Sun Flower Nail Art

Finally spring is here on the East Coast! My Senior Thesis Art Exhibition is opening tomorrow and I'm super excited for it. I'm wearing a cute white summery dress so I decided to go with a bright and fun nail design for the occasion.

For the base coat I used a bright yellow orange polish by FACE. For the base coat on my index and middle finger I used "Tickle my France-y" by OPI. For the sunflower petals I used "Electric" by Revlon and for the middle of the flower I used a beautiful brown polish by Illamasqua. Finally for the details I used "Sassy Brassy" and "Glitzy Jam" by Milani. Enjoy!

Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend Nails

Lately I've been really into having the middle finger and index finger be the accent nails instead of the ring finger and thumb. My housemates just bought this beautiful dark purple polish "Tomorrow Never Dies" by OPI and I wanted to base my design off of it. I decided to have a sort of transitional tonal effect by using "What's With The Cattitude?" on my index nail and half of my middle finger nail. I added some 3D studs for a decorative effect in between the two colors. Finally, I wanted a simple design on the index finger and what better than a diamond--a girl's best friend ;). I also used a little bit of "Art of Silver" by Milani's Nail Art collection to the diamond to add a little sparkle. Enjoy! Let me know your thoughts! And stay tuned for next weeks nails, I'm thinking neon yellow.

Poppy Nail Art (For My Senior Project Advisor!)

My senior project exhibition is opening in a week! I'm in a good place with my paintings and since my advisor has been admiring my nail art for the past couple of months we decided to turn our meeting into a nail painting party hahah! She asked me to do a fun manicure for an NYC penthouse wedding she is going to this weekend. She is wearing a black dress so we decided to go with a bright colored floral design to add a more spring time feel to the outfit.  

For the base coat I used "Alpine Snow" by OPI. For the flowers I used "Big Apple Red" by OPI, and "Juicy Glow" by Milani. Finally I used "Electric" by Revlon and Black by Milani's Nail Art Line. 

St Patrick's Day Nails

Happy Almost St Patrick's Day!! For this week's nail art I wanted to get festive for St Patrick's Day, which is such a fun and drunk holiday for me usually. I'm hoping it will be the same this year! For the base coat I used "Peas and Qs" by Nicole by OPI and "Goldeneye" by OPI. The darker green is "Emerald" by Revlon and the other two colors are black and "Green Sketch" by Milani Nail Art. Let me know what y'all think of this design!

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Unicorn Rainbow Nails

Even though Halloween happened months ago, it is my favorite holiday and I feel that it should be Halloween everyday so I'm writing a post about my Rainbow Nails from my 2012 Unicorn costume. Also I think this could also be replicated as a fun St Patricks day design. Maybe just add a clover or two? My next nail art will be st Patrick's day themed so stay tune for that!

For the red color I used "Big Red Apple" by OPI, the orange is "Peachy" by Revlon, the yellow is "Electric" by Revlon, the green is "Green Sketch" by Milani Nail Art, the blue is by Charlotte Rousse and the purple is "Commander in Chic" by Sally Hanson.

Simple Spring Nails

Nail Art can be very tedious and take a really long time. If y'all are looking for a quick and simple design I would suggest always using a fab pop out color and just doing a design on either ring finger or thumb (or both) or just doing simple polka dots (easy and cute!).

For a simple spring design I used "Electric" by the top speed Revlon collection. Their polish actually does dry faster than other polishes I've used and I love their colors. On top of this they it is a more affordable brand. For the flowers I used "Black" and "Draw in Pink" by Milani Nail Art. 

I always know spring is right around the corner when I start seeing Daffodils around my college campus. So excited for spring time!

Spring Nail Art

Happy March everybody! Spring is just around the corner (from an optimistic point of view) and I wanted to post some of my favorite spring nail art I have done! I did two different versions of the same design, which do you guys prefer? Let me know!

For the top design I used "Paradise Pink" by Milani, "What's With the Cattitude?" by OPI for the base coats. On the thumb I used "I Pink I Can" by Sally Hanson Manicure, "Juicy Glow" by Milani for the base coat.

For the bottom design I also used "Paradise Pink", but changed the blue to a green color "Peas and Q's"  by Nicole by OPI. For the thumb I used "Peachy" and "Electric" by Revlon for the basecoat.

Cupcake Nail Art

I want to dedicate today's post to my love of cupcakes. I actually have more of a savory tooth than a sweet tooth usually, but gourmet cupcakes just really get me in the sweets department. My absolute favorite are Sprinkles cupcakes (Middle). Magnolia bakery (Top) in New York City also has some amazing cupcakes and I just discovered this past weekend a place called Sweet Buttons Desserts (Bottom) on the Lower Eastside in Manhattan that have not only incredible cupcakes, but delicious hot chocolate. All of the cupcakes pictured below are red velvet, except for in the picture of Sprinkles cupcakes there is a dark chocolate with sprinkles cupcake (my favorite). 

For my nails I used Milani's "Paradise Pink" for the base coat and Milani's "Draw in Pink", "White Canvas", and Sally Hanson's "I Pink I Can" for the polkadots.

My Collection

Today I just wanted to show you guys my extensive growing nail polish collection. Definitely missing a lot of Essie. I just bought an Essie that I showed you guys on my last post, but I never realized I didn't own many Essie nail polishes! I think I've always preferred OPI to Essie, but lately Essie has been coming out with some cool colors that I would love to get my hands on. I think my favorite cheaper polishes are Revlon's Top Speed collection. I love the colors and think they are good quality and affordable. As for expensive polishes my favorite brand is Chanel. Even though they are absurdly pricey I find that their colors are just impossible to replicate and are so unique.