Margarita Inspired NOTD

 All that crazy weather this week was driving me to drink, so I thought it was about time I did a cocktail inspired mani!  Little known fact: I love me some margaritas, so that is the cocktail that inspired this manicure. 

I started with a base coat of Sally Hansen Lickety Split Lime, and layered Zoya Tangy over top.  Then I did the tips with a Citrus Sparkle Top Coat from Love and Polish, this reminded me of the salt rimmed glasses.  Then, I sliced up some lime fimo for the little lime wedges, which I think is so stinkin cute.

I'm getting thirsty just looking at these nails!  Do you like them?  What's your favorite cocktail?  Any other cocktail inspired manicures you'd like to see?

Summer Fruit Week - Day 2: Citrus Fimo French Twist!

Check out that title!  It's like how many concepts can I fit in one manicure?  This manicure is soooooo bright and fun and awesome, and the best part?  I got to use Zoya Pippa again! I love Pippa!  For this mani, I paired her with her bff Jancyn.  Don't they look great together?

Zoya Pippa = yellow nails, Zoya Jancyn = orange nails.

I couldn't stop there though, I had to try the french twist manis that have been circulating lately.  I think these two colors look awesome with it.

Then, since this is summer fruit week, I cut up some orange and lemon fimo sticks and stuck them on with my top coat.

This is such a fun festive summer manicure!  It feels JUICY to me! :)  Hope you're liking fruit week so far!  Any guesses on what other fruits I'm going to take on this week?

Fimo Flowers

When I won Let Them have Polish's last contest one of the prizes was a bunch of fimo sticks.  These were my first experience with them, so I looked up some tutorials on Youtube for how to slice them, and Googled some inspiration for what to do with them, and came up with this design:

I split my nail with Zoya Areej (quickly becoming one of my favorite shades) and a basic white polish I got from the dollar store.  I freehanded the dots with my dotting tool with Areej, and then placed my sliced fimo on the line using my Seche Vite top coat, and then added more top coat on top of the fimo slices.

I'll be honest with you guys, even though I LOVED the outcome of this design, it was soooo impractical!  I took it off in less than 24 hours because the little roses were just catching on everything.  I think next time I play with fimo, I'll just use one piece per nail, and put it in a place where it doesn't catch like towards the base of the nail.  It was fun while it lasted though!  What do you think?  Have you used fimo before?