Ugly Christmas Sweater Nails

Hey hey hey everyone! Today I've got the busiest, most obnoxious red and green nails to share with you! All in the holiday spirit!



There is SO much going on in this look, I kind couldn't actually wear it out (I usually do wear my looks out, this one was just too much). So let's start with the gorgeous bases. The red is Dreamland Lacquer Out, Damned Clot! and the green is Literary Lacquers Leaves of Grass. Perfect Christmas red and green holos if I do say so myself!



Now lets get to the stamping specifics. Double stamping for the win always, but seriously, too much red and green! Anyway the first layer is KBShimmer Eyes White Open, my go-to stamping white polish. The top layer was Painted Polish Woodland Whimsy. The stamping plate on this was Bundle Monster BM-S215.



Once again this nail started with a layer of KBShimmer Eyes White Open. Then I broke out my Octopus Party Nail Lacquer Universal Loner from the first Creme a la Mode box to stamp the red on top. The image was from an old Winstonia W120 from a bundle I got a long time ago.



So these are bright and obnoxious, but I'm sure Christmas is like that for a lot of people so this is an apt depiction, no?

Anyway, I've got a few more holiday looks I hope to get up before Christmas, so stay tuned!

The Pines at Midnight Nail Art

Hey everyone, how are you all doing?! I hope you're well. My life has been super busy as of late, between work, Sharks games and volunteering at a Christmas tree lot, I've had zero time for nail art, which makes me sad. This is the perfect time of year for festive nail art, and I've zero chances to create something special.

But today I'm sharing with you a look I created earlier in the fall when I visited Lake Tahoe, quite possibly my favorite place on earth. Since pine trees are slightly seasonal, I thought I would share these now.



I call this look The Pines at Midnight, because just look at the gorgeous sky scattered with stars.



Anyway to get this look, I started with a base of ILNP Interstellar, which is the perfect name for this polish since it basically is the night sky! It is a multichrome that shifts from teal to indigo with scattered holo pieces, which totally look like stars to me. I think this is opaque in three easy coats.



To create the trees and their shadows, I broke out my UberChic plate 2-02 and used Painted Polish Midnight Mischief and Essie No Place Like Chrome and a clear stamper to do layered stamping.



I really liked this final look, really reminds me of a cold winter sky. The high here in the Bay Area is 53 degrees today, and for California that is mighty cold. So this look seems appropriate for today.

Now concerning holiday nails – what do you think I should create – once I get an evening to myself?!

Fall Leaves Nail Art Extravaganza!

Since holiday nails are just around the corner, I needed to get all my fall leaves manis into one quick post!



Fall colors and nail art are just my absolute favorite so I just had to purchase the UberChic Beauty Lovely Leaves plate and create all the fall manis! So here we go! Since all the looks are made with the same plate, I'll just focus on the polishes and techniques used in each mani.





I kicked off the season with this beautiful look. The base of this mani is Illyrian Polish Blue Moon. I used a clear stamper to create this double stamping look using an Essie polish (the purple) and Jolie Polish Orange Dahlia Flower stamping polish.





For the base of this one I did a gradient using Dreamland Lacquer Red Jamie and Dreamland Lacquer Sassenach. For stamping I used Kiko Melon, a polish I picked up in Europe a few years ago.





This next look has a base of Fair Maiden Polish Throwin' Elbows (sorry not available anymore) with a layer of ILNP Glory (flakies) on top. Then I used my MoYou London Pro Plate 1 and KBShimmer Eyes White Open to stamp the lines. Then I used a clear stamper an created a decal on the stamper which I later used for placement. I filled the leave image in with Smitten Polish (now Dreamland) The First Lobster, one of my all time favorite polishes, but is no longer available.





For this look I began by painting my pointer, middle and pinky nails with Painted Polish Tide Pool Teal and I painted the thumb and ring finger with Color Club Cosmic Fate. Then I used the opposite polishes to stamp on the images.





For this look I started with a base of ILNP Greatness and then stamped the image using Color Club Beyond.





And last but not least, we have my favorite of the bunch. This is featuring Fair Maiden Polish Shadow of Your Heart as a base, more stripes from my MoYou London 01 plate, and leaves colored in with Fair Maiden Polish Roaming Fire. I used a clear stamper to create and place the leaves on the nail.

