Pyramid Print

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Can you believe it's the very last day of the year?! What a great year it has been!! I am so pumped to share with you another great manicure. For this look you will need a white, gold and silver polish and striping tape.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then painted my pinky fingernail with two coats of Orly Luxe. I used two coats of Sei Bella Stardust to paint my index fingernail. I painted my ring, middle and thumb fingernails with two coats of OPI Alpine Snow. Once my ring and middle fingernails were completely dry, I placed three pieces of striping tape diagonally across the nail going left and then another three going right and then three more pieces horizontally so that you can see triangle shapes formed once all the tape is in place. I painted over my ring fingernail with the striping tape in place with Sei Bella Stardust and I painted over my middle fingernail with Orly Luxe. I then carefully removed all of the striping tape which reveals the pyramid print design. Once that dried, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Orly Luxe, OPI Alpine Snow & Sei Bella Stardust

Striping Tape 

Orly Luxe over striping tape 

Tape removed

Finished!

Cool, right?! I really like this pattern! The only thing I had trouble with was getting some random fuzzies stuck on my nail when I took off my striping tape, which usually doesn't happen, but maybe it was just more noticeable because I used white polish. The placing of the tape is much easier when you do it in the order I did here. First the diagonal lines and then the horizontal lines. I tried doing it the other way and it was confusing. Well, I hope you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time! Happy New Years Eve!!

Candy Cane Accent

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Merry Christmas! I hope you are having a wonderful time with your families and friends. This very festive manicure will put you in the mood for Christmas! You will need a red, white and gold nail polish and striping tape.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did two coats of Sei Bella crushed berries on my pinky and index fingernails. I painted my middle nail finger with two coats of Julep Sienna. My ring fingernail was painted with two coats of OPI Alpine Snow. I followed the same pattern on my thumbnails as I did on my ring fingernails.

Once my ring fingernail was completely dry I placed two pieces of striping tape diagonally across the nail with a little space in between them. I then grabbed another two pieces of striping tape and placed them a little further away from the first two pieces of tape, so that it leaves a bigger space in between them. I did this three times. So, three groups of two pieces of tape placed diagonally and spaced apart so in the end you have three bigger spaces formed in between the thinner spaces. I painted the bigger spaces red with Sei Bella crushed berries and the thinner spaces with Julep sienna so that when I removed the striping tape it gave me thick and thin lines. The thin lines were gold and the thick lines were red, like you see on a candy cane. When it was all dry I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Sei Bella Crushed Berries, OPI Alpine Snow, Julep Sienna 

Striping Tape over OPI Alpine Snow

Julep Sienna & Sei Bella Crushed Berries in between tape

Striping tape removed

Finished!

Isn't that beautiful? So festive! So Jolly! Ha Ha! I will admit, painting in the spaces between the tape was a little tricky but it is doable! It would have been easier to just to do all one color over all of the tape. It still would have looked like a candy cane, but I wanted to incorporate the gold too. You can decide what works for you. Merry Christmas and I will see you next time!!

Christmas Tree

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This week I saw a manicure online and I got the inspiration for what I came up with here. It started out one way and trial and error led me to this final design. I really like how it turned out. For this manicure you will need one sparkly purple nail polish, one white nail polish, striping tape and a toothpick.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did two coats of OPI Alpine Snow on my ring and thumb fingernails. I then did two coats of Julep Phia on the rest of my fingernails. Once my ring fingernail was completely dry, I placed two pieces of striping tape to form an upside V pattern and then used three more pieces of striping tape to divide the space in between the V so that it looks like a fan. I then painted in the spaces of the striping tape with Julep Phia, leaving the space outside of the V shape clean. Immediately after painting, I carefully removed the striping tape. Using a toothpick and the color Julep Phia I drew a star at the base of the nail, right above the cuticle, so that it looks like the star at the top of the Christmas tree. I did the same design on my thumbnails. Once everything was completely dry, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Julep Phia & OPI Alpine Snow

Striping tape over OPI Alpine Snow

Julep Phia over striping tape 

Striping tape removed 

Star drawn on with toothpick 

Finished!

So pretty, right?! I really liked this look. I had the thought that this would be fun to do using Christmas colors like red or green in place of the sparkly purple. I would stick to using a sparkly polish though, since it makes it look that more festive. You could even make the star a gold color too. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this mani and I will see you next time!

