Halloween Mani!

Hi everybody! Quick little post for you guys today, I just had to show you all my Halloween manicure! 
So yeah I know I'm a little early but our town's Halloween parade is today, so I figured it's acceptable. you should see our flute section costumes... :P
So anyway i did a simple little tip design for Halloween:

Ugh I suck at doing tips. Never really liked tip designs. 
Anyway, I used 1 coat of base coat, then Zoya-Arizona for the orange tips. My secret tips weapon: reinforcement stickers. I stuck one on each of my nails then painted on the orange, pulled the stickers off and BOOM.
Instant almost-perfect tips. 

I used my little detailing brush and my black polish to outline the tips. I've never been good at outlining. Oh well :-/ practice makes permanent

I decided to spice things up with some glitter, so I took Maybelline-Clearly Spotted and applied it to my tips. Sigh, glitter always makes things better.

One coat of topcoat to make it shiny, and yay, my nails were done! 

So does anyone have fun Halloween plans? I plan on eating all our Halloween candy and only giving the trick or treaters the bad candy that I don't like. Call me a horrible human being, but I'm sure there are little kids who'd appreciate my 3 muskateers and milky ways, so it's mutually beneficial. 
But the kit kats are mine.

Our flute section Halloween parade costumes :P
I know, we're so cool.
Ok thanks for reading guys, and have an awesome Halloween! Eat lot's of candy!!!
~Nova

Ombre Chevrons

Sigh.

Why do I do this for you guys? I mean, I've got 3 tests this week, and an essay rough draft due on Thursday, plus marching band practice for 3 hours after school, 40 minutes of flute practice a day, and a season of Lost that needs finishing, and yet I still take valuable time out of my weekend to paint my nails and blog about them.

Answer:

Because I love doing it 

What other reason do I need? 

Case in point, let's look at this week's nails, shall we?

So uhm I know I said I love doing this...but dear God by the time I finished these I was so happy, because these nails were a PAIN. 

But they look great. so whatever 

And I promise that these look so much better in person. In person it's harder to see the places where I screwed up. 

:P

So the pretty gold base here is China Glaze-Blonde Bombshelll, which is this awesome yellow gold glittery base. You all know how much I ADORE blue and gold together!

The blues in order, from light to dark, are Essie-Lilacism, Orly-Snowcone, a blue polish from China, and Butter London-Royal Navy. That polish is my love. I have never found a blue that I love as much as Royal Navy. Apologies to the 30+ blues in my stash. 

But seriously like if I could marry a bottle of nail polish, it would be Royal Navy. 

I used striping tape to block out the lines, then painstakingly went in with the polish brush and did my best to paint between the freaking lines. I failed and spazzed a couple times. 

I did a reverse ombre on my ring fingers and thumbs as an accent nail.

So yeah it was kinda a bad idea for me to have painted every single one of my nails like this, because each nail took like 10 minutes to do, something that I did not realize until I started my left hand. 

I really wanted to not do anything on my left hand and just leave it gold, but you know how I'm like really OCD about this sort of thing. Of course they had to match!

So don't get me wrong, I really like these nails alot. I think they're pretty and they stand out and they're overall awesomeness. Let me just tell you that a lot of people think I wear fake nails or appliques or something. I think I need a shirt or something that says "I paint my own nails" on it. I dunno. That'd be cool.

I'm just saying that I'm probably not going to do a design this time consuming for a while. You're all just lucky that I had practically no homework this weekend. 

So yeah 2 coats of topcoat made them smooth and shiny and ready to wear! Yay! 

Now my hands are really cold and I have to pee.

And here's my cat

Just because he was being really cute today. 

Ok that's all guys and thanks for reading as always!

~Nova

Nail Art-Glitter Pyramids

Hello everybody! Happy long weekend! I love long weekends so much! Anyone have fun plans? I'm getting together with my marching band buds tomorrow to work on our costumes for the Halloween parade! Should be fun. 
So today I've got some cool glittery nail art for you guys! I call them my glitter pyramids, cuz that's exactly what they are. But let me just say...that these nails look SO MUCH BETTER in person than in these pics. My camera just fails at picking up glitter. Also I think he was having a bad day :( My camera and light were just not getting along today...
Anyway this is my awesome blingy manicure for today:

See? Glitter pyramids!

So the first thing I did was pick out my base color, Zoya-Frida 

To be honest the hardest part of this mani was picking out the base color. I'm not kidding, I must have spent at least 10 minutes in front of my boxes of polish trying to find a nice color. But seriously when I picked up Frida I just about had a nailgasm cuz good Lord it was PERFECT. I honestly couldn't have found a better color for this.
Plus it's a jelly and jellies are automatically amazing. I mean, look at that shine!! And that's no topcoat! It looks like I'm wearing jello on my nails...i LOVE IT!!!
This is 3 coats, which I think is the perfect opacity for this polish. AGGHH I'M SO OBSESSED WITH THIS POLISH!!

