Running in Circles

Soooo ... I went a little overboard.  This started out as an attempt to do something for St.Patty's day ... it ended up with me trying a different pattern on every nail.  In my head it was super cool, in reality a little weird.  I liked the individual patterns though ... which one is your favourite??

Base - China Glaze Running in Circles
Top - OPI Onyx

LEFT HAND:

RIGHT HAND:  (sorry it was hard to not shake the camera when holding it with my left hand)

Happy Polishing!

Plastic Wrap Manicure in Purple

I saw this technique on Pinterest and I couldn't resist trying it.  Basically you just ball up some plastic wrap, dip it in a little polish and go nuts.  I find it gives a bit of a marble look that I find really interesting.

Base - Essie Master Plan

OPI Dutch 'ya Just Love OPI

OPI Black Onyx

Sparkle sparkle

Sparkles make me happy.  Getting them off makes me angry ... but I'll worry about that later :-)  Sally  Hansen has a great line of very sparkly polishes called Gem Crush.  That's what I used above.  Base coat is OPI Black Onyx and the top coat is something I'm trying called Poshe (I'm going to review it soon).  This manicure is a nice and easy way to make your nails look glamorous.  I put a little bit of the Gem Crush near the base of my nail and did that for every nail.  Then I took the brush, took most of the nail polish/sparkles off of it and brushed it over the bottom half of my nail.  That will give you the sparkle gradient you see.  Give it a try, it's fun.

Happy Polishing!

A Total Stud

I was in the mood for a more edgy manicure ... and here it is ... and it's studded!  I used microbeads I bought at Michael's and put them on one by one with a toothpick.  Goodtimes  :-)  I love how it turned out, was totally worth it.

OPI - Black Onyx

Playing with striping tape

SPARKLES!!!!  Was that too excited ?!?  I love anything sparkly and OPI My Private Jet is a nice way to do it for the winter.  It's a holographic nail polish at heart with a dark grey almost black base.  I jazzed it up even more with some metallic striping tape (you can buy the tape off etsy or ebay for a couple of bucks)

OPI - my private jet with silver metallic striping tape