Breast Cancer Awareness Ribbon Nail Art Tutorial

Hey guys!  I've got another pink nail art tutorial for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  Today, I did a seed bead breast cancer ribbon.

Here's what you'll need:

I used one coat of Nutra Nail Bulletproof Strengthening (I cannot stress how much I LOVE this product), followed by one coast of Seche Clear base coat.  After it was dry, I applied two coats of a hot pink polish - I used Avon Speed Dry in 'Strawberry'.  I allowed my base color to dry COMPLETELY.
Once my polish was dry, I used my dotting tool dipped into some cheapo clear polish (I used a Revlon one I've had for a while).  With my dotting tool, I drew a ribbon shape quickly and then basically dumped on some light pink seed beads (8 little bottles of different colors for $1 and Dollar Tree).  It came out really messy but I was able to clean it up and make it look like a breast cancer ribbon!  I let the ribbon design dry for a while, probably about 20 minutes, then topped with Seche Vite top coat.

Here's the finished product:

And a closeup of the ribbon: (sorry for the glare)

I love the way it came out!  It may come off in a few days but that's OK, it's for a good cause!

I hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial and will give this design a try!

Thanks for reading/watching!  See you all next time :)

Haul/Swatches Combo #2! Dollar Tree & Rite Aid

Hey guys!  Another weekend has passed and of course it was another weekend of shopping!  I went to Rite Aid and Dollar Tree and bought a few new polishes.  I actually went to a different Dollar Tree than the one I usually go to, and I'm SO glad I did because they had a ton of different stuff!

Swatch photos are at the bottom of the post.
Here's the haul video:

And the colors: (swatches at the bottom of the post)

Left: Wet n Wild 'Sunny Side Up', a light/medium orange creme finish...almost the color of a creamsicle! Right: Wet n Wild 'Rain Check', a shimmery bluish-purplish-gray.  Just gorgeous.  Both were 99 cents each at Rite Aid.

Left: Wet n Wild 'Blue Moon', a very dark blue with a shimmer of blue and almost green.  It's probably my favorite one I picked up this weekend and the photos/video do NOT do it justice. (99 cents at Rite Aid).  Right: Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure 'Himalayan Blue', a lovely sky blue creme finish.  I got this one at Dollar Tree ($1).  I've seen these in other stores and I could have sworn I saw it for $1.99 but one of my Youtube subscribers told me they retail in some places for $8! So my $1 purchase was definitely a steal!

Left: Sinful Colors striper 'Flower Girl', a gold glitter nail art striper ($1.99, Rite Aid).  Right: Color Mates striper, 'Red'...creative! Shall I describe? It's red LOL ($1, Dollar Tree)

Left: Color Mates striper 'Purple Shimmer'...again with the creativity! It's a shimmery purple lol.  Center: Color Mates striper 'Glitter Lites', a silver glitter with both large and small glitters...so pretty!  Right: Color Mates striper 'Opal Glitter', basically a clear polish with some gold-tinted glitter in it.  It's a very subtle glitter and looks gorgeous over my current manicure (see my previous post).  All of these were $1 at Dollar Tree.

 I also picked up these little seed beads for nail art.  I've seen these all over Youtube but never saw any in my local Dollar Tree...but the other local one I went to had a ton of different designs!  There were little sequins and such, but I chose the seed beads to start out with.  I've never used anything like these for nail art so I'm pretty excited! ($1, Dollar Tree)



And the swatches:

Thumb: Color Mates striper 'Red' & Sinful Colors striper 'Flower Girl'; Index: Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure 'Himalayan Blue'; Middle: Wet n Wild 'Blue Moon'; Ring: Wet n Wild 'Rain Check'; Pinky: Wet n Wild 'Sunny Side Up'

Thumb: Color Mates striper 'Purple Shimmer' & Color Mates striper 'Glitter Lites'; Index: Color Mates striper 'Opal Glitter'



That's all I've got for you today, stay tuned for my next pink nail art tutorial for Breast Cancer Awareness month - I've got one or two more pink manicures before I do my Halloween stuff!

