Happy Valentines Day!!!!

Hope you all are having a lovely v-day! Thought I would share my v-day mani with you. I actually am wearing two looks today because I couldn't decide which stamp to go with. I started with a shimmery white base using Zoya Christina. Them I channeled Adelle and painted my under nails in a hot red (Zoya Sookie). I love the little surprise that adds! The stamps I used are from a big fat konad plate I have, I'm not sure what stamp numbers they are originally.

NOTD: Make a Wish

Simple manicure for you today. I started with a base color of Sally Hansen Gray by Gray, and then stamped some cute little flowers that remind me of the ones that float away in a breeze that you can make a wish on.

I think this design is on one of the Big Fat Plates on eBay, I did this manicure with Bevy and used her stamps, so I can't remember which design it was. (bad blogger! :P) If you know where this design can be found, let me know in the comments, and I'll edit the post. Hope you like it!

Zebra Nails with Kisses!

Saw a set of nail decals recently that were zebra print with lips and decided to recreate the look with my bundle monster plates.

The zebra print stamp is from BM223 (from their second set) and the kisses are from BM02 (from their first set).  Nail blogger protip: Sally Hansen Insta Dri polishes are great for stamping!  The pink in the picture is called Presto Pink.

Pretty Pink Wednesday

Simple little konadicure for you this lovely pink Wednesday!

Base color is Zoya Flora, the tips are stamped from my Big Fat Plate, but you can find the same design on M71.

Random NOTDs

Lately my manicures have kind of been duds! It's hard coming up with gorgeous post-worthy nails EVERY DAY!  Today I didn't have anything new to post, so I went through my images to see if there were any manicures I hadn't posted yet, and here's what I found:

Hand-painted chevron: Zoya Dove base, light pink is Zoya Flora, and dark pink tips is Zoya Areej, outlined with dollar store black. 

Revlon Sunshine Sparkle (a shimmery light yellow, which you can't really tell from this picture) I think the stamp is from konad M77 plate.

Hopefully I'll come up with some fantastic ideas this week, if not, I may have to skip a day until my stock of images builds back up!  If you have any ideas for what kind of posts you'd like to see when I hit an inspiration block, please let me know in comments!

Stamping Pink Wednesday

I love Zoya Pinks!  This Wednesday I chose Zoya Lo. 

Then, I stamped some pretty roses from my Big Fat Plate (which can also be found on Konad M76)

I love the simplicity of this manicure.  Perfect for a gorgeous pink Wednesday! :)  Hope you're having a lovely one!

Audrey's Jewels

For this manicure I started off with China Glaze For Audrey, which is a perfect Tiffany blue color. Then I stamped the necklace design from my big fat plate, and added some rhinestones as pendants to the necklace.

I couldn't decide between lots of rhinestones and just one.

What do you think?

Happy Memorial Day Nails!

Last night we had our weekly dinner at my grandmother's and I decided to bring my nail stuff to give my grammy some gorgeous patriotic nails :)  And of course I had to do mine as well! :)

Here are my Grandma's nails!  I painted them in my favorite hot red: Zoya Sookie!  Then I stamped a cute star USA design from a fauxnad plate (M37) I got from Born Pretty.  You can get the stamp in this set.  She loved the final outcome!  It felt very patriotic to me!

Here is my design:

 I used Zoya Tallulah on my thumb and pointer nails, and then stamped the stars from Konad M3 all over them with Konad special white polish.

Then I painted the rest of my nails with Zoya Purity, and stamped the stripes from BM20 using Konad's special red polish.  These stripes didn't cover my nails perfectly, so I had to strategically place my thumb to cover up a bad match up of the design.  I really don't know how ladies with really long nails align stamps so perfectly.  I usually fail at it miserably.  If you have any suggestions for how to do that better, please let me know. 

Exciting news!  I passed 200 followers this weekend!  So, I just wanted to send a BIG shout out to all of you for following my blog, and being so awesome!  I love every single comment I get and I have loved finding new blogs to follow.

