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...

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.

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?

Grey with Stripes

So I saw this package of skinny, colored tape on eBay for very cheap and decided to try it. It's called striping tape in the nail art world, and you just stick it on like normal tape!

I have a coat of Wet Cement by Sally Hansen on under the tape.

This is the order I put the tape on

Here's a closer photo of the tape itself:

The only thing about this tape is it doesn't stay on for long, after a few hours even under the best top coat, the ends will start peeling up. I also noticed just with the light blue tape, that it fades in color to silver so after a while it looked like I only used dark blue and silver, instead of all three colors. Maybe that's just the light blue tape I got...

Rainbow Crackle

I'm getting married tomorrow!!! But here's a quick post anyways.

I did this to fool around with all the crackles I have (I don't remember why I left my left pinky bare lol)

These are a bunch of photos of this manicure. I did a lighter or darker shade of the same color underneath the crackle on every finger, with 2 different Essie topcoats over them.

Polkadots

I really love this design, I did it for a dance I went to with my fiance, and tried to match it to my dress.

I don't have a photo of all the polishes and paint I used, but here's the list:

-Miss B Rainbow, brown
-Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure, Gray by Gray
-white paint
-dotting tool
-scotch tape

Basically I painted my nails all brown and after they were dry a couple hours, I put strips of tape outlining a middle triangle and painted it in with the blue. I pointed the triangle on each finger opposite the ones next to it. Then I added white dots around the edge of the blue with acrylic paint and a dotting tool. Top coat it off and you're done!