Christmas in February!

Haha... I told you my posts were a bit dated! I wanted to share my Christmas look with you, so here it is! As has been the tradition in years past, I went with a mix-and-match array of designs in a Christmas-y color scheme.

Taken in random, splotchy natural light.

We've got a whole jumble of things going on here... glitter, pearls, gems! Waterfall, dry-brushing, dots, and saran wrap! Red and green and gold and white... this was definitely a fun look to rock for the holidays. :)

Polishes Used
Julie G Cherry on Top
Zoya Dakota
Sinful Colors Snow Me White
China Glaze New Birth
Piggy Polish Ivy Leaf in Santa Claus
Zoya Ziv
Daring Digits Robin
Glitterfied Nails 24 kt Gold

Gold & Glittery with Zoya and Glitterfied Nails

Today I've got a glittery look to share with you! Despite being a silver person, I can't get enough gold nail polish!

This look features Neve with my go-to gold, Ziv, providing an accent. I topped everything with a coat of 24 ct. Gold and ta-da! Sparkly and definitely gold!

Polishes Used
Zoya Neve
Zoya Ziv
Glitterfied Nails 24 kt Gold

Star Dots Featuring Zoya Dakota and Zoya Ziv

Hey there! This is an older look that I did a couple of months ago when we were still in the dredges of winter, so I figured I'd share now before we get too far into spring!

Picture taken inside under normal lights.

This was an interesting look I came up with, dealing with black and black-and-gold dots over Zoya's Dakota. I needed a red creme and bought Dakota... and I have yet to be disappointed! I then added on some black plastic rhinestone stars and dots to make this a bit more fun. Woo! 

Polishes Used
Sinful Colors Black on Black
Zoya Ziv
Zoya Dakota

Remix! Black and Gold Outlined Manicure

Alrighty! I've got my second remix look to share! This is a take on a challenge I did for Flip/Flop February for the Outlined Nails day and the Re-creation day. 

Taken in natural daylight.

I started this look with the same goldy champagne color then topped it with a black matte micro glitter. Finally, everything got the black outline. After finishing this look, I realized I needed to add thinner to my black striper... but otherwise I'm still loving this look!

Polishes Used
Ulta High Roller
Daring Digits Soot
Color Club Black Striper

A Day Late... Christmas Skittles!

Hey there! I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas holiday and (maybe) enjoyed some time off of work. Sorry I've been so scarce... I've been swamped with work and took my first ever business trip last week! Keep an eye out for my next post for more info on how that went. ;)

As for the look I have today, it's my traditional Christmas skittles! There's just something so fun about this time of year and all the nail art possibilities that I can't help but mix up my look with 10 different designs.

(Click to enlarge!)

This year we've got a doticure, penguin, gold glitter bomb, green with red glequins, and a glitter half moon on the left hand. On the right, we have a glitter striped pinky, glitter bomb with heart rhinestones, snowman, snowflakes, and candy stripes. Whew! Not my best work, or the most creative, but it's enough for the season!

Polishes Used (from left thumb to right thumb, and I'm not listing duplicates for each nail. :P)

Sinful Colors Snow Me White

Sinful Colors Bleeding Heart

Sinful Colors Amazonian

Zoya Ziv

Funky Fingers Dark Knight

Color Club Black Striper

CoverGirl #245

Funky Fingers Star-Studded

Nicole by OPI Gold Texture

OPI Fresh Frog of Bel Air
Color Club Gold Glitter Striper
Daring Digits Robin

Fall Chevrons

Hey there! Today I've got a super fun look that I couldn't stop staring at when it was on my fingers! 

I got this idea from work / play / polish's guest post here... except she used neons. I've wanted to do this look ever since I saw it but I didn't get around to it until now. 

It's so luminous and warming and pretty and yes! It took a bit of time, but it was totally worth it! I started off with the white base, used striping tape to mark everything off, then painted in the colors. Add in some top coat and wow! A gorgeous design. :) Both pictures were taken in natural light. 