Thanks for reading&watching, I hope you enjoyed!  I'll see you guys next time!

Latest manicure! Simple pink with glitter accent (Breast Cancer Awareness #2)

Hey guys! Just wanted to share a quick manicure with you today. I started this manicure with one coat of Nutra Nail Bulletproof Strengthening Formula. Then I added one coat of my Seche Clear basecoat followed by two coats of Avon's 'Retro Rose'. Once that was totally dry, I painted some glitter (Colormates striper in 'Opal Glitter') on my accent nail. I finished with my Seche Vite top coat. It came out looking so cute! I love this new glitter I bought!

I've been working on some ideas for more pink nail art tutorials for Breast Cancer Awareness month. I just bought some little seed beads so I'll be experimenting with those. Also, look out for my latest haul which I put on YouTube yesterday and I'll probably post up here tonight.
Thanks for reading, I'll see you guys next time!

Water Marble Tutorial - Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Hey guys!  I have the first of my series of pink manicures for you today!  As you may know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  So I'm going to be doing a few pink nail designs until Halloween.  Today I've got a pink swirl water marble tutorial.  I actually did it twice, thinking I would choose one or the other to put up on Youtube, but I decided I liked them both so I just put up both.

Here's take one:

And take two:

And the finished product:

Stay tuned for more pink nail art tutorials!  I hope you enjoyed, thanks for reading/watching!
See you next time!

Haul/swatches combo!

Hey guys!  I spent all weekend shopping and, of course, I had to pick up a few new polishes!

Here's the haul/swatch video.  I'd suggest you watch it because (silly me) I forgot to take photos of the swatches!  Shame!  But I did take pics of the polishes which I'll include in this post as well.

And the colors:

Left: L.A. Colors 'Treasure Island', a sheer teal base with blue and green glitter. ($1, Dollar Tree)  Right: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails 'Rock Bottom', a shimmery purple. ($1.92, Wal-Mart)

Left: Wet n Wild 'Caribbean Frost', a shimmery teal. (99 cents, Shop Rite--yes, the grocery store!)  Right: Wet n Wild 'Tickled Pink', a soft baby pink. (99 cents, Rite Aid)

Left: Sinful Colors 'A Slice To Go', a hot pink nail art striper. ($1.99, Rite Aid)  Right: Sinful Colors 'Love Me', a clear polish striper loaded with pink, purple, and turquoise glitter. ($1.99, Rite Aid)


That's all for now, but stay tuned for more hauls, swatches, and nail art...I've already bought two more polishes this week and the weekend is coming up so of course there will be more LOL

Thanks for watching/reading!  I hope you enjoyed :)  See you next time!

Latest manicure! Finally tried a French!

Hey guys!  I wanted to share my latest manicure...I finally decided to try a French manicure!  I've tried before with terrible results--I can never get a good tip line!  I've tried freehand,scotch  tape, stripers...nothing worked for me.  So when I saw some French tip stickers (photo below) in Rite-Aid, I decided to try them out.  I'm really pleased with the results.

First up, here's what I used:

Nailene Perfect Tips.  96 stickers for $1.99 at Rite Aid, but they should be available in most drugstores.

Left: Sinful Colors 'Snow Me White', Center: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails 'Rock Bottom', Right: Sinful Colors striper 'Love Me'

