Orly and Color Club Stamping Manicure

This is going to be a quick post. I am tired and I have to go in early to get all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed *not looking forward to it* So I might be MIA next week depending on how I am healing up. I have a very low pain tolerance unfortunately.

 It's been awhile since I have done a stamping manicure, so Daniel suggested that I do stamping. I am glad he suggested it! I was a little rusty but it worked out in the end.

I used:

Orly - Wild Wisteria 

Color Club - Harp on It

Mash - Plate M43

HK Girl Top coat

This is my first Color Club Halo and I am blown away how vibrant it comes through on stamping. It make's me want to get all of the Color Club Halo Hues. I am very pleased! 

I hope everyone has a great weekend!
 Oh also I am so very close to 350 likes on my Facebook page - if you currently do not like the page I would urge you to do so or even share my page. I am talking like 12 people away and I will be releasing an awesome giveaway! So keep your eyes open for that! 

Day 9 - Recreate your favorite - Erica's Nails and More February Challenge

Here it is everyone, we are finally (sadly) at the last day of the challenge. I really enjoy doing nail art challenges and get kind of sad once they are over. All good things must come to an end though. 

So today's theme is pretty wide open - recreate your favorite. I knew right away I wanted to recreate someone else's manicure during the challenge and not my own. I was stuck between a few of them - there were that many great ones!

 I ultimately decided to recreate Polished Potential's half moon manicure and added a twist of my own. You can check out her awesome half moon manicure here.

I love, love, love how these turned out! I will be doing it again for sure! I have gotten so many compliments on it so far.

I used:

Sinful Colors - Mint Apple

Sinful Colors - Snow Me White (Half moon and stamping)

Mash - 42 Stamping Plate

Check out the other amazing manicures below!




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Polka Dots - Erica's Nails and More February Challenge

Hey everyone!

I have a polka dot manicure for you tonight. These are one of my favorite manicures to do! So simple to do and it adds some spunk to a manicure. I have really been feeling the blue colors lately so that is what my manicure is inspired from.

I did not plan this - but notice how my nails match the sign I am holding? 

I used: 

Sinful Colors - Sweet Nothing

NYC - Skin Tight Denim

HK Girl Top Coat

There is one more challenge day left! 

Inspired by a tutorial - Erica's Nails and More February Challenge

Hey everyone!

Tonight I have for you day 7 of the challenge which is inspired by a tutorial. I was not sure what I wanted to do for this one so I just hopped on google and browsed through pictures. I ended up falling in love with a cupcake manicure I saw. You can find the tutorial here. 

Since Walgreens is offering Sinful Colors for 99 cents with coupon I picked up 6 of the new Sugar Rush collection and I knew right away this would be perfect. I love the colors so much and I thought I would hate pastels on me - boy was I wrong! I am planning on going back and picking up the 2 other polishes I missed out of the collection.

Here are my cupcake nails!

I don't have any nail art brushes and I think I need to invest in some. I made my stripes with a dotting tool so they are a little jagged looking. I still think they are adorable though.

I used:

Sinful Colors - Unicorn

Sinful Colors - Sugar N' Spice

Sinful Colors - Candy Coated

Sally Hansen - White On

HK Girl Top Coat

Here is what is left! We are getting close to the end! It really flew by and as always I get sad when a challenge is over!

P.S. I am not kidding if you have not entered the giveaway you really want to do so HERE, we are getting down the wire! Who is going to take home some amazing prizes? 

Check out below the other awesome manicures!

Gradient Nails - Erica's Nails & More February Challenge

Hey everyone!

I have for you tonight gradient nails. I have attempted gradients a handful of times and I just could never get it down. I think I finally nailed it! It's a very subtle gradient and the camera didn't pick it up as well as I would have liked, but that's my own fault for not getting them done with proper daylight.

Here are my gradient nails

I did a reverse gradient on my accent nail and I have to say I think I prefer the dark on bottom going to light versus light going up to dark. It is kind of difficult to see the gradient. I think I might keep this manicure on tonight and take pictures in the daylight and update some pictures.

I used 2 of my new Sinful Colors I picked up today. Sinful Colors Sugar Rush and Sweet Nothing.

Check out the other gradient nails below!

Oh by the way my giveaway is ending very soon! Less than a week! Go enter if you have not done so!

Valentine's Day Nails - Erica's Nails and More February Challenge

Happy Valentine's Day!

I am spending the night watching The Vampire Diaries and Glee with my furbabies! Hubby works from 5pm until 3:30am. So there goes all plans out the window. Maybe we will catch a movie this weekend.

Here is my Valentine's Day inspired manicure. It turned out ok.

I used:

Essie Marshmallow

Orly Close Your Eyes

Sally Hansen Black Out

Wet n Wild Metallica 

L to R the plates I used:

BM-317

BM-311

QA6

QA6

Tomorrow I will upload my other Valentine's Day manicure - I missed out on daylight before I could finish my manicure so the lighting just won't show the manicure very well.

P.S. Make sure you enter the Epic giveaway I am involved in. Time is running out and the prizes are pretty amazing!

