Cheetah Hearts

Here is another mani I did on my friend's nails!!!

We found the inspiration for this by a pin on pinterest, done by this blogger.

I used Jordana French white for the base, and Sinful Colors black on black for stamping. Then I went in and free-handed a heart using my stride-rite striping polish and outlined it in black.

She loved them and it really reflected her personality :) I was pumped I could re-create something like that :)

Also, you guys can follow my pins on pinterest by clicking here. I have non-polish boards as well so just follow the nail ones if you are so inclined :)

When did you last get inspired by a pic you saw??

Day 23 - Inspired by a Movie

For today's inspiration I chose Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.

I actually did these nails the day before the premier but never posted them.

I did all of this art with my Stride Rite nail art stripers. From L-R: French Flag, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Hedwig.

The flag is because this mani was on France's independence day

From L-R: HP Logo, Lightning Scar, Deathly hallows logo, Luna's Radish earrings, and A broomstick.

And an upclose of the characters.

I loved these, they were soo cute!!! And I loved the movie :) I am totally obsessed with Harry Potter. Actually its funny because my two favorite things are harry potter and nail polish.... as you can see by my tumblr.. 

Day 16 - Tribal Print

Disclaimer: I have never done tribal print before and I am not very good at being random lol

I started out with 2 coats of Cult Nails Devious Nature. No idea why I only took one picture of this... Sorry for the crappy quality.

Then I added thick lines of an off white with my striper brush.

And added random dots and stripes with a black striper brush.  

I'm not too good at it... but at least I tried right?!

Day 14 - Flowers :)

Fun Fact: the only thing I can draw on paper is Flowers :)

I have gotten better at other things because of nail art, but flowers will always be my favorite. 

Here is my favorite flower mani :)

This was with OPI Russian Navy and a striper brush. I was so proud :D

This was obviously before the blog as you can see my crappy hand posture and lack of clean up. But still a great manicure

Day 13 - Animal Print

Omggg I do so much animal print for my friends I figured I would just spam you with pics :) I never wrote down any names I used so sorry about that. 

This is the first nail art I ever did!!! EVER! It was right after I got my first striper polish. 

LOVE! I need to do this again!

This is the first time I ever did more than one color on a stamp at a time. It was super stressful to do really quick so it wouldn't dry but it looked awesome!!!

Hope you enjoyed my animal print spam!

Day 12 - Stripes!

Today is another Nouveau Cheap Inspired purchase... See her post about it here. 

I made sure to stalk the crap out of the 2011 Fashion Week collection because I knew there was two polishes with hidden blue shimmer, but I didn't remember their names. 

Here is one!! Purple Trend by Maybelline.

BAM! It does look very similar to a bruise color, (I thought it was brown at first) but it is deep purple. 

It was super hard to capture the blue shimmer in this one, but it was night time so I couldn't tell you if the sun would have helped.

Even without the shimmer it is a beautiful color.

Here it is under artificial LED light. Super amazing right??

Here is what I came up with for the stripe challenge!! I did a mani before this and found I suck at vertical lines, so i stuck to some other versions. I could totally see myself wearing this instead of stripes that were all the same!

Hope you guys are having a great day!!! See you tomorrow!

Day 1 - Red Mani :)

I fail at posting but that is what happens when you are pre-pharmacy :)


Lets get to the post!!

Day One -Red

I decided to show my back-to-school mani, I wore this on move-in day :)
Our colors are red,yellow, and black and this is what I came up with!

 This is two coats of Zoya Jasmine over a base coat by Julep. 

Then I added black lines in a tick-tack-toe formation.

Then I added the same pattern but in yellow off to the side. 

This was a great way to do a different more intricate plaid. It was totally distracting!! But everyone loved it and it lasted a long time! 

That's it for today!! If any winners from my contest have received their prize, attach a link so we can all see what you have done with them!! :D

July 4th!! A wee bit late :)

I know I know, I am late. But in my defense I was at the hospital yesterday for a reallllly annoying procedure. And I slept the rest of the day. I am finally feeling normal so here goes :)

I apologize for the wear on some of these, I painted my mom and my grandma's nails and it took me a week to track them down to take a picture of their nails haha :)

These were my grandma's nails. She was so excited whenever people asked where she got her nails done :) She was proud lol. I started with a coat of White Out by Sally Hansen, then taped off her nails and added Color Club Chelsea Girl (blue), and OPI An affair in Red Square (red). And topped it off with silver Stripe Rite striper polish.

