Blue Polka Dot Nail Art & Love Letter Nails!!

So here is a nail art design that I did a week or so ago. It is super easy to do & if you don't have any rhinestones you can always use on of those LA Color Nail Art polishes in silver glitter and make a stripe down the nail instead. I started by painting my nails white, then adding the blue color on half the nail, added my black polka dots, then rhinestones. 

White Color: Sinful Colors "Snow me White"

Blue Color: Orly "Frisky"

Black Color: Sinful Colors "Secret Admirer"

Rhinestones: Ebay.com

Also, I ran out of daylight when it came time to my Valentine's Day nails, and I did them right before dinner, so I was unable to post them in a reasonable time, but I still figured I would share. I am sure you have seen this design floating around the internet and I saw it last year, and couldn't wait to try it out next Valentine's Day. I painted my nails white, transferred the newspaper design, then added the heart image on the corner of my nails. Such a simple concept with a big impact.

White Color: Sinful Colors "Snow me White"

Pink Color: Sally Hansen "Pink Jade Chrome"

Image Plate: BM 02

Striped Candy Shop Nail Art Design!!

After I did this nail design it reminded me of a candy shop, hence the name of the post lol. I started off by painting my nails pink then adding white stripes after the polish dried. I have been getting semi-sorta lazy about doing Konadicures only because I have to wait so long for the polish to dry before I could start stamping. Since I have had less time to do my nails lately, I decided I could try some non-stamping nail art. Although, I do have some Spring nail art designs swirling around my head right now that will require me to break out my stamping plates. lol I let someone borrow the pink polish I used for this design, and I can't remember the name of it if my life depended on it so I will have to update this post when I get it back. Here is a list of all the other products used ..

Pink Color: Sally Hansen *Will update post with polish color =/

White Color: LA Colors Art Deco Striper polish in white

Rhinestones & Pearls: All from ebay =)

That is all for now. I have 2 other nail art designs that I have pictures for, so I will be updated again soon.

Have you started your Spring nail art designs yet? If so, leave the link to your post in the comments. I would love to see them. =P

Christmas Nail Art 2011 * Mani & Pedi!!

Merry xmas everyone!! I hope your stockings were stuffed with nail polish & you got everything you wished for! <3 I finished this mani yesterday & my boyfriend's mom let me borrow her camera so I could take pics to show you. (= At first, this design was really simple, just green and red nails, then I added the tree design from the BM plates the next day, then decided to "decorate" the tree & this is what I came up with.

Green Nails: Sinful Colors "San Francisco"

Red Nails: Orly "Candy Cane Lane"

Green Color: Sinful Colors "Call You Later"

Tree Image: BM 205

I did this pedi weeks ago but didn't have a camera to take pics with when it was fresh, but that's okay since the gems usually stay on 10x longer on my toes than my nails. I really wanted to do this design on my nails, but I over buffed then and they have been breaking left and right lol. 

White Color: OPI "Happy Anniversary"

Silver Glitter: Wet'nWild "Kaleidoscope"

Gems & Sequins: Ebay.com & BornPrettyStore

Holiday Celebration // Snowflake Nail Art!!

This has to be my favorite snowflake nail design I ever did! I wanted to do a holiday mani without doing the typical red, green, & gold nails. lol So I was thinking more of a bright holiday design instead and this is what I came up with! The first picture is the most color accurate of them all, but it still gives this polish no justice to how it looks in person. When I get my new camera (hopefully soon) I am going to make sure it has exceptional macro capabilities, enough to capture the smallest spec of glitter & shimmer. I just hope I can find it, and in my price range lol. But I did a few layers of different colors on my nails to make the glitter more multi-dimensional. I used some polishes that had contrasting colors of flecks to give the mani more visual interest. Although you cannot tell in the pics, the purple nails have small blue flecks of shimmer, and the blue nails have, you guessed it, small flecks of purple shimmer. To avoid any confusion here is my product list, and if you own some of these polishes you are well aware of the joy they create when using them in layers ..

Purple Nails

Petites Color Fever "Raspberry Ice" (base color) 1 coat

Sally Hansen HD "LCD" (layering color) 1 coat

Orly "Bubbly Bombshell" (main color) 2 coats

Blue Nails

Orly "Halley's Comet" .. 2 coats

Pure Ice "Busted" .. 1 thin coat

Decorations

Snowflake Image "BM 14"

Konad Special Polish "White"

All rhinestones from ebay =)

And I have some pics that I took with my phone in between times that I didn't have a digi cam on me, so excuse the quality although they aren't too bad for phone pics. lol

Here is the Xmas mani I just took off before I did my current one. I really love how the ring finger came out! I just might have to do that again for my actual Christmas nails. & as you might be able to tell, that nail was inspired by my most recent post of nail art scans, but I did it a bit differently. 

