Looking for Alaska

Saturday I went to Barnes and Noble with my best friend, her mom, and step-sister and bought another John Green book!  This time it was:

I already started and I can't wait to read more!  Yay Spring Break time!!!

Day 14 Challenge: Flower nails

These nails were actually from this book.  I started trying to do some antique roses but, I didn't like how thick the lines were coming out do I switched and did '80's floral nails instead.

The first two are in sunlight and the last is in artificial light pre-clean up.  These were really fun to do, but took a lot of work, but I'm proud of them.

Colors I used, from left to right: China Glaze, "Custom kicks"; Julep, "Melanie", "Barbara"; O.P.I. ""Black Onyx"; China Glaze "Westside Warrior"

Special Post!

So I went to Sephora today with my girlfriend and her mom and I saw this:

Pre clean up

Post clean up

This is the Julep polish "Wendy" which is part of the new Rock Candy nail glaze line.  This is it over "Pippa"  I like it on it's own, but my nail looked icky do I put a nude under it.  I love it.

Day Thirteen: Animal Print

So this is my first ever time doing any sort of animal print.  I choose leopard, because they seemed the easiest and after my fail at stripes I wasn't ready to tackle striped animals anytime soon.

This in a daylight lamp

This is approaching dusk (but natural sunlight)

The colors I used were Julep's Eva (because I received it that day in my secret store purchase yesterday and couldn't wait to try it), China Glaze's Glistening snow for my spots, and O.P.I.'s Black Onyx.  I am having a really time wanting to take this off.  I want to because I want to move on, but at the same I love it so much!

#nailpolishproblems

Day twelve Challenge: Stripes

So this was  my pathetic attempt at stripes.  I dis liked these so much I actually just did polka dots on my other hand.  The colors I used were Julep's Annie and Lynn.  I have nothing more to say other than I hated them.

Day eleven: polka dots

Polka dots! These mani colors were picked out by my cat and I really liked this mani. I'd never done polka dots before but I really really liked them. The colors I used were China Glaze's Frostbite and Dance Baby. I liked these so much better than the gradient nails.

Day ten nail challenge: Gradient nails

So these are my first ever gradient nails... I used a sponge method I found a tutorial for on youtube... yeah... I think the white underneath over powers the colors especially the purple that I used... so... I wore them for all of 10 minutes.  Maybe.  Anyway, the colors I used were Sinful Color's Snow Me White and from O.P.I.'s Euro Centrale collection, the pink "Suzi's Hungary Again", Blue "Can't Find My  Czechbook", Purple that you can't really see "You're Such a Budapest", and for the glitter accents (on the most messed up nails, of course) "Polka.com"  One problem I had when I started this mani was that tiny bits of the sponge came off on my nail, which I then couldn't pick off because it would smudge everything else.  I might try these again later, perhaps with darker/more jewel tone colors and or the same colors with no base coat.  That's all for now.  Ta.