Neon Waterfall Nails

Man I am a horrible blogger *hangs head in shame* I'm not going to make any promises about the future. I am going to try and get myself to post more, but I guess it will happen when it happens. So on to my nails...

I've been seeing "waterfall" nails for awhile and I finally decided to give it a try. Here is my inspiration:

The Nailasaurus seems to have started this look, I may be wrong but I still love it. If you click the picture it will take you to all of her Waterfall nails and a tutorial. 

Here is my try at it, but first please excuse my dry and ugly cuticle and I missed a little bit of clean up. It was late when I was doing them and I was tired. Please forgive me my sins lol. Ok here goes:

 For the base I used Sinful Colors "Skylark" it is a great polish. The formula was smooth and almost totally opaque in one coat. I did two for good measure.I really like the color, I'm not really sure how to describe it, but I don't like I really have anything else like it in my collection.

  

 Using a striping brush I went through the colors I had picked out and placed random strokes on each nail.

 After I had used each color I went through them again to fill in any gaps I had. The polishes I used were:

 China Glaze "I'm With The Lifeguard" One of my favorite neon greens.

 China Glaze "Hanging In The Balance"

 Essie "The Lace Is On" This is a BEAUTIFUL purple polish. I just loved it even just seeing it as a few strokes on my nails.

 China Glaze "Pool Party"

 Revlon "Hypnotize"

 Sinful Colors "Glimmer"

 After I finished I decided to add a coat of "Northern Lights" topcoat because I love sparkle :)

 All in all I like how it turned out. Both hands turned out a little different. /\ my right hand

\/my left hand

 I like my right hand a little better because I made the stroke a bit longer. The left hand looks like too much of the base color is showing.

I really like how this turned out and I plan on trying it again in the future with different colors. Make sure to check out The Nailasaurus's blog to see some great nails!

Thanks for reading and I hope to post again soon.

Green-Teal Gradient Spotted!

I know I haven't been around much but I'm still kicking. I am currently suffering from a really bad sunburn I got this weekend while up north with my guy. So here is what was on my nails for the weekend!

I started out with 2 coats of Essie "Blanc" which has been my current go to white base polish.

 I then did 2 coats of one of my favorite neon greens China Glaze "I'm With The Life Guard" I just love everything about this polish. I have several bottles of it :) The application is awesome, it's a lovely bright neon green.

 It dries a little matte, but with top coat it just glows.

  

 For the gradient I used another China Glaze polish. This one is "Custom Kicks"

 I really think these two go together great. It's a very beautiful and smooth gradient. Gradients are by far my favorite thing to do.

 How awesome does that look? I still couldn't leave it alone lol... so I added an accent nail...

 Maybelline Color Show "Clearly Spotted" is from their current Polka Dots collection that includes 4 other polishes. I love this polish and I think I have several versions of the matte black and white glitters from several different brands.

 The other 4 in this collection are the same glitters in a colored base, green, blue, orange, and pink. I bought them all :) This mani still felt like it needed something.

 My good old Northern Lights topcoat was there to same the day :)

 It finally felt completed!

I love this mani and I have been wearing it for almost a week. Tonight it is coming off though for something new. Do you like this mani? What are your thoughts on gradients? Would you like to see more? Less?

Thanks for reading! Don't forget to check out my new Facebook page and don't forget to enter my current giveaway!

Jaded Leather Zebras???

 I know it's a weird title, but I was trying to go with the names of the polishes lol. I'm really trying to post more and I thought that if a scheduled 1 or 2 posts at a time, it would work out easier for me. Yesterday I posted a regular post and a giveaway and today's is a scheduled post. I don't think it really matters that much if a post is made the day of or scheduled ahead of time. Oh so that's enough babble for this post, on to the jaded zebras lol.

