Vegas, baby!

Tomorrow morning I'm going to be flying off to Vegas for the first time ever! I am super excited, and for the occasion I wanted to have nails that were a little bit out there but not hard to fix if they start chipping while I'm away. Thankfully my mom bought me one of the Kiss Nail Dress designs that was absolutely perfect! And because they're basically stickers, I can just put a new one on if any of them come off.

I love these so much, I just had to do my toe nails to match. :)

The stickers I used are "Garter" by Kiss Nail Dress, and the toes have a base coat of "Celeb City" by Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear, two coats of LA colours in "Sparkling Diamonds", and the design is done with Konad Special Nail Polish in black.

Now, it's off to Vegas!

Chunky holo and glittery gold

Ever have an idea for a nail design that looks so awesome in your head, but so disappointing on your nails? I had this problem twice over with this manicure. I love the chunky holo glitter in the base colour, but I wanted to put a bit of extra decoration on it. Twice I thought I had come up with a really cool idea, and twice I had to restart because it just didn't look good at all. Finally though I settled on a triangular half moon design in my favourite gold polish.

It was hard to get a good picture of the base colour, the glitter in it went much more yellow in some lights. It's now one of my favourite easy polishes for a pretty looking manicure! I got compliments on it even when I didn't have a design.

Base colour is "Twilight" by Joe Fresh, gold is "Golden-I" by Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear.

Simple, subtle, and swirly

Continuing on the effort to try each of my new Joe Fresh nail polishes, this manicure is focused on "Frost". I had quite a bit of trouble figuring out what to do with this. At first I thought it was supposed to go over other colours to give them a frosted look, but I quickly learned that was not the case. Then I tried to paint it on as a solid colour, but after 3 coats I gave up. I finally stamped a design on over top, and it ended up looking pretty good! I think if I had stuck to 2 coats I could have used it as a sparkly, fairly neutral base colour for french manicure. It still works like this, but it could definitely be improved. Unfortunately the pictures don't really do it justice...there's a lot more sparkle in it than it shows here.

Base colour is Joe Fresh in "Frost", design is Konad Special Nail Polish in white, and the stamp I used was BM 220.

Boston terriers!

I used to be a cat person, but one day I realized that what I really wanted was a dog. As much as I like the fact that cats are fairly low maintenance, I want a pet that loves me and is happy to see me all the time. Cats...not so much. So now I torture myself by watching pick a puppy and checking out all the dogs I can't have right now. I have decided though that when I can get a dog, I want a Boston Terrier. Apparently they are the gentlemen of dogs, and I think they are adorable. Not everyone agrees, but who cares?

So, to try out my new black polish I did a tribute to Boston Terriers! I got many compliments on the paw prints, no one really noticed the dogs on the ring finger though. I was so proud of it too.

The black is "Onyx" by Joe Fresh, the white is by Konad Special Nail Polish, and the background on the ring finger is "French Lingerie" by Rimmel. In case you don't know what a Boston Terrier looks like...

Aren't they adorable? :)

Dandelions...maybe?

I realized today that I am very, very behind on posting my nail designs. I blame it on the fact that my boyfriend was in town and I was distracted, followed by a fairly busy week. So, it's time to catch up!

I bought some new nail polishes fairly recently from Canadian Superstore. I'd heard a lot about the Joe Fresh polishes and since I was there already, I thought I might as well check them out. Just see what colours they have. Instead, I walked away with six nail polishes. Now it's time to try them out! I decided to start out by doing a design that I'd seen on polyvore. It's supposed to be dandelions blowing seeds around, but everyone thought they were birds. Either way, I love how it turned out!

The grey is "Fog" by Joe Fresh, and the black and white are Konad Special Nail Polishes.

Also, to all of you who nominated me for the liebster award, I haven't forgotten! I'm hoping to get to it tomorrow, maybe Monday at the latest. Sorry and thank you again!