Disney Days: Bambi

Good morning lovely people!

I did it! I really did it! LOL I actually am continuing with the Disney Days challenge! I'm not going to lie I was a little afraid it would slide to the side again but I'm determined this time :) 

So today's Disney Days challenge was my mom's idea, Bambi was the first Disney movie to pop into her head when I asked. A bunch of ideas ran through my head but I'm pretty happy with the design I settled on, so take a look! :) 

Colors used:
- China Glaze Harvest Moon
- China Glaze Fast Track
- China Glaze Running In Circles
- China Glaze Def Defying 
- Lime Crime Parfait Day
- Brown Acrylic Paint
- Light Brown Acrylic Paint
- Black Acrylic Paint
- White Acrylic Paint 

The other nails were actually my mom's idea as well. They are supposed to look like the back of a deer, and since I was going off of memory I think they came out pretty good ;) You also can't really tell but there is a gradient on the nails from light brown to brown back to light brown. The effect isn't quite as pronounced as I wanted it to be but it's still great!

Also, the lovely and extremely talented Mimi of Mimi Manicures has decided to do Disney Days with me! Woohoo!!! So make sure you click the link above to go to her page and see what she came up with for Bambi I know it will be amazing! :)

And if anyone else wants to do Disney Days with us all you have to do is send me and email at kjones622@hotmail.com and you can gladly play too! We don't bite I promise! LOL

So what do you guys think?

Thanks for reading :) 

Glitter gradient

Good morning!

Happy Friday!! Woohoo! I sure do love me my Fridays :) 

I've got something extra sparkly for you guys today. I tried out my first glitter gradient using the wonderful Lucy from Lucy's Stash's tutorial. Click HERE for the awesome tutorial ;) I don't really have all that many glitter polishes, I steered pretty clear of them when my obsession started because I was terrified of the removal process! But now that I know how to get it off  easier I've been trying to pick up more glitters. Why you ask?! Well because Lucy always does AMAZING glitter gradients and I'm super jealous -_- haha! Mine aren't anywhere near as good as hers but I'm pretty happy with the results for my first time. 

Colors used:
- Wet n Wild Black Creme
- Wet n Wild Sparked

I think if my nails were longer it would have been easier to create this look. I kept getting the glitter too far down and I had to go back with my black polish to cover some of it up! And I don't think my glitter polish was quite dense enough. But thats ok because the final look is pretty darn cool!

So what do you guys think? Have you tried glitter gradient nails?

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Quilted nails

Good morning!

Well I hope it's good for you anyways ;) Thursdays aren't particularly one of my favorite days because I generally work 10 hours -_- But money talks right? LOL Not to mention I'm dealing with my poor baby puppy Leana who hurt her paw really badly two nights ago (if you follow my on Twitter I posted a pic there). It's still not healing well and she won't even walk on it :( Sadness... But she's a resilient little pup so I'm sure she'll be back to normal in no time :) 

On with the nails! So a few days ago someone posted to FB.. I can't remember who.. but they posted THIS pic of dotted quilted nails and I thought they were so cute! Obviously I tried to recreate them ;) They didn't come out as good as I hoped for but I still loved them none the less!

Colors used:
- China Glaze Escaping Reality 
- Black Acrylic Paint
- White Acrylic Paint

So you know those days where no matter how hard you try nothing comes out right on your nails? That was totally me the night I did this. I had to repaint my nails a million times! Every time I was close to done I'd mess up my pointer or middle finger. I think I messed up my pointer four times and my middle two times *sigh* Oh and throw a thumb in there once too LOL. But I perservered and finally came to these ^^ I'm really happy that I put the white highlight on the dots they look almost 3D now ha!

What do you guys think? 

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Keep Calm and Stamp On ;)

Hello lovelies!