Polishes Used

Pure Ice Platinum

Wingin' It Lacquer Burning Leaves

Zoya Ziv

Dots Metallic Bronze

Flip/Flop February: Day 28

Hi there! Can you believe it's been an entire month of manis already?! That time flew by! The last challenge for Flip/Flop February was to recreate a previous look. Because I kinda cheated on my outline nails by using nail decals for the base, I decided to redo that look.

I put down a base color (that same weird gold/silver as the decals!), stamped on a ring pattern after I realized my Bundle Monster plates didn't have a fishnet design, quickly painted the outline, then topped the look off with top coat. When I recreated this look I did it as a temp design, so I opted to use cheap topcoat. You can see the disastrous results on my ring finger there... the topcoat pulled the design and made it bubble a bit. Ick!!!

Anywhos, it was super fun to partake in this challenge! I'll definitely be doing more in the future... although I'm not sure about a month long. Maybe some weekly challenges next... we'll see! :)

Flip/Flop February: Day 24

Hello there! Today's Flip/Flop February choice was between tissue paper or rainbow nails. I'm not a big fan of the tissue paper look, so I went with rainbow! I opted for a subtle rainbow look... rainbow glitter instead of all the different colors combined (... I have yet to get a good creme yellow to make rainbow looks with... oops!).

The glitter polish used was Lush Lacquer's Lite Brite. How gorgeous is this?! Again, I used my favorite gold (OPI's Curry Up Don't Be Late!) as the base color. 

Colors Used: See above. :)

Flip/Flop February: Day 21

Hmm... dots or flames? I went with dots! Please enjoy this cruddy toe picture... this was one of those last-minute manicures (er... pedicures) I had to do to fit into this challenge.

I still have to figure out how to properly use my dotting tools. It never seems like my dots are perfect/ uniform enough. 

Colors Used:
Funky Fingers Pink/Gold Duochrome (no bottle information)
Funky Fingers Kiss the Girl
Zoya Ziv

Flip/Flop February: Day 20

Alrighty! Today's challenge was between v-gap and flowers. I really wanted to do a v-gap mani, but in the essence of timing, I had to go with flowers. This is a stamped design (Bundle Monster Series 1 plates) that I'm going to half-assedly qualify as flowers, even though they are clearly vines. Deal with it. xD

Anywhos... just your basic black stamped over my favorite gold polish EVER, OPI's Curry Up Don't Be Late! You can tell this picture is from the summer... see the green grass?!

Colors Used:
OPI Curry Up Don't Be Late!
Sinful Colors Black on Black 

Flip/Flop February: Day 19

Hello! Today's FFF choices were wings or outlined nails. I've kinda been envious of the outlined look but always thought it took too long to do. WRONG! It was actually kinda simple. Of course, it helped that I cheated and did this over my Sally Hanson nail strips... but I really enjoyed the look!

These looked super sophisticated in real life... I'd love to try this with neons in the summer!

Colors Used:
Sinful Colors Black on Black

Flip/Flop February: Day 9

Ok-dokey! Today I have another awkward toe picture for you! ^o^ The choice was between abstract and plastic wrap. I wanted to try to replicate all of the cool manicures I see online with swooping lines and dots and glitter (the ones that just scream "I went to a nail salon for this!" to me). Yeah... not so much. I tried though- and this is what happened!

I think I need a new black striping polish. Or just a striping brush... eh.

Colors Used:
(I think it was) Wet n' Wild Bijou Blue
Zoya Ziv
Color Club Black

Flip/Flop February: Day 5

Alrighty! Today we have the day 5 challenge: 3D or decals. Because my definition of "3D" in regards to nails is something small like a rhinestone, I decided to go with decals! Seriously though- the 3D options that are floating out there on the web intimidate me a bit (fimo canes, baubles, chains... ahh!). I think they also lack functionality and practicality; sure they look cool, but can you cook/ clean/ type/ live with the extra embellishments? I dunno...

Shown are Sally Hanson Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips in Misbehaved. I'm not sure if these are technically decals, but it's what I had to work with! :P