Guest Nails: Tiffani

I did my friend Tiffani's nails :) I haven't really felt like doing mine but I had fun doing hers. 

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I used China Glaze Limbo Bimbo and Art Deco art polishes in white, black, silver and silver glitter. I'm pretty happy with the way they came out, particularly the right hand. I generally don't try to do abstract stripes lol. Just a quick post today, I'm gonna do my nails soon, I swear!
As always, thanks for stopping by :)

Simply Stunning?

 So if you read my birthday mani post you'll know I was not very happy with it after adding the scrolls and flowers. So of course I re-did it :) 

This is 2 coats of Sally Hansen's X-treme Wear in Lavender Envy with the tips done in 2 coats of Fingerpaints Well Cultured Pearl. I threw on a coat each of Pure Ice Oh Baby! and Jordana Crystal Glitter that I've had for so long its not even funny lol (thank man for Polish Thinner!). 


I was originally going to do some stamping on this, but I can't bring myself to do it yet. Last time I really hated the extras so I think I will leave this alone until I'm sick of it and then add something. 


What do you think? Does a basic french mani ever seem boring, or is it nice to just be simple for once? 


As always, thanks for stopping by :)

Quick Post-Toes

I tend to feel the urge to blog much more frequently than I generally do but luckily for me I have stuff I don't have posted on here lol. SO from the archives these are my toes from last week. I do them much less than my fingers since as most nail painters know polish tends to stay on toes longer. If you don't like to look at feet I understand and I'm sorry but this is me and my blog so I will write what I like :)

Anyhow this is 2 coats of Wet N Wild white with the blue and purple stripes being the Stripe Rite striper polishes from Sally's. I stamped white flowers on using more WnW white though I'd have to check to see which plate I used lol. The little purple flowers are cute little embellishments that I got in an 8 pack from Dollar Tree and I love them sooooo much. 

I've been doing my own nails since I was about 13 or so though I didnt get into any real nail art kind of things until about a year and a half ago. And then I was really only doing it on my toes since I'm not very steady with my hands lol. In fact the mani I have on now is the first time Ive ever done tips without a guide. Its all a learning process and I love that there are so many talented ladies who share what they do so everyone can learn :) Quick post? Maybe not so much lol. Anywho do you do nail art on your toes? I'd love to see! As always thanks for stopping by :)

Nails Of The Week and some News

Ok I seriously didn't like my birthday mani and since I didn't have internet all day I chose to re-do my nails. And I took a ton of pics lol. I also have a little haul to do but I totally forgot to take pics today and the lighting in my house seriously sucks :( Anyhow I didn't ever realize that LA Colors made the Art Deco art brush polishes and never noticed that it says LA Colors right on the Art Deco bottle. Duh lol that'll teach me to pay attention. But yesterday I got LA Colors Jewel Tone (since when do they name the polishes? None of my older ones have names lol) and thought it looked an awful lot like an Art Deco:

Now onto the nails!

So this is 2 coats of Circuits by LA Colors (black) and 2 coats of Jewel Tone (blue and purple glitter). So pretty but I felt it needed a little something so I stamped some stars using my new Born Pretty plate M17. Sorry no pics of just that added lol. I still thought it needed something. The other day I dug through all my other craft supplies and found some sequins that I've had for years and since I just happened to have some blue and purple stars I stuck those on too lol. 

Oh look, my right hand!

I always do my left hand first since I'm a righty and I found out quick that my star sequins were definitely not color-safe. As soon as I tried to topcoat with my Seche Vite the color started comin off. You can kinda see it in a couple of these pics. At this point Ive lost one star (off my right index finger) and most of the other ones are almost all silver :( So cute idea but need better sequins lol. Anyhow I still like it and I'll just end up peelin them off and top coating them again :) And I finally got almost all of them square shaped woohoo!
On a side note I've found a few nail art apps on the Android market (now the play store)  and I totally love them! Ive gotten some good ideas and if nothing else its nice to look at pretty nails ;) They are Hair, Nails and Makeup which has tips for all three as well as vids and pics and the other app is Nail Art Gallery. You can download pics from both apps. Ok this is gettin super long so I'm gonna stop lol. As always thanks for stoppin by :)

Birthday Mani & Naked Nails

As promised my birthday mani:

Only one pic and it's not a great one. I really wasn't very happy with it. I liked it better before the scrolls lol. But everything is a learning experience, and I learned that I can do scrolls with a toothpick. Yes, seriously a toothpick! I really love how some scrolls look and I wanted to try it. It's not too hard actually lol. Anyhow evolution of this mani:
2 coats of Sally Hansen Lavender Envy:

And 2 coats of Finger Paints Well-Cultured Pearl:

Honestly I should have left it alone at the point but I wanted to stamp little gold crowns using Ulta's High Roller but it didn't show up very well at all. So I added flowers using a homemade dotting tool and when that still looked a little too plain I did the scrolls. I threw some Pure Ice Busted on before the flowers and scrolls as well. 
And naked nails before the mani: 

I'm slowly trying to get them all shaped square which is slightly more difficult on my right hand since I'm always breaking my thumb nail and its pretty round lol. As always thanks for stopping by :)

Fingerpaints Haul

So after the Nina disappointment I was not very happy :( But this weekend I got to go to Sally's :D Fingerpaints is on sale for $3.99 this month and when you buy 3 you get a super cute little tote bag. Plus I had my 15% off coupon. So I got 7 new polishes, yay! Here they are:

Easel Come, Easel Go!; Where Art Renoir?; Well-Cultured Pearl; Be A Pal-ette; Purple Pallette; Inkblot Blue and Cerulean Seascape

All so very pretty :) I really think the silver Easel Come, Easel Go! is almost an exact dupe for Zoya's Trixie. Though I just painted a little test spot of both. The black Where Art Renoir has very pretty silver glitter in it. And the Be A Pal-ette is super pretty has kind of an underlying blue sheen. I took a few pics to try to show it: 

Came through in the pics better than I thought it would actually. I'm pleasantly surprised since purple can be really hard to get a decent pic of. So the cashier did two separate transactions so that I would get two bags which was pretty nice of her and I got a 15% off coupon on both receipts. Plus my birthday is this month and as a present from Sally's I got an email coupon for $10 off my next purchase. I'm predicting another trip there before the end of the month lol. Sorry for such a pic heavy post though I must admit that's my style lol. Another post tomorrow for my nails of the week and a fail. As always thanks for stopping by :)