And that is it everyone, quick and easy, but some of my favorite looks and polishes of the year. I'm dying to know, which are our favorites?!

The Indie Shop Nails

Hey everyone, I'm headed to The Indie Shop this weekend and I'm so totally excited I did nails in honor of the big day!





This look was completed using all Painted Polishes (one of the vendors at The Indie Shop)! The gradient is made using Venice Beach Babe (part of the last Indie Shop trio) and Haute Parisian Nights (part of this year's indie shop trio).



The base of the nail polish stamp is made using Painted Polish 2016 and the bottles are using the same two polishes as the gradient. Excited I finally had an excuse to break out my nail polish bottle stamp from my UberChic Beauty Collection 7!



I'm super pleased with these nails and very excited about tomorrow. I'm going solo (as my bestie is working), so if you see me, please come and say hello! I would love to meet you!

Painted Polish Indie Shop Trio and Gobble 'til You Wobble Collection

So this past weekend I went over to a friend's place to help her ahead of The Indie Shop this weekend (which I am so excited to be going to). Anyway, I got access a little early to these beautiful polishes debuting at The Indie Shop this weekend and so I had so much fun playing with them and I wanted to share them with you ahead of the festivities this weekend.



These polishes will be available first at The Indie Shop in Torrance this weekend, but again online for those who couldn't come at 11 a.m. PST Nov. 10 in the Painted Polish Shop.

First up we have the Parisian Indie Shop Trio - a lovely grouping of a glitter bomb, crelly and ultra holo!









This is Painted Polish Joie di Vivre. This is a gorgeous glitter bomb consisting of six different glitters – hot pink, light pink, sky blue, turquoise, copper and gold! The polish itself was pretty opaque in two coats, but I added a third for good measure. Check out out the depth of that sparkle!









This is Painted Polish La Vie Est Belle. Another perfect pairing to this trio. This is a beautiful mix of hot pink, light pink, sky blue, turquoise, copper and gold glitters in a white crelly base. Painted Polish just creates the most gorgeous glitter crellies! This was two easy coats for opacity.









And last but not least in this trio is Painted Polish Haute Parisian Night. This is a gorgeous hot pink ultra holo – which has a linear finish but also matching microglitter too. I just love Painted Polish ultra holos, they are always so bright and full of rainbows!

Next I have the Painted Polish Gobble 'til You Wobble Collection, an ode to Thanksgiving. This color spectrum is some of my favorite nail polish colors and I think anyone who loves fall will just absolutely love this collection.









First up we have Painted Polish Parades & Pumpkins. This is a lovely lighten golden leaning orange microglitter holo combination. There are different sized holo microglitter floating in a sea of matching holo pigment. The result is a gorgeous sparkle party on the nail. This was opaque in two easy coats, but dried down a bit textured so you might want an extra layer of top coat.









This is Painted Polish Cider Season. This is a lovely brick red microglitter. This polish is beautiful holo microglitter floating in a sea of brick red jelly polish. This is very much like other Painted Polish microglitters, a gorgeous mixture color and sparkle. Despite it's jelly base, this was opaque in two coats with a slightly textured finish – will probably need two coats of top coat.

This gorgeous polish is Painted Polish Feasts & Football. It has the same finish as Parades & Pumpkins – microglitter holo combo. This has a gorgeous brown color to the sparkle, definitely does remind me of football so the name totally works. This was opaque in two easy coats, but dried down a bit textured so you might want an extra layer of top coat.

Now onto the gorgeous stamping one-coater cremes! This is Painted Polish Stamped in Sweet Potato. This is a gorgeous muted sophisticated clay-like orange creme polish. And I'm not kidding about the one coat thing, this polish is like fall in a bottle. And I've stamped it over Feasts & Football, which is a little subtle, buy in the macro you can really see how opaque this polish is, perfect for stamping!!!

Last but not least we have Painted Polish Stamped in Chocolate. This one is a stunning dark chocolate brown creme polish, opaque in one awesome coat. And I stamped a design over Parades & Pumpkins and it created such a stunning look. 

This five-piece Gobble 'til You Wobble Collection is a stunning grouping of gorgeous fall colors that totally remind me of the Thanksgiving holiday. These will first be available at The Indie Shop this weekend and then in the Painted Polish online shop at 11 a.m. PST Nov. 10