Wet n Wild-Haze of Love

Hey everyone!

Well, I'm back to nubbies again. I got sick of using the tea bag method on my pointer nail, so I chopped it down. I wish I didn't have to, but it wasn't going to grow out how I wanted it to. I cut the rest of my nails as well. Good thing I like both short and long nails and don't get too upset about them haha.

I found the perfect color to wear for my nubs, which is Wet n Wild's Haze of Love. I don't know why, but I'm really into dark polishes at the moment. Maybe the Christmas spirit is wearing off on me lol.

This is usually my go to polish for my toes, but I decided to put it on my nails. It doesn't disappoint either!

Haze of Love is a dark maroon polish. In some lights, it looks like a dark reddish brown. This is two coats with a top coat.

The application and formula are great as I've said before about the Megalast polishes. The brush is probably one of my favorite parts about this brand. It would be great if all polishes had this brush lol.

Overall, I love this polish. It's a great color for the winter season. It also looks best on short nails in my opinion. I love how it brings my nubbies out more.

What do you think of this polish?

Thanks for reading!

Snowflake Nails

Hey everyone! 

Sorry that I didn't post much last week. I was busy with trying to figure out what I was going to for Thanksgiving. I ended up hanging at my grandma's and then with my girlfriend. It was stressful, but good at the same time. How was everyone's Thanksgiving?

I usually don't do holiday nails, but I really wanted to try doing snowflake nails. I guess I'm in the holiday spirit after all lol.

I tried out a bunch of different snowflake designs, but they didn't really turn out well. I made some simple snowflakes and I think that this design turned out pretty good.

For this design, I painted two coats of Wet n Wild's I Red a Good Book. With a detail brush, I made three lines for the snowflake using white acrylic paint . You can create as many lines as you'd like for the snowflakes. 

Next, I made dots at the point of the lines with a small dotting tool. I also made white dots to fill in the empty space on the nail. For some sparkle, I used one coat of China Glaze's Fairy Dust.

This is a very simple and cute holiday design. I actually tried this design with white polish and I didn't really like it. I think I'll be working with acrylic paint more in my designs. 

What do you think of this design? Have you done any Christmas inspired nails yet?

Thanks for reading!

Sugar Spun Nails

Hey everyone!

For today, I decided to try out a popular technique that I've been wanting to do for ages: sugar spun nails! These were actually pretty easy to do and I love the effect that comes out from these.

For this design, I painted two coats of Sinful Colors Big Daddy. On a scrap piece of paper, I placed a few drops of Sinful Colors Endless Blue on it. 

With a dotting tool (or toothpick), I swirled the polish around to thicken it up. I also blew on it a little to speed up the drying time. 

Once the polish thickens, the polish will turn stringy and you can start placing it on the nail. I did a back and forth motion for all the nails. I did this until I thought there were enough strings on the nail. You can make the strings as thick or thin as you want, but I did a combination of both.

For the accent nail, I added Wet n Wild's French White Creme on top of Endless Blue.

I think the one thing that I like about these nails is the texture. It feels really nice and it's an easy way to get a textured design without texture polishes. I almost tried it with a texture polish, but I wasn't sure how that would come out. If you all would like to see how that goes, let me know and I can try it out for you!

What do you think of this design? Have you tried sugar spun nails before?

Thanks for reading!

Overlapping Dotticure

Hey everyone!

Today I have a simple dotticure to show you! I really like how this design is so simple and eye catching at the same time. The effect of the dots overlapping really make it a cool design.

For this design, I used the biggest sized dot of the dotting tool. If you want smaller dots, you can use the smaller dot sizes to make it smaller. 

I used Sinful Colors Amethyst, Wet n Wild's French White Creme, and Sinful Colors Creme Pink for this design. You can use any and as many colors as you want.  

First, I placed a dot of polish onto a scrap piece of paper. Next, I dipped the dotting tool into the polish and made a row of dots along the nail. With the next line of dots, I placed the line slightly over the first line of dots. I continued doing this for the other colors until the nail was filled. 

