Sparkle

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This is the last manicure of 2016! I did something simple but pretty. I immediately thought New Years Eve and GLITTER. So for this manicure you will need a chunky glitter nail polish, a piece of paper towel and a toothpick.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy maintenance. I then used Whim More Sequins Please on the tips of my nails. I pat it on versus painting it on to carefully place the glitter. I then spread some nail polish on the paper towel and used a toothpick to pick up pieces of glitter to place on the nail, again concentrating on the ends and then adding smaller individual pieces towards the base. Once it was all dry, I used a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door to finish my manicure.

Base coat

Whim More Sequins Please on paper towel and toothpick 

Finished!

Hooray for glitter and easy manicures!! I love that the glitter speaks for itself and is the perfect accessory for New Years. I hope you enjoyed this manicure and I will see you next year!

Snowflake

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This week I wanted to try my hand at painting a snowflake, free hand with my nail art brush. For this manicure you will need a winter icy blue nail color, a silver nail color, a chunky glitter polish that has white and silver geometric shapes and of course a nail art brush.

I started off with a base coat of OPI nail envy maintenance. I then did two coats of Sinful Colors Wonder Mint on my pinky, middle and pointer fingernails. I did two coats of Icing Heavy Metal on my ring fingernails and thumbs. I used Icing Heavy metal and a nail art brush to paint a snowflake on my middle fingernail. I started with three diagonal lines across the nail. I then added fishtails to the ends and more fishtails to the middle of each diagonal line. I then used Whim Frosted Cupcake as a glitter overlay on the rest of my fingernails, concentrating on the base of the nail and less at the tips. Once everything was dry, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Sinful Colors Wonder Mint and Icing Heavy Metal (not pictured here)

Three diagonal lines painted with Icing Heavy Metal

Fishtails added to diagonal lines

More fishtails added to middle of diagonal lines

Finished!

Ah!! I absolutely love the color palette of this manicure and the glitter is so pretty!! Sorry for the pictures, I started out with a different color nail polish and changed my mind later on, so the silver polish isn't in the tutorial pics. The snowflake on my right hand has thicker lines than the snowflake on my left hand, but they still both look good. I just need to keep practicing using that brush! I hope you loved this manicure and I will see you next time!!

Holly Garland

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So I have opened up an Instagram account where I have been posting my manicures every week (nervy_nails). I have also been following other nail accounts where I can see manicures and get ideas. I saw a manicure on an account called Hanninator and that's where I got my inspiration for this week's mani. You will need a sheer shimmery nail color, a dark green nail color, a silver nail color, a berry or red nail color , a nail art brush and a dotting tool.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy maintenance. I then did a coat of Sei Bella Crystal Sands. I then used Icing Heavy Metal to paint the white part of my nails at the tips. I then used Julep Hoch and a nail art brush to paint the garland. I did this by painting arrowheads, very close to another, going horizontally, along the line where the silver and shimmery nail polishes meet on the nail. I then used Sei Bella Crushed Berries and a small dotting tool to paint on berries along the garland. Once everything was dry, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Sei Bella Crystal Sands

Icing Heavy Metal on tips

Julep Hoch garland

Sei Bella Crushed Berries added on with dotting tool

Finished!

Way cute, right?! The original manicure I saw online had used white tips and there were white dots on the berries, but I had no white nail polish so this is what I came up with instead. I also added the shimmer to the base color since I didn't have a nude nail polish to use. I really really liked this and it wasn't so hard either, just needed to pace myself when painting on that garland. I hope you enjoyed this manicure and I will see you next time!

O Tannenbaum

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This week's manicure is inspired by Christmas trees! For this manicure you will need a berry nail color, a brass metallic nail color, a gold nail color, a coral metallic nail color, a dark green nail color, striping tape and dotting tools.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy maintenance. I then did two coats of Sei Bella Crushed Berries on my pointer and ring fingernails and two coats of Julep Savoy on the remaining fingernails.
On the ring fingernail I placed two pieces of striping tape so as to form a V that points to the base of the nail. I then took a large dotting tool and Julep Hoch and filled in the space inside of the V shape so as to form the body of the tree and give it that bushy texture. Once that dried, I took a small dotting tool and Sei Bella Deep Coral and placed ornaments on the tree. I then placed garland on the tree with Julep Savoy and finished my tree with a star on the top with Orly Luxe. When it was all dry, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Julep Savoy & Sei Bella Crushed Berries

Striping Tape in place  

Julep Hoch dotted inside striping tape 

Christmas Tree decorated with dotting tool

Finished!

