Peanut Butter & Grape Jelly Time

During one of my many weekly stops at Target, I came across the beauty sale shelf, as I most often do of course. I looked through the nail polishes, as if I need any more, and came across this little gem.

The Sally Hansen Triple Shine Jelly nail polish in Grape Jelly. The color looked really pretty through the bottle so I bought it. It originally retails for around $5.00, but it was on sale for $3.49.....BARGAIN!! Right??
Initially i had thought it was going to be a deep purple, but once I painted my nails, I realized it was sheer. Bummer!! Sally Hansen threw me a curveball there! So i did what most nail art enthusiasts do when a color comes off sheer on the nails......I threw on a white nail polish base & then painted over that base! Genius you say?? Well.....perhaps!? Anyways, I then decided to do an ombre look and ended up with this.....

 

It's a pretty sheer ombre....but it looked pretty. Got lots of compliments and people grabbing my hands at cash registers when i was handing my money, to get a better look at them. Strange, i know!

What do you think? Let me know if you've tried any of the other jelly colors by Sally Hansen. I believe they are actually even cheaper now at Target, but I passed on buying any more since I am making an attempt at being more fiscally responsible this month. Just this month though! LOL

Velvet Nails

I had bought the Ciate velvet manicure set from Sephora a few months back since it was on sale & completely forgot to use it. As I was trying to decide what to do with my nails I came across it & decided......let's give it a shot! It's a little time consuming as with most nail art projects, but the finished product was pretty cool. Take a look at the final result below and let me know what you think.

Here it is in sunlight. Its a really pretty color, I'm afraid this picture doesnt really do it justice. But trust me, they're so cool, soft & fuzzy!

The picture above is what it looks like under inside light. Also they were still a lil wet, hence the shine. If you're interested I got the kit at Sephora for about $9 on sale, but I have seen them at TJ Maxx & Marshalls for about the same price or cheaper if you find them on sale. Thanks so much for stopping by my blog!

Pretty girly bows

I bought these pretty little nail art bows from ebay a while back & totally forgot about them...so imagine my surprise as I was cleaning my apartment & came across these lil cuties! :)

I wanted to do something really feminine yet simple so as not to take away from the bows.

I started with a simple pretty pastel pink color by Essie called "French Affair."

I applied two coats of that color & once dried I used a lil bit of nail glue.

The nail glue I used was from Sally's Beauty supply, i think it was around $3.99 & it has a great lil brush that makes the glue really easy to apply. I applied some of that to my ring finger & then placed one of the lil bows on top, held it down a little bit & waited a few minutes for it to dry. 

I finished it off with top coat on rest of nails, & above is the finished product.

I honestly thought the bow would come off by the morning, but it was still on there as i went throughout my day. But i've been really careful to try to keep them on.

Hope you guys enjoyed my pretty, girly bow nails of the day.

Black, Coral & Gold

I like to go from one end of the color spectrum to the other......so while one day I'm all about white nails, the next I want to create something with dark color. In this instance I used black & added a few accent colors to make it a lil more summertime.

I started with a basic black nail polish, the one above is from Wet N Wild, it's called "Black Crème", I like it cause its a deep black, as opposed to other black polishes I've used that are a bit light. Don't mind the messy job, I like to clean them up AFTER I'm done doing everything.

 Once the polish dried completely, I place 2 pieces of tape to form a "V" shape like the picture above. I painted over the tape with a coral nail polish by Sally Hansen called "Coral reef" &  once that dried, i slowly removed the tape & finished the look off with some gold accents using my trusty LA Colors nail art polish in "Gold Glitter."

Here is the finished product, on my ring finger I did a base of gold polish and did the "V" shape in coral to make an added accent nail.

Hope you guys enjoyed my nails of the day! 

Gold Drip Tips

Since summer is right around the corner I've been really into light colors and a lot of white. So I like to try different combinations with white nail polish.

I started with a basic white nail polish and then added some gold glitter polish with a nail art brush to create a paint drip-like effect. The gold polish I used was "gold glitter" by LA Colors.

I'm still trying to work on the paint drip effect to make it look a bit more realistic. Hopefully next time I try it, it'll look a little more drippy.

Turquoise & Glitter for the Beach

I decided I wanted something simple but fun, since I was planning on going to the beach over this particular weekend. I wasn't really in the mood to do a lengthy nail art project so I just stuck to my current favorite polish color and added a lil glitter to the accent nail.
Here's the result.......

I used my favorite nail polish by China Glaze "Aquadelic" & for the accent nail I used Milani's Jewel FX in "Gold," it's a really chunky gold glitter polish, which I wont lie to you......is really really hard to take off. I was happy about the color combo & how fun & summery it ended up looking, specially since I didn't even try too hard to make it work. :) And also because it matched my bathing suit perfectly!

Orange you glad I chose you?

A few weeks ago I went to get a pedi/mani. Now.......I normally don't pay for manicures cause I'd rather paint my own nails, but this was a deal, so....I had to get both. When I picked out my manicure color I was looking for something in a bright, fun, coral shade....so I picked a color by Essie (sorry...I forgot the name of the polish) that I thought was going to end up being a pretty coral shade, but it ended up looking orange.....sadness came over me.....and then the next day the color started chipping. Chipping is clearly another reason why I strongly dislike getting manicures, aside from not having the patience to sit there for lengthy amounts of time while they apply coat after coat after coat of product on my nails. So......from this chipping situation an idea arose in my brain!!! And that idea was to paint over them! So I did. Now...I'm sorry for not taking a before picture, but the original color on my nails was the orange shade, I went from there and just picked out a few colors I thought would look good with the orange polish.

 

I basically used a combination of mint, white, and my trusty turquoise/teal nail polish.......that guy never lets me down I tell ya! In case you haven't read my previous posts, the turquoise/teal color is China Glaze's "Aquadelic" & I'm in love with it. The white polish is by Sinful Colors in "Snow me white", and the mint color is Sally Hansen's Xtreme wear in the color "Mint Sorbet." For the shape I created, I either used those French manicure tip stickers like Nailene's perfect tips, or I used a really thin nail art brush and just freehanded it. Then after the colors have somewhat dried a little bit I go over them with a quick dry clear top coat like "Out the door" or "Seche Vite", those are my go-to fast drying top coats. I'm going to include a close up of the colors on my nails below

 

 

You can't see the "mint sorbet" color too well in this picture since I auto corrected the picture, but if you look at the one below, you can see it a little bit better.

 

Or...maybe not so much...LOL....but trust me when I tell you that it went really well against the white & orange polish.

I hope you guys liked the color combination I chose to show you today, eventually I will post a step by step of how I achieve these looks, in the meantime enjoy my nail art!