31 day challenge - metallic nails!

hi y'all! I have another nail art look for you all today! Another of the 31 day challenge looks, this one is for metalic nails! I had no clue what to do with these so I just had fun with it. 

I used LA Colors Live for the metallic base color and then I used black acrylic paint and a detail brush to make a heart and some zebra stripes on the nails. For the accent nail, I used scotch tape and cut it into a chevron shape. I placed it on the nail, painted over it, and pulled it off. Then outlined the shape with black paint. 

I also have a fun video tutorial for you all to go along with this! 

Thanks for reading! Let me know what you thought in the comments below! 

Giraffe with Zebra accent!

Hey y'all! How is everyone doing today? Hopefully everyone is well! I have some nail art to share with you all today! These are some supoer simple and fun animal print nails! Super simple black and white color scheme as well! 

I started these nails off with Sinful Colors Snow Me White and the rest is done with acrylic paint! I wanted a super simple black and white look, and it's been a while since I've done giraffe print! But I also wanted a bit of a POP of color as well! And this is what came out! 

Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed! Let me know what you thought in the comments below!! 

Leprechaun nails!

Happy St. Patricks Day!!!!

this needs lots more glitter and gold I think. I wish I could add it to text. 

But there can be a RAINBOW

Hi y'all! Sorry it's been so quiet here! I've been... well apparently I have no excuse other than I suck horribly at keeping a regular schedule, but I'm trying! There's also been a bit of ickyness in real life stuff lately, so I apologize if I continue to fail at keeping a regular schedule or disappear completely! I will do my best not to let either of those happen. 

Anyways, I have some St. Patricks day nail art to share with you all today. If you didn't already notice by the top of this post or the picture. These were super fun to do, and I even used a plastic sandwich bag and made decals so I could do both hands! And I discovered that.. I'm so use to painting directly onto my nail, that flat surfaces are a no go for painting. The ones on the nail looked SO much better but oh well. 

Here's the polishes I used: 

Pinky; Creations by Lynda In A Blue Moon

middle and ring: Wet N Wild Contact High

Index: Sally Hansen Mint Sorbet

They were all topped with Sally Hansens Big Glitter Top coat Goldi-flecks to add a touch of gold to the look. 

The rest was done with acrylic paint and a detail brush. Much easier to do than it looks! And look at the highlight of sparkliness! I bought a metalic acrylic paint recently, and I got white with the intention of being able to mix with other colors to get shimmer metalicy goodness in any color I want and I LOVE it so much. 

Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed it! Let me know what you thought in the comments below! 

Pink Galaxies!

Hi y'all! I have another nail art look for you all today! I wanted to do some cute galaxy nails, but I wanted something a little different than the standard galaxy (It's almost spring. I need color and not black!). I've done galaxy nails a few times before. I've even done a blue/teal themed galaxy. I really love galaxy nails! They're so easy and simple to do, but look so much more detailed than they are. 

Anyways, for this look I used all Wet N Wild. The base color is Tickled Pink and the colors I used to sponge on the galaxy are Frosted Fuchsia, Chambray Showers, and Who Is Ultra Violet? I really loved the look of this! I used Sally Hansen Goldie-flecks for the glitter topper on it. I used the darker pink to make leopard spots on the ring fingers, all other colors (black and white) are acrylic paints! 

Hope you all enjoyed these! Let me know what you thought in the comments below! 

Saran wrap and leopard print!

 Hi y'all! I have some more fun and bright nail art to share with you all today! This is a neon saran wrap nail art with leopard print and chevron on the accent nail! These were so much fun to do and turned out sooo cute. Really, I didn't want to take them off at all. Click through the jump to see more. 

Queen + Adam Lambert inspired Mani!

 Hi y'all! I have some more nail art for you all today! This is inspired by the Queen + Adam Lambert tour! I was really sad I didn't get to go to the date in my city because of lack of funds for it when they were here last month, but I was inspired by Adam's tour wardrobe to do some nail art, not to mention his tweet about the color scheme of sorts for the tour. 

Adam is one of my favorite people everr. I love his music, and his voice is so so so amazing, he's literally makes anything sound good. And it's such and amazing and perfect fit for Queens music. It's so crazy how that worked out! Anyways, click through the jump to see more and plus some pics of the inspiration behind them! 

Neon leopard and zebra print!

 Hi y'all! Hope I didn't blind anyone with this Mani! Lol. They're so bright! I went with some simple leopard nail art with a zebra accent nail for today's look. Animal print of anything is sort of my go to look when I'm feeling stuck with coming up with anything, and these bright colors are just so summery I had to do something with them together. I think I blinded my mom with them though, she was kind of amazed at how bright they were. Though.. she did pick out the colors cause she bought them for me a few days ago. lol. So I'll blame it on her. 

Anyways, click through the jump to see more

Leopard print fan brush nails!

