Geometric Triangles With Pops Of Color

Hey all, sorry I've been bad blogger lately. I've been busy all last week, one of my friends visited from California and we went on college tours for several days. So yeah I've been away, and unable to blog. I'm not sure how much time I'm gonna have in the coming weeks, I'm not really going to be home much and I'm leaving for China on Friday. But I've got some nail art for today!

FIFA World Cup Final-Germany Nails

Yes I finally did them...My WORLD CUP NAILS!! If any of you lovely readers have been on the blog the past couple weeks, you've probably heard me mention the World Cup more than a few times. Well I've been holding out, and the final match if finally coming up on SUNDAY! As I predicted, Germany is competing in the final, and I've been rooting for the German team since day 1. I love the German team, even when they beat the US (what feels like a long time ago in the group stages), I didn't feel badly about it, because the German team is just so superb! So I've decided to show my support on my nails. 

Detailed Delicate Pattern With Pink Accents

Well I really couldn't think of a better title for this post. I tried, but I have no idea what to call this. I tried my hand with another detailed design, with the help of my trusty teeny detailing brush, and I kinda like the end result here! Keep reading to see the rest!

Orange Bows

Hey hey everyone! So YAYYY for the US for surviving that group of death right?! No one thought we could do it, but the American team performed excellently and we were determined, and we made it through! AND over Portugal and Ghana! You can't blame me for being so happy about this. 
I don't have any nail art that's at all related, but I DO have these orange bows! 

Stained Glass Nails

So like one of my favorite nail designs ever is probably stained glass. You can always make it as colorful as you want, or you can pick any color scheme you like. They're a great way to express yourself, and you can also make them as detailed or as basic as you want. The lines can be straight, jagged, bent, anything! Ok so I love stained glass nails.

Outline Flower Nail Art With OPI

Hey lovelies how's everyone's Sunday afternoon? Is anyone doing stuff for Mother's day? I've got some little flower nails for Mother's day today. These were inspired by wondrously polished, I've been doing a lot of Lindsey's designs recently, I'm just in love with her art! See more below the jump

Ripples From The Big Bang

Hey all happy Wednesday! How've you all been? I've only got a couple more days till Spring break, so super excited :) i have an older mani for you guys today. If you follow me on instagram (which you all should :P) I posted these for Lacquer Legion March, the theme was Lucky. Keep reading to see the inspiration!

Black & Silver Glitter Nails w/ Matte Black (Lincoln Center)

Hey guys! Happy Saturday to you all, how've your weekends been so far? My weekend is HUGE! My high school wind ensemble is performing at Lincoln Center tomorrow, and so I figured a proper manicure was in order. I made these nails to match my dress, which is absolutely hideous. But the nails are fun!

Nail Art Feb Challenge- Animal Print

Hey all! I'm a day late with this post, but this is my post for the Nail Art Feb challenge animal print theme. This animal print was inspired by a little cosmetics bag my friend gave me. I think it's a cute spin on normal leopard print nails, and it's a nice, clean look! See below for more!

Black & White Pattern Nails

Hey guys! Sorry I've been absent for so long :/ I've been busy studying for tests (including my permit test ;) and prepping for midterms which start in less than 2 weeks ahh! So yeah there hasn't been a whole lot of time for blogging, though I have still been painting my nails. I've got a couple catch up posts planned so no worries!
Today I've got a clean classy black and white geometric-y design to show you guys.

Deborah Lippmann-Cleopatra In New York

Hi everyone! Happy Friday, I'm going bowling tonight to raise money for our marching band trip, can't wait! I'm probably the worst bowler you've ever seen but hey, it's worth it! Lol last time I went bowling I completely broke my thumb nail...hope that doesn't happen this time :-/
Today's polish is a great one, I picked it up around Christmas time, Deborah Lippmann-Cleopatra In New York. I absolutely love this polish! It is so pretty and unique(I don't have any like it in my collection) and I love the name of it too...God it's awesome!

Cleopatra In New York is an awesome black jelly/crelly base with small and medium sized gold glitter mixed in. The base isn't so thick that it covers the glitter in the previous layers, so this polish has really great depth to it.

