Saran Wrap Sponging

Hey guys! Here today with a new technique I just recently heard about, using saran wrap for a sponge! I know for those of you that haven't heard of it yet think it sounds strange, I know I did. But seeing the effects won me over!

This is one of the easiest nail art techniques I've done, ANYONE can do this and it will turn out great! What I did was start with two coats of Funky Fingers Queen Cupcake, added my top coat, then using Zoya Kimber and China Glaze How About A Tumble I put a few drops of each on my nail art plate, then dabbed the ball of saran wrap into it. I then just dabbed the saran wrap all over each nail until the color was where I wanted it, then used a top coat again and I was done! See? Super simple!

Some people don't use a base color but since I wanted to make sure there would be no bald spots I did use one. Your imagination is the limit here! Play with colors and see what works for you!

For some reason no flash wasn't picking up the dimensions of this all that great so the second two pictures have flash :)

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Neon Summer Starfish!

Hey guys! Here today with some more neon nail art :) This design comes from Sarah over at Chalkboard Nails, she has the tutorial for it here.

This was much easier than it looked, or it least it was in my case :P But it was too adorable not to recreate it! I did decide to use the same color scheme as Sarah because let's face it, she's one of the masters at this kind of thing, so I couldn't go wrong, right?

So I started with a base of Kleancolor Funky Yellow, I did have to use 3 coats to get it so it wouldn't be streaky which is a bit of a pain, but the super bright highlighter neon yellow is worth it! For the starfish themselves I used Essie Tour De Finance, and the blue spot on the starfish are Funky Fingers 220 Volts.

Just like my last mani, the color isn't 100% accurate even though I tried as best I could. Anyone have advice on photographing neon polishes? The pink and blue are color accurate, but the yellow isn't.

What do you guys think? Have you tried any of Sarah's designs?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Purple Water Marble!

Hey guys! I'm sorry I've been slacking and not had a post up daily, but I've been really busy :P It's getting to be toward the end of the semester, so I'll be getting even busier, BUT I do plan on starting a nail art contest here in the next few days!

As those of you that read my last post know, I just did an all pink water marble for my birthday last Thursday and it came out super cute! On my blog's Facebook page I did a poll to see what the majority favorite color was, and purple came out to be the top. So I figured I'd do an all purple marble to please my fans :D That and in PLOP a lot of did a group water marble, and all the posts will be up today, so keep an eye out for the other blogs with marbles today!

So for this marble I used 7 different purples, they are all random on every nail but I'll name the colors off for you guys :) OPI Catherine The Grape, Kleancolor Neon Purple, Sinful Colors Let's Talk, Sinful Colors Verbena, China Glaze Senorita Bonita, Funky Fingers Sugarplum Fairy, Essence Nail Art Twin Gabriella, Essence Nail Art Twin Thelma, and topped it all off with China Glaze Fairy Dust.

What do you guys think? It turned out much better on my left hand, but not horrible on my right :P I think my favorite is my pointer finger on my left hand :)

Until next time! Happy painting!

It's My Birthday!!

Hey guys! Today is my birthday! Yay :D I'm 28 today! Phew I'm getting old :P Nothing too exciting going on since it's a weekday, but we are going to lunch at Olive Garden before old man needs to go to work, and then I get to drive to Fresno (about 45 minutes away) to do a presentation in class (I have distance learning classes), then having a few drinks with my group members. Super exciting huh? ;)

So my favorite color is pink, and I love glitter so I wanted to do something with both of those, what did I decide on? An all pink water marble!! I started with one coat of a white polish (SC snow me white), and used 6 of my pinks. We have Zoya Izzy, Zoya Renee, OPI Flower to Flower, Wet N Wild How I Met Your Magenta, Funky Fingers Queen Cupcake and China Glaze It's Poppin.

I know I still have nubs *sad* but the freaking edges keep breaking on them, so I keep having to file them down, it's driving me nuts, but not a whole lot I can do about it :P Forgive the super smeared "28" I keep forgetting my Nubar Diamont topcoat tends to smear, I need to use my Seche instead when I have any type of art :P

My pinky on my left hand is my favorite!! Which one is yours?

