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Negative space stripes. 

I’ve written before about my love for all things involving negative space nail art, and today I have a quick negative space accent nail to share. I’ve been trying to do my nails as much as possible while I still can, while also coming up with ideas for quick nail art I may be able to do after baby comes. Thank god for nail vinyls, am I right? Going to need to order a bunch before baby comes for those days I can actually do my nails! 

These negative space stripes are definitely perfect for a quick accent nail. They look way more complicated then they actually are! Thankfully you don’t have to wait near as long to use tape or vinyls when you’re only applying it over base coat. 

For this manicure I used: 

  • Essence Rock Your World!
  • Sally Hansen Cherry Cherry Bang Bang 
  • Kiss Products Nail Art Striper in Black. 
  • Striping Tape
  • Essie Gel Setter 

I really love the combination of grey and pink–they just always go so well together! 

What are your favourite accent nail designs? Let me know in the comments below! I’ve also been thinking about maybe starting to do some tutorials, so if that is something you’d be interested in seeing, let me know. 

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Red Cup inspired red nails. 

So here is what I topped Claire’s Red Carpet with from yesterday’s post! I’m sure you’ve come across one of the adorable cups from Starbucks red cup collection. As my husband and I are both avid Starbucks drinkers (incase you’ve never noticed before) I just had to recreate one of the designs on my nails. So I went with my favourite–the Christmas lights! 

The polishes used for this mani are:

  • Claire’s Red Carpet 
  • Sally Hansen I Love Nail Art pen in black. 
  • OPI I Cannoli Wear OPI
  • Essie Gel Setter. 
  • Small sized dotting tool. 


What do you think of this mani? My light bulbs turned out slightly wonky, but I feel like it channels the inspiration well enough! Plus there is nothing that says Christmas is coming (for the coffee addict at least) than when Starbucks brings out their red cups… and Gingerbread latte of course! 

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QUO by Orly Trash Glam 

Good Morning Lovelies!
Today I’m going a little more simple with my polish and rocking a polish I’ve owned for quite a while but never actually worn as a full mani: QUO by Orly Trash Glam. And thanks to my Internet googling prowless I’ve learned two things about this polish: it’s a dupe for Orly Sparkling Garbage, and it’s not called Trashy Glam (which, as witnessed in a previous post, I totally thought it was!)

Trash Glam is a beautfiul scattered holo glitter suspended in a green jelly base that is super sheer. For me, it’s best layered over a complimentary colour (I used OPI My Dogsled is a Hybrid) so you get the holo-ness in all it’s glory, but you don’t have to worry about any visible nail line. For my pictures below, I used two coats of Trash Glam layered over two coats of My Dog Sled is a Hybrid and finished everything with one coat of my favourite top coat Essie Gel Setter.

I received this polish from my Hubby a couple years back for our very first Christmas together as part of the QUO by Orly holiday polish pack that came out that year. Green has always been one of those colours I don’t really gravitate towards, mostly because I don’t think it does anything for me. But green holo? I can definitely get behind green holo! The sparkle in the sunshine alone is enough for me to fall in love with this polish.

I totally tried to get a #mynailsandmycat shot with this polish, but every time I tried our kitty Hades would just look away from the camera. She just wasn’t feeling the holo love I guess. I also tried to get a picture of her with the polish bottle but she just laid on top of it. Haha. I guess my kitties are just not meant to be the next Menchie the Cat.

 

What’s your favourite holo polish and colour? Let me know in the comments below!

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Saran Wrap Splatter nails. 

There is nothing I enjoy more than discovering new (to me, at least) polish brands!

And my favourite place for finding new polishes is Marshalls/Winners. They always seem to have interesting brands that I’ve never heard of before (and amazing deals on those polish brands I just love!) There is a Marshalls by work that I’m always visiting, and when I popped in a little while ago I saw a nail polish set by a brand called My Beauty Spot, so naturally I had to pick it up to try them out. I liked the polishes so much, that when I dragged the hubby to Winners a few days later I saw another set and decided to pick it up too!

The colours were so bright and vibrant I decided to combine them together in a saran wrap splatter design.

 

The polishes I used for this manicure were:

  • Essie Cabana Boy (base colour)
  • My Beauty Spot colours in pink, lime green, blurple, and teal.
  • Essie Gel Setter.
  • Crinkled up Saran Wrap/Plastic Wrap/Plastic Bag

 

The steps to achieve this design:

  1. Base your nails with your base coat of choice (I love Nailtek 2 and Barielle Nail Rebuilding Protein.)
  2. After your base coat has dried, paint your nails with your base colour (Essie Cabana Boy) and seal in with a quick dry top coat (Essie Gel Setter)
  3. After you’ve let your base colour dry for a couple of minutes, take your Saran wrap and rip up and crinkle four balls. You can also use a plastic grocery bag if you don’t have Saran Wrap. Make sure you have enough for all your colours.
  4. Using one colour at a time, paint you polish onto your crinkled plastic wrap ball and dab onto the nail to create a “splatter” look. I always try to apply to different areas of my nails, only overlapping my colours slightly. Also, if you feel like you’ve applied too much polish to your plastic, dab once onto paper towel before your nail.
  5. Once you’ve applied all of your colours to your nails, and like how everything looks, you can apply your quick dry top coat to seal in your design.
  6. Use a small brush dipped in acetone to remove any polish that got on your skin (or you can apply a peel off around your cuticles before painting to protect your skin!)

 

 

What do you think of these saran wrap splatter nails?

I love creating a splatter look this way, instead of the traditional way (with a straw), because I find it’s a lot less mess to clean up afterwards but still has a very similar effect!

Have a great day everyone!

 

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Freehand Tribal Accent Nails. 

I’ve been slacking on the blog front thanks to work stress and an impending move. No time to sit down and concentrate on blogging. Hopefully I’ll have more time soon, but in the mean time I thought I’d share some tribal. 

I love tribal/Aztec print… I might even almost love it more than floral. It’s been a while since I shared a tribal print mani, so I knew I needed to do some! I adore how these turned out. 

  
The polishes I used for this mani were:

  • OPI Gelato on my Mind
  • OPI I Cannoli Wear OPI
  • Essie In the Cab-Ana
  • China Glaze Plur-ple
  • Essence Back in Black 
  • Essie Gel Setter 
  • Circle stickers from Dollarama
  • Born Pretty Store small detail nail art brush. 

   

Finally weather in Halifax is getting warm and Spring like! I can finally break out the Spring dresses… Even if I still need some tights for the mornings. Makes me excited for warm summer days and pretty bright nail polishes!