Bright Warm-Toned Squiggly Nail Art Featuring Sally Hansen and Nicole by OPI!

Hey everyone! Today I have some bright squiggly nail art to share!

It looks like I'll probably have a biology research assistant lab job starting next month and I'm so excited y'all! My plan was to start my Master's this September but there is a funding crisis going on in the biochemistry department. All I want to do is lab work so I really hope this job works out! I've met with some lab members and I'll meet with the lab head in September and let you guys know! Life is and has been hard for the last few years but hopefully some good things are coming!

Anyways, onto the nails!

I started off with three coats of NOPI Hit the Lights over my holy grail base coat: Orly Bonder. In real life this polish was still streaky at this point, so I wouldn't recommend it.

Next, I went in with Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Madame X and Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Daquiri on a small nail art brush. A coat of Essie Good to go, some clean up and I was finished!

So what do you guys think of these nails? I'm a big fan of these squiggles! Hope you're all doing okay, happy Tuesday :).

Five Roundups From Five Months: Multicoloured

Yo yo yo my lovely people! Today I'm here with the last of my roundup posts to share!

I am finished with my exams now and so flipping happy about it! Like I said before, I have some cool nail art ideas that I'll be trying out soon and I'll be posting about them here!

Onto the nails!

piCture pOlish Darcy, O'Hara, Enchanting, Forget Me Not, Doctor Lacquer Carotene Holo & Cirque Colors Carpe Diem

American Apparel Downtown LA & L'Esprit

Lots of polishes, mostly by American Apparel & OPI (a recreation of @nailallie's look)

OPI Pepe's Purple Passion & I Have A Herring Problem 

KB Shimmer Too Pop To Handle & Zoya Destiny (two coats each)

American Apparel T-Shirt, Hassid, piCture pOlish O'Hara, Enchanting & Doctor Lacquer Carotene Holo

Thanks so much for having a look everyone! I may be back with some yellow nails because that's what I'm feeling at the moment! Happy Friday!

Five Roundups From Five Months: Red to Green

Hello hello everyone! Today I'm bringing you the first of five roundup posts from my five month absence!

Being a fourth year biochem student makes it hard to do everything else you'd like to do. I've missed blogging so much; taking proper nail pictures, filming and editing tutorials, writing a bit about my life and interacting with you guys! I struggle with motivation in basically every aspect of my life but I have a little more than usual lately and I want to translate that into blogging!

So without further ado, let's get to the nails!

American Apparel Hassid & OPI Lost On Lombard (a recreation of @aliciatnails' design)

Doctor Lacquer Adrenaline (two coats)

Essie Chillato (three coats)

ILNP Timeless Vow (two coats)

piCture pOlish Enchanting (two coats)

I hope you guys are doing well and I'll see you soon for more looks I wore during my absence! Happy Monday!

Dark Mix & Match Featuring China Glaze Choo-Choo Choose You!

Hey guys! Today I have some mix and match nails to share!

So yesterday we actually went through a haunted house and then a maze and it was so fun! I wasn't actually too scared and definitely wasn't the most scared in our group which was cool!

Onto the nails!

For this look, I used Sally Hansen Slick Black, L'oreal Rose To The Occasion, American Apparel Hassid and China Glaze Choo-Choo Choose You! I really didn't like these much and they are very worn and not cleaned up well, but I post every look I wear so whatever!

Thanks so much for taking a look everyone! I'll be back tomorrow with some Sally Hansen glitter nails! Happy Saturday! :)

OPI Color Paints Rainbow Horizontal Gradient!

Hey everyone! Today I have a super easy rainbow horizontal gradient using the OPI Color Paints to share!

I have an immunology midterm tomorrow so today will probably be spent curled up in my bed studying and cuddling my cat Paul. He always supports me when I'm studying, to the point where the day after I'm done studying he'll still be in my room all day! He's such a cutie.

Onto the nails!

Because I had eight colours, I needed to have three nails with two colours and two with three colours. I decided to go with the traditional accent nails; the thumb and ring finger.

I went in with the first colour for most of the nails and the first and last colour for the accent nails. After allowing that to dry, I went in with the last and middle colours, creating the overlap.

Though these nails did turn out a bit cool, I'd prefer them if I had have done a proper gradient with a sponge.

So, what do you guys think? If you're not yet convinced that the Color Paints are amazing I have more looks featuring them coming at you!

Thanks so much for having a look everyone! I'll be back with a few different marbled looks! Happy Sunday! =)

Squishy Rainbow Marble Using the OPI Color Paints & A Mint and Lilac Look On Top!

Hey everyone! Today I have some super fun rainbow marble nails as well as a mint and lilac look I did on top to share!

Rather than talk a lot about my plan to start posting on here once a day, I'll just try and do it! School has been quite crazy but it has calmed down a little and I'm starting to get used to the workload. So let's get onto the many pictures and the details!

I fell madly in love with the idea of the OPI Color Paints, and once a good review of them came out I was ecstatic! They are definitely amazing (hence why I picked up the rest after I bought the three I used here :P).

