Pink Roses and Gradient

I fail again,  I know. I am getting ready to take a vacation here starting tomorrow.  I fly out to Georgia to visit my sister on Thursday,  and I'm so incredibly excited.  I haven't had a real vacation in forever,  so this is pretty huge for me.

Did anyone do anything fun this weekend?  We had a group trail ride, called Cinco de Biko... it basically was a bar crawl on bicycles.  It was awesome.


Anyways,  I have an appointment on Tuesday to get gel nails because I don't want to worry about polish and stuff on vaykay. The gal that I've made the appointment with also does nail art, which I of course have to have. Well,  I have to have something super cool for her to see, right?

I recently put on my wish list neon polishes because I strangely didn't have many. So, I've been dying to use them.

I started with a base of My Vampire is Buff from OPI, and then sponged on a gradient of two tones of hot pink. I purchased a holo topcoat, I'm Drinking Stars by Literary Lacquer,  not too long ago, so I put that on to give the gradient a little sparkle.

My roses are completely free handed on, using the two pinks in the gradient.

I love how sweet this looks while still looking totally rad with the neon fade. Plus that holo just pops in the sunlight.

Hope you like this, and I hope my nail tech is impressed, ha.

And I know I post here sporadically,  but I will for sure be MIA until I get back. I will probably do a quick post of what the nail tech did for me (I'm thinking about mosaic) but we'll see...

Thanks for reading,  and miss me while I'm gone!! =)
April

S Nail Polishes Post

Hey there! Look at me squeezing in a post on the first week!

I've mentioned it before,  but I'm in a polish group that on Mondays we go through the alphabet and everyone posts a mani with the letter of the week. The week was the letter S, so I of course had to go overboard again and use three different S polishes.

I started with a white base and then sponged on a gradient of Essie's Sunday Funday and China Glaze Sunshine Pop. The accent nail is Orly Starburst. I think I have an issue with circle glitter.  The issue is that I'm OBSESSED!!! Haha.

I really liked this. I was inspired by a post on Instagram by Sloteezy, but her gradient was much brighter, and more pink fading into the yellow. Since I didn't have any hot pink polishes that started with S, I had to go with the red / coral color that Sunday Funday is. She didn't do an accent nail,  but having all 5 fingers match really drives me crazy.

I thought that after a day of wearing this that it looked like candy corn, lol. So I will most likely revisit this look in the fall.  But it definitely was warmer and this girl needs some sunshine.  I think I'm turning translucent.


That's all for today! Have a wonderful day!
April

Rainbow Stampers!

It's Friday!  Although that means the first of the month is next week, which makes a stressy April.


I saw this technique of stamping somewhere on Instagram I think. Instead of painting 2 or 3 colors on the sponge and fade them one into the other, you put more colors on there and it makes a swirly, rainbow tie dye thing going on.

I used 6 colors here, and all bright ones. Over top I stamped using my Pueen plates and finished it off with a sparkly holo glitter top coat, which it was cloudy and you can't see the awesomeness of the sparkles.  =(

I liked this, it was fun, but it was too much going on. I always dislike it when I stamp or do all my nails the same. I don't know why I haven't learned from that! Regardless,  it was springy and sunshiney.

Happy Friday and have a great weekend!
April

Latte Nails

Good morning everyone!

I am LOVING this week! Gotta love months that have an extra week in them, so I have a free week without meetings and events. I love it. And bonus for the two of you that read this, you get more posts, lol.

Here's a look that I put together and I can't recall why I chose this color combination.  I wanted to use the new circle glitter polish that I got, and then I needed to pair it with something so I went with a tan to nude to white gradient. I think it looks like a latte with foam on top!

The accent nail is a base of Essie Turquoise and Caicos, topped with this glitter. I tried to Google this polish and I've come up empty.  I've been told that the maker is Bear Polish, and the name of it is Absolem. If anyone knows more about this indie, please let me know because this girl loves some circle glitter! !!

The other nails are a gradient of Zoya Flynn, Taylor and OPI Alpine Snow.  I in finished them off with a light blue rhinestone because it seemed like too harsh of a contrast between the light and the blue.

Ps, how cute is my new midi ring?? I've been wanting one for a long time, and found a set that had this cutie in it. Here's the thing: my hands are so small that the dang rings come down too far!  #smallhandproblems.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day
April

Two Looks, One Post!

So I'm doing the March Nail Art Challenge.  Ha, I know. But there aren't any outings planned this month,  so I should make everything on time!

I posted this already on my Instagram,  so you might have seen this already if you follow me there. If you don't,  go here and give me a follow.   :)

Day 1 was Dotticure. I wanted to do a pattern with my dots, and so I did sort of a mosaic look to this. I was super excited to finally use my Catlin from Zoya that I ordered back during the 3 free sale. I do love purple polish.

Kind of bummed where my dots got wacky from when I top coated this. Oh well. So I goes the life of a dot.

Then for day 4 is gradient. I'm early on this because I double whammied this mani. Another polish group I am a part of goes through the alphabet for mani Mondays. Today is P. I had a ton of P polishes. I took them all out and sat in front of me. Shocker, most were pink or purple. So, being the over achiever that I am, I used 4 different P polishes. Boom!

Base was Pink Friday by OPI, then I did a vertical gradient using OPI'S Pamplona Purple and Planks A Lot. I cut zig zag pieces of scotch tape and did the gradient on my bare nail, and then topped it with Ciate's Pepperminty.

I actually really like both of these looks. I especially love the zig zag. I need to do more of these.

Hope your week goes well. Happy Monday!
April