What's Up Nails Spring Stamping Plate and Water Decals

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Hello everyone! I usually plan out the color schemes of my reviews better, but somehow every mani here turned out to be green! I think my brain was receiving subliminal messages and I just had to go with this Spring theme full on. I have one stamping plate, two water decals, and a tweezer from What's Up Nails to share with you. Let's take a look..

UberChic Beauty Love & Marriage 04 + Collection 21 Stamping Plates

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I've got nail art today!! It's been so long and I've missed it. Did you miss it too? I reviewed the UberChic Beauty Love & Marriage 04 and Collection 21 stamping plates. There were so many great images on all of them I had a difficult time choosing! I hope you like what I've come up with. Let's take a look..

UberChic Beauty Collection 19 and Fairytale 02 Stamping Plates Review

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Hello lovelies! Can you believe it's been over a month since I last wrote an UberChic Beauty review post? It's like the time has moved so slowly and yet so quickly at the same time. If you missed my one in June you should check it out (here), it was one of my favorites. To be honest I have more UCB products to review but they will have to wait a little longer while I work on getting caught up. Trying to blog while momming ain't no easy task! I'm hoping that once school starts I'll have things under control. Let's take a look..

31DC2016 Day 30: Staggered Gradient

Yassssss! The 31 Day Challenge is so close to being over! I wish I could say this month has just flown by but I felt like the end would never come. I've been looking forward to this day for another reason though. Today's prompt is "inspired by a tutorial" and I've anxiously waited to try this tutorial by My Simple Little Pleasures.

31DC2016 Day 24: Lonesome Dove

Hello again! For the 31 Day Challenge's Day 24 "inspired by a book" prompt I went with one of my favorite books, "Lonesome Dove". This epic western novel has the richest of characters, a compelling plot, and a deeply evocative atmosphere. It's one of those books I want to read again and again!

31DC2016 Day 10: Quatrefoil Gradient

Hello lovelies! It's already day 10 of the 31 Day Challenge! Can you believe it? Only 21 more days to go.. Aye yai yai. Deep breaths.. I can do this! Today's mani is inspired by the "gradient" prompt. I cannot believe how crisp and clean the quatrefoil design came out with my vinyl stencils. I think that may be the best I've ever done before. As the Challenge goes on I keep thinking, now THIS mani is my favorite so far, and today's nails make me think that once again. 

Paint All The Nails Presents Animal Print

Hey ladies! It's already late in the day, but I just couldn't help joining in the party for this month's Paint All The Nails linkup. I had something a little more elaborate planned originally for the animal print theme, but I just haven't had enough time to make it happen. I recently swatched the new Celestial Cosmetics Pun-tastic Collection (review post coming soon!) and each polish has an animal pun name. I couldn't pass up the chance to use them in my animal print nail art!

Paint All The Nails Presents Monochrome

Yay! Today I am participating once again in the monthly Paint All The Nails linkup! There are always so many amazing looks and it's a great way for me to challenge myself. The theme we chose is "monochrome" and I just knew I would enjoy creating my look. Some of my very favorite looks I've done are monochrome (top two favorite here and here).

China Glaze Lite Brites Butterflies

Hiya everyone! I have some bright and bold butterfly wing nails for you today. I recently ordered the entire China Glaze Lite Brites summer collection (I never buy whole collections!) and am having fun playing with these polishes. I will have swatches of the collection in the coming week. But for now, nail art!

Easter Eggs and Chevrons

Hello ladies! How is your start of Spring going so far? Yesterday was absolutely lovely and I am so looking forward to more beauty in the blossoming of flowers and trees. Since Easter is only one week away, I thought it was time to bust out some themed nail art.

Blue Cirque Reciprocal Gradient

Hello everyone! Today I have some quick nail art for you. For this mani I had the idea in mind to do a vertical reciprocal gradient using  X pattern stencils. I tried it on my other hand first and realized you couldn't really tell what was going on at all. So I tried a different approach, clipping off some of the Xs. I'm still not sure if it would have been better to remove some of the vinyl from the sides instead of the top. I guess I should have done more experimenting first. But the way that I went with made a big enough difference that I liked how it turned out. I hope you do too!

