Winter/Holiday/Christmas Nail Design and Video Tutorial!!

After getting my Julep box this month, I knew I wanted to use one immediately for a holiday design! I chose Vivien, which is a gold micro-glitter polish with large gold hex pieces. I really liked the idea of layering it so that is exactly what I did!

I came up this pretty wintery design! The best part about this design is that is can be for any holiday you celebrate! Change the rhinestones or not add any at all and they still look very festive!


I did a video tutorial on YouTube to show you how I created this design! Please let me know what you think and if you feel it works for the holidays!

Gorgeous Fall Nail Art- Easy to do!

This time of year is so beautiful for so many reasons- the cooler weather, the falling and color changing leaves, and holidays! Well, here is gorgeous fall/autumn inspired mani with gold leaves! I will show you how I created this adorable design and I hope you love it as much as I do for this season!

Items Used:

Deep Gray polish

Gold Glitter top coat

Deep Beige/Natural polish

Bright Gold Glitter striper or polish

Cuticle stick/Toothpick

I started with a deep gray base color. The specific color I chose was SLATE by Sinful Colors

 Then I used a holographic gold glitter to add some sparkle to the gray. I used SHINING STAR by Orly

 I wanted a slight gradient so then I used a holographic polish of a deep natural color. I used ALL HAIL THE QUEEN by Butter London (P.S. I LOVE this polish! The holographic finish in it is amazing and truly it is a gorgeous color with tons of sparkle!)

 Next, I used a gold striper to create the leaf shape and used my cuticle stick to make little indents, to simulate the veins of the leaf!

 After a healthy coat of top coat to seal in the design, I was finished! Simple right?! And I love this fall look! I really enjoy the different colors on the base and how the leaf pulls it all together for a great autumn look. Perfect for the season and fall holidays! May be a good choice for Thanksgiving nails, without being difficult or time-consuming!

 I hope you like this design and please let me know what you think! If you have any requests or ideas, be sure to comment below or post them to my Facebook and I will try my best to fill requests! What's your favorite fall mani? :-)

Easy Yin-Yang Nail Design

Here is an easy Yin-Yang design. A nice monochromatic design. Black and white is still a very classic and sophisticated combination. Here are a few pictures of the design.

I also included the video of the tutorial. Please check it out and let me know what you think! I love to hear comments, feedback, or even new ideas! Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed!

A Collection of Rainbows

 I love colorful designs and that prompted me to do a rainbow design, and by the time I finished my first, I had thought of a few other interpretations. So these are all rainbow type designs done in different ways.

 This is the classic rainbow, diagonal across he entire nail. When I say classic, I mean that I used all the right(as close as I had) colors and did them in the standard order. (ROYGBIV-Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet)

 I like this one very much. I had thought about separating the colors with thin black lines but I also like to see the colors just overlap each other.

 The next one was almost the same as the first, except I went horizontally across the nail with all the colors. I used different tints of most colors, but kept the same type of layout, just kept it going across the nail

 This is one that I think is also perfect for St. Patrick's Day, which is right around the corner, but that isn't what I had in mind when doing it. I did a small pot of gold on the left side of the nail. I used gold polish to fill the pot with the gold coins :-)  Then I used bright colors and did rainbow streaks from the pot of gold stretching to the right side and top of the nail. I used pink instead of any purples so it would stand out a bit more on the end of the rainbow.

Three different rainbow styles? Do you have a favorite? I think I like the diagonal one the best but all are bright and colorful! Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed and please leave any comments or questions below! :-)

Crazy Hearts/Valentine's Day Design

 A funky Valentine's Day design with all the "romantic" colors. I am running out of Valentine's Day designs, so I am not sure how many more I will have before the day is upon us but I am working on a few designs that are not holiday or special occasion. Anyway, enough of my rambling and onto the tutorial.

 I didn't take pictures in between putting on each stripe but that's what I did. I picked four Valentine's type colors. I chose China Glaze-Bing Cherry(dark & shimmery red color), Sally Hansen- Xtreme Wear-Fuchsia Power(a bright pink), China Glaze- White Out(a bright white), and China Glaze- I Wanna Lei Ya(a more subtle and soft pink). I did a diagonal stripe of each color along the nail. I made them as even as I could but they aren't even at all, lol.

 After the colors were all applied, I used Kiss nail paint (Black) and separated each color with a thin black line.

 I used the same colors and created hearts. Starting with the bottom of the nail, what would be the cuticle area, I made a heart in the lighter pink area. I decided to use the same colors but go the other way with the pattern. So for the base colors, I went from cuticle to tip with light pink, then white, then bright pink, then dark red. For the hearts, I did the opposite. So the first heart was dark red, as shown in the pic. I titled the heart toward the left a bit.

 The next heart was the bright pink. I went the opposite way with this heart and tilted it to the right

 Then the white heart...which I then went opposite of the one before it again and made it tilt left, like the first heart did.

