Galaxy Mani

The One With the Galaxy Nail Art

9:00:00 AM

Nothing to Disclose


Good Morning, Polished World!!  How are you all doing today?  Can we believe it's already November 11?  Yup, 11/11 - which is supposedly a day of good luck.  That means it's only fitting to share a galaxy manicure....right?  I don't know it makes sense in my mind.

I have to admit, my mind is kind of mush because right before writing this post, I finished editing 12 posts worth of photos.  I'm pretty sure my eyes were crossing when it came to the last design.  I posted on my Instagram story some of my sarcastic post titles coming over the next few weeks.  Sure, in my tired mind they're sarcastic and witty, but in reality they're probably dumb.  Today's post title, clearly, is not one of them.  I couldn't think of witty post title for galaxy nail art.

Back to the whole eyes crossing thing...can I tell you how long it took me to edit these photos?  I was staring at three identical photos trying to figure out which galaxy looks the least blurry.  In reality, it's a galaxy, it's supposed to look blurry!

Let's take a look!


Colors Used:
  • Sally Hansen - Blacky-O
  • Oh man I painted these in February and have no idea what other colors I used...they were holographic!
Seriously, I cannot for the life of me remember what yellow, blue, or pink polish I used to create the galaxy.  This is one of my favorite designs to create though.  There really is no messing it up.  You start off with a black base coat.  When it's dry, I went through with a white polish on a make up sponge and just dabbed it in random areas to create a "galaxy" base.  Then through the center I dabbed the yellow polish, followed by the pink and blue.  Threw a quick coat of INM Northern Lights on to blend it together a little more.


Once the INM Northern Lights was dried, I went through and added the little stars.  Another coat of top coat and I called it a night.  Haha, night...galaxy.  I need to go to bed.

What do you think?  Fan of this manicure?

Hope you all have a lucky day. 

Until next time, <3.




China Glaze

The One With the Galaxy Manicure

9:00:00 AM


Good morning my lovely Polished Peeps!  How are you all doing on this cold, chilly Monday?  We were hit head on by Winter Storm Harper so I've spent the last 48 hours at home.  Went outside, shoveled, baked some cookies, made some dinners, slept a whole heck of a lot.  It was a much needed 48 hours of decompressing and quiet time.

My plan was to share yet another snowflake manicure with you all today, but since I spent the last 48 hours being a bum, that meant I spent those 48 hours with naked nails.  So, I have to break my snowflake streak and share with you a galaxy manicure.  It's actually a fitting manicure for today seeing as there was that blood moon and a total lunar eclipse last night.

Let's take a look!


Colors Used:
  • Sally Hansen - Onyx-pected
  • China Glaze - various polishes from the OMGFlashback Collection
  • INM - Northern Lights
Guyssssss, this galaxy manicure is by far one of my favorite.  I wish you could see how it sparkled thanks to the amazing holographic polishes from the China Glaze OMGFlashback collection.  Then when I topped it with Northern Lights, it was a holographic, sparkly wonder.  Truly looked like a galaxy!



To get the look I started off with my new favorite black polish, Sally Hansen Onyx-pected from the Miracle Gel line.  Two coats and full coverage.  I then went with a white polish and sponged the base of the nebula.  I then took multiple holos and filled in the white.  I then added a top coat of INM Northern Lights to blend it all together.  When that was dry, I added the little stars, and another top coat, and bam Galaxies.

What do you think? Fan of this galaxy manicure?  Did anyone see the super blood moon?

Until next time, <3.

Galaxy Mani

The One With the Galaxy Nail Art

9:00:00 AM


Happy Wednesday polished world!!  How are you all doing today?  I'm slowly starting to feel better.  I'm going to emphasize the slowly in that last sentence.  I think I caught a weird virus because I'm not the only one who has had the same symptoms.  Hopefully it will continue to go away.

