Holy crap I made flowers!

I have this white striper (as seen in the last post about watermelon nails) that actually works really well for creating crisp and concise lines. Well, it works great if you don't have shaky hands like me! I've played with it before and am always slightly disappointed with the results. This time, there was no disappointment at all! These nails were inspired by Tartofraises! She is easily the most talented freehand artist I have ever seen. I can only hope that someday I will achieve even half of her awesomeness! I watch her tutorials often and I thought the style I chose to do was simple enough for me not to mess up and nice enough to at least pay her some tribute! What do you think?

Watermelons are delicious...

...And these nails just made me wish it were in season! I had a lot of fun doing these, and I was surprised at how well they turned out. I wish I had used a dotting tool instead of a needle for the seeds. They came out a little wonky. On to the pictures!

As far as colors go, I used Sinful Colors - Timberberry (pink), Sinful Colors - Innocent (light green), and white and green stripers from the dollar store. 

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It's gradient time!

I was looking through animal print tutorials and pictures, and I kept seeing artists using really awesome gradients underneath their animal print designs. Pink, orange, and red do NOT sound like they'd go well together (to me, anyway), but apparently they combine for a really awesome and smooth gradient! First, I did a solid coat of Sinful Colors - Courtney Orange. This is a seriously beautiful orange shimmer. Check it out:

3 coats to a beautiful (quite Halloween-y) orange!

It actually matched my lotion bottle ^.^

Now on to the gradient! I don't have a very good camera, but for some reason it captured this manicure exactly how it looks in person. Maybe it's the beautiful desert sun bringing out these truly beautiful colors!

For the red I used Sinful Colors - Ruby Ruby and for the pink Sinful Colors - Timbleberry.

I am super pleased with how this turned out! That little bottle of polish I'm holding is a glitter from a 5 piece Hello Kitty set. It really isn't good quality AT ALL, but the bottle is super cute! The glitter actually washed off the next time I washed my hands. Still, what glitter remained made this an awesome manicure that I was proud to show off. Thanks for reading! 

Zoya - Anja

This little beauty really took my breath away when I finished the application and sat back to admire it. It's a rich burgundy with a definite purple hue. In the bottle it looked like it had a lot more red/purple in it, but mostly it looked like a dark burgundy while I was wearing it. Here are some photos taken in the lovely desert sun!

It took only two coats for this to be opaque - and I paint really thin coats! Really great coverage and super easy application. Smooth and creamy! I am quickly falling in love with Zoya polishes! Now I just need to try their mattes!

Fashion Polish Blogaversary!

Whew! This has been a lot of giveaways to blog about. But really, how awesome are giveaways?! I have yet to win one, but I am holding out hope still!!


Fashion Polish is a fantastic blog with the BEST swatches! Seriously this girly has the best nail photos out there. I imagine her camera is ridiculously amazing.

Here is what you can win

Drooooooool

Click here to enter!

Lacquered Lover Unicorn Puke Giveaway!

Look at this color. LOOK AT IT. It's beautiful. Too bad they only made a few! But Lacquered Lover is giving a bottle away! Woohoo! Click here to enter!

Lacquered Lover 1,000 Follower Giveaway!

Lacquered Lover is hosting a most generous giveaway to celebrate 1,000 followers! Check out what you can win:

Those holiday colors are amazing. And Orly's Androgynie is gorgeous as well. 

Enter here!

Lucy's Stash 1300 Follower Giveaway!

As I said before, Lucy's Stash was having TWO giveaways right now - here is the second one!

Enter here!

Note: I have a few giveaways to post about, but then I'll be back to my own newbie attempts at nail art! Even if people that see this don't want to enter any of these giveaways, VISIT THESE LADIES HOSTING THEM THEY ARE FANTASTIC! 

Lucy's Stash 1100 Follower Giveaway!!!

Lucy's Stash is having two giveaways right now, the first is for the 1100 follower mark. I can't imagine 100 let alone 1100 haha!

 Here is what you can win!

Enter here!

Barely any time left! TraceFace Philes giveaway!

The TraceFacePhiles was one of the first blogs I started following (obviously before I started my personal one). The art and application are just amazing. Period. And of course, she does giveaways! This one is to mark 2000 followers!


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