Floral Nail Art

Hey babes!  How is everyone doing? Awesome I hope ;). Today's post is going to be short and sweet because my brain isn't working right now lol. So I'm just going to throw down the picture of my nails here :)

I really love floral designs and I love how these came out. To me the beauty of a floral print anything is in the imperfections.  No need for perfect lines and brush strokes.  Another great thing...you don't need a lot of tools.  You can create a beautiful floral design with just the nail polish brush and a toothpick. 

For these I used a small dotter, a tiny detail brush and a small triangle shaped brush (not sure how to describe it). Here's a list of the polishes I used:

New York Color SideWalkers 

Wet n Wild On A Trip

New York Color Lavender Cupcake

H & M Beauty Bandit

Essie Mesmerize

Essie Bikini So Teeny

H & M Something Blue

Wet n Wild Candy-Licious

New York Color City Sweets Pink

Milani Cosmetics Rapid Cherry

Sephora by O.P.I Caught With My Khakis Down

Sephora Military Jacket

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Winter Wonderland

Hola Senoritas, What's up?  Did any of you see Frozen yet?  The fam and I went to see it Wednesday and ermagerd it's so amazing!  I'm completely obsessed with it, everyone should see it. It needs to hurry up and come out on Blu-Ray so I can watch it EVERYDAY haha. By complete coincidence my nails for today's post matched the wintery wonder of the movie.

I just love this time of year.  The colder weather, snow (if we ever get any in New York), cozy time with a cup of hot chocolate, the holidays, scarves and sweaters.  I just had to put that winter love into a nail design.

I really love how these came out.  It looks exactly as I thought in my head (that is not always the case lol).  Is it weird that my favorite design is the thumb? Lol, I can be so boring.  I wanted to do matte white polka dots on naked nails since I saw it on Marie of Pretty Project.

Which is your favorite nail? The snowy gradient, the snowflakes or the snowballs? :-D

Polishes Used:
Revlon Spirit
China Glaze Frostbite
All That Glitters Spotty Dottie Light
Finger Paints Santa's Magic
New York Color Matte Me Crazy

Coral Glam, Stripes and Glequins

Hey girlfrans,  I've got some sexy nails to share with you today.  If you follow me on Instagram or Tumblr you know I got an AH-MAZING prize from my boo Marie of Pretty Project.  Included in the prize was the base color for todays nails.

Oh yeah, Layla Hologram Effect in Coral Glam.  Does it get any more awesome than hologram effect nail polish?  I don't think so.  I'm officially obsessed with them. 

Here is a close up, look at all the color.  It almost looks like pink fire.  This is only 2 coats of Coral Glam, no undies...Say What? 

For the design I used New York Color City Sweets Pink for the stripes and Born Pretty Store Diamond Shaped Glequins. I wish I could capture how pretty the Glequins are.  They are purple and holo and just the perfect match for Coral Glam.

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NYC Halloween 2012 Sweet & Devilish Collection (Swatch/Review & FOTD)

Happy Halloween Beauties!!!  As all of you know New York was hit by Hurricane Sandy.  Right now everyone is dealing with the aftermath.  Fortunately my family and I are fine.  There was no major damage in our neighborhood.  While stuck indoors I took advantage and did a few swatches and worked on this Halloween post for you guys.  Warning: There is a lot in this post, I hope you're ready for it :)   Let's start with the nail polishes.

First up is Haunted.  It's a black jelly-creme based polish with tiny round gold glitters.  I only used 2 coats and got full coverage. To get the best out of this polish you have to be very generous with the brush.  Between the texture, the sparse glitter and the fast drying of the polish, if you use too little for each coat it's not going to be pretty.

Enchanted is a frost shade polish with tiny round gold  glitters  It's a bit sheer, I only used 2 coats here, another coat would take care of that little VNL.  It's a lot like Haunted when it comes to application.  The finish is a bit streaky and getting an even distribution of the glitter was difficult.  

All in all I really like both colors but the fact that they're quick dry makes it hard to get the best out of them, in my opinion.

The other item I picked up from the Sweet & Devilish collection was Tempted, a 2 in 1 Lip Color.  When I bought it I thought it could do this really cool and easy gradient look.  Do a red to black or black to red look.

It worked pretty okay on my arm.

Not so much on my lips.  I wasn't feeling it.  Instead for my lips I did red on top, black on the bottom.  I smacked my lips together and it blended the colors in a pretty cool way.

Close up you can see the black within the red as if it was sponged on. The lip color alone is awesome.  It's shiny on it's own which is perfect because gloss would ruin the blending.  

Here is my complete Halloween makeup look, inspired by Tempted.

From a distance the lip color looks like a perfect shade of blood red.  

