More nails, who can get enough?

I wore these ones the week of girls camp, the girls had a kick out of them, and they made me smile. They were so simple, just a white polish and black acrylic paint.

These were spirit week nails I did on my bestie, they were a red glitter fade acrylic nails to white tips. I put black jewels on all the fingers exept the ring, where I hand painted her school logo.

I just love the polish on these,it's Orly's Wedding Belle. This mani was done for my childhood friends wedding. I wish her the best, they are the cutest couple.

Current Mani thanks to a picture I found on Pintrest.

Nails, Nails, and more Nails....

Here are the first few of many to come, of past Mani's I have done over the last year..ish.

I got the most comments for this one. I wnet to the movies with my sister and the guy at the ticket couter said that they were "the sickest things he had ever seen." I told thim thanks, and proudly said that I painted them myself.

These are my 'Flutterbye' nails. I loved this Mani, and the girls at my dentists office gave me lots of cudos for them. (Dispite the smear I got from putting the top coat on too soon.)

I started this mani out with just plain light pink nails, that had blinged out ring fingers. After looking at them for a week I added the retro inspired roses for a new flair.

Ah, these were done for Toy Story 3, my nices love this movie, and I was elated that they made a third one. I cried, gasped, laughed and panicked for my beloved Toy Story toys, and couldn't help but do this mani inspired by my favorite peeps. I love the aliens! Thses are still talked about by a few girls as one of their favorite.

This year I managed to squeeze in more than one Halloween inspired mani. The first was inspired by my all time favorite Tim Burton movie, Nightmare Before Christmas. I watched the movie that night, was about to go to bed when it hit me that I had yet to do a NBF inspired mani, and I LOVED the movie. so I grabbed it (the movie), my laptop and paints...and voila. Needless to say I went to beed at 3 am that night. The blood dripped nails were inspired by the ones I did on my sister (dumbo me didnt get a picture of her nails.)I took my nails and filed them to a Stiletto point.

The last that I leave you with was done with love and insperation from this found here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq4mbwMtamU&list=LLXsxk_JB7PO_Fu_8Gideb4w&index=3&feature=plpp_video . They were a blast to do, people thought they were cute, and I did them on a friend too. Love,

Coming Back to my Blog

This was something I started last year in attempt to catalog and remember manicures I have done in the past. The funny thing is that a few years back I never painted my nails, it wasn't something i was into, not me in the least bit. I got easily bugged and pissed off at nail polish.
*It chipped...
*It took forever to dry, and the last thing I wanted to do was sit in front of the T.V for  a mindless hour while they dried...well, paranoia in me told me to wait that long.
*the color didn't always match my mood...which resulted in picking, a lot of picking. (Which gave it the chipped look..SEE?)
*I hated looking at ten fingers that were all the same color! (for some reason that bugged me, and the last thing I was going to do was paint each one a separate color like I was five..)
*Its not cheap...when you think about it it costs a lot for a bottle of nail polish. There are cheaper alternatives, like Dollar Store ones or just cheaper brands, but like everything else...you get what you pay for and the better quality is more money.

When I decided I needed a hobby I just looked around did a little 'YouTube-ing' as I like to say. I tell my sister that you can YouTube anything, and you can. Then I did something I thought I never would do, pulled out my tiny stash of polish and a few rhinestones I had from craft stuff, and my first mani was born. **The picture is posted as the first one I did.**
Since then my little collection of polish has grown, the things I have to do them has expanded and the once small container I used to hold it now has become a five drawer compartment on the side of my dresser and a few smaller bins.
The biggest thing I have learned in doing nail art, mostly mine, my nieces (I have a lovely older sister who lets me abuse the usage of them, I love them a lot though.), a close childhood bestie, a good friend I've had for a few years now, my sister's mother in-law and the occasional straggler that just asks....back to the point, as I was saying. The biggest thing I've learned is that its an investment, not just money, but time. It can take anywhere from a few minutes to hours. That and the right products make everything.

Coming up...
-A crud load of pictures of manicures
I figured since I take the pictures with intents of posting them here...and don't, I might just do a massive upload, site the ones that come from inspiration, and let you look.
-Post a list of my nail must haves for mani's.
-Talk about places I look for inspiration, and people I..okay, slightly obsess over. ONLY, slightly...

And just, I don't know, post pictures! Good, golly.

With much love, and super lateness...

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