Gradient glitter nail Tutorial

Hello again, everyone! I have another blog post coming your way! I hope you're ready and excited! Today's post is another nail tutorial. It's a very simple, but doesn't look it. It looks like you spent more time on your nails than you actually did, gotta love that. Are you ready to get into today's tutorial? Let's get into it!

If you want to see how I created this look, keep reading!

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                                                 Products used:
                                  Base coat: Nail-aid, 3 Minute Artificials
                           Mint green: Rimmel 60 second, Mintilicious
                             Baby blue glitter: Sinful colors, Cinderella 
                             Chunky silver glitter: Pure ice, Dazzle me
                                   Top coat: Sally Hansen, Insta dry
                                          Wedge makeup sponge 
                     Nail polish remover: Onyx, 100% pure acetone  
    paint brush for getting off any polish that got onto my skin

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Step 1: On clean dry nails, apply your favorite base coat.

Step 2: Choose what nails you want to be your accent nails ,and leave them bare. Paint all of the non-accent nails with any color of your choice. I chose a mint green.
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Step 3: Apply 1 coat of a sheer glitter on all nails. I chose a baby blue color. It almost makes my mint green look like a Tiffany blue. Before moving to step 4, let your nails dry for a couple minutes.

Step 4: Apply 1 coat of a chunky glitter of your choice, and let it dry for a couple minutes. 
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Step 5: Apply a second layer of the chunky glitter. I wanted a little of the blue glitter to shine through.

Step 6: Apply a little of the chunky glitter polish to the edge of a wedge makeup sponge. 
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Step 7: Carefully, sponge the tips of each non-accent nail with the chunky glitter. You'll have to apply glitter to the sponge for each nail. Concentrate the glitter on the very tip, and blend it down a little. So that there is a little gradient of glitter, instead of a harsh line.

Step 8: Apply one coat of your favorite top coat. Then, using either a cotton bud or paint brush dipped in nail polish remover, clean up any nail polish that may have gotten on your skin. That's it, you're finished!
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I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, and give it a try! It's really easy, and makes you look like a pro. This is one of my go to looks when I don't have time, or just don't feel like going into a detailed look. If you're looking into getting into nail art this is a great starting place. It takes just a couple minutes, and looks amazing. If you try it, I would love to see! You can share your pictures on my Facebook page! If you want to stay up to date on what I'm doing, like me on Facebook. You can also follow me on, twitter, and instagram if you want to see even more. I hope you found this tutorial helpful, and learned something new. 
Have a blessed day, 

Mint and White Polka Dot Nail Tutorial

Hello again, everyone!  Sorry I didn't post anything for a couple days. Today's post is another tutorial! I was planning on doing a video for this one but my camera is still not working. I will still make a video for it later, but hope you're all happy with this for now. This design is so simple, I think anyone can do it. If you have trouble don't give up, just keep trying. So, Let's get started!

If you want to see how I created this look, just keep reading!

          Products used:

            Base coat: Nail-aid, 3 minute artificals

        Mint green: Rimmel 60 seconds, Mintilicious 

        White: Sinful Colors, Snow Me White

        Silver Glitter: Art Deco, Silver Glitter

        Top coat: Sally Hansen, Insta Dry

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 Step 1: Start by applying your favorite base coat to all of your nails. Always remember to go along the free edge of your nails to help prevent chipping. The free edge is the very tip of your nails. Do this  with every coat of nail polish you apply for best results. 

Step 2: Choose which nails you want to be your accent nails, and leave them bare. Paint the tips of your non-accent nails in the color of your choice. I chose a mint green. 1-2 coats should be all you need. We're going to call this color, "color 1", later on in this tutorial.

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Step 3: With the second color of your choice,(I chose white) paint 1-2 coats on your accent nails. Allow your nails to dry well before moving onto the next step. We're going to call this color, "color 2" later on in this tutorial. 

Step 4: Using a toothpick or dotting tool, dipped in color 2, place dots all over the tips of your non-accent nails.

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Step 5 and 6: Using a toothpick or dotting tool dipped in color 1, start to fill in the whole accent nail with small dots. I find dotting in diagonal lines gives the best results for this. Try and keep the dots about them same size for best results.

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Step 7 and 8: Just follow the last 2 steps. Using a dotting tool or toothpick dipped in color number 1, make small dots in diagonal lines. Continue until the whole nail is full of dots.

