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.

                           

                       

Snake Nail Art

I have been seeing those new magnet nail art polishes at CVS a lot and noticed that Essie came out with a snake skin pattern line. I decided to buy "lil' boa peep" by Essie. I love the color of the nail polish, but frankly I didn't think the magnet worked very well. It took me so many different tries for it to show up at all and it wouldn't come up even on the entire nail. Anyways inspired by the snake skin and the snake ring pictured below, I added a a snake on the pinky using Milani's Nail Art with precision brush and then added some little dots to even out the snake skin print using Sally Hanson's "Gold" Nail Art pen. Let me know what y'all think about this nail art and magnet nail polishes!

Clouds

This is going to be a short post today. I just got back from NYC and am quite exhausted! One of my favorite Nail Polishes is "Cloud" by Revlon, which I used for the base coat (and also inspired the nail art). The clouds were done using Milani's Nail Art line. It's a simple design, but I think it is cute! Also since we are in the middle of winter I thought it would be appropriate to post these. Enjoy!

Clouds in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Clouds in Medellin, Colombia

3D Nail Art: Thailand 2011

Happy Throwback Thursday (and Valentines Day)! For this weekly holiday I wanted to post some awesome 3D Nails I got done in Bangkok, Thailand. I collaborated with the manicurist on the design. My next nail art endeavor is definitely to learn how to do gel 3D Nails. My mom brought me all these cool nail trinkets from Japan and I have yet to use them!

Such an incredible trip! I would recommend it to everyone! I loved Bangkok so much I could even see myself living there! Below are two pictures from Thailand. The first one is at the Tiger temple 2 hours away from Bangkok. The second is a picture of my friend Jill and I at the ruins of the old capital of Thailand, Ayutthaya, which were absolutely beautiful.

         

Nail Art for Friends (Pre Valentine's Day Love)

Since tomorrow is Valentine's day I thought it would be appropriate to thank my friends for being so supportive of my nail art! ahaha A lot of my friends ask me to do nail art for them, which I don't do enough of, but here are three designs I have done for friends in the past. The first one I did for my friend Liana in the library during finals two years ago.

 The second I did this past christmas for my friend Rosh when I was tipsy off of homemade hard cider!

And the third picture is also of Liana's that I did for her on Saint Patrick's day last year. :)

Abstract Nail Art

Today, I wanted to talk about abstract nail art. I am a studio arts major so there is definitely a place in my heart for awesome geometric colorful shapes. I also find abstract nail art more often than not to be easier to create because of the simple shapes. Also, using nail art pens or Milani's nail art polishes  makes is easy to create thin and well defined lines on your nails making your design look perfectly geometrical. Here are a couple abstract nail designs I have done in the past. 

Galactic Hello Kitty Nails

New nail art! My previous post about hello kitty reminded me that I had these awesome Hello Kitty Nail stickers so I wanted to do my nails with them.

For the base coast I used one of my all time favorite dark nail polish Tuxedo Grey no 35 by Yves Saint 

Laurent.

Finally I used a sparkly polish I bought in China two years ago to do a type of sparkly french inverse manicure. Voila! Hello Kitty Galactic Manicure!