Daisy Nail On Mint

I have a really old post today that I just totally forgot about posting...oops. Sorry guys. Stuff just sometimes gets lost in my drafts. 
Also German vs Portugal? Anyone? INTENSE STUFF MAN! I mean that red card?? Damn dude! I'm writing this during halftime, so it'll be quick before the game starts again.
Keep on reading guys!

Colorful Watercolor Nails

Hello hello I found time in my busy weekend to do this post for you all! I have like a 20 minute window here so this is gonna be a quickie. This is a pretty old mani that just got lost in my other posts, but I actually really like these so I can't believe I never posted them until now! 

Triangle Tribal Tips

Hello happy Tuesday! I'm so happy Monday is gone and over, I had a horrible Monday. As if Monday's could be good at all right haha. Whatever I have some fun nail art today. I find that tribal print really isn't something I do often, if at all. I haven't really done a full on tribal print mani, but I did give a go at fun tribal tips!

Neon Color Block

Hey all woah it's been a while! I totally told myself I would blog more, and then the past week just totally, flew over the head if you know what I mean. I've been busy, with band mostly. Which i guess sounds weird, but we've got some pretty important performances (Lincoln Center anyone?) coming up this week. So it's been like a ton of preparation. Plus youknow school and tests and stuff. I've been so busy I haven't touched a bottle of nail polish in, like, a week. A WHOLE WEEK! Ugh. I needed a fun manicure FAST to get me out of my slump. So 3 words, NEON COLOR BLOCK!

Nail Art Feb Challenge- Pastel

Hello happy Tuesday! Short week this week yay (for me at least :P) Today's challenge was a fun one, Pastel. Honestly, I don't own many pastel polishes, I'm not a pastel person, but I think I managed for this manicure!

Nail Art Feb Challenge- Polka Dots, Glitter, and XOXO

Hello everybody! Let's all cheer because midterms are over! Yay! Anyway, after having our FOURTH snowday on Wednesday, and with a lot of free time on my hands, I decided to try something new. I decided to take part in californails February nail art challenge! It's actually a great challenge because the nail art prompts only come every 3-4 days, not everyday, so you're not overwhelmed! I'm a little late to the party, but better late than never right? Today's challenge was XOXO, but since I missed polka dots and glitter, I thought I'd include them all in this mani!

Independence Day Mani!

Hello and happy fourth of July my fellow Americans! Anyone going to see fireworks later? I'm not sure if I'm going, I haven't really been into fireworks lately. Just a bunch of people gathered to see pretty lights with loud booms and then get choked by smoke. I don't like going to crowded places, so fourth of July fireworks=unnecessary social contact. 
However, I decided to get a little into the fourth of July spirit with an independence day manicure!

Originally I wasn't even planning on doing a red white and blue manicure because I don't really like those colors together. But I figured I'd have to show my patriotism in some way, so what better way for me than on my nails!

The white base is Kleancolor-White, while the red is Essie-She's Pampered and the blue is Essie-Butler Please. The accent nails are Julep-Michelle with Milani-Diamond Dazzle glitter on top. I used a fan brush to do the red and blue zig zaggy stripes. 

There's a piece of rogue copper glitter on my index finger :P
Here's a close up of my accent nails. I tried little fireworks on them with glitter. I wish I had more colors of bar glitter, but I only have gold. The silver glitter I pulled from another polish. Note to self-buy more bar glitter.

It's kind of funny, because my friend was always joking that I should take mini firecrackers and attach them to my nails, and then I could fire them off and have mini fireworks! So these mini firecracker nails are dedicated to her ;)
I also really like this "firecracker" design. I might have to use those in another manicure sometime!

More fireworks on my thumbs yay.

So that's all I have for today! Anyone have fun fourth of July plans? Whatever they are, I hope you enjoy, and I'll see you next time!

Kleancolor-Firework

Hello everyone! My finals are over yayayay!!!! Summer had OFFICIALLY started, despite that we still have two more 1/2 days of school. Blegh. Whatever, I'm just so happy that I have no more school and homework and can waste more time painting my nails and blogging and watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
So today's polish is a simple glitter that I picked up from my town's Spring Fling festival thing last year. It's just like a large open market and they always a nail polish stand with cheap nail polish so I like to go there. I got four polishes there this year, they had OPI polish there for like $6 it was awesome! My friend was forced to stay with me at the booth while I looked at nail polish and she witnessed my whole nail polish buying process. It's pretty long and tedious, I can spend FOREVER in front of a nail polish display debating about what to buy...etc.
So anyway, today's glitter polish is Kleancolor-Firework. It's a pretty fun mix of red,gold, and teal hex glitter and little gold microglitter in a kinda yellow-y base. The red glitter can look very fucsia at certain angles that it sometimes looks like there is actual fucsia glitter in it, like maybe someone knocked over the tube of fucsia glitter and some fell in lol! The yellow base isn't all that noticeable on the nail, just a little over white, which is good. I really don't like glitter in a tinted base because it's always hard to layer it over other stuff.