 And finally the softer pink on the dark red, which tilted to the right.

 This was the finally product. This was a design that I was creating it as I painted but I was actually quite happy with it.

Not as even as I would like but sometimes it nice to see things aren't exactly perfect. I don't know... what does everyone else think? Is anyone painting their nails special for Valentine's Day? I know I will but I still haven't settled on a design! Well thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and I encourage anyone to give this a try. Very easy and very cute!!!

Request Filled- Water Lilies by Claude Monet

This was definitely a hard challenge and I know I can do better with more practice(and more colors) but this is what I came up with as my interpretation of 'Water Lilies' by Claude Monet as a nail design. I gave different angles the best I could so can see. The pics are kind of blurry, but I am saving for a new camera! Hope this is kind of what you were looking for, John and per your request, came this design. I hope you like it and I will continue practicing this one to make it better and nicer! Thanks for reading!

Short Pink Fishnet Nails

 I didn't realize how terrible my lighting was so I am sorry the first two pictures aren't so good. I did a tutorial on the black and pink fishnet design and decided to do it on my natural nails. My natural nails are kind of short ,because lately I have been doing a lot of fake and acrylic nails so I decided to give my nails a rest from all the adhesives. I cleaned them up and let them breathe for like a day then did this design. Again, my natural nails are kind of short, so this shows that this design can work for any nail length.

So this is currently what my nails are sporting...what design are you currently showing off? I may redo them over the next few days (I love painting them and trying to find new designs!) Hope you enjoyed reading, and please leave comments or questions below! Thanks for stopping by!

Practice Flowers

 I decided to practice doing flowers. I didn't have any type pf design going here, just practicing. I used a black base coat because I knew I wanted to do bright colored flowers. I think the large white flower with pink came out nice. On top of the large white flower, I did a pink rose and off to the right side, I did a purple flower accented with a little white accent. The purple was a deeper tint, so it may be a little harder to see against the black.

 Not too bad for some practice right? Any ideas for more flowers or other designs? I would love to hear or see other ideas or interpretations. Hope you enjoyed and feel free to leave questions or comments below! Thanks for reading!

Acrylic French Tips with Rhinestone Flowers

 So, last night I decided to give myself a full-on set of acrylic french tips. I don't really mess with acrylics too much and this was first time doing it full-on. I was actually pretty happy with the results. For a first-timer with the acrylic, I think I did well. Once the french tips were done, They looked good....but plain. So I wanted to add a little something but I didn't have a whole lot of time so painting was out of the question. I decided to go with some good old rhinestones. Quick and easy to apply and look very nice. I decided to do a flower of rhinestones on my thumb and ring finger and do a smaller heart with red dots on the pointer, middle, and pinkie fingers. First, I started with the flowers. I used 6 red oval rhinestones(teardrops or diamond could work too) for the petals and a silver circle rhinestone for the middle. I added 4 pink rhinestones coming away from the flower, curving toward the cuticle a little. I used another pink and put it at the tip of the nail, close to the middle. The thumb nail is pictured below.

 For the other fingers, I used a pink heart rhinestone, which  placed off to the side, very close to the edge of the tip and added 4 little red dots(not rhinestones but tiny decals) starting at the heart and curving upward, as seen in the picture to the left.

 Here a few extra pics of the design. Very quick and easy once the acrylic once finished. I had to do this fast and was able to make it look pretty good. Please comment, or respond with an interpretation. I would love to see some other rhinestone designs or other french manicure ideas. This could be for Valentine's Day too, I suppose but it wasn't really what I had in mind while doing it. Anyway, thanks for reading, hope you liked it and give it a try!

Rhinestoned Tips/Valentine's Day Design

 Another Valentine's Day design! I really didn't have a vision in mind when I started this, I just let it come to me...I guess, lol. I am almost hearted out with all the Valentine's Day designs but here it is anyway.

 First, I started with a red base and I used China Glaze- Bing Cherry for the base. I only had to do one coat, but I made sure it was a little thick of a coat.




Then I used China Glaze-White Out and did the white tip, as shown below.

 Once the white tips were dry, I used KISS nail paint-Bikini Pink and made a diagonal line from the corner of the white to the top of the red.

 The hearts are a bit rough. Definitely not the best but they work. I did the pink hearts in China Glaze- I Wanna Lei Ya.

 Once all the colors were mostly dry, I used light pink rhinestones for my pointer finger, middle finger and pinkie finger. I placed the rhinestones where the red and white areas meet, and spaced them apart just a little. For the ring finger and thumb, I used red rhinestones. On the ring finger and thumb, I also used 3 silver rhinestones and placed them around the heart on the nail.

 Here is a pic of my thumb. Not too bad, but not super great either. I am still learning, but this was fun to do.

Hope you enjoyed! Please feel free to comment or ask any questions. Thanks for reading!