Spun Sugar Nails

I have really been loving the new Spun Sugar Nail trend.  It's really pretty and surprisingly easy.  I used THIS TUTORIAL  from XOXO Alexis Leigh.  It did take me a little time to get the polish just right for it to get stringy but once I did it went pretty smoothly....and messy too lol.  It's not the neatest nail art to do...especially if you use the type polishes I did.  I used the foil type polishes and they have super tiny pieces of glitter and well, clean up is just a mess.  That stuff is hard as hell to get off your fingers.

I used Orly Sweet Peacock (my favorite polish in the whole wide world) and an un named LA Colors Silver foil.

I will definitely be trying this again with creme's.  I love this effect.  What do you think of the new sugar spun trend?

Tape Mani: Aquadelic and Gold

I think I've been a little obsessed with tape mani's lately.  I love doing them.  This is China Glaze Aquadelic with Essie As Gold as it Gets and Nails Inc. The Donmar on top.  The half diamond was done using Sally Hansen Golden-I. 

I love the teal and gold combo.  Here it is before I did the diamond.

NOTD: Holo Gradient

Summer is unofficially here. Which if you live here that means WAAAAAAY more sunny days than cloudy days.  You know what the best thing in the world on a sunny day is?  Gorgeous glittery holo nails!!!!

Today I am wearing a Milani Digital and Klean Color Holo Chrome Gradient. 

 

Eeee, I love it!  

Hope your day is sunny and bright! TTFN and XOXO 

MSMD: Patriotic Nails by Nailside

Since today is Memorial Day I thought I'd pick something patriotic to do.  Nailside is one of my favorite bloggers, she is AMAZING at tape mani's so I picked her awesome 4th of July nails from last year to copy. 

This is also my first time successfully doing the Explosion tape mani too and I LOVE IT!!!! You can see Nailside's Explosion Tutorial HERE.

Here's her's, she is the tape mani queen!!!! 

Thanks for taking a look today.  I want to say a huge THANK YOU to all of the men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.  God Bless!

Color Club Magic Attraction

Hey ya'll.  I have another stash swatch to share today.  This one is Color Club Magic Attraction.  Well, I am pretty sure it's Magic Attraction.  I got this in a set from Ross and the set was a whole mish mash of polishes from different collections and none of them had labels.  After some debate amongst some of my polish buddies and lots of googling, it was determined that this was Magic attraction.

I will go ahead and preface this by saying that these photos do NOT do this polish justice.  In real life it is SO sparkly and glittery and holoy.  Trust me, It. is. to.die.for.

 

 This is two coats too, it has great coverage.  It's really a beautiful polish. 

NOTD: Wicked Style and Sticks n Stones

Hey y'all!  Hope you're having a fine day.  I'm still getting over the sickies so haven't felt much like painting my nails but I get bored easily so I did anyways lol. 

I love this combo, oh what am I saying?  I love anything combined with Sticks N Stones lol.  This is China Glaze Wicked Style and Cover Band Sticks N Stones. 

I really hope I can get a back up of Sticks N Stones soon because I want to use it all the time and I do not want to run out.  Well, thanks for stopping by today.  TTFN and XOXO. 

Gradient Friday: Skittles Gradient

Hey y'all.  I'm part of another group challenge and this time GRADIENTS.  I can't get enough gradients right now, I love them.  I did a skittles gradient, lots of different colors and gradiented (Is that a word? Spell check says no but I'm going with it anyway.) individually.  I LOVE how it came out.  I actually tried this a few weeks ago and screwed it all to hell by trying to stamp over it.  I don't dare mess with perfection this time.

I used 15 polishes total for the gradients PLUS I added China Glaze Fairy Dust on top of each nail. 

Blue: NYC Skin Tight Denim, Pure Ice French Kiss,  China Glaze Electric Beat
Purple: Claire's Midnight, China Glaze Gothic Lolita, China Glaze Sweet Hook
Green: Sinful colors San Francisco, China Glaze Gaga for Green, Sinful Colors Innocent
Yellow: Wet N Wild Sunny Side Up, Klean Color Neon Yellow, China Glaze Lemon Fizz
Pink: China Glaze Fuchsia Fanatic, Sinful Colors Pink Forever, Wet N Wild Flirty Rose Creme

This is my aftermath.

This is by far my favorite and the easiest way to get the perfect gradient.  You just add your colors on the sponge and stick it on your base polish, which should be the lightest color in your gradient.  I move mine up and down the nail ever so slightly as I'm dabbing it to get it more combined and even.  You just add more polish and do that over and over until you get it as bright as you want it.  I also keep a sheet of paper on my work space in case I have too much polish on the sponge, I can just dab it on the paper.   

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, hope you enjoyed it.  Be sure to check out all of the other awesome gradient mani's below.