40 Great Nail Art Ideas: Aqua Or Turquoise + Gradient

Hello! And welcome to this week's 40 Great Nail Art Ideas challenge! The theme is aqua or turquoise and my prompt was water marble, er, I mean gradient. I was stumped on ideas of what to do with my gradient until I came across this photo on Instagram. Yes! How perfect is that? I have been wanting to try out this water marble over a gradient look for ages, but kind of forgot that I did. I was so glad for the excuse to finally give it a try. What do you think? Now I want to WATER MARBLE ALL THE GRADIENTS!! Kidding, this actually takes so much time (I did a separate marble for each nail). But doesn't it look so prettieee?

40 Great Nail Art Ideas Challenge: 3 Shades Of Purple + Geometric

Hello everyone! I am excited about today's nail art because it is part of a challenge that I have just joined in on. This is my inaugural post for the Crumpet's Nail Tarts 40 Great Nail Art Ideas challenge. The idea behind the challenge is that everyone gets the same prompt (today's is "3 shades of purple") and then your assigned a more specific prompt out of the list of 40+ ideas (I was assigned "geometric". I like how structured it is, and yet there's still plenty of room for interpretation.

So I would like to tell you more about my mani and so on but this is proving to be a bit difficult at the moment. I woke up this morning and found my computer won't turn on! I made the unfortunate choice of leaving the writing until the morning. I'm just glad I was able to edit and include the photos last night! Anyway writing this on my phone is proving to be a challenge as I don't really use it much in the first place. So enjoy the pictures!

A England Gradient Snowflakes

My first nail art of the new year! Well actually I did this mani about three weeks ago but haven't had any time to edit photos and write a post. I thought I was mostly prepared for the holidays but as usual I was wrong. Now that things have chilled out a little I am hoping to be more active on my blog!

This was the first time using my new A England Wuthering Heights and Cathy. I had swooned over photos of these polishes for months. Then I finally bought them and it still took a few weeks to try them out. Let me tell you, they did not disappoint! I'm still so, so in love. I had two different ideas for this mani, so I decided to try them both. 

Glitzy Rainbow Gradient With Polish Pusher

Hola Amigas!
How are you all this fine Monday? Most everyone in my household is sick right now. So what better time to post this bright and sparkly rainbow mani? I did this about three weeks ago, it's about time I share it!

31DC2014 Day 10: Idea of Happiness Gradient

Hey everyone! It's already day ten of the 31 Day Challenge! I have been feeling pretty good and thought that maybe this year's Challenge would be much easier. Then I did today's mani and realized that this was the same point in the Challenge as last year that I started stressing out and losing sleep. Oh well, I knew what I was in for! 

Since I did a gradient mani for yesterday's Rainbow prompt, I didn't wan't to do another similar one for today's gradient prompt. Instead I did a design that I have been wanting to do for months, I just hadn't found the right time for it. My inspiration was the cover art for Van She's Idea of Happiness album.

31DC2014 Day 09: Rainbow Sparkle Gradient

Hello lovelies!
Okay, I need to begin by saying that I completely love this manicure! I think it's gorgeous and I should be completely satisfied with it. But... the only problem is that I had bigger plans for it. Thank goodness I had the foresight to photograph it "just in case" I completely muffed it up. I had this amazing water marble design in mind that I couldn't execute for the life of me. I spent 2-3 hours trying to make it work before I eventually gave up. I finally came to the conclusion that with 22 more days left of the challenge, I need to hold on to my sanity while I still can.

Southwestern Wedding Anniversary Nails

Last Saturday my husband and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary! Each year I give myself a nice pat on the back for making it this far. Yay for us!

Last year's anniversary nails were more soft and romantic. This year I went with colorful and graphic. Our wedding colors were blue and orange. It's one of my favorite combinations because I love blue, and I love bright colors!

Cheeseburger In Paradise

Hello everyone! Today is a special day for Jimmy Buffett fans! I first heard the song "Cheeseburger in Paradise" while listening to my roommate's Jimmy Buffett cd. I can't remember much more of that cd because I think I would just put this one on repeat.  It's so totally ridiculous that it's impossible not to love! I've been wanting to do this for a while now and when I saw that The Lacquer Legion's June nail art prompt was "On Holiday", I knew it was the perfect fit!

Glitzy Gradient Tips

Remember a couple weeks ago when I did my Glitzy Pinterest Nails? I said that you would probably see more combinations of these polishes in the future. Well it didn't take me long to do another one. My idea was to do a gradient with the cream and lilac colors. I knew it would be subtle as in, so-subtle-the-photos-don't-show-it, but I did it anyway. I still am working on my glitter gradients. I knew it would be hard with this polish because the glitter is so dense. But I managed! I love the sweet and girly party look with these. Even if I wasn't invited to any party...