Water marbling made easy! SAY WHAAAT?

Do you love the look of water marbled but hate the mess and hassle of doing them? Or maybe you ALWAYS end up with globs of polish that never dries, ruining the perfect water marbled design when you dip in your finger, or you get those pesky water bubbles in the ONLY nail that actually turned out right?! 

Yeah, I've been there. All of it. And you're going to want to continue reading this post if you have too! I can't actually take full credit for the idea. I don't think many other people do it yet, but I seen a video on instagram (I can't remember who is was, sorry!) and thought it looked interesting so I just HAD to try it! And there is also this post here from Oooh Shinies. but other than those two things, I have never ever seen this technique before. And I definitely tihnk more people should know about it!! I know I for one... will be doing SO MANY more watermarbles now! I love them and hate doing them. This makes them much easier to do! Click the read more jump to see more!! 

Mickey Mouse Pictorial

Hi y'all! So I have another post for you all today! Some Mickey and Minnie Mouse nail art! This is one I actually did quite some time ago and wasn't actually going to share here on the blog as I just wasn't all that happy with how it actually turned out, and plus, it took me a while to remember the pictures were just sitting on my computer waiting to be edited and turned into a blog post, so I ended up just posting it on the facebook page and being done with it. But I recently got a request for a tutorial for them so I thought I'd go ahead and share here when I did that! So here you go! And we should probably go ahead and get on with said tutorial which will be in pictorial form. I'm not good with videos so it'll have to do! 

I used wet n wild wild shine protective base coat and two coats of LA Color Whipped To start, but use whatever base color you'd like to start with! I also do all my nail art with acrylic paint but feel free to use polish instead, they'll both work just as well, I just find acrylic paints easier to work with. 

1) start with the basic shape of the mouses head. Make a half circle at the edge of the nail and then two full circles connected to it for the ears, and you have a Micky Mouse head shape! 

2) Use a flesh toned color and make the shape of the face. I start by making a heart like shape at the top and then making a odd long shaped oval at the bottom. Then fill all of that in. 

3) Make the basic layout of the face with the black and a detail brush. You can go back over it with the flesh color if you need to to cover mistakes and keep going back and forth til it looks the way you like. 

4) Fill in the eyes with white, leaving a little bit of black showing as an outline and then add dots in the center of the white to make his pupils. 

**At this point, if making Micky Mouse, you're done with him, top coat and leave it. For Minnie Mouse, follow the last two steps as well** 

5) Add in some eyelashes and the pink bow. Make a dot in between her ears, right above her head and draw two triangles coming out of the dot on either side to get the shape of the bow and then add some white dots. 

6) Add your favorite top coat to seal it all in and you're done! Also note if using acrylic paint, or for bumpier designs from the different layers of polish, two coats of top coat may be needed to smooth everything out. 

Hope you all enjoyed! Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see in future blog posts in the comments below! 

extra relaxed 31 day challenge day 5: blue nails

day 5 of the extra laid back lazy 31 day challenge. Can't believe we're already on week 5! so excited to show you guys what I have for you today. Blue ocean nails! Really love how these came out! And I have a tutorial! 

 This is the look, and keep reading on to see more pictures, plus, a tutorial!! 

Flip Flop February day 2: stained glass/accent nail + tutorial

Day 2 is stained glass/accent nail. I went ahead and chose to use both looks cause the stained glass look would take foreeever to do on all ten nails. So.

I've also tried to do another tutorial, hopefully you're all enjoying these, and I'm not just doing them for no reason. And again, since it's going to be image heavy, it's all under the link below

First off, the finished look

Flip Flop February Day 1: Gradient/skittle nails + Tutorial!

As always, remember to click the pictures for a larger view

Flip Flop February challenge.

So, first day of the challenge as you see is Gradient or Skittle nails. I was going to do a gradient, but then I changed my mind and came up with a cute Skittle mani, I added a little more to it than just painting each nail a different color though. And I've added a little tutorial for how I did it for those interested too, so it'll get a little pic heavy, so everything has been added after the jump, just click the link below. 

OH, and also, as a thing for the blog in the new year, I want to include more tutorials if I remember to do it as I do my nails. SO, I'll need to work on getting a good little method of doing them as I go. So let me know what you all thought of this format of the tutorial, or leave any feedback on how to improve it in the comments. 

Now for real, click the link below to see the Mani and how to do it :)