Nail Art Feb Challenge-Simple

Hello and welcome to the second to last post of the Nail Art Feb challenge! This nail look is based off the theme Simple. This was kind of ambiguous, but since 2 of my favorite things are ombre and glitter, so I just went with that!

Large Glitter Nails with Zoya-Tru

Hello loves I hope everybody's having a great week! I have some awesome nails to share today. I decided to experiment with large glitter placements over the weekend, and I must say I LOVE the result!

My New Year's Eve Mani!

Hello lovelies and happy new year's eve! I have my final mani of 2013 to show you all! It's my new year's mani of course! For about a second i considered doing a simple black and gold design. But then I was like who am I kidding, it's new year's eve, time to be sparkly and colorful and BAM! So that's what my nails are today. 

China Glaze-For Audrey Nail Art

Hello everybody! I hope you've all been enjoying your weekends! I had a long weekend this week (4 days!) and I really don't want to go back to school tomorrow :( But oh well to make things better I've got some nail polish and nail art to share with you guys! My awesome friend recently gave me some new nail polish for my bday, and I got to use one of them today! Here is my mani:

My new polish is, of course, China Glaze-For Audrey. I feel like this polish was really popular in the whole nail community, but I couldn't get my hands on it until now. And I'm so happy because it's such a nice color!

It went on really easily in 2 coats. It looks a little lumpy in these pics but it really wasn't in real life. Now the design I had in mind was sort of a roses look. I'm not really sure how well that came out...

I just used a dotting tool and dark blue polish to create the design. For the glitter gradients, I used Sephora Formula X-Light Me Up Edison. It's a really fun holographic gold glitter. 

So yeah that's all I've got on my nails this week. Here are the awesome polishes my friend got me:

From left to right, it's China Glaze-Fairy Dust, Prism, and For Audrey. Yay I'm going to call this birthday haul #2!
Thanks for reading this guys and enjoy your week!
~Nova

Double Post-Mermaid Style Nails

Hello everyone! Whew I'm back from that long break I took. So yeah I had sleepaway band camp and stuff...God band camp is literally NON STOP work! We have to learn drill and music and be good so our band instructor won't yell at us. But you know it's actually a lot of fun...we slept in cabins with our friends and had theme days like purple day and superhero day and we had a talent show and it was awesome! Ok that was 5 days, so then after that we had Labor day weekend which I spent with some family, and I went SHOPPING which was fun, as always. Then SCHOOL started again. I got to meet all my teachers and stuff...I'm loading up on honors courses so I'm probs gonna be like super busy during the year :( so yeah I've been busy lately...But it's a long 4 day weekend so it's back to posting! 
Today's I've got another fun double post for you guys with my good friend Carlee. If you missed our last double post you can see it here. 
Today's theme was mermaid inspired. Carlee is sporting this lovely polish:

"Hi blog readers! So this is Carlee and this polish is Sephora By OPI-Mermaid To Order. This polish is an aqua blue/teal color with a shiny metallic finish. It's a little frosty and you can see some streaks and brush strokes but it doesn't take away from the appearance. 

This is with only one coat plus a quick dry top coat, but another coat of polish could be used for touch ups or if you have larger nails. This polish goes on very easily, it's pretty thin but still thick enough for only needing one coat for opacity. 

This polish is also a little different depending on the lighting, it can look more green or blue, and these pics are making it look a little more blue than it really is. 

I love this polish and it's probably the favorite polish I have ever used, I am just IN LOVE with it! I think this is a serious must have for everyone's collection, I mean, it practically glows. So these sell for about $9 a bottle, but I got mine in a special gift box that came with other polishes, I don't remember what it was called...
That's all I've got for today thanks for reading my post everybody!"
Ok so to go along with Carlee's nails I thought I would just pull out one of my metallic teals and swatch it, but then I thought geez that would be so boring. I was thinking about some nail art to do to match Mermaid To Order and then it was like hey, it's got mermaid in the name, it's time for Mermaid Nails!! Yayy!