Cute, right?! It's so festive, perfect for the season. This wasn't too hard, maybe just be careful with using a really small dotting tool to decorate the tree. I used a brush to paint on the star. I hope you liked this one and I will see you next time!

Dotted Leaf

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This week's manicure was inspired by the season. I got a new nail color that screams fall and I knew that I wanted to do something with leaves or a leaf and this is what I came up with. For this manicure you will need a deep coral nail color, a gold nail color and a small dotting tool.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy maintenance. I then did two coats of Sei Bella Deep Coral nail color. Once that was dry, I used a small dotting tool and Orly Luxe to paint the outline of a leaf, on my ring fingernail. I then used the dotting tool and the same nail color to paint on a gold dot on the base of the nail for the rest of my nails. Once everything was completely dry, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the door.

Sei Bella Deep Coral 

Finished!

I am surprised how much I ended up liking this nail polish color. It's completely not what I thought it was going to be when I bought it and saw the color online. It really is such a perfect color for fall and combines so well with the gold. My advice when drawing the leaf is to just take your time and use a little bit of nail polish at a time when dipping the dotting tool and make sure the dotting tool is tiny. I hope you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time!

On the edge

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I am back after a huge break and it is good to be here again. I hope that I can get back to posting every week. For this manicure you will need a neon pink polish, a grey polish and striping tape.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy maintenance. I then painted my pinky, middle and pointer fingernails with two coats of Sei Bella Purple Taupe. Then I painted my ring fingernails and thumbnails with two coats of LA Colors Pizzaz. To speed up the drying process, I painted my ring fingernails and thumbnails with INM Out the Door top coat. Once that dried I placed two pieces of striping tape to form a V that points towards the tip of the nail and then placed five more pieces of striping tape horizontally going through the V so that it forms a staircase. I then painted inside the V area with Sei Bella Purple Taupe and carefully removed all the striping tape. My final step was to paint on INM Out the door fast drying top coat on the remaining grey fingernails.

Sei Bella Purple Taupe & LA Colors Pizzaz

Striping tape in place 

Sei Bella Purple Taupe over striping tape

Striping tape removed

Finished!

Well, what do you think? I really like this contrast and the simplicity of the accent nail. I hope you enjoyed this mani and I will see you next time!

Silver Medals

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I've got another simple manicure this week. You will need a blue, mauve, and silver nail polishes and a set of dotting tools.

I started with two coats of Julep Margaret on my pinky and my pointer finger nails. I then painted two coats of Essie Nice is Nice on the rest of my fingernails. Once they were all dry, I used a large dotting tool and Icing Heavy Metal to paint at the tip of the nail in a horizontal direction two to three dots evenly spaced. I then used a small dotting tool to put dots in between the larger dots. Once that was all dry, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Julep Margaret & Essie Nice is Nice

Icing Heavy Metal dots on tips

Finished!

There you have it, sweet and simple! I had fun sandwiching the different colors of nail polish to give it some more flair. I hope you liked this one and I will see you next time!

Fourth of July Banner

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So this week's manicure is super simple, doesn't use any tools at all, just plain nail polish. I can't believe I still don't have a proper navy blue nail polish, so I just used the best blue I had. I also used my white nail polish which is about to bite the dust and my only red nail polish which happens to be a glitter. Hopefully by next year, I will definitely have more nail colors!

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did two coats of Sinful Colors LoveNails. I then did a thick stripe of white on the right side of the nail with OPI Alpine Snow. Once that was dry I did one more stripe to the right of the white one with the red glitter Sinful Colors Decadent. When all of that was dry, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Sinful Colors Love Nails

OPI Alpine Snow

Sinful Colors Decadent

Finished!

Looks very bold and very flashy, it is perfect for this Holiday. Well, that pretty much sums up this manicure. I hope you liked it and I will see you next time!

Daisy

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So this week I decided to give my nail art brush some more practice. The only thing I can seem to come up with is flowers and Daisies won this time. For this look you will need a pink/purple nail polish, a white nail polish, a gold nail polish, a nail art brush and a small dotting tool.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did two coats of Julep Bette. Once that was dry I did the following design on my index and ring finger nails. I used OPI Alpine Snow and a nail art brush to paint a cross in the center of the nail. I then added more lines to it going diagonally until it resembled flower petals. I then used Orly Luxe and a small dotting tool to make the center dot. Once that was completely dry I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Julep Bette

OPI Alpine Snow painted cross

More lines added diagonally

Orly Luxe center dot placed

Finished!