I didn't use a base color for these nails, but you can paint your nails first and then do the dots if you'd like.

I love this design so much. I think this looks great on short nails, but it would look good on long nails as well. It's so eye catching, it kind of looks like tie dye a little bit.

What do you think of this design? 

Thanks for reading!

Block B "Very Good" Nails

Hello everyone!

Today's post is a little late. For some reason, the photos wouldn't upload like they usually do. It took an hour on my laptop before I gave up, and then I moved downstairs to the family computer and the photos uploaded instantly. Technology is strange sometimes.

For today's mani, I did nails inspired by Block B's "Very Good" MV.

Block B is a K-pop group with a more hip hop sound. They're my favorite K-pop group probably of all time. Yes, I fangirl hard for them lol (I promise I'm not that bad haha). I absolutely love the song and the music video for it, so I had to create these nails for it.

I was inspired by different parts in the MV for these designs.

The pinky represents the microphone lines in U-Kwon and P.O's section of the MV. I painted one coat of Wet n Wild's French White Creme as the base color. For the lines, I used a long striper brush and made random lines using Sinful Colors Black on Black.

The ring finger represents the red skull that Zico holds. I painted my nail one coat of Orly's Star Spangled. Once it dried a little, I put on top coat to help the gems stick together. Using tweezers, I stuck on the gems on the top coat.

The middle finger represents the clown masks that they use to disguise themselves as they're robbing the bank. I freehanded this design using Wet n Wild's I Red a Good Book, Sinful Colors Black on Black, an unnamed maroon polish, and Wet n Wild's French White Creme.

The pointer finger is the design on Zico's sunglasses. I painted one coat of Sinful Colors Black on Black on my nail. With a dotting tool, I created dots around the nail with Wet n Wild's French White Creme.

For the thumb, I did the 730 floor design. I painted my nail one coat of Sinful Colors Black on Black. Next, I freehanded the numbers using a detail brush with Wet n Wild's French White Creme.

I think the hardest part of this design was the nail gems. I've never actually put this many gems on one nail before, but I really love how it turned out. The other thing was that the top coat that I used for this design (shown in the photos) dried really fast. I had to keep applying the top coat because it would dry before I could put any more on the nail.

What do you think of this design? Are you a K-pop fan?

Thanks for reading! I'll put the video down below if anyone would like to see the MV.

Halloween Mix n Match Nails

Hello everyone!

I don't really do holiday nails normally, but I decided to do some for Halloween. Halloween is probably one of my favorite holidays after Thanksgiving and Christmas. I really didn't want to do just one design on all my nails due to me being indecisive, so I decided to just do a mix n match of different designs.

I'm going to apologize in advance for the photos with my thumb in it. The thermostat at my house isn't working at the moment and it's making my wrist tendinitis act up due to no heat, so my poses with the thumb look so awkward lol.

For these Halloween nails, I did a variety of designs. 

For the pinky, I was inspired by candy corn. First, I placed two pieces of striping tape onto my nail. With my detail brush, I painted Wet n Wild's French White Creme, Sally Hansen's Sunkissed, and Sally Hansen's Mellow Yellow in the spaces. Once all the spaces were painted, I carefully took off the striping tape.

For the accent nail, I made a sugar skull. I first painted  one thick coat of Wet n Wild's French Creme. Next, I put two drops of top coat on the nail to stick the gems on for the eyes. With my detail brush, I made two lines for the nose and a long black circle for the mouth with Sinful Colors Black on Black. Going back with the detail brush, I made white squares inside the mouth for the teeth with Wet n Wild's French White Creme. For the dots around the eyes, I used a small dotting tool and created dots with Sinful Colors Pink Forever and Sinful Colors Why Not. I finished it off with three small dots below the eyes using Sinful Colors Black on Black.

 For the middle finger, I was inspired by The Nailasaurus's Halloween Patchwork nails. I first painted two coats of Sally Hansen's Sunkissed. With a detail brush, I sectioned and filled in the different sections with different colors (Sinful Colors Pistache, Sinful Colors Amethyst, and Wet n Wild's French White Creme). Finally, I used Sinful Colors Black on Black to make the patchwork detail.

