Bucket List: half moon

heres the first mani after i decided to start my "bucket list." its a classic half moon mani. after painting and going through some ups and downs with those darn paper reinforcements i finally got this done. i like the design itself, but i don't like my color choices. both are too dark and its kind of hard to see the two different colors from afar. i also learned a lesson to use a top coat over the first color AFTER i painted all my nails. thats why i need to do a practice on my nail wheel first! but it turned out alright...its kind of lumpy on the black where i had to go over where the paper reinforcement pulled off the polish. but, here it is!

i really love the purple, but its too dark to pair with the black

it looks alright, don't ya think? i do wish my pointer finger would be more square though. =[

you can see the slight difference. you can also see that random slitter sparkle that i didn't notice until i put the top coat on >=[.

i love this purple. its OPI Pepes Purple Passion, and then the black is Sally Hansen Black Out. i didn't take pics of the bottles =/

a picture of me and my boyfriend during our cities holiday festivities. there was a gingerbread contest and hot chocolate and carolers and fireworks! it was a lot of fun. <33

manis i want to do:

watercolor

constellations or connect the dot

glaxey nails

needle design

rainbow

cheetah

penguin

angry birds

water marble

black matte

glitter gradient french

white dandelion (iphoto)

half moon on tip

half moon

striping tape

bumble bee

inverted dots (iphoto)

holiday lights

paint splatter

batman nails

a new thought... any opinions, tips, or advice?

i would LOVE to start making my own polishes. that would be such an awesome thing to do. I'm not talking open my own store with thousands of polishes but make a few for me and then for friends and so on. I've seen quite a few of you that have your own stores and i was just wondering how you got started out. do you use a certain recipe to make your polishes. I'm not trying to copy anyone or anything i would just like to experiment and need a place to start. any suggestions would be much appreciated =D

thanks!

Brianna

Nails inc magnetic!

Oh how i loveee this polish! seriously the coolest stuff ever. each nail is a little bit different! its a wonderful purple color and i decided to add my new matte coat over the top. i dunno why, but i love matte more than gloss sometimes. makes it look better i think with certain polishes and i think this is one of them. i think i like the polish so much because its not a super flashy design - but there is something there. sometimes i just want a little oomph!

on the second nail i painted, i figured id try something different. i thought putting the magnet a different way would still give it the same effect but i guess not. it just kinda made it all blurry. granted my picture is a tad blurry, but thats close to what it looked like (i painted these the same night i took pics of all my new polishes, hence the camera difficulties, but i edited these to make them less yellow). i guess the magnet has to go the same direction every time. if anyone wants to see the bottle, see the previous post here.

here it is shiny...i know bad pic. I'm just not the biggest fan of it shiny.

ahhhh heres the beautiful color in matte. the polish is called Houses of Parliament and its by Nails Inc. the polish actually is kind of thick when you apply it... I'm thinking that is because of whatever properties are in it to make it magnetic. but thats just a thought. even though it was thick, it applied really smooth. no clumps or lumps! this was 2 coats of Houses of Parliament and 1 coat of Warpaint Beauty Mattify.

i just love the designs it makes. something elegant and subtle.

can see it up close here

and again!

I decided today during my lunch break that I'm going to do a sort of "bucket list" (minus the dying of course lol) of nail polish designs i want to try. i think its a good idea for me! I'm a listy person and can never think of designs until after. soooo here is the list:

watercolor

constellations

connect the dot

galaxy nails

needle marble

rainbow

cheetah print

penguin or some other kind of animal

angry birds

water marble

black matte

glitter gradient french

white dandelion

half moon on tip

half moon

striping tape

bumble bee

inverted dots

holiday lights

paint splatter

batman nails

theres some on here that some of you might have zero idea of what i am talking about... everything on here is an idea from pictures i have seen of other peoples nail art. I'm going to work my way through the list and definitely keep you guys updated as i do them.=] wish me luck!

birthday polishes i got!

first off I'm apologizing for the crappy pics. i messed with my camera so much to get rid of the yellow. did everything i could think of. oh well you can get the gist lol. but heres my bday nail polish! i loveeee everything i got and immediately painted my nails with one of them. pictures probably coming on tuesday; don't have time tomm and too pissed at my camera tonight. ok here we go!

OPI! muppet collection =] i didn't get the whole collection because the other colors i really didn't like. but i got such a good deal on the ones i got. love that my aunt sells them to me at the price they buy them for ($5) =D

again SORRY for the crappy pics. ugh these look even more horrible than i thought. but heres Pepes Purple Passion and Gone Gonzo!

heres Rainbow Connection and Designer... De Better! I'm really going to try to get better pictures in the next few days... not that you guys haven't seen these swatches already i bet. =P

and heres Warm & Fozzie. I LOVEEE this color and can't wait to use it!

and now onto Sinful Colors! these pics still look yellow but they look sooooo much better than the OPI's do. i love all these colors. i really wanted to get some brightttt colors.

here are Hazard and Innocent

Hottie and Happy Ending

Unicorn and Dream On

and now onto the most awesome nail polishes in the world. these are fricken ridiculous! the first is the magnetic I've been hearing about! the sephora near me doesn't have either of these polishes in stock because its within a JC Pennys. =[[ boooo! so while i was down in Novi shopping i thought id go to their sephora and look and see. and SUCCESS! they had not only the magnetic but also the special effects =D there was one employee walking around showing people the special effects and i feel in love immediately. only downfall? $20 for the set =[ ugh i bought it anyways. the magnetic was $16 i think. but anyhoo these are both amazing polishes. tried both out on my grandma right away (she was the only one to volunteer her nails to me). i used the magnetic for my polish right now, and changed it up a little. i also experimented with the magnet... all of which ill post tuesday like i said. but anyways the other 2 are a special effects polish thats almost i guess... holographic? i don't really know what it is but its awesome.

magnetic polish in Houses of Parliament (its a purple color)

and the special effects in The Wyndham and Kensington (a green color)

and last but not least some top coats. I've been wanting to get a matte top coat for a while now. i really love the matte color and have been eyeballing this mani (the top zebra stripe one) from Deez Nails. she has the most amazing blog and I'm constantly inspired by her manis. and then the black crackle I've been wanting too. i have a turquoise and a silver one but I've been wanting a black too. i was a little hesitant on buying nail polish from hot topic... i dunno why. but as you'll see tuesday i used the matte top coat and it works REALLY well. i love it even more than i thought i would. =D

they even named them nicely. Mattify and Volcano

bday polish haul coming soon!

i will get all the polishes that i picked out for my birthday tomorrow! therefore, i will do a bigg post on everything i got!

talk to you guys tomorrow!