Christmas 2015: Christmas Lights

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My first Christmas nails of the year! I was so excited about these, and I am so happy with how they turned out!

White: Zoya Purity
Black: It's So Easy Stripe Rite Striper Black
Red: Revlon Revlon Red
Green: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Tan Lime
Yellow: Zoya Darcy
Blue: Orly Color Blast A Happy...Puddle

These were really easy to do, but they did take a bit of time. The longest part was drawing the string, because I wanted them to look perfect for it! So I went over the black a couple times in places to even it out and make it smoother.

Thanks for reading <3

Easter: Galaxies

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Today I created some galaxy nails (again), but this time they were Easter themed!

Black: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Night Fright

White: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost

Pink: Maybelline The Color Show Bleached Neons Pink Punch

Purple: Maybelline The Color Show Bleached Neons Ultra Violet

Blue: Maybelline The Color Show Bleached Neons Day Glow Teal

Green: Maybelline The Color Show Bleached Neons Lime Accent

Peach: Maybelline The Color Show Bleached Neons Bleached in Peach

Fine Glitter: Claire's White Hot

Chunky Glitter: Zoya Monet

White Striper: Salon Perfect Nail Art Striper White Out

I did these nails just like I've done any other galaxies. For these, I'll write it out step by step, because I haven't done that before!

1. Start by painting nails with a black polish for a base.

2. Using a piece of a makeup sponge and tweezers, I spotted on white polish in the shape that I want the galaxy to be on each nail.

3. Using the pink, purple, blue, green, and peach polish, I sponged them on the same way as the white. I did any touch ups as I went, too.

4. Next, I painted on the fine glitter to look like small stars in the distant.

5. I placed some of the chunky glitter on a palette and picked out a few large glitters and placed them on some of the black spaces on my nails.

6. Using the white striper, I painted a couple of eggs on my nails in place of heat would normally larger stars drawn on in a normal galaxy.

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Easter: Decorated Egg Nails

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The past couple of days I have been working on some Easter egg nail art which I'm sharing with you today! It was easy, and only uses a few colors, even though at first glance it looks like a million.

Pink: Sinful Colors Cotton Candy

Purple: Sinful Colors Sweet Tooth

Blue: Sinful Colors Sweet Nothing

Green: Sinful Colors Pistache

Yellow: Sinful Colors Unicorn

White: Sinful Colors Snow Me White

I started this manicure by using each color, besides white, and painting one nail that color for a base, then top coated them. 

Next, I went in with white and drew all the designs out using dotting tools, stripers and Nail Vinyls. Once it dried, I top coated again. 

Finally, I repeated the process exactly on each nail, just using colors instead of white! It was easy!

This could definitely be simplified a little, but I was having so much fun that I think I got a little carried away!

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Valentine's Day: Mini Matte Multi-Colored Hearts

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Today's mani was brought to you by the letter "m!" These actually originally started out as going to be conversation hearts, which is why I chose the colors that I did, and had them multi-colored. Once I got into them, though, I realized that they were way to small to have to go in and write letters on.

I really liked the end result, though, especially once I added the matte top coat on top. Mattifying it did give more of a conversation heart feel, but it still was not exactly what I wanted for that effect. These were super simple though, and did not take as long as I feared they would. I worked fairly quickly, though, because I put all polish colors on my palette at once, and I wanted to be able to layer them. That meant working with some speed, or else the polishes would goop up on the palette.

My colors were:

White: Nicole by OPI Yoga Then Yogurt

Orange/Peach: Maybelline Color Show Bleached Neons Bleached in Peach

Green: Maybelline Color Show Bleached Neons Lime Accent

Blue: Maybelline Color Show Bleached Neons Day Glow Teal

Purple: Maybelline Color Show Bleached Neons Ultra Violet

Pink: L'Oreal Acid Watermelon

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The Nail Art Guild: January 31

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The prompt for the bi-weekly nail art guild for today was rainbow!

I actually did two designs for this, and I hated the first one. I did it last night, and when I woke up this morning, I took it off and went with this new design that I thought of while painting the others.

Being a rainbow, it clearly took a lot of polish. The colors are as follows:

Red: Nicole by OPI Please Red-Cycle
Orange: China Glaze Stoked to Be Soaked
Yellow: China Glaze Sun Upon My Skin
Green: Studio M Neon Greenlight
Blue: L'Oreal Fluo Azur
Purple: China Glaze X-ta-sea
White: Nicole by OPI Yoga Then Yogurt

For my index and ring finger, I painted red, yellow and blue on, each taking up about a third of my nail. Next, after applying top coat and letting it dry completely, I placed on some skinny chevron nail vinyls. They can be purchased here. I then went and painted orange, green and purple in the spaces between them.

