PCOS Awareness Nails.

Hey guys! Here today with a special post, today's post is all about PCOS. A fellow nail blogger Nory asked a bunch of girls if they wanted to participate to bring awareness to this devastating condition. She has knowingly suffered with it for 2 years, as well as a few of my other friends.

Here are some good links with info for those that would like to learn more about it. The month of September is awareness month for it.

The Colors for PCOS are teal and white, so not only is this mani about helping a fellow lacquered lover, but the colors are beautiful too. For this mani I used a few different colors all of which are two coats, my thumb and ring finger are Sinful Colors Snow Me White, My pointer finger is China Glaze DV8, My middle finger is Essence Street Styler, my ring finger is China Glaze Custom Kicks, and the glitter over my pinky is Essence Nail Art Twin Clyde. I used Bundle Monster plates BM-314 (pointer), BM-321 (middle) and BM-317 (ring). And last but not least used some rhinestones to make the ribbon on my thumb.

What do you guys think? Are you going to do a PCOS post now? :)

Until next time! Happy painting!

Back to School Post 4, School Spirit!

Hey guys! Back today with what will be my last back to school post. This one is all about school spirit, which for me is red, white and blue bulldogs! I am currently a second semester junior at California State University Fresno :)

For this one I used white on two nails which is Sinful Colors Snow Me White, red which is OPI The Color Of Minnie, and the blue which is China Glaze First Mate. Each color is two coats. For the lettering I used a long thin nail art brush and the paw prints are done with a dotting tool. Pretty simple again today, but one I think I'll do again when it comes time to attend a football game!

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

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!

Back to School Post 1, Notebook Paper!

Hey guys! Here today with day one of my back to school posts, I have two more planned and may end up with more depending on my imagination heh ;) So why back to school you ask? Well today is the first day back at for fall semester at my school (California State University Fresno). I don't actually have classes today other than online, my classes start on campus tomorrow :)

I'm in my second semester of junior year, and I'm going to be in 5 classes this semester. So I'll try and keep up with my blog, but depending on how much work I have it may dwindle :( But I'll try my best!!

So today's post is notebook paper nails :) I started with two coats of Sinful Colors Snow Me White, then used the sky blue paint from my Migi Nail Art pens with a long thin nail art brush to draw the lines on the white, followed by OPI The Color Of Minnie for the red line, and the black dots as well as doodles are Sinful Colors Black on Black. I used a combo of the nail art brush and a small dotting tool for the doodles. They aren't perfect but I think it's adorable!!

One of my lilac plates does have a stamp on it that looks like notebook paper but it also has a "I heart you" on it which I didn't want on every single nail. But for those of you interested in that it's lilac's A01 plate, which is the same plate I used for my July 4th mani.

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Pinterest Inspiration Week, Day 3, Neon Spun Sugar

Hey guys! Back with day 3! Today's inspiration came from this pin, and the original post is here. I had been wanting to try doing the spun sugar look for a few weeks now but just hadn't found the inspiration to do it, until I saw today's inspiration!

These two colors together are just fabulous! Neon yellow and bright blue! Now being as this was my first attempt at this technique it's not perfect, but I don't think it's horrible either haha! It was super messy, and for some reason the polish globbed (is that a word?) up on my nails quite a bit, but I still had a lot of fun doing them!

I did a base of white to start, followed by two coats of Sinful Colors Neon Melon on all but my ring finger, which is two coats of Sinful Colors Why Not. Then I went about the mess making! There is a good video here if you don't know how it works :)

After all was said and done I finished up with a coat of a matte finish, which is hard to tell because of the light reflecting off of my nails but you get the idea ;)

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Pinterest Inspiration Week, Day 2, Lava Lamp.

Hey guys! It's day 2 of Pinterest inspiration week, and today's post once again came from one of Kayla's boards! This time it's her original art ;)

This is the picture from the pin, and this is her original post with the art. She called it neon drips, but I think it looks like a lava lamp!

