Swatch me baby!

Tonight I decided to swatch all the polish (except for white) that I own so far, I put each set of colors on their own wheel and labeled the backs of them, this will make it much easier for me to find!!

I figured I would share with all my readers :D I'm not listing the names of all of them, but they are all numbered, so if you would like to know what one is, holla at me ;)

REDS




PINKS




ORANGES AND PEACHES




YELLOWS AND GOLDS




GREENS




BLUES




PURPLES




BROWNS AND TANS




BLACKS, SILVERS, WHITES




Once again, if you have questions on colors, let me know! :)

Happy Painting!

HELP!!!

Tomorrow is Wednesday, which means I need to paint my nails pink! Just like in Mean Girls, the ladies at Polish-Aholics Anonymous wear pink on Wednesdays except ours in is in nail polish form ;)

So I need help! I have too many to choose from, so help me pick what color to do!

Keep in mind I do also have a matte top coat to change them up a bit ;)



and a close up of the swatches



if you couldn't see it in the picture the number zero is a crackle :)

So please help me choose! my brain is not working correctly today!

letting the creative juices flow!

First off, how do you guys like the new look of my blog? I changed it up tonight :)

Secondly, yay for new polish! I went to Sally Beauty and CVS Pharmacy today and I got a total of 13 new polishes for $29 total, not too shabby right? :D That also included two nail files, a nail art pen with stencils and toe separators :)

Here is my haul for the day!



So I decided to get a little more creative today and try some things that I had seen and also just do some swatches of all the colors I have thus far :)

Here is my first attempt to do "notebook nails", a friend of mine found and posted a picture of these and I fell in love! I thought, "how perfect will this be once fall semester starts!" Here is the original picture that I saw http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6c4xzLtt81qcf4fho2_500.jpg and my version is below, granted it's not as clean but I don't have all the tools I need to do it really nice yet, I just wanted a practice go at it, not too bad right?



Then I tried my hand at a tape mani again (idea came from this blog http://chloesnails.blogspot.com/) I thought the pink and green would be super cute with a watermelon in the middle, what do you think?



One of the new colors I got today is Finger Paints brand and is called "Tiffany imposter" and what girl doesn't like Tiffany & Co right? Personally I love seeing my little blue boxes every Valentines Day (what can I say, I'm a lucky girl) but now I want to see it on my nails! Here is my idea of a Tiffany & Co. box, thoughts?



And last but not least are my color swatches so far, I did them in rainbow order because I'm a little OCD about things like that :) The last three on the second color wheel are holo glitters:)




I would love suggestions on what I should try next!

Happy painting!

summer-time nails and toes!

Once I put my monkey down for his nap I did my nails and toes :)

I decided to do a lime green on my toes (Pure Ice- Wild Thing) and use some of the little fruit pieces from the wheel that Jess sent me today :)

This is a close up of all the fruit pieces...yea I know I'm Ms. State The Obvious tonight :)



And this is what my toes ended up looking like :) I used Wet N Wild, Wild Shine in silver over the top of everything....what can I say, I love glitter!



I did my nails different :) I used Sinful Colors- Unicorn (which ended up taking FOUR yes four coats so it wouldn't be streaky, live and learn, next time I'll do a base of white!) and with a toothpick I did the bumblebee designs :) It didn't come out quite as clean as I would have liked, but that's because I don't have a brush small enough to make it really clean and neat...yet!

It still turned out super cute!



I have to say that I got this idea (as well as others I have planned in the future) from www.youtube.com/cutepolish :) she has really good tutorials!

Not only did I do my toes and nails this afternoon but I even played around with one of my color wheels trying out some new things, and other ideas that I have seen on other blogs, some of them came out cute, some not so much lol.

The one beside the bumblebee is Minnie Mouse inspired and also from the tutorials on cutepolish, the orange with red and the three color one beside that are supposed to be tape manis, but they didn't turn out so well :( I got both of those ideas from http://chloesnails.blogspot.com/p/tutorials.html the others are just things I was playing with, like the Pac Man stuff :)

If you want to know what colors I used, or how I did any of them, feel free to ask! Happy painting!! :D