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Hi guys! I have another award show mani for you! I do love themes :) Fun Fact: I much prefer the red carpet special on E! over the award show! And then I always try to tape the Fashion Police the next day. I don't know why, I'm certainly not very fashionable, I just love it! When I thought of Oscars nails I thought old Hollywood and retro glam. Here is how I planned out and did them. I just used striping tape over white and painted over with the Gwen for OPI gold Love.Angel.Music.Baby. The red is OPI Innie Minnie Mighty Bow. I was trying to use a different red than I always do, and one that had some shimmer, but meh...probably shouldn't have.  shade Then as I was taking pics I thought, this looks all wrong, I should have done red on the ends and the gold in the middle. So I changed it up. Which one do yall like better? I'm on the fence.  shade

Happy Friday! Here's my #galaxy nails for #nailartfeb. This is totally cheating, because it's not "real" galaxy nails, I just don't really love that design, so I stick to "galaxy in a bottle". This is Picture Polish Starry Night. LOVE! This is 3 coats. shade sun I thought since I had it out I'd do a quick comparison with Zoya Storm. On my first 2 fingers on the left is 3 coats of PP, on my middle and pinky is 2 coats of Zoya Storm. shade sun

Hello! Here's some super simple black and white dots. I did these for a contest on IG, I figured, what the heck? The theme is "Black and White".  This is also my first time using OPI Onyx, instead of my go-to Sally Hanson black. Wow it's awesome! The white is OPI Alpine Snow.  shade Sometimes on IG contests you have to take a pic of your nails with a piece of paper that says stuff on it. Whatev.  contest entry

Hey guys :) Here's some simple nails for #simple for #nailartFeb on IG. I love these challenges because they give you prompts on on what to do and I love seeing everyone's interpretations of the ideas! This is one of my 2 Deborah Lippmann's. It's called Baby Love. I only own it because I picked it up on a super clearance sale. It's beautiful but SUPER shear. This is 2 coats, over a ridge-filling basecoat. (note: because we had a rare sunny day in the winter you guys get double the pics. yay!) Please excuse my super nubs. ugh. shade sun I thought, I should add some glitter over this, no? OPI Pirouette My Whistle, one coat. shade sun Then I thought, I should layer another coat of Baby Love over that, no? shade sun

Hey guys!!!!! I have saved the BEST for last. I have been the most excited to try these out because if you follow me on Instagram at all you know I'm UHBSESSED with texture. I love love love it! I've also been the most excited to do these comparisons for yall because I have just about every liquid sand OPI has made. And a good majority of Zoya Pixiedusts. I have made it my mission to scour the clearance racks, especially lately, to find these treasures! Everyone else's loss is my gain!  OPI Brazil Liquid Sands 2014 One thing..... Why are these in minis only? Are you listening OPI? I hope this is not a sign of things to come. Please don't stop making sands. I will be a sad sad lady!!! Another thing: it was sunny the day I did these so YAY BONUS PHOTOS! All pics are in natural light. Bottle shots are indoors next to a sunny window.  All swatches are 2 coats.  packaging First up is I'm Brazil Nuts Over You. I'm severly allergic to pine nuts s...

 Hey guys!!! It's Cinderella's turn! You can see my nails I did last year when I ran the Princess Half   here .  This year I wanted to do something different. To me Cinderella is very ethereal, fluffy, sparkly, and dainty. I knew I wanted to do a variation on a french manicure for her, but I was doubtful because I am in the process of growing out a broken corner on my middle finger. I waited a week, filed them down as short as I could, and hoped for the best. Here is proof, that, even with super nubs you can rock a french!   I took pics as I did this for a tutorial, but forgot to take a pic of the last step, then decided it was unnecessary because I can just talk you through it :)  shade Apply 2 coats of a glittery base coat. I chose China Glaze Glistening snow. I did not use anything under it. You can use any sort of glittery base for it, Fairy Dust would work also, even with out a base coat because we are going for a delicate look here. When it's dry, ...

Last up for this round is Ariel! Sooooo....... about Ariel nails.....there's been quite the internet-controversy it seems about Ariel nails lately....namely a specific design and who did it first and stealing and alllll that. I knew I wanted to do Ariel because she's one of my favorites, but I had to come up with a design that was suuuuuuuuupeeeerrrr far away from that. Not an easy task! This is what I came up with. Yes, that's a dinglehopper on my ring finger. :)  shade I was going to use a nude color as a base (namely OPI Glints of Glinda because it matches my skin exactly) but then I a)ran out of time to let it dry before taping and b)realized all the white parts of my nail would be covered anyway. So, I used used a clear basecoat. Use striping tape (or cut skinny pieces of scotch/mask/painters tape) and place them as shown. Make sure if you do have a base coat down it's super dry. Also make sure the tape is well stuck down. Use the brush or dab some o...

Next up in my week of  Disney Princesses is Belle!  Originally I was going to use my craft scissors and cut out tape with a scalloped edge and use 2 different yellows to represent her dress. But, I haven't had a whole lot of time lately and whenever I use tape I'm so paranoid that I wait several hours before I tape and paint again. So, I tried to figure out a way to mimick what I had in my head with out tape. The answer? DOTS! WHOOP!  Belle nails with Zoya Chyna Guys, these are super simple. All you need is 2 different shades of yellow!  1. Start with 3 yellow nails and one white. I used the new OPI I Just Can't Cope-acabana, I swear it's my new go to yellow! Let's call this the "base yellow." 2. Dab some of each yellow on a separate sheet of paper. I like to use glossy type paper (think post card or junk mail) so the paper doesn't absorb the polish. 3. With a dotting tool or a toothpick, or back end of a needle or whatever , make a row ...