My costume is very simple, I'm going to be a witch ;).  Micah is going to be a pirate he's been practicing his swashbuckling all week lol.

What I Used:

Face

• Tarte Smooth Operator
• Cover FX Total Cover Cream Foundation B25
• Too Faced Brightening & Perfecting Bronzer Peach Leopard
• Milani Baked Blush Red Vino

Eyes

• Makeup Forever Diamond Shadow
• Urban Decay Heat
• New York Color Kohl Eyeliner Pencil 926 White
• New York Color Kohl Eyeliner Pencil 925 Sable
• Milani Runway Lashes Mascara 106 Black
• New York Color Liquid Eyeliner 888 Pearlized Black

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31 Day Challenge 2.0 Day 29

Kiss me, kiss me/Infect me with your love and/Fill me with your poison/Take me, take me/Wanna be a victim/Ready for abduction/Boy, you're an alien/Your touch so foreign/It's supernatural/Extraterrestrial

It's day 29 babies!! Happy Saturday, I'm feeling good today.  I went to bed early last night finally got some needed extra sleep.  I got my Milani Cosmetics Fall into Beauty prize in the mail this morning.  I finally have everything I need to work on my swatchicles. Uhhh and mama got a new post for you ;) woot woot. 

My Katy Perry lyrics introduction was a dead give away of my supernatural choice for this challenge...ALIENS!  These were very inspired by the marvelous Madeline Poole.  I saw her nails for American Apparel on Instagram and saw the answer to my, 'what the hell am I going to do for this dang supernatural challenge?' question.

They're so cute and imperfect lol, my little mean green men/women.  Sometimes painting your own nails can be a real b!|¢# haha.  I just couldn't angle my hand right.  So my aliens are a little wonky but still cute ;) and they glow in the dark!!!

OMG the easiest galaxy/nebulae nails I've ever done.  I only used 5 nail polishes and I love how they came out.  Wanna know what I did?  I started with 2 coats of New York Color Skin Tight Denim, a gorgeous midnight blue.  After I let that dry I used the saran wrap technique on a coat of Wet n Wild Black Creme (WAH!?!).  When that was dry I sponged some Wet n Wild French White Creme and Sinful Colors Why Not, finally topped it off with Wet n Wild Coloricon mini holo glitter.  Simple, easy and I love it!  By using the saran wrap technique on the base color it gave it this realistic depth.  I'm going to do this for all my galaxy nails!

Polishes Used:

• Glow in the Dark Pumpkin Enamel Slime Green color
• New York Color Skin Tight Denim
• Wet n Wild Black Creme
• Wet n Wild French White Creme
• Sinful Colors Why Not
• Wet n Wild coloricon mini Holographic Glitter

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31 Day Challenge 2.0 Day 27

Hi everyone, it's another late post day today :( sorry.  Still feeling a bit under the weather but I couldn't bring myself to not do my next challenge design.  The theme for today is Inspired by Artwork.  I pretty much just googled abstract art to find some inspiration.  I found a couple things but I really liked this graffiti piece in particular.

To successfully transfer the piece into a nail design I visually cut the image up.  This way different parts of the artwork was placed on different nails.  I actually remembered that from Art class in Middle School.  The only difference being, I enlarged a tiny image back then :).
I do love the way they came out, wish I wasn't feeling like crap though.   They could have been better.  I'm so out of it I can't even think of more words to say haha.  So I'm just going to slap another picture here and make the crazy list of polishes I used for this design.  I will see you tomorrow beautiful people!!! 

Polishes Used:

• Wet n Wild French White Creme
• Wet n Wild Black Creme
• Wet n Wild megalast I Need a Refresh-Mint
• New York Color Sidewalkers
• New York Color City Sweets Pink
• Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Brisk Blue
• Essie Navigate Her
• Sinful Colors Go Go Girl
• Milani Jiffy Orange
• Milani Hot Pink Frenzy
• Starlicious Lacquer Franken Mustard Shade (name in progress) 

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31 Day Challenge 2.0 Day 25

First I want to apologize for not posting yesterday, I'm a bad blogger tsk tsk.  I woke up and I wasn't feeling 100% and I had some housework that NEEDED to get done. So by the time I finished my nails it was 8pm :/.  But I did post twice Wednesday that makes up for it, right? :(.  Well, here are my Day 25: Inspired by Fashion nails!

I'm your typical girlish girl, I love fashion.  Clothes, makeup, jewelry, shoes, nail polish, gimme gimme I love it.  Naturally I was looking forward to this challenge.  I hit up TopShop.com and found this beauty.

I had to recreate it!  Especially since I've been trying to weasel a zig zag design into this challenge.  I haven't actually done one before. 

