February Nail Art Challenge-Triple Threat

One last loophole post. I combined day "floral" and "studs" because they worked so well together.  And it matched my outfit coincidentally, so bam, three days in one. Maybe it's "cheating" maybe it was just fate.

See, the floral and studs ccomplete each other. Plus the glitter made a nice accent. It took me so long to decide what to do on those three nails. I almost did stripes in defeat, but thenit came to me. GLITTER. Always the right answer.  

The green is Sinful Colors Mint Apple. This color you guys. It's amazing. Formula can be a bit draggy but otherwise, it's flawless. The glitters are Sally Hansen Glitter Gun and Razzle Dazzle. I hate that those glitters were LE but I *really* hate the bar glitters. You see that sole black bar glitter on my pinkie? HATE IT. I know some of you probably love them, but ugh. Bar glitter.

 The floral nails had a base of OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons and the flowers are Sinful Colors Aubergine and Soul Mate. Easy Going (pictured above) was used for swirling the petals. And lastly the green is Color Club Artsy Craftsy.

Totally coincidental ootd.

Happy 4th of July! Also hello blog, it's been a while..

Ha so yes let's just say I was lazy during the school year and never felt like updating? Because that's exactly what happened, but let's move past that and jump right back in? Excellent!

And what better day to resume blogging than good ole' Independence Day? A *huge* nail art day. My design is very unoriginal and super sloppy but I slapped it on in about ten minutes over an old mani (actually I had flower petals on my nails over a white base and just pulled the petals off-you'll see them later, promise).
Without further ado, here are my stripes and.. well mostly stripes. I haven't accumulated any star shaped glitters even though it's pretty high on my "to-do" list of polishes. But I've seen a few people use China Glaze's Ruby Slippers (I think that's what it's called? I know the "Ruby" part anyhow) and I have been DYING to get it. I saw it at a Sally's like a year ago and regret not buying it, I don't know why I didn't.  Oh, I said "without further ado" like a paragraph ago, didn't I? Well, for real now:

These pictures are a bit huge, sorry, I uploaded them directly from my phone. It has a better resolution than my camera, how.. sad, really. My dear camera is quite old though. I made myself a homemade lightbox and it looks like crap but you know, gets the job done. Only problem is my lamp has a really warm toned yellow light. NOT WHAT I NEEDED. But you know, I only just kinda found it in the garage and it's all I got, so you gotta do what you gotta do. Lightbox pics will probably be pretty sporadic though. I'll explain later, who even cares.

Like I said, they are very messy, but I did them really quickly, alright? I like the overall design anyways.

Colors Used:

• Sally Hansen Insta-Dri (it's the white, but my bottle doesn't have a name sticker)
• Sinful Colors- Gogo Girl
• Love & Beauty by Forever 21- Blue (yes, that's really the name. "Blue" wow yea real creative there, 421)

Fiery Gradient

Today I have a nice gradient to show. To say that I am completely in love with it is an understatement. I've been wearing it for about four, five days now (the longest I've worn the same look since probably June!), and I still catch myself staring. Without further rambling on my part, here is my fire-inspired gradient:

31 Day Nail Challenge: Day 30-Inspired by a Tutorial

One day left! There is one day left of this challenge! I remember all way back to day one, where I accidentally never used the right color. Oh, memories. But anyways, I have been so excited for this day. I've known what I wanted to do for the past few days, and I am not at all disappointed in it. I present to you: sugar coated nails!

31 Day Nail Challenge: Day 27-Inspired by Art

I knew 'Inspired by Art' was going to be a difficult day. I spent a while thinking about what kind of artwork I wanted to do. Right off the bat, I knew I didn't want to do any recreations of famous paintings or anything. A) That would be so hard (not that I'm shying away from a bit of hard work- I love really getting into nail work that take maybe an hour or two or even more- but I wasn't really prepared to do that. I don't really have grade-A brushes, and my paints are limited) and B) I feel like that would be the obvious route. And while there have been many many talented artists, I've never really been one to get really stuck on a certain era, or artist, or whatnot. And then I thought of an idea I'd been mulling over a while. Stained glass!

31 Day Nail Challenge: Day 25-Inspired by Fashion

Fashion was today's inspiration challenge. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do for the day, since I hadn't done much preparation the day before. I flipped through a few pages of a magazine and came across a picture that had some colors I really liked and thought, "Well hey, why not use this." And so I did.

31 Day Nail Challenge: Day 8- Metallics

Heh, so I'm a bit late again, aren't I? I'd like to say I was bust, or under the weather, or some other valid excuse but no, I was mostly just lazy and didn't feel like editing pictures/writing up a post. I'd also like to say I'll try not to do it again but who am I kidding, probably I will do it again, we're only 10 days into this thing. 

But aside from that, metallics! I was pretty excited for this one, because I do love a nice metallic shade, but then I realized I only really had a few silvers, a gold, and a purple metallic to work with. Originally I did a gold nail with glitter flakies, but it was just so boring I couldn't bare to pose it (though it pained me to waste all that gold polish; I''m more than halfway through Next CEO by OPI, one of my favorite polishes ever, and I'd hate to be out of it). So after some contemplation, I thought, "Hey, why not half moons?"