For the pointer, I did a simple dotticure. I painted my nail one coat of Sinful Colors Amethyst. With a dotting tool, I created dots using Sally Hansen's Sunkissed, Sinful Colors Pistache, Wet n Wild's French White Creme, and Sinful Colors Amethyst.

For the thumb, I created blood drips. I painted my nail one coat of Wet n Wild's French White Creme. With a dotting tool, I made four dots and connected them to the top of the nail making blood drips using Wet n Wild's I Red a Good Book. Finally, I made big dots at the tip of the drip.

I finished off all the designs with Sally Hansen's Insta-Dri top coat.

I really like these nails! They were fun to do. My favorite is the candy corn, sugar skull, and the blood drips.

What design do you like best? Any plans for Halloween?

Thanks for reading!

Wet n Wild's I Red a Good Book Swatch

Hello everyone!

I'm back now! If you didn't read in the last post, I was gone because I needed to give my nails a break. My nails are still a little yellow, but I'll deal with it for now.

Also, I made myself a lightbox! When I was taking my photos before, I had to either go into my little brother's room (ugh!) or the bathroom. Now I can just do them in my room and at any time. It was pretty simple to do actually and only cost me around $5. The quality of my photos improved immensely, so I'm excited to show you these photos and more to come.

Today's swatch is Wet n Wild's I Red A Good Book. I bought this polish at Rite Aid for $1.99 and it is also part of the Megalast Collection.

I Red a Good Book is a classic red creme. This is two coats with a top coat. You could get away with one thick coat of this polish, but I decided to do two coats just to be safe.

The formula was great to work with. I didn't have any problems with the application too. I've mentioned in my previous reviews of the Megalast polishes that the wide brush makes it very easy to apply. The only gripe that I had is that the brush was kind of messed up. A corner of it was missing, but it's nothing too serious.

Overall, if you're looking for a classy red, I think this is the polish to go to. This is also a good fall color as well. I think I'll be wearing this polish a lot in the future. It's starting to become one of my favorites already!

What do you think of I Red a Good Book? What's your favorite red polish?

Thanks for reading!

This review was solely based on my honest opinion. I was not paid or asked to do this review for anyone.

31DC2013 Day 23: Inspired by a Movie

Hey everyone!

I'm really excited for these nails because it's inspired by one of my favorite movies: Kill Bill. I think I've seen the movie like 100 times already. In my sophomore year of college, I even did a monologue of Elle Driver's speech when she was killing Bud in the second movie. Needless to say, this is one of my favorite movies of all time. I based my nails on one of the movie posters for the first movie. I've actually never seen this one before, but this is an official movie poster for the film. It's pretty cool and basically sums up the movie, so I thought it would be perfect to do a design around it. Now onto the design!


Colors Used:

Sally Hansen's Mellow Yellow

O.P.I's A-Piers to be Tan

Sinful Colors Energetic Red

Sinful Colors Black on Black

Sinful Colors Slate

Wet n Wild's French White Creme

China Glaze Fairy Dust

For the pinky, I based it on The Bride's signature yellow tracksuit. I used one coat of Sally Hansen's Mellow Yellow as the base color. With a detail brush, I used Sinful Colors Black on Black to make a thick black line near the end of the nail.

The ring finger is based on the background of the poster. I used one coat of Sally Hansen's Mellow Yellow and then with a piece of a makeup sponge, I sponged on Sinful Colors Energetic Red on half of the nail. With my detail brush, I wrote "Kill Bill" on the nail.

The middle finger is the Hanzo sword (or my attempt at the Hanzo sword haha). I used one coat of Mellow Yellow. With my detail brush, I made the sword's base using Sinful Colors Black on Black. The golden part of the sword I made a small square using O.P.I's A-Piers to be Tan. Finally, I made the sword blade with Sinful Colors Slate and made a thin white line as a highlight with Wet n Wild's French White Creme.