And this is my mani from Thanksgiving. I know, not very Thanksgiving-y but I just reallllyyyy didn't want to wear brown nails that day. lol I was in much more of a pink mood and it matched the scarf I was wearing so it was still a *win* in my opinion. lol

On another note, I wonder if I am the only person who does this. I always want to wear nail colors at the wrong time. For example, I want to wear pink on thanksgiving. Or in the summer I want to wear black, and during the winter I want to wear bright summery colors. I want to do purple and blue nails when its a week before xmas, etc. lol Does anyone else do that too? It isn't only with nails though, I must admit. I am like that about everything. When it is summer I can't wait till its colder outside and I can get comfy in my layers of clothes, and as soon as it is winter, I can't wait to get into shorts and sandals.

 Anyways, enough rambling. I have some extra late Christmas shopping to do & some more pics to edit for my next post. I hope everyone has all their shopping done and can just relax this week! I will post soon loves!!

31 Day Nail Art Challenge // Orange Nails!!

Here are my orange nails for the 31 day nail art challenge. I have to admit, I was getting so frustrated with these nails lol. I was originally going to stamp with hot pink, but the the pink barely showed up. Then I found another design I was going to use, but the image was not transferring as crisp as I wanted it to. I was so close to just taking off all the polish and doing completely different nails. Then I saw this the design you see in the pic & thought "this could work." & Thank god it did! lol =) I then added some hot pink dots and rhinestones, and what started as a hopeless manicure ended up being one of those manis you catch yourself staring at throughout the day. I did this design late at night so I took pictures with my phone in the bathroom. I was planning on taking pics with the digital camera the next day, but unfortunately I broke my middle finger down to the finger tip. =( Which lead me to cutting all my nails down really short. That is okay with me though, I prefer shorter nails & I like when I cut them down and get to start with fresh nails lol. Anyways.. here are the products I used ....

Orange Color: L.A. Colors (I am not sure what the name of the color is)

Pink Color: Sinful Colors "Cream Pink"

White Color: Konad Special Polish "White"

Nail Image: BM 213

Rhinestones: Ebay.com

Halloween Nail Art & Tutorial !!

Here is my first Halloween nail art designs of many to come. I wanted to start doing my Halloween manis sooner but my birthday and me & my boyfriends anniversary is in the middle of October. Needless to say, I had to take a break in between from the orange & black polish during that time. lol But now that all of that is said and done, I can continue my Halloween Nail Art series. For this design I am using the following products...

Black Polish: Sinful Colors "Black on Black"

White Polish: Sinful Colors "Snow Me White"

Orange Color: Sinful Colors "Cloud 9"

Black Stamping Polish: Konad Special Polish "Black Pearl"

White Stamping Polish: Konad Special Polish "White"

Image Plate: BM225

Pearls: BornPrettyStore.com

Rhinestones: Ebay.com

Along with the pictures, I also made a tutorial. =)


Btw. Sorry for not posting as much recently. If you remember in my last posts, I have been having some computer issues. Especially with Blogger, which leads me to believe I probably have 341 Trojan viruses. lol But I am getting my computer all strapped up with virus protection and getting all of the bugs out. I can't even begin to express how excited I am to have a normal working Internet so I can get back into the blogging game. lol

I hope you liked the design! I am going to work on another post tonight. I have some pictures of one of my top favorite nail polish combos along with some magnetic nail polish swatches!!

Cute Nail Art Designs!! *Major Update*

Here are some nail designs I have done in between postings. Since there is a lot of designs I am just going to jump right into the product lists ...

Dark Purple Color: Sally Hansen "Pronto Purple"

Light Purple Color: Pure Ice "Outrageous"

Image Plate: BM208

This is a design I am sure all of you have seen or even done before. I would of added more detail to this but I wanted to do something just simple, quick, and easy because I had another nail design I wanted to do the day after.

Blue Color: Orly "Frisky"

Pink Color: Sinful Colors "Soulmate"

Red Color: Sinful Colors "Be My Valentine" (nail striper)

Green Color: Sinful Colors "San Francisco"

Black Color: Sinful Colors "Secret Admirer"

Glitter: Wet'n'Wild "Party of Five Glitters"

Matte Top Coat: Essie "Matte About You"

I revamped the design above after wearing it for a few days. For this design I added some Chanel Fimo Slices from the Bornprettystore.com. And some decorative hexagons I bought from Ebay.com.

I LOVED this pedicure!! It is one of my top favorite nail designs. I actually took this picture about 2-3 weeks after wearing this pedicure. So for those of you who ask how long the gems stay on for, it is a very long time if you add a layer or 2 of top coat.

