Sunday Football Nail Art

Anyone watching the Big Game today? We will be here. I'm not too interested in either team playing, but it's still a fun time and we've got a bunch of appetizers to munch on :)

Since I'm not rooting for either team, I went with just a generic football theme on my nails for today. I was easy to do, and I love them with matte top coat.

I used Zoya Jace and Zoya Emilia for my base. I added details using a white and yellow polish. After my fast dry top coat was applied and dry, I used Zoya's matte topcoat over the whole mani.

Mermaid Nails | Zoya Virginia

Wisconsin is currently having basically all of winter in one week at the moment. We had snow Wednesday. Today (Monday) we got tons more with blizzard like conditions at times, and Tuesday-Thursday our lows are going to be dangerously low.

Basically, it's the perfect time for a warm, mermaid themed mani!

I used Zoya Virginia as the main color accented with Zoya Levi. I stamped on the mermaid scales and added some gold studs as well.

Winter/Christmas Nails 2018: Red and Green Bows

For today's manicure, I went with a simple color block style with a bow accent.

When I starting doing this manicure, I looked a bit like a mess. I should have had faith because it turned out really well and was super easy to do.

For my process, I started with a base coat. Then I painted half of my nail red using OPI I Love You Just Be-Cusco. For this next part, I highly recommend a very opaque polish, especially if you do it how I did. I took Zoya Wyatt and freehanded the block on top. Since Wyatt is so opaque, I only needed the one coat and it covered up my sloppy red block easily.

I finished this mani with these tiny bow gemstones.

Winter/Christmas Nails 2018: Santa Cats

Today's manicure is featuring this super adorable stamp from MoYou London. There's tons of cute images on there, but I decided to use this and keep the mani simple in order to keep it in the spotlight.

For the stamping, I used a base of Sally Hansen White On and stamped using Girly Bits Fire Engine Red. I painted my other nails Zoya Merida.

Winter/Christmas Nails 2018: Simple Christmas Tree Nails

Today's mani is super simple. I started with a green holographic polish. It's from an indie who is no longer around, but any green holographic (or polish for that matter) would do!
After applying top coat letting my polish fully dry, I used a ribbon style stencil and Zoya Chyna for the tree. I left the texture of Chyna there for something different.

Winter/Christmas Nails 2018: Blue & White

For today's nails, I went with a sparkly blue and white snowflake manicure. We've only gotten snow once this season in my part of Wisconsin, and it didn't last long. At least I have some on my nails for a bit :)

Products used:
Too Fancy Lacquer Velvet Nights
China Glaze Glistening Snow

Winter/Christmas Nails 2018: Candy Cane

For today's holiday nails, I went candy cane inspired.

Products used:

*KBShimmer Fireball (glitter)
*KBShimer Chilly Pepper
*Spiral nail vinyls

*a black and white polish

Fall Plaid Nail Art with OPI Peru Collection

When I saw swatches of the OPI Peru Collection Fall 2018, I was a bit disappointed in the colors. I studied aboard in Peru 8 years ago, and it was such an amazing experience. The Peru I knew has tons of earth tones of the mountains and valleys but also bright colors of the clothing. I wish we could have some more of those bright colors.

However, I still decided to get 4 of them because sometimes I'm a sucker for names. I used two of the colors to create a fall style plaid manicure inspired by Nails by DanielleT.

For this mani, I used OPI Como se llama? (the Spanish teacher in me cringes soooo hard at this terrible grammer) and Machu Peach-u. 

Halloween Nails 2018: Skulls

I picked up this stamping plate awhile ago and have been saving it for Halloween.

I was peeking around in my Helmer, trying to figure out which polish I wanted to pair with this plate when I found the perfect polish.

For the base of this manicure, I used OPI Skull and Glossbones. I stamped used Funky Fingers Dark Knight and the previously mentioned Born Pretty Store plate BP-146

Halloween Nails 2018: Spiderwebs and Spiders

There's certain times of the year that just really lend themselves sooo well to nail art, and October is one of them for me. So be prepared for a ton of different Halloween related polishes and nail art designs.

I picked up Girly Bits Put Your Strap On at Polish Con. It was part of the Polish Pickup June 2018 and was sold at the convention as part of the Polish Pickup overflow table with all proceeds going to charity. I actually picked this one up twice to look at it, so I totally knew I needed to get it when I picked it up the second time.
It's a gorgeous white semi-jelly based polish with tons of shimmer and flakies. I needed 3 coats for full opacity.

