Hi everyone!!! How are you today?!  I'm great, mainly because it is my birthday week!  Yes, that's right, when it's my birthday, I dedicate the whole week to it!  Since it is my birthday, what better way to celebrate than with some cute nail art!?

I had a few ideas in mind when I sat down to do this manicure.  I was in between doing balloons, birthday hats, confetti, or cupcakes.  I was 100% certain though that this manicure needed to have some form of glitter, because come on, it's a birthday.

After some thought, I decided to attempt some cupcakes....here's what I came up with!

Something exciting happened to me last night - I was RT'ed by CutePolish on Twitter!  For those of you who do not know, cutepolish is a nail art vlogger, who I absolutely love!  Her videos constantly inspire me and were one of the main reasons I attempted nail art way back when.  Her video tutorials are easy to understand, and can make truly make anyone a nail artist.  I have copied many of her designs.  Most recently, I attempted her blueberry nail art, which to me was beyond adorable!

So last night, I sat down to paint my nails.  I already had an idea in my mind, so I didn't have to go searching for designs like I usually do.  Nine times out of ten, I start by surfing through cutepolish's YouTube Channel.  If you have watched her videos, you know that she starts off with a quick explanation of the design before starting to the tutorial.  From there, she starts polishing and says the one thing that sticks with me each time I paint on my base coat.  Of course, I decided to tweet it...."start off with a base coat to protect your natural nails"

With a tag and a tweet, I was RT'ed :)

Now I know it may be stupid to dedicate a post to this, but holy crow was I excited.  I got an interaction saying she RT'ed my post, and then it started.  Over 50 RT's from her followers, almost 40 new followers on my Twitter, some new Blog followers with a huge surge of page views, and new Facebook "likes".  Just crazy.

So I would like to say thank you to Cutepolish (who will probably never read this) and a hello to all my new followers!  Thanks for taking the time to look at my sites and decide to follow.  Just as she inspired me, I hope I can inspire some of you to do nail art as well!!!!

Until tomorrow and my new post, have a great night!!!! <3

Well hello everyone! How are you on this fine day??  I'm doing well.  Feel like I've been slacking on the blog now that I cut back to posting every three days, but sadly it had to be done for a couple of reasons.  First, my blog was becoming a nuisance and no longer fun.  I typically paint my nails typically every three days so to paint, take pictures, edit, watermark, and write posts every two days was just getting crazy!  I was taking off perfectly good manicures just to paint another one, which left me not fully able to enjoy my work.  Secondly, I have gotten a bit busy with school, work, and life.  While I love painting my nails and blogging, those are some things I cannot neglect for obvious reasons.

Returning back to my every 3 day posting has been great, I've been able to save up some posts so I will hopefully not fall behind again.  Sure the page views have gone down a tad, but oh well!  I'm doing this for fun and really I never expected to hit 10,000 views, so to have done that, I'm truly honored.

Enough of my babbling, onto my nails!  Today I bring you some watermelon nail art!!!  I have seen people do watermelons all over the internet, be it on another blog, Pinterest, or just Google.  Back before I was a blogger and did strawberries on my nails, I saw this idea, but didn't have colors to actually do so!  Once I entered this amazing blogging world, my stash has doubled and guess who has enough colors to do pretty much whatever she wants?!  Yup, me!

Here's how they came out!!

Colors Used:

• Base
• Ulta - Flamingo
• Watermelon Rind
• Funky Fingers - Queen Cupcake
• Revlon - Sassy
• Sinful Colors - HD Nails
• Seeds
• Sinful Colors - Black on Black

Happy Olympics!!!!!  I'm not sure why, but this year I'm hooked.  At 8pm, I turn on that television and I watch right until the coverage ends at 12am.  Swimming, gymnastics, volley ball, you name it, this year I can't stop watching.  The Summer Olympics are also 100 times better than the Winter Olympics.  Although, I do love the Ice Skating during the Winter ones.  In celebration of the games, and after seeing the cute nail art on the Olympians and from many other nail bloggers, I decided to attempt one myself!!!!

On top of it, I was asked by Erin over at Hand-y Feats and Other Treats to participate in a Summertime Challenge and Week 1 is Olympic Themed!!!  The challenge is as follows:

I explained to her I wasn't sure if I would be able to participate in each week due to scheduling and such, but she was super sweet and told me to post when I could!  She also said that if I had to skip a week it was okay too!!  I think some of you guys should join in as well!!! Posts start on each Friday, and you have the full week to post, reason why I'm posting this on Wednesday instead of last Friday.  If you can't, then oh well!  Point of the challenge is to have fun!!!  I'll try my best to participate each week, but in September it might get a bit hectic with my start of another challenge, but we shall see!!!!  Head on over to her blog if you are interested in joining!!!!

Anyways, on to the nails!