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Step 9: Using a striper make a small line at the bottom of the tips. This just gives a more finished look. It also helps to hide if you didn't have perfectly straight tips. I used a silver glitter striper. You can skip this step, or use any color you want.

Step 10: After giving your dots a few minutes to dry, apply your favorite top coat to seal in your design. 

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If you want, use a paint brush, or cotton bud dipped in nail polish remover clean up any polish that you may have gotten on your skin. Apply your favorite cuticle oil over the whole nail and you're all done!

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You made it to the end of today's tutorial! I hope you found this tutorial helpful! Don't forget to like me on Facebook, and all my other social media sites if you want to stay up to date on what I'm doing! Ask me questions, request tutorials, I can't wait to hear from you! 

Have a Blessed day,

NOTD: Pink, and While polka dots

Hello again, everyone! I hope you're ready for a new post! Although, I guess it doesn't matter if you're ready or not. Today's post is another, Nail of the day. I'm loving these nails! They are really simple, I think anyone could do them. They look girly, and ready for spring. When I get my video camera working, I can record a video tutorial if you'd like. It's so simple, Start with your favorite base coat, paint your nails with whatever color you'd like in whatever way you'd like. When your polish has dried go in with a dotting tool, or a toothpick, and place your dots in whatever color you want. I finished my tips with a line of silver glitter again. Then add a top coat and that's it! I hope you like my nails today, and if you try the look out let me know, I'd love to see! You can share your pictures on my Facebook page!

Have a blessed day, 

Products used:

Base coat: Nail-aid, 3 minute artificials

Pink: Sally Hansen, I pink I can

White: Apple Barrel colors, White

Top coat: Nail-Tek, Quicken

Review on Nail-aid 3 Minute Artificials base/top coat

Hi again, everyone! Today I have another review for you. Today's review will be about another base/top coat I've heard so much about. I've heard "it's amazing, it keeps your polish on for a week without chipping,  it makes your nails strong and healthy". So, of course I tried it out, and I'm ready to tell you what I think about it.

Nail-aid, 3 Minute Artificials is the product I'm reviewing today. I'm actually on my second or third bottle of this. However, that doesn't mean it's the best base coat. It just means it's affordable, and wasn't horrible. I got mine at Ross, for $3 (on a side note, I love Ross). The box says " Harder nails 1 step" "3 Minute artificials, no mess just brush it on" "makes nails hard as gels". I do find that it does make my nails harder, but only while the polish is on. As soon as you take it off your nails are brittle again. Which, for me isn't too big of a deal, because my nails are almost always painted. It's one of the "traditional" pink toned base coats, but the pink color doesn't really show up on your nails. It can be doubled as a top coat, but I wouldn't suggest it. It's not quick drying, and when used as a top coat your nails will take forever to dry. I've never had my nails done in a salon, not gel nails, not artificial nails. So, I really can't compare it to "artificals" as the name suggests. 

In conclusion, do I recommend this product? Sure, if you're looking for a reasonably priced base coat that does make your nails feel stronger, and protects your nails from staining. If you're looking for a base coat that keeps your nail  polish from chipping, then you might want to pass on it. I am still on the search for my perfect base coat, but until I find it, this will do. If you do decide to try it out, I suggest looking for it at Ross. From what I've seen online it runs $7- $8, and I get it for $3 at Ross.

That is my post for the day. I hope you found this review helpful and informative. If you have any questions I didn't answer just leave a comment and I'll let you know what I think. Like me on Facebook if you want to stay up to date with what's going on with me.

In other news, my compact camera I use for some pictures and my videos has just decided to stop working. So, if I can't get it working again I will get a new one as soon as possible but it might be a while. I will keep using my good camera for pictures, but it doesn't do videos. So, if there is a lack of videos in the coming weeks I do apologize in advance. 

Have a blessed day,

Elegant Light Pink Lace Nail Tutorial

Hello again, everyone! I'm happy to bring you my next video tutorial! I hope you're excited to see how I created an elegant lace design. I decided not to have captions during this video, it was too distracting. If possible I will later add a voice over, just have to get a better mic for voice overs. I hope you find today's video helpful! Don't forget to thumbs up the video, and add it to your favorites so you can find it again later. Plus, if you want to stay up to date on what I'm doing, like me on Facebook.
Have a blessed day,

Light turquoise & Pink Crackle NOTD

Hello again, Everyone! I have another blog post for you today. It's not going to be anything too special. Just the nails of my day, which aren't anything too special  Yes, sometimes I do have plain(ish) nails. I do understand that for most people these nails aren't plain, but for me, they are. I don't think it needs a tutorial, because it's really simple. However, if you'd like to see one, let me know.

