New Years...Kind Of?

Hey guys! I hope everyone had a great Christmas! Here today with a sort of New Years themed mani, the colors are but the stamp...well you can decide!

My old man picked out a silver and gold metallic polishes and said do something with these lol....well my brain is fried so I kind of had no idea what to do!

I started with two coats of Essie As Good As Gold, and two coats of Pure Ice Silver Mercedes on alternating nails, I then used Sinful Colors Black on Black and Bundle Monster BM-320 for the stamp. I've loved this one since I first got them but this is my first time using it :) Once I was done I topped it all with China Glaze Fairy Dust.

Like I said New Years colors for sure, the print? Well who knows, but it's still fun!!

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

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!

Summer Fun Challenge, Summer Stylin!

Hey guys! Guess what? It's day 7 (or post 7) of the Neverland Nail Blog's summer fun nail art challenge! Today is all about summer style, something inspired by some sort or fashion you have seen somewhere.

Because I'm not huge on keeping up with fashion trends (let's face it, the 80s styles shouldn't have been around the first time) or what's on the runway, which recently seems to be old lady prints. I just kind of did my own thing! I have however seen quite a few different home decorative items that look similar to what I did.

So quick run down, I got my nails filled and cut down yesterday (yay!!) and me being a bit of a control freak from time to time, I took my own polish! I took with me Hits Atena, and she is currently on my toes as well as my fingers! She is too beautiful to part with so fast, so I just decided to stamp over her, since I got my set of the new Bundle Monster plates yesterday!!

I have tired to freehand a design similar to this before without much luck, so I was super excited to see this image on BM plate 314! Now be polite! This is only my 3rd or 4th time doing a full nail stamp, so I'm no expert (yet) but I think I did a pretty good job. Sorry about the not so great pics, The bottom one was with no flash and a bulb that should work as daylight, uh not so much, tips or advice there would be great!

Oh and this is two coats of Atena btw, and I used Sinful Colors black on black to stamp with :)

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Summer Fun Challenge, Hot Hot Hot!!!

Hey guys! Today I have post 4 of the Summer Fun nail art Challenge from Lindsey over at Neverland Nail Blog. I just like last time had an idea that I ended up changing because well, it would have been pretty much impossible since I don't have a mirror polish lol

So for today's challenge I did started with a base coat of white, and did a gradient from yellow to red, the red turned out more pink because of the white base, but I'm okay with that! Yellow I used Zoya Pippa, Orange I used Essie Orange It's Obvious, and the Red is OPI The Color of Minnie. I then used one coat of OPI DS Shimmer (my pointer ended up with a thicker coat) to make my hot gradient sparkle!

I then used ManGlaze Matte is Murder with a nail art brush to draw on the flames, and filled it in with a dotting tool, hence why it's kind of lumpy. I wanted this contrast because I thought it would be awesome! Holo flames and matte black mmmm.

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Holo Hump Day!

Hey guys! Here today with another PLOP challenge. This time we had holo hump day. So anything holographic :D I decided I wanted to do something a little bit different. So instead of just painting my nails I did a Chalkboard Nails design that Sarah is calling a "ruffled" mani. It's super cute! On my ring finger I did an accent nail of a gradient with the same colors used with my ruffles and free handed some zebra stripes.

So why the accent nail and why these colors? Well I saw a shirt in Walmart that gave me inspiration (pic below). I didn't use white in the gradient because well I just didn't heh, but I did use white in the ruffles. This did take a while since each ruffle is done with a dotting tool, but I love the final look of it.

On my ring finger I used a white base before sponging the gradient on. All my other nails I started with a base of China Glaze GR8, then used white, L8R G8R and DV8 as my other ruffle colors. I just did them in a pattern of GR8, DV8, L8R G8R, white and repeat.

What do you guys think?

Make sure to check out all the other ladies below!

Until next time! Happy painting!

Butter London Knackered

Hey guys! Here today with another duo-chrome, which of course means it's a PITA to photograph :P But she is beautiful!!

Knackered is a sort of grey base (in shade in looks grey) with a green/purple duo-chrome and holographic glitter. It's beautiful in the sun!

