Summer Pastel Arrow/Chevron Manicure

I got tired of doing dots, so I decided to go with the latest trend- chevron stripes!  Except that this one doesn't repeat the pattern, so does that just make it a pointy stripe?  Or an arrow?  Can a chevron stripe be singular?

Yea I freehanded this and it's pretty obvious, huh?

Products Used:

China Glaze Peachy Keen

China Glaze Sweet Hook

Revlon Minted

5 Minute Mani: Simple Stripes (creamsicle again!)

Something about a pastel-ish orange paired with white is just so, so summery to me.  It has to be the association with Creamsicles.  Anyway, here's a super quick mani that I wore to a baseball game last night- got complimented by the girl at the counter when I went and got some nachos, so you know they're good ;)

Products Used:

China Glaze Peachy Keen

LA Colors Art Deco in White

Another Gradient- Creamsicle

I loved the last one so much that I did another one!  I asked the fiance "brights or pastels?" and he said pastels, so I chose some lighter-but still summery- colors.  My dad said it looks like a creamsicle, and the waitress when we had dinner said she loved my nails and asked to see them- so I think I would call this a success!  Officially in love with the idea of gradient manicures now.

Products Used:

China Glaze Peachy Keen

Essie Borrowed & Blue

Pastel Glitter- 2 Weeks of China Glaze

Whoops, this post is late!  I had some parent meetings so I decided to go fairly subtle.  I just found these gorgeous Wet n Wild glitters at the store and scooped up a couple so I decided to put one over China Glaze Oxygen!  I had a hard time capturing the gorgeousness of the glitter but I think you get the idea!!

As a side note, my nails feel so nice!  I don't feel that they're growing particularly quickly, but they look nice!  Too bad I ruined my experiment by biting them all off when thinking about graduation.  

Products Used:

China Glaze Oxygen

Wet n Wild Coloricon in Speak When Spoken To

Way way way late Valentine's Mani

Well, better late than never I guess.  

Products Used:

China Glaze Sweet Hook

China Glaze Dance Baby

China Glaze Fuchsia Fanatic

Konad Plate m57

Bundle Monster Plate BM14

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.

Essie Borrowed & Blue- the PERFECT pastel/baby/pale blue

GUYS!  I found it.  A few months ago I asked about pastel blues.  This is something that's been on my list for AGES.  I never did buy the nubar that I was leaning towards, but just the other day I redeemed a couple of amazon giftcards (thanks swagbucks!) and threw Essie's Borrowed & Blue into my cart, thinking what the heck, it looks pretty enough.

PRETTY ENOUGH is an understatement.  This is everything I wanted!  It is so gorgeous, AND it went on opaque in one coat.  I wish I had known that or I would've been a little more careful and used a ridge filler base coat, but I know for next time.

Unfortunately, like I mentioned the other day, all my pictures are coming out woefully pathetic, so I only have one good one to share with you.

I really can't explain how pleased I am with this color.  It's exactly what I wanted, and I'm psyched to have found it.

Swatch: Sally Hansen Hard Lemonade

Previous to this, I only had three yellows in my collection!  I like this one- it's more pastel than some of the other yellows I've had my eye on, but it's lovely in its own way.  Typical problems I've had with most yellows- streaky, needs like 3 coats to opaque, etc.  But still!  Pretty.

Inside, with flash

Inside, no flash

Lovely, right?!  

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails in Hard Lemonade

Chalkboard Nails

I had this brilliant idea.  I've been wanting to do a mani with crackle tips, and I've been wanting to do a mani with matte pastels, so I thought "why not combine the two!"  Well... I tried it.  And I kind of don't like it at all.  The pastel green with the matte topcoat reminds me of sidewalk chalk.  And I guess I'm just really bad at doing tips or something, but I also kind of hate the crackle tips on me... on everyone else they look so awesome!  Maybe if I'd been able to find my silver pen and do a line in silver like I wanted to, rather in black...

But anyway, here it is!

Products used:

Revlon Minted

OPI Black Shatter

Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen in Black

Essie Matte About You

And here's another one for good measure: 

We haven't seen Abby in a while, but she made her presence known today!