Trendy Metallic Holiday Party Nails - HOWTO

Hey everyone!
I have been enjoying the holiday designs very much this year. I am actually really in love with this design and I hope you all like it too.
I mean, when in doubt go with florals... even if there are several inches of snow on the ground and no living shrubbery in sight ;)
Anyway thanks for watching!

Items Used:

First Base Base Coat 

http://www.essie.com/search.aspx?q=first%20base

Essie 'Bahama Mama' 

http://www.essie.com/search.aspx?q=bahama%20mama

Essie 'Penny Talk'

http://www.essie.com/search.aspx?q=penny%20talk

Essie 'Blanc' (or white acrylic paint to make things easier)

http://www.essie.com/search.aspx?q=blanc

Essie Good To Go topcoat 

http://www.essie.com/search.aspx?q=good%20to%20go

Detail Brush

Small dotting tool

Large dotting tool

Medium Dotting Tool

Essie Winter 2016 Swatches, Review, & 3 Nail Art Looks

Here are the swatches and reviews of each shade from the Essie Winter 2016 Collection!

 'Go With the Flowy'

 'Oh Behave!'

 'Satin Sister'

 'Getting Groovy'

 'Party on a Platform'

 'Ready to Boa'

Abstract Nail Art - For Both Long & Short Nails // Quick & Easy!!

 

Superbowl

So this is a quick post, but I thought I would share these Seahawks nails that were done on, Mariah, a friend of mine!

Long story short... her boyfriend  is a Seahawks fan and with the super bowl in a couple of days, why not?

XX,
    Harli

Thanksgiving Nail Art

Here is a totally-not-tacky-perfect-for-hunger-games nail design! I hope you like it.

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XX, 

   Harli 

World Cup USA Nails

When the Fifa World Cup only rolls around once every 4 years it is completely necessary to celebrate by giving a World Cup manicure to support whichever team you are rooting for. Obviously, I am rooting for the good ol' USA (especially Beckerman #15) An even better reason to sport these nails now is that the fourth of July is quickly approaching and these can double as festive holiday nails as well! Talk about a two-fer am I right? 

Although this manicure looks super difficult, it really is super simple and took me only 20 minutes to accomplish. Thanks in advance for giving this a try (hint hint). You totally won't regret sporting these beauts. 

Ring Finger: Soccer Ball

 Apply a white base

 Create a black pentagon in the center of the nail

 Fill it in and repeat on each upper corner of the nail

Connect the corners with eachother

Middle Finger: USA Jersey Logo

 Start with a base coat and place a piece of tape so that it covers only 1/3 of the nail

 Coat the rest of the nail in white polish

 Remove the tape immediately

 Paint stripes in the blue section of the nail

 In the lower portion of the white section apply three star glitters (you can paint them or just use regular gliter if you don't have stars)

 With a striper and red polish, paint the tip of your nail

Thumb: Red Stripes

 Start with a white base

 Paint two big stripes with red polish and between the big stripes paint skinny ones









Pinky Finger:  Red Glitter 

 Start with a red base

 Apply red chunky glitter pieces

 Any other blue, red, white, silver, & gold glitter you want
(Try to use assorted sizes)

 Add Star glitter if you own some

Pointer Finger: White Glitter

 Start with a white base and add any silver chunky glitter you love

 Add blue, red, silver, and gold star glitter... or just paint stars

Apply a fast drying topcoat to all nails

 

Thanks for taking the time to read all the way through!
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Harli

Put Old Gunky Polish to Use!

I don't know about anybody else, but I have a bin full of almost-gone nail polish that is tacky, sticky, and too thick to use. It really pains me to throw the nail polish away no matter how bad it gets because it's just so darn expensive... so I brainstormed a way to use up all of my ol' nail polish babies. Guess what! I came up with this super cute and ultra simple manicure to put all of that gunky polish to use! Oh and did I mention you don't need any nail art tools? No? Well it's true! Old nail polish is all that you will need. 

I honestly just walked out to the backyard on a hunt for some manicure inspiration and immediately after I looked at the marble-looking pavement in my parent's patio, I knew what to do with all of my old polish. So quick S/O to Mom for painting the patio floor brilliantly and inspiring this mani. 

Okay. The most time consuming step in creating this manicure is finding all of the nail polish that will be used. This step took me a good 15 because I have a lot of colors to sort through. I decided to go with neutral tones with some hinted pops of color.

I used a total of 12 colors to accomplish this look, but you can use anywhere from 3-15. Anymore than 15 and some colors won't show through. If you use any number on the lower end, then you will have to do a lot of layering to get the perfect marble look. 

Now into the actual manicure... 

THERE AREN'T REALLY ANY STEPS

Once you have the colors chosen that you will be using, open up the first color you wish to apply and wipe all excess polish off of the brush on the neck of the bottle. Once most of the nail polish has been removed from the brush, stroke it onto your nail. Very little color should be left behind on the nail. 

*Wiping excess polish off is the MOST IMPORTANT part of the entire manicure.

This is what the first coat should look similar to. If your polish leaves behind a little less it's okay I promise!

Now seriously, all you do the rest of the manicure is layer your colors on top of each other. With some colors apply only a stroke or two and with others layer entire sections of your nail.

Here's what it should look similar to after adding a second color.

And after about half of the colors are added.

Continue adding colors until you achieve your desired result! 

Here's what mine looked like when I finished before I added a topcoat. 

And after applying a top coat

I opted to paint my middle and ring fingers with glitter polish. 

     

 

    

Thanks for taking the time to check out my blog! 

Harli