So these are the mermaid nails I came up with. Whenever I think about mermaids I think about colors like gold and metallic greens and blues, like the polish above. And I also think of this:

http://norribeth.webs.com/photos/Take-a-splash/08_hp-mermaid.jpg

Yeah I know I'm a nerd. Most people think of like the little mermaid and Ariel and stuff right...?

http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Ariel---Flounder-the-little-mermaid-223085_1280_1024.jpg

But whenever I think of Ariel I think of this:

http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt66/beth_soprano/Daily_Firefly/May25ariel.jpg

Two by two hands of blue...

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIOa1rZz-jWF2kANnHsN1Y4sQQW_MnFOGasWHWllOSFUlci_RBDrSsNhfGcx2h1GWi3kesXb801ZLkFZw49PjLjnmt30rLH31ywcVfqFyuhj-vGM-Bsha1V63TcJukmbau5w8WlqIzNCmv/s320/firefly_8_ariel.jpg

Ok sorry about my tangent...For those of who get this I bet you all agree with me. and for those of you who are looking at me like wtf yeah...sorry.
Ok so back to nails.

 I started with my lovely black base, then used striping tape to block off the fishnet pattern. I painted rows of Sally Hansen Lustre Shine-Plume(the gold), Wet N' Wild-Caribbean Frost(greenish teal), and an unnamed metallic blue polish onto a make up sponge and dabbed the gradient onto the nail. I remove the striping tape and voila. My mermaid mani is complete. almost

Just to add a little extra dimension and color, I painted a veeery thin coat of Essie-Shine Of The Times, a multidimensional iridescent flakie topcoat to give it a little more mermaid-ness.

 So this was the final result. These nails were actually very easy, I should do some more striping tape gradients in the future. I always love working with striping tape. It's fun.
Ok that was actually a pretty long post, thanks for reading guys!
And here's a pic of my band camp cabin:

Yeah it was purple day.

That's our entire band lol. I feel really nerdy now. This whole post was sorta nerd filled. And also yes, it was still purple day. 
Hooray for nerds, we're the coolest
~Nova

Zoya Farah and some glitter!

Hi everyone! So today, instead of studying for finals which I should have been doing :/ I decided to paint my nails. This was a fairly simple rush job, but I thought I would post it anyway. It started with a color a picked up recently, Zoya-Farah. I LOVE this color! Have I ever mentioned how much I loved neutrals like this?

This is such a nice color, it's a sort of tannish color with the ever so slightest tint of an olive green in there. Zoya always puts out such beautiful colors! The formula was also lovely on this, it was definitely a one coater, but I always like to do 2 coats of polish. With smaller nails, a second coat really wouldn't be necessary! 

Now I can never go out with just a plain color on my nails (it's so, yaknow, plain) so I decide to try one of the new untried glitters I have. This is Model's Own-Freak Out! and it's from their Mirrorball collection, which is a collection of 5 crazy fun glitters. Model's Own is a UK brand, so when I was in London a couple months ago, I was excited to get my hands on some of their polishes. I ended up buying 4 in total, and 3 of them are from the Mirrorball collection. I'll be posting those at a later date. 

Freak Out! is a mix of dark fuchsia (lol I had to check the dictionary on how to spell fuchsia I can never get it right!) hexagon shaped glitter, larger dark blue glitter, and teal shard and bar glitter. The bar glitter is slightly holographic but you can't really see it.

 The glitter applied super nicely in one relatively thick coat, and only a little bit of dabbing was required. The only thing I don't like is that it dries SUPER slow, even with a fast drying topcoat. I did a gradient on my ring finger and thumb(I love accent nails!), and by the tips of the nail where I have like 3 coats of the glitter is still not dry and it's been like 30 minutes! Maybe I'm just impatient :P

   Zoya polishes cost $8 on their website (and I've never been able to find them in any stores!) and the Model's own were £10 I think, but you can't buy them in the US :(

So that's it for today, hope everyone enjoys the rest their week!