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 Today's nail look, is a simple one. Its just a bubblegum pink with a light turquoise crackle polish on top. This is one of my go to nail looks when I just don't have time to go into all the detail. I think the "crackle trend" is over, but I still love to rock the crackle nails.
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Bubblegum Pink: Orly, Basket Case

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Light Turquoise crackle: China Glaze, Crushed Candy

I've tried several brands of crackle, and China Glaze is my favorite. I found This one on clearance at Sally's Beauty supply for $3!

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That's all I have for you today, I hope you enjoyed it! If you want to stay up to date on what I'm doing and what's going on in my nail world please feel free to go like me on Facebook. I hope you're all having a wonderful day. I look forward to sharing more nail fun with you guys soon!

Have a blessed day,

Edgy Cross Nails

Hi, everyone! I have another nail tutorial for you today. Today's tutorial is kind of "edgy" design, and I hope you like it. 

If you want to see how I created this look, keep reading :-)

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Here are most of the products I used. Somehow I forgot to put my base, and top coat in this picture. I'll insert a separate picture of them at the end of the blog.

Silver glitter striper: Art Deco, silver glitter

Black polish: Sinful Colors, What's your name.

(this is one of my favorite black nail polishes ever, it's got the most beautiful fine blue glitter in it)

Hot pink, and black: Apple Barrel Colors, Bright Magenta and Black

Light Grey: L.A. colors, Lost Soul

Bast Coat: Nail-aid, Triple Wrap Thickener

Top Coat: Nail-Tek, Quicken

Cuticle oil: Pro fx apricot cuticle oil

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 Step 1: On clean dry nails, apply 1 coat of your favorite base coat. This protects your nails from staining and prevents chipping. 

Step 2: On all but your ring finger, and thumb, apply a light grey polish to the tips of your nails. Depending on the polish it will take 1-3 coats. Mine took 2 coats.

(you can use any colors you would like, these are just the colors I chose for the design)
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Step 3: On your ring finger, and thumb apply a black polish to the whole nail. Depending on the polish this will take 1-3 coats. Mine took just 1.  

Step 4: After your black has had time to dry, go in with a silver glitter striper polish, and create the cross on your thumb and ring finger. It's just 2 lines, one down the center of your nail. The other a horizontal line 1/3 of the way up from your cuticle(straight across the first line). 

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Step 5: Go in with any color of your choice(I chose hot pink) and make a semi thick line bordering the cross. You can either use a striping polish or paint and a detail brush. I used an acrylic paint, and a detail brush.

Step 6: Using the same color you outlined the cross in, paint one random vertical line on each grey tip. You don't want any of the lines to be in the same spot. You want it to look random.

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Step 7: Using a striper polish, or paint and a detail brush go in and fill in the rest of your grey tips with vertical stripes the same color as your accent nails. As you see, mine are black.

Step 8: This step is optional, but I think it makes the crosses pop a little more. Using either a nail striper, or detail brush and paint, go in with the same color you used as the main color on your accent nails(black for me) and carefully paint a line in between the pink(or whatever color you bordered you cross with) and the cross. This gives the border color the appearance that it's kind of floating. As pictured in both of these steps. 

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Step 9: This is another optional step, but I think it ties the nails together even more. Using the same silver glitter striper you used to make your cross, and paint a thin line just under your grey tips. This way if your tips weren't perfectly straight and even, you can even them out with this step. 

Step 10: After waiting for your design to dry for a couple minutes, apply your favorite top coat. You can stop here if you'd like, but I do 2 more steps.

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Step 11: Go in with either a cotton bud or a paint brush, dipped in nail polish remover and clean up and polish that may have gotten on your skin, and cuticles. This step make your nails look more professional, and clean.

Step 12: Apply you favorite cuticle oil all over your nails and nail bed. This will help prevent smudging  and it's great for your cuticles. 

Now you're all done! I hope you love the design!

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Below are more detailed pictures of what I used in this design. Keep in mind, these are just the products I used, you can use whatever colors you want to make the design all yours.

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Well, you made it to the end of today's blog! Thank you for reading, and I hope you found my tutorial helpful. Don't forget to check me out on Facebook, and YouTube if you want to stay up to date with what I'm doing. 

Have a blessed day,