So after the base it was one thick coat of clear and then I placed the large glitter into the pyramid shape. For some reason the pinkies on both my hands are crooked, but none of the other fingers are. I'm really not sure why. 
Here's my thumb, I did a 5 across myramid on the thumb...just cuz why not

Really the glitter placement was pretty easy, working with large glitter isn't really that hard. God I love glitter placements so much! And like they always look so hard and complicated. I get so many compliments on my glitter placement manis, from like friends and parents of friends and teachers and everything. 

So I used silver holo glitter, with gold holo glitter in an upside down pyramid from the cuticle as accent nails. 

After that it was 2 nice thick generous coats of topcoat to finish it off. I really hope I don't lose any pieces of glitter, although that does tend to happen with large glitter like this. Either that or I tend to pick it off :/

So that's all the glitter I have for today! I've uh gotta get back to watching Lost cuz I watched like 5 episodes yesterday and it was amazing and I think I'm officially addicted now. Damn there goes my entire social life. 

Anyway thanks for reading guys and hope you all enjoy your Monday off!

~Nova

Nail Art-Dot Circles

Yay I'm back! I'm posting omg I'm not dead and I'm here again! Yayayay!
Ok so this post might get weird seeing as I didn't get back from my marching band competition till 1 am, and then i was so hyper and I couldn't fall asleep until like 2 and then I got up at like 7 and I'm going a little sleep deprivation crazy and I've been listening to epic metal lord of the rings all day...but it's good, it's all good. We got first place so it's tooootally worth it
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
And I actually did nail art for you guys! How great is that?!?!

So these are my nails today...aren't they purdy? They're like little circles made of dots, like circles made of circles! 
And OMG I used PINK! I, like, never use pink polish, like, ever! 
But then the other day I bought 3 new pink polishes and I have NO IDEA WHY!! I was in like this really girly mood. So i was like yay pink I'm gonna use all my pretty new pink polishes today!

The pink on my pinky is OPI-Chic From Ears to Tail, and it's the nice pink with a little shimmer in it, but you can't see it. And the formula sucks. Like it was so thin and watery and streaky, but top coat makes everything better and now it looks perfect so WHATEVER!!!!! 
HA

The sparkly turquoise on my index finger is this random polish i picked up in China, but gosh isn't it awesome! The white base is OPI-My Boyfriend Scales Walls. For the pink circlies, the large dots in the middle are Essie-Fiesta, and the other two are Francesca brand polishes, the light is Bridesmaid, and the dark is Stuck at Sea. God both those colors are like so illuminatingly bright i swear they glow in the dark. 
THAT'S AWESOME
For the blue nails the large dots are the random chinese nail polish, then the light blue is Zoya-Wednesday and the dark blue is Julep-Eloise.

Then I used a dotting tool to make the design, I mean, duh.
Sorry was that obnoxious?
Whatever I'm so hyper right now like I don't even care
My dotting tool got away from my in a couple places so some dots are just bigger than the others
:-/
AND LOOK HOW SPARKLY MY INDEX FINGER IS!!  And it even has pink shimmer in it so it like matches the whole blue/pink thing and I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE THAT! Isn't that GREAT?!

So I finished with 2 coats of topcoat, yada yada yada. 
So there are awesome! Yay I'm sooooo happy that I actually got to paint my nails with something fancy for the first time in like 2 weeks!! And I love this design and I'm gonna be so distracted by my nails during class and stuff (oh please don't pretend that's never happened to you) but like WHATEVER
WOOO I'm in such a lord of the rings mood I hafta go watch the entire trilogy in a row right now. 
RIGHT NOW
Damn it I have school tomorrow.
And I have to make a cake.
LORD OF THE RINGS PICUTURE MARATHON
OMG I CAN'T EVEN SPELL PICTURE RIGHT

http://www.picturearchive.co.za/v/104719-0/Lord-of-The-Rings-Promos-Stills-LOTR182.jpg-yEnc-1-1-/

Heyheyhey bet you I can name all those characters just by their sillhoettes.

I have no idea how to spell silhouettes. Ok that was just luck.

 http://www.moviemail.com/film/dvd/The-Lord-Of-The-Rings-The-Return-Of-The-King-Extended-Edition/

http://www.imgbase.info/images/safe-wallpapers/tv_movies/the_lord_of_the_rings/16948_the_lord_of_the_rings.jpg

Heyheyhey look omg it's minas tirith hey I bet you i can tell you...some interesting fact about her that I can't think of right now

http://rosikifish.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/eowyn-fighting.jpg

Heyhey look it's Eowyn guess what she's like my favorite character ever
This is my definition of bad ass
Sorry Buffy
But I mean, how can she not be awesome? Her name has WIN in it!
Well not really
And she kills this baddie:

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100309195059/lotrfanon/images/7/7d/Lord_of_nazgul.jpg

Via grammatical error
Just kidding
She killed him because she's the best
Ok I'm done now
Sorry about this guys
Bye
~Nova

P.S
Eowyn wins. 
I had to get that out