Sweet Treats!

Hey guys! Here again today with another cell phone picture (sorry!) it was too cute not to share!!

I found Revlon Girly and wanted to do something with it, but not something overly Christmas since it's all pink and purple :P So I looked through my stamps and found one I thought would work great :)

The inspiration for these was stockings! Say what? Well with my family tradition was on Christmas Eve (aka today!) we could either open our stocking or one present. And normally our stockings were filled with lots of sweets, hence what I'm calling these nails, Sweet Treats!

I started with two coats of OPI I Think In Pink, Revlon Girly on my thumb and ring finger is also two coats. Then I used Color Club Wild At Heart with Bundle Monster BM-306. It stamped really well, but I took too long on my pointer so not all of it transferred.

Overall I love the look, super girly!!

Sorry about my middle finger, my cuticle got screwed up somehow :(

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting! And Happy Christmas Eve!

Back to School Post 2, Pencil Nails.

Hey guys! I'm sorry about the two day lack of posts, it's been a busy few days! I started back to school (CSU Fresno) on Thursday so I was slammed all day, then yesterday it took me way longer to get my errands done then I thought so there ya have it :P

I did want to share a little tidbit on why I've been busy other than my 2 year old, the old man, the dogs, and school haha, I've been busting my butt the past not quite two months to loose weight and get in shape, and the last 2 weeks I've been working with a trainer as well. Well as of yesterday I was down 24.4lbs in 7 weeks :D I'm super excited about it, and I'm starting to feel really good about my improvements! Now if only my nails would behave!

I had 3 breaks over the past two days (total on both hands) so I'm down to super nubs now! BUT have no fear, Rejuvacote is here!!! It arrived in my mail yesterday from Ninja Polish and because of results I've seen other friends and bloggers have had from it, I'm super excited!

Sorry about the babbling! Today's post is pencil inspired, A friend showed me a picture (and I cannot find the original) just like these and I love it! So I decided to do them too :) I started with the yellow which is Color Club Almost Famous, then the silver which is Finger Paints Easel Come Easel Go, and the pink which is Sinful Colors Timbleberry. I was just careful and did my brush strokes sideways instead of up and down. Each color is two coats.

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Rainbow Colored Stained Glass

Hey guys! Here today with a new technique that Sarah from Chalkboard Nails posted just a few days back that she saw on the blog Gorgeois. They are both calling it abstract, but I think it looks like stained glass!

This is super super easy to do, it just takes a little bit of time since you do each color individually. All you do it randomly apply the colors with the nail polish brush, just make sure you aren't using too much of the polish at once and that's pretty much it!

Since I still had my colors out (I'm slacking!) from my rainbow water marble I just used some of the same ones. There will be more to this mani, but you'll have to wait until the next post for that ;)

The colors I used for this are OPI The Color Of Minnie, Loreal Boozy Brunch, Color Club Almost Famous, China Glaze Entourage, China Glaze Sky High Top and Julep Anne.

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Rainbow Skittles Water Marble

Hey guys! Here today with a water marble :) One a bit different from what I have done before, but I'm sure you guys will like it ;)

For those of you that have been followers for a while you know I've done an all green, all purple, and all pink marbles, as well as a few with multiple colors. Well this one is a bit of all of the above! Rainbow!

I've wanted to do this for a while and I'm not really sure why it took me so long, but overall I was pretty pleased with the outcome. The yellow was gorgeous in the water, but I guess because it's a lighter color it wasn't as obvious on my nail. The reds I had a bit of trouble with too, and I hit the stick on my blue *boo!!* but like I said, overall I'm very happy with how it turned out.

What's funny too is when the old man saw it he said "it looks like Skittles!" he's a smart man ;)

So here is the long list of all the polishes I used.

RED
OPI The Color Of Minnie
Zoya Cyma
Wet N Wild Everybody Loves Redmond
Dr.'s Remedy Balance Brick

ORANGE
China Glaze Papaya Punch
OPI A Good Man-Darin Is Hard To Find
Loreal Boozy Brunch
Finger Paints Circus Peanuts

YELLOW
Color Club Almost Famous
Finger Paints Lemon Sour
Wet N Wild The Wonder Yellows
Zoya Pippa

GREEN
Sinful Colors Irish Green
Sinful Colors Innocent
China Glaze Gaga For Green
China Glaze Entourage

BLUE
China Glaze Sky High Top
China Glaze First Mate
China Glaze Custom Kicks
Sinful Colors Open Seas

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Neon Circus Nails!

Hey guys! Okay so have you all seen the preview for the Madagascar 3 movie? "Polka dot polka dot afro..." heh, anyway that's what today's nails remind me of! Hence the "circus nails" thing ;)

So this time the old man didn't actually choose what I was doing, he just picked the base pink. Not that I gave him much of an option, I just let him pick one of two of the pinks from the Color Club Poptastic collection ;)

My base color is 2 coats of Poptastic, I then used a nail dotting tool to dot all along the outside of my nail, like a framed mani. I used Almost Famous (yellow), Wham! Pow! (orange), Twiggie (green), Chelsea Girl (blue), and Pucci-Licious (purple).