White Color: Sinful Colors "Snow Me White"

Black Color: Sinful Colors "Black on Black"

White Stamping Color: Konad Special Polish in "White"

Black Stamping Color: Konad Special Polish in "Pearl Black"

Image Plate: BM223 (Bundle Monster)

Decorations: All from Ebay.com =)

Pastel Colored Pedicure Nail Art Design!

Here is the pedicure I did on Easter weekend. I know it's a little late, but I am still going to post it since it has Spring colors. I had a really difficult time taking the pictures for some reason =/ but I think I managed to get two out of the bunch. =) I am really happy to finally get my hands on those dot like nail art decorations If you have ever checked out NailsUp, Nail Venus, or any other Japanese nail art magazine, you are already aware of how often they use these dots in their designs & I was totally jealous I didn't have any! lol I seriously searched online everywhere and was finally able to find a good deal on ebay!

Purple Color: Sally Hansen "Lacey Lilac"

Blue Crackle Color: China Glaze "Crushed Candy"

Mint Color: Sally Hansen "Mint Sorbet"

Pink Color: Wet'N'Wild "Tickled Pink"

Decorations: Ebay.com & BornPrettyStore

Rasta Deco Nail Art Design



I was going to wait till Summer to do these nails since the warm weather has more of that rasta/jamaican feel to it. But I got a little ahead of myself when the weather started getting warmer. lol Which is okay because I can show you the design now instead of waiting. =)  I saw some variations of Rasta nail art designs online and I knew I could come up with something different and find a way to make it pretty and blingy. Although this design is fun, it may be difficult to wear, especially if you have work the next day. lol You don't want to give your boss the wrong impression haha. But if you think you can pull it off, here are the products I used...

Green Color: Sinful Colors "San Francisco"

Yellow Color: Sinful Colors "Let's Meet"

Red Color: Sinful Colors "Under 18"

Image Plate: BM 07

Rhinestones & Hexagons: Ebay.com

Peep Bunny Easter Nail Art Design

Happy Easter!! Here is my Easter mani. I wish I had some pink glitter so I could have made the peep bunny look more realistic, but I worked with what I had and this is what I came up with! I am about to eat Easter dinner shortly so I am going to skip right to the products I used...

Mint Green Color: Sally Hansen "Mint Sorbet"

Pink Color: Sinful Colors "Pink Forever"

Pink Glitter Color: OPI "Teenage Dream"

Small Iridescent Glitter: LA Colors (No Name)

Big Iridescent Glitter: Hard Candy "Break Up"

Brown Color: Pure Ice "Magic"

Decorations: Ebay.com

My Mom also got me some new polishes for Easter too that I have to show you! Did you get anything exciting for the holiday? Did you do an Easter mani? If so, leave me a link in the comments! I would love to check it out! =)

Black & Silver Deco Nail Art Design

Happy Good Friday! I was originally going to do an Easter nail art design and somehow I ended up doing this. lol I was having trouble coming up with an Easter design because I didn't know what to do beside bunnies, chicks, and Easter eggs. Actually, I think I just came up with something. =) lol But if my idea doesn't work out the way I see it in my head, I will do a mani with Easter colors and keep it somewhat simple. Anyways, back to the current mani. These are the products I used...

Black Color: Sally Hansen "Midnight in NY"

Silver Color: Sally Hansen "Pure Chrome"

Image Plate: BM 21

Microbeads: DollarNailArt

While I was taking pics of my nails, I got distracted by the big chocolate lab, Ralphie. So I figured I'd share the cuteness...

Peace Sign Nail Art Design & Poll Results

This peace sign nail art design was completely unplanned but I absolutely love the way it came out. I knew I wanted to do a multi-colored nail stamp and when I saw the peace sign I figured I could make it work. So I chose my colors around the design and this is what I came up with. I created the multi-color peace sign by applying a line of blue polish, then a line of purple polish, followed by another line of blue polish over the peace sign on my image plate. I would have made a tutorial since it is hard to describe, but my camera is having technical difficulties and isn't reading my SD cards. But once I figure it out- I will do a nail tutorial using the same technique. =)

Dark Purple (Base) Color: Sally Hansen "Pronto Purple"

Blue Color: Pure Ice "PussyCat"

Purple Color: Pure Ice "Outrageous"

Image Plate: BM 07

Rhinestones & Hexagons: Ebay.com

Now onto the poll results. I asked all my lovely readers which one of their nails broke the most and the "index" finger won hands down. Which leads me to the question, what is it with the index finger? Because my index finger loves to break. Seriously, browse through my nail art gallery and you will notice in about 80% of the pictures I have a broken, short, and stumpy index finger. lol Although, this isn't a problem for everyone. There was 10 people that voted who must have amazing genes that blessed them thick perfect nails, because they don't break. It is either good genes or they have some amazing nail secret for thick strong nails that they better share with us! =) lol

I will think of a new poll question to add hopefully later today. I also have some new designs for you that I will post by this weekend. =)