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Hey guys! Here are some patriotic mani's I did for July 4th! Polishes used: China Glaze With Love (red), First Mate (blue) and Angel Wings (gold)  shade  shade

You guys know I love the Zoya Pixiedusts! Here I tried my hand at a gradient...I think it came out ok but I don't love it! Polishes used: red-Chyna Gold-Tomoko Blue-Liberty  sun  sun

Hey guys! It's Monday! Yay! not. Anyhoo, Today I dug in to more of my untried...I really need to get a post up about that!  This is Zoya Lola, a neon pink and Zoya London, a charcoal gray textured pixiedust. Oh man, I love those textures and they are so great for tape because they don't bleed! Yes! When I was rummaging through my Zoyas I thought these would look nice together.  shade For the single chevrons, I used nail vinyls again. I'm still on the fence about them...I LOVE the lightning bolt ones, but I haven't had much luck with the chevron and single chevron ones. Still practicing with those!  sun  shade This is Lola by herself. There's almost a fuchsia/purple duochrome going on there, and MAN is it bright!!  sun  shade  different shade

Hey guys! I have another super fun Design Seeds inspired manicure for yall! Four of us got together on IG and decided to do nails based on this fun Design Seeds pic of a Mai Tai on a beach.  Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  We started with one basic design and we all did our own version! Here is what I came up with! shade sun Here is the picture we used for inspiration and color palate! design seeds I used all OPI Polishes for this. From L: Can't Find My Czechbook Big Apple Red I Just Can't CopeAcabana Lucky Lucky Lavender Did You Ear About Van Gogh (base) Gone Gonzo Blasted Turquoise Glitter (now discontinued Sephora by OPI) polish line up I'm pretty happy with how they turned out! shade This is OPI Did You Ear About Van Gogh (long name!) that I used for the base. I've had it for a little bit and haven't gotten around to using it-I just love it and I'm sure it will be in heavy rotation! shade sun

Hey guys! I have a quick swatch of another of my indie polishes. This is Girly Bits Cosmetic Ocean, its a blue/green holographic topper in a sheer blue jelly base. Most people I've seen wear this use it over a dark base so I wanted to do something different! This is 2 coats of OPI My Pointe Exactly (a sheer gray jelly) and 2 coats of Cosmic Ocean. What do yall think? I'm thinking I should have just done it over light blue like I planned. shade

Hey guys! I have just a quick swatch for you...this is Pipe Dream Electric Soul, one of my first "Indies" or Independent Nail polish! It's a purple jelly with tiny flecks of blue in it. I just love it! shade

Hello! Today I have yet another reason Cinderella is my soul-sister and favorite Princess....when I was scanning through my untried (as far as this blog is concerned) polishes I grabbed these 2, thinking they would go nicely together. As soon as I got done with the first coat on the first hand, I realized, these are totally Cinderella nails! And I'm totally ok with that. This is Zoya Nyx (the blue) and Cosmo (the gold). Nyx is Zoya's original finer Pixiedust Formula, and Cosmo is the newer, chunkier holographic formula. I'll say it again, I just love textured polish, it lasts forever on me and I feel like my nails are strong like ox when I have it on. These are both from my Zoya Earth Day shopping adventure :)  shade  sun  shade

Hey guys! I have some taped nail art today with a couple of the new OPI Neons for 2014 sent to me by a friend! They are so awesome, I might have to get the rest! (can wait for clearance??? UHHHHHHHH!) The purple is called Push and Pur-pull and the green is You Are So Outta Lime! As I've seen others say, I don't know how "neon" these are, but they are super bright and fun, and I love them!  sun On my first finger I used striping tape to create color blocks. I also used striping tape on my ring finger. For the middle finger I used  a lightning bolt shaped nail vinyl (which I love now! sold!) and Just simple dots on my pinky.  shade I loved the lightning bolt so much I did it on my thumb too :)  sun  shade  sun

