Some solids, a little Halloween AND Wedding Nails!

Here is one of my favorite colors. 

Gelish After Dark. Always in style!

 Here is a Mini Mani of my little girl. She's adorable. 

I just used some regular polish colors and topped them with some black Konad stamping polish. 

 And another beautiful one color mani. Easy and quick but so so so cute. 

Gelish Make you Blink Pink

This one is also a one color but with a twist. It has a layer of glitter on top, which I think makes this neutral manicure look just perfectly feminine and lovely. 

I used TruGel Just Peachy and Gelish Vegas Nights

 And here are the lovely bride's lovely nails!

Because it was kind of a big deal to get these nails just perfect, it took a little while. 

For the Gold nails, I used Gelish Meet the King and then topped them with some loose gold glitter. Making sure to get rid of any rough edges left by the glitter. It took a couple coats of Top it Off but they turned out silky smooth. 

 For the white nails, I used OPI My Vampire is Buff. Topped with a tiny fade of the same loose gold glitter. 

For the other nails, I first used TruGel Just Peachy topped with hand painted art using OPI's My Vampire is Buff. 

And lastly, some spooky spiderwebs!

These used Gelish Black Shadow, TruGel Toxic and a touch of hand painted spider webs. Quick AND spooky. 

Thanks for reading, 

See you Monday!

Shut Up and Do Your Nails with Me!

I know you've heard the song, but have you seen how adorable this guy is in the video? 

Because he is 100% THE CUTEST. Just Shut Up and Watch it already. 

I started with a cute multi color mani. One of my favorites just as is. 

I used: Gelish Make You Blink Pink, Gelish I'm Brighter than You, Orly Glow Stick, Gelish Amazon Flirt, and Finger Paints Appetite for the Archetype.

For the next step I put Scotch tape diagonally across each nail. 

I actually don't need it on the green nail but I forgot what I was doing for a little while. It happens. 

Then I stamped the swirl pattern using white Konad polish and peeled the tape off. Perfect!

Again, its so cute I really could have left it here...but I didn't. Oh, and I always make sure to clean up the messy edges BEFORE I top coat. Otherwise you can end up with a sealed in, permanent mess.

And the final touch? Guitars and music notes of course! 

Who wouldn't want an all neon 80's music mani this summer? NO ONE!!!

And a BIG thank you to my lovely nail model, Emma. Beautiful hands and a beautiful girl!

Thanks for reading, 

See you Monday! 

Strawberries!

Sometimes a mani turns out way more fantastic than I imagined. 

Today is one of those days! 

First, I painted the nails using Gelish's Arctic Freeze, Gossip Girl and Go Girl. Pretty simple so far. I then used a dotting tool to paint the polka dot nails using Go Girl on top of the Gossip Girl nails and top coated it. Then the real fun started! 

Scroll down to see a tutorial of how I did everything. 

 Here are my trusty tools. I've tried quite a few different brands of stampers, scrapers and polishes but the best is always Konad. Thank you Amazon! 

As far as stamping plates go, I love all the brands I've tried. I buy them on Amazon, Etsy, straight from the companies...they're all great. The two I used today are Mash-75 and Winstonia 118.

 To make the large strawberry, I quickly blob on some green and hot pink stamping polish and scrape it off before it dries. 

After that its pretty simple to just pick up the image with a rubber stamper and apply it to the nail. 

(If you've never tried nail stamping, there are about a bazillion YouTube videos you can watch)

Now for the strawberry print nails! 

The pattern on the plate is just a simple outline, which would have been pretty cute, but I thought I could do a little better than that. 

 Once the stamp dries on the stamper, I used a teeny tiny brush to color it in with the two polish colors I already used on the large strawberry. It doesn't need to be totally perfect but theres no hurry either.

 Next I used a basic topcoat (don't use anything fancy or the image might be too stiff to use) to generously cover the entire image and let dry completely. 

 Then I carefully used a pair of tweezers to lift up all the edges.

And then lift it off and place it face down on the nail and cover with topcoat. It needed a bit of cleanup around the edges but that's no big deal. 

Thanks Mom! Love you! 

See you Monday!