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.

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!

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 Nail Art | Pink Slanted French Tip Nail Art

These are my current nails at the moment. I wish I had more pics to post, but the lighting was not in my favor that day. In my hand is a bracelet I got from Claires, which I absolutely love.

Base "Light Pink" Color: Sally Hansen "Cotton Candy"

Hot Pink Color: Sinful Colors "Cream Pink"

Nail Stamping Color: Pure Ice "Love"

Image Plate Used: BM 20 (Bundle Monster from Amazon.com)

FYI, sometimes when I am writing a post, my blog will do this really annoying double space thing like above. It makes me feel like I am writing a paper for school since that is the only place I ever used double spacing lol