Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Nails with a bow

I got a new polish called Green Up Your Act from Nicole by OPI. So I just did all my nails with that color and on just both ring fingers, I made a bow. The knot of the bow is a silver rhinestone and the bow part I used little beads that I got from a store Daiso. I don't know if you've ever heard of it, but it's a Japanese store that sells a bit of everything from household stuff to school stuff to even nail stuff. The design is really cute, but it took time to make the bow since I had to put the beads one by one. Anyways. The color on my nail looks blu-ish, but the real color is on the bottle. Hope you guys like it!

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Ladybug Nails!

Ok this ladybug design is by far my favorite! So I started off using OPI The Thrill of Brazil to make a curve on half of my nail. Then using Art Club Nail Art Black, I first made the head of the ladybug trying to make it an oval as much as possible, second making a triangle in the middle of the wings to make them look split, and third making the antennas, leaving enough room for the dots at the end of the antennas making the designs a bit cuter. Using a dotting tool and L.A. Colors Art Deco Yellow, I made dots on the wings and I know it kind of looks orange in the picture. Anyways, you can use any colors you want. To finish the look, I dotted eyes on the head. Hope you enjoy the design!

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Checkered nails

Hello! So this weekend I'm going to Moto GP and I wanted to do my nails that would go hand in hand with Moto GP. What did I think of? The checkered flag they wave when winner cross the finish line, but instead of black and white, I did black and blue since my favorite color is blue after all. I used L.A. Girl Flare Turquoise for the background and let that dry for a few minutes. I did struggle on how to do the checkers so I just used my Art Club Nail Art Black to make the individual squares. It took forever and does not look perfect, but practice does make perfect.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Pink and Purple Dots

Can't get enough dots? Like I said in the last post, this is one of my favorite. I started off with Sally Hansen's White Tip, then took Sinful Colors Beautiful Girl and made dots vertically in the middle of my nail trying to make the dots evenly apart. That alone is cute enough.
Then I continued making dots on both sides of the pink with Sally Hansen's Lively Lilac and finished off the ends with another row of pink and there you go! If you don't have a dotting tool, easiest thing, you can use a tooth pick or other objects with pointed ends. Of course you don't have to use pink and purple. You can use any color combination you want. You can do green and blue or yellow and orange. Hope you guys like it!

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Coming Soon!

Sorry I haven't posted in almost a month, but there will be a nail design coming soon! Hopefully within the next few days. Hold tight! It's super cute and super easy! One of my favorite nail designs!

Friday, June 3, 2011

Vertical Strips with Dots

Hello people. At the rate I'm going, I'm probably going to do one post per month which sucks. Anyways, starting off June. I have strips on half my nail and added dots to the bottom of the strips. I started off painting only half of my nail diagonally with China Glaze Light As Air which I borrowed from a dear friend. Thank you friend! I don't know if you could tell in the picture but Light As Air is a very light lilac color. I took many pictures and it either turned out looking light blue or pink, never a shade of purple. Once that dried, I took my black Art Club Nail Art polish with its thin brush to make the lines. I tried making it evenly spread out and it takes a pretty steady hand to make the lines straight. Then with a medium dotting tool, I put black dots below the straights kind of finishing off the design. It looked weird with just lines especially since its only half the nail. Finish off with a clear coat and you're set!



Monday, May 9, 2011

Prom Nails

I was suppose to post this blog a month ago, but I've been lagging. So since this is the time when prom happens and I just wanted to share what nail design I had when I went to prom. My dress was white with some gold details. Being me, I wanted something really simple and something that would match my dress. Nothing too fancy. Using Sally Hansen's White Tip, I did a french tip then using L.A. Colors Art Deco Gold lined the bottom of the tip and there you go!


Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Watermelon Nails

Eeks.. I haven't been getting any inspirations lately, but I did with watermelons when I saw my friend eating them. I thought "Wow, that watermelon looks disgusting but would be a cute nail design." So here is my horrible attempt at doing a watermelon nail design. I don't think it's that bad.. it's just not perfect.
 After putting a base coat, I started off the design with painting the bottom half of my nail with L.A. Girl's Jade and if you noticed, watermelons usually have stripes, so by making the striped, I dipped a tiny painting brush into Sally Hansen's Green With Envy and dabbed my nail with it, making sure I did it in a messy line. I then painted 1/3 of the nail with Sinful Colors Beautiful Girl and tried to make the pale white part of the watermelon with Sally Hansen's Sweet Tulip. Once the Beautiful Girl dried, I used one of my dotting tools to make the seeds with Rimmel Black Satin. These were the closest colors I had to a watermelon. Cute from far away, but not too bad close up haha.


Sunday, March 20, 2011

Circled Dots



 To the left is the design I did today. Its different colored dots that are in circles. For this design, the polishes I used were SpaRitual's Regal Creme which, it may look black in the picture, is a dark purple for the background. You really have to see it in person to see the dark purple. For the different colored circles, I used Sally Hansen's Sun Kissed and L.A. Girl's Turquoise. To make these dots, I used a dotting tool, but if you don't have one, you can use a toothpick or anything with a small rounded tip. For the background on the ring finger, I used N.Y.C.'s Taxi Yellow Creme and to finish the look I used a clear top coat. Now you don't have to use the exact same colors I did, you can use any color you like. You can even make all the circled dots the same color or use more colors. It's all about having fun, so be creative! It's really simple to do and it's really cute!

Friday, March 4, 2011

Cheetah Nails

Hello! The nail design I did was the cheetah print. I know there are hundreds of cheetah designs out there sooo to make this one a bit different, it's quite colorful. As the background I used Sally Hansen's Lilac. I don't know if you can tell in the picture, but the color of the Lilac looks pink with a touch of really light purple. The Lilac dried after 5 minutes, so using Sally Hansen's Blue Me Away, Lively Lilac, and Sun Kissed, L.A. Color's Art Deco Pink and Love & Beauty Mint, I put blots of the different colors randomly on all my nails and they dried fairly quickly. Since the Love & Beauty black that I have is a pen and brush, I used the pen part and there is a picture of it below of just the pen. So using the pen, I outlined the colored blots differently. Some with different C's, some long C's, some full C's and some that are outlined all around. Topped the whole thing off with a top coat that I've been using in all nail designs. Hope you guys like it!

Friday, February 18, 2011

Carrot Cupcake with Cream Cheese

Hellloooo! So my mom bought a whole bag of carrots and I thought, what's a better way to use them than making some carrot cupcakes! It was a pain shredding them, but once that was done I was off to baking. I made a couple dozen of them and topped it off with what else? Cream cheese!! I don't know if you've noticed, but all the desserts I've posted so far consists of cream cheese. Anyways. I had some frozen cranberries left over from Christmas so I put a few on top of the frosting. It made the cupcakes look soo cute! Unfortunately, just like Christmas, the cranberries were really sour that I had to spit them out, realizing I never really like cranberries...to me, they're only good for decorations. So here are the cupcakes I made! They were pretty yummy!

Monday, February 14, 2011

Valentine Nails

Happy Valentine's Day again, this time coming back with nail designs. Here are the designs and what I used:


PINKY: I'll start with the design on the pinky. Using Sally Hansen White Tip, I made a diagonal tip then with my dotting tool with the smallest tip, I used OPI's The Thrill of Brazil to make hearts along the line of the white tip. The way I made the hearts were by putting two dots closely together then connected them together below the dots. On the rest of the white tip I made pink hearts with NYC's Polyester Pink Creme. If you want, you can just use all pink hearts or all red. 
RING FINGER: On the ring finger, as a background, I used Love & Beauty's Light Grey. Again using the same red, I took the made dots all over the nail using a dotting tool. As soon as they dried, I used the Polyester Pink Creme to make a big heart in the middle of the nail.
MIDDLE FINGER: The background on the middle finger is Sparitual's Hypnotic, which is a very nice color by itself. Once that dried, I used Art Deco's Gold to make hearts all over the nail. I wanted somewhat big hearts, so I could only fit four hearts on my nails. I think it's cuter if the hearts on the nails are facing different directions. With these gold hearts, a black background would also look nice.
INDEX FINGER: The design on the index finger looks so simple looking, and easy to do, but looks really cute. The background is the same pink I used on the other nails, Polyester Pink Creme. It dried pretty quickly so I used The Thrill of Brazil to make red hearts all over the nail. I wanted the hearts to be aligned, but if you don't want them aligned, then you can make them randomly.

