Comfy Sweater Nails & More Updates!!

Here is my newest nail art design. I was inspired by a sweater that I have & wanted to create nails to match my winter wardrobe. I had this idea floating around in my head back since Fall and was unpaitently waiting for Winter weather to do this design. 

Gray Color: Sally Hansen "Wet Cement"

White Color: Konad Special Polish "White"

Black Color: Konad Special Polish "Pearl Black"

Image Plates Used: BM204 & BM20

A few days after I went over this mani with Essie's "Matte About You." I think I might actually like this design more with a matte finish. 

About a week ago we had some light snow fall followed by freezing rain. Everything outside looked so pretty and was covered with a thin sheet of ice. As you can see in the second picture, there is ice around each individual pine needle. The ice blue glitter nails went perfectly with the weather.

Polishes Used: Deborah Lippmann "Just Dance" & Wet'n'Wild "Believe me, it's real"

So for some updates. Sorry I haven't been posting lately. I am taking block courses at college which are only 7 weeks long. Between work, 5 hour classes, and homework, I am struggling to find time to not only do my nails, but getting any spare time during the day to take pictures.

There is some good news though! I finally got a camera, but not just any camera. I finally caved in and bought a DSLR camera, a Canon Rebel T3i to be exact. I hope you noticed the quality of the pictures has upgraded from my last ones. At this time I only have the kit lenses, but I have a macro lens on my wish list which will really take my polish and nail art pictures to the next level.

I promise to start updating more! I am editing pictures now for another post I have coming up which features soft spring colors. I also have a DIY project I am dying to show you! I finished editing the pictures for the tutorial part, but I need to wait until Saturday morning to take pics of the final product. While I am at it, I am going to try to come up with a nail art design to match the bracelet, but we will see how that goes.

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!!

Super Cute Pink & White Star Nail Art Design for short nails!

Pink Color: Sally Hansen "Heart of Stone"

White Color: Konad Special Polish "White"

Star Image: BM 20

Recently my ring finger nail broke, and when I say broke, I mean it broke all the way down to the finger! Grr! But I was starting to grow tired of having longer nails anyway, so I decided to trim them all down and honestly.. I like my nails a lot more this length. I usually keep them longer so I have enough room on my nails to have the freedom to do any nail art design my heart desires. But I really prefer the look of shorter nails, they don't get in the way as much, typing is much easier for example, you can go crazy with your designs without it looking tacky, but it still gives you that polished, chic, put together look to your hands. So I am going to keep them to this length until I need to grow them longer for whatever design is brewing up in my head. Plus, having shorter nails allowed me to play with some of the full sized images on the first set of BM plates which have a reputation for being too small for longer nails.

As for the nail design its self. I LOVE it! It's so very simple (compared to my usual designs anyway) but I find it to look better in one of those less is more kinda ways. It's very understated, but adds a lot of character. I was also admiring this color combo a lot too. I already have an idea of how I want to use this star image again in the future. I am thinking of a dark navy blue or black, with a sheer holographic/duochrome polish on top to give it some depth, then adding the stars in silver. Of course, I am trying to contain myself from wearing darker colors until its a bit colder and the outside world has more of that genuine autumn feeling. I know.. I am putting way too much thought into that lol.

I have some pictures on my phone of some nail designs I've done while my camera was broken, which I will be uploading VERY soon!

Nail Art Challenge: Wallpaper/Background Inspired - Abstract Konad Nail Art & Tutorial!!

Here is a mani that I did a few weeks ago. I really wish that I was able to get a better picture of this beautiful design. I was using my Mom's camera and the pics looked really good, until I got them on the computer and saw that 98% of them were blurry, which is usually not the case with her camera. I also got my camera back from Best Buy!!! So be prepared for regular posting again! I felt so lost without having my camera an updating lol.

