Blue Sky Clear Mind: SUPER EASY Cloud Mani

Hi guys! It's been pretty sunny here in Seattle lately, and I've been meaning to create something like this for a long time so what better opportunity than this? Here's the mani, so enjoy!

I first started off with 2 coats of LVX Serene. A beautiful periwinkle baby blue color.

Then I added the white with a q-tip, and contoured a bit with Zoya Carey, a light gray. That's it! Super simple but super cute! I love this design.

Okay, that's it for today guys! Thank you for reading, and see you guys next time!
-Christine

Christmas Presents Nail Art: Inspired by Nailasaurus!

Soooo, hi everyone! Congrats on surviving the end of the world yesterday haha :3 Today, I have a Christmas Gift Mani! :D I'm sooo in holiday spirit and I received and gave so many gifts yesterday, the last day of school. Love my BFFS :3 Anyway, this mani is inspired by this mani here from the looovely Samasaurus! Glitter, bows and rhinestones. What more can you ask for?

I used 1 coat of Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby for the red and topped it off with ELF's Golden Goddess, a gorgeous gold glitter. For the green, I used 2 coats of Maybelline Color Show Tenacious Teal and topped it off with 1 coat of Sinful Colors Call You Later, a green glitter.

A darker pic to show the gold glitter in Golden Goddess!

Before the ribbons. This is in natural light :) I love the green glitter :3

After black acrylic, apply gold. Then ribbons :D

Maybelline Color Show: Tenacious Teal, ELF: Golden Goddess, Sinful Colors: Call You Later, Ruby Ruby, Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear: Red Carpet, Maybelline Color Show: Bold Gold

That's it for today! I really love this mani, and I'm hoping to keep it on for Christmas. What are you going to wear on your nails for Christmas? :3

Guest Post @ Tuxarina!

Hi everyone! :D Now that I got your attention with the pic, I just wanted to inform you guys that I did a guest post at the lovely Tuxarina today! So please go check her out and follow! Her swatches are TO DIE FORRR!

Poppies. Remebering Those Who Fought For Us.

Hi everyone! Happy Remembrance Day~ Although I've been living in the US for 4 years now, I'm still a Canadian at heart, and I still call this day Remembrance Day. One of the most vivid memories I had was being given a plastic poppy and pinning it to my jacket as we sang "In Flander's Fields". So today, I have a mani that is inspired by that memory and that song/poem's first two lines:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
 It's a bit rushed, but I really wanted to do this mani, so after getting hom at 10:30, I painted my nails and I'm uploading it at 11:30, just on time :P

Sorry, I know a did a bad job blending the blue with the pearl ): Should've sponged it before I freehanded

 And here are the colors I used:

I wanted to do an undies swatch for you guys, but my camera started freaking out when it saw this avalanche of white frost.... Sorry for the blurriness!

1 coat

1 coat with flash :D

So, that's my quick post for today. Thank you guys so much for reading a day that means a lot to me. God bless our soldiers and our veterans.

Halloween Mani: Candy Corn! + Swatches of Wine and Dined

Hahahah hi guys! Long time no see! I've been getting so lazy lately :P I actually took lots of pictures of my manis, but I get so lazy and I dont edit them, so I dont post them lol.

BUT ANYWAYYYY, here is my halloween mani! Candy Corn yay! Kind of overrated because everyone is doing these lol, but I wanted to show case the base color: Maybelline Color Show Nail Lacquer in Wine and Dined.

OMGGGG. SHIMMER :D

I like the designs on my thumbs a bit more than the ones on my ring finger haha :P And trust me... they look pretty neat in real life lol, cuz nobody puts their face 3cm from my nails and stares at the designs xD but... guess I shouldn't be making excuses :\
I just used 2 coats of Wine and Dined, drew on triangles with white acrylic, and filled them in with orange and yellow acrylic :3

AND HEEERE are the swatches for Wine and Dined! Sadly though, the shimmer is really hard to capture... and I NEED to tilt my nails for the particles to catch the light so they can actually show up... but then there's the stupid glare .______________. I actually think the ones above show you how pretty the shimmer is, while these are just to show you the brown/gray base color (:

This is 3 coats. It's very sheer...

1 Coat

This is a very very sheer polish. It does build up nicely though, I used 3 coats. I feel that this would be nice for a jelly sandwich :P The formula on this was smooth, a bit streaky on the first coat, but perfect when you build it up.
One thing I have to say, though... This polish does NOT last a long time... 2-3 days, and it starts chipping on me. Like NO JOKE. I usually get a week before chipping and tip wear, but this... :\

Alright, that's all for today! Hope you guys have an amaaazing halloween! Love and Kisses to all of you :* And hope you guys have a safe night of trick-or-treating for those who are going!

Birthday Ice Cream Nails :D

Hi my sweet pumpkins :3 Missed you guys soooo much! But I have been so busy this past week... So many tests because the quarter is ending soon! And on Wednesday, October 9th, it was my birthday :3 Hehehhe, so of course I did a b-day mani! And because I had recently reshaped my nails into a more stiletto shape, I thought it would be perfect :D

This is with flash, look at the base! SOOO glittery!

Hehehhe yup, just turned 17 :3

And this was my thumb for my right hand since writing 17 is obviously too hard for my little left hand xD

I love this mani hehehehhe except I feel I could've smoothed out the pastels more by adding another coat in some places because you can still see the grittiness of the glitter underneath... Anyway here were the colors used :
Mint Green: Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in Mint Sorbet
Lilac: Nameless one I got from China I think...
Pink: China Glaze Dance Baby
Pale Yellow: Sinful Colors Unicorn (Such a pain to work with -____-)
And base color! :D My Toki Doki in Savannah! I'll have swatches up for you guys heheh
Loving my nails right now :3

Soooo, that would be it for today! Thanks sooo much for reading~~~ :-***

Ants in my Pants

Hi everyone! Hope you guys had a wonderful Labor Day :3 I sure did! Full day of doing nothing hahahah. Anyway, I was flipping through my closet the other day, and I spotted these pair of shorts I made in... 8th grade? Sewing class hahaha. And the print was really inspiring so I did a mani on it!

 

Kind of a fail though, I made most of them too fat, like snowmen shaped, hahah. And I crammed too many of them onto my index finger ); But nonetheless, I love them!
Here are the polishes used:

Sally Hansen White on, nameless dark pink, Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby, LA Girls Fairytale, Sinful Colors Black

Would you like a simple pictorial perhaps?

Hehehhe, hope you guy like this! Because I LOOOVE IT <3 p="p">

Eye See You Copycat

Hi guys! I'm soooo excited about these nails that I saw seriously less than an hour ago and I had to recreate it. They're nude eyeball nails! Created by the lovely Zoe :3 She's amazing! And okay here goes my version of it! For the eye I actually didn't "line" the lower lashes because normally when I do makeup, I just line my upper lash line :P













Silly me, I was so excited for this that I rushed the topcoat... Now look at that ugly smudge ):

I used Wet n Wild Sugar Coat (I will do a more detailed swatch and review on this) as a base, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in White on White, a nameless bright blue, and China Glaze Liquid Leather and some striping brushes and a dotter.

I'm soooo loving these!!! Thanks again Zoe for the inspiration! Big kisses to you :****