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: Elf Nails

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For this look, I wanted to do something fun instead of all elf faces and elf suits. I decided dots matched well with the elf and suit, so I put those on a couple of nails.

White: OPI Alpine Snow
Black: Zoya Willa
Green: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri I-rush Luck
Red: OPI Amore At The Grand Canal
Gold: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Golden-I
Yellow: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow
Nude: Essie Brides to Be
Pink: Orly Color Blast Princess Ping

For the red dots, I went with the sort of more scattered and random look to add to it. I made some changes to the elf face nail, and the changes were inspired by @PrincessLexiii on Instagram.

Thanks for reading <3

Christmas 2015: Holly and Splatter

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I wanted to do something a little different for this nail art look. I decided the accent of a splatter nail or two complemented the holly and bell nails well.

White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost

Red: OPI Ro-man-ce On the Moon

Green: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri I-rush Luck

Gold: Essie Good As Gold

To do the splatter nails, I used coffee stirrer straws, because I heard from someone they work better, and they definitely do! The rest was freehanded.

Thanks for reading <3

Fall China Glaze Dotticure

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I know, it has been forever! I've been bad about doing my nails this month anything, what with the holidays, and I've been really busy in school, and just with life. I've been so exhausted it's been hard to motivate myself to paint my nails period. But I have painted them several times, but then I haven't posted about them! So, it's catch-up night!

Gray: China Glaze Change Your Altitude
Green: China Glaze S'More Fun
Blue: China Glaze Sleeping Under the Stars
Glitter: China Glaze Let's Dew It

I absolutely loved this manicure! I loved how the nail covered in dots has the green dots thrown in. I feel like I placed them perfectly, and it doesn't have a pattern, which is exactly what I was going for!

Thanks for reading <3

Themed Thursday November: Week 1

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I know this is late, and I did just do them, but I decided to take part in Themed Thursday November! I'm super excited to do this challenge. I miss doing challenges now, because I've done several, and I really love giving myself more ideas and stepping outside of my box! This challenge is hosted by @wondrouslypolished and @thenailartchallenge on Instagram.

Theme: Autumn
Prompt: Leaves

I decided for this one, I would do some stamping! I was kind of stuck on what I wanted to do for leaves, because it is so broad. Then, I went through all of my stamping plates, and I found several cute ideas!

Off-White: OPI My Vampire is Buff
Light Brown: OPI San Tan-tonio
Dark Brown: Essie Little Brown Dress
Red: Essie With the Band
Orange: Essie Color Binge
Green: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri I-rush Luck

Stamping Plates: W113 & W119

Thanks for reading! <3

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

31 Day Challenge: Day 29

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Prompt: Inspired by the Supernatural

Green: Essie Vibrant Vibes
Skin Tone: Essie Perennial Chic
Tan: Essie Picked Perfect
Black: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Night Fright
White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost
Yellow: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Sizzlin' Saffron
Blue: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Blue Me Away!
Pink: Orly Color Blast Princess Ping
Silver Glitter: China Glaze Fairy Dust
Gold Glitter: Pure Ice Studette

This is probably my least favorite prompt. In general, I don't like things that are "supernatural" or anything like that. I don't know why, I just don't. I think in general they are creepy, to be honest. But I've realized that there can actually be some fun takes on things that are technically supernatural! Today, I was inspired by fairies, so I made Tinkerbell nails! I love the way they turned out, too! I actually did them while watching the movie, Tinkerbell. It was so cute! I had never seen it before, but decided that now would be the time to watch it.

I used a nail art brush and a dotting tool for everything except the middle nail, which is inspired by her dress. I used striping tape for that to make the zig zag, because I wanted it deeper than a chevron would do.

The swirly fingers are inspired by the fairy dust that appears behind them and around them as they fly, and then her face is my ring finger, her dress is my middle, and my index finger is her wings! The face was inspired by @lauramerino on Instagram!

Check back tomorrow!

31 Day Challenge: Day 24

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Prompt: Inspired by a book

White: Essie Blanc
Light Green: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Mint Sorbet
Medium Green: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Green With Envy
Dark Green: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Tan Lime
Gray: Essie Blanc + Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Show Steel-er
Tan/Peach: Essie Perennial Chic
Brown: Essie Little Brown Dress

I know, it's late. But I had a good reason! I was traveling today, and the wifi at the airport and on the plane were awful. Plus, I forgot my dark brown polish, which I needed, and it was back here at home, so I had to wait until I was here to finish it up!

I was inspired by the book Matched by Ally Condie. It's the book I'm currently reading, and have been for a while now, but I haven't had a lot of time to read with work and school and moving! Life gets crazy sometimes.

To make the ombre look, I used a latex free sponge and did a gradient on top of white with all of the greens. The details were painted with a new nail art brush from Winstonia store!

Check back tomorrow for more nail art! <3

31 Day Challenge: Day 15

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Prompt: Delicate Print

Light Green: Essie Vibrant Vibes
Dark Green: Essie Melody Maker

Stamping Plate: Winstonia W319

These are going to be short and sweet today! I used the stamping plate and the dark green polish, which is really more teal, to stamp on a design. This is actually my right hand, too, which explains why there is no pointer finger. I painted my left hand, but the stamping looked awful, and I tried something else which made it worse, and my right hand actually looked good...minus the bandage on my finger where I cut my cuticle and couldn't paint it! So I just held it out of the shot.

Say hi to Cindy, because it'll probably be forever before she's seen again!

