Neon Rainbow Watermarble Nail Art with I Scream Nails

With several inches of snow on the ground in New Jersey today, a snow day at the office for me, I figured it was the perfect time to do a neon water marble on my nails! I decided to try out the I Scream Nails collection for today's water marble, since the colors look so nice together, and I think it turned out really well.

31DNAC Day 1: Red Nails

Today marks the first official day of the 31 Day Nail Art Challenge! The prompt is for red nails, and here is what I came up with:

Am I breaking the rules already by making this mostly pink? Definitely not! I gradiented my nails using Julep Rose and China Glaze Bottle Service over OPI Mod About You, and I used Julep Rose, OPI Mod About You, and China Glaze Dance Baby for the watermarble.

I am definitely proud of my work so far! I want to push myself for this challenge and do nail art that is difficult for me, so this was a great start.

Colors used in this manicure are as follows:

What do you think? Do you think I should start taking photos of the polishes I use in my manicures? It'll be easier for you guys to tell which colors I am referring to!

Anyway, stay tuned for Day 2: Orange Nails!

Check out my challenge manicures so far here.

My Very First Guest Post... with Kiss on the Chic!

Today I am pleased to announce my first guest post for Kiss on the Chic, an awesome (and totally underviewed!) nail blog. Click here to see my post about this water marble, and do yourself a favor and follow her for some amazing nail art!

Deadly Sins Challenge Day 9: Wrath

I know I skipped sloth, and I think it's funny because I was just too lazy to do it ;)

Anyway, this week's challenge is wrath, and the challenge prompt is to "get mad trying that technique you know is going to be a fail!" And who doesn't think of water marbles when they think of a gorgeous nail technique that's horribly difficult!

I used a base of Julep Sasha, and marbled with Essie Licorice and Confetti The Red Carpet. I imagined it to look like flames, but I'm incapable of controlling my water marbles haha. So it looks like flowers as usual.

Check out these other wrath manicures:

Spring Water Marble with OPI My Vampire Is Buff

I finally made a water marble that I am proud of!!

This manicure was achieved using a base of OPI My Vampire Is Buff. I then marbled using ORLY Two Hour Lunch and ORLY Gumdrop.

I messed up the top of my pinkie finger so I cut the picture off there ;)

This is two coats of OPI My Vampire Is Buff - I should have used three coats, but since I was doing nail art over it, I didn't think it would matter ;)

This water marble took a bit longer because I worked hard to make all the nails look flowery. I messed up a couple and had to redo them, but I think it was worth it.

On a side note, look at this beautiful eyeshadow palette I got from Sephora -

It's called the Primal Instincts palette and I got it for super cheap! I can't wait to use it ;)

Let It Snow! Water Marble

Today I have some fun wintery water marble nail art for you all!

I know I have been slacking on the nail art (and basically the nails in general!) but I'm getting back into the groove of things now that finals are over and the holiday rush has calmed.

This wintery water marble was done using OPI Suzi Says Feng Shui, China Glaze For Audrey, and Sinful Colors Heavy Metal. I topped it off with various snowflake stamps and Konad White Polish.



PS - guess what my lovely boyfriend got for me!! He got me the entire OPI Liquid Sand collection (swatches coming soon) and he MADE me an awesome rotating nail polish rack!

Water Marble Flowers

So this was a somewhat failed experiment water marble - most nail artists have a love/hate relationship with the dreaded water marble, including myself ;)

All of my nails were supposed to look like my nail below (thumb) BUT they kind of got smaller and smaller as I went on - so I guess it's like a gradient water marble? Haha.

The successful nail! At least the color combo is pretty, but I took it off as soon as I took a couple of photos.

Happy Fourth of July Nails!

So! Monday was my 21st birthday! I was going to paint something special on my nails but I decided to just go for holographic because I knew they would get messed up anyway O:)

Anyway, happy Fourth of July!

Today's manicure is (obviously) inspired by Independence Day - I decided to go for a bit of a skittle manicure. My thumb which I could NOT get a good photo of, was blue with silver fireworks. The pointer finger is a red white and blue water marble, my middle finger is a simple blue, my ring finger is red and blue fireworks over white, and my pinkie nail is red with red glitter top coat!

I used American Apparel for the blue and Confetti for red, but I forget the names of them, and the white was ORLY French Tips. The red glitter was some nameless polish I bought a while ago in PacSun.

Here you can faintly see my thumb! I also added some glitter to make it different.

Hope you all get to see some fireworks tonight ;)

Water Marble Monday! Manicure

(I think I just made up water marble Monday. Who wants to do it with me?!) Today's manicure comes in the form of a water marble, obviously -

I finally realized that nail art looks better over a black background, so enjoy that nice perk!

Now if only my macro quality was better! This manicure was done using OPI Skull and Glossbones as a base, and Sinful Colors Black on Black, China Glaze Designer Satin, and OPI Suzi Says Feng Shui.

Originally I was going to try to go for the uniform look (each nail looking the same, ) but I kind of love them all looking different! What do you guys think?