The formula on it is all right, the black base is a little sheer, and I'm wearing 3 coats here for full opacity. The glitter is abundant and easy to get onto the brush/nail, but I would give the bottle a nice shake first. I also added a little polish thinner to it to ease the application. A little bit of dabbing is needed for the glitter, but it's really not too bad at all. Here's a closeup: can you see how the glitter from the previous layers shows through but it slightly covered, I love how much depth this gives the polish!

Anyway, this polish is kinda special to me because it's actually the most expensive bottle of polish in my collection, at $19. I have this thing where I refuse to spend more than $20 on a bottle of nail polish, because that's just obnoxious, but you know...how could I resist this 19 dollar nail polish?!

So yeah, that's all I've got for today. Thanks for reading everyone and I'll see you tomorrow! Byee

~Nova

Sinful Colors Secret Admirer

Hello everyone! School year coming to a close soon! Finals start next week :( but it's like basically 2 more weeks until the end of school! In the summer I'll have lot's of free time, so that means lot's more swatches/nail art! Yay! 
So today's polish is a pretty old one that I pulled out of my collection Sinful Colors-Secret Admirer. Going off the name of this polish, I would think it would be like a pink or red or something but nope, it's this blackened grey with heavy silver shimmer!

Both of these photos are in the shade because the shade pictures just showed the shimmer better. This color is very grungy looking, but I think it would make a nice background for some nail art.

The formula on this was one of those where it was like super thin and streaky on the first coat , but then the second coat made it perfect and opaque.These pictures have 2 coats with no top coat. 
I got this at Walgreens and it was either $.99 or $1.29, I don't quite remember. But it was very cheap!
That's it for today, I'll see you guys next time! 

Sunday Nail Art-Chicago inspired!

Hello hope everyone's having a good weekend! Today's nail art is inspired by my favorite musical ever: Chicago! If anyone else has seen it it's amazing and is like a serious feel good movie for me, which is weird seeing as its terribly dark. I wasn't feeling terribly up to nail art today, so I thought I would just do something with loose glitter. I watched the movie for like the third time the other night with some friends, so today when I was thinking of glittery designs, Chicago obviously came to mind. I was also listening to the Chicago soundtrack while doing these (<3<3<3) so I was super Chicago geeked out. 

The black nails with red glitter were based on Billy Flynn's (my fave character!) suit in the song Razzle Dazzle (also one of my favorite songs!):

This is probably my favorite outfit in the movie. Gotta love that red glitter pinstripe suit! I knew I had to some sort of nail art with it!

Those nails were also kind of problematic. I knew I wanted to have a matte background with bright glitter, but I didn't really know how to have a matte background without matting the glitter too, which I didn't want to. So I applied the matte top coat and put the glitter on top, but I wasn't sure if the glitter was gonna just fall out, so I took a striping brush and put some Seche Vite on top of just the glitter. It looks sort of bumpy now and I'm not quite a fan of it, but I couldn't see any other way to do it. 

The white accent nails were based on Velma and Roxie's dresses in the final number of the movie:

It's sorta hard to see here but their dresses have thin lines of silver glitter on a white iridescent background.
These nails were easier. After a white base, I used a thin coat Milani-Diamond Dazzle, which is a densely packed fine iridescent glitter in a clear base, on top. It's hard to see the pretty iridescence in these pictures but it's really pretty in real life. Then I placed the silver glitter in diagonal lines across. 

The hardest part of these nails was getting all the damn glitter in a straight line. You can see I didn't really do that good of a job of that, especially with the diagonal lines. 

I like these nails a lot, even though the glitter was a pain in the ass. I swear my left hand was trembling when placing that glitter! I just hope these nails last and that the red glitter doesn't all fall off. 
So has anyone else seen Chicago?! It's great I hafta say my fave song is probably the Cell Block Tango (whose isn't?!) but I love We Both Reached for the Gun, All That Jazz, Razzle Dazzle, and of course, When You're Good to Mama...
I quote that song all the time in order to get people to do stuff for me
 Enjoy the rest of your weekend, I'll see you guys next time!