What an Ordeal.

Oh, this manicure. So I did this about an hour before I had to leave for a bridesmaid dress fitting. I threw on some seche vite and thought all would be fine.

Aw, it's so pretty. 

Surely, nothing can go wrong! 

Turns out, even Seche Vite couldn't help me. The ends were just too thick. By the end of the fitting my nails were a MESS. I had to go to work right after, so there was nothing I could do, but the polish was still wet enough that I could kind of scrape it off. Which, because I'm one of those people that can't leave things alone, I of course did.

The cherry on top was I broke two of my nails at work, so now I've filed them all down super short. But hey! I redid this mani on my new little shorties.

At least it still looks cute on short nails. Even if the shape is all messed up on my middle finger. How appropriate that I was gonna call this the "silver lining manicure."

Anywho, Tutorial! I made this when I was clearly too tired to be making things and forgot to place the 2. in the corner of the picture before I saved it. So, ya know.. Good Job, Coralee.

Oh, btw: Colors are Zoya Blu, a-england excalibur, and Zoya Purity.

Thanks for reading as always :)

Pastel Gradient

Time for some spring colors!

This is Zoya Sweet and Blu. Blu is such a beautiful color. It's the perfect baby blue color :)

Bonus Tutorial!

There we go. Not terribly original but I like it. I needed something pastel and spring and this fit the bill.

Thanks for reading!

Bi-textural Chevrons (With Picture Tutorial!)

A co-worker friend requested I do chevrons. I've never done them before and they were on my list, so I figured, why not?

Here's what I came up with.

This is a-england St. George (I seem to be on a St. George kick) and Zoya Nyx. Nyx is from Zoya's newish line of liquid sands called Pixie Dust. It dries to a gritty, glittery, glorious texture.

I love mixing textures. I think it really adds another dimension to manicures. Here's a big pic to zoom in on all that glittery goodness:

And here's a picture tutorial!

You will need:
Two contrasting colors (or less contrasty if you want a subtle effect)
Striping tape (or scotch tape cut in very thin strips)
Scotch Tape

That's it! I hope you like it! I'm recovering from a very annoying cold, so I'm a little brain dead. No witty commentary from me this week, I'm afraid.

Thanks for reading!

Don't Look at Me, I'm Naked!

So I took off my polish the other day and realized my nails had gotten crazy long for me.

Talons! Claws! The Horror! Actually, I was pretty proud of myself. My nails tend to break pretty quickly around this length. But alas, knowing that fact, I filed them down to a more manageable length.

My St. Paddy's Day marble is still going strong. I'm debating taking it off and doing something else for tomorrow. Maybe.. I have a couple hours to myself right now. We'll see.

Anywhoozle, thanks for reading!

St. Patrick's Water Marble

Yup. It's been a while. I keep going back and forth on whether I want to move my blog here or not. It seems like most of the big-name blogs are on Blogger, and the interface is easier to work with for me. It's probably better to do it now than later.

Okay, I've decided. Welcome to my Blogger Blog!

Here's my second ever water marble for St. Paddy's! (Click any pic to embiggen)

The thumbs are clovers!

Yay! So I think I solved my water issue. I'm using room temperature distilled water and the polish is spreading beautifully. Yeah I have to buy it by the gallon, but I'm just using a little at a time and it's worth it to have more detailed marbles.

|The polishes used here are a-england St. George (dark teal) and CG Running in Circles (emerald glitter). I've discovered that the a-england polishes spread REALLY well but marbling uses so much polish that I don't think I'll use them again. a-england is too expensive and beautiful to waste.

I'm really happy with these. I wanted to do clovers on all of my nails but it was surprisingly difficult to get the clovers small enough to fit on my thumbs, much less my teeny tiny pinky nails.

Well, I hope that these pictures count as a decent come back. Tonight I'm going to see Flogging Molly in concert and I'm SUPER EXCITED! They will surely get me in the mood for green beer.

Thanks for reading!