I let the old man make the decision on the colors for this, and instead of a white background he thought it would look awesome with a black background. So I used two coats of Wet N Wild Ink Well as my base. He then decided pink and green for the lava, or drips would work.

For those that don't know I'm pink and he's green, it's just one of our things and I even have a pink and green star tattoo on my right wrist because of it ;)

Anyway back on track! Ha! The pink I used it Sinful Colors Folly and the green is Orly Fresh. This design is pretty simple and easy to do, just using a small nail art brush to make the outer lines of the lava itself, then I filled them in with the polish brush.

I think this is a super fun design, and it would be perfect for a 70s themed party!!

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!

Pirate Treasure Map Tutorial

Hey guys! Here today with a new tutorial of my pirate treasure map nails. So many of you seemed to love them, so I figured I would show you how :)

I haven't figured out quite how to do a video tutorial yet so this one is just step by step pictures on how I achieved the look :)

First we have the materials I used to complete the entire look, Zoya Shay, Nubar Spark, Sinful Colors Mercury Rising, Wet N Wild Ink Well, OPI The Color Of Minnie, Migi Nail Art pen (the green side), nail art brush, nail dotting tool, makeup sponge and tweezers.

I started with two coats of Zoya Shay on all of my nails, or for this instance on 3 nails of a nail wheel. The easiest way I have found to do sponging is to use tweezers to hold a small piece of a makeup sponge that way I can get into smaller spaces without making a huge mess.

Using Nubar Spark I sponged around the outside of the nail, then repeated the process with Sinful Colors Mercury Rising. The first and second nail have just the Nubar, the third has both Nubar and Sinful Colors.

Using a nail art brush and Wet N Wild Ink Well draw an outline of a skull.

Using the nail dotting tool and the Wet N Wild Ink Well fill in the skull shape.

Once again using the nail art brush make an X under the skull, then using the nail dotting tool add two small dots at each end to make them look like bones.

Using the base color, and either the dotting tool or the nail art brush, add eyes, a nose and lines at the mouth. Then you're done with the skull and crossbones!

Using OPI The Color Of Minnie and the nail art brush, create random lines for the trail to the X that marks the spot.

Repeat the process on how ever many nails you want the trail to go over, then add a big X at the end. Using the nail art brush and Sinful Colors Mercury Rising draw a line for the tree bark, and with the Migi Nail Art pen green draw on a few branches for the palm tree. Using the dotting tool add a few little dots for coconuts on the tree.

And now you're done with the whole look! What will you find in your treasure chest??

What do you guys think?

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!

Happy Independence Day!!

Hey guys! Happy Independence Day!!! Well for my US followers anyway, I know it's different in every country :P Today is a day where I proudly show off my red, white and blue! I am a southern girl, from a military town, and the old man is an ex Marine, so yes patriotism, we haz it!

I couldn't for the life of me figure out what I wanted to do for today's mani, so I just decided to do something different on each hand :P

On my right I sponged Red (OPI The Color of Minnie) White (Sinful Colors Snow me White) and Blue (China Glaze First Mate) at a slight slant on each of my nails. On my ring finger I used red, silver and blue rhinestones to bling it out!! After the sponging was dry I stamped over them with an image off of the Lilac A01 that seemed to be perfect for the occasion. Now if only I was better at stamping!!

Side note I ordered the new Bundle Monster set today, so I should be doing more stamping soon!

My right hand I painted red with OPI The Color of Minnie (2 coats), and topped it one thick coat of Elemental Styles U.S.A.-mericium.

I think I have just about all of it in this mani, sponging, bling, stamping, glitter, phew!! I'm ready to grill and watch some fireworks!!

And bottle shots

What do you guys think?

Have a SAFE and fun filled day, please call a DD if you are drinking and watch out for the crazies on the roads!

Until next time! Happy painting!