Through the Wormhole

When in doubt.. blue and white china print!

2013-05-18T22:27:00.001-07:00

Yes, another blu and white china print.. as much as I do it, it never really gets old. It's such a clean combination of colors that looks good on pretty much anyone, and it's very striking.

I used Sally Hansen White On, and acrylic paints for this.

In other news.. I went to a concert on thursday, and boy, I feel like I got my ass kicked, haha. I guess I'm a little to old to be duking it out in the pit with teenagers, now. I hurt in places I didn't even know existed.. oof. Oh well, I had fun!

Now that summer is rolling around, hopefully I'll be updating more!

Playing with neon

2013-05-03T14:36:00.000-07:00

Hello! I'd say I hope everyone has been enjoying the spring weather, but it's been a liiiiittle out of control lately.. I've got friends still getting snow.. what gives?

Anyway, I was just messing around with some neon color here. Forgive the pics, but we haven't had good sunlight in like two days so I had to make due. This is the longest my natural nails have been in a while.. I've grown pretty find of this shape, I don't know if I could go back to square nails again!

Chains and stripes

2013-04-27T12:20:00.000-07:00

Well, this is a fairly self-explanatory mani.. I was pretty bored and not feeling extremely creative, but I wanted something different than what I usually do. Pretty much threw whatever I grabbed from my kit onto my nails.. chains, studs, glitter, gold foil.. aaaaand it came out like this, lol. I do like the thumb and ring finger, but the rest are pretty meh. I was too tired to redo it, however. I'd probably just go for solid black next time since I cannot do stripes no matter what..

Koi fish nails

2013-04-21T17:55:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! Anyone else sick of all this gross wintery weather in the middle of frickin' April? I know I am..

Anywho.. these came about because I wanted to experiment with some loose hex glitter in a different way. I thought it might make an interesting way to accent scales and make them pop, so I went with a koi fish kind of color pattern. I'm not totally happy, but they're interesting!

Sunflower nails

2013-04-03T16:56:00.000-07:00

Pretty self-explanatory.. again, this is a design I did before a while ago, and decided to revisit. I like it much better this time around. I really, really want summer to get here.. chase this chill out of my bones. Ugh.

Again, sorry I don't post regularly.. I'm still sick(ugh), and last week my boyfriend of 2 years dumped me. I haven't been in the best mood, understandably. I'm really trying to stay positive, but it's super hard right now.. sigh. I hope you all are having a better spring than I am!

All of Time and Space..

2013-03-12T18:29:00.000-07:00

I've seen these done before, but I've been watching Doctor Who with my mum lately, so I had to give them a go.. I think she likes them more than I do, haha. Painting an itty bitty police box is no easy task, lemme tell ya.. it's also been ages since I've done nebula nails, so that was challenging.

I haven't really been doing nails lately.. I've been sick for the past four weeks with something really bad. Doctor's have no idea what it is, either. Kinda scary. But I felt alright enough today, so I did these, because doing my nails helps me feel normal. Just want you guys to know, in case I'm absent for a long period, again.

Simple skull accents, plus my v-day mani.

2013-02-19T17:20:00.000-08:00

Helloooo everyone! As you can see, I have iiiitty bitty stumps right now.. I put acrylics on myself for v-day, and after I removed them I trimmed my nails down as short as I could, because I wanted some new growth, and because they were a little thin. It's easier for me to work with short nails, anyways. They looked a little sad, so I slapped on some Revlon "Facets of Fuchsia" and some little skull accents for fun.

These are what they looked like before I took my acrylics off.. sparkly sparkly, haha. I don't do many acrylics on my clients, so I like playing around on myself sometimes.

Fall Out Boy nails.. light 'em up!

2013-02-04T20:14:00.000-08:00

So.. most of you probably aren't aware, but I am HUGE Fall Out Boy fan. Huge. Ever since 2003. I love them to death, and just today, they came off a 3 year hiatus to announce a new album/tour. I AM SO HAPPY. I cried a little, I'll admit it. People don't understand how much this band means to me.

These are based on the new video for the single remix, where all their old merch and albums are being burned.. I loved it. Great symbolism. I'm really happy with the way these turned out.. and I hope to God I can get tickets for their tour.

