Update

Hey guys,

So sorry I haven't posted in almost a month!  My work schedule is a little redic right now and my kiddo has just gone back to school so I have been super busy.  I am hoping to get a few posts up early next week, one being the fan brush watercolor tutorial.  But for now I can post a couple phone pics I have taken of some recent mani's.  Sorry the quality is not awesome on these, I really wish I had taken the time to get proper pics of them!


First up is a mani I got from this tutorial by MrCandiipants on YouTube.  I used Maybelline Canary Cool as my base, my watercolor colors are Essie Tart Deco, Finger Paints Lemon Sour, Sinful Colors Orange Cream, Orly Terracotta and my orange pastel neon franken, and the dots are also Canary Cool

Second is Wet N Wild I Need a Refresh-mint (new version I will do a comp soon) and Revlon Whimsical, this is pretty similar to several mani's I have done before but I am a sucker for Whimsical over pastel mints and blues!

Sally Hansen HD Blu

Hey guys,

I am back!  Sorry for the lack of posts, still trying to get settled into my new job.  Today I have a freakin awesome polish combo to show you all.  I have had several of the Sally Hansen HD polishes for a while they were discontinued last year I think and I never use them.  So I thought I would try a layering combo with Blu which is an amazing shimmery blue with a very slight purple duo-chrome.  I went with the lovely Sinful Colors Endless Blue as my base coat, I only needed one thickish coat to get it opaque, and layered one coat of Blue over that.

A Few Random Mani's

Hey guys,

So a have several mani's that I never got around to posting or that I didn't really like how they photographed,  looked etc.  I decided I would do a little spam post for you all with them.  I hope you enjoy!

Watercolor nails with a glitter cross accent, I hated how this one photographed the colors were not showing up well at all

Oklahoma Love mani, I used Gumdrop as the base and acrylic paint for the Oklahoma outline and the heart

Tribal mani, trying to do something inspired by Mr. Candiipants but I totally did not fill in that middle finger very well at all and I didn't see it till I took pics. I used Sinful Colors Bikini and a black striper polish

China Glaze Keep Calm and Paint On with little gems as and accent

Orly Royal Navy, this one is impossible for me to photograph good, it always shows visible nail line and in real life it was not noticeable at all

Orly Rage and Cotton Candy tape mani, I just wasn't sure how much I liked this one, I do love the color combo though

Salon Perfect Shocked over Sinful Colors Bikini, I kept forgetting to post this one and it also is not photographing very color accurate it is a lighter pink

Fourth of July!

Hey guys,

I have a fun easy Fourth of July mani for everyone today.  I love doing Fourth mani's but I will kinda make myself sick of them after a while haha.  Anyways I wanted to do something simple but glittery and I came up with this combo.  I hope you enjoy!


Colors used: Sinful Colors Endless Blue, OPI Pirouette My Whistle, Zoya Maura and LA Girl Glitter Addict Animate

Multi-Colored Water Spotted

Hey guys,

So when I tried the water spotted nails the other day I thought that it might be cool to see what it would look like if I did a few different colors.  This one was definitely trial and error, I had a hard time getting the color to spot at first and I was trying to use hairspray but it was not working well.  I figured out that if I did just one drop of the nail color onto the water and then sprayed with body spray I got the polish to separate better.  I did one color at a time and I thought it looked pretty cool once I was done with it.


Colors used: base, Orly Pure Porcelain, China Glaze Electric Pineapple, Sinful Colors Why Not and Bikini

Abstract Flowers

Hey guys,

I have a fun and super easy nail art look today.  I was loosely inspired by some Revlon nail strips I saw the other day at the store.  I started with an off white base color, for the flowers I took the different colors one at a time and mixed acetone with them and painted roundish splotches on my nails.  I plan on doing a tutorial on this one soon, but it really is so easy and mistake-proof!

Colors used:
Base, OPI My Vampire is Buff
Flowers, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Pacific Blue and Bubblegum Pink, Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby, Wet N Wild On a Trip
Leaves, Essie Mojito Madness

 

 

 

Lorelei's Tiara

Hey guys,

I have an simple (for me anyways) mani today.  I am in love with Sinful Colors Endless Blue but I didn't feel like wearing it on it's own so I decided to add an accent with it.  I did something a little different with my accent than I usually do. I did the accent color on my pinky and ring finger only.  I really liked the look of it!  I think a pointer and thumb accent combo would be cute too.

Colors used: Sinful Colors Endless Blue and China Glaze Lorelei's Tiara

 

 

 

 

Neon Sponging

Hey guys,

I am sorry for not posting this past week, I have been under the weather for the past couple of weeks and I am just now starting to feel better. This mani is one that I did about a week ago and am just getting around to posting.  Also there may not be a post for a day because I broke my index fingernail pretty badly and I want to wait a little bit before taking pics.  For this mani I just used my cosmetic sponge to place color onto my nails randomly, very similar to the technique for galaxy nails except for I made sure to get the colors opaque.

Base: Revlon Top Speed Cloud
Sponging Colors: Orly Skinny Dip, Orly Glowstick, and Color Club Electro Candy
Glitter: Sinful Colors Pinky Glitter

Raibow Water Marble

Hey guys,

Sorry for the lack of posts recently I have really been into doing much to my nails, but I think I am getting out of this funk now so I should have more manis soon!  This was my third time trying water marble nail art.  I really hate the process and I am not very good at it at all.  I like how this one turned out and it is a mani I have been wanting to do for almost two years.  Also I didn't tape off my fingers or us any Vaseline so sorry if there is some stray polish on my fingers in the pics I thought I got all of it but I noticed some when cropping my pics.

