Stormy Stars

 
  Hey guys! Here's another one of the Zoya nail colors that I got with my 3 free. This one is Storm and this came out with the Ornate Collection. This color is a black with tiny holo glitter specks throughout it. This one has less holo than Aurora, and I was slightly disappointed about that, but it's still really pretty.

  I also added some Kleancolor Silver Star on my accent nail. I fished the stars out and placed them with an orange wood stick. Then, I finished this with one coat of Seche Vite.

MOAR DAYGLOW

 

      It's October! Halloween nails month is officially here, and I'm starting out with some glowing, green nails. I'm sure if any of you guys browse the nail art tags on tumblr or instagram you've seen Dayglow before. It's a pastel yellow that glows in lowlight from Serum No 5. 

     Here is have one coat of Dayglow over two coats of Kleancolor TLC and on the accent finger I have one coat of Mal-eficent's Magic from Charm Your Nails.

P.S. I'm really sorry that my camera takes horrible lowlight pictures!!!

Birthday Disco

      Oh My Gosh. It feels like I haven't updated in months, when in reality it's only been about a week! Anyway, Here is my birthday mani! My birthday is actually tomorrow, the 8th, but I thought I'd go ahead and post this today. Candles and glitter, such a good combination.

    This has a total of 18 candles because tomorrow I'll be 18!

    Get ready for a long list of colors

The glitter is Color Club Sugar Plum Fairy

The black and white I used are generic ebay stripers

The blue and purple are from a Color Club set that I got at Ross, the set was called All About Color but I think it was labeled wrong and unfortunately the colors don't have names

The yellow is Zoya Pippa

The pink is Kleancolor Barbie Pink

The green is Kleancolor Bikini Green

Annnnnd I think that covers all of the colors I used. Whew...

Funflower

The yellow is Sinful colors Pull Over

The browns I used were Kleancolor Capuccino and Mocha

Sexy Serpent

I've wanted to try doing some snakeskin nails for a while now, but I honestly never imagined they would come out this good on the first try. I was just going to play around with some lace from some old clothes and I thought that I'd just end up taking it off. Now I really wish I would've taken pictures so I could post a tutorial. 

       For this I used

• Essie Blanc
• Essie Sew Psyched
• Essie As Gold As It Gets
• Essence Nude It!
• Essence High Spirits
• Essence Black is Black
• Essence Gold Rush
• Kleancolor Cappuccino
• Fresh Paint Oatmeal
• China Glaze Luxe and Lush

 I tried to stay with more earthy nudes and greens and brown shades.

What You Need

• A small piece of Mesh/Lace      
• A Sponge
• Small brush

 

Here's how I did it

1. I started with one thick coat of white on all of my nails and let it dry completely.
2. Take the lace and lay it on the nail. Try not to move it while dabbing the colors.
3. With some tweezers and a small chunk of makeup sponge and started dabbing the lightest nude color I am using.
4. With a brown or darker nude color I tried to make some lines or diamonds with a small brush that resembled patterns on a snake.
5. Now I took the greens I had and randomly dabbed them in the more empty spaces. 
6. Just before I took off the lace, I took a tiny amount of black on my brush and went over the parts with the brown to make them stick out more.
7. Now, slowly pull the lace upwards. It might stick just a little bit but that's okay, I just slightly pushed it back down with my finger.
8. I took a sheer champagne color and dabbed a small amount around the nail not covering it all the way. This is optional.
9. I then took As Gold As It Gets and did a coat of that and then a coat of Luxe and Lush. It gives it a scaly and almost wet look.
10. Two coats of top coat and you're done!

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

 For this I used

• OPI Yoga Ta Get This Blue

• Northern Lights Hologram Top Coat    

•  Kleancolor Silver Star

How I Do My Border Nails

Hi guys! So I've been seeing a lot of Border/Frame/Outline nails lately and I love this trend! The first time I did this, I painted the border around my nail last. You probably thought that that was the easiest way to do this trend, but I've found a way that works much better, and is much easier, for me anyway. 

 All you need for this is two nail colors and a white

I used:

Sinful Colors Neon Melon

Kleancolor Concrete Gray

Essie Blanc

Here's how I did it

 

 Step 1. So I started with a nail strengthener and a sticky base coat like always. Then, Put a coat or two of the color you want as the border.

Step 2. Now, take the nail color you want in the middle. Move your nail polish brush in the motion that the arrows go in the picture. Start with it at the bottom like you would normally paint your nails, but leave your border color showing at the bottom. Move the polish brush in a curved motion and pick the brush up just before it reaches the tip of your nail. If you mess up, don't worry! It's an easy clean up!

Step 3. Clean up and Fix up. I had some mistakes that I needed to fix, so I took a white nail polish and went over the gray to erase it. When the white was dry, I just took the color I used for my border and went over it. Then, you can just clean up any messy edges, or clean up polish you got on your fingers.

Now just add your favorite top coat and show off your awesome nails!