 The middle and index fingers have a matte top coat on top, just because I was curious about how matte would look. I might have mentioned before though that I'm just not really a fan of matte. But it does look pretty cool. The other two nails, and the rest of the nails in this post, have a coat of Seche Vite on top. 
I played around with some layering just over some colors that I already had on for swatching anyway. You might have seen these last week,
This is Firework over Color Club-Coral Cascade:

Here it is over Zoya-Kristen. I really like this combo:

I like that combo a lot, like the subtle muted Kristen contrasts against the bright and colorful Firework!
Here's Firework over OPI-Honey Ryder, which is one of those textured polishes, this combo is pretty neat too:

On my ring and middle fingers you can see some serious fucsia glitter! It's actually the red glitter that just looks pinker due to the angle and lighting. The little gold microglitters don't really show up over the gold base of Honey Ryder, but I think the glitter on top of textured combo is kinda cool. I might have to experiment with it again! I'll have swatches of Honey Ryder alone later this week. 
Kleancolor polishes can be found in drugstores, I got mine from the Spring Fling for like $2, I don't know how much they cost in stores, but I think they're pretty cheap.
Overall I really like this glitter. It's fun and I think the name is very fitting! That's it for today guys thanks for reading!

"Sunday" Nail Art-Jelly Sandwiches with Zoya Frida!

Hi guys sorry I didn't have nay nail art yesterday! I was too busy planning my stupid FRENCH ORALS which I did today, plus my dad kept nagging about my math grade and how I should do extra math problems. Sigh...

So today I needed to something simple, no talent really required, so today's nail "art" is more of an experiment, my first try at the JELLY SANDWICH!! I've read/seen so many pics of these, but have never tried one. If you don't know what a jelly sandwich is, it's when you take a jelly polish (which is a kinda sheer/jelly lookin polish) and apply a couple coats to your nail, then apply a coat(s) of glitter, another coat(s) of the jelly polish on top of the glitter, and then another coat of glitter on top (optional). Due to the sheer nature of the jelly polish, the first coat of glitter will show through the polish and give the effect that the glitter is "sandwiched" between the layers of the jelly polish. At least, that's what it's supposed to look like :P

The jelly polish that I used for today's manicure (and the only jelly that I own:( ) is Zoya-Frida which is s pretty tealy blue green jelly polish. The formula on this is like a jelly, which is different from that of a regular creme finish polish. It's runnier and more watery, and is meant to be really sheer so you can apply multiple coats and darken the color. This was my first time working with a jelly, so I was new to this whole thing, but I didn't really have any problems applying Frida. I used thin coats and tried not to glob it on too much, which I usually do, and I was fine. This also tried pretty quickly, which is good because you have to keep going back and doing many coats. 

I experimented with all sorts of different glitters on a different finger of both my hands. So the nails on my left and right hand are different. God it bugs me so much!

Anyway on my right hand (from pinkie to thumb) I have:

-Models Own-Dancing Queen

-Color Club-Platinum Record

-Kleancolor-Firework

-Models Own-Ibiza Mix

-China Glaze-Whirled Away

These nails all have 3(!) coats of basecoat, 2 coats of Frida, one coat of the glitter, another 2 coats of Frida, one coat of the same glitter, and 2 coats of top coat. I used a sh*tload of base coat because a) I normally use a strengthening base coat and an adhesive one, and I've heard that tinted base coats are good for sheer polishes, so I used a tinted base coat in addition to my other 2, and b) I REALLY didn't want my nails to be all blue green stained!

Let me also just say that these were a real pain in the ass to photograph...

Here's an uber close up of my right hand ring finger (Platinum Record) so you can see the "sandwich" effect better:

You can also see how the light sorta shines through the nail near the tip because the polish isn't totally opaque. I think it looks cool.

This is my left hand. Glitter polishes from pinkie to thumb are:

-Wet N' Wild-Kaleidoscope (fine holographic glitter) + OPI-The Living Daylights (larger hex glitter)

-Deborah Lippmann-Happy Birthday

-Brand from China that's called Lucidarling (fine gold glitter) + Sephora by     OPI Tinsel Me Silver (bar glitter)

-Lucidarling (large gold glitter)

-OPI-Lights of Emerald City

I think in general I like the larger glitter better, it just gives off a better sandwich effect, while the fine glitter doesn't. I also probably should have used thinner, less glitter dense coats, so you could see the glitter underneath better. Like if you look at my ring finger it's sort of hard to see the "underlayer" of Happy Birthday.

My favorite fingers out of the whole manicure are my right pinky (Dancing Queen), my right ring finger (Platinum Record), my right index finger (Ibiza Mix), and my left index finger (Large gold glitter)

So that's it for today! Hope you're all satisfied (cough cough my blonde friend) because I took all afternoon doing these instead of studying for finals. So if I fail it's YOUR fault. jk...

Overall I really like the jelly sandwich effect and I think I'll try it again some time, and do it better! 

Zoya polishes cost $8 online, and the other glitters all cost various amounts. If you have any questions about the price you can leave them in the comments!

Whew this was a long post! Thanks for reading guys and enjoy the rest of your week!

Oh and uh...just cuz:

teehee :)