Since I have been under the weather, I have not been on top of my blogging game.  In all honesty I've felt kind of lazy and not wanting to photograph, edit, or write.  I've painted, but all other things literally feel like an impossible task that I don't want to accomplish.  I have so many polishes to swatch too, so I really need to get my booty in gear.

Anyways, today I am sharing with you a simple galaxy manicure.  Nothing is simpler but looks like it took ten years than a galaxy design.  I haven't done one in awhile and my nails at the time were shorter because of some breaks, so I figured slapping on a coat of black and doing a galaxy would make them look not so shabby.

Let's take a look!


Colors Used:
  • ORLY - Liquid Vinyl
  • Zoya - Dream
  • Zoya - Aurora
  • Zoya - Finley
  • INM - Northern Lights
I told you I was slacking on the photos, therefore this post only has one.  Plus, I didn't think that this design really needed more than one shot.  I thought this captured the design well...maybe?  I don't know.

Anyways, I like how this design turned out.  I love using my Zoya scattered holographic polishes for the galaxy design itself.  To get the look, I first sponge some white polish down.  When that's dry, I take the scattered holos and sponge them over the white.  They blend so well and leave that holo sparkle that truly looks like a galaxy.

When it's all dry, I always go back over the design with a coat of INM Northern Lights.  That gives the manicure a whole sparkly night sky look with dozens of twinkly lights.  I always have a spare bottle of Northern Lights because it's honestly the greatest scattered holo topper.

What do you think?  Like this look?  Have you ever used the Zoya scattered holos for a galaxy?

Until next time, <3.


China Glaze

The One With the Blue Galaxy Mani

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing today?  I have had one of the greatest weekends ever.  It all kicked off with an AMAZING concert, then Painting with a Twist with some of my best friends.  After years of people telling me I should paint on a larger canvas, I actually tried it and I actually did it!  Head on over to my Instagram to see my painting.  I love how it turned out!!!!

Today I'm sharing with you a fun galaxy manicure I did a few weeks ago.  I love galaxy nail art so much.  After seeing a blue one on a few lovely bloggers Instagram pages, I thought I would give it a try.  I think this has to be hands down my favorite galaxy design ever.

Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • Zoya - Sailor
  • China Glaze - DJ Blue My Mind
  • China Glaze - UV Meant to Be
  • INM Northern Lights
  • Black and White Acrylic
To start off, I did a deep navy base and used Zoya Sailor.  One of my favorite Zoya polishes.  If only it had a larger brush I would use it more often.  Those small brushes annoy the heck out of me.  OPI and Sally Hansen spoil me with the wide brush.  After I did this manicure, I forgot that I owned ILNP Missed Calls and Honor Roll which either or would have been a perfect base.  Oh well, maybe next time.

After my blue base was dry, I used a make up sponge and dabbed white acrylic down the middle of each nail.  I made the centers more intense white and the outer edge more faded.  I then took black acrylic and sponged it one the very edge of the nails, so there was a black, to blue, to white transition.

When that was dried, I sponged on the different China Glaze blues, and then went back through with a little more white in the center.



Then comes the pretty sparkly part.  I shook up my bottle of INM Northern Lights, one of my favorite top coats, and added one coat.  It blended the gradients together and added a real galaxy look.  Since this top coat is super fast drying, I didn't have to wait too long before adding my white stars with a dotting tool.  I then finished it all off with a clear top coat.  If you want to avoid doing a clear top coat, you can do your white stars before Northern Lights and then call it a day.

What do you think?  Fan of the blue galaxy?  Do you have INM Northern Lights?

I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you love China Glaze Fairy Dust, then you will love Northern Lights even more.  Fairy Dust takes forever to dry on me and has an awful smell, and Fairy Dust is night and day from that.  Super fast dry, low odor, with the same beautiful effect.

Now looking at that last photo, I'm kind of glad I used a cream base and not one of the two holo polishes I mentioned earlier.  I think it might have taken away from the galaxy.  Maybe not.  I won't know unless I try.

