Late: 4th of July and bornprettystore review!

Hi y'all! I meant to get this up yesterday! Which means y'all get two blog posts today because I have another post I've been meaning to get up as well! These were some Fourth Of July nails I did using the press samples I received from Sally Hansen as well as some I received from Born Pretty Store! 

I used all three of the Sally Hansen Fourth Of July Shades for this. The Base is Vandal Eyes and I sponged on the other two Tag Ur It! And Quick Brick to make a sort of galaxy type effect with a coat of the Big Glitter Top Coat in Costume Glitters over that! 

Once that was dry I used some french tip guide stickers I received from Born Pretty Store to do the accent nail. I used a chevron shaped guide and used the detail brush I got from them as well to outline on each side of the guide. Then I used the same brush to fill in some extra details and add the dots. 

The guides were pretty easy to use! Just make sure the polish is SUPER DUPER Dry before placing the stickers. And I recommend sticking them on your skin and pulling them off a couple times before placing them over your polish as they're really sticky and that'll weaken it a little. Making it less likely to pull the polish off when you remove them. 

You can get the brush here
And the french tip guides I received is a variety pack which you can get here for $6.39

31 day challenge: Blue nails!

 Hi ya'll! I have some more nail art for the 31 day challenge to share with you all today! These were a lot of fun to do and they follow the 'blue' prompt. I looove blue so I was so excited to work with a blue nail base. 

Has anyone seen this commercial? Surely you have, but this is the best screenshot I could find/get from it, of the item I was after. These nails were inspired by the dress in this commercial. I just LOVE blue and orange together and when I seen this dress I just HAD to do nails like that, perfect fo the blue nail theme too, right? 

For these nails I used Wet N Wild Chambray Showers And Listening ToBlue Reed, as well as Sinful Colors Snow Me White the base color is Chambray showers then I randomly dotted all three colors on a make up sponge and sponged over the nail to get a bit of a textured look. More depth to the look if you will. The flowers were done with Acrylic paint, orange and yellow and various mixes of those two colors to get the shade I wanted for them. Then the centers are dotted in with LA Colors Cactus and I just LOVE how all of these look! So much fun! And I'm getting so much better and more confident in my flowers. Mostly just super duper simple type flowers, but either way, they are flowers and they don't look horrible! 

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

Neon Tribal Gradient!

Hi y'all! I've got some tribal neon gradients to share with you all today! These were super simple and fun to do! Please just exuse the rabbit fur in the picture - I didn't realize it was even there until I was editing just a second or so before writing this up. The joys or our awesome furkids, right? I know some of you have cats and have the same problem with the fur. 

Anyways, these were wasy to do, you just need a make up sponge and your four colors of choice for the background. I chose to use neons, but you can use pastels or whatever you want if you don't like such a bright look. 

For mine, I used two coats of Sinful Colors Snow Me White to start with and when that was dry I used a damp make up sponge and painted on my four colors in the areas I wanted each. I used Broadway Nails Sun Flower and Sour Apple (Orange and Green) and LA Colors Pumpin' Pink and Flicker (pink and yellow) for this look. But any neons you want would work the same! If you're using neons though, you def want a white underneath to make them really pop. 

After I had my gradient built up to a nice opacity and looking the way I wanted it too, I cleaned up around my nails, then took my detail brush and black acrylic paint and did some simple lines to make a tribal look over the background. You could leave it as is with just gradient as well if you'd like, but that was too boring for my taste personally, and also, I like that the black design kinda brings the brightness down a little bit. 

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

Dragonfly Nails!

 Hi y'all! I have some more nail art for you all today so I hope you enjoy it! Today I have some cute and simple dotted Dragonflys. You might have noticed another post I did recently had bumble bees, this is because I asked recently on my facebook page for people to try and help give me some inspiration as I was feeling a little stuck when it came to ideas. There's so many designs out there, it's hard to find one that hasn't been done so much that you're sick of seeing it! Though there are so many cute ones it's also hard to resist trying them. BUT anyways, the point is, someone suggested I do an insect theme for the spring/summer and I thought that was a great idea! So I've gotten started on that and I just have to decide for sure what other insects will be included in the mix! Bumble bees and dragonflies are done. Next up I'm thinking is lady bugs? We'll have to wait and see! Now, click through the jump to see more!

Bunny and flowers!

 Hi y'all! I have some more nail art to share with you all! A little something for Easter, with some bunnies and flowers! Really love how this came out, I thought they were really cute! Click through the jump to see more!

Summer Beach nails!

Hi guys! Today I have a super fun summery beach mani to show you! I meant to have this up much sooner but it was just a busy weekend. We had a movie night in the backyard with all my cousins and they're kiddos, and my sis and nieces and nephew too, saturday night. Which turned into a much longer night than it needed to be, but I'll spare the details of that. Lets just say I didn't sleep much and didn't feel like doing anything yesterday, which is when I meant to get this up. But anwayyys. 

For this look I started with a base color of Wet 'N' Wild I Need a Refresh Mint and then in the middle for the water I used LA Colors Aquatic and for the sand I used LA Colors Whipped and all the rest of the details were done with acrylic paints. Little crabs and starfish, and blankets and flip flops, and even little buckets and shovels. I looove how these came out! I'm actually still wearing them right now, but they're chipped and need to be taken off which I'm doing here in a little while.

What did you all think of this look? Is it something you would try? Let me know in the comments below!

extra relaxed 31 day challenge day 10: Gradient

Day or week 10 of the 31 day challenge. And todays theme is gradient. I meant to have more pictures but none of them turned out right except this one. Bot my gradient i used sinful colors unicorn for my base color, this i sponged on unicorn, folly, and la colors meadow to make my gradient. And except for the index finger, I think it's one of my bed gradient, and the first i've used more than two colors. For my accent nail I stamped on a snake skin pattern, but we're gonna pretend I didn't because I suck at stamping. 

What do you all think of these gradient nails? Let me know in the comments below!

Flip Flop february day 23: linghtning/bows

The theme for day 23 of the flip flop february challenge is lightning nails or bows. And I really liked the idea of lightning nails, and the look of them when I looked them up. So here we go! Plus.. even though bows is the one on the easy side of the challenge.. I SUCK at making them so. I need to practice that, haha. Click the link below to see more of these nails and how I did it. 

Nail Inspiration

So pretty! Had to try it on my nails.

one of my facebook friends posted this a few days ago, and as soon as I seen it, I knew it would be so pretty on someones nails, and I needed to try it. Like right then.

Can't decide if I actually like them or not, but you know. It was my first try with the paints, and yeah.

I used a set of poster paints for the colors, I was experimenting to see if it would work like Acrylic pain would, and it kinda did, but it faded after a day or two. I also can't decide if I like how they came out. 

Spongy rainbow with leopard print

 

leopard print over a sponged on rainbow type background :) 

just a little something..

just a random little nailart i did a while ago. messy at that, i didn't realize how messy it was before i took the pics :/

and the multi-colored zebra/leopard one is the nail we're actually looking at it, painted it white, sponged on all the colors, then stamped it with a konad stamp plate that.. i can't remember the number on right at this moment. I loved how it turned out. the others were just me playing with the other MASH stamp plate set i had just gotten in. :)