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Sparkles for Ayla

Today, many of those in the nail art community are hashtagging their pictures with #sparklesforayla in a support of Selena of Pink, You Rock and SelenaDee_Nails. I talked about the sadness that’s been going on in Selena’s life in my previous post here. On June 25th, 2014, Selena was 38 weeks along in her pregnancy.  She went in for a routine […]

Easter Egg Nails

I’ve been so busy over the weekend getting packages ready (thank you, I hope you love them!) that I didn’t have time for an Easter inspired mani. I saw this picture posted by Anna Bond of Rifle Paper Co. on her IG and I love it so hard I had to make my own version […]

Talonted Tips: Drips

What You’ll Need Base coat 1 color for the drip Nail art brush (optional) Top coat STEP ONE Paint drop smears Using you’re the brush of your chosen drip color (I used Essie Lollipop), dab a drop onto your nail (about 1-2/3 from the tip) and smear the brush down towards the tip. The smears […]

Nail Art February: Galaxy

I made it and on time too! Here’s my galaxy mani using some of the new and old glow in the dark cremes that are coming soon. Colors used: Lights Out, Blue Blazes, Glowin’ of Eden, Awesome Blossom, Lavendar-ingly Bright, Day Glow, Atomic Peach and Fame. To do galaxy nails, check out this Talonted Tips. […]

February Nail Art Challenge: Match OOTD, Studs, Floral, Animal Theme

Trying to finish up the nail art challenge and yup, I’m behind haha. So here’s my catch up mani combining four prompts: Match OOTD, Studs, Floral and Animal Theme. I used the seven new glow in the dark colors that will be available for pre-orders in March and will be generally available in April.

February Nail Art Challenge: XOXO, Hearts & Pastel

Yup… I’m behind… again. So it’s time to combine some challenges to catch up. It’s what I do 🙂 Plus I somehow broke my nail and had to go down to nubs. So for XOXO, Hearts and Pastel, I used the colors from the China Glaze City Flourish Peonies & Park Ave collection, which are […]

February 2014 Nail Art Challenge

I’m trying to stick with my nail art resolutions for the year and that’s blogging and doing nail art more and hey, look! It’s a blog post and it’s going to be about nail art! Yay me 🙂 If you’re on Instagram, you need to follow Californails. Every month she comes up with a nail art […]

Talonted Tips: Gradient

What You’ll Need Base coat 2 polishes (can be more) Makeup sponge Something to use as a palette for any excess (paper, parchment, foil, etc.) Top coat STEP ONE Apply base color Paint nails your base color. Use the lighter of the 2 polishes, this will make it easier for the other color to show […]

Pink Lantern Returns!

Hi ladies! It’s almost October and do you know what that means? It’s Halloween, breast cancer awareness month and… Pink Lantern returns! If you remember from last year, it’s a pink version of Day Glow that I made to incorporate both breast cancer awareness and Halloween. How? Well, Pink Lantern is pink that glows an […]