I started off with a basecoat (Seche Clear) on my nails.  Once that was totally dry, I applied the stickers.  The trick to this is to take some of the tackiness off the stickers before you put it on your nail, otherwise it will pull up the basecoat when you peel the sticker off.  To take the tackiness off, I just stuck the sticker on the back of my hand 2 or 3 times before applying to my nails.  Make sure you press the edges of the stickers down into the crease of the side of your nailbed.
Once all of the stickers were on, (I did one hand at a time starting with my dominant hand in case I really screwed up and decided to give up LOL) so once the stickers were on, I used my white polish (see photo above) to paint my tips.  Make sure you cover your nail tip all the way to the edges.  Allow the tips to dry completely before removing the stickers.
Once I had my white tips, I applied an old Revlon top coat that I had which had a bit of pink in it (I used it one too many times over still-tacky pink polish).  You can use a sheer pink or nude polish if you'd like (I'm dying to pick up Essie's 'Mademoiselle' for this exact reason!), or you can just use a clear coat.
After this was all done, I decided to do a little design on the accent nail.  I had just bought a glitter striper so I decided to use that and dot on a small heart.  I just dragged the glitter striper across the nail tip line and allowed it to dry.  Since the glitter was purple-y, I made my heart using a purple polish.  I used a dotting tool to make the two top dots of the heart, then dragged diagonally until they met in a heart shape. (you'll see in photos below)
Finally, I finished off with Seche Vite top coat.
I really love how it came out and I'll be fine-tuning it in a few weeks.

My French manicure!

French manicure with accent nail design

Accent nail design close-up.  Glitter stripe in Sinful Colors 'Love Me', heart in Sally Hansen 'Rock Bottom'.


That's it for today!  I hope you guys enjoyed and if you give this a try, or if you have any tips for making French manicures easier, let me know!

Thanks for reading, see you next time!

Swatch alert!! Testing my Dollar Tree polishes!

Hey guys!  Just a quick swatch post for you today.  I tested out my new Dollar Tree polishes and was pretty happy with the results!  They were a bit thin but I applied 3 thin coats and they dried really quickly in between and I got full coverage with the 3 thin coats.

Here's the swatch video:

And here's the photos:

Thumb: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails in 'Sheer Vanilla'
Index: same as thumb for the base, stripes were made by using Color Mates striper in 'Cocoa' (You may have seen this nail in my last post "The Mismatched Manicure")
Middle: Color Mates in 'Metallic Blue'
Ring: L.A. Colors in 'Phenomena'
Pinky: L.A. Colors in 'Circuits'

Both of these are Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear in 'Teal-y Cool'.  On the left, I applied 3 coats of the teal glitter over 3 coats of Sally Hansen 'Sheer Vanilla', but when I started applying the glitter polish, the base color started peeling up.  You can see that in the center of the nail.  But, I tried that again after allowing the base color to dry COMPLETELY and it didn't peel up and came out looking great.  On the right is just 3 coats of the teal glitter.

That's all for today BUT I have another haul coming up.  I did some shopping over the weekend and picked up a few new polishes, of course!  

Thanks for reading!  See you guys next time!

Latest manicure! "The Mismatched Manicure"

Hey guys! I was doing some swatches tonight and I decided to do a funky little design on my nails because I liked how one of the colors I tried came out. So, here's my funky design!

I started off with 3 coats of Sally Hansen Hard as Nails 'Sheer Vanilla' on all of my nails.
On my pinky I added gold glitter polish (Wet n Wild 'The Gold & The Beautiful').
On my ring finger, I dotted on some brown dots (China Glaze 'Mahogany Magic'). Some dots I made smaller than others by dotting on paper first before I went to the nail. Once the large brown dots were dry I dotted on some teal (Finger Paints 'Go Van Gogh') in the center of the large brown dots. I also added small teal dots to the empty spaces on my nail.
On my middle finger, I added two coats of a teal glitter (Sally Hansen 'Teal-y Cool'). It didn't come out quite as teal as I'd hoped, it looks almost like an icy blue.
 For my index finger, I used my brown nail art striper (Color Mates 'Cocoa') to draw a basket-weave sort of design by drawing lines diagonally from left to right, then diagonally from right to left. This was the nail that I swatched to test my striper and it inspired this design.  I didn't want to take it off!
I left my thumb plain with just the base color. Finally, I topped it all off with Seche Vite top coat once my nails were COMPLETELY dry.

If you like to mix up your manicures every once in a while, give this a try! Use colors that look nice together on a neutral base to really let the design stand out. Don't be afraid to try polka dots with stripes! Matchy-matchy isn't the only way!