That OPI is hers actuallly, the ONLY nail polish she owns, CRAZY :)

These were my mom's nails. She does this thing where I paint the base coat and she just keeps asking for more and more lol. I used China Glaze Sexy in the City for the base coat, then she wanted dots. So I added dots of  White on by sally hansen. Then she wanted red tips, that is An Affair In red Square. Then wanted me to line them with white. phew! It took awhile but she was satisfied :) I think they look like wonder woman!

These were my nails at one point. I think I will be doing them again for the 14th of July because that is France's Independence day and It looks like their flag :)

This is a total fail. I had high hopes for this in my head but it just sucked! I did the red base coat on my nails (Ruby Ruby by Sinful Nail Colors) and Blue (Fly Away Sinful Nail Colors) on my thumb and ring fingers. Then I used the Spectraflair top coat for a funky french. It was super messy so i added the line of white to make it look better. The problem was, I was on my way somewhere so I lined them while in a car. NOT a good idea. It was reallly hard to keep it steady. Then I added a star of the opposite color on each. I was in a hurry and in a car but if I would have taken my time it would look alot better :)

This was what I ended up with as my mani! It was my first water marble ever! I love how it came out :) I used the same red white and blue as above. Plus I didn't like the way my thumbs turned out so I added a second coat of water marbled and it was soooo cool! It was kinda see through so you could see the bottom layer. It gave it a cool depth. So now my thumbs are my fav! Click it for the awesomeness!!!

So there you have it! I am gunna start scheduling my posts so hopefully they are more regular :)

What was your favorite?

50 Followers Giveaway!! **CLOSED**

I know I should have probably waited till I reached 100 followers, but I have been picking stuff up for it so much, I would have had a HUGE prize :)

****EDIT*** Now there will be 5 winners :)

All edited things are in red 

Sooo Here is what you can win!!!

First Prize

Close up of the prizes!!

Borghese Milano Taupe, Zoya Crystal, Essie Chubby Cheeks, Essie Shifting Power, Essie Matte About You (My Favorite matte top coat!!)

Top: Sally Hansen HD in Byte and Laser, Wet N Wild Kaleidoscope and Grey's Anatomy

Bottom: (top to bottom) Icing Force of Love (dupe for DL's Across the Universe) and Magnetic Attraction

Nicole by OPI's Nic Sticks in Where's My Chocolate and Cram for an Exam

Plus 7 Stamping plates, Stamper Set, French Guides, and Essence Nail Art Stickers!!

Second Prize 

From left to right: Sally Hansen HD DVD, California Colors in Fusha, Red, Orange, Pink, Navy (Found at TJMaxx, great pigmented colors), Color Club Uptown Dash and Breathless, Essie Shifting Power

Also an Art Deco Striper of Gold Glitter and Some Perfume Samples!!

Third Prize!!

To be announced :)

Fourth Prize!! (Kinda Like a Gag Gift) hehe

Left to Right: Stripe rite Yellow striper, Color Club Uptown Dash, and Heavenly

Random Fact Winner!

I will pick the 5 funniest/weirdest facts and YOU will vote who wins. This prize will be announced a week after the giveaway! :)

Prize to be announced :)

Rules:

1. Must be a GFC Follower :) (+1 entry)

2.  Must tell me a random fact about you (+1 entry) yeah I am a weirdo :)

Extras:

1. Add me to your blog roll (+2 entries)

2.  Post about my blog on your blog (giveaway page, side bar, post etc.) (+1 per)

3. Tweet about the giveaway (+1 entry)

4. Facebook about this giveaway (+1 entry)

Woo Hoo thats all!!!! Hope you guys like the prizes!! You can comment about the giveaway, but to enter you need to fill out the form below. :)

Ends June 30th :) And open internationally!!!


