A Really Late Friday's Manicure: Snowflakes And Penguins

My manicure that I've had all week has been penguins and snowflakes. I couldn't get it up sooner because my camera was still packed from the Thanksgiving trip and I didn't feel like getting it out. Plus, I've been really busy.



All my polish that I used in this mani is from my midgi nail art pens and the snowflakes are from the konad plate M59 with the white special polish.

Friday's Manicure: I Cheated...

I love using nail polish strips, but they're always a splurge for me. So, I was happy when I found two that I liked at Ulta in the clearence bin. One was even the O.P.I. brand! But, I used the Ulta brand first.

These strips were originally $12.50, but were reduced to $3.99. That sounded like a pretty good deal to me! I'm going out of town for Thanksgiving, and I like to use nail strips before I travel because they usually last longer. But, I am not too satisfied with these strips. There was a really pretty color above the purple stripe at the top of my nail, but I couldn't get any of it on because someone would have to have freakishly long nails to see it. The Sally Hansen ones let you use both ends of the strip, but the Ulta brand doesn't. Also, they don't file off very well. You are supposed to fold it over the edge of your nail and file it off, but it got wrinkled and tore. It just started looking very sloppy after a while, but then it could just be me. Still, I am glad I didn't pay full-price.

Friday's Manicure: Halloween!

So, for yesterday's manicure, I wanted to do something for Halloween. Because I couldn't decide on whether to do spiderwebs or candy corn, I did both!

On my left hand, I painted spiderwebs. The orange is Times Square Tangerine from N.Y.C. and the black is Black Creme from Wet N' Wild. I painted the webs with my black and silver stripers from Sinful Colors.

On my right hand, I painted the more simple candy corn nails. I used Wet N' Wild's White Creme and the same oragne from my other hand. For the yellow, I used N.Y.C.'s Taxi Cab Yellow, but since it turned out too light, I painted a stripe of a little nameless bottle from a Claire's set that a friend gave me for my bithday a few years ago. That made the yellow pop a little more.

Did you or are you going to paint your nails for Halloween? Comment down below!

Friday's Manicure: Vintage Rosebuds

All over YouTube I've seen manicures like this. They're little vintage-style rosebuds. For a while I thought "I have to do this" because they're so me. My style is very vintage romantic.

The blue is Wet N' Wild's Need A Refresh-Mint, the pink is an e.l.f. polish that came in a set and doesn't have a name. I used a white striper for the white areas and I painted the leaves with a midgi nail art pen.

These rosebuds were very easy to do, even though they look complicated.

On my left hand, I decided to add stripes and polka dots. I made the dots with a mechanical pencil dipped in polish.

Friday's Manicure: Post-Birthday Blues (Or Greens)

This past Friday was my 16th birthday. I was really busy that day and yesterday I had a party, so I didn't have time to re-paint my nails until today. Later I will make a post about my birthday. Anyway, my mom got me some new konads and new special polishes.

Because I now have 3 special polishes, which are thicker and the best kind to use for nail art stamping, I can layer different designs. I used both of my new plates for this manicure. On my ring finger, I have a white dandelion over some purple flowers. Both of them are from plate m20.

On my index finger, I stamped a pink ladybug from plate m30. Because I didn't want the green polish that I was using as a base color to make it look too bright, I painted a couple coats of maybeline's Pink Opal, which is a very sheer color. The green is Pixel Polish's Sexy S-Lime.

And I am so proud of myself! I only bumped my polish once, and it was really tiny and fixable. Even I can barely notice it.

Friday's Manicure: Birthday French

Next Friday is my birthday! This is the manicure I will have the day of.

 I wanted to do a simple french manicure with my elf french manicure set. The base color is pink. I have some tip guides that I used to make the line as crisp as possible. To make it a little bit extra special, I put rhinestones in the middle. Pink and teal are my favorite colors, but the lavender went so pretty with it. It's also one of my favorites, too. Just not as much as the other two.

