Twelve Looks from the Last Ten Months and a Little Life Update

Hey everyone, long time no talk!

It looks like it has been about 10 months since I last posted on here, wow! A lot has happened in that time including me finishing up the last year of my Bachelor's of Science with Honours in Biochemistry! Other than that, most of what has happened has been really sad and difficult. I don't want to get into it too much because this should be a happy nail place but my dad began emotionally and verbally abusing us over a year ago, using drugs and now he has moved out and my parents are separated. I struggle with depression and anxiety but now that I have some time off from school I have a lot more time for self care and I really want to get into blogging again. If any of you guys ever want to talk about anything I'm here!

Anyways, onto the twelve looks I've done in the last ten months!

OPI Landscape Artist, Turquoise Aesthetic & Indigo Motif

Deborah Lippmann Love in the Dunes

American Apparel Neon Blue & The Valley

China Glaze Under the Boardwalk

Elevation Polish Lake of the Isles feat one of our kitties, Dmitri!

American Apparel Hassid

Essie Viva Antigua & Loot the Booty

Sonia Kashuk On the Hunt

American Apparel Malibu Green, Sonia Kashuk Jewel Orchid, OPI Rich Girls and Po-Boys & Cirque Colors Carpe Diem

Pure Ice Saddle Me Up

China Glaze Inner Beauty & American Apparel Hassid (inspired by frederiqueolthuis)

OPI I Manicure for Beads & Sonia Kashuk Gary Matter

Thanks so much for having a look guys! I really hope I keep up with this streak of motivation because I really miss blogging. It's so nice to read through my old posts because it's kind of like a journal so I'd like to continue with it. I hope you are all doing well, happy Thursday!

Five Roundups From Five Months: Blue

Hello hello everyone! Today I have the blue looks I wore during my absence to share!

My first final exam is tomorrow so I will be busy studying for about another week. I can't wait for them all to be done and for my summer to start! I'm going to try and get a proper job and continue my tutoring so I won't get bored on this big break!

Anyways, onto the looks!

OPI Indigo Motif with ILNP Phoenix Holo, OPI OPI... Euros Euro, OPI Do You Have This Colour in Stockholm? & Deborah Lippmann Dream Weaver dry brushed on top

Chanel Blue Boy & OPI Don't Speak

Sonia Kashuk Gray Matter & China Glaze Wait N' Sea

Sonia Kashuk Gray Matter, OPI I Saw... U Saw... We Saw... Warsaw & ILNP Paradox Holo

OPI No Room For The Blues & a Hex Nail Jewelry charm

piCture pOlish Darcy, Cirque Colors Carpe Diem, a bunch of blue, turquoise and teal American Apparel polishes, China Glaze Fairy Dust, a Hex Nail Jewelry charm & American Apparel Neon Purple for the undersides

OPI Dark Side Of The Mood (base), Born Pretty Store foils (I'll do a proper post about them soon), Deborah Lippmann Dream Weaver & NYC Matte Me Crazy top coat

Thanks so much for taking a look everyone! I hope you're having a great week and if you have finals coming up I hope they go swimmingly! Happy Thursday! :)

Navy & Purple Dry Marble with Some Hex Nail Jewelry!

Hey everyone! Today I have some dark dry marble nails to share!

Last night we went to a horror movie, and tonight we're going to a haunted house and then another horror movie! I swear I'll have a heart attack before the weekend is over!

Anyways, onto the nails!

To start, I applied one coat of American Apparel Mount Royal. On one nail at a time, I applied a second coat of Mount Royal followed by a few blobs of Sonia Kashuk Jewel Orchid right from the brush from the bottle. With a striping brush, I swirled the two colours around until it looked cool!

With some top coat, I decided to add some Hex Nail Jewelry charms because I love these things! They are reusable and I probably have close to 50 by now!

What do you guys think of this look? I feel like these were hard to photograph because of the glare but I really liked them!

Thanks so much for having a look everyone! I'll be back with some glitter nails, happy Friday! =)

Leaf Nail Art Guest Post At Polish Those Nails!

Hey everyone!

I was asked to do a guest post by the lovely Marisa of Polish Those Nails and a few days ago it went live! Check out the post here for more information and pictures of this look!

Happy Sunday guys! :)

Coral and Orange Lattice Featuring Girly Bits Hoop! There It Is

Hey everyone! Today I have a recreation of a gorgeous design by The Nail Artiste to share!

Today's post will be a quick one with lots of pictures! I had my wisdom teeth out six days ago so I'm definitely still recovering. I want to jump back into blogging just about once a day so let's get into it!

To start, I applied two coats of American Apparel Sandstorm and allowed it to dry. Next, I went in with a fairly large paintbrush and either Girly Bits Hoop! There It Is (pinker neon) or Sonia Kashuk Sunset Bvld (orange creme) depending on the nail. Some top coat (Essie Good to Go) and I was done!