I got the idea for this design from a background I had on my cell phone, which I will upload a picture of shortly. The reason this post is titled Nail Art Challenge is because I was debating whether or not I wanted to have contests on my blog. I had sooo many ideas for different themes that I thought it would be way too hectic to organize contests around all of them. So I decided that I would try nail art challenges instead, where I challenge myself and YOU to create nail art designs based on a theme. For this challenge, try to create a nail art design based off of a background on your phone, desktop wallpapers for your computer, or even the wallpaper on your walls. I will post all designs that I receive on this post, so if you have one that works, old or new, submit a link to your design, along with a pic of the background/wallpaper that inspired you and I will feature the design on this page! =) There is no deadline, so even if you see this months from now, feel free to send your design. The only rule I guess is that it has to be your design, not someone elses.

I will do these challenges every week or every other week. I figured it would be something fun to do for all the nail art enthusiasts, or if you are just "stuck" and need some inspiration for a new design. If you have any other ideas too, leave them in the comments and I will definitely consider them.

White Color: Sinful Colors "Snow Me White"

Blue Color: Sinful Colors "Loves Nails"

Yellow Color: Sinful Colors "Let's Meet"

Green Color: Sinful Colors "Irish Green"

Black Color: Konad special polish in "Black Pearl"

Konad Plates: M65 & M77

Bundle Monster Plate: BM19

Rhinestones: Ebay.com

The editing for this vid is less than perfect and I had some technical difficulties, but I got it done. There is also an audio swap in progress so I apologize if you have to watch the video in silence until it uploads lol. So now more talking, here is the tutorial I made for this look ...

KONAD PEDICURE | Pink & Black Leopard Nail Art Design & TUTORIAL!!

I love this pedi! I think it's my favorite one I did so far. I was even more excited when it finally started to get warm and this was the first pedi I got to wear with flip flops this season!! =D I also wanted to do tutorials for some of my pedi's, but I wasn't really thrilled about having my feet on YouTube. So instead I think I am going to do pic tutorials for my pedi's. Since this post is very pic heavy, I'm going to shut up now and let you know the products I used so we can get to the tutorial. lol

White Color: Sinful Colors "Tokyo Pearl"

Black Color: Sinful Colors "Black on Black"

Pink Color: Petites Color Fever "Raspberry Ice"

Image Plate: Konad M57

Rhinestones & Beads: Ebay.com DollarNailArt.com

I also gave Sassy a pedicure while I was at it. =D

**TUTORIAL**

1:2:5 ~ Paint nails a white color.

3 ~ Paint nails a hot pink color.

4 ~ Paint nails a black color.

1 ~ Apply the leopard image from image plate M57 sideways on your big toe in black.
2 ~ Fill in the spots with a silver polish.
3 ~ Add a silver glitter polish over the silver your just applied & wait for your nails to dry completely.
4 ~ Apply a piece of scotch tape to the bottom of the leopard image.
5 ~ Add a coat of black polish and gently pull off the tape.
6 ~  Apply hot pink rhinestones along the black line and fill in the gaps with gold micro beads.

1 ~ Apply a black rhinestone to the top middle of your 2nd toe.

2 ~ Apply a silver rhinestone to the top middle of your 4th toe.

 

1:2 ~ Apply hot pink rhinestones over your 3rd toe.

 

 1:2 ~ Apply the leopard image to your baby toe in Black and add silver glitter polish in the spots.

Then apply a layer of top coat to all your nails and your done! Pretty easy huh? I hope you liked this design! I will have more posts comming soon! BM just released another image plate, so I am going to cover that. Then I will also do my Spring Flowers tutorial & a post on how to store your image plates. =D

KONAD PEDICURE| Cute Spring Bright Pink & Blue Pedicure Nail Art Design

This is my latest Konad pedicure. I did a design very similar to this a while back, but never took pics. =( So since the colors worked well for Spring, and since Spring officially starts tomorrow- I figured this would be the perfect time to try this pedicure out again. I LOVE this color combo and have some manis planned out for summer with the same color scheme. 

