Then & Now Week 3

Hey everyone, I've missed you guys.  Did you miss me? ;) It's week 3 of the Then & Now Challenge.  I was so close to skipping this week.  I've been in a blah mood this past week.  I did do my nails a few times but hated something about it, so I never bothered posting them.  Yesterday I finally felt great and decided to do my challenge nails.  My brand new bottle of Seche Vite decides to commit suicide and shatters all over my kitchen floor.  Tears and top coat everywhere.  I used a whatever top coat and my nails were ruined in 10 minutes eventhough they were dry :(.  I did them over this morning making sure I took pictures before doing anything with my hands and I like them much more than my attempt yesterday.  So I'm actually thankful that it got ruined hehe.   Now here are my nails!

I don't remember a lot about these nails.  I recall seeing the design while scrolling through my tumblr dashboard last year thinking WHAT? Outlined drips? HOT!!!

These days they aren't a big deal haha but I still love the effect of outlined drips.  I probably like drip nails as much as I love animal print nails.  It's easy to do and pretty cool looking.

For this design I used my favorite blue, black and pink nail polish.  Nails Inc. Baker Street, Milani Black Swift and Sephora by OPI It's My Pink from the Betsey Johnson Collection.  It's scented and smells AH-MAZING.  I've been sniffing my nails all day.  Yeah I'm smelling them right now :D.

Please don't forget to let me know if you are doing the challenge as well.

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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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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 18

Hey there dolls! ;) Only 13 days left in the challenge.  I'm still good, haven't cracked yet.  No nail polish throwing tantrums (as if right? I would never harm my preciouses).  How is everyone else holding up? 
Well, todays theme is Half Moons, the very classy alternative to the French Manicure.  I actually did my first half moon manicure years before it even had a name.  I just called it a reverse french manicure lol.

Check me out! This was my 21st Birthday...fun times!!!

 I decided to spice up my half moons for this challenge.  Instead of rounded moons I went for triangular ones using L.A. Colors Art Deco Red and Sinful Colors Queen of Beauty to outline it. 

To keep the madness going I did a striped base using L'oreal Night Vision and Kiss Nail Art Paint Pearl Blue. Rather than a basic solid color.  I need more L'oreal nail polishes in my collection.  Good lord the application was so smooth.

These are so cute and perfect for fall.  It actually reminds me of my Middle School uniform.  Our colors were navy blue, red and grey haha.  Awwwwwww I miss Philippa Schuyler :( These nails have me in a very nostalgic mood.  I'm gonna go dig up my high school yearbook now lol. 

Polishes Used:

• L'Oreal Night Vision
• Sinful Colors Queen of Beauty
• Kiss Nail Art Paint Pearl Blue
• L.A. Colors Art Deco Red

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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 8

Today's challenge theme is Metallic, last year I did a plain silver. This time around I went for the gold :).  I just did a simple tape manicure using Born Pretty Black Striping Tape.

I love Models Own 25 Carat Gold.  It's my only gold nail polish, that actually looks like gold. My nails feel expensive with it on haha.

Yeeeeeeaaaah, I don't really have a lot to say about these nails.  So I'm gonna keep it short and sweet.  You can go back to enjoying your Saturday!

Polishes Used:

• Models Own 25 Carat Gold
• Wet n Wild Ebony Hates Chris

Thanks for stopping by!  XOXO

31 Day Challenge 2.0 Day 6

Day 6-Violet brought to you by Sinful Colors.  Not for real but completely true.  This may be the first time I've ever done nail art and only used one brand.  Of course not including base and top coat.  While setting up to do my nails I realized all the polishes were Sinful Colors, crazy!  Maybe it's because my selection of violet is pretty slim, and I have a lot of Sinful Colors in my collection. If I have any shades of violet it's gonna be from them.

For these nails I started off with 1 coat of Sinful Colors Fiji.  It's a very pretty super sheer purple with a light holo shimmer.  Followed by 3 coats of Sinful Colors Frenzy, a gorgeous purple and turquoise glitter polish.  So, funny fact I actually used this same glitter polish last year for the same challenge haha See Here.

This manicure came out exactly how I wanted.  Just an insane violet overload.  I've been seeing these multiline nails everywhere lately.  I like them a lot it's a refreshing alternative to basic stripes.  Ideas for Day 12 are brewing as I type :).  I'm having so much more fun with this challenge this time around.  Probably because I'm way better at nails than I was last year :) and my new blog that I love so much!!!! 

I love the way these nails came out and I definitely need to get more violet in my collection.  It looks good on me lol. 

Polishes Used:

• Sinful Colors Fiji
• Sinful Colors Frenzy
• Sinful Colors Nail Art Moonlight
• Sinful Colors Nail Art Fun Times

Thanks for stopping by ;) XOXO