I've been missing my stamping lately and yesterday I managed to get my hands on Pure Ice Silver Mercedes which I heard stamped beautifully so you know I had to try it out! I also managed to get to an Ulta and picked up my first two Essences in the new bottle, a really pretty Ulta glitter, and OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls :D I was really hoping to get a Layla Holo but alas there were none there :( I'll have to go to another one I guess ;) 

So everyone who said the Silver Mercedes stamps amazingly was absolutely correct!! I couldn't be happier with the results! I'll have to stamp with Silver Mercedes and Sally Hansen Silver Sweep to see which one is best though. I also got a chance to try out one of the new Essences so check this out! :) 

Colors used:

- Essence Let's Get Lost

- Pure Ice Silver Mercedes

I'm not sure why my fingers look so weird in those two pics... poor modeling I suppose -_- LOL. 

So awesome! I love Essence Let's Get Lost so much! It only took two coats for opacity and dried so shiny! Not to mention I'm totally digging the new bottles, they click closed which is really helpful and the brush is super wide which I personally love!

So what do you guys think?

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It's crazzzzy dot time!

Good morning!

Now that Monday's over I think I'll be able to make it through the week ;) how about you guys? The upside to yesterday though is that we got some snow! Yay! No real accumulation but hey snow is snow right? Last year we got next to nothing besides the weird October storm so I'm hoping Mr. Winter has a little more in store for us this year. 

I hope you guys aren't tired of dots because I think I went a little crazy with this one LOL! I just wanted some dots and some how ended up with a lot of them! I think it's pretty cool though so check it out! :) 

Colors used:
- Lime Crime Pastelchio
- Lime Crime Lavendairy
- Lime Crime Parfait Day
- Lime Crime Once in A Blue Mousse
- Sinful Colors Black on Black 

I love the pastels against the black background I think it really makes them pop! From far away these puppies looked SO cool! All I used was a large dotting tool and a toothpick, super easy! 

If you don't follow me on Twitter then you missed this pic but one of my babies was helping me edit these pics last night.... for payment in cookies of course ;) 

And because she'd be mad at me if I excluded her here's my sleeping beauty :) 

So what do you guys think?

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Faded dotted gradient

Good morning!

Ugh it's Monday isn't it -_- Welp might as well just jump right in right? Work is being kind of bleh for me lately but hopefully this funk will end soon ;) 

Anyways I took to Twitter last night for some more nailspiration and the lovely Inky from Inky Whiskers Musings let me know that my blog has been seriously lacking in the dotticure area ;) LOL And I couldn't agree more! I actually did two dotticure designs last night and this one just happened to be one of them! I've been wanting to try a faded dotted gradient thingy for a while and definitely digging the results... take a look! :) 

Colors used:

- Maybelline Color Show Green With Envy

- Black Acrylic Paint

I just think this is so cool! I was afraid while I was doing it because I didn't think it would actually look like a gradient but I think it actually does.. Score for having something actually turn out like it looked in my head! LOL

The look was really easy to create. I just painted my nails with my base color, then I used a large and medium dotting tool for the bigger dots and a toothpick for the smaller dots at the top. All I did was place the dots at random getting smaller as I got closer to my cuticle. See easy peasy! :) 

Oh and if you haven't visited Miss Inky's page then you totally have to! She is SO sweet and her nails are always fab! So go show her some love!! :) 

So what do you guys think?

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Totally tape-ular dude!

Happy Sunday!

I hope your weekend is going well! I was SO unproductive yesterday -_- I was planning on painting my nails at least twice maybe three times and only ended up painting them once... but it's ok because I am totally loving them! LOL I decided to break out the trusty striping tape and just do something random, too bad I can't actually do anything random because I am WAY too OCD -_- hah! I still think they came out pretty BA though so check them out! 

Colors used:

- Lime Crime Once in A Blue Mousse

- FInger Paints Late Night Rendezvous

I did a different design on my right hand since I knew I wouldn't be able to do the one above on it. I mean I probably could but it took me almost an hour and a half just to lay the striping tape down on my left hand and I really didn't feel like doing that again -_- But it's actually quite cool so here's a close up of my right ring finger :) 

Simpler but they kind of look cool together. I should have taken a photo with both my hands... oops! I really love using striping tape! Well, I hate cutting it and placing it and finding that stupid end piece, but other then that it's awesome ;) 

So what do you guys think?

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