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!

Waterfall Nail Art Inspired by The Nailasaurus

Hey guys,

So The Nailasaurus has posted a few of these Waterfall Nail Art and I loved the blue one that she posted so I decided to give it a try myself.  She hasn't put a tutorial up for it and this was so my first time trying this out so mine is not near as perfect as hers, but I still like how they turned out and I think these will be easier to do the second time around.  Hope you all enjoy!


Colors used: China Glaze Bahamian Escape, Gothic Lolita, Fancy Pants, and Secret Periwinkle and Wet N Wild Hallucinate

Tutorial: Multi-Colored Water Spotted Nails

Hey guys,

So I did a multi-color water spotted mani a week or two ago and when I posted it on Beautylish someone suggested that I do a tutorial for it.  I thought this was a pretty good idea because I haven't seen any out there for using more than one color in a water spotted mani.  If you have never done a water spotted mani or would like to see a video on how it is done then please visit CutePolish on YouTube.  I hope you all find this helpful!


Colors used: Orly Pure Porcelain, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Pacific Blue and Twisted Pink, and Wet N Wild On A Trip

Step One:  Paint your nails a base color, I would suggest a white or off-white for this.  Also apply a little Vaseline or some tape around your fingers to help aid in clean up later.

Step Two: Get a cup a fill it to the top with room temperature water, make sure it is a cup you are not going to be drinking out of again. Oh and do not use a Styrofoam cup the nail polish will melt it! Pick three  colors for your water spots.  Now take one of the colors drip a dot of polish onto the surface of the water.  Spray it with some kind of alcohol based spray about 4-5 inches away (you can use body spray, anti-bacterial spray, hairspray).  I usually spray between 1-3 times, it depends on how well the polish start to separate.

Step Three: Repeat step two with your other two colors.  

Step Four:  Remove the tape or wipe the Vaseline and nail polish off your skin and clean up any other polish with a q-tip or brush and some acetone.  Top coat your look and you should be done!

A couple of tips if you have never done water spotted nails before.

1.It can be a bit tricky to do at first, I find that I like to only work with one drop of polish, especially when doing more than one color for the spots.  I also find that when I do more than one drop it seems to not want to separate once I spray the body spray. 

2. And on the topic of body spray I would highly suggest you do not use aerosol hairspray, I have tried it once and the spray was too powerful it pretty much blew the nail polish out of my cup of water.  

3. It is important that the water you use is room temp, if it is too cold the polish dries very quickly and you will have issues with getting it to spot.

Metallic Dotticure

Hey guys,

I have got something completely different for me today.  I started with a really sheer off-white base and then added metallic dots in different sizes.  I just used three different sized dotting tools for this and I placed the dots randomly on my nail.  This looks so cool to me, I love the sheer base where you can see your natural nail through it, I can't wait to try this with other colors!


Colors used: Wet N Wild 2% Milk, Orly Luxe, Rage, and Dazzle

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

 

 

 

Seeing Stars

Hey guys,

I have a fun starry mani for you all today.  I used my bigRuby nail tattoos for this look and I really liked how this turned out, this mani reminded me of when I was a kid for some reason.


Colors used: Revlon Top Speed Luxe Lacque, Wet n Wild Sparked (for the thumb only), and OPI I Juggle... Men (I put two coats over all of my nails)

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

Floral Print

Hey guys,

So I went a bought a set of nail art brushes on Amazon last week and I got them Saturday so I have been dying to do something with these brushes.  I have seen these Doc Marten floral inspired nails by Chelsea's Get Nailed and I really loved the mani so I decided to try and recreate the mani.  I actually love how it turned out and I really wish I would have been able to get better pics of this one.

I used Wet N Wild Ebony Hates Chris and acrylic paint

 

 

 

 

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!

 

 

 

 

Happy New Year!

Hey guys,

Hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year.  I have my very first mani of 2013 to show today.  I had done a different mani for New Years Eve and it got destroyed before I could get any pictures of it, so I did this one yesterday.  I love feather mani's they always looks so delicate and pretty!

I used OPI Skull and Glossbones, China Glaze Polarized, Wet N Wild I Need a Refresh-Mint and an Amuse white nail art pen.

 

 

 

 

Pastel Galaxy

I wanted to try something a different today, I got the idea to try out pastel galaxy nails.  I am not sure how much I like this one though.  I think I should have done a different color combo or a different base for them.