I am having a really hard time using my nail art brush but I am going to keep practicing. I need to look up some other things that I can paint free hand, but even so, it is difficult. The only advice I have is practicing using the brush is the only way you can learn how to handle it so that you get the right type of outcome and how much nail polish you put on the brush makes a difference too. Well, I hope you liked this one and I will see you next time!

Roses

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So  I finally went out and got a nail art brush. I thought that it would be good to try out some flowers and I did roses. I found a tutorial online and just followed that. For this manicure you will need a coral, white, and green nail polish and a nail art brush.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did two coats of OPI Alpine Snow on my index and ring fingernails and two coats of Sei Bella Coral Fantasy on the rest of my fingernails. I then used my brush and the coral nail polish to paint two curvy lines in the center of the nail painted white.  I then continued to add curvy lines all around the first two lines in a circular pattern so that it looks like a rose. I then used Julep Hoch to paint some small leaves on the corners of the rose. I only painted the rose on the nails that were painted white. When my roses dried completely, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Sei Bella Coral Fantasy & OPI Alpine Snow

Index finger shows the first two lines of the rose 

More lines added to the rose

Final lines for the rose

Finished!

I practiced using my nail art brush on some paper the day before I did my manicure. Of course, using your dominant hand is always easier. I think it looks okay for the second day of using a brush. I am hoping to use my brush more often and think of other new looks I haven't tried yet. I hope you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time!

Blue Petals

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This week's manicure is very simple. All you need is a sparkly blue nail polish, silver nail polish, white nail polish and a dotting tool.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did three coats of Nicole by OPI Blueberry Sweet on You on all except my middle fingernail. I then painted my middle fingernail with two coats of OPI Alpine Snow. Once that was dry, I used a dotting tool and Nicole by OPI Blueberry Sweet on You to create five dots in a circle in them middle of the nail. I then used Icing Heavy Metal to create a dot in the center of the five dots, making the face of a flower. I then made another circle of dots with Icing Heavy metal just to the left of the first flower and used Nicole by OPI Blueberry Sweet on You to place a dot in the center of those dots. Once that was completely dry, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Nicole by OPI Blueberry Sweet on You and OPI Alpine Snow

Finished!

I really liked the combination of these colors. I know the design isn't anything special but it contrasts well with this glitter polish. I hope you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time!

Sparks

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This week's manicure was thought up the day I painted it on. For this one you will need a light pink polish, a gold polish and some striping tape!

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did two coats of Whim Blush and Bows. Once that was completely dry, I used two pieces of striping tape to form a wide V that points towards the tip of the nail and is placed about halfway down the length of the nail vertically. I then took three more pieces of tape and placed them so that they would form equal pieces in the V I formed earlier. I then used Orly Luxe to paint on the inside space of the V. I then carefully removed all pieces of striping tape. Once that dried completely, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Whim Blush and Bows

Striping Tape in place

Orly Luxe in section of striping tape

Finished!

This pink nail polish was hard to work with. I don't know if all pastel nail polishes are like that or if it's just this specific brand's formula, but yeah. The placing of the tape can be a little tricky when placing tape with your less dominant hand, but other than that, this isn't so hard. You just need to pat on a little bit of nail polish at a time when painting the striping tape area. I hope you liked this one and I will see you next time!

Chunky Glitter

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This week I finally went out and bought some new nail polishes! I simply combined two nail polishes for this manicure. You will need a light purple polish and a chunky silver glitter polish.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did two coats of Essie Nice is Nice. Once that was completely dry, I took Whim More Sequins Please and I painted the base of the nail right above the cuticle and went about half way. Once that was dry I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Essie Nice is Nice

Finished!

I realize that the nail polish looks like two different colors in the photos I have. One photo was taken indoors and the final product photo was taken outdoors. The hardest part about painting only a section of your nail with chunky glitter polish is that it tends to glob and all the glitter sticks together. If you pat it on and move the brush side to side instead of up and down, it makes it easier to keep it where you want it and to place the pieces of glitter accordingly. Glitter is a really simple way to play up a nail polish color. I hope you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time.