Pink glitter gradient

I recently went to Ulta with my mom and picked up some amazing new colors. Two of the colors were a baby pink, "Gie Gie" by Zoya, ...

I recently went to Ulta with my mom and picked up some amazing new colors. Two of the colors were a baby pink, "Gie Gie" by Zoya, and a pink and silver glitter, "You Pink Too Much" by Opi. You can guess what this means. That's right, glitter gradient time!

I was messing around with some different clean up techniques so these are not as neat as my usual standard. I kept trying to get them better but I just got too tired and left it as is. I did put white underneath the polish because the pink was a bit transparent without it. Overall I love the combo I just don't think my execution was as good as I would have liked. What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments :)

Update: I decided to paint my left hand without the white underneath because I got lazy. I have decided that I prefer the pink without the white. It is less opaque but the pink itself is prettier this way. I will try to get a shot of it later to put up here. Please keep in mind, the clean up was even shoddier on my left hand. It was like 3 in the morning and I decided I wanted to sleep haha so please be nice ;)

The pink is more a true baby pink without the white underneath. I feel like the pink just feels a bit cheaper looking with the white is the best way to explain it. It just doesn't look quite right. This picture isn't really showing what I wanted it to. You would have to try the polish out yourself to see what I'm talking about. Its a very slight yet important difference

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I recently went to Ulta with my mom and picked up some amazing new colors. Two of the colors were a baby pink, "Gie Gie" by Zoya, and a pink and silver glitter, "You Pink Too Much" by Opi. You can guess what this means. That's right, glitter gradient time!

I was messing around with some different clean up techniques so these are not as neat as my usual standard. I kept trying to get them better but I just got too tired and left it as is. I did put white underneath the polish because the pink was a bit transparent without it. Overall I love the combo I just don't think my execution was as good as I would have liked. What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments :)

Update: I decided to paint my left hand without the white underneath because I got lazy. I have decided that I prefer the pink without the white. It is less opaque but the pink itself is prettier this way. I will try to get a shot of it later to put up here. Please keep in mind, the clean up was even shoddier on my left hand. It was like 3 in the morning and I decided I wanted to sleep haha so please be nice ;)

The pink is more a true baby pink without the white underneath. I feel like the pink just feels a bit cheaper looking with the white is the best way to explain it. It just doesn't look quite right. This picture isn't really showing what I wanted it to. You would have to try the polish out yourself to see what I'm talking about. Its a very slight yet important difference

Strawberry nails

Spring is in the air, and I decided to jump on the bandwagon and do some fun spring like nails! I saw some strawberry nails on Pinterest  an...

Spring is in the air, and I decided to jump on the bandwagon and do some fun spring like nails! I saw some strawberry nails on Pinterest  and just had to give them a shot. Here is the final result:

Please excuse the messy red everywhere! I ran out of time to finish clean up on these. I really like how they turned out but they got smudged before the top coat was fully dry. I tried to fix it which is why it looks a little blobby on the tips of a couple nails. Here is what they looked like before the smudge: 

A bit messy to look at, but the nails were blob free when that picture was taken. Sometimes I'm a bit messy with the polish because I like it to go all the way to the edges. With good cleanup anyone can have flawless looking edges. Warning: it takes a lot of practice. I honestly could still use a lot of improvement in clean up.

And here is a little bonus ladybug:

This little guy landed on my hand and went directly for my finger. He actually stayed there for a bit so I was able to take this picture. I guess my work was good enough to momentarily confuse him :]

Well that's all for this post. Thanks everyone for reading!

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Spring is in the air, and I decided to jump on the bandwagon and do some fun spring like nails! I saw some strawberry nails on Pinterest  and just had to give them a shot. Here is the final result:

Please excuse the messy red everywhere! I ran out of time to finish clean up on these. I really like how they turned out but they got smudged before the top coat was fully dry. I tried to fix it which is why it looks a little blobby on the tips of a couple nails. Here is what they looked like before the smudge: 

A bit messy to look at, but the nails were blob free when that picture was taken. Sometimes I'm a bit messy with the polish because I like it to go all the way to the edges. With good cleanup anyone can have flawless looking edges. Warning: it takes a lot of practice. I honestly could still use a lot of improvement in clean up.

And here is a little bonus ladybug:

This little guy landed on my hand and went directly for my finger. He actually stayed there for a bit so I was able to take this picture. I guess my work was good enough to momentarily confuse him :]

Well that's all for this post. Thanks everyone for reading!

First post!

Hey everyone! I thought I would just make a quick post to let you all know a little about myself and this blog. I have been doing my nails ...