Oh and I figured I would show you the SUPER cute flowers my old man got me, and the presents my bestie sent :) I do these posts the night before, so who knows what else I'll get! ;)

Until next time! Happy painting!

Cupcakes!

Hey guys! Today's post is fun! I walked around my house looking for inspiration, and I found it right away in my kitchen! I got this adorable little decorative plate at Ross for $3.99 that has a cupcake on it, and for those of you that don't know, my kitchen is decorated in cupcakes :) So I copied the plate and was super pleased!

For this super fun mani I used 2 coats of Funky Fingers queen cupcake on all 4 of my nails excluding the ring finger, which I used two coats of Zoya shay. The pink dots are OPI flower to flower, the brown are Kleancolor espresso, and then just white. Using the same colors I made the cupcake on my ring finger to match the one on the plate. I've always been a fan of the browns and pinks together, I think it's gorgeous, so it's about time I put it on my nails!

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Peaches and Creme

Hey guys! Today I wanted to do something with spring colors, but was at a loss of what to do, so I went looking through my colors and got the idea for peaches and creme! I have a few peach type colors, and I thought they would look good together, I was right!

For this fun and easy mani I used two coats of white, then sponged on three different shades of peach, I started with the darkest and went to the lightest. The first one I used is Funky Fingers taffy town, second I used Finger Paints circus peanuts, and last I used Julep Hayden. It turned out to have nice depth, with still having good bright color :) The first picture is flash, second is natural light.

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Antique Roses

Hey guys! Here today with another fun spring mani! For this one I cheated a bit, I went to YouTube to check out the Cute Polish page for some inspiration. I thought the cute antique roses worked well for spring!

So this is super easy, you need a base color, a green for the leaves, and two pinks, reds or whatever color you want to use for the flowers. For mine I did two coats of Finger Paints blue raspberry taffy, geez this is a gorgeous blue! For the flowers I used (the lighter pink) Funky Fingers queen cupcake, (the darker pink) Finger Paints pop rock pink, and the green leaves are China Glaze entourage.

I really like it, it was quick which I always like and it looks very classic! You could make it super funky with some bright colors for the flowers too, I may do that later ;)

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Spring Robin's Eggs

Hey guys! Here today with another spring mani! It's that time of year that we start seeing birds building their nests in the trees that are all sprouting bright green leaves, spring is my favorite time of year! It's awesome waking up and hearing the birds chirping with the sun out :D call me corny if you must, but I love it! It gets too hot here in the summer, so I'll take all the spring I can get!

My inspiration today was robin's eggs, or maybe just another type of birds egg in general. I started with two coats of China Glaze shy high tops, I sponged on Zoya Jo, China Glaze first mate, and Funky Fingers Mrs. mint, and wrapped it all up with some random sizes of dots (to represent speckled eggs) with Kleancolor espresso.

First pic is no flash and the second is, wanted to show the different dimensions with the different blues that were sponged on, it looks really pretty!

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Matte Easter Eggs!

Hey guys! Easter is apon us! Only 17 days to go! April 8th is Easter for those that don't know, and then my birthday is on the 12th :D I'll be a whopping 28 years old! *shock* So today's post is on another iconic childhood memory, dying and decorating hard boiled eggs!

This is a bit of a skittles mani, with different colored pastel colors :) My thumb (that you can't see lol) and pinky finger are Finger Paints lemon sour, my pointer finger is Funky Fingers Mrs. Mint, middle is Funky Fingers queen cupcake, and ring finger is Funky Fingers sugarplum fairy. Using my two favorite tools, my long thin nail art brush, and a dotting tool I made the "decorations", which I tried to make a little different on each one. Once I was done I topped it with Sephora by OPI matte top coat.

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Connect The Dots

Hey guys! Sorry about the lack of a post yesterday! I got a bit distracted with class and family stuff :P But today I bring you my one and only Lynnderella! This was the only one I was really lemming and I just got it in the mail this week.

