Weekly Blog Roundup!

Grace designed some yummy candy striped nails
Jen created a starry manicure
Sharon is having a giveaway to celebrate her blog birthday
Nicky tested out OPI it’s my year for their new collection
Claire showed us some perfect pearl bridal nails
Ladyluck is also celebrating her blog birthday with a giveaway!
Sarah created a movie buff manicure and demonstrated some SdP plates
Theresa showed us the amazing new Gelish Aurora collection
Stacie played with some holographic paint flakes from ebay

Have a great weekend, lovelies!!!!

Pink Wednesday Tape Manicure Tutorial!

Hi lovelies!  Sorry for the lack of posts this week.  My job has been very demanding of my spare time, so I haven't had a chance to post all the adorable manicures I've been doing lately, but I promise to make some time to schedule some posts because I definitely have a lot to show you!

First, I just want to thank everyone for the great feedback I've been getting with the giveaway entries!  It's not too late to enter, so do it now!  One of the requests I got was to add some functionality so that you can subscribe to my blog through email, so that is now a new block on the ride sidebar, I hope you'll use it!  I also got a request for more tape manicures with tutorial, so I have one of those for you today, and I'll have another one for you next pink Wednesday using the same colors in a different way.

I'll be honest with you, I've had trouble with tape manicures in the best screwing up my base coat, which is why I don't post them often, but I think I've found the solution!  So, first step is to start with a base color of your manicure.  I'm starting with Zoya Purity:

I put a coat of Seche Vite over this and let it dry for a long time to avoid smudging my base coat.  Then I prepped my tape for my manicure.  For the diagonal french, I just needed to pull off a strip of regular tape, then I touched the tape a few times to remove some of the stickiness, and then placed it on my nail diagonally.

Press the tape down well and then paint your second color always going in the same direction so you don't accidentally get under the tape.  My second color is one of the new Zoya Mod Matte shades called Lolly.

Once your finished painting, peel off the tape.  Don't wait for it to dry, this will make sure the tape removes cleanly.

Now that I have my perfect diagonal french, I took a great neon green nail art striper from NaildeRoyale.com along with some cute star sequins also from Nail De Royale and played with them.  You'll see in the pictures below, I played with the placement a bit before I decided on my favorite placement.

This turned out to be such a fun bright manicure!  I got a lot of compliments on it today. 

The neon green striper, star sequins, and Zoya Lolly were all sent to me for my review from Nail De Royale.  If you are looking for good prices on nail polishes, and nail art supplies, definitely check them out!

Hope you liked my first tape manicure tutorial!

Weekly Blog Roundup!

• Sarah stamped this sparkly tiger design
• Claire used craft glitter and shellac to make a gorgeous pedicure
• Ladyluck swatched a rare polish with cute holographic stars and moons in it
• Lena shared BeautyUK Glam nails in Yellow peril
• Stacie create an illustration inspired cupcake manicure
• Sharon swatched the amazing Glitter Gal black holographic
• Grace shows us how to do it like a pro!
• Jen has had a cute fruit themed week
• Emily created a WAH nails inspired look (welcome back em! XD)
• Chell swatched up Butter London in Victoriana - Yum!

Have a great weekend!

Summer Fruit Week - Day 5: Fruity Colors Giveaway!

To finish off Summer Fruit Week I want to celebrate with a little giveaway!  Here is your prize:

This is the L.A. Colors Shimmer Brights Limited Edition Series. These colors are super fun for summer! This giveaway will be open until August 8th. You must be a Google Follower to enter, and you can get extra entries by sharing this giveaway with your blog/twitter followers and by liking my page on facebook. Good Luck!

Summer Fruit Week - Day 4: These nails are GRAPE!

These nails would be great for a wine festival! I started with a base of Revlon Lily.  OMG, what a stunning lilac color!  I just love it!  The color went on really smooth and dried fast, yay!

On top of Lily, I stamped grapes from Bundle Monter's BM108 plate using Zoya Pinta.  I added the green stems using Sally Hansen Lickity Split Lime and an art brush. Note to self, when the camera says it needs new batteries, it means it!  And will not focus properly without them :(  Sorry about the blurry photo.  I hope you get the idea of what it looked like.  I really liked how this came out. 

Are you excited about the stunning conclusion of Summer Fruit Week tomorrow?  I'm definitely excited about having another giveaway!

Summer Fruit Week - Day 3: Strawberries for Pink Wednesday!

Happy Pink Wednesday, Lovelies!  It's day three of summer fruit week.  Hope you are enjoying the manicures so far!  For pink Wednesday I decided to create a strawberry themed manicure! 

I didn't take pix of the steps this time (Sorry!) but here is what I did:

1. Painted all nails, except one accent nail on each hand in Zoya Portia.
2. Painted accent nail in Zoya Dana.
3. On Portia painted nails, add polka dots in Zoya Flora using dotting tool.
4. On Dana nail, add smaller polka dots in Zoya Pippa using dotting tool.
5. On Dana nail, add green lines at the base of the nail for the stem.
6. On Portia nails, add red strawberry shapes using a thin nail art brush.
7. Add yellow dots and tiny green stems to strawberry shapes.

I like using the ring finger as my accent nail, but as you can see in the pictures, I accidentally made my middle finger the accent on my left hand.  Oops!  lol.   I think I like my other strawberry manicure better than this one.  What do you think?

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?

Summer Fruit Week - Day 1: Watermelon Nails

Since we are in the middle of summer, I thought it would be appropriate to celebrate with some rooty tooty fruity nails! :P  Everyday this week I will feature different fruit inspired nail designs.  This fun week of nails will end on Friday with a fruity polish giveaway!!!!!  So stay tuned!

Today's nails are watermelon nails.  My hubby LOVES watermelons.  He says these are his favorite nails I've ever done!  lol.

I started my watermelon nails with Orly Hot Shot.  Please forgive the lack of cleanup, I forgot to cleanup before taking the picture.

To complete the look I used China Glaze Four Leaf Clover on my tips, then used my white striper to separate the green from the red.  To finish off the look, I added the seeds with a wet n' wild black with my dotting tool.  Then, I went a little crazy and added some Fairy Dust.

This manicure definitely inspired this whole week of fruity nails!  I can't wait to share the rest of the looks with you!  I know this whole watermelon look is nothing new, so if you've done watermelon nails, I'd love to see them, feel free to link up in the comments!

Weekly Blog Roundup!

• Sharon got her hands a cool Orly flaky
• The Nail Addict was feeling lovey dovey this week
• Claire’s got twinkly fingers this week
• Sarah used her plates to create this celtic knot manicure
• Jen got her party nails sorted with a Holographic from Claire’s
• Lady Luck missed you
• Grace showed us some of the new OPI nice Stems collection
• Stacie freehanded some roses

Also, Zoya is celebrating reaching 50,000 Facebook followers with a Flip Polish Remover Promo!  Just enter ZOYA50K at checkout!

I just placed my order!  I can't wait to try their remover for the first time, I've heard wonderful things about it!  I also picked up a cute color called Kylie2.

Purple Nails with Silver Stamped Tips

I love purple.  It is just my favorite color ever!  When I look at my polish collection, purple definitely outnumbers the rest.  When trying to pick a color recently I picked this new e.l.f. color called Royal Purple.  I got it from Ross in a three-piece set for super cheap.  Then I did the tips with Silver Sweep with a design from Bundle Monster plate 218.

I really like this tip design!  And this color is just GORGEOUS!!!!  I love deep shiny rich purples like this.  I wish Bundle Monster had more all over designs like this one.

What is your favorite polish color?  Have you tried the new Bundle Monster tips.