Arabesque

I received a beautiful nail stamping plate from bornprettystore. 

Red, White, and Blue

July 4th is perfect for barbeques, getting together with friends and family, celebrating, parades, and flag inspired nails! 

Flag nails

Hawaii Sunset

More Summer time nails! A gorgeous sunset in Hawaii. 

Hawaii Sunset

Beach Nails

It's almost Summer time! If you're going to the beach, you're going to need some beach nails. 

Seashells and starfish on the beach

Cupcake

My sister brought back some Kiko nail polish from her stay in Europe. 2 of them were from their cupcake collection. So of course, I have to use them for cupcake nails! 

Kiko Cupcake : #655

Polish for Nail Stamping

I decided to compile a list of the nail polish I have that works well for nail stamping. I will continue to add to this list as I collect more nail polish. 

Cupcake

I'm very excited to show you all this. It is my first time doing advanced stamping. It took a few tries but I think it looks pretty cool. 

Essie : Turth or Flare

Then & Now

My first blog post was 9/29/2013. I posted these nails. 

So here I am, 6 months later, and I have to let you all know that practice really makes a big difference. 

My recreation of Marc Jacob's daisy nails. 

Pinky and index finger each have 3 coats of Cover Girl Outlast Constant Candy. I used a dotting tool and Zoya Tomoko for the golden dot. 
Middle and thumb each have 3 coats of Cover Girl Outlast Constant Candy. I used a dotting tool and Essie Blanc and Zoya Tomoko for the daisies and dots. 
Ring finger has 2 coats of Zoya Tomoko. 

Outdoors

Spring Floral

It is still snowing on a weekly basis here and I am so sick of it. Crossing my fingers for Spring to come soon.

I applied 3 coats of Zoya Cole to my pinky, index, and thumb. Zoya Cole is part of their new Spring collection. It is a peachy orange creme color. Goes on smoothly and looks gorgeous!
Middle finger has 2 coats of Zoya Lux from their new Pixie Dust collection. It's a sparkly pink. Looks like crushed pink diamonds on my nails.
Ring finger has 2 coats of Essie Blanc. I used a makeup sponge and sponged on Zoya Cole, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow, Essie Play Date, and Essie Mojito Madness. I drew on the flowers using a nail art brush and Essie Licorice. A few spots of Essie Mojito Madness for leaves. 

Inspired by Chelsea King.

Zoya Pixie Dust : Lux

Mickey & Minnie Mouse

More Disney nails! 
Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.

Pinky, middle, index, and thumb each have 2 coats of Sinful Colors GoGo Girl. 
Gold Mickey heads were created with a dotting tool using Zoya Tomoko.
Black Mickey heads were created with a dotting tool using Essie Licorice.
White polka dots were created with a dotting tool using Essie Blanc.
Ring finger has 3 coats of Gwen Stefani O.P.I Hey Baby.
Minnie Mouse head was created with a dotting tool using Essie Licorice. I used Zoya Tomoko for her gold bow. 

Disney

Purple

A few weeks ago, I bought 3 pretty purple nail polish and I have been dying to try them out. 

Pinky has 3 coats of Essie Sexy Divide with Essie Play Date polka dots.
Ring finger has 3 coats of Essie Play Date with Essie Sexy Divide and O.P.I Liquid Sand Can't Let Go flowers.
Middle and index fingers each have 3 coats of O.P.I Liquid Sand Can't Let Go, no top coat.
Thumb has 3 coats of Essie Sexy Divide with Nicole O.P.I matte top coat.  

O.P.I Liquid Sand : Can't Let Go

Gwen Stefani O.P.I

I recently bought 4 new O.P.I nail polishes from the Gwen Stefani collection. I used 3 of them today.  

I applied 2 coats of Gwen Stefani O.P.I Hey Baby. It is a bright pink creme polish. I layered 1 coat of Gwen Stefani O.P.I In True Stefani Fashion. It is a very dense silver and holographic glitter polish. My nails look like a bottle of glitter threw up on a hooker. I'm not sure whether that's a good thing or not. 

On a more positive note, I applied 1 coat of Lay Down That Base with 2 coats of Gwen Stefani O.P.I Push And Shove on my ring fingers. It is a chrome mirror finish (no top coat needed). It looks like someone melted silver on my nails. So fabulous. 

In the sunlight

Blues

Picked up 2 new polishes at CVS this weekend. 
I have been looking for a sapphire blue and Aruba Blue by Essie is perfect. 2 coats were enough but I think a 3rd coat would have made it even more opaque. 
This was my first time trying a textured polish. I bought Blue-Berry Sweet On You by Nicole O.P.I from the Gumdrops collection. It feels a little like sandpaper. 2 coats and NO top coat. Top coat will ruin the formula. It went on smoothly and was so easy to apply.
My husband said he really likes Aruba Blue by Essie. 

Essie : Aruba Blue