Animal Print

NailTrail Leopard

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing today?  I'm feeling a tad better.  Still kind of beat up from this whole stomach bug.  Luckily I have a back log of manicures to post so I don't have to worry about editing photos or doing new manicures for the time being.  Maybe I'll start that all back up later today.

So I went through my back log of manicures and picked one that was simple, easy, and something I wouldn't end up writing a whole ton about.  It is a purple and black leopard manicure with is inspired by The Nail Trail.  She has some very cute animal print nails and gradient nails.  She's just a great nail artist, I don't think I've seen a design of hers that I didn't like.

Let's take a look.




Colors Used:
  • Sinful Colors - Mad About Hue
  • Orly - Liquid Vinyl
  • Orly - French White
Overall a fun design.  I really liked the Nail Trail's better though.  I think it's because she has longer nails than I do.  Or that her art is just better.  Regardless, I did love this design.  It was fun, simple, and quick.  Can't get much better than that in a manicure!



I really love Sinful Colors Mad About Hue.  I've owned it for awhile now and used it once or twice.  Looking back on this manicure, I really think I need to re-visit some of my Sinfuls and use them more.

What do you think?  Fan of the manicure?  Something you would do?

 Until next time, <3.

Twinsie Tuesday

Twinsie Tuesday: No Post Today...Sigh

9:00:00 AM



Hey all.  I'm sad to say that I don't have a Twinsie Tuesday post ready for you all this week.  Sunday I ended up sick with the stomach bug.  Yesterday morning I woke up still not feeling too well and ended up staying home from work.  I had a plan that I was going to paint my nails during the day but I couldn't muster up the strength or energy to do so.

Therefore, I have to skip this week.  Our theme was vampy and I had such a cute nail art idea planned.  Maybe I'll do them later this week and share.

Make sure to check out the other Twinsie's vampy manicures!


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

See you all soon! <3

Dot Mani

An Orly Dry Brush Manicure

9:00:00 AM


Happy Sunday polished world!  Hope you all have had a fabulous weekend!  I'm quite exhausted and am planning on using today to catch up on some sleep and rest.  Oh, and I wanted to go hit up the Sally Beauty OPI Buy Two Get One Free sale.  And maybe stop and buy some boots.  Okay, I won't be resting today.

That doesn't mean though that I don't have time for a blog post!  I'm sharing with you today a dry brush manicure that I was inspired to do after seeing a similar one by @nails_and_wax on Instagram.  Her's was done with a dark green polish, which I attempted to use but it just didn't look good on my hands.  It was actually a good thing the dark green didn't work for me because when I removed it after a whole 10 minutes of it being on, it had already stained my nails.  I could only imagine the damage it would have caused if I wore it for three days.

So I substituted the dark green for one of my favorite polishes, Orly Gumdrop.  Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • Orly - Gumdrop
  • Orly - French Tip White
  • Orly - Liquid Vinyl
I think I'm obsessed with Orly lately.  That and China Glaze.  I swear those are the only two companies I have been using for the past few weeks.  I need to dig deep into my Melmer and re-visit all my OPI's, Sinfuls, and Sally Hansens.  So many pretties being neglected.  But how could you not neglect them when Orly makes gorgeous polishes like Gumdrop?!  And the world's most perfect white and black polishes?  I just love them.  Yes, Orly is a little more expensive, but I think it's worth it because the bottles are a little larger, they never dry up, and the caps are awesome with that squishy grip.



This manicure is super simple and eye catching.  That's what makes it so great.  You don't have to spend a ton of time on manicure to have some fun nail art!  Literally, I think this manicure took me a half hour to do on both hands.

What do you think?  Like this design?  Have you tried the dry brush technique?

 Well I am off to enjoy my semi relaxing and semi busy Sunday!  Until next time, <3.

China Glaze

Floral Manicure Re-Creation!

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing today?  It's Friday which means it's almost time for the weekend!  I am kind of upset though because Saturday I have to be up bright and early which means that I am missing out on my sleep in day.  It's okay though, it's for a good cause which I will talk about in another post coming up!

Today I am sharing a manicure which is a re-creation of a neon pink floral design I did earlier this year.  It was one of my favorite floral manicures ever.  I've been dying to do them again, but I didn't want to do two exact designs so close together!  So now that a few months have lapsed, it was time!

Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • China Glaze - That's Shore Bright
  • OPI - This Crown Needs a Gown
  • OPI - In True Stefani Fashion
  • China Glaze - The Grass is Lime Greener
  • Orly - French White
I didn't think it was possible, but I love this manicure more than the first time I did these flowers!  I should make a tutorial for how I did these flowers.  I started off by using black acrylic paint to create an "outline".  When that was dry, I colored in the white space like it was a coloring book.  I then went through with my black to even out any lines that got wonky when filling in the colors.



I'm so happy that I discovered this coloring book technique for nail art.  It makes things so much easier.  If you recall, I discovered it last year when I re-created a snowman manicure by Simply Rins.  She had an awesome tutorial for this difficult looking snowman which ended up being the easiest thing possible because of this technique!  I really should make a tutorial because I don't think I'm explaining it in a way that anyone will understand!

What do you think?  Like this color combo?  Fan of the floral?

See you soon.  Until next time, <3.