 Hi y'all! Today I have some more nail art to show you all! Leopard print over a fan brush technique background! Really simple and easy to do! And matte! I loved this look! Click through the jump to continue reading more!

Matte nails with shiny zebra print

 Hi y'all! Some more nail art to share with you all today! Some matte/shiny zebra print! So sorry for the pictures lately, my lighting just isn't cooperating with me at all the last couple manis. Click through the jump to see more pictures and how I did these! 

Skittle nails!

 Hi y'all! So I have a skittle mani for you all today! I bought a whole bunch of new polishes a few weeks ago and couldn't at all decide which one to use on my nails, so I just used as many as I possibly could in one mani. So click through the jump to see the thumb nail and what I used in this look! 

Quilted flowers + zebra accent

 Hi y'all! More nails to share with you all today! I have some quilted pattern flower nails, and a zebra accent to show you all. There's some micro beads included in this mani as well, but lets just say, this look didn't last long because of them, they drove me nuts and then ended up coming off. Click through the read more to see more about these nails! 

Animal print and hearts for Valentines Day

 Hi y'all! Today I have some fun Valentine's nail art to share with you! There may be a few more of these if I think of anything else to do. This ones super sun and features some hearts and animal print. And I threw in a couple heart shaped gems just for fun. There's actually a video for this on my facebook page as well. 

Let It Snow Winter Challenge; Snow Leopard

Hi y'all! I have some leopard print nail art for you all today for the Let It Snow Winter Challenge. The theme was snow leopard, but I just couldn't do just the same exact thing on all of my nails because it would drive me nuts. Plus there's only so much you can do with snow leopard so I thought it would make them a little different than the rest as well. 

 I started with a base color of LA Colors Lost Soul and I used Wet N Wild A Blank Canvas for the white spots, and Lacquered Bliss Polish Take Charge for the purple spots. I used a tooth pick and black acrylic paint for the black. 

The white spotted ones are the snow leopard (Yeah I know it should be the opposite but I don't like wearing white like that too often.) and the purple spot ones were inspired by my bed sheets. It has a leopard/zebra pattern on it in light grays, purples and white. So I used the purple spotted leopard print pattern on them to inspire these. 

Let me know what you think of these in the comments, and be sure to check out the rest of the challenge themes as well as the other ladies Snow Leopard looks below!

Let It Snow Winter Challenge; Water Marble

 Hi y'all! Another challenge day! and todays theme is water marble. My water marble sort of failed and I didn't want to post them. But I also didn't want to redo them either. I hate that whole mess of a process and I was frustrated already so no way was I attempting to redo them. SO I thought, how can I make them look decent? And ta-da! Zebra print! I left my favorite alone as an accent and used some black acrylic paint and a small nail art brush to make the zebra print. Problem was solved! 

I used Wet N Wild Teal Slowly And Fall and A Blank Canvas for the water marble, black acrylic paint for the zebra stripes, and NYC matte top coat to make the whole thing matte. 

Let me know what you think in the comments below and check out everyone elses water marble manis as well! 

Spider web + Zebra nail art!

Hi y'all! We have some more.. some what Halloween nail art for you today! I really wanted to do some Zebra print nail art, so I did both. 

For the gradient, I started with a base of two coats of white and let it dry. For the actual gradient, I used LA Colors Spat!, Scream, and Wisteria. I painted them onto a make up sponge and made my gradient. When that was dry I used white Acrylic paint and a small paint brush to paint on the details. I topped it with a coat of KiloX Lacquers Opulent Top Coat to add some sparkle and then top coated! I really love how these came out! 

Oh and look! I have a Pictorial to share with you as well today! I'll show you how to do the spider web design! 

I guess the first step would actually be, to gather your materials needed. I used LA Colors Spat!, Wisteria, and Scream, along with wet n wild A Blank canvas, and white acrylic paint. Also a small paint brush, and a make up sponge. If you need to know how to do a gradient, my pictorial for that is here. 

Also, don't forget you're favorite base coat to help prevent staining your nails, and help your mani last longer, along with your favorite top coat. 

1. Once you're background is dry, use your white acrylic paint. (keep in mind, you can use white polish, I just prefer the paint) and the small paint brush, and make three curved likes in the corner of your nail. Almost making a miss shapen half circle with the connecting curved lines.

2. Do the same thing as in step one, only make it a little bigger, a little above the first set of lines you made. So you have two half circles made from connecting curved lines, one slightly bigger than the other. 

3. Now you draw two straight lines through from the point of the larger half circle, all the way down to the end of the nail. The points of each set of curved lines should line up pretty well, but they don't have to be perfect. The straight lines should meet at the end of the nail, sort of like your were making an upside down "A" 

4. Both of these steps are optional. But I used my KiloX Opulent Top Coat and put one coat over the nails, then I pressed a little gem stone in the corner of the spider web with it was still wet. 