Inspired by a Pattern - Erica's Nails and More February Nail Challenge

Hey everyone!

Sorry for my absence lately. I am working hard planning my sister in law's baby shower. She also had not registered anywhere so I have been spending countless hours doing that with her. I can tell she is excited!

Tonight I have day 4 of Erica's February Challenge - Inspired by a pattern. I had no idea what I wanted to do so I went to google and searched patterns. This is what I came up with.

Here is what I got on my nails

I don't know why but my nails remind me of ice cream haha!

I will have to update what polishes I use when I get home (Currently spending the night at my sister in laws) and I didn't get a chance to write down the polishes down.

Here is what is left:

Check out the other pattern inspired nails below!

Peacock Nails

So I like to enter nail giveaways, I love winning polish! I think my poor hubby loves it when I win too! Since he is the one supplying my polish :) I entered one for Kelsie's Nail Files 1 year blogiversary and saw she was also doing a nail art contest! I knew right away that I wanted to do it! You had to take one of the pictures on her nail inspiration board and do a manicure off of that.

Here is what I chose to base my manicure off of.

This design just jumped out at me because I love all of these vibrant colors!

So here my nails are!

I had a lot of fun creating these! I might just rock this style again!

I used:

Orly - Wild Wisteria

Wet n Wild - Buffy the Violet Slayer

Essence - Go Bold!

China Glaze - Blue Sparrow

NYC - Skin Tight Denim

HK Girl - Top Coat

I hope you like it!

Silver - Laid Back Challenge Day 2

Hey everyone! I have tonight a silver manicure for you. This is for Crumpet's Nail Tarts Laid Back Challenge! 

Before I get to the pictures, have you entered my giveaway yet? If not do so here!

So this week I finally got the striping tape I ordered off of Ebay and I decided to give it a shot. I used striping tape to tape off the blue and layer it with silver and add some silver glitter to finish. I like how this manicure turned out and I really liked how easy the striping tape was to use!

I used:

Wet n Wild - Metallica 

China Glaze - Blue Sparrow

Stripe Rite - Silver Glitter

HK Girl Top Coat

Here is what is coming up!

Half Moon - Erica's February Challenge Day 2

Hey guys! I hope everyone had a great weekend! Mine was pretty laid back, got some cleaning done and had game night over at my sister in law's. So tonight I have for you half moons. I don't know why I don't do these more often. They are fairly simple to do if you are patient - I was not this time. I used the hole reinforcement stickers and I had terrible placement so I had to freehand to try and get them all even. They are a good starting guide but I can never get them to be even.

I wanted a color combo that would really pop and I think that I chose well. I am not sure I will do the black on top again because I feel like it shows my flaws in my different shaped nails - but that's just my personal preference. 

I used:

China Glaze - Naked

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Black Out

HK Girl Top Coat

Check out what is to come this month and below that check out all the other half moon manicures out there! They are looking great!

P.S If you haven't already don't forget to enter the Epic Multi Blogger giveaway I am involved in. You can go enter HERE!

Galaxy Nails - February Challenge

So if you have not read the post below this one. I will clue you in. I decided that I love nail art challenges so much I decided to join not just one challenge but two challenges this month! I have to really say thank you to Erica for hosting this challenge! It was her November challenge that got me really into nail art - so of course I am going to join her February challenge. From my understanding this is the largest amount of participants to date for her challenges so yay! Here is what you can expect to see in the next month! 

I attempted my first Galaxy nails in the last challenge Erica had back in November. I liked how it looked but to me it was too busy! Not bad for my first time. This time I wanted to keep it dark and mysterious! You can still see the colors but I like how subtle the galaxy nails look!

I used:

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Black Out

Nicole OPI - Prized Possession Purple

Wet n Wild Fast Dry - Grey's Anatomy 

Finger Paints - Sparkle and Snowflake 

Hope you like it!!!! 

Black and White - Laid Back Challenge

So a few weeks ago I decided to join the Crumpet's Nail Tarts Laid Back Challenge. I am not good at doing daily challenges because some manicures I am fond of and don't want to take it off. This challenge is right up my alley! Here is a look of what will be coming up! There are quite a few things on the list that I have yet to attempt so I am really excited!!! 

So before I post the pictures I just want to share that yesterday I broke not one but two nails on both hands. So I had to go to nubbins! I am so sad! This is the shortest my nails have been since September! So bare with me while my poor nails grow back! I hope it will not be long! Let's get on with the manicure!

I used:

Essie Marshmallow

Pure Ice Black Rage

BM - 314

I hope you like it! Check back tomorrow for my first day of Erica's Nails and More February challenge!

Also you can check out some other black and white manicures that ladies have done down below!

Zebra Stamping Manicure

I first want to say welcome new followers! I am glad you are here :) 

Tonight I have a manicure for you that I absolutely love! I did this manicure last week and I did not want to take it off! I have a feeling I will be repeating this manicure in the future! It's also really quick and easy! I am a sucker for dark colors and black is one of my go to shades so I feel extremely comfortable with this look!

