The Digit-al Dozen does Albums: Vinyl Record French Tips

The Digit-al Dozen does the Color White: Roses

Mommy's Mani Monday: 1930's Star-Spangled Banner & Music Note Nails

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Daily Hues Nail Lacquer - Eve & Sheer Tint Holo Stars

Twinsie Tuesday: Neon - Drag Marble Border Nails

April Showers Bring May RAINBOW Flowers

My most recent Instagram nail art collaboration was "Rainbow Floral". This is the mani I did as my contribution to the collab.

Twinsie Tuesday: Jelly Sandwich - Green and Holo

I can't believe it is already Tuesday again! That means another Twinsie Tuesday post! 

This week's prompt is to create jelly sandwich manis. I chose two polishes fairly randomly with no real thought to them or final view in mind: one of my DIY sheer tinting jelly polishes made with green highlighter ink, and KBShimmer Flake Dance (minus the snowflake glitters).

Stained Glass Flowers - Leadlighting Technique

Seeing all the DIY "sheer tint" polishes, I got the idea to try some out myself, but instead I used ink from markers. The original Sheer Tint polishes aren't opaque enough for my liking, so I love this simple solution!

Chunky Gold Glitter Sandwich in Beige

Today's mani is a quick and simple layering combination with chunky glitter and jelly polish.

Barielle Gentle Breeze Collection - Spring 2015

Today I have Barielle's Spring 2015 Gentle Breeze collection to share with you!

There are five polishes in this collection: two cremes, one sheer creme, and two semi-frost finish polishes. The cremes are Heaven Sent and Pink Parasol, the sheer polish is Champagne Bubbles, and the frosty shimmers are By the Sea and Gray Sky.

Rather than showing pictures of the polishes, I have a live swatch video of all of them.

Halloween Spiders

I was inspired by my new Halloween kitchen towel for this sheer spider web and spider mani.

Neon & Nude Nails - Tips and Borders

Today I have a mani that I did about a month ago. I always love how Heather uses OPI Glints of Glinda, so I decided to try it out for myself, paired, of course, with a neon.

KKCenterHk Review - OPI I'm Never Amberrassed

I have a couple more KKCenterHk reviews to share with you! They asked me to pick a couple of polishes from their store to show here, so I went with OPI I'm Never Amberrassed and China Glaze Man Hunt.

Today I'll be showing you two manis I did using the OPI Sheer Tint.

For starters, one of the reasons I chose an OPI is because I wanted to check it for authenticity. I've heard too many horror stories about fake OPIs floating around, and being that KKCenterHk is not based in the U.S. and is not an authorized OPI retailer, I was skeptical. 

I have to say though, after comparing this one to all my other OPIs, checking it for the tell-tale signs of a fake, and researching/talking with other nail girls who own it about the consistency of the polish, etc., I have concluded that it is NOT a fake. Assuming all the others are the same, I feel confident in saying the OPIs sold by KKCenterHk are legit.

With that being said, here is my first mani. I did a watercolor design using it, plus Sally Hansen Ice Tint, Grape Jelly, Vitamin D-light, and Sea Through, all topped with China Glaze Make a Spectacle.

Sally Hansen Palm Beach Jellies - "How To" Part 3/3: Colored Decals

My final post for this little series is again layering these sheer jelly polishes over something else.

Here are installments one and two if you missed them.

I was wearing a set of Sally Hansen nail strips for a couple of days. After staring at the black and white design, I started to wonder how they would look with the jellies on top of them. So began my experiment.

Sally Hansen Palm Beach Jellies - "How To" Part 2/3: Watercolor

Yesterday I premiered a mini series in which I am showing different ways to use the Sally Hansen Palm Beach Jellies (or OPI Sheer Tints if you have those instead).

Today, I have a second look using them. This is probably the most popular way: a watercolor mani.

Sally Hansen Palm Beach Jellies - "How To" Part 1/3: Colored Holos

When I first picked up the Sally Hansen Palm Beach Jellies, I took so long to actually use them, because I wanted to come up with some different things to do with them.

For starters, I'll go through the polishes. From left to right, they are:

Berry pink - Jell-ous?
Coral pink - Water Melon
Peach orange - Vitamin D-light
Green - Sea Through
Blue - Ice Tint
Purple - Grape Jelly

These are not typical jelly polishes. They are more like the Sheer Tints from OPI, which I don't have to compare, but from what I have heard they are thinner and easier to work with than the Sheer Tints, but have about the same opacity.


I was curious as to how these would look over a holo polish since they are so sheer. So that is what I did for my first mani showing how these polishes can be used.

Maybelline Wild At Heart Jelly Sandwich

I picked up Maybelline Wild at Heart the other day because I loved the look of it. It is just black and pinkish red glitter in a clear base. At first I wasn't sure what I was to going to do with it, but ended up creating one of the very few jelly sandwiches (paired with a sheer nude) I've ever done that I actually like!

Twinsie Tuesday - Circus Inspired

Today's Twinsie Tuesday theme is, you guessed it, circus nails!

It took me a while to come up with something for today. I knew I wanted to do a clown, but I couldn't decide on his background.

I tried to go for a circus tent look with the "curtains" kind of pulled over the to side. It didn't really turn out very tent-ish, but I still really like it!

Twinsie Tuesday - Something New

I was browsing the YouTube and the Google for the inspiration a couple of days ago to decide on "something new" to try, because my bottle of creative juice was 100% empty. I came across this video tutorial, and for a floral design, surprisingly loved it so much that I needed to recreate it! I changed it up a bit to fit my style better, and produced my first ever successfully multi-stamped mani.

That is how this fits today's theme. I have tried double stamping before, but have never been able to stamp more than once and have a good outcome. Tri-stamping is something new to me.

Orchid Professional Nail Lacquer - Cinderella's New Heels

This polish surprisingly only really took two coats to reach opacity, as long as you don't mind a little vnl. By the way, if you don't know what vnl is, check out Elizabeth's new nail term glossary full of lingo all us crazy polish people use so frequently!