Grave Stones

Hi bloggers!

The Halloween nails continue with grave stone nails. I used a wet Q-tip to create this look similar to my glitter gradient and galaxy nail designs. I also used come crackle polishes as well. The base coat I used was Dove from Zoya and the crackle I used was Sally Hansen Fractured Foil Crackle Overcoat. The colors used to with the wet Q-tip where Avocado from Love & Beauty and Sephora by OPI A Leg-Warmer. The black detail is China Glaze Liquid Leather and the green grass is China Glaze Jolly Holly.

I hope you guys have liked our Halloween posts and given them a shot!
Lindsey

Galaxy Nails

Hi bloggers!

I know galaxy nails have been going around for a while now but I just got around to giving them a try. I liked a lot of the pictures I've seen posted online and watched a tutorial on how to do them a while ago and decided to give them a shot finally.

I started off with a black base coat, China Glaze Liquid Leather. Next, I decided some flakes would be a great idea to add some interest to the black so it wasn't just a flat black. I used Hidden Treasure from Sally Hansen, the most beautiful flakes ever.

I used a lot of different colors, probably more than I needed to but oh well. I had fun creating the nebula effect on my nails. I created this by using a wet Q-tip, similar to my glitter gradient post. The colors used in the order they were used from left to right: China Glaze Liquid Leather, Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure, Sephora by OPI Blue Grotto, Zoya Caitlin Love and Beauty Lime, China Glaze Touch of Glamour, Sephora by OPI Wardrobe Change, China Glaze White Cap, and for the stars I used China Glaze White On White.

If I were to do these again, I would definitely want to find a tool to make smaller stars because mine turned out way too big for my liking. Also, I would probably want to use a yellow for my stars instead of white, or maybe mix some yellow and white together to get a good color for the stars because I feel like the white looks a little out of place. You could also just go without the stars at all, I really liked just the nebula look by itself.

Hope you guys enjoyed!
-Lindsey

Girly Pink Glitter

Hi bloggers!

Alright, getting back on track with posting things regularly starts now!

Here is another polish from Forever21's Love & Beauty line that has no name. I grabbed it because it reminded me of Katy Perry's Teenage Dream but sadly, it isn't as glittery or as girly in my opinion as Teenage Dream is but it is still pretty and still very girly. And once again, super cute bottle!! To get this as glittery and girly as I wanted, I would have had to have done at least 3 coats, this is only with 2 coats. 

Just a quick one to ease back into things but we'll be posting more this week!
-Lindsey

Water Marble Sucess!

Hi bloggers!


After several attempts, I finally got a water marble I was happy with! It took a little tweaking of my colors to get it to work out well. The colors I used from left to right were: a silver/light grey from Love & Beauty, For Audrey from China Glaze, Confetti from Jesse's Girl, and Purple With a Purpose from OPI.

I used Love and Beauty as my base color. The picture is a little foggy. It was so humid out my lens kept fogging up! This is only one coat. 

Originally I wanted to use this color as part of my actual water marble but it just wasn't wanting to work well with the other colors so I had to lose it, leaving only three color in the actual water marble. I really, really liked how this one turned out. In the pictures, it's kind of hard to see the Confetti but when it would catch the light just right, it looked so pretty!

Hope you enjoyed and have learned from my water marbling mistakes!
-Lindsey

Mermaid Tail

Hi bloggers,


I tried out a new Love & Beauty polish from Forever21 today and I had kind high hopes for it and feel a little let down by it. Let me show you why and explain...

 

I do love the flakes in this polish but by itself, I feel like it made my nails look like they just had a green tinge to them, not that they were painted and who wants green nails? Not me! This polish would look really good over greens, blues, possibly yellows, and possibly purples though! So in order to try and save this, I put another new polish from Love & Beauty on top of it and really liked how it 

came out. 

Even more flakes and glitter added on top! I thought it looked kind of like a mermaid tail. I'm really glad I tried out these two polished together! 

On a side note, I thought the flower bottle was so stinking cute!! I also got a pink one too that I'm excited to try out! 

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again" totally worked in this situation!

-Lindsey

Semi-inspired 4th of July nails

Hi bloggers!


I did this manicure not thinking about it being a 4th of July look but it kind of turned out that way. I started out with a Love & Beauty polish with super chunky glitter. 

I had planned on only using this glitter but to get as much glitter as I wanted, I would have had to do at least five coats and I just didn't want to take the time to do that so I grabbed a finer glitter polish called Kaleidoscope from Wet N Wild. 

Finally on top of that, I added a crackle. Sally Hansen's Cherry Smash Crackle Overcoat. 

I really liked how this turned out but it was a pain to get off since the first glitter was soo chunky! I used the foil method to try and take it off but didn't have the patience to wait for it to really work so I had to scrub some to get it all off but oh well. 

Hope everyone has a good Fourth of July and if you don't live in the United States, then I hope you just have a good good in general! 

-Lindsey

Glittery Nudes

Hey bloggers!


Here is one of the Love & Beauty polishes from Forever21 that doesn't have a name. I like nudes but sometimes they bore me and since this has glitter in it, it gives it a little something extra. It was more shear that I expected, so instead of my typical two coats I had to go with three. Overall I really liked the color though!

Be on the lookout for a semi 4th of July inspired look! Any big plans besides watching fireworks, cooking out, and slipping into a food-coma?


Hope y'all have had a good week so far!
-Lindsey