Inspired By: Monarch Butterflies: Pink

This is so much fun. HERE is the tutorial.  Remarkably easy for the non-artist that I am.

Monarch Butterfly nails

 I SHOULD have done orange, but I really wanted to try out this pink. It went on really well!

Pure Ice Black Rage, Super Star, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Hot Magenta, Art Deco Black

Inspired By: converse Shoes

This manicure was a lot of fun and surprisingly easy with nail art pens. It would have been better if my nails had rounder tips, but it's all good.

Inspired by Converse Shoes

Cute, huh? It took a lot of different nail polish but it was fast and easy. Just take it step by step.

Wet N Wild Everybody Loves Redmond, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Crushed, Pure Ice Excuse Me, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Blue Me Away, Wet N Wild Wild Shine Eggplant Frost, Pure Ice Super Star, Sally Hansen art pens

Fun With Dots: White/Teal/Orange

Did everyone have a great holiday? I did! I got a lot of new polishes to show off too! Here's today's fun manicure:

Fun with Dots!

I did two coats of Nicole Do The Right Thing. I got these great Mash Dotting Tools for Christmas and couldn't wait to break them in! I used them using Nicole My Lifesaver (the teal color) and Pure Ice Super Star (white) to add the fun dots. Super easy.

Nicole by OPI The Right Thing, My Lifesaver, Pure Ice Super Star, Mash dotting tool

Inspired By: Holiday Braid white/silver/blue

This braid technique is something totally new to me, but lots of fun! The next time I do it I'll try to stick to nice creme colors so the overlapping won't show. I found a fantastic tutorial over at Rebecca Likes Nails.  All of our holiday decorations are blue and silver so I thought I'd try out these colors:

The holiday Braid.

First I started with a base coat of Pure Ice Super Star (white). Then I carefully used my Pure Ice French Kiss (the blue) which is phenomenal. I also used Wet n Wild Fast Dry Silvivor. Fun fun!

Wet N Wild Fast Dry Silvivor, Pure Ice Super Star, Pure Ice French Kiss

Pink Wednesday: Fun With Dots

I'm starting a new thing called Pink Wednesday. Every Wednesday (or thereabouts) I'll be posting pink polishes! Where did this come from? Mean Girls. I'm not mean--but from now on, on Wednesdays We Wear Pink!

Fun With Dots, China Glaze Purple Panic (Neon)

This isn't just ANY pink! This is pink of LOVE! One of my lovely friends online sent this to me. I LOVE it. I did a coat of white under it (to avoid any staining) and it went on great. Then I used my Sally Hansen Nail Art Pens to add some fun dots. Another friend (RevMo) sent me a black Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen so now I have both white and black! Love love love wearing polishes from friends!

China Glaze Purple Panic (Neon), Sally Hansen in white and black

Zebra stripes: Gradient: purple and silver

Weee! Another crazy zebra stripe gradient! I started off with two coats of Wet N Wild Eggplant Frost. Next, I sponged (using the edge of a cosmetic sponge) a layer of Wet N Wild Fast Dry in Gray's Anatomy, followed by the tips in Wet N Wild Fast Dry Silvivor. I LOVE Silvivor. After the job was done I used my Art Deco thin tipped brush in black and made some fun free hand zebra stripes.

Zebra stripes gradient

See? Pretty easy and WILD looking! Ha! fun fun!

Wet n Wild Fast Dry Silvivor, Gray's Anatomy, Wild Shine in Eggplant Frost, Art Deco in black

Funky French Freestyle

Speaking of the Funky French Freestyle...here's a lovely springy version (and yes, this IS my right hand...the Christmas version is on my left hand. Don't judge.). My lovely California friend, whom I affectionately will refer to as RevMo (the darling behind Morawk Creations) sent me some Nail Mail! She sent me two super cute minis of Sephora by OPI (It's Hippo To Be Square and Natural Environ-mint) and a black Salley Hansen Nail Art pen! Hot diggity! This shade of violet makes me swoon--so it was first to be used! This is Hippo To Be Square.

The Funky French Freestyle

I started off with two coats with Sephora by OPI in Hippo to Be Square. It's a pretty thin formula, but oh the color! Love love love it! Normally I would have tapped off for my funky french, but this was a quickie job! I just eye balled it this time and then took my Art Deco nail polish and added a swipe of white. I did do a final coat of Pure Ice Oh Baby, a beautiful iridescent polish. This nail art just screams Spring to me!

Art Deco white, Sephora by OPI Hippo To Be Square,  Pure Ice Super Star and Pure Ice Oh Baby.