Until next time, <3.

Galaxy Mani

Twinsie Tuesday: Shimmer

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!!  How are you all doing today?  Hope everyone has had an amazing weekend!  Today is Tuesday which means it is time yet again for another Twinsie Tuesday!  This week our prompt is shimmer!

I had a really brilliant idea to do a glitter gradient for today, but alas, I am the only nail blogger who cannot for the life of me figure out how to do one.  I tried, it failed, I looked like I just had blobby glitter tips that were NEVER going to dry.  Next thing I knew, it was midnight and I had no manicure.

I went through my stash and found Zoya Dream, a gorgeous holo glitter packed polish.  Seriously, this has to be one of my all time favorite polishes.  Glittery, shimmery, and blue?!  How can you go wrong!

I added some quick stars because with a name like dream, I started to think of the night sky.  Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • Zoya - Dream
Isn't Dream just that...a dream?  I used two coats for this manicure.  I almost wanted to use three to make it extra glittery, but really it wasn't necessary.  The amount of glitter in two coats is perfection.  And it's so shimmery!!!  You'll have to trust me because I couldn't properly capture it.  Maybe I'll try to get a photo in the sunshine today.



I added the white stars using some acrylic paint and a striper brush.  It was midnight so my lines and stars really aren't the neatest, but hey it works.  I think they're kind of cute.

What do you think?  Fan of the manicure?

Don't forget to check out the other Twinsie's Posts.  I bet they are more shimmery than mine!


Amanda at Amandalandish
Amanda at Fashion Footing
Amber at Nails Like Lace
Bridget at A Painted Nail
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer
Lakeisha at Refined and Polished
Marisa at Polish Obsession
Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les
Savannah at Addicted to Polish
Tiffany at Polished To Precision

Until next time, <3.

Galaxy Mani

Twinsie Tuesday: Fandom

9:00:00 AM


Happy Tuesday polished world!  How are you all today??  It's Twinsie Tuesday yet again!  This week we are pleased to be welcoming Kristine from Pink and Polished Nails into our little group!  I've been a fan of Kristine's blog for the longest time, so I am beyond excited that she's going to be posting with the Twinsie's now!

Today's Twinsie Tuesday theme is Fandom!  I think the best way to describe a fandom is a television show or a movie which as a huge fan base supporting it.  If you are a fan of that thing, then you are a member of that fandom.  Maybe?

Anywho.  I do watch a lot of shows religiously and am a fan of plenty of movies, but nothing that I really knew what to do a manicure based on.  Amanda from Fashion Footing suggested doing paper nails because of my obsession with The Office, but I didn't feel up to that.  She then suggested Captain America, but I already did a Captain themed manicure.

I was about to give up and sit this week out, but then I saw a galaxy manicure on one of my Pinterest Boards.  I'm a fan of The Big Bang Theory, and I also loved the movie Guardians of the Galaxy, so this manicure could kind of be inspired by those fandoms.

Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • Orly - Liquid Vinyl
  • Sinful Colors - Snow Me White
  • Sinful Colors - Sweet Nothing
  • China Glaze - That's Shore Bright
  • Color Club - Cloud 9
  • INM - Northern Lights
For this galaxy look, I was inspired by a YouTube video by ellandish.  It is a gorgeous purple and teal galaxy which is so different than any other one I have done on the blog in the past.  And luckily I owned all the polishes she used so I was able to replicate it exactly.  Okay, I did add some more holo than she had, but can you blame me?  You can never have enough sparkle when it comes to a galaxy manicure.

I didn't follow her tutorial exactly.  In hers, she sponged on white.  Once that was dry, she lightly painted on the colors where she wanted them, and then sponged the excess off.  I tried it on my thumb and it didn't work out too well for me.  So instead, I just sponged on the colors like I have in the past.



