Nail Of The Day!!! Crazy Summery Combination!

So I have been recovering from surgery all of this week, and have really been going crazy being unable to do much of anything but watch movies, and lay around. Today I have finally been able to get around a little more, I was even able to sit upright long enough to do my nails!!  This was huge for me, and it has completely renewed my spirits.  It's amazing how sometimes even the smallest things can just really brighten our mood!  I am someone who always has to have my nails painted, so having them completely unpolished since Sunday (5 days) has been absolute torture for me!

I had the hardest time deciding what color/colors to paint them though, because everything looked so appealing! I wished I could have painted my nails 20 different colors.  I played around with some of my nail wheels to try to decide what I wanted to do.  I knew that I wanted to incorporate some neon because this has been a major obsession of mine for the past few months.  I thought about doing a pink ombre look, but it wasn't quite loud enough for me today.  I decided that I would do a blue, and neon/gold look.

I love neon polishes but I hate how they are never as opaque as you'd like them to be.  Inevitably, I always have to build up by doing several coats, then I worry that the polish will chip easier because I had to do so many coats.  I have heard that doing one coat of a white polish first will potentially help the neon polish be more opaque.  I had yet to actually try it, but today I finally decided to give it a try.  So I played around with this on my wheel first, and was quite surprised with how effective just one coat of a white first was.  I did it with my China Glaze Sun Worshiper, and my China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy, my two favorite neon colors at this time.  The pictures aren't showing the difference as much as I would have liked, but there is a definite difference between the nail that I just did the neon color on, and the nail that I used a white base first.

The left nail in both pictures has no white, and the nail on the right has one coat of white.

Now for what I did on my actual nails... I used the base coat and top coat from Butter London.  I also used China Glaze First Mate, China Glaze Sun Worshiper, OPI Catch Me In Your Net, and Essie Blanco for my base for the Sun Worshiper.

This combination is a little out there, but honestly, it's exactly what I needed to perk me up today!  Also, I am LOVING OPI Catch Me In Your Net right now!  Sometimes I tend to forget about it, but I am so happy that I stumbled upon it while I was digging through my collection today!  It is such a perfect color for summer, it reminds me of the glistening ocean!!  It is a wonderful mix between blue, and green.  The picture isn't doing it much justice, but if you're looking for a really fun summer polish, I would definitely recommend checking this color out!  It is very pretty!

I hope that everyone is doing well, and I hope that you all enjoy the long holiday weekend! :)

Easter Egg NOTD!

If you haven't noticed yet, I am obsessed with nail polish!  I love doing cute nail designs for special occasions, but also for no reason at all!  Easter is a fun holiday for my nails because I love pastel colors, and I love how creative I can be with my designs.  Decorating eggs is something that I love to do, so I figure it is a win-win if I can combine nail art with egg decorating.  Basically, I figure that my nails are just tiny little eggs that I can decorate too.  I also had to do one glitter accent nail because I needed a little glitter in my life today! :)

When doing Easter egg designs, the sky really is the limit with what you can do.  You just have to make sure that you can duplicate the designs on both hands.

Left hand thumb

Left hand

Right hand

Colors used:

Thumb: OPI-Pink Friday base, with Sally Hansen-Mint Sorbet polka dots

Index: Sally Hansen-Mint Sorbet base, with Butter London-Trout Pout zig zags, and Sally Hansen-Pacific Blue polka dots

Middle: China Glaze-Lemon Fizz base, with Butter London-Scoundrel polka dots

Ring: 1 coat of Essie-Blanco, and 1 coat of  Revlon-Starry Pink 

Pinky:Butter London-Trout Pout, with Essie-Blanco zig zags

First Attempt At Ombre Nails! NOTD!!

Next time I try this, I will probably not mix shimmer colors with flat colors.  I think that is what makes it somewhat funny looking?  I like it though!  I love blues, and getting to wear five different ones all at once makes me happy! :)

These are the colors from left to right:

China Glaze-First Mate

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear-Pacific Blue

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear-Ocean View

Essie-Barbados Blue

Hard Candy-Sky

NOTD!

Nail Of The Day!!

This is one of my favorite neon colors from China Glaze.  This is Turned Up Turquoise.  It is a very pretty and bold turquoise color.  This is two coats, and one coat of Seche Vite topcoat.  Neon polishes dry very matte, so you really cannot skip a topcoat!  I mostly wear this color on my toes, but I just decided to wear it on my nails this time.  It is definitely making me happy on this gloomy day today!

Nail Of The Day!

Hey hey!  So for my first blog post, I wanted to do a NOTD!  I love looking at these because I am always interested in seeing what people are wearing on their nails!  


I am wearing Revlon's Top Speed polish in 120 Cupid.  I used two coats, and I must say, this color is amazing!!  I also have an accent nail to add a bit of pop.  I painted the accent nail with one coat of the Cupid first, then I did two coats of Hard Candy polish in 323 Fabuluxe.  I love this combo, it is definitely a look that I tend to keep going back to!