Holly Berries

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This week I knew I wanted to do something Christmas themed. I immediately thought of holly berries and wanted to use holly berries as an accent. For this look you will need a white, gold, green and red nail polish colors and a dotting tool.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did two coats of Julep Savoy on my pinky, middle and thumb fingernails. I painted my pointer and ring fingernails with two coats of OPI Alpine Snow. Once that was dry, I used a small dotting tool and Sei Bella Crushed Berries to paint three dots on the upper right corner and bottom left corner of the nail. Then I used Julep Hoch to paint on the leaves to the left and right of the holly berries. Once everything was completely dry, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

OPI Alpine Snow & Julep Savoy

Sei Bella Crushed Berries dots 

Julep Hoch leaves next to dots 

Finished! 

This manicure was pretty simple to do. Again, I wish I would of had a paint brush to actually paint on the leaves but for now it will do. I think making sure the dots aren't touching one another makes it look more like berries versus a flower. Anyway, sweet and simple. I hope you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time!

Asterisk

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This week's manicure was made up all on my own. I thought of the colors first and then built a theme off of that. It reminds me of winter, snow and stars all in one. I named it asterisk because that's what the accents look like. For this manicure you will need a silver, white, blue, and glitter overlay polish, striping tape and a dotting tool.

I started out with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did two coats of Julep Margaret on my pinky, middle and thumbs. I painted my ring and pointer fingernails with two coats of Icing Heavy Metal. I painted over the Julep Margaret (blue polish)with one coat of Sei Bella Crystal Sands, which made it glittery. Once my ring finger was dry, I used four pieces of striping tape to make an asterisk design at the center of the nail. I then painted over the entire nail with OPI Alpine Snow and carefully removed the tape. Using a medium sized dotting tool and OPI Alpine Snow, I placed four dots in the center of my pointer fingernail so that it looks like a box. I then used a smaller dotting tool and the same color nail polish to make an asterisk design on the entire nail.  Once it was all dry, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Icing Heavy Metal & Julep Margaret

Striping tape asterisk design 

OPI Alpine Snow over striping tape

Striping tape removed

Dotting tool asterisk design over Icing Heavy Metal 

Finished!

It took me forever to decide whether or not to make another design on the pointer fingernail or just leave it plain silver. I was so much happier once I added the dotted asterisk on top. I think it balances out the look. I hope you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time! 

Fraction Accent

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Today is Thanksgiving! Just wanted to say that I am grateful for the opportunity I have to share my talent of nail art with others through this blog. It has been so much fun for me and I hope to continue posting for as long as I can.

The manicure that I did this week was inspired by another manicure I saw online. For this look you will need two colors of nail polish and striping tape.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did two coats of Sei Bella crushed berries. Once that was completely dry, I placed a piece of striping tape vertically down the middle of my ring finger nail. I then placed two pieces of striping tape horizontally, attached to the first piece of tape so that it covers the upper left side of the nail. I then placed another piece of tape horizontally in the middle of the first piece of tape, so that it covers the right side of the nail. The last pieced of tape was placed horizontally attached to the first piece of tape, so that it covers the bottom left of the nail. I then painted over the entire nail with OPI alpine snow. I then carefully removed all of the striping tape. I did the same thing on my thumb finger nail. When it was all dry, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of IMN out the door.

Sei Bella Crushed Berries

Striping Tape 

OPI Alpine Snow over tape 

Striping tape removed

Finished!

Fun, right?! I love the contrast that the accent nail brings to the manicure. It is pretty simple. You just need to be careful when placing the tape and removing it so that the lines come out clean. I hope you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time!

Drizzle

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This week I was able to try out a manicure that I saw on a video tutorial online. It was the first time I had ever tried something like this and it was so much fun!! For this manicure you will need three colors of nail polish and a toothpick.

I started off with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did one stripe of Sei Bella Vintage Mauve right down the middle of the nail and then painted one stripe of Sei Bella Imperial Purple to the left and one stripe of Orly Buried Treasure on the right, so that I had three vertical stripes. While the nail polish was still wet, I used my toothpick to draw zig zag lines that went horizontally across the nail, so that it swirled together and looks like a drizzle. Once that was completely dry, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM out the door.

Three stripes from right to left: Sei Bella Imperial Purple, Sei Bella Vintage Mauve and Orly Buried Treasure

Finished!

Isn't that so pretty?! I will admit, I was a little scared to do this design, but with a little practice it became simple. I did have to do a couple fingers over just because I was figuring out how to make the lines with the wet nail polish. It helps to do them a little more spaced out and then go back and make some more lines. The trick is to do it quickly, while the polish is wet. As you can see, some lines were done closer and other were done further apart and that changed the look of the design, (like my pinky finger). Well, I hope you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time!

Gold Leaves

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So this week I really wanted to do something related to fall weather and leaves. I was really bummed that I don't own a nail art paint brush and I have decided that I am going to get one very soon. I did the following mani with a white, bronze and gold polish and I used a dotting tool to create the "leaves". I really think it would have turned out better with a brush, but I was still very happy with the outcome and think this is a very pretty manicure. 

