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
Showing posts with label nail art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nail art. Show all posts
Sunday, January 6, 2013
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!
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
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!
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Santas!
Bonus Phone Pic:
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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
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Floral Mani and Updates All Around
I've been absent for such a long time. There's two reasons for that...
1. I started my internship. It takes up SO MUCH of my time and is SO stressful, that I completely chewed off all my nails into tiny nubbins... and THEN I started working on the cuticles. Not only that, but I've been super concerned with what is appropriate for work, and what isn't as far as nails/nail art. And I have a confession: I wore the same mani for two weeks in a row. And I'm using the term mani here very loosely- I slapped on two coats of a sheer polish with no base or topcoat and just called that good- for TWO WEEKS. By the time I took it off last night, the polish was only in the very center of my nail, and my ridges had actually worn through in some places! It was disgusting.
2. I lost my Seche Vite!!!!!! I don't know how that happened :( But I kept saying to myself "no point in spending time on doing my nails if I can't use my SV. I'll do my nails when I find it." I hardly even looked! Well last night I tore my house apart and there's no sign of it, so I just did my nails anyway, because I'd finally reached my limit.
So anyway, like I said, I finally hit my limit last night and said "enough is enough!" Plus I had just seen this tutorial from Rebecca Like Nails, and was all over it like white on rice. I love a good floral mani, and even though I was a little nervous to wear it to my internship, I figured go big or go home.
1. I started my internship. It takes up SO MUCH of my time and is SO stressful, that I completely chewed off all my nails into tiny nubbins... and THEN I started working on the cuticles. Not only that, but I've been super concerned with what is appropriate for work, and what isn't as far as nails/nail art. And I have a confession: I wore the same mani for two weeks in a row. And I'm using the term mani here very loosely- I slapped on two coats of a sheer polish with no base or topcoat and just called that good- for TWO WEEKS. By the time I took it off last night, the polish was only in the very center of my nail, and my ridges had actually worn through in some places! It was disgusting.
2. I lost my Seche Vite!!!!!! I don't know how that happened :( But I kept saying to myself "no point in spending time on doing my nails if I can't use my SV. I'll do my nails when I find it." I hardly even looked! Well last night I tore my house apart and there's no sign of it, so I just did my nails anyway, because I'd finally reached my limit.
So anyway, like I said, I finally hit my limit last night and said "enough is enough!" Plus I had just seen this tutorial from Rebecca Like Nails, and was all over it like white on rice. I love a good floral mani, and even though I was a little nervous to wear it to my internship, I figured go big or go home.
Ugh those cuticles.
Products Used:
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Wet Cement
Maybelline Express Finish in Prompt Petals
ELF nail polish in Fuchsia
Revlon Emerald City
Sally Hansen Double Duty as topcoat
Bundle Monster Plate number BM14
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
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.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Harry Potter Premiere
I went to see Harry Potter last night. The movie was awesome, and so was using it as an excuse to make some fun new things! I painted these nails on Tuesday, which was pretty ambitious of me (believing that they'd last that long), but the good news is... they did survive! With only a few small chips.
Once again, the design looked much much better in my mind than in actuality. I was inspired by the last battle between Harry and Voldemort, shown here:
Once again, the design looked much much better in my mind than in actuality. I was inspired by the last battle between Harry and Voldemort, shown here:
Here's what I ended up with:
Ignore that black splotch, it's fabric paint from the t-shirt I made
If you can't tell, it's supposed to be the two wands and their stream/spells reaching across and colliding together. And on my thumbs I have HP in gold and silver.
I think it turned out ok. My friends really loved it. I also tried a splatter background for the first time, and I think with practice that's going to be a new technique I use fairly often.
Also thanks to my awesome fiance for taking these (and bout 40 other) photos for me, since it was impossible for me to do.
Products used:
Zoya Kelly
Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Pronto Purple
Sally Hansen Hard as Nails in Wet Cement
Pure Ice in Frosted Ice Celestial
LA Girl Disco Brites in Can U Dig It?
LA Colors Art Deco in Bright Green
Sally Hansen Nail Art Pens in Silver, Gold and Red
Seche Vite Topcoat
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