China Glaze White on White

I don't wear plain white polish often so when I was debating what polish to put on last week, I decided to do just that.

This polish is China Glaze White on White, which is frankly not the best white. It's pretty thin and the formula isn't the greatest.

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.

Barry M Holographic Molten Metal

My sister-in-law lives in Ireland and recently visited us in the States. I often have her bring me back Barry M polishes because they are nice colors, are cheap there, and hard to get here.

She brought me back 3 polishes, and today I have two of them from the Holographic Molten Metal Collection.

First I have Holopgraphic Moon. For a lighter color polish, it went on nicely in 2 coats. It's a lovely pinky nude and would be very appropriate for professional situations.

Holographic Flare is by far my favorite of the two (hello, green!). It also took only 2 coats, and the holographic is intense. I was even getting the effect inside in lower lighting which is awesome.

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.

Leopard Print Skittle Nail Art with Fresh Paint Guava

Artificial lighting

For today's manicure, I have a fun skittle style leopard print that is great for summer.

Artificial lighting

The main polish that I used is Fresh Paint Guava. It's one my favorite polishes to use for summer.

Fresh Paint polish is exclusively available at Five Below, but it can be easily found elsewhere.

Natural lighting

Zoya Zuza

Today's swatch is Zoya Zuza. Zuza is a turquoise shimmer and goes on nicely in two coats. Zuza is an older polish from Zoya (released in 2012), but it's still available which is awesome!

Bright Pink Checkerboard Nail Art

Hello everyone! How are you today? I was up last night with an upset stomach so I'm a bit tired today. I do have a quick post to share with you today!

Artificial lighting

I've never done a checkerboard pattern so course I decided to completely freehand my first one lol. It didn't turn out too bad! You definitely need a steady hand for this. I'm a bit shaky today, so there's no way it would have worked.

Artificial lighting

I love mixing patterns and polishes so I decided to pair the checkerboard pattern with Zoya Dixie, a bright watermelon pink. That plus the heart on my index finger gives is sort of a punk rock feel, I think.

Natural lighting

Sparkly Simple Zoo Nail Art

On Tuesday, we took a sort of last minute trip to the zoo. It was pretty nice out for July (I hate summer lol), and the animals were nice and active :)

Since I was changing my mani, the night before I decided to do a simple, cute zoo themed manicure.

I started with a base of Glisten & Glow Fairy's Tryst plus an accent finger of Painted Polish Stamped in Greenery 2.0

Using Stamped in Greenery 2.0 as well as Stamped in Guava from Painted Polish, I added some images from MoYou London Plate Tropical 06

Simple manis are some of my favorites, and this one was no exception :)