Today, I am introducing you to Casey. Casey just created a nail Instagram called @nailsbycaseylane. I selected her because I'm pretty sure she is my biggest fan. It makes me smile that whenever I sign onto Twitter, she's there favoriting a Tweet. Just brightens my day. After a few conversations on Twitter, I quickly learned what a sweet and kind person Casey is, who paints her nails perfectly. Seriously, to me it looks like they're professionally done.
Without further adieu, here's Casey with some gorgeous nails!!!
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Hello
everyone! I was so excited when Alaina contacted me about doing this guest
post. Not only is it her first Nail Artist of the Month feature, it is my first
guest post as well. Actually it’s my first blog post ever… I’m not gonna lie, I
squealed when I got her message Saturday night. I am so flattered that she
picked me to do this. Thank you so much for the opportunity Alaina!
I’ll start
by telling you a little bit about myself. My name is Casey and I’m 32 years old.
I live in southwest Missouri with my husband of 11 years Mike, and our two pets
Sammie the beagle and Pickles the Scottish fold. My day job is working in the
patient finance department at a tiny little hospital that I love. My biggest
and most passionate hobby is, of course, nail polish. I have been in love with
nail polish for as long as I can remember. I remember asking for some for
Christmas when I was around 11 or 12 years old, then spending the entire
Christmas vacation doing my nails over and over; painting different nails
alternating colors and then adding little daisies with toothpicks. I would
spend hours doing it… just getting lost in the possibilities. I stopped doing
more than just standard painting for several years after that. Then sometime back
in 2011 I got on Pinterest… and that rekindled the love again. I saw a pin with
a quote from Essie that said “Nails are jewels, not tools” and that did it for
me. After that I got sucked into the rabbit hole that is the internet searching
for all of the info I could find about painting your own nails and doing nail
art. I haven’t looked back since! I like to think someday I’ll grow up and be a
for real nail blogger, but for now I’m sticking to Instagram. Last week I
started an account just for polish related pictures so that I could stop
driving my non polish loving friends crazy with all of my polish posts. And so
that I could ramble on and on about formula, finish, and all those other things
I love to talk about. But do so freely and without fear of being judged and
teased by the people who just don’t get it. :) Go check it out! Nails by CaseyLane.
But that’s
enough about me. On to the real reason I’m here… nails.
Alaina
brought up the possibility of having me do a guest post a few weeks ago and
ever since then I have been obsessing about what I would possibly do for such
an exciting occasion. Mix-n-Match designs are my favorite because it gives me a
chance to use several techniques in one manicure, so that is what I opted for.
For the dots I used my trusty MASH nail art dotting tools. For the chevron I
used large chevron decals from Make It Stick Designs on Etsy. (They can be
purchased from her shop here,
go check it out. She’s got great stuff.)
Full Sun:
Shade:
And a close
up of London, because I've just recently discovered the amazingness that is
Zoya PixieDust and I am in L O V E!!!! I've only tried 3 textured polishes, and
I love them all. But I love this one the most so far.
Full Sun:
Polishes
used:
Zoya Julie
(soft purple shimmer)
Zoya London
(PixieDust Matte gray)
OPI Black
Onyx (black crème)
OPI My
Boyfriend Scales Walls (off white crème)
Hard Candy
Black Tie Optional (black and white glitter)
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Gorgeous manicure, Casey!!! So in love with it!!! Miss CaseyLane will be starting her own blog (eventually but i'm peer pressuring her into making it sooner than later), but as mentioned, you can see her work on Instagram!
Hope you enjoyed this new feature...can't wait to see who I pick for next month! <3
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