Color Blocks and Animal Print

This one I did not find on Pinterest (surprise, surprise)! This one, I found over at Nails by Kayla Shevonne, which is one of the blogs I follow.
Hers look much better, which is one of the reasons why I threw in the gold striping tape.

I used Sinful Colors' Timbleberry for this look, Sinful Colors' Snow Me White, and Sinful Colors' Black on Black, along with gold striping tape from Sammy Dress,
I honestly should have gone with a different pink, I felt like it really subtracted from the overall look. Maybe next time I'll go with a mint green or something more... pastel.

What do you guys think, what color would you have chosen? Please leave a comment letting me know!

Good News, Good Nails

GOOD NEWS! I found the phone with the good camera! We're back in business, baby!

GREAT NAILS! I was looking through my Pinterest nail art pins for some inspiration. I had decided that I was going to do some stamping (haven't done that in a while!) and came across this pin. It made me think of mermaids, so I went with it!

Unable to locate the BM-209 I needed, I used my Mash-39, which has a clearer print than that of my RA-111, and a smaller print than that of my GA14, (I have FOUR plates with fish scales. FOUR. Almost as many as zebra prints...) but honestly, I'm very pleased with the results!

I couldn't figure out what to do for the accent nail, so I decided to go for something that strikes of sea monster, and I think I did fairly well. I'm not completely satisfied with the result (am I, ever?) but I didn't hate it so much that I redid it several times, so there's a plus.

At about 3 hours, this was one of my longer manis, because I had to wait for the MANY layers to dry. SO WORTH IT!

I'm thinking Scary Monsters and Nice Nymphs for this!

Main nails:
Layer one: NYC's Water Street Blue and L.A. Colors' BCC 590, gradient.
Layer two: Pure Ice Strapless, Pure Ice Look My Way, and Petites Craze.
Layer three: Pure Ice Silver Mercedes, stamped with Mash-39.
Layer four: Pure Ice Oh Baby

Accent nail:
Layer one: Wet'N'Wild Fergie Glowstick 
Layer two: Wet'N'Wild Fastdry SaGreena the Teenage Witch, stamped with Mash-39.
Layer three: Wet'N'Wild Fastdry SaGreena the Teenage Witch, gradient from top.
Layer four: Sinful Colors Queen of Beauty
NYC's Matte Me Crazy for top coat.

I based with my usual Sally Hansen's, and topped my main nails with the Rue 22 topcoat.

I am in absolute LOVE with this mani!!!! What say you?

Apologies and Penguins

Wow, I'm a horrible blogger :( I didn't think it'd been THAT long since I posted! Sorry!

Anyways I was looking through and realized I haven't done a post on one of my older manis that I had every intention of sharing. Oops.

It's winter here in central Iowa. That means that, for the most part, it's been really cold.

No, really.

At 32 F, (0 C) I can go outside in a long-sleeved t-shirt and be fine (that's if there's only a slight breeze). That being said, I have recently purchased my first coat. It's puffy. And kinda itchy. But I wear it. And lately, I've been wearing it with my sweatshirt underneath.

So I hope you're understanding approximately how cold it's been recently.

Which explains these nails.

Penguins!!! With bowties!! Because bowties are cool :D

These were so fun to wear! A pain on the cleanup, but fun to wear! And for some reason I didn't take a pic of my right hand... O.o

I really liked the way these turned out :) what would you have done differently?