Hey guys! As promised I'm trying to step out of my box this month. So here is a mix and match mani, which are quite popular but I don't do very often. Hmmm, what do you think? I used "nail  vinyls" for the 2 chevrons, I think there is a definite learning curve with them, as they didn't turn out as good as my times using tape. I will try them again! Apologies for the lighting, we haven't had much sun lately and I only take my pics outside so the lighting on these is natural light on a gloomy day. shade Colors used are all Essie: Come Here (coral), Beyond Cozy (glitter) and Mint Candy Apple (light blue...its not "mint" at all to me but whatever!) shade This is  my first time doing flowers/roses that aren't "cartoony" in type. I need more practice! shade This is Mint Candy Apple by itself. I love it as a light blue, but it's not a mint to me! shade

Hey guys! Today I have probably one of the most fun nails I've ever done! I was loving my splatter mani so much I posted yesterday, and I needed a "Star" themed mani for an upcoming Nail It (magazine) issue, I thought I'd do something similar to the butterflies I did here  .  I really loved how they came out, and boy did these get a lot of attention every where I went! That's a good sign, right?  sun All I did was use my star paper punch to cut out a star from painters tape. Then I placed them over my nail a little off center so that there was a little hanging off so I could have something to grab when I pulled it off. I used Zoya Raven (the same I used for the base) to paint over the free space and then removed the star with tweezers!  Add topcoat then done!  shade This is what they looked like before I added topcoat. I was on the fence about adding the topcoat, you can see here the stars are matte because  I wore these for a few days matte befor...

Hey guys! I have something fun today! I've been wanting to try this "splatter" type of nail art for ever, but have really shied away from it because of the obvious mess it makes. I finally decided to just go for it once I had an idea! I used the entire Zoya Summer Tickled Collection over black (Zoya Raven). I just love how it came out!    shade  sun I will say this....I used painter's tape to tape around my nails and it still took me foreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever to clean up. So I need to figure something else out if I want to do it again.  shade I added some matte topcoat and it turned in to chalkboard-looking art! love it also!  matte topcoat Method: Use some small straws, dip into polish, tap out excess, and blow it on to nail. Easy! Although, I have to figure out the secret to not getting huge blobs on your nail and just the "Spatter...

Hey guys! I promise not every post is going to be like this but....the newness hasn't worn off yet of these awesome Design Seeds Palates! The next one I chose is an ocean theme....shocker. My lines this time didn't come out as crisp as they normally do because I was a little rushed...so is things these days. I'm not happy with the way my middle finger came out but I didn't have time to redo it. I will try not to make this one as wordy as last time! lighting: cloudy lighting: shade This is the palate I chose. ahhhhhhh from Design-Seeds.com Polishes used, from left:   Essie Naughty Nautical Essie Turquoise and Caicos Essie Sand Tropez Essie Masimillian strasse-her Fresh Paint Coconut (used as the base) OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons Hard Candy King of Pop ( I threw in the extra glitter because it matched and I felt it really went with them with I saw it sitting on my desk!) **I swear I don't have a lot of Essies....but I ha...

Hey guys! So ........... I totally had a different post scheduled for today....and yesterday.... but this weekend I was scrollin along through Instagram and I saw my friend Kristin (@ermagerdpolish) show where she got her color palate inspiration for her latest watermarble (which was amazzzzzing) and it let me to discovering Design-Seeds.com! Apparently it's been around for a while but I've never seen it! It's basically a website that draws from various colorful things and matches up 6 or so colors with it and gives you a palate to work with in designing a room or whatever.....or NAILS! I made the mistake of clicking the #designseeds tag....and all of the sudden I have 70 billion screen shots of color palates saved on my phone. And the majority of them are tropical/beachy/teal/turquoise heavy....I should really branch out. Or not. ANYHOO. This is my first mani done with this method! Trust me you will be seeing a lot of this (and not just with watermarble) because I luuu...