For the first time in a while I remembered to photograph my right hand! I reversed the colours which I think looks really cool with index and middle finger accent nails.

So what do you guys think of this look? I'd love to know! I liked these but the colours didn't really feel 'me'.

Thanks so much for taking a look everyone! I'll be back with one more long nail look and then we'll be into looks done on my new nubs! Happy Thursday guys!

Purple Gradient Nails Topped with Simple Grey Lines!

Hey everybody! Today I have some simple gradient nails to share!

I feel like it was forever and a day ago that I did these nails, mainly because this was right after I cut my nails and they're already long again! I swear they grow abnormally fast! I should put together another nail care routine post because maybe it's something to do with how I care for them (not that I do anything special).

Anyways, onto the nails!

Here is the gradient base of these nails! I filmed a tutorial for this whole look, so expect to see it very soon on my Instagram!

I applied one coat of American Apparel Dynasty and let that dry. It was such an opaque polish that I could have just stopped there and it would have looked fine! Next, with a damp makeup sponge, I sponged on a line of Dynasty with a line of Sonia Kashuk Jewel Orchid on top. I've done this kind of 'gradient tip as an afterthought' look before, and I always end up really liking it! It's a lot less messy to do it this way as only the tips of your nails and surrounding skin get covered in polish (not your cuticles and other surrounding skin as well).

After a minute or so, I added a coat of top coat (I think I'm going to stop stating Essie Good to Go every time because it's my favourite and I'll always use it) to blend the gradient a little more and protect the look!

I apologize for the tip wear in all of these photos, my nails chip faster when they're super short because I don't always wrap my tips (too messy) and I seem to use my nails as tools more often.

And here we have the finished look! I added these V shapes with a striper brush from Winstonia and Sonia Kashuk Grey Matter!

I quite like this look as it isn't really my style and it's fun to do designs like that sometimes. However, I did find that the V's made my nails look squarer than they actually are, which I wasn't really a fan of.

I did these nails for the WNAC 2015 challenge on Instagram, and I've since done some ikat nails that will be coming to the blog soon!

Thanks so much for taking a look everyone! What do you guys think of these nails? I'd love to hear in the comments! :)

As a bonus, here is my Cindy (right) hand! Sometimes I forget to take pictures of it but it's always matching my more photogenic hand! :P

Thanks for taking a look guys! Like I said above, I'll be back with some ikat nails soon, but probably a springy watermarble beforehand! Happy Friday y'all! =)

Nails I've Never Posted: Take One!

Hey everyone! Today I have five manis I've never posted to share!

So I guess I shouldn't make promises about when I'm going to post next, I should just do it as often as I can and get into some kind of schedule :P. I had some pictures ready to go several days ago but they were so colour inaccurate that I didn't see any reason to post them. After that, a cold hit me like a ton of bricks that I'm still suffering from. There's this constant phlegm in my throat that no amount of water will displace (sorry if tmi) so I feel like I'm almost choking all day long. After taking a bit of a break from nails and a massive break from reading the blogs I follow (that I'm not sure I can ever catch up on) I really am excited and madly in love with nails again!

School-wise things have been pretty boring and all of my lectures have been reviews. There is one class that will be definitely include things I haven't heard before and one that will probably involve some new stuff, but it looks like my other two classes cover exactly the same things as the second year versions of them. Hopefully they'll be in slightly more detail or else what the heck am I paying for? :P Anyways, onto the nails!

First up we have Sonnetarium Raspberry Sorbet, which is surprisingly orange and maybe slightly different than the majority of the ones they sell. I love it anyway and I'll have to wear it again and get some proper swatch pics! I think this is two coats (but I think it would have benefitted from a third) and definitely a coat of top coat!

Next up we have another adorable Sonnetarium polish called Cucumber Salad! What you see here is two coats (I think) and a coat of top coat!

Here we have the only nail art I did while in Switzerland, using two coats (I think) of Sinful Colors Dreamer, some OPI Don't Bossa Nova Me Around and a coat of top coat. I really love my nails this short and the next time you see them they'll be about this short! 

Next we have the only other nails I did in Switzerland, just two coats of Revlon Entice and a coat of top coat (again, probably two coats, I'm not 100% positive).

Finally, we have a horribly colour inaccurate picture of the polish I mentioned at the beginning of this post. This is one super easy coat of Sonia Kashuk Sweet Dreams, a much more purple polish than it looks here. It is still a pink polish but it has quite a bit of purple mixed in. Below you can see a much more colour accurate picture of it that I posted on my Instagram!

What do you guys think of any of these looks? I'd love to know in the comments!

Thanks so much for having a look everyone! Again, I'm not sure what I'll have for you next but I'll probably paint my nails tonight and post a picture on Instagram! I also have at least four more manis I've never posted on here to share in another post like this! Happy Friday! =)