Reddit cakeday nails

I have been on reddit for one year as of today so of course I needed to do my nails to celebrate such a monumentous occasion. Everything you...

I have been on reddit for one year as of today so of course I needed to do my nails to celebrate such a monumentous occasion. Everything you shall see in a moment was freehanded.

I am so proud of my little reddit alien :] I may have accidentally done the colors backwards on the upvote and downvote nails and then had to go over them with the other color. This is why the orange upvote looks a but thick. It is a thinner polish and took a bit more to cover up the blue. I mean, I did it on purpose to make the upvote stand out and thus encourage being given upvotes. Currently I am in class so I can't remember all colors so I will update later with all the names. The white is Sally Hansen "White On." The blue is also a Sally Hansen color. The orange is by Ice. Finally, the nude is Orly "Sheer Nude" and the black is China Glaze "Black Diamond." As always, I got lazy on my left hand. Here is my shortcut:

Just a nice simple solid mani with alternating reddit colors. The Formula on the blue is amazing! The brush allows you to get the perfect brush stroke so you don't have to clean up rough edges. The orange brush wasn't quite as amazing but the formula of the polish itself was one that was easy cleanup friendly. What are some of you favorite brands of polishes for their brushes?

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I have been on reddit for one year as of today so of course I needed to do my nails to celebrate such a monumentous occasion. Everything you shall see in a moment was freehanded.

I am so proud of my little reddit alien :] I may have accidentally done the colors backwards on the upvote and downvote nails and then had to go over them with the other color. This is why the orange upvote looks a but thick. It is a thinner polish and took a bit more to cover up the blue. I mean, I did it on purpose to make the upvote stand out and thus encourage being given upvotes. Currently I am in class so I can't remember all colors so I will update later with all the names. The white is Sally Hansen "White On." The blue is also a Sally Hansen color. The orange is by Ice. Finally, the nude is Orly "Sheer Nude" and the black is China Glaze "Black Diamond." As always, I got lazy on my left hand. Here is my shortcut:

Just a nice simple solid mani with alternating reddit colors. The Formula on the blue is amazing! The brush allows you to get the perfect brush stroke so you don't have to clean up rough edges. The orange brush wasn't quite as amazing but the formula of the polish itself was one that was easy cleanup friendly. What are some of you favorite brands of polishes for their brushes?

Nickelodeon slime time with my first EPs

This is going to be a quick post but I want to show everyone my latest mani. I ordered my first EPs and they came in on Saturday so I just h...

This is going to be a quick post but I want to show everyone my latest mani. I ordered my first EPs and they came in on Saturday so I just had to do something with the two of them. The colors reminded me a bit of the purple and green from Nickelodeon slime time so I did a paint drip nail art design kind of like slime. Without further ado, here are my nails:

The green is Enchanted Polish "March 2014" and the purple is "April 2014". The green is just to die for in the sunlight, where as the purple has more of a soft stunning effect.  The colors only took two coats apiece and were a bit tricky to work with on the dripping effect because they actually dry pretty quickly. I would be interested in seeing if these stamp well. A project for another day.Any who, I love them both so very much and am happy to add them to my ever growing collection of polishes. Thoughts?

Edit: I wanted to show a shot of them under more normal lighting as well. 

Still quite beautiful if you ask me :)

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This is going to be a quick post but I want to show everyone my latest mani. I ordered my first EPs and they came in on Saturday so I just had to do something with the two of them. The colors reminded me a bit of the purple and green from Nickelodeon slime time so I did a paint drip nail art design kind of like slime. Without further ado, here are my nails:

The green is Enchanted Polish "March 2014" and the purple is "April 2014". The green is just to die for in the sunlight, where as the purple has more of a soft stunning effect.  The colors only took two coats apiece and were a bit tricky to work with on the dripping effect because they actually dry pretty quickly. I would be interested in seeing if these stamp well. A project for another day.Any who, I love them both so very much and am happy to add them to my ever growing collection of polishes. Thoughts?

Edit: I wanted to show a shot of them under more normal lighting as well. 

Still quite beautiful if you ask me :)

I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee

I've been seeing a lot of people lately do every nail a different spring like color. Some people leave it glossy while others gave it a ...

I've been seeing a lot of people lately do every nail a different spring like color. Some people leave it glossy while others gave it a matte finish. I decided to do something similar, but to add a bumblebee. Here is the result:

I used a nail art pen by Sally Hansen to do the trail of the bumblebee; where the actual bee was done with a brush and China Glaze "Black Diamond." I like the pen but the point is too blunt to do any fine detail work. In some places I had to go over the lines twice to get the strong color I wanted. The yellow is China Glaze "Solar Power." The purple is Essence "oh my glitter." The blue is Essence "let's get lost." The green is Essence " l.o.l." Finally, the pink is Zoya "Gie Gie." The blue and purple Essences were all two coaters. The yellow purple and pink took three coats. The yellow needed it to get rid of streaks and the purple and pink needed it to be more opaque. I also put a couple layers of one of my nude colors on underneath the more translucent colors in hopes of making them opaque. It seemed to do the trick. I like the manj , but something about it isn't quite right. I'm not sure what is bothering me but I'll probably ended up redoing them this weekend. What spring manis have you attempted or are on your list of need to try?

