Ocean Sunsets

Thank you for your patience! I am finally back at it and did a few quick ones this morning! I'm still wearing my Gelish Sunset Gradient and I decided to use that at my starting point. I'll be changing that soon to prepare for St. Patrick's Day this week!

I don't really have many pictures of this one to post because I just didn't like how they came out. Lots of shadows! It really has been awhile since I took pictures of my Nail Art in the sunshine!

That's all for today, I'll be back tomorrow with a few more pictures since by that time I'd gotten the hang of direct sunlight pictures!! Enjoy the last bit of the weekend!!

Pink Argyle!

Good Morning and a wonderful Friday Eve to you!! So I had previously joined pinterest, and one of the boards I created was of nail art I like and want to try out! Today's Nail Art is one that just love for it's simplicity and girly factor. I think I could have executed this one better, but I'm definitely not unhappy with the overall result and my execution will get better through repetition but you be the judge. I bring you Pink Argyle!

You will probably see this one again when I get it worked out so it looks much crisper and cleaner. The pink is OPI's "Pedal Faster Suzi" from the Holland Collection Mini Set. I'm not even going to mention how many coats it took to hide my sunset mani undernearth. I just love the overall look of this one. It's definitely the glitter accent and the jewels that give it the girly vibe that I fell in love with.

I may or may not have a post for you Friday, I'm starting a "fix-up" project on my work space and the initial portion of that requires that I move everything out to do what I need to do. So I might get that part completed today and everything back in and be able to do some more nail art, but then again, I may not get to the Nail Art. I will return as soon as humanly possible tho!!

Gradients on my mind

A Groovy Good Morning to everyone!! I know I talked about posting my "Hunger Games Mani" today but I did the Mani and after looking at the pictures, I'm just unhappy with how it came out. I'll be taking another shot at it really soon, so don't think I forgot about it. I mean, how can I? I have all those amazing polishes just calling my name.

I do however have a design for you today that includes one of the Hunger Games polishes, Stone Cold. I've been almost obsessed with doing gradients lately and I'm just letting that impulse run rampant since it's something I do well. Now, on to the pictures!

I originally stamped the flower on, but even with such a dark color, it came out very faint looking and the bottom 2/3 of the flower was barely visible. So, I just took a fine tipped brush and the actual polish color and darkened it. It doesn't show well in the photos, but I made a center dot from a gold holo polish by Color Club's Art Club. I really liked this color combo and I thought about this specific gradient when I was in Sally's buying the polish. I realized the silver foil I was looking to get for stamping would look awesome with it - that put it at the top of my "to-do-NOW" list.  It vaguely reminds me of the book cover for Hunger Games, at least as far as the color scheme goes. One more pictures because I really love the colors.

I love that colors are bold but not LOUD. I personally love to wear loud colors on my fingers but not everyone does, so I try to come up with designs that fall into that. What do you think? Is it bold but quietly so?

14 Days of Love - Day 13

Holy cow!! Can you believe that tomorrow is Valentine's day? I just realized that I haven't gotten anything for my fiance! Well, now we all know what I'll be doing this afternoon while my youngest daughter is in school!  In the meantime, I bring you today's Valentine's Day themed Nail Art.

Not very fancy, I admit. I'm was feeling like I had done a whole slew of ones that were just sooo busy, so I wanted something more relaxing and simple. Of course, I couldn't resist adding glitter to hearts, just because I had plenty and I love glitter!

My last mani will be in a similar style - but I went in a drastically different direction with it!! See you tomorrow and I hope you all rest well for the big day!!



14 Days of Love - Day 10!

Today's post is both late and is going to be short.

I did a Guest Post on glazedtalons's blog and I highly recommend that you cruise around and read.  Two of the three nail arts I did are valentine's day themed and I posted one of them yesterday as your sneak peek.

More Nail Art pix posted here tomorrow!!

14 Days of Love - Day 9

It's Thursday and as I mentioned yesterday, I did lock myself in my workspace all day and work on nail art. Most of that time was spent removing my old Gelish clear coats and applying a whole new manicure. This time I used a color, "Go Girl". I think of this shade as a "Breast Cancer Pink" and it's one of the reasons I like it. Yah, I know - I really do like pink and glitter. I am a not so secret girly girl.

I did the pictures for a guest post in Thalie's blog and today's love manicure is a sneak peak of that post.

I am definitely getting better at the freehand designs. It has helped tremendously to have a larger variety of art brushes to work with. I still have no figured out what in the world I would use those fan brushes for - but I'll either figure it out on my own - or I'll find the info in a tutorial. I have figured out how to do the kissey lips free-hand.  I have a stamp plate design, but I really don't like how it looks on the nail. One of the things I like about having a gel base color is that I can make corrections to any mistakes or just remove it all without having to completely start over from scratch.

That's all for today! I can't believe there's only five day left til Valentine's Day!! This is a short month to begin with, even during a leap year; it sure is going FAST.



14 Days of Love - Day 4

Yay! It's saturday! woohooo! Not that it ever means anything for us. We're not working for someone else today but we're defnitely working on projects here at home!  Speakong of projects here's today's Valentine's themed nails.

I did stripes and dots on my fingers with a stamped accent nail.  I'm completely in love with these colors for this theme.  I'll hopefully be spending some time this afternoon locked in my workspace making more fun mani's.  I took some of the money I recieved as a gift for Christmas and purchased some new nail art brushes.  I'd really like to take some time this afternoon and try some new things with those. I also still feel like I need to work on some of my techniques.  Who knows, maybe I'll get bold enough and do v-day theme water marble - I never know what I'm going to do until I get in there and do it!



14 Days of Love - Day 1

So, It's February 1st, and we all know what that means! Valentine's Day is just two weeks away! I decided I would post Valentine's themed nail art for the first two weeks to celebrate the Holiday.

I sat down to do this one but my older cat "Boo" wuz less than thrilled to come in second behind nail polish as you can see.

He was very unhelpful until I finally caved and gave him the attention he demaned. Once that was done, he was awesome company while I worked on today's nail art.

This is the first pictures I've posted using stamping plates! I've worn mani's with designs from my stamping plates but had never taken pictures of them. This seemed like a good time to start since I avoided them completely for the nail arts of the past month. I completely free handed the "french" part of this and it shows how long it's been since I've done that. lol

I hope you enjoyed today's nail arts and my adorable but angry kitty.

Getting Started!

I finally decided to start my own blog. I want to share the things going on in my life, the world of nails, and lots of other fun things. Of course, there'll b plenty of pictures and a few cross posts between here and my business blog.

I hope you enjoy reading as much as I know I enjoy writing.