Category Archives: Gel Polish

Trendy and Chic Nail Styles–stripes, dots, kisses, studs, hearts & fun!

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07 May

I’ve had the pleasure of doing some beautiful nails the last few weeks for my BFF’s 🙂 In case you are wondering, I get a lot of my inspiration from Instagram. Instagram has to be the number one spot for nail ideas these days. It’s crazy how many nail accounts are on there! I was totally overwhelmed when I first signed up and started following people, but once I got the hang of it and became comfortable on there, I love navigating around and trying to find the styles that …

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

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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 …

Alpine Snow By OPI GelColor French Ombre

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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 …

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

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20 Mar

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 🙂 …

Young Nails Mani-Q Green 101 is the prettiest, most awesome shade of turquoise gel polish EVER!!!

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16 Mar

Young Nails Mani-Q Green 101 is the most beautiful color of turquoise!

I cannot say enough GOOD GREAT WONDERFUL AMAZING things about Young Nails Mani-Q Green 101!!!!! I think I’ve mentioned before you have to be licensed to buy Young Nails….but regardless this is THE MOST AMAZING TURQUOISE GEL POLISH COLOR in the history of turquoise gel polishes! I promise you will not be disapointed!!!!

Mani-Q Green 101 with Ombre fading–Caribbean Blue Nails!

If you are not licensed, find a nail tech who uses Young Nails Mani-Q. If your …

Brisa Lite Smoothing Gel—I bought it and can’t wait to try it!

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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 …

Cancun nails! Acrylic overlay with Shellac Tropix and Turquoise Young Nails Mani Q Green 101

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05 Mar

 

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, …

Gelish vs Shellac vs GelColor, A brief history of soak off gel polish – part 2

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28 Feb

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 …

Gelish Seafoam, Pink Smoothie, Golden Treasure with gold glitter and bling!

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24 Feb

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 …