Happy Fourth of July!

Happy Fourth of July, readers! I was unsure of what kind of mani I wanted to do for the holiday and then it hit me yesterday afternoon and I'm so glad I did it! I haven't done a splatter mani in a long time and I forgot how fun they can turn out with the right color combinations! And, this didn't take that long for me to do, either!

I used:

Orly Nail Defense

2 coats of Zoya Posh(favorite red polish EVER)

OPI Alpine Snow and Blue My Mind for the splatter

An old pen barrel to blow through for the splatter effect

1 coat of CND Silver Sparkling

Pure Ice Silver Mercedes and my essence plate for the star stamp

Cult Nails Wicked Fast Top Coat

I think it will be perfect for our festivities today and fireworks tonight! What do you think? Have you ever done a splatter mani?

A group of friends of mine got together to do a collaborative mani day(today) so come see what Fourth of July designs my friends did as well:

On Monday, He Ate Through One Apple...

Hello readers! Hope you've all had an amazing weekend! We did on my end! On Friday we took a spontaneous day trip up to Charleston to go to the aquarium and had a yummy dinner downtown! We decided to check out the tiny Savannah aquarium here on Saturday with some good friends and then went to Outback for lunch. Today has pretty much been a lazy Sunday and I'm loving it!

I decided to take some of that free lazy time today and use it to finally make my entry into the Chalkboard Nails dotting tool nail art contest! You can still enter your manis until tomorrow night, go check it out!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a HUGE favorite in our house and I've been wanting to do nails inspired by it for a long time. I did this entirely with dotting tools! Hailey was so excited when she woke up from her nap and saw my nails!

I used:

Base coat of Orly Nail Armor

3 coats of OPI Alpine Snow

1 coat of CND Gold Sparkling Effect

CND Just Red for the apple, head, and hair

China Glaze Starboard for the body and eyes

China Glaze Secret Peri-wink-le for the antennae and hair

Orly Lemonade for the eye outline

OPI Wooden Shoe Like To Know? for the feet and apple stem

1 coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast

Large dotting tool for the head, body bumps, and apple

Tiny dotting tool for the feet and apple stem

Small dotting tool for the apple bite, eyes, nose, and antennae

Sewing pin for the hair

What do you think? I am loving how they turned out and am happy I can finally mark this off of my "nail art to do list." Thanks for reading!

Lovebirds Valentine's Day Mani!

Good morning readers!! I have a super cute Vday mani for you today! I was really expecting to do a lot more themed manis for this holiday but I have been wearing my designs longer so I've run out of time. At least I like this one a lot and will keep it for tomorrow as well!

I wanted to use my new CND Red Hot Sparkle Effects set!

I call it "Lovebirds" even though they are obviously not painted after actual Lovebirds.

They are "kissing!"

I used:

Base Coat of Cult Nails Get It On

2 Coats of CND Just Red

2 Coats of CND Red Sparkle

OPI Alpine Snow

OPI Feelin' Hot Hot Hot!

Zoya Savita

Striper Brush and Dotting Tools 

1 Coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast

What do you think? Thanks for reading!! Hope you all have a Happy Valentine's Day!

Lots of New Nail Mail!

Hello readers! It's a gloomy day outside so it won't be good for taking new nail pics. But, I had some awesome nail mail come in the past week and I wanted to show it all to you!

Here is a group pic of everything on my table:

 Here is my amazing price package I received from Maria at Cult Nails for winning the Nail Art Contest! Thanks again to everyone that voted for me!!

Wicked Fast Speed Dry Top Coat, Get It On Perfecting Base Coat, Hypnotize Me, Let Me Fly, and Iconic!

5 Bundle Monster wheels with gems, shapes, etc! Wow!

Konad Double Sided Stamper and Scraper Set(yes, I've already used it as you can see on the scraper) and a set of MASH Stamping Plates!

Set of Shany Nail Art Brushes and Dotting tools! (Both my brushes and dotting tools were looking pretty sad lately and breaking so this was REALLY exciting for me)

Talk about an epic contest prize, right? Thank you SO much Cult Nails for this awesome box!

I ordered myself Deborah Lippman's Razzle Dazzle from ebay! I can't wait to try this beauty out!  

 My friend Aleta from The Nail Junkie sent me this awesome package! She picked up a extra set of each CND polish sets and I was able to buy them from her. She also threw in these awesome extras!!

I can't wait to try out the red set for a Valentine's Day mani! Thanks, Aleta!

 Last but certainly not least, another friend, Denise, was kind enough to send me a Max Factor Fantasy Fire!! This is a very very close dupe to Clarins 230(which is HTF unless you want to pay over $50 on ebay!). It is in the UK so there was no way I'd get it here in the US without an awesome friend. Look at the sweet extras she threw in!! Thanks Denise!!!!

Well, there you have it readers! I had some awesome nail mail this week! I am trying to decide what to try next! Thanks for reading!