Quilted Nails

Hello again! As promised I am back with my second post of the day.
I gotta say I am proud of myself for being so productive!

As I mentioned in my last post, I was watching football with some friends while doing my nails, ( now that is my idea of Sunday fun day!) Anyways I have been wanting to do a quilted nail for a while and decided today was the day.

I started with 2 coats of Ulta's Blue Streak for my base. I have had this color for a while but have not tried it until today. I really enjoy Ulta polishes, they have a great brush size, amazing color, and go on really smoothly.

After letting that fully dry, I carefully applied strips of striping tape to produce my quilted pattern and once I was satisfied with the spacing I applied a generous coat of yet another unknown Sephora mini shown here

Sorry yet again for not knowing the name. Now that I am aware the minis do not have their names I will be sure to write down the next set I get.

Now for those of you who haven't used the striping tape in this way its important to know when you do this, the key is to remove the tape ASAP after applying the second color. When I first used striping tape I was not aware of this and it didn't end well.

I didn't like just having the one accent nail so I decided to spruce it up with some pinkish-purple rhinestones and topped it off with a generous coat of Seche Vite.

While I like these nails, I was hoping to achieve a bit more of a quilted texture. Will have to read up and see how other bloggers are doing it.

Well I'm off to bed, have a great night!
Keep it polished!
<3 Jess

saran wrap mani with rhinestone cascade

Hey there everyone! How was your Monday? Mine was filled with work and cleaning but I finally took some time to re do my mani. This is technically from the 31 day challenge, though I am not fully committed to doing that anymore. Not because I don't think its an amazing idea, but because when you work full time it is difficult to do a new mani every night ( not to mention the fact that sometimes I just really like what I have on and want to enjoy it for a few days).

So I have decided to use the challenge days as inspiration without a specific time frame :0) which is exactly what I did tonight.

My version of the saran wrap mani. What do you all think?

I have to say I am super happy with how this turned out, it was my first attempt at this type of manicure but it was super easy! The hardest part was trying to cascade the rhinestones ( an idea I copied after seeing it on one of my patients nails)

I used 2 coats of a Sephora color from their tinsel town collection for my base ( sorry I don't know the name, I threw the box out without realizing the mini bottles do not have the color names on them). After waiting for it to dry I painted each nail with a coat of one of my all time favorite colors 'For Audrey' by China Glaze and used pieces of crumpled saran wrap to dab and pick up some of the color. Once that was all dry I gave it a generous top coat of Seche Vite to protect the designs and ensure that my rhinestones will not fall off.

All in all it was a successful first try and I think I will definitely use this technique again. But for now it is freezing and I am off to get all comfy cozy in bed. Happy Monday everyone!

Keep it polished!

<3 Jess

guest nails

Hey all! Hope you had a fabulous Thursday! I know I did! Had a great day with my love...movies, shopping, visiting with family, and nails! I am one lucky girl who has been blessed with a great man...so great he even let me do his nails to keep up with the 31 day challenge! Such a sweetheart: 0)

I originally was going to do a double post today but time got away with me as it often does! So instead I will post both manis on this one post. Let's get started....

Day 2 if the challenge was silver. This is the one that my love graciously lent me his pretty little digits

Look at those little nubbins! :0) 

The silver challenge day was completed with a base coat of unforgettable moments platinium ( this is a polish that if I remember correctly, I picked up at Payless shoe store). The silver stamping was done using cheeky plates CH33 from their summer collection. The stamping polish was Nicole by opi positive energy.

Few notes about this design. For one thing positive energy is one of my favorite stamping polishes. It really covers well and gives me great pigment, if you enjoy stamping this is a great product to have in your collection. Also I am not the greatest stamper ( but I am hoping that practice will make perfect) but I have noticed what its hard to find plates that work easily, consistently, and where all the designed are deeply etched and give a good picture. However I received these cheeky plates for Christmas and the are amazing!!!! I have yet to find a design that doesn't transfer. Love love love them!

That being said lets move on to challenge day 3...gold.

This was difficult for me because I'm not a big gold girl. So it took a little scrounging and I wasn't very creative with the design. Regardless here it is.

I am working on trying to get some better pictures up. These actually have cute little flowers but they do not show well in the pictures. 

For this I used two coats of China glaze fast track followed by one coat of China glaze I herd that. The flowers were done with Essie penny talk, using a dotting tool and toothpick. Accenting them with rhinestones.

Hope you all enjoyed this long winded post! I am off to bed!!!

Until tomorrow.... Keep it polished!

<3 Jess

Challenge anyone?

Who hoooo! Day 2 of blogging! Thanks to any and everyone who has stopped by to check this out. I am trying to figure out exactly how people can follow me....not sure if you have to be on blog spot or not.

Any who, I am on my lunch break at work so I need to make this snappy. I have decided to try doing a 31 day challenge. Day 1 was yesterday and I wasn't able to get my post up in time so I will have to play catch up tomorrow on my day off.

Day 1 of the challenge was black and white. Its still early January and I have yet to do a snowflake mani this season so that's what I went with.

Its a bit messy because I did it super late and was in desperate need of some sleep so please forgive the messy edges and poor lighting.

For this mani I used sinful colors black on black for my base, the design was stamped using bundle monster plate BM 323 and sinful colors snow me white. I added some rhinestones to jazz it up a bit. 

Well that's all for now. Hope everyone is having a great day! Be on the lookout for a double post tomorrow.

Keep it polished!
<3 Jess

New years resolution

 Hello empty blog! It is new years day and I have finally decided to start this blog!! I am still very new to all this so anyone viewing please forgive me! :0)

I started dabbling in nails and nail art a little over a year ago and it has become somewhat of an obsession for me. So for this new years resolution (along with a few other things) I decided to try my hand at blogging. Mostly to document for myself what I have done but also to hopefully meet some lovely talented ladies who share my passion.

If any of you seasoned bloggers out there have any tips for me your feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Now down to business. Seeing as how this is a new years resolution I figured I'd start off by showing my mani from last night. I only had about 30 minutes to do them after work so they are not quite as epic as I had hoped for, but here they are none the less.

For this simple design I used sinful colors black on black for the base, used a make-up sponge to apply Avon's brilliant chrome loose glitter for the tips and did a full rhinestone accent nail.

Hope you all had a happy and safe celebration last night!

Keep it polished!
<3 Jess