Game Day Nails!

The skins are in the playoffs so... party like it's the Superbowl!  I did some game day nails for the game this afternoon.  This was really fun!

Products Used:

China Glaze Merry Berry

Spoiled Designated Driver

Wet n Wild 449C

China Glaze Electrify

Essie As Gold As It Gets

Milani Jewel FX in Gold

LA Colors Art Deco in White

My Christmas Day Nails- Snowflakes and Santas

Stamps and freehand!  I haven't done either in a long, long time.  I loved these for Christmas, and my family loved them too!  I got an entire set of dotting tools today, so expect some polka dot manis in the future!

Santas!

Bonus Phone Pic:

Products Used:

China Glaze Electric Beat

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Silver Sweep

Essie Pure Pearlfection

BM 14

SH 17

Zoya America

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Petal Pusher

China Glaze Dance Baby

Wet n Wild 449C

4th of July mani for the beach

Me and the fiance and the fam are headed to the ocean this week.  I figure this mani won't last all the way till the 4th, but I'll bring polish to do another one when it chips off.  I thought this turned out pretty cute- like a little soldier's outfit or something.  For last year's mani check out this link.

Products Used:

Zoya America

Revlon Royal

LA Colors Art Deco in White

Spring Flowers!

I'm back after almost a full month.  After a month in the dumps, doing my nails was the last thing I wanted to do. But today is my first day of spring break, and one of the first days of sunshine in forever (seriously- it snowed yesterday- and the day before) so I forced myself to spend some time here.  And I'm quite pleased with the results!

Products Used:

China Glaze Kinetic Candy

China Glaze Sweet Hook

China Glaze Dance baby

China Glaze Wicked Style

China Glaze Gaga for Green

China Glaze Sunshine Pop

Revlon Top Speed in Royal

As you can see, I used this as an opportunity to break out and check out my new China Glazes from the electropop collection... which I got back in January!  Yeesh.

Another Freehand Floral Mani!

I really loved a few of the floral manis I did previously (here and here) and I'm not opposed to tooting my own horn, so I did another!  I tried out a lovely pink color I got from a friend for Christmas.  It's really bright and gorgeous, so I went with darker grey and black for the roses.  And sprinkled in some little white accent dots and glitter for fun and variety!

Also notice my poor little nubbins? :(  I had a super turbulent flight on the way home, combined with returning to internship, wedding planning, and the Praxis II that I'm taking on Saturday.... and yowza, my nails have had it!

Here you can sort of see the glitter I slapped on there.

Products Used:

Orly Fabulous Flamingo

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Wet Cement

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Black Out

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in White On

Essie Pure Pearlfection

Hope everyone is having a fabulous beginning to their 2012!  And may you never have to take the Praxis II!

Winter Design- Red Flowers!

Inspired by the poinsettias I've been seeing around, I thought I'd try some pretty red flowers on top of the greenish-teal base of School of Hard Rocks.  I think it came out lovely!

Products Used:
Essie School of Hard Rocks
Sally Hansen Hard as Nails in In The Red Creme
Sally Hansen Chrome in Tourmaline Chrome
Love & Beauty Clear/Silver

Winter Design- Sweater Inspired!

I'm super into sweaters, and I'm obsessed with my newest one.  It's warmer than any other sweater I've owned, and it is soft and not as itchy as I thought it would be.  So when I tried out Essie's Brooch the Subject, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.  I matched it to my new sweater!

Products Used:

Essie Brooch the Subject

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Sun Kissed
Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen in Black

Star Wars nails for PAX

This weekend I was up in Seattle for PAX prime.  Basically, it's a gaming expo.  I decided to do some Star Wars nails for the occasion, and this was the result:

Bonus hipster filtered camera phone picture!

I loved these.  I thought they came out really cute, even on my "bad" hand.

Katy Perry E.T. Music Video Inspired Mani

So Katy Perry's new music video for E.T. was released recently.  At first I was kind of meh on the song, but it has grown on my hugely (except for Kanye's part... "I know a bar out in mars/ where they drive spaceships instead of cars" REALLY?!  That's the best you could do?) but I am in LOVE with the visuals.  So I did.... well, this.

It was kinda fun!  I really like the way the braid came out, and the one that kind of looks like giraffe spots.  I might use those designs some other time.

Here's some screencaps that I used for inspiration:

Products used:

Revlon Scented Parfume: Grape Icy

Maybelline Express Finish: Goody Plum Drop

Sally Hansen Insta-dri: Pronto Purple

Wet n Wild Virtual Nails: Virtual Rust

Zoya: Gretchen

L.A. Girl Metal: Gold Plated

Rimmel Lasting Finish Pro: Steel Grey

OPI: Moon Over Mumbai

Revlon: Creme Brulee

Sally Hansen Maximum Growth: Tranquil Taupe

Nicole by OPI: It's Possible

Wet n Wild: Black Creme