Christmas Glitter

Merry Christmas!!!

This week's mani is SUPER easy!! No tools required, just two kinds of nail polish. This look was perfect for the Christmas holiday and the fact that it was so simple was even better!

I started off with a base coat of OPI Start to Finish Formaldehyde Free formula. I then followed with two coats of OPI Alpine Snow. Then I did one coat of Chirality Blixem on top. Once dry, I sealed it off with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

So easy right?! It is such a simple way to add a little something more to a manicure. The placing of the larger pieces of glitter can be done by patting the brush on the nail. Since it's clear, it won't look bad anyway, so just be careful not to lay it on too thick. I hope you are having a fabulous holiday season! See you next time!! 

Gift Wrap

Hey there!!

As always, I am super excited to share with you another great nail art tutorial! This week I was inspired by my son's birthday and the Christmas season. I wanted to create a nail look that reminded me of gift wrap. Working with the nail colors that I chose was a little difficult since I was a metallic nail polish as the base color, but it worked out in the end. Well, let's get into it!

I started with a base coat of OPI Start to Finish Formaldehyde Free formula. I then did two coats of Julep Savoy. Once it was SUPER dry, I used nail striping tape to form a three lined pattern, two going horizontally, starting just under the tip of the nail, one piece of tape under the other and then the third piece of tape going through the other two pieces vertically being placed on either the far left or far right side of the nail, depending on which hand I was painting. On my left hand the third piece of tape was placed on the far right side and on my right hand it was placed on the far left. I then painted over the tape with Julep Bette and removed the tape right after painting. Once completely dry, I sealed it off with INM Out the Door fast drying top coat.

Julep Savoy

Striping tape over Julep Savoy

Julep Bette over striping tape

Remove tape and voila!

Finished!

The hardest part about this manicure was knowing when the base color was dry enough so that when I put the tape on top and remove it, it wouldn't lift it up. If I would have used a regular matte polish I could have done it faster, but since it was a metallic and that formula takes longer for it to be solid dry and not budge, it took a little more time. So that's my biggest piece of advice if you are going to use a metallic color like I did for the base, but really you can use whatever color you like. Other than that I thought this was a pretty easy mani. I loved the end result :) See you next time!

Snow

Happy Thursday everyone!!

Don't know about you, but the holiday season gets me in the mood for snow. Around here the weather has been really nice and it hasn't snowed much at all. So when I saw a blue polish in the stash that my friend sent me last week, I knew I had to try a "snow" look. Now please forgive me, I was naughty this time and I did not document with step by step photos, so I will do my very best describing the process of this mani.

I started off as always with a base coat of OPI Start to Finish Formaldehyde Free formula. I then did two coats of Julep Margaret. Once completely dry, I used a small dotting tool and OPI Alpine Snow and covered the tip of the nail in small dots, on top of each other, so as to make a french tip. I then proceeded to make more dots going towards the base of the nail and spacing them out further apart and putting less of them as I got to the base. So basically the closer you get to the tip of the nail, the more dots you'll have and the closer together they will be. The farther away you go from the tip, the fewer amount of dots and the further away the dots will be spaced. Once completely dry, I sealed it off with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Finished!

The dots dry pretty fast, but I would still wait a good 10-15 minutes before doing the top coat. This look was really fun. Hope you enjoy! See you next time! :)

Clouds (Staircases)

Hello to you on this lovely Thursday!

This past week, a friend of mine decided to give me a TON of nail polish that she no longer had use for. I was so excited to have some new colors!! So of course I used one of those colors in the manicure I am sharing with you today. If you are all about easy and simple nail art, this one is for YOU!

I started off with a base coat of OPI Start to Finish Formaldehyde Free Formula. I then did one coat of Julep Charlotte. Once dry, starting at just below the base of the nail, on the far right side, I made one vertical line. I then made another line right next to it, starting just below where I had made the previous line and finished with the third line just below that in Orly Liquid Vinyl. Once dry I sealed it with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Julep Charlotte

One line of Orly Liquid Vinyl 

Second line of Orly Liquid Vinyl 

Third line of Orly Liquid Vinyl

Finished!

I was surprised how much I loved this really simple look. You could do another row of clouds on top of the first one in another color on just one nail as an accent or on all of them. Well, hope you enjoyed this mani and I will see you next time!