Fly, Dragon, Fly!

I like dragonflies.

They ride that thin line between completely fascinating me and completely freaking me out. A lot of different insects/arachnids/bugs ride this line for me. They're complex and beautiful, but if one flies in my face I'm gonna scream like a prepubescent boy and run.

Anywho, this mani started out as a "palate cleanser." I was staring at my collection and I didn't really want to wear any of the colors. So I picked out my lone nude (Zoya Shay for anyone wondering. It matches my lily-white skin perfectly) and slapped it on. Then I watched some Fringe, and decided I couldn't just leave it. So I came up with dragonflies.

Short Tutorial:

I hope you like it! Loves to you all!

Rainbow Stripes (boyfriend approved!)

When I showed these nails to my boyfriend he said they were his favorite design so far. So that's cool :)

I don't know if you know this... But I love rainbows. Like, a lot. 

When I was in kindergarten I wanted to change my name to Rainbow, because I thought they were so awesome. So now you have fodder to embarrass me with. But I refuse to be embarrassed! Rainbows are RAD! 

Here are the polishes I used for the gradient: 

Zoya Ali and Robyn, and ORLY Glowstick and Purple Crush

TUTORIAL TIME! 

I'm now realizing that the sponge in this picture is a little misleading. I really did only use those four colors above, but I took the sponge picture after I had used it on a couple fingers so the colors started to blend together to create orange, green, and indigo. 

Anywho, I hope you're all having a loverly day! I went to the Orthodontist today for the first time in a billion years and I think they were honestly surprised to see me. 

Thanks for reading! 

"Why's it called 'Puzzles?'" THAT'S the puzzle!

It's probably too late for me to be making a blog, since I can't come up with anything witty to say, but here we go anyway!

Yay puzzles! I've seen these around the interwebs for a while but I wanted to do some with black outlines, so I decided tape would be the best method.

Colors used are all Zoya: Blu, Robyn, Mira and Marley. 

Here be the tutorial! 

There we go! I hope you like it!

Thanks for reading as always!

Face It Check Check Nail Kit (Aka: first thing I've ever ordered from Korea) Picture Heavy!

(All pictures embiggen)

STORY TIME!

So about a month ago, I came across this very cool nail polish kit.

In this kit, came 3 jelly polishes:

This kit also came with instructions on the back, which may have been more useful if I could read Korean: 

But thanks to graduating Kindergarten, I was able to follow the pictures! 

And I lived happily ever after! 

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So yeah. This is a fun kit. I ended up using striping tape for the white line, which I think was a good and bad decision. Good: the white line is straight and awesome. Bad: it makes it more painfully obvious how bad I am at free handing straight lines.

Here be a tutorial: 

By the time I had figured out how I was going to accomplish this mani and taken all the pictures along the way, it was late and I was tired. So I thought, "What if I use a sponge for the lines, like I would a gradient, only don't mix the colors?"

You can say it. I'm a genius. 

Quite a different look, but significantly faster. I think it looks... vaguely watercolored? I like it a lot. Possibly more than the original, but that might be because it looks neater. The sponge looked like this:

Both of these looks could very likely be done with any jelly polishes, but this kit was only ten bucks, $13 with shipping, and I didn't have any jelly polishes in these colors. 

If you're interested in buying the kit, I got mine here. They also sent me a whole bunch of beauty samples AND a personalized thank you note, which was unexpected and pretty rad. 

Anywho, I hope you are all doing well! It's finally getting warm here and I'm excited! 

Thanks for reading! 

There's No Place Like Home!

I'm super proud of these nails, guys. It was actually quite easy and I love how they turned out.

Dorothy Nails! I've been wanting to try Gingham print for a while but all of the ones I looked at weren't neat enough for me (it bugs me when the lines aren't straight. Does that make me anal retentive?). So I used tape and sponge!

By sponging on one layer of the blue color, it makes it a little less opaque than just the pure color from the brush. Then when you sponge on the next layer after applying the perpendicular tape, it makes the perfect gingham squares!

The red I used is China Glaze Ruby Pumps (because, duh. You have to). The white is Zoya Purity and the blue is Zoya Jo.

Tutorial!

Yay! I hope you like these as much as I do. Like I said, super easy!! Even if you just did the gingham it would be adorable in any color.

Thanks for reading!