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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 🙂 …

Funky Vintage Nail Art—Gelish and Gelcolor

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15 Mar

Funky Vintage Nail Art using soak off gel polish

Studs, glitter, stripes, dots, flowers, leopard=fun!

Tutorial-Funky Vintage Nail Art

These nails turned out super fun! We started with a Brisa Lite base coat and smoothing gel application followed by three color coats of Gelish Seafoam, Gelish Princess Tiara, and Gelish Candyland Yellow with Opi Alpine Snow on the ring and thumbs. The pinky and pointer finger have a coat of Gelish Champagne as well to add a vintage flair. I hand painted all the designs starting with the flowers. …

Spring Glam Nail Art Tutorial–Essie Splash of Grenadine, Essie Good As Gold, Gold Studs, Star Stamping, 22kt Gold Glitter

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13 Mar

This is my sister Mandy probably 12 years ago when we were living together on Main Street…isn’t she a babe! 🙂

Mandy in my kitchen…one of our favorite places to hang out. Still a babe!

These cute nails belong to my big sister Mandy. She came over to my house yesterday to let our kids play and get their wiggles out and I talked her into letting me paint her nails. She has been wanting me to do either gel or acrylic sculpted tips to increase her length …

Spring nails for my grandma Irene–Essie Shop Till I Drop with gold glitter and Seche Vite of course!

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10 Mar

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 …

Tutorial for China Glaze Tart-y For The Party with Grey Ombre and Leopard Spots Nail Art

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08 Mar

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 …

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, …

A sneak peak of Ashley’s next mani—Lavender and grey ombré with cheetah and glitter

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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 …

Sporty nails! China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy, For Audrey, Houndstooth Stamping, Rhinestones–inspired by Mizuno Wave Rider 16’s!

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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 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 …