Didn't do too bad, if I do say so myself.  I messed up on a nail but it's not too noticeable.  Can you tell which one? Haha

I love the way these came out.  There's nothing better than some glitter, right?  Well except the next day when you need to take it off :/ Why do I hate myself? Lol A huge thank you to the creator of the tin foil glitter removal technique.  I do want to make myself some glue base so I can just peel it off.  Any of you try that out yet?

Polishes Used:

• New York Color Mulberry Street
• Sephora by O.P.I Sugar Plum Fairies Gone Wild
• Petites Color Fever 24k Gold
• Wet n Wild Red Red
• Sephora by O.P.I Be-Claus I Said So

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31 Day Challenge 2.0 Day 23

Hey peeps, I'm going to keep this post short and sexy ;).  For Day 23: Inspired by a Movie I chose Star Wars.  Mainly because I tried to execute this exact design last year and failed, miserably haha.

It's Darth Vader and a red Lightsaber!!! These nails were all about the matte and shiny effect.

Here's a shot of the lightsaber connected.  I was actually patient enough to use tape for these haha.  I needed to make sure I was lined up perfectly.  How are you with tape manicures?  I always give up and freehand it.

Oddly, I couldn't get a good photo of Darth Vader using the lightbox and my digital camera.  But using my phone and the lighting in my bathroom he showed up perfectly.  I know I could have just used black and white or gray/silver to detail Vader.  I really wanted to stay true to the fact that he's all black.  It's not the most amazing Darth Vader I suck at character drawings but I'm very proud of it.  It's 100 times better than the first :)

Polishes Used:

• Spoiled by Wet n Wild Ants in my Pants
• Wet n Wild Black Creme
• Sally Hansen Pumping Iron
• New York Color Broadway Burgundy Frost
• Wet n Wild Wild Shine Clear Nail Protector
• New York Color Matte Me Crazy

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31 Day Challenge 2.0 Day 19

It's Galaxy Day Hooray, I love galaxy nails. It's one of the first nail designs I saw online and my jaw dropped.  That may have been the moment I became obsessed with nail art.  I had to learn how to do it myself.  Funny enough my first attempt at it was last year for this challenge.  Wow, I remember thinking they were amazing.  I was so proud of them.  They aren't very sexy haha.  I'm happy to say I've gotten much better at galaxy nails when I did them back in February. Galaxy nails are definitely in the same category as Leopard/Cheetah print, Zebra print, Polka Dots and Stripes.  Everyone does them but no one can not love a sexy galaxy design.  They are just out of this world!!! Pun intended lol.  Of course, you know I had to try to spice up my galaxy nails for todays challenge ;) Warning: this post is a bit picture heavy!

Behold Galaxy Drips!  A product of another nail art dream I had. I need more nail art dreams in my life. Ahhh they came out so awesome.  I love these...like hard.  I actually had a few ideas for todays design but the drips kept calling me.  So happy I listened to myself. These came out exactly as I imagined.

Mr. Starlett Approved says it looks like the galaxy is taking over the nail polish.  I disagree, nail polish is taking over the galaxy.  #NailPolishRulesTheWorld lol at least our world, right?

As difficult as the design may look it was really easy actually.  I started with 2 coats of Brucci Mango Taffy then used the largest ended dotting tool and placed 3 random dots of City Colors Dark Blue on each nail.  Using the brush of the City Colors Dark Blue I made a line from the dots I made to the tip of my nail and then connected the lines at the tip.

Then I went over the drips with L.A. Colors Jewel Tone, a purple and blue glitter.  I let that dry completely before I started sponging.  After it dried only using the very tip of my makeup sponge that I cut into small pieces. I sponged Wet n Wild French White Creme then Sally Hansen Going Green, O.P.I Fly and Wet n Wild On a Trip around the white.  I also sponged on a random spot using Wet n Wild Black Creme on each nail. Finally I added more glitter using New York Color Starry Silver Glitter and some scattered white dots for twinkling stars.  Of course I couldn't stop there.

I had to make it Glow in the Dark :) using Wet n Wild Fantasy Makers Luminescent.  Especially because my first galaxy attempt I tried and failed to get it to glow properly and take a photo.  Yes I had some stray sponge marks on my base colors I just went over it using a tiny brush.  Since my base color was a jelly, cleaning up the mistakes wasn't flawless.  I know better for next time though ;).  

