Orange Rows

Orange is a color I don't wear very often, but when I do I love it. I really want to wear orange polishes more. Anyways, this is a color combo of pinks/oranges and some glitter that I don't even remember how I can up with, but I love the way it turned out.

Here's the base on its own, Billie's "Electric Coral"

I painted on two other colors in curved shapes (I totally don't know what polishes these are haha)

And the last step was a stripe of pink glitter. What do you think of this manicure? Leave a comment about orange polishes; do you love em? hate em?

Steel Nails

Hi girls, just a quick mani to show you today. I am in LOVE with the SH gem crush line of polishes, and I have 3 of them but secretly (or not so secretly lol) want all of them! This is a mani with a diagonal overlay of the SH gem crush "Glitz Gal"

Here is the base color, Revlon's "blah" on its own.

And...I had to mattify it, of course.

Tell me which you like better, the shiny or the matte? And would you like seeing my other two gem crushes in a mani like this?

Electric Yellow + Glitter!!!

This is just a random glitter combo lol

First I did a yellow base. It isn't really showing in this pic but it has a purple/lavender sheen to it.

And some Shine of the Times just for fun. I like this combo on its own, maybe I shouldn't have added the next glitter lol

I forget this one's name, but it's a very light gray (blue if you build up the layers) glitter.

And lastly, a purpley-blue glitter. I don't think I like this one on this mani...what do you guys think?

Multiglitter French

This is a french tip I did that I wanted to dress up a bit and do something different. So I took a bunch of similar glitters and layered them all over top!

Here's the first one, a polish from Ardene called Blue Blizzard.

Next is NYC Starry Night.

And also from Ardene, Confetti.

Lastly, the coveted Essie Shine of the Times.

This was worth wearing despite the nightmare it was to take off. I just love glittery nails! What do you guys think? Too much, just right, or would you add even more glitter? Maybe I'll try a colored french tip next time instead of white...hmm...

Neon Pink!

Hi everyone! I know it's been a few months since I've posted, I just wanted to let you know I'm still updating this, and posts will be more regular from now on. This past semester has had a lot of changes for me, and I'm not even in school! With my hubby's classes and other life stuff I've just been so busy, you know. Now that summer's here I'm excited to do some more flowery, bright, girly nail tutorials for you!

This is a pink manicure I did with the Sally Hansen "Fruitie Petutie" polish as the base coat (it's also my #1 fave pink EVER) and a Billie neon on top, I forget the color name.

Here's my fave pink by itself (don't ask why I'm holding the other bottle lol)

Here's after I put the neon on top.

And everything is better with glitter... right?

Matte Metallic

This was a fun manicure, and very easy, especially for those who aren't good at tape manis (me) this design was free-handed.

It's basic - paint your first color, in this case a metallic blue. Then, swipe your second color diagonally across your nail.

Afterwards I added a layer of fine silver glitter.

Just for fun, I put on a matte topcoat to see what it would look like but I think the shiny version is my favorite, which do you guys like better?

Blue Blizzard

This french tip manicure turned out very well, even on my right hand. I love this design, and already I want to do it again in the future!

I used a light blue by Essence with a dark nail striper, and a glitter polish from Ardene called (you guessed it) Blue Blizzard.

I don't have pics of every step, but paint a french first, line it with the striper and load on your glitter.

This side pic is to show you guys how I cut my nails. For a while, I had them like this, and I LOVED it, until one broke, and I cut them all to match :( Anyways, if you can't tell from the pic I cut the sides of the white part of my nail, so they'd be squarer, if that makes any sense...you can see on the side view where my nail bed is my nail slopes down, and then it goes up? I cut it that way, it used to keep sloping down, covering more of my fingertips.

Purple V Tips

This was a fun, but simple design that's almost a quick, plain manicure with a bit of style.

First, paint your base color on all nails except your accent nails (I chose thumb and ring fingers).

Make a V shape with the base color on those accent nails, and then add a shorter V with a contrasting or complimentary color.

 
And here's the finished manicure!

Roses & Butterfly Mani

I'm sad that I missed two of the biggest holidays for nail designs: Halloween and Thanksgiving, but I've been soooooo busy the last several weeks. Here's a nail design that turned out way better than I thought, and I want to do something similar again soon!

I used these polishes:

Here are pictures of the plates I stamped with:

(The rectangular plates are an unnamed brand I got on eBay, just search for "oblong nail plates", I got the 12 pack, there's also and 18 pack)

Sponge on the first layer of gradient.

Sponge on a darker color to continue the gradient.

And stamping time :) I did some leafy flowers all in green to just look like a bunch of leaves, then a rose with part pink and green polish, then the purple butterfly on my thumbs only.

Cute Pumpkins

I know this is late, and not very original, but I had fun with this mani and wanted to share it with you guys.

Paint your nails orange first.

I added some orange glitter, which could also be added after the pumpkin faces so that the black polish sparkles too.

Have fun with the faces you paint; feel free to google pumpkin carving for inspiration!

Blue Chevron Tip

* For this post I re-sized my images ahead of time, so they won't enlarge when you click on them, but I hope that this will make my posts load a lot faster on your computers :) And it takes less time to upload the photos on my end too!

So on to the manicure: this is a nude polish with a blue funky french and rhinestone accents.

The polishes I used are an unnamed pinky nude by Profusion, Billie Aqua, and Nyx Ocean.

And of course a rhinestone wheel and a dotting tool (any size) to pick up the rhinestones with.

Here's what the chevron tip looks like on its own.

Yes, I see the smudge on my middle finger. I don't remember how that happened, but you girls are way more careful doing other stuff with wet nails than I am, right? Lol

Tell me what you think in the comments! Should I have used a black or white rhinestone instead of the same color blue? Or even something like lime green or fuschia? What colors would you do this design in?