Candy Canes

Today's theme is gingerbread and candy canes, I didn't have any stamping plates with gingerbread men so I decided to just do candy cane striped nails. I'm sure a lot of people did it so it's not that original, but I think my colors might make my nails stand out a little from the rest of the crowd.

 

 I started off with 2 coats of  Sally Hansen "Ivory Skull"

 

 I then applied about 5-6 pieces of striping tape on each nail and applied two thin coats of O.P.I. "The Spy Who Loved Me" on my pointer, middle, and pinkie nails. I really like this red because of the beautiful shimmer in the the polish.

 The color is a little off, but you can see the shimmer on the left side of the nail. It's more visible in real life. 

 

 I the used 2 thin coats of one of my favorite greens China Glaze "I'm With The Lifeguard" on my thumb, and ring finger. I switched the direction of the tape on my ring finger, just because. and my right hand is the opposite direction.

 

 I know that it's a little sloppy, but I have excuses lol. I ended up doing this mani last night and nothing wanted to go right. First, my left hand slipped at some point and somehow I broke my ring finger nail (but I guess it is ok because now it's the same length as the rest of my nails.) An odd thing about me is I HATE clipping my nails just because one breaks. So most of the time my nails are all different lengths, but I just can't do it. As of right now all of my nails are somewhat the same length as all the others.

 

 Anyways, I think that the neon green kinda makes my mani a little different then the usual candy cane look.

 

 I hurried to add top coat since it was getting really late and I needed to go to bed so I got a bit of streaking. Not very noticeable from a far lol.

 

 So these are my candy cane nails, which also happens to be one of the things I actually like about the holidays, and each year then come out with even more flavors :)

 

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Refreshing My Mani!

So this is a picture of the mani I wore yesterday:

Just a reminder :)

Butter London "Scuppered" and China Glaze "Angel Wings" as the accent nail

I went a step further and using some striping tape I created this:

 I really look how it all turned out. A few nails got smudged from applying top coat a bit early, but I was too tired to redo it, but that's how you learn :) I used 2 coats of Sally Hansen Salon Manicure "Lavender Cloud" and over "Angel Wings" I used Pure Ice "Black Rage"

 I really like how this turned out and I've gotten a few compliments on it, and about 3 of them were from guys lol. I guess it is something I will have to do again in the future. I think if a mani catches a man's eye then it must be good... and it caught at least 3 guy's eyes lol.

 

    

 Well that is it for today. Thanks for reading and don't forget to enter my giveaway. I've had such a great response to this giveaway that I decided once I reach 400 followers (only 22 away as of this post) I will be holding another giveaway even if my current one is not over yet, so keep an eye out for that!

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Don't Paint Your Nails While On Sleeping Pills!

For those of you who don't know, I have trouble sleeping just about every night, so I recently started taking sleeping pills. They helped a little, so I decided that maybe a little drink at night would help some more. It works I sleep great..... but sometimes I don't remember things. :) And sometimes I paint my nails and have no knowledge of it in the morning. The other night this happened to me. I find it even funnier then usual because I guess I thought they looked really good so I took some pictures.... Yeh not so good lol.

 

 I have no idea how many coats I used, but the base coat is Spoiled "Tip Your Waitress" I vaguely remember starting this mani, but I remember using the other color as the base... not sure what happened lol

 The darker purple is W7 "Metallic Mercury"

 Gotta love the "great" clean up job I did. These are the nails I woke up to, and the photos were time stamped 1:30am. I took my pill around 10:30... so yeh I guess I had a fun night, I also topped it off with eating some cookies and milk :) I was able to piece most of the night together from looking at the aftermath. I had cotton balls and brushes all over.

 

All in all I did like the look of this mani, so I decided to re-do it with out a sleeping pill in my system :)

 

I used 2 coats of Spoiled "Tip Your Waitress" which is one of my favorite hot pinks :) It's a great formula and the it is opaque in almost 1 coat.

(please excuse the tip wear)

 

 After the pink I used a coat of Northern Lights and then waited a few minutes to make sure they were all dry. I then used striping tape to create the "V" shape on my nails.

 Using W7 "Metallic Mercury" I painted two coats inside the striping tape.

 After I removed the tape I finished up with a coat of Seche Vite

 

Bonus Pictures

 I also found these photos on my camera the morning after lol. They are nice shots of "Metallic Mercury" If you look at the bottom on the bottle you can see the color shift.

I think this is a great color and the formula is great to work with.