Pink Color: Sinful Colors "Pink Forever" 2 coats

2nd Pink Color: Sally Hansen "LCD" 2 coats

Blue Color: Pure Ice "Pussycat"

Black Color: Sinful Colors "Black on Black"

Image Plate: Konad M57

KONAD NAIL ART | Cute Deco Flower Nail Art Design && TUTORIAL !! ...

Here is a easy-to-do nail art design. I had trouble getting decent pics since it was gloomy and cloudy the day I took these- but I was able to get a few. I really wanted to use this Konad design again, but since I already used it for another mani, I needed to change it up a bit. So I changed the color scheme and added some rhinestones & beads.

Gray Color: Pure Ice "Kiss Me Here"

White Color: Konad Special Polish in "White"

Image Plate: Konad M60

Top Coat: Seche Vite

And guess what else?! I am officially on YouTube and making video tutorials for my nail art designs!!!! I finally figured out a technique for making the vids- so hopefully I can make this a regular thing.  I made the videos short & straight to the point- I figured this would make it a lot easier to edit and take less time to make them so I could keep posting. So I apologize in advance for not explaining anything in depth- but on the other hand theres plenty of other videos on YouTube that will explain the basics in detail. Anyways, I need a drum roll please ... Here is my first official video tutorial ...

If there is anything that I can do to make the vids better or more helpful- just let me know in the comments! I hope everyone likes the design!! I already have my next tutorial lined up so in a few days I will have the posted too!!

KONAD LEOPARD NAILS | Deco Leapord Nail Art Design

I fell in love with this design when I saw it on Dominique Renee's tumblr & just had to try it out. I believe she handpainted her design, but since I don't have that much skill, I figured a Konad would be in order. I also added gold glitter and rhinestones between the leopard spots to make the design a little different. I have noticed I have been doing a lot of inspirational manis lately. lol. But I figured I would do another design before I start my Mardi Gras and St. Patricks Day manis. Oh yeah, ignore the slight smudging on my index finger. For some reason when I went to apply the rhinestones, I used just a cheap top coat, completely forgetting that the stamping could smudge with some top coats. Needless to say, I used Seche on the rest of them lol.

Pink Color: Sinful Colors 'Cream Pink"

White Color: Sinful Colors "Snow Me White"

Black Stamping Polish: Sinful Colors "Black on Black"

Leapord Image Plate: Konad M57

Stripe Image Plate: Bundle Monster BM 20

Rhinestones, Hexagons, & Chain: Ebay.com & Joanns.com

KONAD PEDICURE DESIGN | Cute Spring Pedicure Nail Art Design

I wanted to do a pedicure for spring time with pretty light spring colors, but I was stumped on ideas. That is until I saw this design on Ivana's Blog and completely fell in love with the color combo and the design. I loved it so much I had to do it right away & I put my own lil spin on the design by adding a few silver beads.

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

Purple Stamping Color: Sally Hansen "Ruby Chrome"

Image Plate: Konad M65

Silver Beads: DollarNailArt.com

KONAD PEDICURE for Valentine's Day xoxo

White Base & Stamping Color: Sinful Colors "Snow Me White"

Black Base & Stamping Color: Sinful Colors "Black on Black"

Polka Dot Image Plate: Bundle Monster BM 19

Heart Image Plate: Bundle Monster BM 03

Plaid Image Plate: Konad M60

KONAD NAIL ART DESIGN | Feather Nail Art Designs

This design I did a really long time ago, like before I knew all about pure acetone, Seche Vite, and the importance of a base coat. Yeah, that long ago. But nonetheless, I decided I would still post it. I found these on my computer and I still like the design although I would amp it up if I did it today.

Black Color: Sinful Colors "Black on Black"
Silver Stamping Color: Sally Hansen Chrome Nail Makeup "Pure Chrome"
Pink Stamping Color: NYC Foil Nail Enamel "Foil'er Up"
Konad Stamping Plate: M77