I used:

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Black Out

Finger Paints - Sparkle and Snowflake

Mash - 41

HK Girl Top Coat

Here Fishy, Fishy!

Whenever I go fishing you will always hear me call out "here fishy,fishy" I don't know why but it works for me! Last week I was browsing through and saw that Pure Ice was doing a nail art contest called Pure Ice My City! You had to come up with a manicure that is inspired by your city, or state. 

Since I have not lived in Rochester very long I decided to stick with Minnesota. I knew right away I wanted to do something with lakes. Minnesota is known as Land of 10,000 lakes. I love the water! I love to swim, go boating, fish etc. I decided to make my manicure about ice fishing. I thought it was going to be a lot easier to do than it was. In the end I am pretty proud of it. All was done freehand.

I was really inspired by the whole snowman connected nail I just knew right away I was going to have a line go down both nails and a fish at the end. It was my mother in law's idea to add the ice shack. I had a really fun time creating this! 

If you are interested in learning more about the contest you can visit Pure Ice's facebook page for details. You might want to hurry though! Contest closes Friday (tomorrow) morning! 


#PureIceMyCity

China Glaze Tranzitions

So I am thrilled to show you this polish. Well for a few reasons. This is going to be a pretty picture heavy post so you have been warned! I picked 3 of the China Glaze Tranzitions before Christmas and I just got around to really playing around with them last night. I originally picked these polishes up because I have a thing for polka dots and I thought this would be great for it. Well the polish I am going to show you tonight was a big fat fail when it came to polka dots. I felt there was not enough contrast in the colors that you could not even see the dots. I was ready to get rid of it.

 Back to my last post - I said I would be practicing stamping over manicures I am about to remove, well I did that today. Let me post the results below. I had to take a series of pictures so everyone could see what I am getting at.

Here is the polish just 1 coat. I love that it covers after just 1 coat. No top coat. 

Here I am demonstrated what happens when you apply top coat to the polish - it changes. This one changed to purple! I love the colors on their own but since they are both so dark it was hard to see any polka dots.

Here is the stamping I did. I decided to clear coat all my nails and just do purple and silver stamping. I used Wet n Wild Metallica and BM - 313 plate. I love the look of this. 

Here is where I was floored. I decided to put another coat of top coat on and it changed the silver! It made it a light metallic purple! If you look at the picture above with just the silver stamping you can tell a huge difference! I couldn't even believe it. I now am in love with this polish just for that reason. 

I knew I had to blog about it so I removed all polish and started over from square one so I could show you the steps on this polish. I apologize for the dryness around my nails when I was doing quick clean up with acetone. This is why it is important to hydrate after using acetone. I use an amazing cuticle oil called Pure Nail and Cuticle Oil. I will be posting more on this in a few weeks! 

If you are interested in learning about the Pure Nail and Cuticle Oil you can check it out here

She is currently running a special until January 19th, 2013. It's a huge discount! 

Saran Wrap/Stamping Manicure

So learning how to do different techniques with my nails I have to say I have some favorites. Saran wraps manicures are so easy and look really neat. I also am getting into stamping. 

Yesterday I asked the hubby to pick out some of my untrieds to do a saran wrap manicure. He of course chose the bright blues. I really like how the saran wrap turned out. 

Today I decided to recycle my manicure and  practice stamping over the manicure and I am really pleased with the results. Here are my manicures for the weekend. 

I used:

China Glaze Blue Sparrow

China Glaze Turned up Turquoise 

Wet n Wild Metallica 

BM - 322

HK Girl Top Coat

I would also like to add if you are interested in stamping one great way to practice stamping is do it on a manicure that you have had on for a few days and are planning on removing soon. I will probably do this to majority of my manicures just so I can really get the hang of stamping.

Skittle Manicure

I have for you tonight a skittle manicure. This is my first one. I had a blast doing it. At first I was unsure how I would like the look of a skittle manicure on me but I have to say I am pleasantly surprised and I have a feeling I will be rocking more of these in the future.  I got my inspiration from Chit Chat Nails. If you have never been to her blog you should check it out! Her photos are amazing!

With this skittle manicure I also tried out my new Bundle Monster plates well just one design but I was very pleased!

From Left to Right I used:

Wet n Wild Wild Shine - Metallica

Essie - Marshmallow BM Plate 317 with Pure Ice - Black Rage

Zoya - Aria

Pure Ice - Black Rage

Sinful Colors - Hot Wired 

Top Coat - HK Girl 

Do you like skittle manicures? Why or why not?

Vikings Nails

So this is a little late but I have had a busy weekend. These are the nails I did for the Vikings game on Saturday. I do not really care about football but my hubby is really into it, so I figured I would do this for our "home" team. Although they didn't win - I had a good time going to my sister in law's and watching the game and grilling. It was nice spending time with family. 

Ever since my mom got me dotting tools one of my favorite nail art manicures is dottitures. Here is mine.

I used:

China Glaze - Creative Fantasy

Sinful Colors - Let's Meet

HK Girl - Top coat