Gradients 4 Lyfe

    This started out as something totally different that I ended up hating. Luckily, I'm really happy with this unplanned result! Gradient/Ombre nails are probably one of my favorite things to do, they are so easy and messy and fun. If you're into nail art and haven't done a gradient, I recommend that you do one right now! You really just need two colors (or more) and a makeup sponge.

    The colors I used for this are Essence Colour and Go You Belong To Me and Essie Blanc. I started with Blanc (the white) as the base and, with my makeup sponge, I dabbed You Belong To Me about halfway down all of my nails. I always looks pretty crappy before cleanup and top coat, so I cleaned up the polish that got on my skin with a q-tip and then added a nice thick coat of Seche Vite!

Purple! +An Update

Hey guys! Sorry I haven't posted in a while, my computer broke. While my computer is wing fixed I'll update from my phone.

This is a random Forever 21 color and I have no idea what it's called, but it does glow under a black light. I wish I had a black light so I could take an awesome picture of that. The glitter is Maleficent's Magic from Charm Your Nails, it has a green duo chrome/shimmer with green, black , and light purple glitters.

Fall Trends: Metallic

     I'm sure that if you're like me and read magazines and pay attention to trends you would have sen how huge the metallic trend is this year. This design was inspired by a pair of shoes that I saw in a magazine that had a gold metallic toe.

     I didn't want to do a metallic tip on my nails, so I did a fat gold stripe down the middle. This is really just the most simple nail art there is. The green is an Essie color that I got from Ross it doesn't have a name (Just did a quick search and found out that this color is called Sew Psyched), unfortunately, and the gold is ULTA brand called High Roller. I did this design by doing two coats of the green and letting it dry for a few minutes and taking the gold and just doing a stripe down the middle of all of my nails.

   

Silver Leaf

     
      A leaf gradient! I haven't done one of these in a while! This time I used the silver leaf that I have instead of the normal gold that I use. I just used the imitation silver leaf foil that I got from dollarnailart.com. They call it "Foil Nugget Silver" But it's really just faux thin foil leaf. I'm pretty sure you could find it at any craft store. The blue that I used for this is Essence Colour & Go Walk On Air.

Black Cat Lacquer "The Skinner"

     This is "The Skinner" from Black Cat Lacquer. I have been on an indie polish kick this month, and when I saw this on etsy I had to have it. I really think it was the description that sold me "Part of our Darkly Dreaming collection, The Skinner is made to look like the bleeding flesh of his victims." Haha I like weird things...

    Anyway, This nail polish is a red micro glitter in a nude/light pink base. I have nothing like this and I've never seen anything like this either. That could be a reason why I loved it so much. The formula of this is perfect and I only needed two coats for it to be completely opaque, and this went on surprisingly smooth for a nail polish with glitter.

   I already have soo many Halloween nail ideas for this planned in my head... is it Halloween time yet? haha

    And any other Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire fans think of House Bolton...I really feel like this would be their official nail polish.

    If i had to grade this, I'd give it an A+ I love love love it! Here are some pictures!

This nail polish was purchased with my own money and all opinions are mine.

Zoya Frida Disappointment

    Frida is one of the colors that I got when Zoya was having their back to school BOGO sale. I was really excited to get this because I've never had a real jelly before that wasn't some glitter with a jelly base. This was a real jelly, no glitter, just color.

   So, I finally got around to using this and it took about 4 coats. Yes, 4, but I did them very thin so I wouldn't get bubbles. I did added a jelly sandwich accent nail with a new indie that I got from etsy called Mal-eficent's Magic from Charm Your Nails. Unfortunately doing the thin coats didn't work. The next day this mani was a bubbly mess. I was so disappointed. And look at the tips! what's up with that?

    I think next time I'll start with a regular blue and then use Frida as some sort of top coat. I'm still really disappointed. :(

Here is  Mal-eficent's Magic from Charm Your Nails

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...