I used Orly Pure Porcelain for the base, and sponged on Orly Skinny Dip, Color Club Electro Candy, Finger Paints Lemon Sour, Finger Paints 15 Minutes of Frame, Wet N Wild Buffy the Violet Slayer and topped it all with Cover Girl City Lights.

Galaxy Drip Nails

I have seen a few different creations of these galaxy drip nails floating around Pinterest lately and I really wanted to try them.  I thought they would be a lot easier than they were!  The hardest part was trying to keep the drips crisp looking while attempting to make the galaxy pattern.  I started with a pastel blue polish from Cosmetic Arts that I don't have a name for.  I then painted the drips with Orly After Party and sponged on Orly Meet Me Under the Mistletoe, Sweet Peacock and Essie Mojito Madness.  After that I applied a coat of Wet N Wild's Hallucinate over the entire nail and added a few glitters from China Glaze Snowglobe to the galaxies. 

 

 

 

 

 

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!

Poison Ivy

Oh goodness this mani is frickin awesome!  I can't even stand it, it looks so glowy and gorgeous.  I wanted to try Wet N Wild's Poison Ivy again because the first time I wore it I did a horrible job of applying it and I couldn't get any good pics of it.  So this time around I super nubbinized my nails and slapped it on being extra careful to not flood my cuticles, this one is really hard to clean up if you get it on your skin.  I felt like it needed a little something else so I applied a couple of coats of Pure Ice Heart Breaker over it.  Heart Breaker made this polish look insane.  After looking at it I wanted to try it with a matte top coat so I did that as well haha.  Hope you enjoy!



I used Wet N Wild Poison Ivy, Pure Ice Heart Breaker and in the last two pics Hard Candy Matte-Ly In Love

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blurry so you can see how glowy it is

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duo-Chrome Gradient

I have wanted to try this mani out for a while now.  I like how it turned out, however I hate using a black base and then not being able to cover up some of the black that is at the base of the nails!  Anyways, for these I started with a black base of Wet N Wild Ebony Hates Chris and then used my gradient technique to sponge on China Glaze Want My Bawdy, Deviantly Daring and Rare and Radiant.  I struggled to get good pics of this one, I have been having issues taking photos lately haha.  I can't seem to get them right, but hopefully these are ok.

 

indoors w/ flash

 

 

 

direct sunlight

 

 

 

under water w/ flash

 

 

 

natural light, overcast

 

 

 

Cute Halloween Themed Nails

Hey guys this was mani I did a few days ago.  Sorry it is not the best pic but it was really cute.  Also I have made a Facebook page for my blog if you would like to go like it!

I used Wet N Wild Black Creme and China Glaze Papaya Punch

Nightmare Before Christmas

I love The Nightmare Before Christmas, it is one of my favorites around Halloween and Christmas haha.  I went with a Jack and Sally inspired mani.  It was hard to decide on exactly how to do this one but I like what I went with.  Sorry for the Jack face not being the best, my polish was drying too fast so it was getting tacky as I was trying to paint the eyes.

I used Wet N Wild Black Creme, Orly Au Champagne, China Glaze Electric Beat, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Grey Area, and white and black striper polishes.

 

 

 

 

Fallen Angel

I had a hard time trying to come up with a name for this one.  I am not sure how fitting Fallen Angel is but I like it.  This was actually some what inspired by The Black Swan.  Also I promise I am doing a tutorial soon on these feathers, hopefully it will be one of my next couple of posts. 
 
I used Zoya Maura, Wet N Wild Ebony Hates Chris, LA Girls Glitter Addict Animate, Wet N Wild Hallucinate, a black and a white nail art striper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evolving Mani

I decided to add something to my China Glaze Trendsetter mani.  I was hoping this would look Halloween-esque but I am not sure if I achieved that.  I used tape for the stripes and a dotting tool for the dots.

China Glaze Trendsetter, Essies As Gold As It Gets and Wet N Wild On A Trip

Trendsetter

I have been into green nail polish the past few days. Which is funny because I used to hate green so much.  I also included a bonus pic of another green polish that was not wanting to photograph right at all!

China Glaze Trendsetter with Essie As Gold As It Gets

 

 

 

 

 

and the bonus Wet N Wild Poison Ivy from the Halloween collection this one is so pretty but I had a really hard time capturing it, also I have some awful tip wear and the flash was crazy in this pic