Monthly Mani Favs

The One With February Monthly Mani Favs

9:00:00 AM

Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing?  Can you believe today is last day of February?  Sure, it's the shortest month of the year, but it still flew by.  I swear it was just New Years Eve.  This whole month is odd though.  It's been the warmest February on record, it feels like it's Spring, and we have had no snow.  I don't get it.

Since it's the last day of the month, I thought it would be fitting to share my monthly mani favs.  Unfortunately I didn't post a lot this month, but I had enough to pull together my four favorites!

Let's take a look!



  1. The One With the Gradient and the Dry Brush - I really loved this manicure, I think it was my favorite of the whole month.  The purple to pink, the sparkle,and the random black swipes, it just all came together nicely.
  2. The One With the Mosaic Nail Art - I loved the color combination of this one as well.  I haven't done a free hand mosaic in years, so I'm happy that I re-attempted one this month.  I still need to get my hands on the new Serendipity Polish collection.
  3. Bestie Twin Nails with 25SweetPeas! - This month I did a Bestie Twin Nail feature with the lovely Sarah from 25SweetPeas.  We decided to do a black and white interlocking dot manicure.  Second favorite manicure of the month for sure!  Close to being number one!  I really need to do more interlocking manicures like this in the future.  They were so fun!
  4. The One With the Rose Manicure - This is a re-creation of a manicure I did years and years ago.  It was one of my favorites then, and still is now.  I think each month I'm going to re-create a manicure I did years ago.  Now that this blog has been around for five years, I'm allowed to do that.
What do you think?  Which is your favorite?

Alright all, I'm going to have a busy few weeks on the blog!  I have some swatches to share, and new nail art to post.  I swear I'm going to be posting a lot and will be getting out of this blogging funk!  

Until next time, <3.

Dot Mani

The One With the ORLY Dotticure

9:00:00 AM

Nothing to Disclose

Good morning polished world and happy Sunday!  Yes, that's right, another weekend has come and gone.  Sigh.  Friday it was in the high 60s, this morning I woke up and there was snow on the ground.  Honestly, cannot win.  Another sigh.

Today's manicure is a super simple dotticure.  I keep seeing LaLaLoveNailArt create these cute dotticures and I've always wanted to try one.  Whenever I do a dot manicure, I always throw about ten other designs on there and never just keep the simple, completed dots.

Let's take a look at my plain dot manicure with no other nail art!


Colors Used:
  • ORLY - White Tips
  • ORLY - MirrorBall
  • ORLY - Charged Up
Triple sigh for this post, I couldn't get my other nail photos to look right so I'm down to just these two.  Not really a triple sigh though because these photos are decent. Just look at how perfectly holographic Mirrorball is.  So happy that I have five back up bottles.  Yes, five.  When Sally Beauty discontinued them for Lord knows what reason, I snagged them all at $2.99 each.  Best decision ever. 



Charged Up is such a pretty deep purple shade.  I don't use it as often as I should.  Two coats and full coverage.  I always think this would be a one coater because it's kind of watery, but it builds up quite nicely.

What do you think?  Like the simple dot manicure??

Alright, I'm off to enjoy the last little bit of my weekend!

Until next time, <3.

Dot Mani

The One With the Red Rose Manicure

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!  How are you doing today??  It is finally Thursday which if you were me, you would have thought yesterday was Thursday.  I don't know why I keep doing that other than I just am excited for the weekends.

The manicure I'm sharing with you today is the one I actually wore on Valentine's Day.  I was going to post it but had the other pink rose one so I decided to hold off.  I also was kind of lazy and didn't feel like editing the photos until recently.  I really need to stop slacking when it comes to this blog.  I literally have 6 posts to share with you!

For now, let's take a look at today's manicure!




Colors Used:
  • OPI - Having a Big Head Day
  • Serendipity Polish - Building My Empire
  • Serendipity Polish - Holoday Lights
  • ORLY - White Tips
It's actually quite pretty, isn't it?  I was going for something totally different when I did this manicure, but it did not work out no matter what I was doing.  Seriously, who thought it would be so difficult to paint some hearts on a nail.  I should have done a stencil or something.  Oh well, when all else fails, do a floral design.



Having a Big Head Day by OPI is such a gorgeous red polish.  I bought it last year for my mom because she loves having red pedicures in the summer, and this is the perfect red for her.  I'm never one to use red so I never have tried it for myself.  Or maybe I have but can't remember.  Regardless, two coats and I had full coverage.  A classic OPI red for sure.


Accented with my love, Holoday Lights.  You can never go wrong with this beautiful silver holo polish.  I need to purchase some back ups.  I also need to purchase the new Serendipity collection.

What do you think?  Like this manicure?  Fan of the rose?

Until next time, <3.

OPI

The One With the Mosaic Nail Art

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing on this fine Monday?  I apologize for not posting yesterday.  I lost track of my days and thought I had a post scheduled.  Now I have about 7 back logged posts.  I'm really not kicking 2017 off right on the blog.  Forgetting posts, not sharing stuff in a timely manner.  I hope you all forgive me.

Today I'm sharing with you a simple little mosaic looking manicure I did using some of my Serendipity Polishes!  Mixed a Zoya and OPI in there also, but they went together quite well!!

 Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • Serendipity Polish - Building My Empire
  • Serendipity Polish - Mint Martini
  • OPI - My Vampire is Buff
  • Zoya - Tomoko
Lovely, right?  I love the color combination!  Very simple to get the look.  You start off with a base of a nude polish.  I used my favorite, My Vampire is Buff by OPI, which takes two to three coats.  Usually I can get it to work with two.  When that was dried, I went through with a nail art brush and randomly drew lines across my nail.  I then went through and filled in the squares I wanted with Mint Martini and Tomoko.  Took the nail art brush and straightened up the lines, added top coat, and enjoyed.



Building My Empire is one of my favorite black polishes.  I need to get my hands on a back up bottle, and I need to snag a bottle of the white polish that they just released as part of their Spring collection.  You cannot go wrong with a one coat black or white polish!


Mint Martini is one of my favorite mint shades.  You guessed it, one coat.  Goodness I cannot begin to tell you how much I love my Serendipity Polish's!

What do you think? Like this manicure?  Something you'd try? Own any of these Serendipity Polish's? 

Until next time, <3.