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Do you wanna build a snowman?

December 1, 2014 by Alisha 14 Comments

Happy first day of December! I decided that since it’s officially “let’s get ready for Christmas” month I would try my hand at Winter and Holiday nail art. Now as you all know I am by NO means an artist or professional when it comes to my nail art. Unfortunately Instagram and Pinterest give me delusions of grandeur and I have these preconceived visions in my mind that my nail art will look exactly like the inspiration pictures. Every now and then I get a win. And when that happens I look just like this:

Now last week my poor little turkey nail art looked more like a “turdkey” to me than anything. I know most of you were being kind with your comments, but trust me that brown blob looked crazy. LOL Now on the other hand when my nail art is more of a “fail” that excitement and celebration tends to be more like this:

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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.

MANICure Monday | It’s Almost Fall!

September 9, 2013 by Alisha 10 Comments

So now that everyone across the country has officially started school, that means Fall is almost here…yeah!!! I love Fall and Winter the most because my allergies love them so much…LOL Seriously it’s one of my favorite times of year and the weather is always perfect for outdoor activities. So this week I decided to create something to ring in the upcoming season. I’m calling it “The leaves are falling, the leaves are falling”. 😉

I used Essie’s Miss Fancy Pants as my base coast and then painted Claire’s Sugar Cookie (from last year’s holiday collection) on the tips to represent falling leaves. And then I used a black sharpie to draw my tree and viola!

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