Berry Glittery

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If you are a faithful follower of this blog, then you probably noticed that I didn't post last week. I was on vacation in another state and I did not have my usual nail tools with me or my computer, so I went without doing my nails for another week. Honestly, I learned that I really do like to have my nails done. I couldn't wait the entire week to take off my old manicure and then I tried going with bare nails for a couple days and I had a nail break. I couldn't wait to get my nails painted again and I came up with the following manicure.

This week I have another simple manicure that I based off of what colors I wanted and one accent. For this look you will need a glittery purple nail polish, a berry jelly nail polish and striping tape. I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did two coats of Julep Phia on all nails except the middle finger nail. I then painted the middle finger nail with two coats of Julep Bette. I did a coat of top coat on top of Julep Bette so that it would dry fast and stay put. Once dry, I applied two pieces of striping tape on that same middle finger nail, a third of the way down, diagonally placed at the center of the nail so that they form a teepee at the tip of the nail. I placed another two pieces of tape just underneath the first two, following the same pattern. I then used Julep Phia to paint in the space between the two pieces of tape. I then carefully removed the tape. Once that was completely dry, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the door.

Julep Phia & Julep Bette

Striping Tape in place

Julep Phia in between tape

Finished!

I really like the colors I used in this manicure. I have been wanting to buy more colors and I think I am going to get more glittery and more pink and berry type colors. I like how by simply changing the color of one nail and adding that accent makes it nail art and not just a plain manicure. It was difficult painting in between those pieces of striping tape. I think it would have been easier to use a nail art brush or a striping tool. I just used what I had, I need to invest in some more tools as well. I hope that you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time!

Floral Tip

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I've been seeing a lot of flower manicures online lately and that's where I came up with the idea for this week's manicure. For this manicure you will need a pink, purple, blue and white nail polishes and a small dotting tool.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then used Julep Margaret and a small dotting tool to paint four dots, at the tip of the nail, going from left to right in a box pattern so that it looks like flower petals. I did this same thing again alternating with other colors, Sei Bella Coral Fantasy and Sei Bella Crushed Berries until the entire tip of the nail was covered in flowers. I did about 4 flowers on all the fingernails except for my pinky which had three and my thumbs which had five. It just depends how big your dots are. I then placed a white dot with OPI Alpine Snow on the center of each flower. Once that was completely dry, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

Dots on tip of nail in Julep Margaret, Sei Bella Crushed Berries, Sei Bella Coral Fantasy 

White dot at center of flowers in OPI Alpine Snow

This was so simple to do and I love how fresh and clean it looks. I think it also helped that I used bright colors for the flowers to make it feel more "springy". I hope you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time! 

Cotton Candy

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This week I remembered a technique I had seen on another blog but had not tried yet. It involves using plastic wrap as a tool to paint. I wasn't sure how the manicure would turn out, since I didn't use the exact colors the other person had used. The blog is called letthemhavepolish. It is one of the first nail blogs I discovered a couple of years ago when I first became interested in nails. For this manicure you will need a white polish, a jelly or translucent blue and purple polishes and a glitter overlay polish, you will also need plastic wrap and some aluminum foil.

I started with a base coat of OPI nail envy. I then did two coats of OPI Alpine Snow. Once that dried completely, I put drops of Sinful Colors Love Nails on a small sheet of aluminum foil and using a piece of scrunched up plastic wrap, I dipped the plastic wrap into the nail polish and then dabbed it onto the foil again to get rid of excess, so that only a small amount is left on the plastic wrap and then I pressed the plastic wrap onto my nail, as a stamp, lightly pressing onto the nail so that it is completely covered. I repeated this same process with another nail polish called Julep Bette. Once that was dry, I used Sei Bella Crystal Sands to add a little shimmer to it and I once that dried completely, I finished my manicure with a fast drying top coat of INM Out the Door.

OPI Alpine Snow

Sinful Colors Love Nails pressed on with plastic wrap

Julep Bette pressed on with plastic wrap

Finished!

I like how abstract this looks! The mixture of the colors reminded me of cotton candy. I think it turned out this way because I used jelly like colors. I wonder how it would look with other types of colors layered on top. I did miss a couple of spots on my nails that were left white, but other than that, it turned out pretty good! Again, the most important part of this technique is making sure you pat off the excess amount of nail polish when you first dip the plastic wrap into it, because you only need a little bit, essentially like a stamp. I hope you enjoyed this look and I will see you next time!