I used a base of Essie Topless and Barefoot, the for the water marble I used Wet N Wild Everybody Loves Redmond, China Glaze Papaya Punch, China Glaze Lemon Fizz, Essie Mojito Madness and Sinful Colors Why Not. I then topped it off with a coat of inm Northern Lights Holographic Topcoat.

 

 

 

 

Blue Mix N' Match

Hey guys,

I have no idea what to call this one and I know I already have a few mix and match mani's on here but I am drawing a blank, haha.  I was just playing around with my acrylic paint again and figured I would show you guys how this one turned out.  I really don't like the leopard print it just doesn't look right.  Anyways hope you enjoy!

I used Sinful Colors Endless Blue and white and pink acrylic paint

 

 

 

 

Geometric Design Mani

Hey guys,

So Dressed Up Nails has been doing these awesome geometric designs with some of her mani's lately and I am in love with how it looks.  I decided to give it a try myself and I am in love with it!  I used acrylic paint but I think I will try painting the design with nail polish next time because it can be more opaque looking than acrylic.

I used Sinful Colors Endless Blue (a supposed dupe of Nails Inc. Baker Street!) and pink acrylic paint.

Creamsicle Gradient

Hey guys,

I finally did another gradient!  It feels like I haven't done one in forever, I love doing gradients I think they are so pretty.  I wanted something girly for this one so I went with pink and coral.  I used OPI Pink Friday and Finger Paints Gimme Some Sugar then topped the gradient off with Sinful Colors Pinky Glitter.

 

 

 

 

Party of Five Glitters

Hey guys,

I was craving a bright, glittery mani so I did this one last night.  I used Sinful Colors Bikini, Wet n Wild Party of Five Glitters and inm Northern Lights Holographic topcoat.  Bikini is the most awesome hot pink, almost neon nail polish ever, it is probably my favourite pink out of my whole collection.  I really like this combo it is a nice bright fun mani that makes me happy!

 

 

 

 

Cold As Ice

I wanted to do a icy looking mani so I came up with this one.  I used a base of Sinful Colors Cinderella, it a pale blue with pink micro shimmer.  I really like the look of it but it takes 3-4 coats to get opaque and streak-less.  I then added a coat of China Glaze Luxe and Lush.  This on is like irridecent shards of mylar.  It is really cool looking but again another pain to work with.  Luxe and Lush is somewhat lumpy because of the shards so you need to use a coat or two of a really thick top coat to help smooth them.  I used 2 coats of Gelous base coat over it then a coat of Seche Vite.  I really wasn't sure if I liked this one very much, not to mention I had like 12 coats of polish on my nails when it was all said and done!

 

 

 

 

 

First Snowfall

I have a kind of holiday inspired look today.  I think this is a really easy way to do "holiday" nails  without having to do any kind of nail art.  I used Sinful Colors Rise and Shine and OPI Piroutte My  Whistle.  I thought that the glitter looked a lot like falling snow and with the green base it look even more like snow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Glitter Gradient

Can I go ahead and start doing Christmas nail art now?  I having been itching to do some holiday themed nails and I think since Thanksgiving has passed it is appropriate.  My base is China Glaze Make Some Noise and the glitter is a franken.  I used an Wet N Wild mini from a few holidays ago it is a red glitter with large hexagon and small round glitter pieces, then I used the silver hexagon glitter from Sally's Girl and Sinful Colors Call You Later which is a green and gold glitter mixture.  I was going for a China Glaze Party Hearty esque franken (man I regret never getting this one!), it is not an exact dupe but it will do!

Happy Halloween!

I can't believe it is already Halloween!  The Holidays are just around the corner, time goes by so fast.  I wanted something sort of creepy to wear today but I wanted it to be creepy/blingy haha.  I love how this mani turned out and the red glitter is a nice unexpected touch I think.

I used Orly Au Champagne, Sinful Colors Ruby, Ruby, and China Glaze Ring In the Red

 

 

 

 

 

31 Day Challenge, Day 21 Inspired By A Color

This challenge day is supossed to be inspired by a color.  I went with blue, mainly because it is my favorite color especially when it comes to nail polish.  I used China Glaze Bahamian Escape (my new favorite blue), Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Pacific Blue and Sinful Colors Why Not.  For the little hearts I drew the hearts on a ziploc bag let them dry over night then took them off with tweezer applied a little top coat to my nail then placed the heart on followed by another coat of topcoat.  I will probably do a tutorial for the ziploc bag trick someday, it was my first time trying it and I think I will need to get the hang of it a bit more before I do one on it.

 

 

 

31 Day Challenge, Day 19 Galaxies

I love Galaxy mani's they are really so easy and look so dimensional and cool!  If you want to check out my tutorial for a galaxy mani go here.

I used a base of China Glaze Stone Cold (sort of in love with this one right now a perfect one coater) Sinful Colors Bikini, Sinful Colors Rise and Shine, OPI Did It On Em', Sinful Colors Cinderella and LA Colors Color Craze Sparkling Diamonds.