Vintage Grandma gets vintage spring nails by her modern vintage granddaughter
This is my cute Grandma Irene. She has been on this planet for 93 years now! I don’t get to spend a lot of time with her, partly because life is so busy for me and my little family and partly because she is a stubborn homebody who doesn’t like to make house calls. I don’t blame her, if I couldn’t move and think as quickly as everyone else around me I’m not too sure I would want …
I’ve been dying to use this new color from China Glaze’s Avant Garde Collection–a pretty lavender color called Tart-y For the Party. I asked my friend/hand model/cutest girl ever Ashely if I could paint her nails again and thank goodness she agreed 🙂 For this look I used: OPI Base Coat China Glaze Tart-y For the Party (Lavender) China Glaze Dandy Lyin’ Around (Shimmery White) China Glaze Recycle (Medium Grey) OPI Nein! Nein! Nein! Ok Fine! (Dark Grey) Layla Ceramic Effects CL25 (Silver Sparkle) OPI Suzi and the 7 Dusseldorfs …
I can’t wait to try my new Brisa Lite Smoothing Gel! I was supposed to do my sister Mandy’s nails tonight but she passed up her chance for hot yoga….what gives???? 🙂
I’m really excited about the Brisa Lite system and am really crossing my fingers that it’ll perform as described. It claims that your gel polish will hold up for three weeks with the the new system. And the removal is supposed to be fairly easy.
So for professionals—you will use the new Brisa Lite base coat, cure, then the smoothing …
I totally forgot to post a pic of these cute nails I did for my awesome, gorgeous, fun friend Kendra!
Kendra’s Cancun Nails
Pink acrylic sculpted nails with Shellac Tropic and Mani-Q Green 101 with Gold Studs
I love how they turned out! I do a light pink acrylic sculpt with Kendra because she is a nail biter (I was once a biter too!) and then I finish the design with gel polish. Kendra wanted coral and turquoise nails to match her bikinis she is taking with her to Cancun, …
I am releasing this ultra exclusive sneak peak for my next master piece on the lovely Ashley’s nails…..ta da!
Final pictures will be up on my site either Friday night or Saturday afternoon! Check back soon! I am beyond excited for several reasons:
1. I LOVE spending time with Ashley!
2. I can’t wait to use this new polish from China Glaze’s Avante Garde Collection.
3. I am super excited to see how the light grey ombré turns out.
4. It’s going to be a great way to spend a Friday afternoon! Maybe we …
Everyone keeps asking me what I will do with all my free time now that I am not working at the salon anymore so I thought I would compile a list for them. That way I can just tell them, visit my blog and it will describe my day in detail. But just to clarify, I LOVED working at the salon! I love to work in general and earn money. But I have always considered being a stay at home mom a serious job–if I look at it like a …
I painted my nails to match my shoes! A first for me! Hopefully they will be lucky for our volleyball tourney tomorrow in Panaca, Nevada!!!!
I used China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy & For Audrey with OPI Alpine Snow and Black Onyx. The houndstooth stamp is one I bought in Amazon. It went on really well! I was super nervous but love the results!
Wish me luck tomorrow!
Tootles-Anna
Gelish vs Shellac vs GelColor
You can read Part 1 of this article here. I wrote it a little over 2 years ago. Man time flies! It’s been my most popular article and I’ve had readers from all over the world ask me questions about gel polish. I figured I should probably update it because A LOT has happened in two years! Just so you know, I’m a professionally licensed nail tech. I’ve been doing soak off gel polish for a little over two years now. I had a full clientele …
I have three days of work left. All my clients and friends have been asking if I’m excited to be able to stay home with my son. I’ve thought about it a lot and I’ve come to the conclusion that I am totally excited to be with Westin more and be home more, but totally scared of this major life change! There are so many “what if’s” and I don’t handle the unknown well. As I was explaining this to one of my clients she so wisely told me life …
Check out these adorable nails I did for the lovely Jenna. We used Gelish Seafoam, Pink Smoothie, Need a Tan, and Golden Treasure. I hand painted the diamond on her middle finger and mixed loose gold glitter with Golden Treasure in a little dish for the thumb and ring finger patterns. I liked that method a lot because when I put the top coat on the loose glitter didn’t spread all over her nails. I used gold hex glitter for her pinkie that I bought at dollar nail art (there’s …