Check back tomorrow for more nail art! <3

31 Day Challenge: Day 4

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Today's prompt: Green

White: Essie Blanc
Green: Essie Yespadrilles

I went simple today, and with something I don't do too often. I did a half moon manicure, and I used a new Essie Cashmere Matte Bright for the green. I really liked how it turned out! If the white looked better and shinier, I probably would've left it untopcoated, that way it was matte and shiny. It looked kind of cool that way!

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

Watermelon Accent Nails

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Watermelons have been everywhere this summer. I feel like everyone has done watermelon nails before, including me about three years ago, but I was so inspired to do them, that I felt I HAD to! I came up with the idea because I really wanted to use this coral colored polish, and when I was trying to find a match for it, I sat the green next to it and that was the first thing I thought of!

I didn't want to do watermelons on every nail, because...well, I didn't. So, I decided to make the watermelon the accent, and stick with single color nails for a couple, and a chevron with those colors as another.

White: Zoya Purity
Coral: Wet 'n Wild Megalast Warm Filter
Green: Wet 'n Wild Megalast Tree Hugger

Black: Salon Perfect Oil Slick

To do the multi-colored chevron, I placed the vinyls down, then used a dotting tool to put the different colors in between each sticker, peeling them off as I went. To make the watermelon, I painted the nail white, then used a French guide Nail Vinyl to block off where I wanted the white. Because of that, the white is thicker than I wanted, but it made it a lot easier, so it was worth it. I then used a dotting tool to create the seeds!

Thanks for reading <3

Green Polka Dot Gel Nails

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Today I wanted to share my nails that I wore for over a week while I was on vacation in Ireland! I've never had gel nails before, but I did them myself because I had my own kit that I bought a while back when it was on clearance. I plan to do a post on the process for doing them, and one for the removal, so this is just going to be the colors and pictures!

Green: FingerPaints Gel Polish Paint Me Oh-So-Modern!

White: FingerPaints Gel Polish Stay True To The Art

I painted a green base on all nails and then used the white for dots! In retrospect, I wish I would have done at least one nail white with green dots. Something to try next time!

Thanks for reading <3

May Weekly Nail Art Challenge: Week 1

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I've decided to do the Weekly Nail Art Challenge on Instagram this month! There are only 5 prompts, one for each Friday of the month, so I still get to do whatever I want the rest of the time!

This month's theme: Neons

This week's prompt: half moon

Since I'm not super huge into neons, I wanted to do this challenge to make me expand my polish use. I want to find a wearable ways to wear neon!

This week, I did my half moons by putting the neon underneath, and then putting white on top. That way the whole nail isn't too bright, but it makes a cool pop of color up by the cuticle!

Green: China Glaze Treble Maker

White: China Glaze White on White

Thanks for reading <3

#NailArtApr: Day 11

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Today's prompt: dotticure!

For this manicure, I used all Wet n Wild Megalast polishes, all from the new Silver Lake collection!

Tan: A Latte Love

Blue: Wear Skinny Jeans

Green: Tree Hugger

All I used for this manicure is a dotting tool! It's so easy to do dotticures, so I really love them! You don't have to have worked on nails for very long to do a successful and beautiful dotticure! That's the best part about them!

Thanks for reading <3

St. Patrick's Day: Galaxy Nails

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After doing my Valentine's Day galaxy nails, I was inspired to do more galaxy nails that were themed for different holidays, seasons and events. I've done Valentine Galaxies and Winterized Galaxies. Today, I have some St. Patrick's Day Galaxies for you!

Black: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Night Fright
White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost
Dark Green: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri I-Rush Luck
Green: China Glaze I'm With the Lifeguard
Light Green: Maybelline The Color Show Bleached Neons Lime Accent
Fine Gold Glitter: Avon Snowman (from years ago)
Chunky Gold Glitter: Pure Ice Bling on the Holidays

I did these just like any other galaxies. I started by painting the nails black, then added a quick dry top coat. Once it was dry, I sponged on the white, then all three greens, starting with the darkest, and going lighter. Next I put on the fine glitter, and then used the chunky glitter and picked out the largest pieces to make "stars." Finally, I used white polish to create a few shamrock "stars" on the nails.

Thanks for reading <3

St. Patrick's Day: Pot of Gold

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Today's manicure was a pot of gold and coins! I used all Essie polishes for this one!

Green: Vices Versa

White: Blanc

Black: Licorice

Gold: Good As Gold

Silver: No Place Like Chrome

Bronze: Penny Talk

For all nails, I used dotting tools to make the different designs. I really liked the way this turned out! I used the different chrome colors for the dots on my middle finger and thumb to try to make it look like different kinds of coins being used.

Thanks for reading! <3

St. Patrick's Day: Leprechauns

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Today I wore some cute leprechaun nails! I did these in the same style as my Santa and Elf nails at Christmas! I did one nail with the leprechaun's face, and the rest were painted to look like his suit!

Light Green: Color Club Twiggie

Dark Green: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri I-Rush Luck

Black: Salon Perfect Nail Art Striper Black Ink

Gold: OPI 50 Years of Style

Nude: Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Barely There

Orange: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Sun Kissed

Red: Salon Perfect Nail Art Striper Laser Beam

The nails were pretty easy! I used dotting tools and the stripers for everything, except for the hat on the leprechaun's face. I taped that part off and painted the exposed area to create a crisp line for the edge of the hat.

Thanks for reading <3

St. Patrick's Day: Shamrocks & Chevron

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My nails today are my first St. Patrick's day nails of the year! I did shamrocks, with an accent chevron nail.

White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost

Green: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri I-rush Luck

Gold: OPI 50 Years of Style

The chevrons were done using nail vinyls. I did a white base, put down the vinyls, and then painted green. I free-handed the gold accent. All of the shamrocks were done using different size dotting tools.

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.