Quickie!

Sorry guys! I haven't posted anything today or yesterday. I've been stressed to the max. Between going back and forth to the hospital for my paw paw, trying to wash/dry/pack clothes for the Tennessee trip (which is hopefully still on), and losing power yesterday-I haven't had much time to get on blogger for a post! Much less paint my nails! However, I have been wearing the same polish for a couple days and managed to get some pictures. I'll post that for you now.

I got the inspiration from Dees Polish Endeavors, I thought her giraffe nails were adorable! I only had time to do my accent nail though. Even though I would've loved to do the giraffe print on all. I used 'Pop Champagne' from ALDO as a base. Pop Champagne is kind of a frosted metallic champagne color. It isn't gold, and it's not silver or bronze. I honestly don't know how to explain it! It wasn't too bad though because you couldn't really make out brush strokes in the polish-which I like. On my accent nail I used my black Art Deco striper polish. I just made random geometric shapes :)

Ohh and btw, please excuse the band-aids that are on the bottom of the bottle! Haha. When I first brought this polish home, I must've beat it around in the car because the bottom of the bottle was missing a piece of glass and was really sharp!



Name shot. Haha.



My giraffe accent nail.

 I hope you liked them! It would've been much cuter with bright colors but i'd been doing kind of wild nails lately so I wanted to tone it down with a neutral color. The giraffe print was an after thought, but I like it!

Also! I'm going tomorrow after work to get a MUCH NEEDED pedicure. Any ideas on a color I should go with?

XOXO

Newspaper Nails-Attempt #1

Sorry for the late post! I'm behind because my mom thought she lost her purse today-which had my camera in it-so I wasn't able to upload the pictures of my nails until just now. Luckily, she found her purse!! Although I was kind of looking forward to getting a new camera out of it ;)

Anyways!! This was my first time attempting newspaper nails, and they didn't come out tooo bad. However, the top coat smeared the ink which kind of ruins the point. I started with two coats of Star Dune by Aldo. And I realize that most people do newspaper nails with a grey base but I don't have any really light grey colors. Plus the whole newspaper part was an after thought. I was originally just wanting a nude mani-and Star Dune is my favorite nude color! After I did the two coats of that, I cut little pieces that were about the size of my nails from the newspaper. Then, I poured some alcohol into the cap from the alcohol bottle. I placed a piece of newspaper onto one nail at a time and dabbed a finger from the opposite hand into the alcohol then pressed and held it onto the newspaper nail. This seemed to work better than submerging the whole piece of newspaper into alcohol and trying to get the words to come off on my nails. Sorry I don't have pictures of all the steps!





Star Dune from Aldo

 


See how the ink is smeared? :(

 


They're all smeared. But look at my ring finger! It was a little man! Haha.

  So that's all for tonight! Any suggestions on how to NOT smear the ink? Also, has anyone tried the polish from Aldo? I have 4 of them. Love 'em!

XOXO