How to do feather nail art with a Metallic Sharpie!

I did another fun feather nail art manicure today for an Instagram contest and love the results! The Instagram contest was a Gold Theme, so after much thought and consideration, I opted for a feather mani because I just LOVE feathers and I love gold! 🙂

I bought the metallic Sharpie’s at Walmart a few weeks ago and really haven’t used them much, but this feather mani is the perfect opportunity to use them. The lines look sharp and severe at first, but when you go over them with the …

Lots of fun nail art!!! Feathers, chevron, houndstooth, glitter!!!

I’ve been doing some fun girls the last few days and wanted to show off their cute nails!

These are my beautiful friend’s Tennilles nails. I love visiting with her and catching up on life! And she always lets me do something fun! 🙂 We used Gelish for this look–I hand painted the chevron stripes and I love them with the gold studs!

These cute nails belong to the lovely, beautiful Cami 🙂 I love love love how these turned out! We did a gold feather on the middle finger, ombré on …

Essie Madison Ave-Hue with Essie Pure Pearlfection, simple flower design, Instagram Nail Art Challenge, and Tabeso!

Essie Madison Ave-Hue with Pure Pearlfection and Nail Art

First off, I bought this Essie color yesterday and I love it! Madison Ave-Hue is a pretty pink/purple with a slight shimmer. The application was flawless with two coats. I applied a coat of Pure Pearlfection over it to give it a little more shimmer and love the results. I did this mani for an Instagram Nail Art Challenge, my first one I will have you know. 🙂 With an Instgram Nail Art Challenge it’s normally a daily challenge to …

Fun Spring Mani–OPI Got a Date To-Knight, OPI Need Sunglasses, Studs, Flowers, and other random thoughts on blogging….

Ashley’s Spring Mani

I can’t believe it has taken me so long to post this fun mani I did on Ashley’s beautiful nails! I kept thinking I was going to Photoshop the pictures….but I just finally gave up on that thought and decided to edit them in iPhoto instead…I promise I will make your hands PERFECT one day Ashley! Even though they are perfect already…well maybe if it weren’t for Crossfit they would be a little more perfect 🙂

I wanted to do a spring mani and I wanted …

My 5 Favorite Nail Products

My Top 5 Favorite Nail Products–Hempz Moisterizer, Fish Oil, Seche Vite, Star Pro Foot File, Soak Off Gel Polish

If your like a lot of people, you buy way too many beauty products. You’ll end up using most of the products once or twice, eventually sticking them in the back of a junk drawer or medicne cabinet, until one day you purge your bathroom throwing away almost all those beauty products you spent far too much of your hard earned money on. I mean, I never do this…ever…but I …

Gelish by Hand and Nail Harmony Passion, Artic Freeze, and Waterfield with Studs and Nail Foils–Bright, Funky Spring Colors!

I love gel polish!

Gelish Passion, Artic Freeze, Waterfield with foils and studs

Funky Spring Nails!

Gelish Passion, Artic Freeze, Waterfield with foils and studs

I needed to do my nails for Easter but have been gardening a lot and doing a lot of my family’s nails so I really needed them to hold up! Therefore, I chose a Gelish Mani for Easter 🙂

I used Passion on my thumb, pinky, and pointer with a coat of Waterfield over it. Love it!

On my middle and ring …

Alpine Snow By OPI GelColor French Ombre

These beautiful nails belong to my beautiful friend Dena who just got home from Hawaii :-))) lucky girl!

We use gel push on her and she usually gets at least four weeks wear time–she has THE best nails EVER!

I applied a base coat, cured it, then painted a generous amount of Alpine Snow on all five finger tips. I then sponged off around the nail bed with a makeup sponge and cured two minutes. I repeated another coat of alpine snow, cured, and then sponged in a generous coat …

Message in a bottle…or a message in a blog….to my previous clients and friends

Consider this my first message in a bottle 🙂

To all my previous clients and co-workers…I miss you. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about you. It’s been over three weeks since my last day working at the salon, yet it seems like just yesterday and years ago all at the same time.

Thank for for giving me the opportunity to serve you for as long as I did…I am so greatful for your patronage.

I hope you have found a nail tech who you love! That is …

Spring Nail Art–Venique with OPI Gargantuan Green Grape and Cinapro Professional Nail Art Dipping Dots

It’s late and I’m laying in bed with race brain going through nail pictures on Instagram and decided to post a few recent pics of some nails….did I mention it’s late? 🙂

I love this venique polish and gargantuan green grape is one of my most favorites! The dots are super fun and easy to work with….there’s a good chance you’ll see them in many more posts to come 🙂

I told you you’d see the dots again! These are my friend Tennilles nails! We used Gelcolor My Chihuaha Bites and Alpine …

OPI Oz Collection–When Monkey’s Fly, I Theodora You, Glints of Glinda–with hand painted stripes and Art Club studs over Brisa Lite Smoothing Gel

Oz Collection by OPI Nail Art

My beautiful sister Mandy stopped by yesterday for a real life official nail appointment. This is an amazing accomplishment for us because we constantly make nail appointments for her that we never keep due to kids schedules or random life interferences. We painted her nails last week and they actually lasted fairly well though, all thanks to the wonderful product Seche Vite!

After she had removed her own polish because I didn’t want to mess up my new navy and mustard yellow mani 🙂 …