Friday's Manicure: Magnetic Polish

This past Friday, I decided to do a manicure using London Colors' magnetic polish in Whitehall. It is a very pretty teal-blue color that I have never seen anywhere else. When I put the magnet over it, it looks like tiny little ocean waves on my nails! The manicure also looks really cool. Sometimes when I do it, like now, I'll just be sitting somwhere, moving my hand back and forth and watching the colors move. I know that there are now cheaper kinds with other designs, but they weren't out when I got this last Christmas. And besides, I love the color!

I, like always, took pictures, but they turned out a little blurry. Sorry about that. Also, I made a video so that I could try to show how it looks when it moves. That turned out blurry, too. Again, sorry. My camera was made mainly for pictures.

Friday's Manicure: Back to School Blue Plaid

I go back to school on Monday. (sigh) For my manicure, I decided to do a nail foil in pale blue. Then I painted a simple plaid design with the black and white striper polishes from Sinful Colors. After that, I put either a black or white pearl where the stripes cross and make a plaid. The foil was a little uncooperative in some places, so the design made it look a little bit neater. (Please ignore the bug spray)

You can click on the pictures to make them bigger and see them better.

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Friday's Manicure: Neon Pink Braid

I saw a YouTube video of a braided manicure tutorial and I thought it looked really cool. I was saving it for a trip that we were going to go on this weekend, but unfortunately we could not scrape up enough cash to do it. But, I decided to to the manicure anyway.

The pink I used it Orly's Oh Cabana Boy, the white is Colorama by Maybeline in Pink Opal, and the blue is HD by Sally Hansen in Laser (which I borrowed from my aunt). All the colors were very sheer, which was cool when I put the blue over the pink because it looked purple. But, I had to put on the white 3 times and it still didn't cover the blue completely. The manicure also took a long time to get totaly dry, so I smeared it some.

I don't know which pictures turned out the best, so I just put both the indoor and outdoor ones. Personally, I think the thumbnail turned out the best, even though I smeared the very tip of it a tiny bit trying to open a mirror.

This is how I did the other hand. On this one, I had to put on at least 7 coats of white to make it opague.

And this is the video I used. Enjoy!

Friday's Manicure: On Thursday

I had on the black and white flower manicure for two weeks, and I just had the urge to paint my nails yesterday, which was Thursday. Normally, I re-paint my nails on Friday, but nothing sounded better than using my new polish and watching Crazy, Stupid, Love on the couch. Yep, yesterday was a lazy day. Anyway here is the bottle:

And my manicure:

On my ring finger, I just put a flower design from the KONAD m9 plate. In case you don't know, KONAD is a nail art stamping tool.

Now I want to talk about the color itself. It's Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in The Real Teal. I ran out of my favorite polish of the same brand and type, Marine Scene, but I couldn't find it at the drugstore. Instead, I got this. I think I like it better. It is so pretty! It's a teal with a slight shimmer to it. The reason why I took so many pictures was because I wanted to be sure that I could capture the color. On camera, it looks more like a blue, but in real life, it's a teal.

Friday's Manicure: Black and White Flower

Every Friday, I re-paint my nails. Friday is always the most convienent day for me to do it. Most of the time, it's nail art. Anyway, this past Friday I did this black and white flower design. It took me a while to actually get this post up, but here it is;

I used Claire's white nail polish (can't remember the name), then I used the Sinful Colors black striper polish to paint the flower on my ring finger and swirls on my index one. For the rest and outside the flower, I used Miliani's Disco, which is a pink glitter. Then I put hot pink rhinestones on my designs. I really like how this turned out. It looks kinda sketchy, if that makes any sense. I think I might let this go for two weeks instead of one.

This is the close-up of my ring finger. I reccomend clicking it to make it bigger so you can see the design. The rhinestone is a little hard to see, but it was hard for me to get the angle and the entire flower at the same time.

And here is the swirl design. I think it compliments the flower really well. It kinda goes with my bedding in the background, too... :)