Polishes Used:

• Brucci Mango Taffy
• City Colors Dark Blue
• L.A. Colors Color Craze Jewel Tone
• Wet n Wild French White Creme
• Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Going Green
• O.P.I Fly
• Wet n Wild megalast On a Trip
• Wet n Wild Black Creme
• New York Color Starry Silver Glitter
• Wet n Wild Fantasy Makers Luminescent

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31 Day Challenge 2.0 Day 12

Hey sexy people, it's hump day ;) and Day 12 of the challenge. What's the theme? STRIPES!!!! Just in case you were wondering. Gonna be honest with you, because that's how I roll. I was VERY uninspired by this theme. I had no idea what I wanted to do for this challenge until yesterday. When I HAD to finally think of something. One idea was pretty cool but I was lazy and tired and knew I didn't have my all to put into the design. So I shelfed it for a later date and did these.

Mr. Starlett Approved actually helped me with this one. Before 90% of my designs I sketch it out in my little notepad, it makes life so much easier. I did just that with these nails and showed my boo to see if he felt it was stripes appropriate. He pointed out that with it just black and white on the paper it didn't look like stripes. It just looked like a random design thing haha. So I ran with it and said you GENIUS so I should designate a specific color for each line!!! He looked completely confused by my rambling and just nodded his head lol.

I bestowed diagonal lines with Sinful Colors Nail Art Bonjour, horizontal lines with Sinful Colors Nail Art A Slice To Go and vertical lines with Sinful Colors Nail Art Moon Light. Then I had to figure out the base color. My mind went straight to white but I didn't want to do another design with white or even black. I love them but I need to use the other 200+ colors in my collection. Then I thought grey would be great and New York Color Sidewalkers is the PERFECT shade of grey.

I don't do a lot of designs like this one and I REALLY love it. I definitely see myself doing more designs like these in the future. Might I say I'm pretty damn proud of my line work as well. No tape needed WHAT! WHAT! :) Can't wait to see you guys tomorrow! I'm very excited about what I have planned. Lets cross our fingers it goes according to plan haha.

Polishes Used:

• New York Color Sidewalkers
• Sinful Colors Nail Art A Slice To Go
• Sinful Colors Nail Art Bonjour
• Sinful Colors Nail Art Moon Light

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31 Day Challenge 2.0 Day 11

Hey guys!! It's Day 11, the first day of the Pattern themes.  Todays theme is the ever classic Polka Dots.  I don't do a lot polka dot nails, for some reason I'm not that great at it haha.  Crazy I know, but I always seem to mess something up.  With these nails I think I did pretty good.  Maybe it's because I didn't do a basic polka dot design.  I did strawberries, or strawboobies as my son would call them lol.

These were inspired by my kitchen hand towel.  Everytime I would have it in the kitchen I think 'Oh it's so pretty I should put them on my nails' and I finally did.  I love how they came out, super ca-yute! 

Here I am again using my favorite colors Black and White haha.  Maybe that's why I have so many Untrieds smh.  Well you would be proud of me, this was my first time using the yellow base color.  It's Milani Yellow Whiz, the fast dry one coat formula polish.  I don't know what I did wrong but I needed 2 coats :(. Either 1 coat or 2 coats it's still a gorgeous yellow creme and now 1 of my FAVORITE yellow polishes!

For the strawberries I used a black striper, New York Color French White Tip, which I should retire to my stamping polish pile, and New York Color Sidewalkers.  I'm going to put these nails on my tutorials to do list.  I really enjoyed doing the Watercolor Rainbow Roses picture tutorial.  So I definitely plan on doing more for you guys.

Polishes Used:

• Milani Yellow Whiz
• New York Color French White Tip
• New York Color Sidewalkers
• Absolute! Nail Art Paint Black

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31 Day Challenge 2.0 Day 7

Yay it's Day 7, by far my favorite challenge theme...Black & White!  These two colors together is EVERYTHING to me.  My wardrobe is 95% black and white. My home is 90% black and white haha.  So naturally I LOVE these nails something fierce!

Blissful Sigh I can stare at these forever :). This was my first time doing the Saran Wrap technique.  I've been wanting to do it forever but just never got around to it.  Plus I kept forgetting to buy Saran Wrap :/.

Before tackling this design I watched Chelsea of GetNailed tutorial to see how it's done. I thought it was going to be a little more complicated.  I love when designs are easier than they look.  Almost as much as I love Ebony & Ivory haha.

Did I mention that I love how they came out?  They look like my dream kitchen.  Black & White marble counters with gold accents.  Now I want a snack, be right back :).  I love a design even more when Mr. Starlett Approved thinks it's cool and shocked that I did it on my nails.  Even if I was sitting next to him the whole time while watching Alphas.

This is my least favorite part of  The 31 Day Challenge.  When I do a manicure I love and can't enjoy it :( because I have to remove it the next day BOOO!

Polishes Used:

• Wet n Wild Ebony Hates Chris
• New York Color French White Tip

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