Pippa = my new obsession

Confession time: I am a total victim to trends.  Back in the day, whenever I saw LC on The Hills wearing black nail polish I had to wear it ALL the time, even though I previously thought it was only for goth girls.  Now I think black is one of the most chic colors out there.  This time around I'm starting to feel the same about yellow.  One of my favorite fashion bloggers love Maegan has been wearing yellow nails a lot lately, and it is soooooooo HOT!  This previously would not be a color I would choose.  I don't even think I owned a yellow polish before a few months ago!  But, now I want to wear it ALL the time.  First I dabbled with the adorable lemonade nails, and now I've got a cute daisy manicure to share with you lovelies!

Here's a Pippa swatch all on her own.  She's just so stinkin cute and sunny! 

 

Then I had this idea to stamp some daisies in black on the yellow.  The images for my thumb and the rest of my nails are from Konad M51.

 

This is really cute on its own, but decided to top it off by filling in the black outlines with a small nail art brush and some white polish.

I think the effect is super cute.  When I did it perfectly they look like stickers!  But, it was soooooo hard to get it perfectly in the lines. 

So, how do you feel about yellow?  Are there any colors that you totally avoid?  If so, I think it's time to break out of that box and give them a try!  You never know what you might like, or what might look good on you! 

Strawberry Manicure for your Pink Wednesday

I'm gonna let you in on a little secret to this whole nail blogging thing:  Sometimes I am so filled with inspiration and ideas that I can't make up my mind on what manicure to do.  I literally just sit there for like half an hour staring at my image plates and watching Youtube videos thinking about what I want to do. One such night happened last week.  I really wanted to play with my new image plates, so I just decided to paint my nails white and play around. 

I wish I would've taken a picture of my typical white base all by itself because I think a lot of times whites come in two types: opaque and super chalky, or super sheer and pretty, but takes 4-5 coats to get the color you want.  UGH!  So, what I've been doing lately is one or two coats of the chalky opaque dollar store white, and then add one coat of pretty shimmery Zoya Christinna, and it feels much softer than the average white base.

So after I had my pretty white base, I decided to do two different manicures.  One on each hand. On one hand I really wanted to do a cute fruit-inspired manicure, so I did french tips in my konad hot pink, then stamped some strawberries to each nail from my big fat plate, painted the stems green, and added some white dots to the tips with my dotting tool to just finish it all off!

I'm sorry for the super crappy picture.  I was over at my mom's about to take this off when I realized I forgot to capture it, so I took a quick pic using her iPad.

Strawberries aren't the only design that can be stamped on white!  I also did a cute hounds tooth design in black on my other hand because I just CANNOT make up my mind sometimes! 

I love this classic design!  I think my big fat image plate full nail designs are a bit bigger than my Konad plates, so I think I'm going to have to try more of these out.

What do you guys think?  Anyone else suffer from indecisiveness when selecting their manicure?  Please forgive me for the bad picture quality, I just wanted to make sure I captured these for you guys.

Femme Fatale Nails

Confession Time: I'm a HUGE Britney Spears fan!  I love her!  So, last week when her new album, Femme Fatale, came out I just HAD to do a Britney inspired manicure!  So, I tweeted Zoya and asked them what color I should wear to celebrate Femme Fatale, and they suggested Zoya Freja.  Lucky for me, I already had this color in my collection!  Freja is a dark shimmery gray. 

I stamped the lace print from Konad M57 plate using Sally Hansen Silver Sweep and then stamped the black flowers from M57 on top.  It feels very hard core and FIERCE to me.  Just like Britney! 

Have you heard Femme Fatale yet?  What are you favorite songs?  I'm really digging How I Roll and He About to Lose Me.  *swoon*

On Wednesdays We Wear Pink

I've decided to join a group of fetch bloggers who love Mean Girls and pink!  I'll be honest, I used to love Mean Girls, but now it just makes me sad!  Lilo used to be so awesome, and now she is just a hot mess.  Mean Girls just reminds me of all that wasted potential ;) hahahaha!

So, I'm starting pink Wednesdays with an all new pink I just got from Zoya: Hayden!  Hayden is very special to me because my bff who LOVES pink just happens to have a son named Hayden, so I just had to get it during Zoya's BOGO event!

Now Hayden is a bit sheerer than I like.  This is three coats and there was definitely still some visible nail lines, so what is a girl to do, but konad a big white bow over it!  LOL!  I'm really loving this cute pink mani! 