The pointer represents blood splatter. I used a coat of Sally Hansen's Mellow Yellow. For the splatter, I used a cut up straw. I dipped one of the ends with Sinful Colors Energetic Red. Next, I blew into the straw to create the blood splatter.

The thumb represents The Bride's sleeve from her dress. With a very thin striper brush, I made a criss-cross pattern to resemble lace. Finally, I topped it off with China Glaze's Fairy Dust. 

I'm really proud of these nails and love how they came out! I'm still getting used to doing letters with my brush, but I think I'm getting better at it.

What do you think of this design? What's your favorite movie? Tomorrow is inspired by a book!

Until next time!

31DC2013 Day 20: Watermarble

Hey everyone!

Day 20 is watermarble nails. I think everyone who does their nails fear the dreaded watermarble manicure at one point or another. I was totally dreading doing these before I even started the challenge. Today, I think I might have broken my fear of watermarbling because they turned out AMAZING! I don't know if I just got lucky or what, but these are awesome and I'm really proud of them. 

Colors Used:
Wet n Wild's French White Creme
Color Club's Eternal Beauty
Color Club's Over the Moon

For these watermarble nails, you'll need some tape, a dotting tool or toothpick, and some room temperature water. I used bottled water for mine, but you can use distilled water and room temperature tap water as well. It's best to get out all your materials first so you're not getting them all together while doing your nails.

First, I painted my nails one coat of Wet n Wild's French White Creme. Once the base color dried, I poured some water in a cup (an old cup or container will do). 

Next, I put tape around my nails to make it easier to clean up. You can use Vaseline as well if you don't have tape. Once the nail is taped up, I put a drop of each color into the water. It'll make a bullseye pattern when you're finished. 

With a small dotting tool (preferably the smallest one as it has a point to it), I lightly dragged it across the polish. 

Next, I dipped my finger into the polish. To make it easier, I curved my finger a little so I could get the polish right on the nail. To get rid of the excess polish, I used an old pencil (you can use a toothpick as well) and twirled it around so that the polish would get on the pencil.

Finally, I took my finger out of the water, took the tape off, and cleaned up around the nail using some Q-tips or a cleanup brush dipped in nail polish remover. You can add a top coat as well, but mine started to bubble and ate up the polish a bit as you can see in the photos. It might be my top coat, but I'm not too sure.

These Color Club Halo Hues polishes were great to work with for the watermarble. I'm not sure if all the Color Club polishes are like this when it comes to watermarbling, but these were great. I'm definitely not afraid of doing watermarble nails now. They take a lot of work, but I can do them. This is my third attempt at them, so I guess third times a charm! 

What do you think of this design? Tomorrow is inspired by a color!

Until next time!

31DC2013 Day 19: Galaxy

Hello everyone!

Today's prompt is galaxy nails. This is actually my first time ever doing them, and I'm very pleased with the results! I think it looks awesome. Although, I had to literally write down the color order for the colors used in this design and what order to do them in. It got complicated for a minute haha. 

The first time that I did it on the nail, I messed up completely and forgot what order I did the colors in. The second time I got it down. Here are the results!

Colors Used:
Zoya's Shivon (base color)
Sinful Colors Starfish
Wet n Wild's Tickled Pink
Color Club's Take Me to Your Chateau
Sinful Colors Let's Meet
NYC's Mulberry Street
Wet n Wild's French White Creme (dots and stars)
China Glaze's Fairy Dust

Natural light

For these galaxy nails, I first painted one coat of Zoya's Shivon as my base color. Once that dried, I ripped up pieces of a makeup sponge. If you don't want to rip up a new one, grab an old one that you've used before (for gradients or if you use it for your makeup) and rip that up. That way you're saving up on your materials and not wasting up a new one. 

