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Happy Wednesday! Today I have swatches of the new little mini-set of  Ice Cream Shoppe polishes from Sally Beauty Supply. I don't buy mini's often, and especially these, but they were too cute to pass up!  Ice Cream Shoppe collection First up is Chocolate Chip. (BTW the names are not on the bottle, grrr, I went with what the display said! There's a pic of it at the end.) This was the most sheer of all. I even used a ridge filling basecoat and it STILL took 3 generous coats and could still probably use more. I would definitely recommend using a white base under this. That being said, how cute! Reminds me of Oreos!  sun  shade Next up is Cherry Chip. This is 2 coats, no base or top coat. All of these dried a little matte for me, I would use a topcoat if I was wearing long term. All the rest of these are much more opaque than the white.  sun  shade Next is Mint Chip. Mint chocolate chip ice cream was my FAV as a kid. True for everyone, ye...

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!!! 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...