40 Great Nail Art Ideas – New Years Nails

Ok I admit it, I am phoning it in this year for my New Years Nails. I'm acutally sharing with you what I wore on Christmas, but I figure it works for New Years as well.



Yes these are colored snowflakes, but if you blur your eyes, they could also be colored fireworks! Hahaha, so sorry for phoning it in for this Crumpet's Nail Tarts challenge, but I have family in town and I just have not had a second to do actual New Years nails.



Ok now for the details. The base of this mani is the amazing Painted Polish 2016, which I realize right now is also appropriate for my New Years nails. This is a gorgeous linear holo with silver holo microglitter and beautiful iridescent flakies. This polish has it all, in the shade the flakies shine and in the sun holo comes out to play. Sooooo pretty, couldn't stop staring at this polish.





And for this manicure I broke out the clear stamper, which I purchased from What's Up Nails (super fast shipping, so approve), and stamped various snowflakes in several colors using my Jolie Polish stamping polishes!

So that's all you get from me this New Years, sorry it took me so long to put this up (this was due last week), but I'm getting it in just under the wire. Well for the west coast that is!

Don't forget to check out all the other ladies who actually put some effort into this prompt, unlike me (SOOO sorry!!!).

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The December Destination Duo

Hey everyone, popping in real quick for some swatches of a great duo that is available starting tomorrow.

*Press Samples*

This is the Indigo Bananas and Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Destination Duo inspired by this photo below.



Let's get to the swatches shall we?!









This is Indigo Bananas Light the Way and it is a beautiful chartreuse holo (which leans more yellow on my skin tone). It has a lovely linear holo finish with some gorgeous green shifty flakies which give it a glowing effect. This polish was on the sheerer side, I used two coats for my swatches, but there is slight visible nail line (as is the case with light holos this shade). You may want three coats. Formula is great though, no issues there.





This is Blue Eyed Lacquer Girl Lighthouse on the Lake, a gorgeous dusty blue creme which leans slightly green (but not at all teal). This was almost opaque in one coat, but I used two just to be safe. Dries to a satin finish, so swatches all show with a top coat. Formula was great, a tad on the watery side, but not difficult to work with, just don't overload the brush. There is a note that this stamps, but I did not have my stamping gear out today while swatching, do hope to use it in the future!

I did do two quite art looks with these polishes to give you an idea of how well they pair together (which they do!!!). A funky french and a dotticure!





Now for the purchasing info! This duo will be available in both the Indigo Bananas shop and the Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer shop starting tomorrow Dec. 31 at 3:30 p.m. EST. Each shop will only have a limited quantity of the set of polishes, and at a later date each brand will sell their respective polishes at a normal higher price! So what are you waiting for?! Go grab yourself these pretties at the duo price!!!

Favorite Nail Art Looks of 2015

So I yesterday was my annual favorite polishes of 2015, today is the favorite nail art looks! This year was a great year for my nail art, I'm still growing and I'm very proud of my progress in one year. I'll try to display these in chronological order so you can see the progress too!



Rainbow flakie stripes!!!



Beachy skittle stamping!



Multichrome stamping



Shades of teal



Freehand cherry blossoms



Skittle nails



Dotticure



More great skittle combos



Skittle nails with a crelly glitter combo



Butterfly nails



Clearly I liked skittle nails



Now we move into my love affair with gradients! I'm sure I have a lot of these to share!



Gradient stamping!



Vacation nails, these might have been my most favorite all year.



Although these neon stripes were awesome as well!



As were these bamboo sunset nails!



More glitter gradient skittle nails, combining both my loves!



Nautical themed holo stamping



Coral under the sea nails



Gradients for the win, always.



Ocean shore nails



More great vacation skittles



Bold stiletto nail pairing



One of my first stamping decal looks



Brown lightening



Vinyls and gradients



Half and half nails



Gorgeous fall nail stamping



Classic Christmas red and green



To my first experience with a clear stamper!

So my dear readers, which was your favorite?! Can't wait to see what 2016 has in store for me!!!

Top Polishes of 2015

Hey everyone, time for my top polishes of 2015!

These are in no particular order, here they are, my most favorite polishes of 2015! 12 indie brands, 24 amazing polishes!!!



Literary Lacquers Thermofish



Octopus Party Nail Lacquer Bermuda High



Ever After Polish Jagged Heart



Fair Maiden Polish Mint Succulent



Digital Nails The Dude Abides



Smitten Polish Aqua Opal



Smitten Polish Lazy River



Indigo Bananas Phlogiston Paradise



Octopus Party Nail Lacquer Under the Siege



Indigo Bananas Polish of Unusual Quality (P.O.U.Q.)



Cupcake Polish Berry Good Looking



Glam Polish Road Kill



ILNP Glory



Smitten Polish Something Wicked this Way Plums



Emily de Molly Garnet Fire



Fair Maiden Polish Colors of the Wind



Ever After Polish Stuffed



Ever After Polish Falling



Smitten Polish Monkey Monkey Underpants



Great Lakes Lacquer Those Who Matter



Literary Lacquers Phizzwizard



ILNP Juliette





B Polished Bling in the New Year




Literary Lacquers Leaves of Grass

Did any of these make your list?!