Turquoise stone nails

2013-02-02T11:45:00.000-08:00

Hello! Have some pretty, shiny turquoise nails for you this week.. I saw someone do these on tumblr with the water-spotted method, which I tried, and wasn't a huge fan of on its own. I ended up going back and reworking the black veins by hand with polish and acetone to get the look I wanted. I might do a tutorial since people have been asking about it on tumblr, we'll see if my camera cooperates or not..

Anyway! I love these. LOVE. My old as hell camera does them no justice at all, they seriously look like real turquoise irl.

Colors:
Turquoise and Caicos, Essie
Ga-Loshes Glow, Venique
Black Magic, Milani
DS Glow, OPI

Throwback art deco nails

2013-01-25T19:35:00.000-08:00

Helloooo, everyone! Bit of a throwback today.. I did this design about a year ago and really loved it. I was feeling a bit uninspired, so I browsed through my blog and thought hey, why not do that again? Haha. I like it even better on oval nails, actually.

Classic snakeskin

2013-01-18T02:29:00.000-08:00

Alright, I'll admit it.. I'm getting a little addicted to snakeskin. I can't help it, it just looks so neat. I really, really wish I had a better camera, because they look so sick in real life. Sigh. Oh well.

I might do a tutorial on this look since people elsewhere seemed interested when I posted it.

Game of Thrones, House Targaryen Nails!

2013-01-16T19:55:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone! These are actually a bit old, I just never photographed them properly.. I took the opportunity to do so when I mounted them on my sample board recently. Inspired by House Targaryen from Game of Thrones, my favorite house. Fire and blood, baby. Anyways.. hate the accent nail. Too lazy to do another one. Also not happy with how.. derpy the dragon looks, but it's not completely awful. I like the scales, though. This was the first time I did scales, and as you can see from my previous post, I've kept the same technique.

That's all for now.. sorry my posts are never terribly exciting, but I live a rather boring life, haha. I'm planning on doing some fun nails in the future though, hopefully they turn out. Thanks for reading, as usual!

Snakeskin nails!

2013-01-08T21:08:00.000-08:00

Been messing around with some snakeskin looking nails.. I love snakes. They're so neat and beautiful to look at. I wish they'd photographed better, the colors look pretty irl.. sigh. Oh well.

Here's another mockup I did with more 'normal' coloring. Probably should've stuck with this one my own nails, but.. eh. I was bored.

Snowflake nails!

2012-12-23T20:26:00.002-08:00

Yes, I know, everyone and their mom does snowflake nails, but they're so easy and fast, and I had no time to do anything fancy for the holidays this year. I'm allowed to be lazy sometimes, okay!

China Glaze, Frostbite/silver glitter with white acrylic paint.

Area 11 nails.. obsessed? Possibly.

2012-12-20T20:11:00.001-08:00

'Ello everyone! I whipped these out real quick tonight, mainly because my other mani was chipped.. I've been listening to Area 11 a lot lately, this fun gaijin-rock band out of Bristol. You can check them out here if you're interested!

I'm hoping to have more posts after the holidays when it's not so hectic.. thanks to anyone who still bothers to check out my silly little blog.

Snowflakes, christmas, glitter nail dump!

2012-12-17T15:14:00.000-08:00

Hey guys. Sorry it's been forever, but between holidays and being sick, I just haven't done much lately. Been feeling really drained. These are just a few nails I've done in the past month, nothing really fancy. I'm hoping to get back in the swing of things after Christmas and update more.

Nightmare Before Christmas nails!

2012-10-31T20:16:00.001-07:00

Happy Halloween, everyone! I didn't really celebrate(aside from eating all out candy), but I felt like doing my nails anyway.. I've been rally into black and white lately. And I love Mr. Skellington, so I figured hey, why not? I really like how Jack turned out. <3 p="p">

It'sssss showtime!

2012-10-29T14:55:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! Happy early halloween!

Beetlejuice is one of my favorite halloweeny movies, so I decided to give these a shot. I like how the stripes turned out, the sandworm is okay.. don't like the carousal hat nail. Oh well! And yes, these are obviously on fake nails.. I have itty bitty nubs right now because I broke some nails. :( So sad.

