Yellow to Blue Gradient Topped with a Grid Design!

Hey everyone! Today I have a grid-topped gradient to share!

I meant to get this post up yesterday but I guess it's nice to have a bit of a break between my posts like usual! It sounds like there are going to be some volunteer opportunities open to me in a lab at my school which I'm really excited about! In the meantime I've been painting my family's and my nails and playing lots of Mario Party 10! If you follow me on Instagram you'll know I ordered the whole Hoop! There It Is collection from Girly Bits Cosmetics recently. I am beyond excited and it should be here any day now so get ready for either a huge swatch post featuring all eleven polishes or a few posts to break it up a bit!

Anyways, onto the nails!

I started off with two coats of OPI You're So Vain-illa and a coat of top coat. The formula was okay and it wasn't completely opaque at two coats, but it was good enough for the base of a gradient!

Next, I went in with a damp makeup sponge and American Apparel Sunshine State (yellow), American Apparel Cresent Heights (chartreuse) and China Glaze Wait N Sea (blue)! I sponged on two to three layers to get the opacity I wanted.

I like to apply a coat of top coat right after I've finished a gradient to try and blend the colours even further, so that's what I did next.

After that had dried, I went in with American Apparel Hassid and a striping brush from Winstonia Store to do all of the lines. Check out my Instagram if you'd like to see a sped up version of this whole process!

One thick and careful coat of top coat and I was finished! I realized later that these were probably subconsciously inspired by the awesome and hilarious Cynthia of Of Life and Lacquer's chain link fence gradient nails! 

I wore this look for about three days and I really loved doing so! I did these when I should have been studying and they took a decent amount of time so I'm glad I got some wear out of them!

Here is my right hand! I should probably try and find a pose that it is actually good at doing one day :P.

Thanks so much for taking a look everyone! I have a negative space rose look to get up next so stay tuned! Happy Monday y'all! =)

Textured Black Nails with Mint Chevrons Featuring Sally Hansen Lick-O-Rich!

Hello everyone! Today I have some simple chevron nails to share!

This will probably be the first of two posts you'll be seeing from me today so I'll keep this one short! I'm trying to get caught up on here so why not! No news yet on the volunteer opportunity but I'll keep you guys posted!

Onto the nails!

To start, I applied two coats of one of the Sally Hansen Sugar Coat polishes called Lick-O-Rich.

A few days later, I went in with Revlon Entice just with the brush from the bottle for some quick chevrons!

This is one of the four manis I did for the WNAC challenge this April, before realizing they were all supposed to be pastel. I really can't believe I did that! I must have been really stressed at school because it was right on the picture I regrammed to say I'd be doing the challenge! :P

Here is my other hand! Whether I include it in a post or not only depends on how well it can pose that day, I always do a design on both hands!

Thanks so much for taking a look guys! I wasn't sure if I should blog about these or not but I decided to continue the tradition of blogging about every look I wear! I'll be back with some grid-topped gradient nails! Happy Sunday guys! :)

Polished by KPT Bleu Is Beautiful Swatch & Review!

Hey everyone! Today I have a gorgeous Polished by KPT thermal polish to share!

I found out yesterday that I may have an awesome opportunity to volunteer in a lab at my school this summer! Nothing is finalized yet but I'll let you guys know what becomes of it! I may even be doing it full time until my friend Anna gets here! I'm really freaking excited!!

Anyways, onto the many pictures!

What you see here is two easy coats and a coat of top coat! The formula was a little thicker than most polishes but I like that, and despite doing thick coats it dried down flat! So it has great self-level and all that! It also dried to a satin matte finish which was cool, but I added a coat of top coat for maximum wear.

Above is the polish at it's warmest. It has the prettiest, glowiest shimmer that looks amazing at any temperature!

And here it is at it's coldest! I personally prefer it this way because I'm a huge fan of blue!

I really loved wearing this polish because it would range from just about the lightest to just about the darkest colour and back again over and over throughout the day. It seems to have a transition temperature range well-suited for human hands, go figure! ;)

I picked up one other polish from this brand when I made my order at Harlow and Co so expect to see a light purple holo called Lady Roxane relatively soon!

What do you guys think of this polish or this brand? Do you own any Polished by KPT beauties? I'd love to know!