I used it as the base of my spiderweb and spider themed manicure. The webs are stamped from Festive Collection Plate 53 from MoYou London. I freehanded the spider using black nail polish and a small brush.

Needle Marble Blue and Grey Nails

This manicure is actually pretty old, but I haven't had a chance to post it yet.

For this manicure, I used Milani Blue Jay and KBShimmer How You Dune? Blue Jay was a gorgeous polish and almost a one coater.

For the middle finger, I used the needle marble technique. It wasn't my attempt, but it still looked cool.

Polish Con Manicure

So I accidentally took a blogging breaks, oops! Part of it was that my husband had surgery so I had all the chaos of preparing for that, then the surgery/hospital stay, and then I went to Polish Con Minneapolis 2018.

I've been to two previous Polish Cons that both previously took place in Chicago. Minneapolis was quite a bit farther, but still fun to travel to with my momma.

With everything, I still managed to come up a fun mani for Polish Con! The two hosts for this event were Chrissy from KBShimmer and Miranda from Ever After Polish so I used a polish from each for this manicure. I used KBShimmer Shore Thing and Ever After Louisa May Alcott.

Back to School Chalkboard Nail Art with Glisten & Glow

Today I have a school themed chalkboard style mani because my little guy is headed off to his first day of Kindergarten tomorrow! He did well in 4K last year so I'm sure he'll love this year too.

For this mani, I stuck to polishes by Glisten & Glow. I started with Little Black Dress as my base coat. Then I used Jukebox & Jitterbug, Mother Flora, Mother Sea, and Mother Sky to stamp images from MoYou London plate Scholar 05. 

I really liked this pastel polishes since chalk isn't usually vibrant so it was a nice effect. For some of the images, I mixed the polishes on the plate to give a sort of swirl effect.

After applying a fast dry top coat and letting it dry, I added a matte top coat to complete the effect.

Baseball Nail Art

I apologize for the lateness of this mani! I went to a Chicago Cubs game on August 5th and did this manicure for the game. Sooooo pretty late lol. Here it finally is though :)

Products used:

Funky Fingers Gesso

Zoya Sooki

A-England Tristam

Matte and Shiny Nail Art

Hello all! Sorry it's been a minute :) We've been super busy with back to school prep, appointments, car troubles, and fall craft fair prep for me. I will have some back logged posts coming at you today and the next few days.

For today's manicure, I did a mixed finish manicure. I really like how this turned out.

After applying Zoya Lidia (purple), I applied a fast dry top coat and then added Zoya's matte top coat on that. Then I stamped on top using Barry M Razzle Dazzle and the stamping plate below. To keep the mixed finish effect, I left the manicure as that.
I will note that the stamping did flake off a bit since it wasn't protected with top coat, but the overall look was totally worth it.

On my pinkie finger, I just applied Barry M Razzle Dazzle and top coat.

Magenta Rose Nail Art

Hello all! I'm back. We had family visiting for a few days, and then a few kid free days so I took a mini-staycation. I'm back with a new post today.

Artificial Lighting

For today's manicure, the focus is on Zoya Nana. Nana is a deep magenta pink color that's perfect for that transition from summer to fall. It applies nicely in two coats.

All the polishes I used for this manicure were Zoya Jace (for the leaves), Zoya Nana (for a base plus the roses), KBShimmer How You Dune? (for a base plus the polka dots), and Funky Fingers Gesso (for mixing with Nana for the rose detail).

Artificial Lighting

Rose manicures on some of my favorite to do because they are easy and beautiful

Natural Lighting

Matte Lace Nail Art Design

For today's manicure, I went with a lace design. I love the look of lace manicures, but I rarely do them. I debated going traditional using a nude base with the black stamping, but I thought a colored base would be really cool.

For the base, I used Wet n Wild Through the Grapevine. It's much more of a pinkish leaning purple than it shows here. This polish is from the Megalast line so it has a huge curved brush. I have smaller nails so I'm not a huge fan of the big brush.

After applying the stamping image, I added a fast dry topcoat to seal in the design. After that was dry, I added Zoya matte topcoat. I haven't used matte top coat in a while, and I love how it looks over lace nail designs.

The plate I used is from Born Pretty Story, and is BP-L020. It's full of a ton of different lace designs.