Good morning polished world and Happy Friday!  That's right, we made it to the end of another week.  It's also the beginning of a three day weekend for the Fourth of July!  I still cannot believe that it is already July.  It's beyond crazy to me that June is over.

Since the Fourth of July is right around the corner, I decided I should start posting some festive designs.  Now, I paint my nails every three days, and what is on my nails doesn't usually match up with what is live on the blog.  What you see either was created a few days ago or a week or so ago.  For these Fourth of July designs, I started last weekend, and I most likely won't have a festive design on my nails for the actual day.  I said to someone at work "You know you're a nail blogger when your nails are festive way before the holiday so you can bring your viewers relevant content."  Pretty sure they thought I'm crazy but oh well!

Today's design is just a simple dot gradient on my naked nail.  We all know how much I love these designs so when I saw a similar one on Pinterest I jumped at the opportunity to do it myself.

Let's take a look!



Colors Used:

• OPI - My Pal Joey
• OPI - Having a Big Head Day
• OPI - Alpine Snow

Having a Big Head Day is from the Alice Through the Looking Glass collection.  I never buy red polishes because they aren't my thing.  This one ended up in my collection because I bought it for my mom who loves to have a red pedicure all summer long.  This is one of her favorite shades of red so when OPI was on sale a few weeks ago I grabbed it for her.  I thought it looked like the perfect red for an America mani and I was right.  Really loving this shade for art, don't know how I'd like it on myself for a full mani.


Having a Big Head Day goes perfectly with My Pal Joey from the Hello Kitty Collection.  This is one of my favorite blue polishes so I snagged myself a back up a few weeks ago during a clearance sale.  Now I will be using this beauty more often with no regrets that I'm using too much of it and running out.

What do you think?  Fan of this festive look?  Something you think you will try?  Do you love these OPIs together??

Well this post turned out to be a lot longer than I expected!  Oh well!!!

Until next time, <3.

Happy Wednesday everyone!  How are you all doing??  It's the end of June already so that means that it is time for another Round Up Post, or what most people call Monthly Mani Fav.  That's actually what I call it on Instagram, but meh whatever.  I started calling them Round Up posts here on the blog so I'll keep it at that.

Can we take a second and just talk about how it's actually the end of June?  I don't know where this month went.  This past weekend too was a complete blur.  It all caught up to me yesterday because I came home from work, sat down and slept a few hours.  Now let's see if I'm able to function today.

Okay, June Round Up.  I apologize because this month I will not be sharing my favorites by other bloggers.  I was going to do so but I haven't had much time to put this post together.  Between the blur of a weekend, then the other night my cute little nephew had quite the injury and needed some stitches, all my blogging had to go on the back burner.  Next month I'll bring back the other blogger feature.

So let's take a look at my monthly mani favorites!

Shocker, all of them used Serendipity Polish.  This is one of my new favorite brands so it is no surprise that all my favorite manicures this month were done with them.

1. The One With the Mani Swap with 25 Sweet Peas - My first ever manicure swap post!  Sarah and I re-created each other's manicures!  She did my hibiscus design and I did this cute vintage rose look.  Such a dainty design on a gorgeous base of Serendipity Polish Mint Martini.  Love this color so much.
2. The One With Round 25 of Bestie Twin Nails with Fashion Footing - Pretty sure every month my BTN design ends up on this list.  This month Amanda and I re-created this tape and dot design by Young Wild and Polished.  I used Serendipity Polish Mint Martini and Vacation Vibes.  Awesome colors on their own and together.  I just loved how this one turned out so much.
3. The One With Daisies and Serendipity Polish Vitamin Sea - Another lovely manicure using another lovely Serendipity Polish.  This bright blue baby is Vitamin Sea and I think I can say it is my favorite from the Beach, Please collection.  I love the layout of this manicure with the silver, flowers, dots, and the yellow accent nail.  Something fun and different.
4. The One With Serendipity Polish Holo-Day Lights - Last but not least we have this lovely mish mosh manicure I did which is accented with the gorgeous Holo-Day Lights.  If you like holo anything, then you need to get this polish.  I love the overall color combination I used in this manicure.  The grey with the neon on top just really popped.  It's something I never would have done normally but I think I might be doing more manicures with neons and greys.  Maybe even a neon and beige base....hmmm

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!

• Zoya - Sailor
• China Glaze - DJ Blue My Mind
• China Glaze - UV Meant to Be
• INM Northern Lights
• Black and White Acrylic

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.

Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing today?  It's been such a good, busy week and it's not going to slow down any time soon!  Don't you just love summer?

Today is Round 25 of Bestie Twin Nails with Fashion Footing!  I still can't believe that last month was our two year anniversary of this feature.  Crazy how fast time flies.  The three year anniversary will be here in a blink of an eye!

Today we are re-creating a fun tape, dot, mish mosh manicure originally done by Young, Wild and Polished.  I absolutely love how it turned out!

Let's take a look!

• Orly - White Tips
• Serendipity Polish - Mint Martini
• Serendipity Polish - Vacation Vibes

I had to take a shot of this manicure before I added the art because I loved the plain swatches.  As you've seen in my last few blog posts, I am in LOVE with these Serendipity polishes.  I've used Mint Martini a few times but this was my first time using Vacation Vibes.  Such a gorgeous, vibrant purple which is perfect for summer.  The bottle looked a little dustier so I didn't think it was going to be as vibrant on the nail, but I was wrong.



Since these polishes are lovely quick drying one coaters, doing this tape manicure was beyond simple!  Put my first coat down, let it dry for a few minutes, added tape, then added the other color!  It was so opaque it covered right over the color underneath.  Usually when I do these tape manicures I have to do two coats of the top polish to make sure the bottom is completely covered.

What do you think?  Have you purchased any Serendipity Polishes yet?  You won't be sorry!!

Make sure to check out Amanda's version!

Until next time, <3.