpine Snow

I kept it really simple, because I was exhausted from it being moving day for me, and I was in a hotel again for the night. I just wanted to get something cute and simple though, anyway, because I usually do something crazy on this day for some reason!

I really like the way this turned out, though! It's simple, but it's also sort of classy. I know there are some places that don't like black nail polish, but I do, and I think with some accents, it is totally acceptable! All I used for this was the nail polish and a dotting tool with a large end and a medium end.


Check back tomorrow for more nail art! <3

Plastic Baggie Nails

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Today I wanted to share some nails that I did the other day using the Essie Resort 2015 collection! I found this collection in my box (yes, box) of untried polishes, and realized I'd never used them! They are all so pretty and cute, so I knew I had to find something to do with them.

To be honest, I had no idea what I was going to do when I sat down with them and began painting. I still had yet to ever attempt something with the "plastic bag" method, so I thought that would be fun to do, but what else? I added the flower accent nail, but still wanted one more nail with something beyond a plain color. When I painted the base, though, I knew what would fit perfectly...the Eiffel Tower!

Light Pink: Essie Time For Me Time
Brown: Essie Cocoa Karma
Purple: Essie Suite Retreat
Pink: Essie Stones 'n Roses
Black: Essie Licorice

I am so happy with how these turned out! I haven't been able to convince myself to take them off, because they are so fun and cute, but so easy, too! For the plastic bag nails, I followed the tutorial by Young Wild and Polished, which can be found here. Basically, all you do is put down big drops of polish, then put a piece of a plastic bag on it and smush it around to blend them all together a little bit. The flowers and Eiffel Tower were done using dotting tools!

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Dry Brush and Polka Dots

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I recreated a manicure I did a little while ago but with a different blue this time! You can find the original here.

Blue: Essie Garden Variety

White: Essie Blanc

Black: Essie Licorice

Thanks for reading <3

Fourth of July: Galaxies

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Here's another late post, but I did some galaxy nails for the Fourth of July!

Black: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Night Fright

White: Essie Blanc

Red: OPI What's Your Point-setta?

Blue: China Glaze Splish Splash

Red, White & Blue Glitter: Salon Perfwct Boom Boom Boom

Stars: Nails, Inc. Leicester Court

White Fireworks: L.A. Colors Art Deco White

I'm so into these galaxy nail designs for the different holidays!

Thanks for reading <3