On my thumb, I did an ombre using all of the colors, and then put dots on top with the white polish. My pinky was a white base and dots using all of the colors, and I kept one nail, my middle finger, simple with just a couple of coats of white.

Thanks for reading! <3

31 Day Challenge: Day 26

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Today's theme: Inspired by a pattern!

I was inspired by chevron today! I have been absolutely loving it lately, and I just had to put it on my nails. I was digging through my unused/untried polishes, and found that I still had five polishes from the Wet n Wild Megalast "All Access Pass" collection! I decided that I wanted these to be my base colors, using a different color on each nail. I decided that with that wide of a variety, I would use the white to bring it all together.

From thumb to pink, the colors are A Venice Day, Love Me Some Muscles, Coast to Coast (my favorite), Trippin' on the Boardwalk, and Beat of a Generation. I used OPI Alpine Snow as my white polish. The chevrons were done using some vinyls by Kiss.

This look was easy to accomplish, and I was in love with the end result. I wanted to leave it on! I'll definitely be doing something similar again, but probably with a different collection. Which means I'll be needing more nail vinyls...

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*All polishes were purchased with my own money.

31 Day Challenge: Day 9

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Today's theme: Rainbow nails!

For this, I did a little less traditional "rainbow" look. I used all of the colors of the rainbow, in different patterns on each nail.

On my index finger, I used Wet n Wild Fergie in Velvet Lounge. For the green tip, I first put white polish down, then on top of that, I used Color Club Twiggie.

On the middle finger, I used Zoya Brooklyn, and the dots were done with Pixi Amazing Amethyst.

The ring finger was Orly Skinny Dip, and the stripes were done with Sally Hansen I Heart Nail Art Striper in Orange.

Finally, on the pinky was Flower Beauty's Aster Place, with Nicole by OPI in Be Awesome.

Overall, this look was okay. Definitely for people who like having unmatching nail art.

Thanks for reading <3



*All polishes were purchased with my own money. All opinions are truthful and my own.

31 Day Nail Challenge: Day 23

Day Twenty-Three: Inspired by a Movie

For the Sky: Essie in Mint Candy Apple

For the House: Essie in Little Brown Dress

          OPI in San Tan-tonio

For the Clouds: Sinful Colors in Snow Me White

For the Balloons: NYC in Big Apple Red

          Wet 'n Wild Wild Shine in Sunny Side Up

          Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Yellow Mellow

          Pure Ice in Free Spirit

          Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Blue It

          Salon Perfect in Electric Grape

          Sinful Colors in Cotton Candy

          Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Black Out

I was trying to decide on a movie, and figured this one was easy!

*I did not purposely copy anyone else. I thought of this on my own, but I may have unintentionally gotten an idea from something that I saw on Pinterest.

I have never done a nail art design that was a whole picture, spread out over several nails! I like the way that it turned out!

Thanks for reading <3

31 Day Nail Challenge: Day 9

Day Nine: Rainbow

Nail Art Polishes--Salon Perfect in Laser Beam
          Salon Perfect in Orange Flame
          Salon Perfect in Ray of Light
          Kiss in Beach Green
          Kiss in Pearl Blue
          Kiss in Soft Purple
          Kiss in Beach Pink
Polishes--Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Rapid Red
          Sally Hansen Xtreme Nail Wear in Sun Kissed
          Sally Hansen Xtreme Nail Wear in Mellow Yellow
          Pure Ice in Free Spirit
          Revlon in Urban
          Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Lively Lilac
          Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Straw-ready
          Sinful Colors in Snow Me White
          Sally Hansen Xtreme Nail Wear in Black Out
          OPI in DS Radiance
          Revlon in Girly
          Wet n Wild Fast Dry in Party of Five Glitters

This was crazy to do, but so much fun!

Thumb: Revlon's Girly
Index: Black, with the Party of Five Glitters
Middle: White, with dots in varying colors, using two sizes of dotting tools
Ring: Every color of the nail art brushes
Pinky: Silver OPI

It took a while, and I kept changing my mind on what I wanted to do.

Also, I'm thinking about doing a tutorial coming up soon. :)

Thanks for reading <3