I decided to buy the three colours closest to the real primary colours (magenta, yellow and cyan) at first in case I wouldn't have the money to buy them all. They blend together so beautifully as you can see!

For this look I just stippled blobs of each colour (Magenta Muse, Primarily Yellow and Turquoise Aesthetic) in with a small paintbrush, making sure the blobs overlapped.

I'm all about the sheer or partially naked nail look as you likely know, so I loved the sheer and squishy look of these!

They kind of looked like the coolest candies that could ever exist. 

I'm also all about challenging myself to recycle manis for the WNAC (Weekly Nail Art Challenge) 2015 so here's what I came up with for the mint and lilac prompt!

I think I've used striping tape once or twice in my nail art life, so I decided to try some out!

These ended up quite girly but I still think they're pretty cool! I used OPI You're Such A Budapest and That's Hula-rious! I think this look as well as lots of dry marbles on Instagram have sparked my love for the technique as you'll see soon on here!

So what do you guys think of these looks? Did you like it better without the pastels on top or with? I prefer them without but I love that I got two totally different looks from the same base!

Thanks so much for taking a look you lovely people! I hope you're all doing well! I'll be back with some more Color Paints looks very soon! Happy Saturday! :)

OPI Red and Yellow Negative Space Colour Blocks!

Yo yo yo my lovely readers! Today I have some matte negative space colour blocks to share!

I have pretty crazy Mondays this year where I have eight and a half consecutive hours of lectures and labs. So yesterday I was basically recovering from the first one! We ended early but it was still pretty exhausting. I only go to school three days a week though which is pretty sweet (and is also why my Mondays are so long). Did you guys just recently start back at university too?

This is a pretty quick post but let's get into it!

I started off with a coat of my normal base coat (Orly Bonder). After that had dried, I went in with a medium-sized paintbrush and OPI Good Grief (yellow) and Coca-Cola Red (red).

I added a coat of normal top coat and then finished with a coat of matte top coat (the NYC one).

What do you guys think of these nails? I'd love to know!

Thanks so much for having a look everyone! I'll be back with lots of looks using the OPI Color Paints very soon! Happy Wednesday! =)

Raspberries Over a Sponged Yellow Base Featuring Girly Bits These Hips Don't Lie!

Hey everyone! Today I have some fun raspberry nails to share!

This post will be a bit of a quick one because I think I'll try and get a few more written while the motivation is flowing! I did this look a little over three weeks ago, so naturally my nails are crazy long now. I'm at the point that I feel they're too long but too lazy to cut and file them. That means I'll be doing a big chop pretty soon! :P

Onto the nails!

To start, I applied two coats of Cirque Carpe Diem (a white creme) and allowed it to dry. I then painted random blobs of Girly Bits These Hips Don't Lie (yellow) and American Apparel Neon Orange (yellow-orange) onto a damp sponge and got to sponging!

After a while, I decided what I wanted to do and went in with a dotting tool and Essie Plumbery. Next, I went in with the same dotting tool and Deborah Lippmann Jessa for the darker (inner) raspberry colour.

I then decided to try a Kiko polish I picked up in Germany last summer for the leaves and stem. I used a small detail brush and Kiko Meadow Green!

At first I thought the two different yellows of the base weren't showing up in pictures but I'm glad to see they kind of did!

What do you guys think of this look or yellow nails in general? I'm really loving yellow lately and I have another look featuring yellow that I'll be posting soon!

Thanks so much for having a look everyone! I'll be back with a third go at the MrCandiipants spring floral design (on myself; I've done it several times on others as well)! Happy Tuesday guys! =)

Holographic Strawberries Featuring Doctor Lacquer Carotene Holo!

Hey everyone! Today I have some holographic strawberry nails to share!

I can't believe it will be July 1st tomorrow (Canada Day woot woot)! I had hoped to get more caught up on le blog by now, but what can you do? I think I only have four looks to get up after this one so it's not too bad! Hopefully I'll get back into posting once a day so I can finally catch up!

Onto tons of pictures!

For this look, I started with a base of two coats of Doctor Lacquer Carotene Holo. The formula and brush and all that was lovely! It's a bit of a mustardy yellow and I love that about it!

My two favourite things about Doctor Lacquer are the science-related names and the medium sized (10.5mL) bottles! Minis are too small and full sizes are too big am I right? I feel an obsession coming on and I already picked up twelve other polishes when I ordered this :P.

Next, I went in with piCture pOlish O'Hara on a medium sized paintbrush for the fruit part of the strawberries. I'm madly in love with this polish and you'll be seeing a full nail swatch tomorrow in my Canada Day mani!

Finally, I went in with B Squared Lacquer Change The Game on a small paintbrush for the leaf part. Some dry time and a coat of top coat (Essie Good To Go as per usual) and I was done!

I loved wearing these nails and I wish I had have taken a picture of my other hand! It had exactly the same design but it can't pose well and I forgot to take pictures of it.

What do you guys think of these nails or this Doctor Lacquer polish? I'd love to know!

Thanks so much for taking a look everyone! I'll be back with my Canada Day Nails followed by a thermal polish from Doctor Lacquer! Happy Tuesday! =)