Essie Fall 2016 Collection Review, Swatches, & 3 Nail Art Design Tutorials!

Here is a complete overview of the Essie fall 2016 collection. I go over everything from swatches to reviews as well as a few nail design tutorials! If you're interested in picking up the fall collection I would definitely say this post will be beneficial to you!

First up, of course, are my reviews & swatches of each Essie fall shade.

Here are some fall perfect nail design tutorials using only shades from the fall 2016 collection!

Essie Fall Collection Shade Names
'Now and Zen'
'Udon Know Me'
'Maki Me Happy'
'Kimono-Over'
'Go Go Geisha'
'Playing Koi'

My favorite shade of this collection is definitely 'Playing Koi' , but I genuinly love every shade! my top 3 favs are 'Playing Koi', 'Now and Zen', and 'Kimono-Over'.

Hatched Nail Design

Negative Space Creepy Halloween Eyes

Easter Robin Egg Nails

5 MORE Nail Designs

Here is the second set of 5 designs.

XX,

   Harli 

5 Halloween Nail Designs

A few of my favorite Halloween nails! These are easy to accomplish. I really think anyone can do these! Hope you like them! There will also be another 5 designs posted in a couple of days!

Let me know which one is your favorite of these 5!

XX,

   Harli 

The Walking Dead

For those of you who may not know... The Walking Dead starts up again next Saturday! In honor of my favorite television series making a come-back into my life (and Halloween approaching), here is a nail tutorial to celebrate!

XX, Harli 

Halloween Nails #1

Yay! It's October! Not only do I love October because it means I am half way through this semester, but I also love all of the crazy nail designs that come along with the Halloween season!

I seriously do my nails like a crazy person during October because I want to fit in all the quirky nail designs I have been dying to try all year.
So be ready for lots and lots of Halloween themed posts in the next several weeks!

First up is this totally cute Nightmare Before Christmas nail tutorial

Hope you enjoy (: LMK if you try these out!

XX, Harli 

Easy Everyday Nail Art

This is one of my favorite manicures! It's really easy and every time it turns out just a bit different. The color combo possibilities are endless and because of that it works for like... every season and holiday!

Watch the video below for complete instructions! If you have any questions leave me a comment down below!

Here are some photos from this video and also quick S/O to Karli because the other photos are of the nails I did on her!

XX,
   Harli

Broad Stripes & Bright Stars

To be honest, there are probably 1,000 different nail designs I have floating around in my head that I want to do to my nails this year for the fourth, but I only have so many fingers to paint on so I just whipped up some of the ones I am debating between sporting this coming fourth. So I hope you like these designs!

"Hurrah for the Flag of the Free" (The Stars and Stripes Forever)

Start off with a blue base

Using a large dotting tool and white polish create two big connected dots 3/4 of the way down the nail

Fill in the rest of the nail 

 With red polish and a striper, create red lines only in the white section of the nail

With a silver polish and striper trace over the top of the white

Seal in the design with a fast drying top coat

"Home of the Brave" (The Star Spangled Banner)

Start with a white base

Cut some page savers in half and stick to bottom center of nail

Using red polish and a striper create stripes from the page saver to nail tip

Immediately remove the page saver

Using nail gems or glitter, line between the stripes and half moon

Apply a fast drying top coat

"Uncle Sam Came Here" (Yankee Doodle)

Start off with white nails and paint one with 3/4 red strips and one 3/4 plain blue

Apply a blue dot on the bottom of the stripes and make an "X" across the nail crossing in the center of the blue dot. Fill it in.

Repeat last step on blue nail, but with red polish

Apply white dots or glitters onto the blue part of the nail

Outline the center dot and "X" with white polish. Apply a sideways "V" extending from the center dot

Apply a fast drying top coat. 

"It Waves Forever" (Stars and Stripes Forever)

On a white base, create a blue rectangle in a corner of the nail

Using a striper and red, create horizontal lines across the nail

Add some white dots or sparkles into the blue section of the nail

Apply a fast drying top coat

I hope you enjoyed the first of several July 4th nail art Howtos. Mix and match these designs with other designs of your own creation or with each other for unique, but still patriotic manis!

Harli