I wasn't going for a circus look, I just wanted to use some really pretty neon colors, but that's what it looks like to me. I love it! Too bad my camera didn't, this was very hard to photograph, I guess because they are neon colors, I'm not really sure. All of the colors are just a bit more bright in person than they are in the pictures.

I btw cannot take credit for this idea, I saw it in one of my polish groups on FB, but as of now cannot remember who it was to credit them. If you know, post a comment! **Paula Mussi was the originial person who I saw do this :) **

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

The Mans Pick day 2

Hey guys! Here today again with another pick by the old man! I figured I'd give him a week or so to show me his creative side ;)

So for today's mani he picked OPI Just Spotted The Lizard as my base, and he picked Color Club Almost Famous for my stamp from BM-316. I don't know what it is with him and this plate and yellow, *shakes my head* men!

So I used two coats of the OPI, I do really like this polish. I've used it before here, it's got a beautiful shimmer in the sun too! So his idea was the moon image from this plate would look awesome in the yellow over the duo-chrome. Well it's not bad but it's not super noticeable either.  But seeing the super close up of the stamp, I really like the pattern in the moon!

So what do you guys think? He's not doing too bad for a guy so far ;)

Until next time! Happy painting!

The Mans Pick....Hmmm

Hey guys! I hope everyone had a great weekend :) I'm here today with the old mans pick of what I should do **scary music**. Since I just recently got the new Bundle Monster (set 2) plates I've been looking over them and trying to get a few ideas etc. As I said in the last post that I stamped with, I'm still not 100% with it, but I do enjoy it and I'll get better with time :)

So I had him look through the set of plates and he chose BM-316, and he wanted me to do the same thing I did with my giraffe/turtle (heh) mani, where I had every other nail the negative of the other. So then I asked what colors, he said a yellow base and a blue stamp, say what?? Yea I know right? You guys feel my pain ;) So I was like "fine" :P

I started with two coats of Finger Paints Lemon Sour, I'm not a huge yellow fan but I really love this one!! I then used Color Club Cold Metal (from the foiled collection) for the stamp. I did do the negative on one nail first, and it just didn't work, I was having a lot of trouble with it, so I just used the lines instead.

To my surprise it actually looks pretty good!! Other than the fact that I had a break on the left side of my middle finger, which isn't a surprise considering I just took acrylics off. My nails still feel weird btw :P

So I guess the old man didn't do such a bad job ;)

So what do you guys think? And btw are my pictures looking a bit better now?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Giraffe or Turtle?! You tell me!

Hey guys! Here today with what I consider a bit of a confusing post :P

I recently got the new set of Bundle Monster plates in the mail, so I've started to play with them a bit. I'm still a newb when it comes to stamping, but it really is fun. I guess it's just like everything else, practice makes perfect!

I had never done a giraffe print, because let's face it, it's not the easiest thing to do by hand, so when I saw there was a giraffe and the negative of it on BM-313 I was excited!

I started with two coats of Color Club Almost Famous, then I used Sinful Colors Mercury Rising (ugh I'm still mad at them!! and this was done before the whole stealing from our community thing) for the stamp (BM-313). So my idea was to do every other nail with negative image, that way it was the same but different all at the same time.

So why the name of the post? When I posted pics of this in one of the polish groups I'm in on FB a few of the girls said the ones with more brown look like a turtle shell! So of course once I read that I couldn't unsee it from my nails! But honestly it's true, it does! It got me thinking that I might actually do a turtle shell mani now with different colors :P

So what do you guys see?

Second picture isn't color accurate as I'm still having some issues with my camera **grr**

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Summer Fun Challenge, Fun In The Sun!!!

Hey guys! Here today to regretfully say that it's the last day (or post) of the Neverland Nail Blog's summer nail art challenge *womp womp* BUT I'm super excited to see what everyone has done! Today's theme is fun in the sun, anything goes!

The last few times that I've been in WalMart I've seen this pair of shorts, booty shorts that I would never wear mind you (well if I was skinny yea haha) but still. The print on them is very much me. I'm not sure if you guys saw the post last time where I got my idea from a piece of clothing from WalMart but if not, you can see it here.

For this mani I used OPI The Color of Minnie, Essie Orange It's Obvious, Wet N Wild How I Met Your Magenta, and Color Club Almost Famous. I used a makeup sponge to individually sponge on the colors randomly on each nail, it took a while but I think it paid off! After the sponging was done I used Sinful Colors Black on Black and a small dotting tool to draw on all of my leopard spots, covered with a quick dry top coat and done! Clean up was a bit of a pain because I was like my 2 year old coloring outside of the lines, but it's all good ;)

I'm still experimenting with my lightbox, the light filters, backgrounds etc, so be patient! Hopefully I'll have something set in stone next week on what I like best. The dark color seems to work better than white, so I think I'll be off to a craft store for black card stock!

Here's a pic with flash to try and show you a bit more of the difference with the colors :)

And here are the shorts that inspired this fun mani!

