31 Day Challenge: Day 14

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Prompt: Flowers

Gray: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Show Steel-er

Red: China Glaze I Brake For Colour

Orange: China Glaze Pop The Trunk

Gold: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Golden-I

I know...where is the red AND orange? These two colors turned out to be very similar, and in small portions, I think it's even harder to tell. It's there, though, so I included two pictures so that you can hopefully see it a little better in one of them!

I used three different sized dotting tools for these, and I'm really happy with how they turned out! I like the color on top of the gray, and then the gold that I used as a pop of color! It turned out really well, and I really like them!

Check back tomorrow for more nail art! <3

31 Day Challenge: Day 12

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Prompt: Stripes

White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost
Pink: Orly Color Blast Winter Blush
Blue: Orly Color Blast A Happy...Puddle
Silver: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Celeb City

I found a couple of fun colors for this, and thought multicolored stripes would be awesome! I didn't want to do five fingers of stripes, though, so I added some fun flowers and a solid accent nail. I love this color scheme so much! It's fun and girly, and it works for lots of seasons, I think! I love pairing the dark blue with bright pink, and the silver accents, because it works for winter, but I think it could also work for spring, too, especially with the flowers on it!

For the stripes nails, I used a variety of sizes of straight Nail Vinyls, found here. The flowers were done using dotting tools. The pink and blue polish were both a part of the Elsa collection that was in Walgreens around the springtime.

Check back tomorrow for more nail art! <3

OPI Hawaii Mix & Match

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Today I wanted to share with you what I did the other day using some more of the OPI Hawaii collection. So far, I love that collection! I bought 9 of the 12 polishes, and they are all so fun and pretty.

Purple: OPI Hello Hawaii Ya?
Green: OPI That's Hula-rious!
Orange: OPI Is Mai Tai Crooked?

The ring finger was the plastic bag method (again) and the middle finger was done using single chevron Nail Vinyls. The flowers were done using basic dotting tools.

Thanks for reading <3

Spring Galaxy Nails

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Today I wanted to share my most recent galaxy nails that I did! These were some spring ones, so I stuck with flowers and pastels. I know spring is almost over, especially since most people are out of school now, but we've still had a lot of typical spring weather lately, so I didn't think they were too late yet!

Black: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Night Fright
Pink: Salon Perfect Put A Ring On It
Purple: Salon Perfect Lilacking Control
Blue: Salon Perfect Cold As Ice
Green: Salon Perfect Mint Julep
Yellow: Salon Perfect Mellow Yellow
Glitter: China Glaze Fairy Dust
Silver Flowers: Nicole by OPI Party Bus
Blue Flowers: Nails Inc. Floral Richmond Gardens
White: Nicole by OPI Yoga-Then-Yogurt

So many colors! I did these like all galaxies, starting with a black base, then sponging on the pink, purple, blue, green and yellow polishes. I painted the glitter on, and then fished the silver and blue flower glitters out of the correct polishes. The blue flowers gave it a different look, and took away from the galaxy look a little bit, but I still liked it.

To get the white flowers and rose, I used some new stamping plates I just got! I used Winstonia plates 104 for the rose and 110 for the flower.

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#NailArtApr: Day 17

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The theme for this day is springtime!

Blue: China Glaze Boho Blues

Green: Sally Hansen I Heart Nail Art Striper Green

Pink: China Glaze Pack Lightly

This nail art was really easy! All that you have to do is start by painting your nails blue. When that dried, I took the green Striper and brushed lightly on the tips of my nails to make it look like grass. Then I just extended a couple of lines on each nail up for the flower stems. To add the flower, I used a small dotting tool with the pink, adding five dots for the petals.

Thanks for reading <3

#NailArtApr: Day 08

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I'm sort of late in doing this, considering there is a new prompt for tomorrow, but I got busy this week and I unfortunately did not have much time for nail art.

The prompt for this day was "Fav flower" which is difficult for me! I would probably have to say rose, but I can't do those on the nail very well, AND I'm not sure I have a favorite flower! So, I did my favorite flower...to paint on my nails.

