Late I know

Sorry this post is late again and it wont have pictures. I never knew how hard it would be to keep on on this blog once I got 2 jobs. These aren't going to be the best pics and I will add the other ones later but here is some for now.

First this is the ever popular Floam. It is a wonderful color and is so fun. This is what you all could win possibly :)

 I wore this for a while and decided to spruce it up. So I konaded a patter on.

Sadly though I had to cut my nails down.
I found that new Sally Hanson magnetic polish and I was skeptical because I tried the kind from Maurices and that didn't work very well. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised at the results.

Sadly I had to cut my nails AGAIN :( and I dont like them this short but I'm going to a wedding tomorrow so I wanted to match the dress which is blue with bright colors so I have on my nails right now fun colors that I plastered on with saran wrap. It's actually really easy to do and the outcome is very nice. 

Look how short!! But I do like this design and these colors. It's very artsy.

I hope you all enjoy this post and make sure to tell your friends. I will have a giveaway when I hit 50 followers.

Early Shamrock Water Marble

Hey everyone! Two posts tonight so buckle up! Ha! Kidding. Anyways I really thought that St. Patricks day is was this coming weekend so I did this mani to prepare. Then I found out it wasn't so I took it off.

What I used was Sally Hanson White Out, OPI Jade Is The New Black, and Sally Hanson Black Cream. I did droplets in the water and swirled the polish around. My left hand was much nicer than my right which bugged me but oh well.

I like my middle finger the best. Oh and when I was done, I added China Glaze Fairy Dust to add a bit of sparkles.

And my left hand (which I never show you)

See how my right is much worse than my left? I wish it turned out equally nice.

Anyways I hope you like it. It is a fun concept but it is horribly time consuming and EVEN when you tape around your nails, the polish still gets everywhere. It took me a good hour to clean it all up.

Ombre Nails

Hey all! Well before I said that I was going to keep those colorful nails on longer but I couldn't do it. I had to square my nails because the roundness was driving me nuts! I have good news also. I finally got my camera charged and working and thank goodness. I am tired of blurry nail pictures. I bet you are all too.

So anyways. Here's what I did and used. I started with my base coat. Then I added a layer of Sally Hansen's Insta Dry Blue-Away. Then I put on a coat of SV. After that I taped a diagonal and painted a layer of Ulta Blue Streak. Then I did another coat of SV. After that dried I put another piece of tape a bit further and painted a layer of Revlon Royal (Which btw is one of my FAVORITE blues). Added another coat of SV and then placed my last piece of tape. Then I painted on the last layer of OPI Road House Blues. I added my last coat of SV and then cleaned up the sides. I really liked the turnout but I really wish my nails were longer for the effect. Also when you are looking at the nails, they dont seem like 4 colors since the Royal and Road House Blues kind of blend.

See how the last two colors blend? And the Blue-Away is so light it almost looks white in the photo.

See how fun this is. I saw something similar before that I liked only they taped straight across.

Anyone have other ideas for ombre nails?

I know this has nothing to do with ombre nails but I found this picture of a manicure on my camera and I wanted to share it with you.

Fun hey? Reminds me of cherry blossoms.

Have a good week everyone!!

Peachy Keen

Hey all! I hope your week has been going great. I think I have caught a cold so I am all stuffed up but I did make time for a mani to share with you all.

I was at the local Shopko and I saw these two pretty shades and since I couldn't pick between, I picked them both up. Sally Hansen Smooth & Perfect Sorbet and Air.

I love how soft and girly the shades are! They are much prettier in person but they look pretty decent here. Anyways, I wanted to do the peachy shade first because it doesn't seem like me but I really liked it. I heard a few things about the application of these shades, like they give your nails more oxygen or something like that. I don't really know. As far as smooth, I was a little disappointed. After applying the coats of color, I noticed some air bubbles. It was rather annoying but after adding a coat of SV they seemed to disappear.