 I really like the color green so it's no surprise that I am posting another green mani lol. This one was actually inspired by a bra I just bought, I didn't really need one, but it was on sale and it was green lol. Here is my inspiration:

Plus I have smaller boobs and it's a push up, so win-win lol

I started out with 2 coats of Spoiled "I'm So Jaded"

 For the stamping I used China Glaze "Liquid Leather"

 The stamping plate I used was from the Shany set that I just got last week. The actual image stamped perfect. 

 I'm still perfecting my stamping skills so any blur or smudges are totally my fault. I had no problems getting the image to transfer to the stamper, which was awesome because sometimes I have that issue with other plates.

 Since I didn't get the image to all the edges on my nails I decided to do a french tip to make it look better. I free-handed the tips so they aren't totally even.

In the end I love how this turned out and I can't wait to try more of the Shany plates, which can be bought here: Shany Cosmetics If all the images work like this I'm a happy girl. Side note: The main reason I got this set was for the koala image lol. I can't believe I didn't use that one first.

If you haven't don't so already please enter my giveaway:

Do you own the Shany plate set? What's your favorite image? Thanks for reading and I hope you have a great day. 

Jack The Lifeguard Green Gradient

I haven't done just a plain gradient in awhile and I like to think I'm pretty good at them. Green is my favorite color and I wanted something bright. I always think a nice pretty manicure can really cheer you up, at least it does for me :)

This isn't going to be a very wordy post. Sometimes I think most people just look at the pictures anyways :)

  I used one of my favorite greens China Glaze "I'm With The Life Lifeguard" I started with 2 nice coats.

 For the gradient I used Butter London "Jack The Lad" 

 I think these polishes go really well together and I think they blended very well.

 I felt that it still needed a little something, so....

 I added a coat of Northern Lights! You can never go wrong with Northern Lights :)

 i really wish my nails would stop breaking so they would all be the same length for once. I hate chopping my nails down just because one breaks :(

 My nails make me think of limes, limes covered in glitter lol.

Well that's it for today. After I get this post up I am going to be posting a surprise!!! So keep your eyes open. Thanks for reading!

Santa And His Elves Are A Little Late...

So I'm a little late with this post, I'm sorry :( Please forgive me. I hope every one had a great X-mas (or other holiday as it applies to you) I didn't really celebrate it this year. Things have changed a lot since I was a kid. The holidays just aren't the same. But anyways, the theme for today's post, which was meant for the 24th, is Santa and Elves.

I had an idea in my head and it turned out like I planned. I like it, what do you think?

 I started out with 2 coats of China Glaze "Ruby Pumps" on my ring finger and thumb.

 And 2 coats of Zoya "Logan" from this years Ornate Collection. I love both of these colors and I think they are very "christmasy" (I don't think that's a word, but I'm making it a word) but also nice for an every day color.

 I think this is the first time I've used "Ruby Pumps" and now I know why everyone is always talking about it and always trying to find it. I know that it is apart of the main collection but it's almost always out of stock. This is a must have polish for everyone!

 I forgot to take a picture of the white before adding the glitter, but I used a dotting tool and China Glaze "White On White" to make the fluffy part of the hats on the tips of my nails and the fluff for Santa's jacket on my thumbs. I figured adding white would make the glitter stand out more.

 For the Santa nails I also used my dotting tool along with China Glaze "Glistening Snow" and applied it over the white.

 For the elves nails I used China Glaze "Angel Wings" along with the dotting tool over the white.

 I figured since there is only one Santa it made more sense to have several elves and one one Santa :) I think it turned out cute and people seemed to like them.

 I noticed that I missed a few spots during clean up, but oh well lol.

All of the polishes applied great. The China Glaze holo glitters applied like a dream and had great coverage. I can't wait to use these again. They are so sparkly and a distraction in the sun lol.

Well we only have 1 more mani left in this challenge. I don't think I've doing anything for New Year's, but I'm still going to put on some major sparkle and bling nails :) Can't wait to see what everyone else does :)

Thanks for reading. Either later tonight or tomorrow I will be posting pics of some recent packages and gifts I've gotten recently. So keep an eye out for that, and don't forget to check out the other ladies participating in this challenge.