Next, I put a couple drops of polish onto a scrap piece of paper. Then, I grabbed a piece of the makeup sponge with some tweezers (you can do this by hand as well) and dip it into the polish. Lightly dab the color onto the nail. Dabbing it on too heavily will mess it up and leave you with blobs of polish on the nail. To avoid this, dab the sponge a few times on the scrap piece of paper. Repeat with all the colors. If needed, you can go over again with the colors on certain spots.

Natural light

After you've dabbed all the colors onto the nail, with a dotting tool or detail brush, make small dots onto the nail. For the stars, I made dots into a cross and connected them to make the stars. If you want the stars to have that point, use a detail/striper brush and make the points. Finally, I added China Glaze's Fairy Dust for some sparkle and to give it more of the galaxy look. If you want, you can add a top coat for some extra shine.

With flash

Natural light

I think these turned out great for my first time! I'll definitely be doing more galaxy nails in the future. I might try out a darker version.

What do you think of this design? Tomorrow is water marble (oh boy!) I'm nervous for those!

Until next time!

31DC2013 Day 18: Half Moons

Hey everyone!

Today is half moons! This one was kind of hard because I went through a couple ideas and they didn't look very good when I did them. I almost trashed this one, but I'm actually feeling it at the moment.

I've only done half moons a couple of times, but I like doing the traditional one where the nail is bare underneath. The two times that I did it before when I was in the process of coming up with ideas, I did the one with two colors. I don't know why, but those never come out good for me. I should probably practice those. Anyways, onto the half moons!

Colors Used:
Sinful Colors Starfish
Wet n Wild's French White Creme
China Glaze's Fairy Dust

For these half moon nails, you're going to need reinforcements. If you don't have those, you can always do it freehand as well. After I put on my base coat, I placed the reinforcements on my nails. You want to place them near the bottom of your nails. To make it a little easier on myself, I cut the reinforcements in half. You don't have to do this if you don't want to.

Next, I painted Sinful Colors Starfish onto the nail. With this design, you want to get a color that's opaque in one coat to make it easier. Once you paint all the nails, wait a minute and then peel off the reinforcements.

Once the polish is dry, you can either leave it or add to it. I decided to add to it because it brings it out more. For the stripes, I used my detail/striper brush. With the brush, I made thin white lines to cover the pink. Finally, I painted one coat of China Glaze's Fairy Dust for some sparkle and then a top coat to finish it off.

 These are kind of girly, but I really like them! The stripes really bring out this design. I will definitely try this out again soon. 

What do you think of this design? Tomorrow is galaxy nails!

Until next time!

31DC2013 Day 16: Tribal Print

Whew! I'm finally all caught up now.

Today's prompt is tribal print. I've done a tribal print in one of my earlier posts, but I've never done one where there's a mix match of different designs on it. It was actually quite simple to do, although I think I should have used a black polish instead of white for the designs. But for my first try with this kind of tribal print, I think I did okay.

Colors Used:
Color Club's Over the Moon
Wet n Wild's French White Creme

For this design, I first painted one coat of Color Club's Over the Moon (this is turning out to be one of my favorite polishes right now). Then, with a detail brush, I painted different designs using lines, dots, and zig zag patterns. You can basically do whatever design you want for these tribal print nails. Finally, I finished my design with a top coat.

I wish I had used a black polish, but I think they turned out fine. I would definitely try this kind of tribal print design again.

What do you think of the design? I'm all caught up now, tomorrow is glitter nails!

Until next time!

31DC2013 Day 12: Stripes

Post two of six for catch up day!

Day 12 was stripes.Out of the designs that I did today, this one is my absolute favorite and it is so stunning! I'm definitely using this design again. I almost didn't want to take it off my nails!

Colors Used:
Color Club's Over the Moon
Wet n Wild's French White Creme

Without flash

For this design, I painted one coat of Color Club's Over the Moon. With a detail brush, I made thin lines on the nail using Wet n Wild's French White Creme. Finally, I finished the design off with a top coat. 

I love Color Club's holographic polishes. This is one of the polishes that I bought myself for my birthday. I should have bought the rest that I needed!

With flash

With flash

What do you think of this design? Animal print is up next!