I hope you guys enjoyed and I hope you'll give it a try! If you do, please post a photo of it in the comments! I'd love to see your creativity!!

Thanks for reading! See you next time!

Dollar Tree haul!!! Nail polish for $1.00!!!

Hey guys!  I have another haul for you today!  I stopped into my local Dollar Tree and I was so pleasantly surprised to find a TON of nail polish in the beauty aisle!  I spent $5 and got 6 new polishes...SO worth it since the regular price of Orly and China Glaze is at least $6 each.  And I won't feel bad tossing them if they're junk.  Anyway, here's the haul:

Photos:

L.A. Colors Color Craze.  Left: 'Circuits', a creme finish black, right: 'Phenomena', a beautiful fuschia color.  This photo makes it look more pink than fuschia so I took a closer picture, below.

You can definitely see the fuschia color in this one.

Both of these are Color Mates.  Left: 'Metallic Blue' (creative, huh? Do I even need to describe this one? LOL), right: nail art striper in 'Cocoa', a medium brown perfect for fall.

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails.  These were in a 2-pack for $1...can't get much better than that!  Left: 'Sheer Vanilla', a creamy beige; right: 'Teal-y Cool', a GORGEOUS teal-ish green-ish glitter polish.  It's got some teal, green, gold, and turquoise glitter in it and it's absolutely my favorite one I bought today.  I took another photo with no flash (below) so you can see the glitter.

Here you can see the gold, teal, and turqouise glitter.  In the bottle, it looks like a sheer greenish-teal base so I'm curious to do some swatching and see what it really looks like!


That's all for now...hope you all enjoyed!  See you next time!

Swatch Alert! Testing my new colors!

Hey guys!  I finally got the swatch post together (although I don't know what took me so long--it's a relatively short post!)

If you read my latest haul post or watched the haul video, you'll know that I recently bought six new polishes!  Since that post, I also bought two more, which were on sale at my local grocery store (Shop Rite).  I swatched those as well as all of my colors from my Sallybeauty.com haul.

So, here we go!
First off, here's the swatch video if you're interested:

Okay, now on to the photos!  My two new colors, from Wet N Wild, were on sale for $1.99 each at my grocery store.

Both are Wet N Wild Fast Dry.  Left: 'The Gold & the Beautiful', a clear polish LOADED with gold glitter, right: '9.0.2.1.Orange' a sheer orange with goldish-orange glitter.

Swatches:

Thumb to pinky: Orly 'Bailamos', China Glaze 'Cha Cha Cha', China Glaze 'Exotic Encounters'(this was used as a comparison to see the color difference between that and the next one-they look almost the same in the bottle but you can tell the difference on the finger.), Finger Paints 'Go Van Gogh', and Finger Paints 'Sketch N Etch'.

Pinky to thumb: Wet N Wild '9.0.2.1.Orange', Wet N Wild 'The Gold & The Beautiful', China Glaze 'Hook and Line', China Glaze 'Mahogany Magic', and China Glaze 'Mahogany Magic' topped with Wet N Wild 'The Gold & the Beautiful'.  I think the thumb is my favorite look I tested.  It's SO glittery and gorgeous!


That's it for now...hope you guys enjoyed!  See you next time!

Latest manicure! And swatches coming soon!

Hey guys! I just wanted to show you my latest manicure...it's so simple and pretty!
This manicure is started, of course, with my Seche Clear base coat, followed by two coats of Orly's 'Bailamos'. For my accent nails, I used a small dotting tool to make polka dots using Sinful Colors 'Snow Me White'. I allowed that to dry and then painted one coat of Orly's 'Shine On Crazy Diamond', a glitter polish. I topped it all (after it was completely dry) with Seche Vite top coat. It's so simple but came out so cute!!

Also, be on the lookout for my next post, swatches of my new colors! I'm super excited to put it together for you!

Hope you guys enjoy! Thanks for reading & see you all soon!