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

Spring Time Pedicure Nail Art Design | Bedding Inspired

Here is my latest pedicure. It is spring themed and it was actually inspired from a comforter I saw on Target's website. Bedding might seem like quite an odd place to draw inspiration from, but I encourage you to take a look at some bedding or even fabrics. Their designs can be easily created by layering nail stamping images like I did here. There was a few other comforters I wanted to try to create nail designs for, like this one that I have the perfect image for on my first set of BM image plates. Surprisingly, I do not have a nude polish (I will fix that though) so that design will have to wait. =P Here is a list of the products I used...

Light Pink Color: Essie "Van D'Go" (well it is more of a light peach color)

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

Light Purple Color: China Glaze "Spontaneous"

Dark Purple Color: Pure Ice "Scandal"

Image Plate: BM 15

Rhinestones & Hexagons: Ebay.com

Spring Flower Nail Art Design & Poll Results!

I did this mani specifically so I could do a tutorial for an easy beginner nail art design and just guess what happened? MY CAMERA NEVER RECORDED IT!! Ahh! =( It recorded everything except when I did my ring finger- which was the whole point of the video. lol Needless to say I am a little bummed, but I will either do another design with this technique, or I might just repaint 2 fingers like I did for the last tutorial. No biggie! But if you wanted to achieve this effect it is super easy. Here is how you do it. Paint your nails a white color for a base. Pick 4 spring colored polishes, and gently tap the brush onto random spots on your nail. Then take a green polish and make little V's and lines to create "leaves" and your done! Easy right? But you know me, and I had to bring it up a notch, so here is the same design with some sparkle ...

UPDATE: I made a tutorial for this design. Click here to see how it's done! =)

& here is the long list of products used ...

-Ring Finger-

Pink Color: Sinful Colors "Cream Pink"

Blue Color: Sinful Colors "Savage"

Purple Color: China Glaze "Spontaneous"

Yellow Color: Sinful Colors "Let's Meet"

Green Color: Revlon "Emerald City"

-Other Fingers-

Pink Color: Finger Paints - "I Pink I Can"

-Rhinestones & Decorations-

Ebay.com & JoAnns.com

Also, I got the idea for my new watermark from Abby at Lovely In Laquer, who just posted an amazingly pretty pink glitter gradient nail design you should check out =). I loved this idea and thought it looked sooo cute. I made my watermark into a brush and I have to admit it made my life so much easier when it came to editing my pics. I got a few designs I'm fiddling with, so you'll see the variation of them on my upcoming posts. =)

Now onto the poll results. Last week, I asked my lovely readers how many nail polishes they had in their collection. What prompted me to ask this question is there was a few blogs I read that mentioned their polish count at about 600-800+!!! I started to think this was the average number of polishes for a nail blogger to have and was wondering if I should be embarrassed of my polish counter on the side lmao! But then I just asked and was happy to see that most of you had the same amount of polishes as me! =D Although there was a few votes for 400+ polishes.. sigh.. those lucky, lucky girls. lol

I will be posting a new poll question on my blog when I am done with this & I also have some new polishes and swatches I have to show you in the next few days!

Crackle & Scotch Tape Mani | Cute & Easy Nail Art Design

Here is my current mani. I was looking at Chloe's Nail Blog and found her tutorial on how she does her scotch tape manis. The designs she is able to make with just some scotch tape are amazing, so you should check out her blog and see more of her work. This was my first attempt at the scotch tape mani, and I think it came out really well-even though I would posistion the tape better next time. Not as well as Chloe's though- but she also has many years of scotch tape & nail painting experience. lol This mani is really easy, the hardest part is cutting out the tiny strips of tape- but the results are well worth it. Since I was a first timer, I just decided to do two fingers with the rays and just used a crackle polish for my other 3 nails.

Light Pink Color: Sinful Colors "Glass Pink"

Medium Pink Color: Sinful Colors "Cream Pink"

Dark Pink Color: China Glaze "Hyper Haute"

Black Color: Sinful Colors "Black on Black"

Black Crackle Color: China Glaze "Black Mesh"

On another note, the reason I never posted a Mardi Gras mani is because it ended up being a complete nail fail. lol I used those tiny lil beads to create "mardi gras beads" but when I applied the top coat the color from the beads came off and smeared all over the place. Also beads were falling off left and right, and I dinged my nails up like crazy. But here is the pic of my most grand nail fail lol..

Anyways, once I take my new mani off, my St. Patrick's day one will be going on. I'll try to post it early next week.

CHINA GLAZE CRACKLE POLISH | Cute Crackle Polish Nail Art Design

Crackle Polish is so addicting to use. I want to crackle every nail swatch/sample I have lol. The next time I do a crackle mani I am going to use a thicker coat to make the crackles bigger. From far away this nail design looks like an uneven black color, so I think having bigger crackles will allow you to see the 2 colors easier.

Base Color: China Glaze "Hyper Haute"

Crackle Color: China Glaze "Black Mesh"

Rhinestones: Joanns.com & Ebay.com

CHINA GLAZE CRACKLE PEDICURE | Cute Crackle Pedicure Nail Art Design

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**the design is much prettier up close**

I just couldn't resist the urge to buy China Glaze's Crackle polish. I remember crackle polishes back in the day and I was so excited to see them make a come back. I didn't want to re-paint my nails yet so I figured this would be the perfect time to do a pedicure.

Base Color: Sinful Colors "Snow Me White"

Purple Color: Sinful Colors "Bali Mist"

Crackle Polish: China Glaze "Black Mesh"