Pinterest Christmas-y nail art

Hey everyone :)

Happy almost Christmas! :D :e

I have some nail art for you today that I saw on Pinterest awhile ago and LVOED,

and tried my hand at it.

Here's my re-creation of the Nail Network's original mani.

Blah. You can see that after I applied the SV too soon,

a few of the red dots bled :/

Aside from that, I was pretty pleased with this. I thought the original mani was gorgeous, though. Very festive :) Here are the polishes I used:

Zoya 'Kimmy' - dots

So Easy Stripe Rite for silver line

Essie 'Buy Me a Cameo'- base (2 coats)

Color Club 'Ho Ho Holly'- tips

That's it for today!

Thanks for reading :)

Candy Canes!

Hey!

I've finally got some nail art for you.

It's been forever since i've done any (and i'm not that great at it to begin with),

but I had a go at some candy cane inspired nails the other night.

I actually really liked how it turned out!

Tada!

For my unsteady, shaky hands- i'm rather pleased with this.

Festive and bright! :)

Clean-up is rather messy,

but this mani took me forever so i said screw ittttt :P

I used:

China Glaze 'Ruby Pumps'

Sally Hansen 'White On'

striping tape

Stripe Rite striper in silver

I felt more festive just wearing it :D

What do you think?

What's your favorite Christmas nail art?

all matchy matchy

Hey everyone,

hope those of you who had to worry about it survived the storms today. Our weather person kept telling us how bad it was going to get, that 40 tornados touched down in our state, yadda yadda... but my county hardly saw a thing.

wtf.

Anyway, in getting out my spring & summer clothes, I came across one of my favorite warm weather dresses, & decided to do a look & nails using it as inspiration!

Yay! I love color blocking.

I had no idea what direction I was going in when I started this look,

But I actually quite like how it turned out :)

I used:

a metallic white on the inner corners, metallic salmon, metallic teal from ULTA's metallic palette

Urban Decay's 'Blackout' on corners

UD's 'Skimp' on brow bone

Covergirl's Line Exact Liquid Eyeliner

Too Faced's 'Lashgasm' mascara (LOVE this stuff- may do review later)

Then for the nails:

I attempted some form of crappy color blocking. In the end, my hand just shook to much for the black line to be straight, & the other two colors (though I only used 2 coats) became thick & gloopy :/

Polishes used:

OPI's 'OPI on Collins Ave.'

Sinful Colors' Rise & Shine'

black nail art paint on striper brush

Now obviously I wouldn't wear these together because I would look hilarious, but I thought it was neat to play with the dress on both my eyes & nails.

What do ya think?

:D

christmas present haul

SUP.

I've got some super exciting things to post tonight in my haul consisting of christmas gifts!

woo hoo!

first & foremost (and what i'm most excited about) are my brushes & eye pencils! I've been wanting some quality brushes for awhile to better execute my shadow looks and these are legit. 

I got the Crease brush and the Shadow brush, & can't wait to try them! I'll have to post some looks with them soon.

I also got a few of the eye pencils i'd asked for:

I've never used any of these before (though I use these 3 eye shadows all the time) but am expecting great things :)

NEXT,

i got several different nail polishes :

from left to right: Watermelon Rind, Flying Dragon, Blonde Bombshell, Ruby Pumps (mini), Grape Juice, Strawberry Fields, and Emberstone

(i apparently have a fruit theme going...)

I'm super excited about theses and will have swatches of these up soon!

I also received 2 normal size OPI polishes of two minis that I already have-

(and a good base coat, woo!)

Lastly, I got 4 stripers.

 I've never used these before either but am looking forward to trying & learning new things about them! ... Though I don't really think too much will look good until my nails get longer :/

ANYWAY, that's it for my little Christmas haul.

Do any of you have any of this already? And if so, what are your opinions on it?!

Thanks for reading, and any feedback is more than welcome!

:D