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!

Galaxy

This design has been all over the internet and I finally got a chance to try it out! I participated in a service auction whose benefits went to Relay for Life. I was auctioned off and my service was to do someone's nails.I got to paint my friend Rachel's nails. She wanted me to do galaxy nails. Here's how they turned out:

I forgot to take a photo myself before she left, so thanks, Rachel, for the photo!


I'm hoping to do my own nails sometime soon so look for another post by me at the end of the week. (Two posts in one week?! wat?)

See you later!

Blue and Pink Gradient

Tonight was the first time I've painted my nails in a very very long time. For me, a 'very very long time' is a month. I know, it's awful. Between school work, extracurricular events and attempting to have a social life, I've been pushing aside my nail hobby. It's been the toughest semester yet and a few unfortunate things have happened in my personal life recently. It made me happy to finally get to do something that I used to love to do.

But anyways...

Here's what I painted: It's a pink, white and blue gradient. This is my first time doing a gradient with a sponge. I used one of those make up sponges from the drug store. It's not perfect, but it's my first try and I like how the colors combined. They're bright, Spring colors.

I used 5 colors starting from the tips: Mesmerize by Essie, Blue Me Away by Sally Hansen, White Tip by Sally Hansen, Sweetie Pie by Maybelline, and Bubblegum Pink by Sally Hansen

The colors are a lot brighter and bold in person. I know I've written before that the nail designs look better in person than in a photo, and it still applies. Sigh...It always will apply. 

Hope you are enjoying the warming weather! The trees are still blossoming here and they're so beautiful! Flowers always brighten my mood. 

Pink Black White Marble

Good news for those of you who have tried water marbling and it did not turn out as nice as you wanted: Every time I have marbled, I have gotten better at it each time. So no worries, you'll get it! It just takes practice and patience. One piece of advice is to not swirl it with the toothpick as much. That's what I learned this time.

ughhh, that second photo is the hand I did first. Just as I said, I get better each time! haha

Here's what I used: