Glitter and Sparkles!

I started with two coats of this really awesome Funky Fingers polish called Jawbreaker.  

June Nail Art Challenge - June 8th - Ocean Nails

Excuse this for being five days late, but I've been working every day and haven't had time to post anything!

So for my Ocean-inspired nails, I did waves in the style of a French Manicure.

Sally Hansen Fuzzy Coat!

I work at CVS, and when I saw this new polish line called Fuzzy Coat by Sally Hansen, I wasn't sure how I felt about it.  Still, it was different than anything I've seen recently, so I knew I had to try it out.  I'm actually really glad that I did, because it's awesome.

I got the shade Peach Fuzz, a mixture of tiny orange and yellow bar glitters.

Usually I don't go for oranges or yellows because they look terrible against my pasty skin, but I thought I'd give it a go since most of my polish collection is made up of blues and greens.

Pardon the terrible lighting; it looked awesome in the sun, which was out not two minutes before I took these.

I put one coat of Funky Fingers Taffy Town before I did two coats of Peach Fuzz, just so there would be no  nakedness underneath.

My cuticles are so nasty and dry!  At least the polish looks nice.

Here is one with the flash.  I was hoping it would maybe mimick the sunlight a little and, as you can tell, it did not.

All in all, I cannot wait to get more.  They had a light pink/white, a blue/green, a green/white... so great!

They are $5.99 at CVS.  There is a sale going on until 5/25 that if you spend $10 on Sally Hansen Cosmetics, you get $5 Extra Bucks back, hooray!

Leopard Print Gradient.

I painted these on Monday night, and today five of them are completely chipped off.  I guess that's what I get for doing something ~fancy~ and then working on delivery day.  I just wish I had gotten a better picture, perhaps with my actual camera and not just a quick one on my phone.  I hadn't even taken the excess polish off of my fingers yet, how embarrassing.  Oh well, it's still pretty neat-o!

It's a lime green/fluorescent yellow and light, turquoise-y blue gradient.  I used a pink Icing brand polish for the spots, then an Art Deco sparkly purple for the lines around the spots.  It looks much better in real life.

Blue nail art!

I don't generally do a different design for each finger nail (I lack inspiration!), but I thought I would give it a try using various blue polishes.

Here it is without a flash.  I used all sorts of polishes - Milani, Zoya, Pure Ice, Dollish Polish, Funky Fingers and Nyx Girls.

Most Recent Nails

I'm really bad at remembering to take pictures of my nails with my real camera, but I do have a few of my most recent nail-painting adventures from my phone!

Okay, these first ones I did around Valentine's Day.  I think Valentine's Day is a silly holiday, but I love my rats and my rats love me, so I figured I would paint them on to my nails.

I'm not left-handed, so I had to keep the right hand extra simple.

Rat Girls!  On the left there's Aurora, Cloudy is in the middle and Coral is to the right.  They're cute little fluffballs that like to climb up the sleeves of my sweaters.

See more pictures of my recent nails: 

Two Halloween Manicures.

Holiday manicures are fun!  Last October, I did two different ones around Halloween because, let me tell you, I LOVE Halloween!

The first one was inspired by witchy colors -- purple, lime green and gold.

Sparkly Gold and Pink

 This is Zoya Kimber with Funky Fingers Golden Coast on top.

It was sort of supposed to be a gradient, which I suppose it is.

I remember wearing it out later that same day, and one entire nail of polish popped off.  I need a better glitter topcoat so I don't have to use 2-3 coats!  XP

French Tips for Summer!

     In case you haven't noticed, I love doing non-traditional French manicures.  I especially like using bright colors and sparkles whenever I can.   Here is one I did from last summer, which I think is one of my favorites.