(Sorry it's a little messy). My other complaints about this is that the shade is super sheer so this is like 4 coats. Also, the brush was rather wide which was alright but I prefer the brushes a bit smaller.

Overall, I really like the color. It's very pretty and I honestly don't have a shade that looks anything like this, which is another reason why I picked it. I spiced it up with a dark grey shade with a flowery konad stamp but I can't seem to capture it well enough in a picture to show it to you. Sorry.

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

Another Accent Nail

Hey everyone! I saw this nail design online and I semi copied it but I don't believe the colors are the same but still.  I will post better pictures of it tomorrow but for now I can only post 1 from my cellphone since the camera is being weird with my computer.
Anywho... For this manicure I used China Glaze Pool Party for every finger but my ring finger. For my ring finger I used Sally Hanson (cant remember the white colored name) sorry but then on top I used my black striping tool for free handing the zebra stripes. After all of that I topped them with a coat of Seche Vite. But on top of that I used my favorite top coat.

I really didn't see too into this one at first because it was around a lot but Essie Good To Go is amazing. It makes the manicure super shiny and last a lot longer. Don't get me wrong, I still use Seche Vite to dry my manicure but it never gets as shiny as I would like it. Do any of you have a specific topcoat?

Sadly I had to cut my nails down a bit but they're still long.

I like this manicure. I think it's fun and sexy. Reminds me of a zebra rug on someone's floor :)

See the resemblance? :)

I hope everyone had a good weekend!

Nail pics from my phone part 2

Ok so I realize after I was looking at those that I never gave any info with them like how I did them or what colors I used. If you really want to know just shoot me a comment and I would be more than happy to let you know what I used.

So this next part is more me trying different things. Whether or not I liked the turnout was a whole other thing but these are the pics for them:

This mani was one I saw online only they used blue instead of the red. I honestly have no idea where it was from and if you happen to know let me know and I'll give them full credit. Sorry I'm a bit of a flake.

These next two I wanted to try to plaid them. I started with just black and sparkley in the first picture but it looked a little bla to me so I wanted to jazz it up so I added some hot pink :)

My next one used my favorite polish. OPI Ski Teal We Drop. I love love love blue polish. I dont care what anyone says. Those are the first ones I go towards in the stores.

The next one was using the Sally Hanson Crackle. It was the white one. Can't think of the name offhand. I liked the turnout but I have to say that after not using it for a while, the brush went bendy. Not a fan of that.

After I painted my nails red, I really wanted to spice them up and I was a little disappointed that it ended up looking like lady bugs. Don't get me wrong, I dont mind that look. It just wasn't what I was going for.

This next one reminds me for some reason of nautical stuff or like a sailor. Not sure why. There is just something about it.

I was shopping in MN and I went into the Icing store and picked up this beauty. It is so pretty in real life... this picture doesn't do it any kind of justice.

I finally got into the Konad thing. It is easier than I thought it would be. I am pretty excited about using all of the different plates that I got. These are just a few that I tried.

This next one was one that I did around Halloween. It reminds me of spider webs but I wasn't going for that. I still really liked the outcome.

The next one was my Christmas mani. I know that many people did something similar to this and I did enjoy it. I also added China Glaze Fairy Dust to the top so it sparkled.

For Christmas, my wonderful boyfriend bought me a Coach purse and dotting tools so I wanted to give them a go when I used silver on top of China Glaze Frostbite.

And lastly this is the most recent, AKA I tried it a few days ago. I had on China Glaze China Rouge, and I wanted to try the gradient thing and I really dont think that I got the hang of it. It was really thick and it felt weird on my fingers.. maybe I'm just doing it wrong. It looked ok but it wasn't my favorite.

That's all I have for right now. Sorry if they aren't the greatest quality or just not good manicures. I do this for me and I hope you enjoy them.

PS Check out pinterest.com. It's my other addiction...

 See you :)