I know there has been a lot of drama involving these polishes, and recently someone duped CTD and is selling it, but I have tried staying out of it! CTD is a unique black and white glitter layering polish. There are black and white bar glitters, large black hex, med. black and white hex, small round black and white, small square black, micro black and white, and an even more micro shimmer. It looks great over just about any polish, but I wanted to use one of the others I got in the mail this past week.

I started with two coats of Funky Fingers Mrs. Mint, a beautiful mint blue/green, in the bottle it looks like there is a slight gold shimmer but I was unable to see it on my nails, maybe in the sun but not with my eyes or flash of the camera *pout*, then I added two layers of CTD on top :)

Let me just tell you Mrs. Mint is a b***h to photograph!! It either looked more green, or more blue than it really is, ugh. The best and most accurate picture I was able to get of it was with my cell phone (it'll be the last picture).

What do you guys think? I'm extremely happy I finally got one of my biggest lemmings! :D

Until next time! Happy painting!

Rock on! Guitar and music nail art

Hey guys! More nail art today! I seem to be on a kick with wanting to do art recently :P This was one of my "failed" attempts at a dotting tool nail art entry for the contest I talked about yesterday. Yep it's all done with dotting tools, and probably why I'm not so happy with it haha, but a few friends thought it was super cute so I thought I would share it here :)

I started with two coats of Funky Fingers melted popsicle, then used a hot pink and hot teal for the different symbols. My thumb has a treble clef, my pointer is a guitar, the middle and ring finger are supposed to be wavy lined sheet music, and the pinky finger has music notes.

What do you guys think?

Until next time, happy painting!

Galaxy Nails are out of this world!

Hey guys :) This weeks challenge with PaA was galaxy nails, I wasn't planning on doing it at first, then I got inspired by this picture, beautiful right? and so after dinner, and during the VMAs I did my mani :)

It really isn't very hard, it's just a lot of steps! You need all the polishes you plan on working with, a nail art brush/toothpick and a cosmetic sponge and you are set!

I used a bunch of different colors, my base is Sinful Colors whats your name (it's black with a purple/blue very tiny glass fleck in it) then I sponged on Finger Paints paper mache, then sponged on Kleancolor lavenbaby, then sponged on Kleancolor catch me, more sponging with Funky Fingers melted popsicle, then I used my nail art brush with Orly star of bombay to help clean up the swirled galaxys on my ring fingers, then I used a nail art brush to add "stars" some big and some small on each finger, I then used some OPI DS shimmer in certain areas to give a little glitz, and added a little bit of Sally Hansen x-treme wear disco ball in certain areas too. Finished all off with a coat of SV and I was done! It took me a little over an hour total, but I am in LOVE with the finished product!!




Close up of the Sinful Colors, you can't see the purple in the picture but it's there :)




I blurred the second picture so you could see the holographic effect from the glitter and the OPI DS shimmer, I am seriously in love!! It came out way better than I had expected and I'm going to keep it on as long as I can before going insane ;)

What do you think of it?

Until next time! Happy painting! :D

Thank you! and more nail mail :D

Hey readers! I just wanted to send out a quick thank to you all my new followers, and to all of those that have entered the giveaway! I appreciate the love! :D

So this week has been amazing as far as nail mail goes! And I'm even still waiting on one more, then it will probably stop for a good while!

Yesterday along with my Birchbox I also got all the Kleancolors that I ordered for myself, as well as the ones for the giveaway so I thought I would share pictures :)

Today I got nail mail from the amazing Traci and one of my besties Jessica :D

Here is today's nail mail, I recieved OPI DS shimmer (see how much Jess loves me!?) and Hard Candy beetle from her, so I guess we are engaged now huh? ha ;) And from Traci I recieved Funky Fingers melted popsicle and favorite girl, and OPI merryberry mauve. :)



I don't have the names handy right off the bat for the Kleancolors, because well...they are all over a table in my family room waiting for me to make nail sticks out of them, so if you are interested in one, just ask me the color and I'll let you know!






Until next time! Happy painting :D