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MANICure Monday | Pink & Brown nail art

March 3, 2014 by Alisha 14 Comments

Happy Monday! Spring Break is 19 days away and I’m counting the days until I’m basking in the warmth of the Florida sunshine. I wanted to do something today to help me get ready for Spring since Mother Nature is going through some kind of change and fails to realize I live in the South and we should not have temps below freezing!

Today will be a combo of pink & brown nail art. I’m sticking with another fun polka dot design. I used a popular (and pretty dang expensive) glitter polish a few weeks ago and I was so disgusted by how quickly it chipped. It didn’t even make it 24 hours before I had a chip. So instead of doing a beautiful swatch review of it you all will be witness to some more of my fabulous dotting skills…LOL!

I used 3 basic colors to complete this week’s design. For the pink I used Avon’s Nailwear Pro+ in Cotton Candy, the brown is Milani’s Dark Coffee and the white was Wet N’ Wild’s Blank Canvas. Please excuse the nubs because I had a few break and I’ve been neglecting them so I cut them all done to help nourish them and help them get stronger.

MANICure Monday is a weekly nail polish/mani link-up that will be rotated between Lipgloss and Binky, Coily Locks, and yours truly: LA Lynn’s link up! Also linking up this week to Glitter and Gloss and Well Shut the Front Door!

Purple Flowers Nail Art

February 24, 2014 by Alisha 12 Comments

Happy Monday! So I keep hearing that the Patone Color for 2014 is Radiant Orchid. I’m not much of a purple fan but I did find a color that took me out of my comfort zone. I love how this color is a blend of purple and silver to give it a nice metallic look. Now since I told you all that I would be doing for a minute would be dots, I figured you would like them jazzed up a bit. Which brings us to my purple flowers…which are actually white! LOL But you get the picture!

I’ve learned that price means absolutely nothing when it comes to how a polish goes on and how long it lasts before it chips. I also love when I find fun, funky colors that are fairly cheap. While on one of my many trips to Target my 4-year-old actually picked out this color for me. It’s NYC In a New York Minute Color in Prince Street. Which of course made me think of Prince and Purple Rain! I LOVE me some Prince!

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Blue Rose & Silver Polka Dot Nail Art

January 13, 2014 by Alisha 22 Comments

Happy Monday! The best of Mondays for me are the girls are back in school (doing the happy dance) AND I get to share what’s new on my nails! This week I’m happy to announce that I will be one of the co-host for MANICure Monday!!! Woohoo! Please be sure to also check out my other co-hosts, Efie & Mimi, at their blogs!

This week’s mani was basically a “what ever the hell I end up with” kind of mani! I mean I can’t even recall how many times I redid my nails because each new idea came out looking worse than the previous one. So I decided to go back to what I know and can’t mess up…polka dots! When all else fails this is always my go to.

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Swirls & Dots Nail Art

December 23, 2013 by Alisha 9 Comments

Can you believe Christmas is just 2 days away?!?! And not once did I attempt to try to recreate Santa and his Reindeer like I did last year. Not sure how in the world that happened but here is a cute one that I did last year! I kept telling myself that I’d redo that one to see if my skills have improved. Oh well there’s always next year…LOL!

So as many of you know I own A LOT of polish. And by a lot I’m sure it’s well over a 200 bottles now. SMH But the great part of that is that I always have the right color on hand to attempt just about any nail art that I come across. This week’s nail art is inspired by a picture I stumbled across. I immediately feel in love and couldn’t wait to try to recreate it! For the creamy peachtone color I used Sephora by OPI i Give Peach a Chance , NYC Black Lace and the gold polka dots are Pure Ice Bite Me! On my inspiration they used gold beads but I knew they would turn out looking crazy as hell if I even attempted to place them on my nails in a nice pattern. No need adding more grey hairs so I just made gold polka dots! The swirl design and stripes were drawn on using my Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen.

This was my first time using the nail art pen to create this kind of design and I think I’m hooked on those little pens! They make everything so much easier. The only problem was the black polish bleeding on the sides so I have to remember to apply Vaseline on the sides and cuticles for easier clean up next time.

Linking up this week to Glitter and Gloss, Well Shut the Front Door!, Lipgloss & Binky & LA Lynn.