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I've been seeing a lot of people lately do every nail a different spring like color. Some people leave it glossy while others gave it a matte finish. I decided to do something similar, but to add a bumblebee. Here is the result:

I used a nail art pen by Sally Hansen to do the trail of the bumblebee; where the actual bee was done with a brush and China Glaze "Black Diamond." I like the pen but the point is too blunt to do any fine detail work. In some places I had to go over the lines twice to get the strong color I wanted. The yellow is China Glaze "Solar Power." The purple is Essence "oh my glitter." The blue is Essence "let's get lost." The green is Essence " l.o.l." Finally, the pink is Zoya "Gie Gie." The blue and purple Essences were all two coaters. The yellow purple and pink took three coats. The yellow needed it to get rid of streaks and the purple and pink needed it to be more opaque. I also put a couple layers of one of my nude colors on underneath the more translucent colors in hopes of making them opaque. It seemed to do the trick. I like the manj , but something about it isn't quite right. I'm not sure what is bothering me but I'll probably ended up redoing them this weekend. What spring manis have you attempted or are on your list of need to try?

Creamsicle nails

I recently got a new orange, Sally Hansen Extreme Wear "Sun Kissed," that reminded me so much of creamsicles that I just had to do...

I recently got a new orange, Sally Hansen Extreme Wear "Sun Kissed," that reminded me so much of creamsicles that I just had to do a creamsicle esque mani.

The white is Sally Hansen Extreme Wear "White On." Although I love how this turned out, I would not recommend these colors for sponging gradient. They just don't really mix when put onto the sponge. The effect looks great here, but for most gradient manis, it would not work. I also like to sometimes do something different on my left hand. In this case I was tired and didn't want to take the time to do a mani that requires so much cleanup on the left hand. Here is what I did instead:

A simple nude color, Orly "Sheer Nude," with the same colors used for some dots along the side. Not perfect but I do enjoy this style. I will definitely revisit it again at a later time. The nude is not entirely opaque. I did three coats and decided to call it good. Even though it is slightly see through, in most lighting it does look solid.

So what do you guys think? Do they remind you of yummy Popsicles? Do you always match your hands or do you like to mix things up a bit like I did here? Let me know your thoughts in the comments :)

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I recently got a new orange, Sally Hansen Extreme Wear "Sun Kissed," that reminded me so much of creamsicles that I just had to do a creamsicle esque mani.

The white is Sally Hansen Extreme Wear "White On." Although I love how this turned out, I would not recommend these colors for sponging gradient. They just don't really mix when put onto the sponge. The effect looks great here, but for most gradient manis, it would not work. I also like to sometimes do something different on my left hand. In this case I was tired and didn't want to take the time to do a mani that requires so much cleanup on the left hand. Here is what I did instead:

A simple nude color, Orly "Sheer Nude," with the same colors used for some dots along the side. Not perfect but I do enjoy this style. I will definitely revisit it again at a later time. The nude is not entirely opaque. I did three coats and decided to call it good. Even though it is slightly see through, in most lighting it does look solid.

So what do you guys think? Do they remind you of yummy Popsicles? Do you always match your hands or do you like to mix things up a bit like I did here? Let me know your thoughts in the comments :)

Blue nails for Autism awareness

This month is autism awareness month and I wanted to do my nails to show some support. Honestly I'll probably do a few of these this mon...

This month is autism awareness month and I wanted to do my nails to show some support. Honestly I'll probably do a few of these this month since I have a few close people in my life with autism and so the subject is important to me. For more info on autism please check out this website. Any who, here are my nails:

The polish is Emily de Molly "Dark Depths." Emily de Molly is one of my favorite indies! This glitter, albeit hard to capture, is a great example of why I love her stuff. This shot was taken in the shade.

Here is a macro shot. I don't have the proper equipment to take a true macro shot yet but it is on my wish list. Fro now here is me getting my phone as close to my thumb as possible and still getting it to focus haha.

Each angle was giving me different shots of glitter and the blue was turning out differently so I just kept snapping. This one was direct sunlight. It made the blue look really deep and dark, just like the name!

Last shot, I swear. You can see how much glitter is on my nails. It's going to be a pain to get out later but it's worth it while I'm wearing it. As you can see in this shot, the base color is a deep blue. The glitters are varying shades or dark blue as well as some more turquoise esque glitter to add some lighter tones. It truly does remind me of the deep depths of the ocean. I would like to try this polish over a light blue base to see if I could get this jelly glitter polish to stand out more. Final thoughts: Emily we Molly has created another beautiful polish. What do you guys think? What polishes of hers do you have?

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This month is autism awareness month and I wanted to do my nails to show some support. Honestly I'll probably do a few of these this month since I have a few close people in my life with autism and so the subject is important to me. For more info on autism please check out this website. Any who, here are my nails:

The polish is Emily de Molly "Dark Depths." Emily de Molly is one of my favorite indies! This glitter, albeit hard to capture, is a great example of why I love her stuff. This shot was taken in the shade.

Here is a macro shot. I don't have the proper equipment to take a true macro shot yet but it is on my wish list. Fro now here is me getting my phone as close to my thumb as possible and still getting it to focus haha.

Each angle was giving me different shots of glitter and the blue was turning out differently so I just kept snapping. This one was direct sunlight. It made the blue look really deep and dark, just like the name!

Last shot, I swear. You can see how much glitter is on my nails. It's going to be a pain to get out later but it's worth it while I'm wearing it. As you can see in this shot, the base color is a deep blue. The glitters are varying shades or dark blue as well as some more turquoise esque glitter to add some lighter tones. It truly does remind me of the deep depths of the ocean. I would like to try this polish over a light blue base to see if I could get this jelly glitter polish to stand out more. Final thoughts: Emily we Molly has created another beautiful polish. What do you guys think? What polishes of hers do you have?