I used two thick coats because it is a bit on the thin side, but it worked out good for me. It's defiantly not an in your face color.

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

OPI and Glitter Gal lizards!

Hey guys! Here today with two different gorgeous lizard polishes. OPI Just Spotted the Lizard is from the new Spiderman collection, and was the only one I really felt like I needed to have. Glitter Gal Lizard Belly, has been around a while and I've had mine since before they even changed the bottles.

This mani is two coats of both, I tried hard to capture the duo-chrome of the OPI but I found it difficult, it's a sage green/gold mixture. The Glitter Gal is holo ;)

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Holographic Gradient O.O

Hey guys! Here today with another group post with some other nail bloggers and I, this time our challenge was to do a gradient mani. I dug through my polishes and wanted to do something different, so not only did I use EIGHT different colors, but they are ALL holo!!! O.O

So for this one I did no base color, I individually sponged on each color, I didn't use the sponge all at once technique, I don't really like that way honestly.

The green to blue colors from top to bottom are L8R G8R, He's going in circles, Kaleidoscope him out and DV8, the purple to pink from top to bottom are LOL, 2NITE, How about a tumble and QT. All polishes are China Glaze.

What do you guys think?

Make sure and check out all the other ladies below that participated!

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!

Spring Butterflies

Hey guys! Hope everyone had a great Easter! Now that Easter is over, I'm going to try and keep doing spring themed nails. What's more spring than starting to see butterflies on all of the blooming flowers? We've had quite a few little ones around here, so I decided to try my hand at them :)

I started with three coats of OPI sanderella, damn I didn't realize how shear it is! I did the bodies and antennae of the butterflies in WnW ink well, then did the wings with OPI austin-tatious turquoise, and added a few dots with the light purple Barbie Joe Fresh polish.

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Super Girly Hello Kitty Nails!

Hey guys! Here today with something a little special. Rebecca over at Rebecca Likes Nails is doing a nail art contest for her favorite nail art things, which are gradients, animal prints, dots, Hello Kitty and bows. Knowing her a bit I also know she is obsessed with cupcakes just like myself, so I wanted to add that in as well!

I started with one coat of OPI DS reserve, sponged on OPI DS signature in the middle, and on the tips I sponged on OPI DS reflection. This on it's own was beautiful! But I wanted to go all out for this one! I started my nail art with the little Hello Kitty face on my middle finger, it's my first time trying to draw/do nail art of her at all so I think I did a pretty good job! Then I did a Hello Kitty bow on my thumb with OPI flower to flower (it's also the pink in the cupcake and the Hello Kitty) and then a cupcake on my pinky finger. I finished off with a leopard stamp on my pointer finger, and zebra stamping on my ring finger. My right hand I just alternated the two stamps.

Oh there are also little pink rhinestones in the middle of both bows :)

It's beautiful outside again today, so I took pictures in my front yard :)

So what do you think? I'm kind of in love with it!

Until next time! Happy painting!

Got a little Irish in ya?

Hey guys! Today I'm here to show my inner Irish! I actually am Irish, my family originates from Northern Ireland from what I've been able to find so far. I have "Irish" tattooed on my right ankle and I also have four leaf clovers tattooed on my right foot :)

This was super quick and easy to do! The green (which is amazing!) is Sinful Colors Irish green, it's in a  display at Walgreens right now, along with green ocean ;) The orange is China Glaze papaya punch, then just a plane ol white. The gold is Orly gold rush.

With the "flag" nails I just swiped on two coats of each color in the lines, the solid nails are two coats of Irish green. Using a nail dotting tool I made four little hearts with the gold then connected them and added a stem. I finished off with one coat of China Glaze fairy dust, but for now we will call it leprechaun dust! ;)

What do you guys think?

Until next time, happy painting!

Nubar prize and white polka dots

Hey guys! Today we have my favorite color! Pink! yay :D

I just received my first set of Nubar polishes in the mail (I had one from a blog sale but no others), I got both black and white polka dots, and the prism collection.

I used two coats of prize, and since I did it at night no sunlight pics :( BUT it is beautiful!

Blured pic to show the holo :) Then I added one coat of Nubar white polka dots over it. Ah! I love it :)

What do you guys think?

Until next time, happy painting!