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Rainbow Sherbet

Hey guys! Here today with another ice cream themed mani :) The two dippin dots inspired manis I did (here and here) seemed to be well liked, so this time I did it in one of my favorite ice cream flavors! Rainbow sherbet! So this is a super yummy nails full of orange, raspberry, and lime polka dots!

No base color here, just the dots. The pink is Finger Paints pop rock pink, the green is Color Club twiggie, and the orange is Finger Paints circus peanuts. Just using a dotting tool I randomly putting dots everywhere until my nails were full. Easy peasy, but a little bit time consuming.

So tell me guys, what are your favorite flavors of ice cream?

What do you guys think? Ignore the fuzzies on my fingers that I didn't notice until after the pics, lol stupid cotton balls!

Until next time! Happy painting!

Bunnies and Carrots!

Hey guys! Sorry about the lack of a post yesterday, I was slacking! But I'm here today with something super cute to make up for it! I wanted to do something else with bunnies since Easter is only a few days away, but I didn't want to do the same thing that I had done on the other two, so I got to thinking. What do bunnies love? Carrots! I know the bunny we used to have did anyway, his name was Muffin :)

So I didn't want to do the normal Easter pastel colors for this one, I decided to do a matte background instead for a bit of a change. I started with two coats of Nicole by OPI wild blue yonder matte, the bunnies are just a plain ol white (the same one I always use, it's SC snow me white), the pink in the ears and the noses of the bunnies is OPI the lifeguard makes me blush. The carrots are Julep Hayden, with the darker orange stripes of Loreal boozy brunch, and the leaves are Color Club Twiggie.

I was super happy with how they came out, I think they are adorable! And the old man loved the expressions on the bunnies faces, heh ;) It's the same look our dogs get when they are licking a bowl or something, we call it crazy eyes ;)

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Monkey Butt nails!!!

Hey guys! After my cupcake post a few days ago, I got to walking around my house again looking for inspiration, and I found it in a strange place! Our bathroom! I think the origin of me calling our son "monkey butt" was because while I was still pregnant we decorated what then was to be our sons bathroom in monkeys. We have since moved and now the main bathroom is the one we share with him, all decorated in monkeys! Target is awesome ;) So anyway I did today's nails after the shower curtain we have :D We also have towels and everything else in the bathroom that matches ;)

So I was a bit disappointed when I looked at the pics, I smudged the black from the faces a bit, and it's my own damn fault. I did the noses the wrong way, so I went back over it with the nude color and did the noses over again, and I guess I didn't wait long enough before my top coat :( BUT it's still adorable!

The green background on these is Color Club Twiggie, two coats and it was good to go. The blue on the two nails is Zoya Jo (man she's gorgeous!) two coats of her as well. The brown for the monkeys is Kleancolor espresso, yea I know I use this a lot but it's my only brown! and the nude is Zoya Shay. Oh and you guessed it! My two favorite nail art tools, dotting tools and long skinny nail art brush!

So how do you think I did? Does it match well enough?

BONUS!!! My super amazing monkey butt! This was at the park yesterday, he was playing with one of those dog poop bags, don't worry, it was empty! lol

Until next time! Happy painting!

An Iconic Easter Treat, Peeps!

Hey guys! Here today with another Easter inspired nail art mani :) I was trying to come up with something I hadn't seen before, so while in Walmart yesterday I walked down the Easter candy isle, and what do I see? Peeps! I've gotten these yummy marshmallow treats in my Easter basket since I was a kid, and when the old man makes me a basket, I still get them! I looked at the colors and I knew what I would do!

The four colors I found were bright blue, bright yellow, bright pink, and a lavender. So I figured a green base behind them would work out great :) I started with two coats of Color Club Twiggie from the Poptastic collection. The yellow on my thumb and ring finger is Zoya Pippa, the purple on my pointer finger is Sinful Colors verbena, the blue on my middle finger is Finger Paints blue raspberry taffy, and last but not least the pink on my pinky (heh) is Sinful Colors cream pink.

I just used a long thin nail art brush to make the outlines of the bunny peeps, then carefully filled them in with the brush from the polishes. Used a nail art tool to dot the eyes and noses on and done! The same nail art brush I used for the outlines I used for the word "Peep" too, I made it too big and couldn't fit the "S" but oh well :P

What do you guys think? I think it's super cute!

Until next time! Happy painting!

Little Piece of Hawaii!

Hey guys! Today I was on the phone with one of my best girlfriends that I met while I lived in Hawaii, and I got to thinking. I used to have this beautiful hibiscus plant right outside my front door, so ding ding ding, we have a beautiful simple nail art design perfect for spring or summer!

I started with two coats of Zoya Renee, the flowers are Color Club pucci-licious with white and Color club almost famous. I just used a long skinny nail art brush to make the shape of the flower, then filled it in slowly with the nail polish brush, used the same nail art brush for the white and yellow of the flowers.

Flash, no flash and close up.

And just to show you a little of the beauty I had back then, this is a picture of one of the flowers on my bush. Sorry about the bad quality, I didn't have a good camera!

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!