Polish and Beyond

Friday, April 11, 2014

Neon on Black

In my last post (the haul one), I bought a black Rimmel nail polish from Kmart. I tried it out this week and really loved it. Black nail polish really isn't my style and contradicts the weather I've been enjoying recently so I decided to change it up a bit.

Saturday, March 29, 2014

HAUL TIME!

Yesterday I had a half day at school since it was the end of third quarter -- WOOHOO! It was also my mom's birthday, so we and my two sisters spent the afternoon shopping. We started by getting lunch at Chick-fil-A -- YUM! Then we headed out to some stores to shop.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Simple Strike Down Nail Art

School has been crazy busy recently with my senior portfolio due on friday so I've really been slacking on my blog So lately I've been stuck on just solid colors for my nails. BUT, I found an easy little design that I'd like to share with you that only took an additional 30 seconds on top of a solid color.

I started with a cool dark blue polish by Pure Ice (sold at Walmart for only $1.97) in the shade Teal Appeal. I was kinda frustrated that the true color wasn't getting picked up by my camera but this shot showed it best. Since I was getting bored with solid nails, I took a gold nail striper and made a little pointed strike running off the tip of each nail. And that's it! Super quick and easy way to spruce up an solid manicure. Have fun creating different color combinations and adding your own flair.

Friday, February 14, 2014

<3 Valentine's Day Nail Art <3

Firstly, I just want to apologize for being so late in putting this up. I really do feel so bad about it and will try to do better. And just a reminder, if you ever have any requests for nail art for specific events or just in general, leave a comment! I'd love to come up with something. And sometimes I could use the inspiration.

To get along with the tutorials, I have a few designs you could wear for Valentine's Day. Again, sorry for the short notice, but at least you won't have to worry about chipping!

Pinky Pink

This is a really simple design. I used white polish on my thumb and ring finger and pink polish on the rest. Then, on the ring finger, I used a small dotting tool dipped in the pink polish to make teeny little polka dots. I used the same dotting tool dipped in the same pink polish to make a teeny little heart in the corner of the thumb nail. As you can see it's a really cute, easy, and QUICK design.

Neutral V-Day Nails

For this design, I started with a light grey base and then used a dotting tool dipped in light pink polish to draw two hearts on the ring finger and different sized dots on the rest of the nails. This is another pretty easy and quick design.

Girls Hearts

The first step of this design is to paint all your nails pink with a white accent nail. Then, use a small dotting tool to draw tiny hearts on the ring finger, using light and dark pink polish (the picture doesn't show the difference very well). Also, the picture doesn't show, but I did a little white heart in the corner of the thumb nail, similar to that from the "Pinky Pink" design.

Candy Hearts

(a.k.a. Conversation Hearts)

This is probably one of my favorite designs, but unfortunately it takes a while to do (so you might have to wait until next Valentine's Day). I picked out some pastel colors that matched closest to the typical Conversation Heart candies. Then, I used a red nail striper to right the little messages on each nail.

Note: I did come up with this design on my own, but days before I did it, my sister tells me she just watched a MissJenFabulous video that is virtually the same but I decided to still do it in case some of you haven't seen that.

Box of Chocolates

Alright I have to admit, this is not the best quality design I've come up with. In fact I wasn't even going to include it in this blog post, but I figured some of you would be able to do a neater job of it. I started with all red nails with a big silver heart on my ring finger. Then using a dotting tool dipped in brown polish, I drew various shapes in the silver heart to represent chocolates. I'm sorry for the sloppy execution of this design but I was rushing and hopefully you'll still have a fun time recreating it.

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I hope you all have a

<3 Happy Valentine's Day! <3

Sunday, December 29, 2013

New Year's Eve Nails

New Year's Eve is an exciting holiday with all kinds of glitzy decorations and lights. Today I'll be showing you how to do a super shiny and sparkly manicure for the holiday or any other time you want to add some sparkle to your look.

Step 1:

Start with a base of a neutral metallic or micro glitter. I used Bold Gold from Maybelline's Color Show collection.(it is one of the holographic polishes). Apply as many coats as it takes to make it completely opaque.

Step 2:

Pick out some chunky glitter polish and apply that over the metallic base. I used a glitter that had a variety of colors (Wet n Wild Fast Dry - Party Of Five Glitters). I did one coat on each nail and multiple coats on my ring finger to make it an accent nail.

Step 3:

Add a coat of your favorite top coat to smooth out the glitter and make your manicure long-lasting.

Alternatives:

- Silver & Gold alternating base with colorful glitter

- Silver & Gold alternating base with Gold & Silver alternating on the opposite color base

- Dark Purple Base with chunky glitter

- ACCENT NAILS!