I started out with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did two coats of OPI Alpine Snow. Once that was dry, I used a small sized dotting tool and Orly Buried Treasure to paint on the top right corner of the nail and the bottom left corner of the nail, three lines so that it looks like an arrow coming out of from the corner. Again, it would look more like leaves if I would have used a brush to draw fuller lines instead of the thinner lines I made with the dotting tool. I then went in with Julep Sienna, going over the exact same lines I just made with the bronze colored polish, so that it creates an outline, still showing the bronze color alongside it. Once it was completely dry, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door. 

OPI Alpine Snow

Orly Buried Treasure right top corner lines

Orly Buried Treasure bottom left corner lines

Julep Sienna outlining Orly Buried Treasure lines 

Isn't that so pretty?! If you take a look at the pinky finger, that bottom corner leaf turned out the best, that is what I was going for. See the difference? Either way, I was happy with this manicure. I really like the combo of white and gold. I hope that you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time! 

Half moon with French tip

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This week I decided to do a look that I had seen online a while back but never gotten a chance to try. I was familiar with the half moon look but I had never seen it paired with a french tip. For this manicure you will need two colors of nail polish and a small dotting tool.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did two coats of Julep Margaret and let that dry. Using a small dotting tool and the color Julep Jennine, I drew an arch, starting a little below half way on the nail, so that it looked like a half moon. I then used Julep Jennine to paint the area above the arch. Once that was dry, I used Julep Margaret to paint the tip of the nail. I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Julep Margaret

Arch drawn with Julep Jennine

Julep Jennine painted above arch

Finished!

What do you think? I know I picked really bold colors, but I love this look. I would love to see this with more toned down colors. If you don't feel so confident drawing the arch with the dotting tool, you could use a reinforcement sticker and place it at the cuticles as a guide to make the half moon. Same thing with painting the tips, except use striping tape as a guide. Well, I hope you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time!

                                 

Skulls

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This week's manicure was inspired by the holiday that is coming up this weekend, Halloween! I knew automatically that I wanted to do a black manicure but I wasn't sure what to do with it. I did some searching online and I found a really fun look with skulls. For this manicure you will need a black and white nail polish and dotting tools.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did two coats of Orly Liquid Vinyl. Once that was dry, I used a large dotting tool and OPI Alpine Snow to place 4 or 5 dots on the nail. I then used a very small dotting tool and the same white nail polish to make another line underneath the dot, so as to make the jaw of the skull. Once that dried, I used the black nail polish and a small dotting tool to make the eyes, nose and teeth holes. I then used the white nail polish and a small dotting tool to place white dots around the skulls. Once it was all dry, I finished the manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Orly Liquid Vinyl

OPI Alpine Snow dots 

Line underneath dots to make jaw

Black dots for eyes

More dots for nose and mouths

White dots surrounding skulls

Finished!

So fun, right?!  I realized once I was done, that I could have used any other color for the dots that surround the skulls and made it more colorful, but I like this too. It is very appropriate for Halloween. The hardest part about this mani is how small the skulls were and how I had to place the dots very carefully to make them. I tried making the white dots larger, but that's as big as I could make them. The bigger the skulls are, the easier it is to place the rest of the dots to finish the face. My black nail polish was difficult to work with, getting hard and tacky, which is why I had some strings of black left over from the dots. I need to buy another black polish. Well, I hope you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time!

Dotticure

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This week's look was inspired by another manicure I saw on a Youtube channel called cutepolish. She has great video tutorials on how to do LOADS of nail art looks. For today's look you will need two colors of nail polish, and a medium and small sized dotting tool.

I started out with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then painted my pinky, pointer and thumbs with two coats of Orly Buried Treasure. I painted my middle and ring fingernails with two coats of Julep Bette. Once that was dry I used a medium sized dotting tool and Orly Buried Treasure and painted on top of the Julep Bette color a dotted X, so that it covers the entire nail. Then following the V pattern that you see when you cut the X in half, I made more dotted lines above and below the X and to the left and right of the X. Once all was completely dry, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Orly Buried Treasure & Julep Bette

Dotted X 

More dotted lines surrounding X 

Finished!

I really love how this turned out! The contrast of these two colors is great! It's fun choosing which fingers to accent. I am seeing this trend a lot and I like it! I did think once I was done, that it would have been cool to use a different color for the dotted lines that surrounded the initial X that I drew, but I didn't have a color that would have worked. Anyway, just a thought if you want to try mixing it up! I hope you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time!