Blue Needle

Hello readers! Hope the first day of your week is treating you well. :)

Today I have a pretty cool needle marble to share. I used Klean Colors White, Orly Sweet Peacock, and an LA colors glitter top coat....oh and a needle ;)





I'm still kind of the fence on if I liked it or not. It does look cool but that white was SO bright it just didn't look right for some reason, I dunno. I will say this much though, that Klean colors White is probably the best white polish I've used. It applied very nicely and in two coats it covered perfectly. Most whites I've used were really streaky and took 3 or more coats to cover completely.

What do you think about it?

O pardon me in that my boast is true!

Hello readers! Today I'm excited to share a new technique I just tried. It's a lot like the newspaper print nail art except you use something you print at home with an inkjet printer.

I used the directions from The Hybrid Chick's, The Digi Nails-A Hybrid Manicure blog post. She printed some digital scrapbook paper and use that on her nails and it looks really cool. I wanted to keep with the newspaper feel that I see a lot of and printed out a piece from the Shakespeare Sonnet "A Lover's Complaint". I also flipped it in MS Word so it would apply the right way onto my nails so you can read it instead of being a backwards like you get from newspaper print.

I really think it's pretty cool. It's actually a little bit more work than I expected, but it's not difficult by any means.



I used Sally Hansen Salon Manicures "Commander In Chic" as my base color.



I really love this design, I would like to do one from a comic strip, I think that would be totally cute.

What do you think? Have you ever tried this before? I hope you enjoyed the post today, I'd love to hear about your experience with this technique if you've tried it.

XOXO

Time marches on

Hello readers! Happy March!!!! March is my favorite, it's my birth month and I LOOOOOVE my birthday. It is something everyone should celebrate, it should be a national holiday, just sayin'. lol

Today I have a design to share that I've been wanting to try for a while. I've always liked this type of design, I just think it's cute. It's really not hard to do either, I did three stripes on each nail then took my biggest dotting tool and did black dots, then took the same size and did a white dot in the middle of that and then took the next size down tool and did the colored dots. Didn't take long at all.



I used NYC Little Italy for the base, Wet N Wild Black Creme, NYX Between Mauve and Purple and Sinful Colors Mint apple.



I had to share my rarely seen right hand too. My left hand does nail art like a 5 year old lol. I love how neat my left hand is and my right hand looks like someone else did it. My left hand apparently had a pot of coffee and 4 red bulls because it was shaking like a leaf lol.



Well, thanks for stopping by, love to hear what you think! :)

XOXO

Copyin' from the Chalkboard

Howdy! I am so excited about this mani today, I love it a lot, a lot, a lot. I am completely inspired by THIS post from Sarah at Chalkboard Nails. Her fishtail designs are off the chain amazing!

Here's mine:







I am absolutely in love with this design, I will definitely be playing with color combos and doing it again. For this mani I used Sinful Colors "Pink Forever", Sinful Colors "Innocent", China Glaze "Wicked Style", and China Glaze "Gothic Lolita".

"Fun is about as good a habit as there is."

Hello readers!

Today I have a cool blue gradient to share. I just love gradients, don't you?



I used Wet n Wild "Teal of Fortune" for my base, NYC "Skin Tight Denim" for the tip gradient and then added a little bit of China Glaze "Blue Years Eve" for a little extra glitter.



The "Teal of Fortune" didn't photograph true to color, it's a little more green that its shown here.

I got a lot of compliments on this mani too, it was a big hit. :)

Thanks for stopping by today, love to hear what you think. TTFN

XOXO

I'm all shook up!

Uh uh huh, yeah, yeeeeeah!

Howdy! :) Today I have a little Elvis inspired nail art. Actually I feel a little let down by it because it didn't turn out quite as cool as I wanted. I need to get some new paint brushes, I can't find my really thin one and it's my favorite. I do like the design though, just think I could have done better. I'm my own worst critic I guess lol.



The blue is China Glaze Kinetic Candy. The rest is acrylic paints.



I was inspired by one of his infamous jumpsuits. I really liked the design and color combos.



I actually had another jumpsuit that I liked better but I wasn't up for the challenge today, I may do it later because it was pretty cool.

Sally Hansen Salon Effects

Today I have a really cool product to share, the Sally Hansen Salon Effects. This was the first I have ever used anything like this before and I was very impressed.



This is Glitz Blitz



They are very interesting and not what I expected. They are real polish strips and they are packaged in air tight containers to preserve them. Each strip is about 1.5 inches long, they were long enough that I was actually able to use 1 strip for 2 nails because my nails are fairly short. I did have to cut them and shape them when I did it like that but it worked out okay and wasn't too too much work. The directions are really easy to follow and application is pretty fast and simple.

The only negative thing I have to say about the product itself is that any unused strips are going to dry out (unless someone knows something I don't). I still have them but they aren't sticky like they were when I first opened it so they don't just stick to your nail. If anyone knows how to preserve the remaining opened strips I'd love to know how.

Over all, i really loved the Salon Effects strips and would buy them myself. They are perfect if you are in a hurry and want a cute nail art design. Just stick them on, shape them and go, no dry time needed. I have seen them anywhere from $7 to $9 at Wal-mart and several drug stores. The price is kind of high for my taste, $9 for 1, maybe 2, applications is kind of steep but there are a lot of really cute designs so I'm sure I'll bite the bullet and pay it anyways lol.


I was sent this product for review. My opinions were not influenced in any way by the company.