Hey everyone! I thought I would just make a quick post to let you all know a little about myself and this blog. I have been doing my nails for almost a year now. I did my nails a lot with my mom as a kid, even got my first stamping kit back when konad first introduced the idea from a kiosk at the mall, but stopped entirely for many years. I was going through Instagram one day when I came across user @amkuch15. I saw her collection of nail polishes and got so jealous. Then I saw her galaxy nails and just had to try them. I quickly got on amazon and ordered myself the needed supplies. They would take awhile to get here though, so I decided to try splatter nails. This was only the beginning of my addiction. I have since done glitter gradients, stripes, dots, pokéballs, rainbows, and so much more. Eventually I'll try to get around to posting some of them but my documentation of past stuff will be a bit sketch.

My current polish collection is now upwards of 100; although I am unsure of an exact number since it has been many moons since my last counting :P (I used that phrase earlier and just couldn't resist using it here. It just makes me feel like I've traveled back in time). Some of you might see that as a lot of polishes, where as others will think I'm just getting started. Wherever you are on the scale I hope you enjoy my work! I have many main stream polishes like Zoya, China Glaze, and such, but have also started to delve into the world of indies as well. So far I am obsessed with Emily de Molly. I think I have around 10 of her polishes, including the highly coveted Cosmic Forces.

I don't know how to classify my work. Dotting tools are my best friend and I'm getting better at brush work. I still need to delve into the world of stripping tape, although I've had some since the beginning. My stuff is not those extreme detail works you see where someone has recreated Ariel's face in perfect detail on their nails. I like cute things. Or things that perhaps look complex but once you understand the tools used can actually be quite simple. I like my work to be something that hopefully anyone can pick up and do. YouTube user Cutepolish was another big inspiration to me when I first started out.

Last, but certainly not least, I would like to thank everyone who has encouraged my work! To my Mom who keeps taking me to ulta to pick out new things and is always the first one to compliment and encourage everything I do. To my best friend, JJ, who is probably tired of looking at my nails, but still manages to take an interest in every mani I do. To reddit for getting me even more thoroughly addicted and Instagram for starting the addiction. Again to @amkuch15 that started all this for me. Seriously you should check her out! To everyone who said I seriously need to start a blog. Well guess what?! I did it! Haha. Finally to everyone who has been so nice to me and has oohed and awed over my nails, I thank each and every one of you! :)

This ended up being a smidge longer than I meant it to be but I guess I just got excited for my first blog post. Again I hope you like my stuff and even if you don't, I wish you the best luck and much fun on your nail journey! :]

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Hey everyone! I thought I would just make a quick post to let you all know a little about myself and this blog. I have been doing my nails for almost a year now. I did my nails a lot with my mom as a kid, even got my first stamping kit back when konad first introduced the idea from a kiosk at the mall, but stopped entirely for many years. I was going through Instagram one day when I came across user @amkuch15. I saw her collection of nail polishes and got so jealous. Then I saw her galaxy nails and just had to try them. I quickly got on amazon and ordered myself the needed supplies. They would take awhile to get here though, so I decided to try splatter nails. This was only the beginning of my addiction. I have since done glitter gradients, stripes, dots, pokéballs, rainbows, and so much more. Eventually I'll try to get around to posting some of them but my documentation of past stuff will be a bit sketch.

My current polish collection is now upwards of 100; although I am unsure of an exact number since it has been many moons since my last counting :P (I used that phrase earlier and just couldn't resist using it here. It just makes me feel like I've traveled back in time). Some of you might see that as a lot of polishes, where as others will think I'm just getting started. Wherever you are on the scale I hope you enjoy my work! I have many main stream polishes like Zoya, China Glaze, and such, but have also started to delve into the world of indies as well. So far I am obsessed with Emily de Molly. I think I have around 10 of her polishes, including the highly coveted Cosmic Forces.

I don't know how to classify my work. Dotting tools are my best friend and I'm getting better at brush work. I still need to delve into the world of stripping tape, although I've had some since the beginning. My stuff is not those extreme detail works you see where someone has recreated Ariel's face in perfect detail on their nails. I like cute things. Or things that perhaps look complex but once you understand the tools used can actually be quite simple. I like my work to be something that hopefully anyone can pick up and do. YouTube user Cutepolish was another big inspiration to me when I first started out.

Last, but certainly not least, I would like to thank everyone who has encouraged my work! To my Mom who keeps taking me to ulta to pick out new things and is always the first one to compliment and encourage everything I do. To my best friend, JJ, who is probably tired of looking at my nails, but still manages to take an interest in every mani I do. To reddit for getting me even more thoroughly addicted and Instagram for starting the addiction. Again to @amkuch15 that started all this for me. Seriously you should check her out! To everyone who said I seriously need to start a blog. Well guess what?! I did it! Haha. Finally to everyone who has been so nice to me and has oohed and awed over my nails, I thank each and every one of you! :)

This ended up being a smidge longer than I meant it to be but I guess I just got excited for my first blog post. Again I hope you like my stuff and even if you don't, I wish you the best luck and much fun on your nail journey! :]