5. Add top coat, and you're done! Now you have a cute Halloween spider web mani!

What do you think of this look? Did you like the pictorial? Would you like to see more how-tos? Let me know in the comments below!

Animal print skittle nail art! + Bunday Sunday!

Today I have a quick skittle manicure to show with you. I love love love animal print nail art in general, and I got this in my head and that it would be something fun to do and I threw it together. 

The pinky and middle finger base is LA Colors La creme, the index is LA Colors Whipped, the thumb is LA Colors Spat! and the ring finger is sinful colors Unicorn. I used La Creme to make the spots on the index finger and all the other details are acylic paint. 

We have a tiger print on the thumb, something I haven't done before and doesn't look that great because I was trying to make it not just look like an orange zebra. The index finger is a leopard print. The middle finger is a zebra print. Giraffe print on the ring finger. And the way out of place cow print on the pinky finger. I couldn't think of anything else to do and I wanted it to be a true skittle manicure with all fingers being something different, so even though it doesn't really fit in with the other animals, I used it anyways.

What did you think of this look? Let me know in the comments below! There's also some pictures of Foofy for bunday sunday below the jump if you would like to see my bunny furbaby!

Water marble Wednesday!

So, I skipped water marble Wednesday last week because I was sick the week before that and I didn't feel like doing much of anything with my nails. Definitely didn't feel like dealing with the mess of water marbling to get ahead and have one all set up to post last week. But I did promise I'd bring it back this week with another water marble, so here we are! Just click the jump below to see more and find out how I did these nails. 

Bluesea Bow shaped nail decoration review

Today I have a review for you of these cute little 3d bow shapes! They were sent to me by kkcenterhk and arrived pretty quickly considering they were being shipped from Hong Kong! They were here about ten days after speaking with them. I don't know if this is the usual for their shipping or not, but if it is, it's awesome! 

I picked these Bluesea-CB01B 3d nail art decorations. They're little bow shapes and the have a white background with pink leopard print on them. They're sooo cute and I was so excited when they came in the mail. I just couldn't wait to try them and get this review up to show you all! 

I did an awesome white and pink leopard mani to match the bows. I alternated between Sinful Colors Snow me White and LA Colors Pink Bubbles I think used Pink Bubbles and black acrylic paint to create the leopard design on the white nails. The index finger I added little white dots, and the ring finger, I added the bow to. They were sooo cute!

Until I realized my oopsie. I attached the little bows using top coat, just like I would any other gem or stud, though the site says to use nail glue. I thought it just said that as a way to make the decoration last longer on the nail, and as I didn't have any nail glue around because I don't use it for anything, it would be a waste, I just went 'oh well, I'll use top coat, it'll be fine' but NOPE! Let me just say.. if a products page says to use glue to attach it, I now know that I should listen and use nail glue and not top coat. These would have been cute and reusable but.. since I didn't listen.. they're not. On the right hand, pretty quickly after I attached it, I bumped it before it was dry and attached good, causing the bow to move. Along with smearing the nail, it smeared and pulled off the design from the bow. Making them unusable now. When I took the other one off that's pictured here, I had a tiny bit of that problem as well, but I may be able to use that one still.

Here's a picture of the worst one just to show what I mean. So, to sum up that long rambling mess up there? DON'T USE TOP COAT TO ATTACH THESE. At least not if you want to be able to use them again. Use nail glue like the site says.

These come in a pack of two and are about $4 per pack. Which normally, I wouldn't pay for just two little bow shaped gems, but these are meant to be reusable so it's not too bad as long as you get a few uses out of them.

What did you all think of these? Is it something you would buy?

Disney nail art challenge day 20: Toy Story!

Yayy! We've made it to the pixar movies! Some of my favorite disney movies are Pixar animation. And Toy Story is one of THE best and the original pixar movie. And one of the only movies ever to have not only one, but TWO awesome sequels that were just as good as the first one. Love them. But anyways. 

For these nails I started with la colors meadow on my index and pinky fingers. On the middle i used a white mini from la colors, and on the ring finger I used sinful colors unicorn these are obviously inspired by two of the main characters from the movie, woody and buzz, and I added in the aliens from the pizza planet claw machine for fun because they're awesome! 

OooOOoo the claw! 

Now I want to go watch toy story. What do you think of these nails? Let me know in the comments below and check out all the other toy story nails.

extra relaxed 31 day challenge day 13: animal print

today is day (week) 13 of the 31 day challenge. This is really getting on the way now! And I'm excited about today's theme - animal print. I just LOVE animal print anything. It's so fun and easy to do. And today I went with a simple leopard print mani.

I used la colors whipped and wet n wild tickled pink for the colors and alternated between the pink and nude colors. Then i used the opposite color and black acrylic paint for the leopard pattern. I LOVED this look so much. The pink nails looked much better in person, my camera made them look much brighter than they were. It was so pretty together though. 

What do you all think about these nails? Do you have a favorite color combination for leopard print? Let me know in the comments below!