Around the edge of the galaxy, I sponged on some Cloud 9.  I learned this hack awhile ago and it really adds some dimension to the galaxy.  Then when you add the Northern Lights, it blends together so well and is a sparkle, holo explosion.

What do you think?  Liking this galaxy?  Is it a good fandom manicure for Guardians of the Galaxy or The Big Bang Theory?   I think I failed this round of TT.

 Now that I think about it, I should have done a manicure inspired by Arrested Development.  I'm a true hardcore fan of that show.  Oh well!

Don't forget to check out the other Twinsie's posts!


Amanda at Amandalandish
Amanda at Fashion Footing
Amber at Nails Like Lace
Bridget at A Painted Nail
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
Marisa at Polish Obsession
Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les
Savannah at Addicted to Polish

Until next time, <3.


Galaxy Mani

Galaxies!

9:00:00 AM


Hi! I'm here!  I did not forget about you lovelies!  The past week has been kind of hectic for me so posting went by the wayside.  Seriously, I cannot believe it's already Friday.  Where oh where did this week go??  I meant to have this post up yesterday, but shortly after editing the photos, I went to sleep.  Yup, I'm the blogger of the year over here.

Well it is September and lots of other lovely bloggers are doing the 31 Day Nail Art Challenge.  I refuse to do this challenge because I know that it will be near to impossible for me to create looks and post daily.  Literally, it would never work out.  Not to mention I would get frustrated after Day 2 of having to stick to a schedule and I would probably back out.

Anywho, sometime last week one of the prompts was Galaxy Nails.  After seeing all the crazy awesome manicures, I became inspired and had to do my own galaxy nail art!  I looked at my manicure from last year for some inspiration and I really think that this years is so much better looking!

Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • Orly - Liquid Vinyl
  • Sinful Colors - Snow Me White
  • NYC New York Color - Copabanana
  • OPI - Hey Baby!
  • Color Club - Over the Moon
  • INM - Northern Lights
  • White Acrylic

Really cool, right?  I love the look of galaxy nails.  I know that they are a dated design in the nail art world, but I still think they're super neat.  I need to do another pastel galaxy manicure soon.

I got the look by starting off with a base coat of black polish.  I then took a make up sponge and sponged on white where ever I wanted my little galaxy.  With the yellow on the make up sponge, I dabbed it a bit on the white, followed by pink on the outer edge, then the holo blue to blend it a little more together.  I then went through and added INM Northern Lights so I could have dozens of little shimmer stars.  Then when it was dried, with my acrylic paint, I went through and added the stars.


I found out last year that using holo polishes on a galaxy design = amazingness.  It makes the manicure really pop and so much more sparkly.  Then when you add Northern Lights on top of the holo polish, it's even more amazing.

What do you think?  Are you a fan of the galaxy look still? 

 I promise to be back again and post another manicure before Tuesday!  I've missed blogging and it's been less than a week!  I couldn't imagine being gone for months!

Until next time, <3.

Galaxy Mani

Pastel-ish Galaxy Nails

9:00:00 AM

Good morning polished world!  How are you today?  I'm doing well because I have a day off from work!  Excuse me as I go back to sleep and spend my whole day in bed.  Okay, maybe I'll get up and do something productive.....maybe.  Actually I do have a few things to do, including photographing and putting reviews on the blog of some different items that have been sent to me.

Since I'm too lazy to edit photos of current manicures, I'm digging into The Little Canvas vault.  I love having a little back log.  Of course though it took me a good 20 minutes to determine which of the 5 manicures from the vault I wanted to post.  

After much consideration, I decided to go with these pastel-ish galaxy nails.  After seeing some similar manicures posted all over Instagram, I decided to give the design a try for myself.  For the life of me, I cannot tell you which Instagrams I saw it on, but I can tell you that The Nailasaurus has a great galaxy nail art tutorial which I should have copied now that I look at my manicure.

Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • Base
    • OPI - You're Such a Budapest
  • Galaxy
    • Sinful Colors - Snow Me White
    • Sinful Colors - Bright Lucite
    • Color Club - Miss Bliss
    • Color Club - Eternal Beauty
  • INM - Northern Lights
  • Sinful Colors - Snow Me White
Even though I didn't follow Sammy's tutorial, the nails still turned out pretty dang cool looking.  Unlike the previous galaxy nails I've done where I started off with a base coat of black polish, I did a base of a lavender polish (You're Such a Budapest).  Once my base was on, I took a corner of a make up sponge and sponged on the outline of the galaxy using Snow Me White.  I then went through and added Bright Lucite, a baby blue, along the outside of the white using another corner of the sponge.  I then used Color Club Miss Bliss and Eternal Beauty to fill in any blank spots and create a holo glittery dimension to the galaxy.

To make the galaxies look like galaxies, I went through with a quick coat of INM Northern Lights in Silver.  This polish is awesome for galaxies because all the little glitter flecks look like dozens and dozens of twinkling stars.  When Northern Lights was dried, I went through with a dotting tool and nail art brush and created the white stars.  The addition of the white starts really pulled the whole manicure together.



Of course, I finished it all off with a quick top coat of INM Out the Door.  Frequently my followers ask if they have to put a top coat on over Northern Lights, and the answer is no since it is a fast dry top coat.  I typically do because in many cases it is an intermediate top coat, meaning I usually use it to seal in a gradient then go through and add more art.  After the art is on, I need to seal that in too, but don't want to add more glitter, so I just use my plain fast dry.

What do you think of my pastel galaxies?  Fan of them compared to the traditional galaxy with a black base?

 Time for me to go be unproductive!  Just kidding, as I was writing this post, I realized I have to get a Twinsie Tuseday and The Beauty Buffs post ready for next week!  Both groups have fun themes this week, so I'm excited to start creating!

Until next time, <3.

Galaxy Mani

Galaxy Nail Art

9:00:00 AM

Good morning polished world!  I hope you all are having a great Monday.  Are great Monday's possible  Today I am bringing you a galaxy manicure straight from The Little Canvas vault.  I have so many new manicures to show you, but I have decided to hold off on editing them until I get through some of these old manicures that I was so proud of at the time.

I can't begin to explain how much I loved these galaxies!  I attempted galaxy nails last year but never posted them because I really wasn't pleased with the end result.  I might have to look for a photo of those to post on Instagram as part of throwback Thursday, plus it would be neat to compare.  One thing I do know is that this years attempt was much more sparkly and had more "depth" than the others.

Let's take a look.




Colors Used:

  • Base
    • Zoya - Storm
  • Galaxies
    • Sinful Colors - Snow Me White
    • Ulta - Sun-Sational
    • Sinful Colors - Cream Pink
    • Color Club - Over the Moon
  • Stars
    • Sinful Colors - Snow Me White
    • INM - Northern Lights
Neat, right???

To get the look, I started off with a base coat of Zoya Storm, the worlds greatest sparkly black polish.  If you're going to do galaxy nails, this polish is a must have.  When my base was dry, with the corner of a make up sponge, I dabbed white where I wanted the galaxy to be.  With another corner of the sponge, I took yellow polish and dabbed it along the white polish.  Then, with Cream Pink and another corner of the make up sponge, I dabbed the pink randomly around the galaxy.  Finally, I took Over the Moon and sponged around the edge of the galaxy to blend the white into the black.  I then took INM Northern Lights and added a quick top coat to add sparkly and blend the galaxy together.

When Northern Lights was dried, with my small and large dotting tool, I added a bunch of random stars.  Once those were completely dried, I went through and added a plain shiny top coat.

What do you think?  Liking the galaxies?  Ever tried them yourself?

I'm so happy I decided to add the holo polish around the edges to blend the black into the galaxy.  It really completed the look.  Ahhh I should have taken a video of how sparkly they were.  Maybe I'll do them again eventually.

Until next time, <3.