TopCoatIt

I’ve got some cute, comfy little red canvas shoes that have a red and blue plaid on the inside. I love little details like that. They make me happy.
I used NYX Girls White for my base color then NYX Ink and China Glaze Phat Santa for my stripes.

I did this mani with my left hand. This is one of those designs that I wasn’t all that thrilled about until I got the top coat on. If you ask me, the top coat really is the crown jewel of any manicure. It can take a mediocre mani and turn it in to something awesome.

I’m not a nautical person. I’m actually terrified of open water. No, not just open water. Any body of water that is deeper than I am tall. Thank you Jaws.
I don’t mind being on a boat though. I’ve been on two whale watching boats in southern California. I quite enjoyed those excursions. Thinking too much about how much water is below the boat and what is in that water can get my heart beating though. Despite my fears, I saw this post of Pinterest and liked it. Then I learned that it’s yet another Cutepolish tutorial. I swear, this time I didn’t even know I was doing one of her designs. Super cute, pretty easy, done.  All I need now are some boat shoes.

For this design, I used NYX Girls White, NYX Sepia and white and red acrylics.

Like I said, I’ve been browsing Cutepolish’s videos lately. This look is from another of her tutorials.Who would’ve thought to use a flosser to make stripes on your nail? Seriously, everything is a tool in some way shape or form. I guess I’m just not creative enough to see the alternate uses for things. This technique creates a very unique look that wouldn’t be easily achieved another way. I really like it.

For this design I used Sinful Colors Easy Going as my base, then striped on Sinful Colors Timbleberry, China Glaze Liquid Leather, Milani Fresh Teal and OPI DS Radiance.  A little clean up was required, but otherwise, this was a really easy look to achieve.  Have you turned any unsuspecting household items as polish tools?

Good Tuesday everybody! This week’s theme threw me for a bit of a loop. Knowing that we can interpret the themes for ourselves, I couldn’t decide if I should come up with my own fictional animal or if I should change or add a print to an already existing animal. I went with neither. I went with a fictional print on a fictional animal.
I’m not one of those crazy unicorn people that worships them or anything. Although The Last Unicorn was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. I own it on DVD now. I made my husband watch it with me a year or so ago. It’s quite strange really. Regardless, I love the idea of the mythical creature.

If unicorns were real and they had a pattern to their hide, I imagine it would look something like this. Striped like a zebra, but all shimmery and glittery. On top of my basic white base, I used Glitter Gal Light as a Feather for my stripes.

Be sure the check out all the other manis today:

Amanda of Amandalandish
Anna of Going to the Showing
Anne of Grape Fizz Nails
Ashley of Art Evolve
Brandi of The Beaulieu Review
Chelsea of Nailed Blog
ChiChi of I’m Just Me…ChiChi
Cordia of Seriously Swatched
Elizabeth of Did My Nails
Jamie of Polish, Please!
Katherine of Haul of Fame
Maribeth of Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite!
Marisa of Polish Obsession
Meredith of Polish and Charms
Nory of Fierce Make Up and Nails
Sarah of See Sarah Swatch
Tara of Polishy of Truth

This is the mani I actually wore for Easter. I don’t usually post quite so many pictures, but I loved this one so much that I just had to throw in a couple extra shots.

My base polish was OPI Swedish Nude. It’s very sheer and needed three to four coats for decent opacity, so I needed a ton of dry time before it was safe to tape my chevrons off. I slapped a top coat on it and went back to it a few hours later. Thankfully I hadn’t damaged anything in those few hours that needed touching up.

For my chevrons I used NYX Girls White.

I hope everyone (who observes the holiday) had a wonderful Easter weekend! If you’re not an Easter observer, I hope you had a great weekend too!