15 Days of Valentines!! Day 2

Hey guys! Sarah here with the second day of my valentines 15 days of love nails! I bring you polka-dots today! I just love everything about a polka-dot manicure. Maybe its the contrast that I love so much! 

So for these nails I used Miss Conduct from Orly, A Rose at Dawn by OPI, Quarter of a Century by OPI (I really don't know why it come out maroon in the pictures) and last but not least French Affair by Essie. 

With all my manicures for valentines day I have tried to incorporate reds, pinks and whites into my works. I wonder what tomorrow's is going to look like? Check back tomorrow for day 3! Plus don't forget to check out my partner in crime Amanda for her 15 days of Valentines also! Nighty night!

Pink tips with Miss conduct

Hello hello! God I love the holiday season! And the best thing about the holidays is that there are always new nail color collections coming out!!! I don't tend to buy all of them, only a selective few from each line and today's manicure has a special color I fell in love with from the Orly holiday collection Naughty or Nice, Miss conduct. This beautiful magenta color had a gorgeous holographic sheen to it. I fell in love with it from the start.

So what I did today with my manicure was a very low tip which I cleaned up with a make up brush and acetone so that the line was crisp across. Followed by my Orly nail art in black, white, and silver. I posted a review a few weeks ago about these nail stickers I purchased and I finally took them out to use. I put a little rhinestone on all my fingers except my thumbs. On those I put stars. The only thing I'm not too crazy about is the star edges I still feel. I bet sometime at work when I'm washing hair it will catch and come off. Oh well. I don't keep my mani's on that long anyway. I love to change them. Anyway this is the beginning of my holiday manicures. :) see you all soon!

Purple Ribbons!

Purple Ribbon Manicure

Today I did another tape manicure but its something that I haven't really tried much. I don't really know the proper name for this manicure so I named it purple ribbons! It reminds me of having small ribbons wrapped around my nails. 

I found it pretty easy to do, yet a little time consuming. Luckily I had an afternoon free before I go see Russell Peters!

The colors I used today were OPI- Honk if you love OPI, OPI- pirouette my whistle, Essie- exotic Liras and Essie- Play Date.

So I started off with my light purple base color from Essie (play date), and I waited until it was completely dry. The color itself is extremely beautiful on its own as well.

 Once they were dry I cut out small thin triangle pieces of tape and placed them spaced out but one on top of the other. Like below.

Once you have all your tape in place, you are ready to apply your ribbon colors.  I used Honk if you love OPI and Essie's Exotic Liras. Remove the tape ASAP, or else your lines wont be crisp. once everything was done and dry i covered it with Pirouette my whistle and finished with my top coat!

Pink Candycane

Pink Candy Cane Manicure

This was my Favorite manicure I've done. I loved the color combo and the sparkles!

Blocking Manicure w/ Tutorial

 Blocking Manicure

Hey everyone! Today I did a blocking manicure on myself and if you stick around I will be putting below the tutorial on how you can do one yourself!

What you will need to do this lovely look will be a base-coat, a top-coat, some stationary tape, three different colors of your choice, and an optional nail art of your choice. 

I live by my Bonder base-coat. Being a hairdresser I am in the water most of the day and this base-coat helps the polish stick to my nails like glue!!! best invention ever. 

So my choice of colors were all from OPI. The pink is called A rose at dawn, the green is Gargantuan Green Grape, and the purple is Funky Dunky from the Shrek line. The silver in the picture is Orly nail art in Silver Sparkle. 

To start the look you will need to pick the lightest color of the three. Why, because they usually take up to two coats for full coverage. its just more convenient to do so. Let this color COMPLETELY DRY.

What you will do at this stage is cut out triangle shapes from your tape and place them to expose the desired shape you want. make sure that the tape is pressed down completely so that the polish you are about to put on leaves a nice crisp line when you remove it. You can see by my picture what kind of pattern I was trying to do. 

Try and alternate the colors that you chose, placing them in a random pattern. With the nails with only one piece of tape on them you are able to put both colors on. 

I did the last colors free hand and just followed the line precise. You should end up with a end result like this. 

Now I added some silver over the lines as a finishing touch to my manicure. You don't have to add these if you don't like them. Just make sure you let the colors completely dry before putting on your top coat, or else you will cause smudging. And voila! your done!

Black and hot pink water marbling

Hello everyone!! So tonight I did a one nail water marbling as my accent nail. As pretty as water marbling is I find it extremely time consuming, a waste of nail polish and it can be a potential mess if not done properly.
Tonight I thought it would it would be awesome to play around with my new china glaze "pool party". I used Essie black and my Orly French tip white as a mix.
I will be posting soon a tutorial on how to do water marbling so stay tuned!!!

Pretty in pink

When I start feeling the fall blues the one color that certainly cheers me up is this one!

OPI - Shorts Story

Tiger Play

Multicolored Polka-dot Nails!!!