Thanks so much for taking a look everyone! I already have four more nail art posts ready to go picture-wise so I'll be back with tons of nail art! I'll be posting every second day for the next little while! Happy Thursday guys! =)

Sassy Derp Cat Watercolour Nails for Nail Crazy in April!

Hey everyone! Today I have a super quick post about some groovy cat-topped watercolour nails!

These are my baby animals for this week of nail crazy in March. Too bad it doesn't look like a baby cat :P. I am now free from finals and school for a bunch of months so I'll be posting a ton!

Anyways, onto the nails!

I started off with two coats of American Apparel Parakeet and a coat of top coat. Next, I mixed up some American Apparel Malibu Green with a bunch of cheap clear polish. I blotted that mixture on in random areas, added a coat of top coat and most of my nails were done!

For the super derp cat, I used American Apparel Hassid (black) and T-shirt (white). A thick coat of top coat and I was done!

The cat didn't come out very well, but at least he looks sassy haha. I left myself hardly any time to do these so oh well!

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

Be sure to check out the other ladies' posts below!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks so much for taking a look guys! I have a bunch of posts to get up so now that I have time, expect frequent posts from me! Happy Tuesday! :)

Orange Ikat Half Moon Nail Art!

Hey everyone! Today I have an ikat meets half moon design to share!

I wrote my second final today so I just have two more to go, one tomorrow morning and one early next week! Then I'll be free to blog and paint my nails as much as my little heart desires! I pre-wrote this post a few days ago so I could get one more post up while I'm busy studying for finals. So without further ado...

Onto the nails!

For this look, I started off with two coats of OPI Toucan Do It If You Try as a base. This polish looks super bright on my pale skin and I don't wear oranges too often so it was fun to wear!

Next, I went in with American Apparel T-shirt (white), Essie Mesmerize (blue) and finally American Apparel Hassid (black). I always love a good orange and blue combo! This colour palette was inspired by MrCandiipant's very first nail art tutorial on Youtube; a normal (as in not half moon) ikat design with a blue base and orange details!

I applied a super thick coat of top coat and I was done! It bubbled on my thumb and index finger nails because it was so thick, so I probably went a little overboard!

I ended up really loving this look, it made me feel very Pinterest-esque or something along those lines. I don't love ikat print in general (hence why this is my first time trying it) but I enjoyed wearing these quite a bit!

I kind of think my nails were at a perfect length here. Some poses look weird when my nails are too short or too long, but I think they all look quite nice at this length!

What do you guys think of this look or ikat in general? Do you tend to wear oranges often? I'd love to know!

Thanks so much for taking a look everyone! I'll be back with a gorgeous thermal polish from Polished by KPT in the near future! It's crunch time for me (I have finals to write, as I said above) so I might not be posting too frequently at the moment and for the next few days. But I'll have tons of time to post very soon! Happy Thursday guys! =)

Springy Water Marble with Purple Flowers for Nail Crazy in April!

Hey everyone! Today I have the first water marble nails I've done in years to share!

Today's post will be a bit of a quick one because I need to get back to studying! One final exam down, three to go! I can't wait until a little over a week from now when I'll be free for over four months! How crazy is that? That in itself should be enough to motivate me to study. When I put it that way I feel like I can work hard until I'm finished! Somehow I've just motivated myself, that's a first haha :P.

Anyways, onto the nails!

I've been using a cup a little bit bigger than a shot glass to do my water marbles, and because it's quite a small glass, the colours stay so opaque that you don't need a white base! So what you see here is just the colours themselves over the base coat I always use (Orly Bonder)!

For the water marble I used all American Apparel colours: T-shirt (white), The Valley (dusty blue/aqua), Mount Royal (navy blue) and Crescent Heights (chartreuse green).

Because I'm a water marbling newbie, I bumped my ring finger nail either with the toothpick or onto the inside of the glass (I don't remember which, too much studying :P). Because I remembered that I had this prompt coming up, I decided to add flowers overtop of where I messed up my nail. I used China Glaze Plur-ple for the petals and American Apparel Neon Yellow for the centres of the flowers.

After that, I just went in with a coat of top coat and I was finished! I feel like these came out quite well, especially after not doing this technique for a long time!

What do you guys think of this look? Also, are any of you guys writing finals soon/now? I'd love to hear in the comments!

Be sure to check out the other ladies' looks for this week down below!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks so much for taking a look guys! I'll be back with some cool ikat half moon nails very soon! Happy Sunday! :)

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! =)