Playing Catch Up: New Years Eve

Here are my New Years Eve nails! They are super simple, just black and gold. I hope you have a great new year!!

Nail Polish Used:
NYC "Black Lace"
Revlon "Gold Coin"
Nicole "Kissed at Midnight" <--- how fitting...

Inspired by: elleandish // Janelle

4th of July Nail Art Challenge: July 2nd

Ok, so I didn't finish my nail art challenge. I actually did this one and a fireworks one but I got mad at the fireworks one and didn't feel like redoing it. Then I got busy and dropped off the face of the Earth. Here is the last one I did that I was happy with. 

Cookout! It is a picnic table cloth, hamburger, hotdog, watermelon, and a lemon to make lemonade. I thought it was genius. It took me a very long time to paint. I mixed all of the colors with nail polish till I had everything just right. I don't think I'm going to list all of the polishes I used for this one. I don't really want to dig them out. On to the next!

NOTD: Orange Dotticure

Today's nail art was inspired by an orange bracelet! I was looking for things around my house to be inspired by when I found this. I think it would have turned out a little better if I had used a lighter orange as the base. Things to keep in mind for the future!

Nail Polish Used:
Revlon "Tangerine"
Pure Ice "Hot Tamale"
Wet n Wild "Sunny Side Up"
Sinful Colors "Cloud 9"
Diamond Cosmetics "Glitter Lites"

Swatches: Clearance at Walmart

For a few weeks, the Walmart here has had several nail polishes in a little clearance basket. They were only marked down maybe $.50. Pretty lame. A few days ago, I went and discovered everything had been marked down to $1!! Sweet! I got several and most are from brands I have not tried yet!

Here is what I got:

L'Oreal 

     Smell the Roses

     Versailles Romance

Flower (Drew Barrymore's collection!!) 

     Venus Fly Trap

     First Bloom

Revlon

    Tangerine 

     Cayenne

Swatch: Revlon Girly

I have had my eye on this polish for a while now! I finally decided to get it, and I love it!! I love the different sized glitters and colors. It is totally unique to me, I have nothing like it in my collection. I think I used three layers for full coverage.

Revlon "Girly"

NOTD: Palm Trees in the Sunset

Here is my second kickstart summer look. Palm trees in a sunset. If I do something like this again, I think I will only put the trees on the thumb and ring. It is a little much on all five fingers! For the gradient background I used the sponge technique, pretty easy! Next time I would also use a thinner brush. These were also inspired by some postcards!

Nail Polish Used:
Sinful Colors "Snow Me White"
Pure Ice "Bite Me!"
              "Hot Tamale"
Revlon "Ocean Breeze" -- It is scented! Not only did it have the right color, it added to the design with the                      "ocean" smell.  

+ Americana "Ebony"

NOTD: Beach in the Snow Starfish

Today is a snow day and I just found out tomorrow is as well!! With nothing much to do, I spent today looking at nail art and found a beachy themed design. From that I turned it into a snowy, beach with starfish. I tried out my half pearls, the are supposed to look like bubbles!

Nail Polish Used:
Wet n Wild "Hallucination"
Nicole "Stand by Your Manny"
Revlon "Blue Mosaic"
Diamond Cosmetics in white
Wet n Wild "Teal or No Teal"

+ white half pearls and loose light blue glitter

look at all that snow! It started snowing again not that long ago!

Inspired by: YummyNails

NOTD: Groundhog Day Nails!

Happy Groundhog Day! Phil says we are going to have an early Spring! Sweet! :D
Here are my nails in celebration of this fun day! I have a Winter scene, a Spring scene, then a cute groundhog!
For the Winter scene I created a blue gradient then painted the whole thing over with white. I then took plastic wrap and dabbed it over the wet white nail polish to make it look frosty. Pretty cool, huh!?

Nail Polish Used:

Nicole "Stand by Your Manny"
Wet n Wild "Rain Check"
Nicole "A Lit-Teal Bit of Love"
Sinful Colors "Snow Me White"
Diamond Cosmetics in white, black,  cocoa, lime, and frosty pink
Revlon "Hot for Chocolate"
Art Deco in purple
Sinful Colors "Sunny Day"

his arms are a little funky, haha

Winter

Spring

Groundhog

Frosty Trees Inspired by: ProfessionalDQ

NOTD: Animal Print Fun

What a colorful animal print!! I tried this two in one look and spiced it up even more with some rhinestones. I loved doing the tiger stripes, they just look so cool! I painted on the pink and then the orange. I took the orange's brush and made it so it would be a little gradient. It is a fun pop of color in the winter.
Nail Polish Used:
Revlon "Always Flaunting"
Sinful Colors "Cloud 9"
Pure Ice "Platinum"
Diamond Cosmetics in black
Art Deco in purple
Bon Bon's glitter

+ gold, dark pink, and purple rhinestones

Inspired by: PinkFlyingCow87

NOTD: Santa Hats and Face

I had a friend that gave me the idea to do Santa hats, and then I thought about also putting Santa on my nails along with the hats! I made it so when I put my thumb and ring finger together they make Santa! For his face I put the nude color on then took the sheer pink to make it lighter.

Polish used:
Revlon "Crème Brûlée"
Wet n Wild "Sugar Coat"
Pure Ice "All Nighter"
Diamond Cosmetics in black and white
Sinful Colors "Flower Girl", "Sunny Day"

Inspired by: Kgeddin7

Day 29: Inspired by the Supernatural/ Sci-Fi

I am going to switch up the name of this day to Sci-Fi. I did Doctor Who nails and I realllllly wanted to do them for this day but he is not exactly supernatural. I decided that I could do what ever the heck I wanted on my blog, so, I altered the day just a tiny bit.

These were based off of the seasons with Matt Smith in them. I did his little bow-tie and suspenders, a red Dalek , his little green sonic screwdriver, a Tardis, and the DW logo. Thank you to my brother who let me borrow his sonic screwdriver as a prop.

Polish Used:
Pure Ice "Celestial"
NYC "Big Apple Red", "Black Lace", "French White Tip"
Revlon "Gold Coin"
Diamond Cosmetics lime, white, and black
Art Deco in red and silver glitter
Bon Bon's in copper






thumb 



index finger

middle finger

ring finger

little finger

my brother's sonic screwdriver

Inspired by: Colorgrl101

NOTD: Happy Thanksgiving!

I did turkey nails to be festive for the holiday! I put the little Tom on my ring finger then painted feathers on the others. I also picked up a new  hobby, painting nail polish rings! I will be doing a post next all about it. I created a little turkey ring to match the manicure. So cute! I went outside today to take pictures, it's a beautiful day for Thanksgiving!

Nail Polish Used:
NYC "French White Tip"
Revlon "Hot for Chocolate"
Art Deco in red, yellow, and orange
Diamond Cosmetics "Cocoa"
Not pictured: NYC "Black Lace" I forgot to take a picture of this but decided it wasn't worth taking one.

Inspired by: MissJenFABULOUS