Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Dreaming of the Beach!

It's getting so cold here!! Frost on car windows, clouds of breath floating in the air. Winter is definitely coming. So let's think of the beach! 

No, my nails did not just magically grow like 5 mm and change shape. Yes, I still have the claws. I'm finding them... difficult. I can't decide what looks good with the stiletto shape. So I'm gonna post some older manicures while these puppies grow out. 


I LOVED this mani. It's vaguely representative of a beach scene and I thought it turned out perfectly. 

Tutorial! 

Colors used were Zoya Shay for the base,  Zoya Robyn, Essie Bouncer it's me, and Zoya Blu. 

Alrighty yall! I hope you like this mani as much as I did! 

Thanks for reading! 

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Trying a different shape!

I've had square or "squoval" nails pretty much since I started getting into nail art. I like the shape a lot, but I wanted a change. I'm not a huge fan of just rounded nails on myself, so that pretty much leaves stiletto. I figure, what better month to have claw-like nails than October? 

So here's what I came up with: 


I... like it? The stiletto shape is a strange one for me. I can remember the first time I saw it and I thought it was crazy. Like, how do you NOT stab yourself? And I guess I still think that for the long stilettos. But these are short! And maybe cute? 



I do really like this color combination, for sure. It's Zoya Blaze and Manglaze Matte is Murder. The contrast between the glossy sparkle and matte black looks really awesome in person. 




Bonus shot of just Blaze. Such a gorgeous color:

Well, what do you think? Have I been too exposed to the nail art world and these stilettos are crazy? Are they cute?  I need opinions!! 

Thanks for reading!! 

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Last Year's Rocky Horror Nails

So last year (and the year before) I was in a local production of The Rocky Horror Show. I was Magenta. It was insanely fun and an incredible experience for me.

I was pretty into nail art at this point and I decided I was going to do a different red and black design for each week of the production (the whole month of October). And these are those designs. Keep in mind, this was before I even had this blog, so the pictures (and clean up job) are not the best quality.

Onward!

Week one:

These were great because they looked like claws on stage. I remember I actually had a lady come up to me after the show and ask to see my nails.

Week Two:

think this was my first time doing a tape mani! right before I took this one off, I decided to see how it would look mattified: 


I LOVED it mattified, but I've found that if you don't add the matte top coat the same day you do the rest of the manicure, it will pull up the edges of the polish. You can kind of see it in this picture.

Week 3:

Mmmm, sparkly coagulated blood.

And Week 4:



Probably my favorite of the month, and definitely the most time consuming of the 4.

I miss my Rocky family!! This year, a different theater group is doing RHS and we're trying to get a big group of us together to go see it and yell callbacks. I'm very excited for it.

Thanks for reading!!
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