These were done using all Salon Perfect polishes, because I wanted to use some of my new pastel colors from them!

White: Sugar Cube
Pink: Put A Ring On It
Purple: Lilacking Control
Blue: Cold As Ice
Green: Mint Julep
Yellow: Mellow Yellow
Peach: Georgia Peach

This manicure was super easy to do! I just used dotting tools to create all of the flowers on top of a white base! Simple!

Thanks for reading <3

Mani By Annie: Spring Nails

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The other day, I did my sister's nails for spring, and just wanted to share them!

Purple: Fingerpaints Endless Wear Hue Knew?

White: OPI Alpine Snow & Salon Perfect Nail Art Striper White Out

Yellow: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Sizzlin' Saffron

This was the first time I had used the Endless Wear polishes and I really liked it so far! It applied easily and so far my sister has not had any problems with chipping on the nails with both Endless Wear polish and top coat.

Thanks for reading <3

31 Day Challenge: Day 14

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Today's theme: flowers!

I did simple flowers today because they were quick and easy. Plus, I like the simplicity of them.

For the base color, I used Milani Popping Pink. The middles of the flowers were Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Matte White Pick It Fence. The petals of the flowers were done with Sinful Colors Innocent.

Thanks for reading <3


*All polishes were purchased with my own money. I am not sponsored in any way. All opinions are truthful and my own.

Valentine's Day Nail Ideas

Hey loves! I know it's super late, but I wanted to post this anyway, since I clearly didn't get around to posting it prior to the holiday.

I think that Valentine's Day nails are so much fun. It's an excuse to HAVE to wear pink nail polish! These are my 4 ideas on what to do for the holiday.

1. Two Color Pattern.
     This one is the simplest "design" that you can do. It is barely even a design at all! No nail tools are required, and you don't need any "talent" to do these. All you do, is pick two colors of polish. Then, pick two nails to paint color #1, and paint the other three with color #2! And THAT'S IT!!

Here, I used Nicole By OPI in I Do De-Claire and Back in my Gloria Days, both from the Modern Family collection.

2. Mix & Match.

     These nails will be so different from person to person. I went through and chose a red and a pink, silver or gold, a textured pink, a white, and then strippers in colors corresponding with my previous choices. You can see what I did in the picture, but I really liked the idea of using the textured polish on only one nail, and different designs on three, and making the one nail just a simple, solid color. Below, I have two hands, with the same design, I just swapped the colors a little.

Below are the polishes used for this hand.

And for the other hand...

Again, the polishes used for this hand are pictured below.

3. Pictures/Icons.

     These are the nails that everyone loves when I do. I pick popular icons and symbols for the holiday or occasion, and paint those on the nails! For this look, I used a kiss print, a rose, a candy heart, a love letter and a heart with an arrow going through it.

4. The Spring-y Valentine.

     Finally, for those who are in warmer climates, some of them think of Valentine's Day as when the weather gets warmer. This design was inspired by Nicole from http://youngwildandpolished.blogspot.com. She is always doing things similar, and they look so nice! I love the flowers, and how it looks a little like spring, but also feels "love-y," if that makes sense.

And that's it! These can use so many different colors, and could be used for different holidays, like Christmas, just by swapping out the pink for green! They are pretty easy, and they look so cute.

So, which one was your favorite design?

Thanks for reading <3

31 Day Nail Challenge: Day 14

Day Fourteen: Flowers

Covergirl Outlast in Black Diamond

Sally Hansen in Mellow Yellow

Sinful Colors in Sweet Tooth

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Lively Lilac

Hello! Today is short and sweet. It was very easy to do, and I only used one polish that I had never used before.

The one that I had never used was the black Covergirl polish. I used this for the base, and it was nice! I really liked how I did not need as many coats as it takes with my black Sally Hansen polish. It also was a good choice, because it provided a nice background for the purple flowers. After that, I simply used a dotter for the center of the flowers, and the petals.

Also, I apologize for the poor quality, I'm having camera problems again :/

Thanks for reading <3