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LATE, Late, late :(

I have been failing at posting lately, I KNOW!! Sorry! :(

But because I still have not uploaded new pics, I am treating you to some nail art I did before the blog! (BTB) hehe. Which means, I have no idea what colors I used because, at that time, I did not pay attention. Oopsies! So enjoy the nail art spam :)

I LOVED this one, I used a grey shimmer for the base and different colored nail art stripers for the stripes!! 

This was a fun plaid design that I found on youtube or google that I have since used in MANY color combos. Its really an awesome summer mani and super easy!

On the one above I chose to keep the pattern the same on all of the nails....

(Obv I used a Sinful Colors Orange for the base hehe) 

The two above are random plaid patterns.

And just for funzies, Here is a mani I did on my roommate that was sooo fun!!

They are all of our friends on her nails!!! They were all done with a striper brush too!!

So I hope you enjoyed my nail art spam ;) I reallly love nail art and I want to start showing it more here :)

What do you think of these designs? Have any suggestions for designs?? :)

Easter Mani - Day 3!

Happy Easter to all that celebrate :) And Happy Sunday to everyone else!!!

I Have had a lot of fun with Easter this year (It is my favorite holiday :) and I am going to share some of my fun with you! 

First, coloring eggs..... I guess all kinds of color (not just nail polish) love my fingertips. 

Keep in mind that this was after 3 hand washes :)

But it does give my Easter mani that extra something :)

Instead of a green thumb I have a pink one :) I think we should use a pink thumb to describe nail polish lovers :D

Anywhoo I'm an idiot and forgot my camera connector at school so you are just going to have to look at the phone camera version of my mom's Easter mani. And just know that the awesomeness is even better in real life :)

UPDATE :) 

She wanted all of her nails to look like they were Easter eggs. I love the way it turned out :D and they are soooo shiny its ridiculous!! Everyone was stopping her and asking her where she got her nails done. She was so cute and proud :) 

For the colors I used Color Club Yum-Gum (hot pink), Twiggie(Green), Secret Rendezvous(purple), Sheer Disguise(blue), Get A Clue(light pink) , and Studio M's French Tip (white). For the Silver lines I used Art Club's Silver. Then I used SESR's Pearly white color and their pure white.

In case anyone was wondering Yum Gum is part of Color Club's Wicked Sweet Line that is all Scented. And though I was hesitant, I still got these and they do not dissapoint!!! They smell awesome! And are scented the entire time you have your mani on.  Even through a top coat and other colors :) 

Have a great day!!!

P.S. For anyone that is paying attention, I have used like the same 10 colors this entire weekend. This is due to the fact that all my nail polish is at school and it is physically impossible to bring them all back home haha :) Even though I want to!

ZOYA :):)

Okay so many of you have probably heard by now that the Zoya Earth Day Polish Exchange is going on, and if not CLICK ON THAT LINK :)

Basically the gist is that if you send in your crappy nail polish, they give you half off Zoya nail polish!!! Woo hooo!! So now, thanks to yesterday's blog haul and today's ordering, I went from owning NO Zoya, to owning.... well alot :)

Here are the colors I picked (It was soooo hard to choose!!)

Ki

Valerie

Crystal

Faye

Areetha

Charla

Adina

Apple

Reece

Ivanka

Gwin

Roxy

Also I got some of Zoya's base and top coat. I was hearing some things about how if you use any other brand they chip off easily? Oh well :) 

As an added bonus the site automatically added color spoons for the intimate collection and mod mattes collection FREE :) I'm a happy camper hehe. 

And on to the nail art of the day :)

TAA DAAH!!! Looks like a complicated manicure but it really wasn't. I just used my nail art striper to do a bunch of different patterns. I'm pretty proud at how well this turned out because I am rarely creative. This is actually being modeled by one of my friends (she said she didn't know how to be a hand model :) I used two coats of Studio M's French Tip for the base and added a coat of Seche Vite before putting the colors on. The colors do not have names they are just the nail art paints that are sold at Sally's with the brand name of So Easy Stride Rite. (Which will henceforth be referred to as SESR, mainly because I am lazy)

Well have an amazing Thursday :) I know I will love sleeping in ;)

What is your opinion about the Zoya top/base coat debate?? Do you get theirs or just say who cares? :)