I don't have a picture, but the sandworm nail? I used neon acrylic paint and it looks amazing under blacklight.

Blinged out candy corn!

2012-10-18T16:07:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! I always do candy corn nails in October.. I love candy corn. I know this style of nail art is super popular, but I just loveeee it.

I decided to make it a little different, and added some hexagon glitter in matching colors.. it looks wicked sparkly in real life! Love it.

Borderlands 2 nails!

2012-10-10T20:26:00.002-07:00

Hey guys! Any Borderlands 2 fans out there? I was a huge fan of Borderlands after my boyfriend got me into it, so I was super stoked when the second one came out recently.. I'm doing my first playthrough with Maya(the siren) and it's awesome.

Anyway.. I took this from the cover, obviously. I wanted to do more, but after the psycho, I was pretty impatient, haha. Still pretty happy with them! Probably the most ambitious thing I've done in a while.

Loki, starry night, bloody claws.. bunch of different designs!

2012-09-17T17:06:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! Bunch of different stuff today. This is all stuff I had in my files I never posted for various reasons.. didn't photograph well, errors on the nail/paint job, etc. You can tell there's flaws, but I still like the designs, so I decided to throw them into one post.

I may wear those claws for halloween.. dunno yet! I really wish those Loki nails hadn't bubbled, either.. they were so pretty. :(

Glitter, flowers, rhinestones.. can I get more girly?

2012-09-07T11:41:00.002-07:00

Hey guys? How's it going? I'm back from Atlanta, which.. wasn't as much fun as I was hoping, sadly. Eh. You win some, you lose some, right?

I whipped these out before I left and they held up fairly well over the trip, since I used OPI Axxium gel polish. I've really been digging the hand placed glitter over nude nails lately. I also threw in some acrylic sculpting just for practice. Not bad. Not my greatest, but not bad. I just took them off yesterday because my pink hair was turning them.. well, pink. I cut them down pretty short. Bye-bye talons!

My birthday was on the 3rd and that was.. lame. Stuck in an airport because our flight was delayed, yay. -_- Then I got wicked cramps that only let up today. I feel like I deserve a do-over for that entire week, lol. Hope everyone had a great week, it had to have been better than mine!

I don't even know what to call these..

2012-08-23T12:19:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! Something very simple today.. these are actually a few weeks old, dunno why I never posted them. Anyway! This is a very simple mani with hand-placed glitter and framing. Is that what they call it? I have no idea, I can never keep up with what people call all the trends these days. These were fun, though! Very sparkly in sunlight, hard to capture in pictures sadly.

Next week, I'll be off to Atlanta for Dragon*Con once again! I can't wait.. I really want to do some fun nails this time. Maybe something super crazy.

Hope you all have a great day, and thanks for reading! :)

Anchors away! Nautical nails

2012-08-07T16:19:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! These were done for a theme challenge for a nail group I'm in.. my first time ever doing one of those, haha. The theme was nautical/sailor related, so I went with anchors and nautical stars, obviously. They're alright.. I'm not 100% happy with them, the stars especially.. I hate stars. I was hissing and cursing the entire time I was doing them.

I've gotten a few questions about the change in my nail shape.. I was bored, mainly. Oval's are kind of a pain to shape, but I'm enjoying how elegant they look and how they make my fingers look longer. And yes, these are still my natural nails. I'll probably be cutting them short after Dragon*Con.

Not much else to say, really.. been hot as hell here! Ugh. Hope everyone's been staying cool. See you next time!

Giveaway Winners!

2012-07-22T15:27:00.001-07:00

Hi guys! First, I'd like to thank everyone who entered! You guys are great! Without further ado, here are the winners..

First Prize Winner(pendant and nail set): fashionXinfinity
Second Prize Winner(two pendants): myclumsyhearts

Congratulations! You'll both be receiving an email from me shortly, so check your inboxes. :)

This giveaway went fairly well, so hopefully I'll be hosting more in the future with new jewelry and nail sets! Thank you again to everyone who entered, and those who continue to support me! <3