 

Well thanks for reading and I'll let you know if I wake up with any more surprise nails :)

 

As a quick note I just want to mention that I do not abuse drugs in anyway. I do have horrible sleeping issues and I am still trying to find what works for me. I would never ever take my medication and drink unless I was safe and at home, and I do not drink in excess, I have one Malibu and coke. I just wanted to say this because I know the thoughts that can go through peoples heads. I know that I seem to joke a lot in this post, but I know that I was at home and that I was safe. It was scary the first night I woke up and couldn't remember going to bed.... ok I think I've gotten my point across, or at least I hope I have.

 

Thank you for reading and please be safe no matter what your doing. Oh and please keep your eye out, I will be posting a giveaway shortly :) Thanks!

Happy 4th of July!!!!

Today I have 2 4th of July manis to show you. First is the mani that I wore on Monday... 

 For this mani I used O.P.I. "Alpine Snow" China Glaze "Blue Year's Eve" and "Ruby Pumps" and Icing "Patriotic Princess"

I started out with a coat of "Alpine Snow", and then used "Alpine Snow", "Blue Year's Eve" and "Ruby Pumps" to do a gradient sponging on each nail.

 I then applied one coat of "Patriotic Princess" to each nail

My second mani I tried something a little different. This time I started with 1 coat of Spoiled "Correction Tape" and then applied striping tape like such:

Then using Essence "Glamorous Life" and "Hard To Resist" I sponged over the striping tape.

"Correction Tape"

"Glamorous Life" 

Some of the striping tape moved during the sponging process, but I still like the outcome :)

 "Hard To Resist"

 On my ring finger I used 2 coats of Julep "America"

Well that's it for today. Thanks for reading and I hope everyone had a fun, and hopefully cool day. It's been in the 100's here today!

Night!!! 

For more on Julep nail polish you can find a list of all of their polishes here!! Enjoy!

Neons, Crackle, and Striping - Days 41, 42 & 43

Day 41 of the 90 Day Challenge

I did this mani before I realized that the popular trend right now is gradient manis. I wanted to do something bright, but I didn't want just one color. I decided to try doing a gradient. I haven't done many, maybe 1 or 2 in the past. I love how it came out :)

For this mani I did a base coat of China Glaze - "Oxygen" and then using a makeup sponge I sponged using:

China Glaze - "In The Lime Light"

Sinful Colors - "Neon Melon"

Sinful Colors - "Summer Peach"

 China Glaze - "In The Lime Light"

Sinful Colors - "Neon Melon"

Sinful Colors - "Summer Peach"

 

 Most of the nails turned out great. I had a few where the orange wanted to over take the yellow, but all and all it turned out awesome. I loved it and I can see me doing this one again. I plan on trying other neon colors. The sad thing though is while I had this mani I ended up breaking about 3 nails :( But on the upside they are all about the same length now!!

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Day 42 of the 90 Day Challenge

My SO wanted me to paint my nails using green and gray. I decided to paint them green ad use gray crackle on top. The problem came when I couldn't decide which green to use.... so I choose 5 greens :)

 L to R: China Glaze "Tree Hugger", "Four Leaf Clover", "Paper Chasing", Zoya "Ivanka", and Revlon "Rain Forest"

 Thumb = "Rain Forest", Pointer = "Ivanka", Middle = "Paper Chasing", Ring = "Four Leaf Clover", Pinky = "Tree Hugger"

After I applied 2 coats of each polish to each nail I saw that 2 had a shimmer but the other 3 didn't so I added a coat of Icing "Call Me Glitzy" over the last 3. This way they all looked to have a similar finish.

 I then added a coat of 2012 by Cherimoya "DNA" crackle polish.

Final Results:

All of the polishes went on great. The crackle was a bit thick and goopy, but it turned out so that's what matters :) I have a bunch of the 2012 crackles and I should use them more. I wonder if you can add thinner to crackle or if that would ruin it... Will have to do some research :)
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Day 43 of the 90 Day Challenge

The last thing for today is a mani that I am currently wearing while typing up this post. I used the gradient method again but I also used some striping tape :)

I used 2 coats of Nicole by O.P.I. "Kim-Pletely In Love" but I forgot to take a picture :/ sorry

I then sponged over that using Sinful Colors "Dream On" and "Bikini"

 Sinful Colors "Dream On"

 Sinful Colors "Bikini"

I added a coat of SV Quick Dry and then applied striping tape to each nail. I used the same designs on my other hand too. I then applied 1 coat of China Glaze "Smoke and Ashes"

I need to work on getting my tape straight but other then that I really like the results :)

Well that's it for today. I'm trying to catch up with the 90 challenge that's why I posted for 3 days in one post.

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