Gingerbread nails!

 

More holiday nail fun! Whoo!!! And like always, I didn't feel like doing 4 gingerbread men...so I did just 2...that's plenty!! 

Anyway, here are the colors I used:

Ciate and Essie 

Which look like this when they're "not decorated:" 

Obviously, before I even started I had already decided on only 2 gingerbread men! 

I had a bit of a problem though...no polish that's the color of a gingerbread man. I know. I couldn't believe it either. I have a serious nailpolish problem and I didn't have one!!! So...I mixed two! 

There's really no point in telling you what the colors are because they have been discontinued for such a long time...but the Lancôme is a light gold sheen and the Mac is a nude cream shade. 

Together they make the perfect gingerbread man color!!!! 

Of course the week after I did this mani I found the perfect color for $4. Haha. Oh, well.

Here's my first little gingerbread that I made using nail dotters! 

He's a happy little booger!

This polish's glitter is so pretty!!!

Ikat nails

Ever since I saw this trend getting big, I had to try it out! So here we go: 

The colors I used were a turquoise from Rue 21, Lime Crime's Peach ❤ Cream, Finger Prints in white, and Stripe Rite in Black. I also used Essie's Matte About You too! Anyway... Here we go:

But let me give you a detailed break down of these pictures.

Two coats of the Rue 21 Turquoise. 

Lime Crime Peaches ❤ Cream comes next in little cloud shapes. I used a nail dotter tool to make them. I'm obsessed with nail dotters...if you don't own any, but some right now! They cost practically nothing on Amazon...but they're priceless to nailart! 

I then used Finger Paints white to add a little spot/blob to each orange cream "cloud." One of the things that I love about the ikat design is that it doesn't have to be perfect! 

I love the Stripe Rite nailpolishes because their brushes are super, super thin...so it makes it easy to create itty bitty, skinny lines like these! 

No flash!

Before adding Essie's Matte About You on my non-designed nails

Thanks for reading!

-Marissa

Flamingo nails!

Well, here's a small little blog post about my newest nails! Flamingos! 

I saw a shirt at Wal-mart and it was 2 flamingos kissing...so here's what I came up with! 

As you can tell, I used Essie's Bikini So Teeny as the background to my nails. It's my current favorite nail polish. The grass is obviously stripe rite in green. White used is Finger Paints white. The flamingos' bodies are Ciate's Cupcake Queen. And the black is Ciate's Un-restricted Glam. 

The right toe was kind of rushed because I was tired and as you can tell I made the flamingo too big so he's a lonely fellow. Also, I smudged him too! So...actually he's lonely and sad! But for a quick nail design I don't think it's too bad!       Thanks for reading!         -Marissa