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!

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

Pastel Neon Orange Franken

Hey guys,

I am wearing another one of my neon franken's again today, I just love these and this orange one is probably one of my favorite next to the purple one that I did.  This color did not one to show up right when I photographed it though!  Really frustrating but it is not a mac and cheese orange, it is a little lighter and leans a tiny bit coral than what is showing in the pics.


Colors used: neon orange franken and Essie As Gold As It Gets

Flash, this one is way off on color accuracy

Natural light, closer but it's brighter and not as coral as this is showing

Natural light again this is closer than the first pic but it photographed way darker hear than in real life

Madeline Poole/Pshiiit Inspired Flowers

Hey guys,

So I was browsing Pshiiit's blog the other day and I saw her post about Madeline Poole's nail art book and one of the looks she had done from it.  I instantly knew I wanted to recreate this look, it was just so cute and looked really simple to do.  I didn't have the exact colors that she used but I tried to go with similar ones because I really thought it was a pretty combo.  Also I may do a tutorial on these flowers because they are very simple and look really cute!


Colors used: OPI My Vampire Is Buff, L'Oreal Sparklicious, my neon pink and orange franken, China Glaze White on White and Orly Glowstick

Frankening Fun

Hey guys,

I have been on a serious neon kick for the past week or so and I was getting tired of the neon colors  I have so I decided to franken some.  I started off with a purple neon from Sally's Girl and I added two of these little bottles to a half full bottle of Sally Hansen Lavender Cloud (a very slightly tinted lavender white), and I thought why not do a whole bunch of pastel like neons!  I bought a couple of bottles of white polish and used neon colors I already owned, with a basic recipe of half a bottle of white and a half a bottle of neon.  I am completely in love with these, some of them remind me of the new China Glaze Sunsational colors and others of the Lime Crime pastel polish but brighter.  Anyways onto the pics, which were a total pain to try and get color accurate but I tried my best.

 

All the pretties together!

 

 

 

The purple on its own, this one is my absolute favorite, it is less pink toned in real life though

 

 

 

 

A gradient I did with all of the colors, definitely super hard to capture what these look like in real life though

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Return of the Thunder Mani

Hey guys,

So I have not done a Thunder themed mani in almost a year!  If you have seen any of my older posts I did quite a few nails inspired by the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team.  I am an Okie and I love my Thunder.  Anyways I figured it was time to do another one.  This mani was so hard to get color accurate, the orange and blue kinda freaked my camera out.  I did my best to edit the photos to as close to what they look like in real life.   Hope you enjoy!

I used Essie In the Cab-ana and acrylic paint

 

The blue is somewhat close to real life in this pic, it is more saturated though and leans I tiny bit more teal than straight blue

 

 

 

Ugh I dunno the lighting is not well in this one but I feel like you can see the design better

 

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.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

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

31 Day Challenge, Day 26 Inspired by a Pattern

Getting close to the end of this challenge now!  I was inspired by a shirt that I have a had for a little while.  I did smear one of my fingers a little bit so I apoligize for that. 


I used Color Club Naughtycal Navy, Sally Hansen Xreme Wear Lacey Lilac, Essie Tart Deco, Sinful Colors Ruby, Ruby, China Glaze Fuchsia Fanatic, and China Glaze Skyscraper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

31 Day Challenge, Day 12 Stripes

I had done something else for this one but it turned out really awful and by the time I could take pics I had ruined the mani.  I went with something simple because honestly I could not come up with something interesting for this one!  I like the finished result though.

I used Revlon Top Speed Violet (love so hard), LA Colors Art Deco nail stripers in Bright Orange and Baby Pink

 

 

 

31 Day Challenge, Day 9 Rainbow

At first I figured I would just do skittles for this one but I decided to try something different.  I have seen this mani on either Pinterest or Beautylish and loved it so I figured it would be perfect for this challenge.  This is what is nice about doing this challenge to, it has made me try new things!


I used LA Colors Color Craze Live, Zoya Maura, China Glaze Papaya Punch, Finger Paints Lemon Sour, Color Club Twiggie, and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Pacific Blue.

 

Sorry for the reflection of the flash in this one, metallics are so hard to photograph with flash or in direct sunlight

 

 

 

 

 

31 Day Challenge, Day 2 Orange

Alright for this orange day challenge I chose Essie Tart Deco, although it isn't very orange in the bottle once it is applied to the nail and topcoat is put over it, it turns into a very pretty orange leaning coral.  I have wanted to try out the saran wrap mani so I decided to give it a try with this one.  I used Orly Luxe for the saran wrap sponging.  This technique is so, so easy and gives a really pretty effect.  Pretty much you cut up plastic wrap into little pieces and the bunch it up and apply a bit of polish to it then tap it onto your nails.  I will do a tutorial sometime soon for this one.

 

This one is super hard to get color accurate I would say this top one is the closest but there is more of a coral tone than is pictured and the saturation on this is not correct.  It's more bright in real life but I could not get it to translate in these pics!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gradient Accent

Here is a gradient mani I did, with a gradient accent.  This didn't turn out quite like I planned because I was going to do a ring and thumb accent and completely forgot and went over my ring with the wrong color so I did the index and thumb instead.  Go here to find my gradient tutorial!  Also a couple of tips that I have learned by doing a few more gradient.

• dampen the sponge before applying polish to it
• to make sure you have the tips covered I will apply a small amount of the color to the tips kind of like you do with a french tip
• When using sponges to do gradient it can get a little gritty looking, to help that I use a glitter top coat.  It really smooths the look of the gradient and it also helps to blend and cover any imperfections!

Hope these tips are helpful!

Now onto the nails, I used OPI Pink Friday and Color Club Tangerine Scream for the pink to orange one and Orly Skinny Dip and Color Club Ultra Violet for the blue to purple.  I topped them all off with Cover Girl City Lights and the white base I used was Orly Dayglow.

Melting Popsicle Mani

I have seen this done several times. Wah Nails does this design a lot and Let Them Have Polish just did a really cute Nickelodeon inspired mani, which was the main inspiration for mine. 

This is pretty easy to you start with a base color and for your "melting" color you use a dotting tool and draw the drips on then kind of fill it in with the dotting tool.  I will try to post a tutorial on it sometime for you guys.

I used OPI Pink Friday and Color Club Tangerine Scream for the melting color.  I then topped it all with Wet N Wild Hallucinate.

Nails On Fire Gradient

I was just trying something out with this mani.  Seeing what effect I could get by putting a crackle over a gradient.

 For the gradient I used Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Yellow Kitty, Sally's Girl neon orange polish, Essie Bazooka, and the shatter is China Glaze Cracked Medallion over the gradient.