Shake your Tail Feather

Trying out some feather nail art!

P.S excuse the terrible cuticles! :)

Nails of the day!

Some simple rainbow nails with a touch of gold!

Samples!

Some samples I have been working on!

p.s my birthday is coming up soon, so hopefully I will get a better camera to take pictures with! 

First attempt: Splatter

This is my very first attempt at a technique I have been in love with for sooo long!! I am actually really impressed with how it went, I thought it would be a very messy disaster! However, I love the colors, I love the brightness, and it only took me maybe 10 minutes to do! I got my inspiration from both Kayla Shevonne as well as Sandra from My World 

Nails of the week!!

Ive been super busy the last few weeks and I have been neglecting my nails and blog, so I am going to try something a bit different!! I am going to set a goal for myself, one set of nails a week!! So this weeks nails are just a simple Rainbow tipped skittles! I actually really love this style because it is so simple yet so fun! I was going to add a few polka dots, or maybe an additional color but I decided against it, what do you think?! 

Trying to fill my time!

So while I am unable to paint my own nails, Ive decided to just fool around (to fill the void in my life..) and do some simple nail art on artificial nails! :)

This afternoon I decided to try some simple cherry blossoms, as well as a New York Yankees design dedicated to my boyfriend, the Yankees biggest fan. haha

For The Cherry Blossoms I used:

2 Sally Girl polishes, a pale purple & pale green(base)

L.A. Colors - Energy Source

L.A. Colors Art Deco - Black

Joe - Base & Top Coat

For The Yankees Design I used:

L.A. Colors - Energy Source

L.A. Colors - Wired

L.A. Colors Art Deco - Red

L.A. Girl - Sapphire

Quick Post - Black Shatter

My current nails, you cant tell in the picture how vibrant the blue is, but it is BRIGHT!

I love, love love 

O.P.I -Black shatter, it adds so much more life and such a great texture to your nails! Coming out in may OPI will release another line of shatter, in blues! Can not wait! Stay tuned for more updates!

Kayla Shevonne's MEGA 500 Follower Giveaway!

I have been following this girl for quite some time now, on both her blog and bluekaffee. Her techniques, reviews, artistic ability and just general knowledge about nail art is amazing! 

She has recently started a giveaway, jam packed with awesome polishes!  

All you need to do to enter is click the following link and follow the 3 simple steps! 

http://kaylashevonnebeauty.blogspot.com/2011/04/mega-500-follower-giveaway.html  

Good luck to everyone and Congrats to Kayla on her 500+ followers!

Leopard Print Nails

Bright Neon Leopard Print Nails!

- Base colors are the unnamed sally girl sample size polishes

- Pink Print is China Glaze 108 Degrees 
-Black is Revlon Black Star

My Current Polish Collection

My collection is still very small, but I am slowly building! as of right now I have about 30 bottles of polish. Ranging  from O.P.I, Sally Girl, China Glaze, Sally Hansen, L.A Colors and more!

After taking the picture, I realized I forgot to include my new O.P.I - Black Shatter

Newspaper Nail Art

These are my newspaper inspired nails! They are a pretty cool look but I found the process to be a bit lengthy   and at times very messy. Im going to Included a step my step guide on how to acheive this look!

Things you will need:

• Light colored base coat
• Clear coat
• Clippings from a newspaper (I found text that was printed from my printer at home, on your basic white paper works better than newspaper. Clippings big enough to overlap your finger nail)
• Small bowl of alcohol (vodka works best in my opinion, only enough to dip your nail completely in)

Step by Step:

1. Start by applying your base coat to all 10 nails and let it dry completely! 
2. Once your polish is dry, dip your nail into the alcohol for 30-45 seconds
3. As soon as you remove your finger from the alcohol, wrap the paper clipping around your nail, text on the nail of course! Apply pressure to the clipping for about 30-45 seconds, then slowly peel it off *You may have to do this more than once, it does not always take on your first try!* 
4. After repeating steps 2 and 3 on all nails, apply a clear coat to seal it all in so that the print does not rub off!

Hope you guys enjoy this long but fun nail tutorial! If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask!

Under The Sea Inspired Nails

This was my entry for a monthly competition on www.bluekaffee.com 

The theme was under the sea so I decided to go with various cartoon like art along with a simple blue gradient! 

The one on the right wasn't actually part of this set but fell into my under the sea category! 

This Weeks Nails!

Simple Free Hand Angles

P.S Just realized it looks like I'm holding something completely different than what I actually am! haha its a WII remote people!