The First Ocean Nails

Last month I posted "Ocean Friends" and I said that I has done ocean themed nails before and I will post it later. Well, here is that post! This design was from two years ago, before I created this blog.

You can tell this was a while ago because my painting style has improved since then. haha 

Have a wonderful day! :)

Cornered

Simple and sweet nails this time. It was super easy to make this design and it looks so classy! I haven't done something so simple in a while.

I used "Sweetie Pie" by Maybelline and "Set in Stones" by Essie.
If you want to remake this design, I'd suggest waiting for the base coat to fully dry and using tape to create straight lines for the corners.



Hope you are having a wonderful day :)

Sparkle

A while ago I got these cool chunks of sparkly stuff from Sally's. I thought they would look good with a solid color but concentrated on the tips. They turned out nice but I don't think they will last long on my fingers. I usually don't do put things other than paint on my nails and I forgot that since these are slices of plastic, they don't lay flat. So each little chunk sticks out and is sharp. Each time my finger tips tough my skin, my skin gets scratched lightly. Also, they peel and fall off easily. ...But they look so cool! And they're sparkly!!!

...yea, I'm taking these off soon.

The color I used is Coral Reef by Sally Hansen (I am obsessed with coral for the summer!)

My nails look better in person :( Since the sparkles don't lay flat, they don't look very clean up close.

And here are the sparkly things I got: 

If I do use them again, it will be for a special occasion that's only one night. Or maybe I'll only use the glitter on a couple nails. They look nice, but they're inconvenient.


Hope you're staying cool in this summer heat! (Lesson learned today: even 10am is too hot to run here!)

Ocean Friends

I've painted beachy/ocean nails before (I will post them another time) but I wanted to do another version of it since I love fun summer nails so much! This time I did ocean animals. I love the way that they turned out! They're so fun :)

As I was painting them, I couldn't help but get "Under the Sea" stuck in my head!

I have so many photos for this post because I wanted a view of all of them together and a close up so you can see each of them better.

The only one that might be harder to distinguish is the yellow ball thing. That's a puffer fish! ha ha


The base coat is "Blue Me Away" by Sally Hansen.
Other colors I used include:
"Coral Reef", "Wet Cement", "White Tip", "Sun Kissed", "Cherry Red", "Mellow Yellow" all by Sally Hansen,
"Jade is the New Black" by OPI, "Fifth Avenue" by China Glaze, "Sunset Sail" by China Glaze, "Minty" by Maybelline, "Pink Sophistication" by Maybelline, a black thin brush by Kiss Nail Art, a green thin brush by SoEasy Stripe Rite


Have an awesome day!

Slices of Summer

Summer's almost here! For me, it has already started! Unfortunately that means summer classes have started :(
But anyways, I thought citrus fruits were cute to feature on nails for the season.

More summer designs soon to come!

Panda Nails

This is a throwback design from a couple years ago. I love going to the zoo and the pandas are one of my favorite animals to see. I felt the need to paint these at the time because of Tai Shan, a giant panda. Tai Shan was the first panda to be born at the National Zoo in DC and was sent back to China in 2010.  I was so sad that he left so in honor of his departure, I painted these panda and bamboo nails!

Hope you're having a great day! :)

Spring Floral Nails

Today was such a beautiful day: sunny with a few fluffy clouds, high of 80, not humid. It's finally feeling like spring here! I wish the weather was like this all the time. As the weather is getting nicer, and finals are upon us, I am catching spring fever. I find it very difficult to study for finals this week. I just lack all motivation to do anything productive. Am I the only one who feels like this? I wanted to paint instead of study tonight so here's what I came up with: It's a floral design to celebrate the nice weather that we finally get to enjoy. I got the idea from my love of the spring trend of floral shorts (I just got a pair and I love them!).

To be honest, I did the stripes because I was too lazy to do the entire hand flowers. But I think it makes a nice balance to the busy floral.

Hope you are having a great day!