The Picnic Nails Won!!!

Thanks everyone for voting!!!

The Balloon nails had 2 votes, the Picnic nails had 10 votes, and there was 1 vote for alternating.

Just a warning, my nails are now short :( You can see in the pictures that the ring finger nail is even shorter than the rest because that is the one that I broke. I couldn't bring myself to cut down the rest of my nails that short but it shouldn't take too long for the lengths to even out since my nails grow pretty fast. I am still getting used to the short nails and I don't really like them yet. It is kind of like when you get a whole bunch of hair cut off and you don't really like it until like a week later when you get used to it.

On to the Picnic theme... The picnic at work was lots of fun and I ate way too much. Since my nails are shorter I decided to put less of the fiilmo clay fruit pieces on my nails. I decided to just go with watermelon because I was too lazy to cut any of the other pieces.

For this mani I used WnW French White Creme as the base. Then I painted on the lines vertically and horizontally using a light pink art deco polish. Once those were dry I used a small brush and a red art deco polish to paint the red parts of the picnic pattern. Then Using two different sized dotting tools and Sinful Colors Black on Black, I dotted on the ants bodies. I used a striping brush to paint on the legs and antennas. I also added some silver details to the ants to make them look more 3d. I stuck the watermelon pieces on and coated the whole thing with SV which unfortunately bubbled on this design.

My giveaway will be ending at midnight tonight and I will be announcing the winner tomorrow so don't forget to enter!!!

Sticking with the Butterfly Mani

I loved my last butterfly mani so much that I wanted to stick with the butterfly theme. I also really wanted a chance to use my new brushes. I had seen a stamped butterfly somewhere out there that had been colored in with a different color and I remember thinking that it looked really pretty. I wasn't going to be happy with just one butterfly though so I did a whole bunch... 30 to be exact. After doing the butterflies I also decided to add some pink flowers. This design makes me think of a coloring book :)

For this mani I used two coats of WnW French White Creme. I stamped the designs using WnW Black Creme. The designs are from MASH set M20 and M60 as well as from Fauxnad plate B21. I then used the four art deco polishes pictured above to fill in the designs using my smallest nail brush. I topped the whole thing with SV as usual. 

My first patchwork mani!!

This is an old mani but I wanted to share it with you all.
I have seen so many patchwork manis that I love and I was dying to try it! I picked out 3 colors that I wanted to use. I picked three colors that are similar because I wanted to create a gradient type of patchwork. The three colors that I used are e.l.f. Desert Haze which is the lightest color, then e.l.f. Mod Mauve which is the middle color and then Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Gray Area for the tips. To create a patchwork mani I first painted on the lightest color on the whole nail. Then once that dried I used my tape and taped off the part of my nail near my cuticle diagonally. I then painted on the next color, removed the tape and repeated for the next color... have I confused you yet? When it was all dry I added lines of glitter with an Art Deco glitter polish. This mani turned out to be pretty thick because parts of it had 3 layers of polish. Next time I do a patchwork I will use thin layers of polish to keep it from getting so thick.

Here are the pictures:

Feel free to ask any questions about this mani or any other mani, I will be happy to answer your questions.
Thanks for visiting!

First Post!

This is my very first post on my blog! I am new to blogging so bear with me. I have a lot of catching up to do since all of my manis have been posted on Facebook until now. I will try to post a mani everyday for a while so I can catch up. After that I will post a new mani every 2-3 days since that is how often I do my nails.

This was my St. Patty's Day mani! 

For this mani I used Sinful Colors San Francisco as the base, I then used Bundle Monster plate BM03 to stamp the shamrocks on my fingers and Fauxnad plate B45 to stamp the thumb. I stamped the shamrocks in Pure Ice Fast Lane and white Art Deco. I then used my dotting tool to dot in gold glitter Art Deco. I like using the Art Deco colors to stamp because they are thick but the only problem is that they show through. The white on my thumb looks more like a light green. I guess I should just suck it up and buy the konad polish in white. Anyone have any better suggestions for a white polish for stamping?