Wanna see what else I got from the Zoya BOGO event?

From their new Sunshine, Summer and Mod Matte Collections: Sookie, Mira, Keiko, Areej, Faye, Apple, Lolly, and Phoebe.  Plus, I got a couple of extra bonus colors I had been lusting after:

Zara, Hayden and Jancyn  I hope this holds me over for awhile because I'm officially cut off!  I told the hubs he wasn't allowed to buy any golf stuff for three months, and I think it is only fair if I do the same with nail stuff!  Luckily, my birthday is in there, so even if I don't buy any new polishes, I might still receive some new goodies!  *fingers crossed*

Spa Night at Moondancerjen's House!

This past weekend I invited over some of my fav gal pals for a spa party!  After my friends found out about my new konad obsession, they were all eager to try, so that was the main focus of the party!  In case you are thinking about hosting a spa party of your own, here is how we set it up:

 

Pedicure Room.  We set up two foot baths across from the bathroom for easy water access, then laid out some magazines and foot spa goodies I got from Sally's.

  

 Across the hall in the bathroom, we set up a paraffin wax warmer, plus hand scrubs, face masks, and lotions.  While at Sally's I picked up Gigi's pomegranate grapefruit wax for the paraffin warmer and it smelled divine!  Everyone loved doing the hand wax part.  It makes your hands sooooo soft afterwards!

 

This is what I lovingly refer to as the nail bar.  I put my whole stash up there with the konad plates so everyone could pick their polish and design and then bring it to the table to play with.

Here's the table.  I put the tools on here that everyone would need, like base coats, stamping polishes, all the stampers and files, cotton balls, etc...

 Here is a detail shot of the goodies all separated out into their glass containers.

Now, onto some of the gorgeous konadicures that came out of the party:

 This is mine.  I used Zoya Dove as a base, stamped the zebra print from M57 using konad special polish and then topped it with Chine Glaze Fairy Dust (love this sparkle)

 

On my friend Lisa she picked Zoya Perrie with a design from one of my fauxnad plates in Konad special white polish.

 My friend Cindy used my new Charcoal color from Forever 21.  LOVE the black and sparkles!  She stamped a simple silver rose with Sally Hansen Silver Sweep on her middle fingers and then added a simple little red rhinestone.

 My friend Krystal LOVES stars and pink, so this manicure did not surprise me a bit, but I think it is so cute!  She brought her own China Glaze color for the base.  I didn't catch the name of it.  Then stamped the stars using konad special white and then placed a rhinestone on each nail.

 I helped my friend Jamie out on this one, and I definitely think I was channeling JWOWW from the Jersey Shore with these black tips!  Black tips were Zoya Raven.  Glitter top coat was China Glaze Fairy Dust and Claire's Glow in the Dark polish I got from LTHP's giveaway.

There were many more nails where those came from, but my pictures didn't come out so great on them.  All in all it was SO MUCH FUN sharing something I love so much with all my friends!  They all loved it too!  I think we are definitely going to have to have spa night more often!  Have you guys ever hosted a spa night? 

Flower Power!

 Hoping that spring was here to stay I decided to do a fun flower power konadicure last week.  Check it out:

 With Flash

 

Without Flash.

I started with Zoya Raven as my black base.  Then I stamped the two flowers from konad plate M60 in Zoya Robyn, Sally Hansen Lickety Split Lime, Konad Special pink polish and special white polish, and special yellow polish.  In the colored flowers, I used my dotting tool to add the white centers and in the white flowers, I added blue and pink rhinestones :)

Guess what came in the mail last week? My haul from Forever 21!  In case you missed it, a couple of Fridays ago, Forever 21 decided to donate all proceeds from sales, so I took advantage of a good cause to pick up a cute new outfit, and these four beauties.  Their names aren't very exciting: Orange, Aqua, Dusty Lavender and Charcoal, but I definitely can't wait to wear them!

Oh Caitlin, why you so pretty?

Working my way through the Zoya Intimate Collection one bottle at a time!  Here is Zoya's Caitlin in her grey-blue-purple glory!  I stamped the lace print with Konad white from Konad plate M57.  I used this same design on my first Hello Kitty design.  I love how versatile this plate is.  Let me know what you think!