I hope you guys like the designs and the picture is clear enough for you guys to see the designs.

Sweet Valentine

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!! In the spirit of Valentine's Day, I wanted to make something for my boyfriend. So I made him some red velvet cookies with cream cheese icing. I started off making the cake and after taking it out of the oven I let it cool. While the cake was cooling, I made the cream cheese icing. I recently bought a box full of cookie cutters and they had a variety of heart shaped cookie cutters. The cookie cutters I used were a heart having an arrow go through it, a big and small heart, and two hearts that were stuck together. As soon as the cake cooled off, I used the cookie cutters and it was kind of hard just because the cookie cutters didn't go all the way down. After cutting each one, I iced each one differently. Finally topped it off with some red sprinkles. I hope he likes it!

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Spring Nails: Yellow French Tip with Black Flower

Wow I haven't even touched my blog in a month. So I'm returning with a nail design that is a yellow tip with black flowers and dots following the flower. The nail design also has a yellow rhinestone making it cuter! 
 Starting off the manicure, I used Sally Hansen's Flawless as a base coat (I'm more into using clear coats as bases when doing a French Manicure). Once the base dried, I used N.Y.C.'s Taxi Yellow Creme for the tip. After waiting about 3-5 minutes of drying, I used Rimmel's Black Satin for the flower and dots. To make the flowers, I used my biggest dotting tool and made a flower with four medals. As you can see in the picture below, I tried a flower with five pedals on my middle finger, but I thought it didn't look that great so I tried four pedals. After doing the flower, I used a medium sized dotting tool to make the dots that follow the flower. As soon as I was done with my last finger, I moved on to using Flawless again as a top coat and before the top coat dried, I used yellow rhinestones as the center of the flower. Finishes the look, but makes most of the flowers small, but still cute! 
To the left is the finished product. I know I smeared the flower on the index finger, but I don't think it looks that bad.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Yellow Tip with Red Polka Dots

It's only been a couple of months that I got interested into doing nail designs, so the designs I've been doing on my nails aren't that great or perfect. My nails are really strong and not easily broken, so all the designs are done on my actual nails. I'm really into cute, simple nail designs. As my first nail post, I'm putting up yellow tips with a red line and polka dots. Really easy to do and it's cute!
 
For this design, I used Sally Hansen's Flawless, L.A. Colors Art Deco Yellow, and L.A. Colors Art Deco Red Glitter and a dotting tool. As the base coat, I used Flawless. Once that dried, I used the yellow Art Deco to make the french tip. After waiting about 5 minutes, I used the red glitter to make a line at the bottom of the french tip and using the dotting tool, I made dots on the rest of the french tip. And once again used the Flawless as a top coat.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

The Beginning...

Heeellloooo!! I'm pretty new to the blogging world so this should be interesting. I'm probably going to use this blog to show what desserts I've made and what designs I've done to my nails. Hopefully this will give me a jump start to me having a future in the baking world. I'm always looking up dessert recipes to try and the Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies, which I got from Food Network, is the one I tried today! The Red Velvet cookies turned out great even though they weren't the same sizes. The center was, of course, a cream cheese frosting. They're great to look at and they tasted yummy! Thanks Food Network! Oh, by the way, I'm not so great at taking pictures, hah, so I'm going to try my best.