The Nail Files: Long Weekend Nails

This long weekend was final goodbye to the Summer months and a chance to welcome Fall. I knew that I was going to be busy with all of the festivities and wanted to give myself a manicure that I wouldn't have to think about. Less worry the better! One way I know to do that is to choose something with a glitter top coat! Less chance of chipping, since glitter polish tends to be pretty durable.

I thought I would do a quickie post to show you what I wore! First decision was a polish that was neutral so I selected Essie's ballet slippers. It is the prettiest pink and was the perfect color to leave summer polishes behind. Next, the glitter and this was easy for me! I picked OPI's Confetti Fun. It is a great glitter polish full of larger and smaller glitter pieces and a multitude of colors! It looks amazing over ballet slippers.

I hope you all had an amazing long weekend!! I sure did! Here's a look at my weekend nail duo......

What were you up to for the long weekend? What did you have on your nails?

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Manicure Monday:Summer Neon Nails

Happy Monday!! I hope you all had a great weekend!! I was so excited to dive right into June and it actually starts to feel like summer once June hits! So I spent my days by the pool and couldn't think of a better time to break out the neon nail polish! So neon inspired this week's Manicure Monday post!!

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I am completely obsessed with this color from Orly called Glowstick, it is the perfect neon highlighter yellow! I picked mine up at my local Ulta! I love how it really has that punch of color! I think that this would look amazing on the toes too!! 

Here's a little trick with neon polishes....ready....paint a coat or two of white polish underneath to give it that extra pop!! It really does bring neon colors to life!!

I recommend this to anyone looking for some really bright fun polishes for this summer!!

Will you be wearing neon polish this summer??

Nails Of The Day: Graffiti Art

I hope you all had a great weekend! It was a long weekend here in the US and my first Memorial Day weekend! I had a great weekend and basically laid by the pool all weekend long, it was just what I needed to relax for the week ahead!! Although I have a sunburn to nurse now!

I realized that because of the long weekend I was a little thrown off for Manicure Monday and so I woke up today and decided to to a Nail Of The Day post to make up for the miss.

I wanted to do something a bit sassy today and so here are my Graffiti Nails as I call them! I hope you like!!!

What You Need:

4 straws cut in half
Scotch tape
4 nail polishes to create the graffiti combo 
A white polish for base
Topcoat

Here's How:

Start by painting all nails with a white polish, I used Sally Hansen's White On.

Paint a fast dry topcoat over the white polish, I use Essie's good to go.

Then using the tape, tape around each nail following the cuticle. This is to prevent a big mess at the end.

Next dip a cut straw in the the 1st of the 4 colors you choose, quickly blow the color onto each nail. Don't worry about it looking messy, randomness is favored here!!

Continue dipping the next straw into the next polish color. Repeat this process until all 4 colors have been blown onto nails.

Wait for the polish to set and then apply a topcoat.

Remove tape once topcoat has set. You might have to do a bit of clean up around the nails, but the tape should catch most of it!

That's all there is too it! I love this manicure because it's fun and messy! Perfect for this season too if you choose to use neon or pastel polishes.

Will you wear this graffiti look on your nails??

Spring Manicure: How To Wear Pink & Mint!!!

A Manicure Monday on Tuesday!

So the better late than never saying applies to today's post! I normally do a Manicure Monday post, but yesterday was a little crazy so with that I give you a Tuesday Manicure! Doesn't have the same ring, but it works!

I hope everyone had an excellent long weekend! Hopefully the Easter bunny was good to you all.

Today's nail tutorial was inspired from some flowers I picked up last week. I hope you like it, keep reading to find how how!

WHAT I USED:

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri #32 Instant Iris
Sally Hansen Insta-Dri #450 Lickety-Split Lime
Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Chartreuse Chase
Revlon Color Stay in Buttercup
Sinful Colors in 24/7
Dotting tool
Nail art brush


HERE'S HOW:

Paint all nails with 2 coast of Instant Iris, leaving the ring finger unpainted.

Paint the ring finger with 2 coats of Chartreuse Chase.

Allow to dry, but first paint a coat of Essie good to go. This will help seal in the manicure and speed up drying time.

Using the small end of the dotting tool, begin random dots with Lickety-Split Lime about 1/4 of the way up from the nail tip, in a small circle pattern.

Next using the larger side of the dotting tool and Buttercup, paint random dots around the Lickety-Split Lime.

Take the nail art brush and Instant Iris, begin drawing the leaves of the flower. 

Using 24/7 go in and create some detail within the flower petals with the nail art brush.

Allow to dry and then paint another coat of good to go to seal in the flower design.

There you have it! A spring inspired manicure! I love love love Instant Iris it is the most beautiful color for this season and it looks great with a tan!

I hope you enjoyed!! What are you wearing on your nails right now??