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Hey guys! I don't have too much to say about this but.....PERFECTION. This is 2 coats. Ocean was number one on my Picture Polish wish list and it does not disappoint! It wasn't so much sunny this day so it does look a little darker than it is. But still. BE STILL MY TURQUOISE LOVING HEART.  natural light The 2nd day I wore this I knew I wanted to add a gold accent but couldn't quite make a decision. So this is what I came up with . The gold is OPI Honey Rider (liquid sand) done with striping tape.    natural light The sun peeked out for a minute so I thought I'd try a pose with out the bottle. Look! the outside of my house!  direct sun!  

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! Thanks for sticking with me through all the green! I promise I'll take a break from them for a while :) Today the March Madness tournament starts! Who's in to basketball?? Um.....not me. I'm a football girl all the way! But I still wanted to redo my original basketball nails I did last year, when I first started getting into nail art. Those are at the bottom of this post, from September 2013. I remember not totally hating them, which I did of most of my early work. I'm at it again with textures. I know I sound like a broken record, but I just love how sparkly and versatile they are! This is Zoya Beatrix. I used a black striper to make the lines. After MUCH deliberation, I decided to make them all going the same way. That included redoing one nail that was going a different way :)  direct sun  shade blurry to show sparkles Here's a super short little video clip to show the sparklies! Here are my original basketball nails. Not te...

Good Morning! Today's the last day you have to hear me crappin' on about St. Patrick's day! I wanted to create a "work appropriate" look for those who may not be allowed to rock some bright green/gold/rainbow/shamrock-y nails at work! If this is too wild still, you could always do these dots just on one finger. This is a dot gradient of OPI Amazon...Amazoff on top of OPI Don't Bossa Nova Me Around (which you need in your life. Trust me!) I am seriously loving this mod look lately!  direct sun  natural light indoors This was screaming at me to matte, I've really neglected my matte lately before this week! I had a feeling....and....  direct sun  shade WOWZA this is my fav (below)!!! Why do I love this so much??????  indoor natural light

Hi guys! Ok. Guys. This is THE HARDEST THING I HAVE EVER DONE that's nail related. I'm not even kidding! I'm not terrible at watermarbling BUT doing this clover-thingy was really getting me! I took 3 days, 9 cups, and 5 dips to get this, one that I only about 90% like. I'm calling at a win! Either my colors ran together, my clover disappeared when I tried to bring it together, I got numerous air and water bubbles, you name it. Basically every problem you could ever have watermarbling (that I don't usually have) I ran in to! I was determined to get on that was a least usable! Aside from that, how gorgeous is China Glaze Four Leaf Clover??? This was on my wish list forever and I found it at a random grocery store for super cheap. Yay! This is my first time using it! The gold is CG Angel Wings. It dries a little matte, so I added topcoat to all nails.  natural light, overcast day Then I added matte topcoat to it, because I NEED to get as much mileage out...

Hey guys! Happy Friday! Here's one of  my favorite looks for St. Patrick's Day, just simple green and gold! Polishes used: OPI Jade is the New Black and All Sparkly and Gold.  shade

Hi! I'm just keeping the St. Paddy's Day train going! I tried to do a design like this last year and it just didn't come out right. I'm pretty sure it was before I really realized the value of scotch tape! Ha! Polishes I used here are all Zoya Pixiedusts. I scored a whole ton of them for super cheap during the Flash Promos they did this past December. Yay! Let see if I can remember them all.... green: Chita gold: Tomoko red: Chyna orange: Beatrix yellow: Solange blue: Sunshine purple: Carter gold: Tomoko Ok, I had to cheat and look again at the name of the orange one. So sue me! I'm not sure why my nail with just Tomoko looks kind of bare in the pic. It's two coats and looks totally opaque in person!  direct sun Even though this next pic is in the shade and doesn't show the sparkle as much, it's my favorite! Also, how gorgous is Chita? Never gets old!   shade Then I added topcoat. When adding topcoat to textures I usua...