Birthday Ocean-Inspired Nails

Good morning, dear readers! I hope you've already enter my birthday giveaway! For today's post, I wanted to share the ocean-inspired manicure I created for my birthday. Let's check it out!

I had something far more elaborate planned for this manicure, but I was met with one fail after another. I wanted to do some stamping, but the colours didn't pop quite as much as I wanted or some of the polishes just aren't cut out for stamping. I decided to forgo the stamping and add different water decals than what is shown, but I discovered they were far too transparent with the blue background. In the end, I decided to play it simple since the more complex design just didn't seem to want to come together for me.

To create this look, I used Girly Bits Cosmetics Get Weaponized and Alter Ego Nail Enamel Ft. Knox Quality Control. I also used shell and the starfish water decals from Born Pretty Store and crab and sea turtle nail tattoos from Sinful Colors.

I love the ocean and the beach, and even though this isn't exactly what I had in mind, I'm really enjoying my birthday manicure!

I hope you enjoyed today's post, and I hope you have a wonderful day!

XO!

Birthday Giveaway!

Good morning, dear readers! I wanted to do something to celebrate my birthday, which is tomorrow, so what could better than a giveaway where I give one of my readers something? I couldn't decide if I wanted to giveaway holographic polishes or multichromes, so I decided to include both!

One winner will receive Colors by Llarowe polishes in Show Me Da' Money!, Show Me Again!, and Show Me the Love! and Cupcake Polish shades in It's Not What You Pink, It's Our Slime Now, and She Wears Short Shorts.

All the details on how to enter and the rules are in the rafflecopter widget below. Good luck!

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Simple and Bright Tropical Nail Art

Good morning, dear readers! In my previous post, I shared Play Love Laugh Orangecicle. I decided to use it as a base for some nail art since it was already on my nails and to see if I could like it more than I did. Check it out!

The first thing I have to say is that the 5 free vegan base of Play Love Laugh did not play will with the base of Sally Hansen Instra-Dri Peachy Breeze. I wanted the gradient to be very smooth, and to accomplish the look, I started out with two strips of polish next to each other. I then took a toothpick and blended along the lines where the polishes touched, and it turned into something a little thick and goopy. I decided to try to sponge it on quickly, and rather than smoothing out, it just made it into a disgusting mess on my nails. It actually was far more textured looking than these photos show, but my top coat smoothed out the textured hot mess. Because I had committed to creating a look, I continued with the rest of my nails. I added Nail Tattoos by Sinful Colors that I picked up last summer at my Walgreens that I never got the chance to wear until now.

Overall, I'm feeling "meh" about this look. I think if the gradient turned out better I would really like it, but the blockiness of the colours, not to mention the gross mess I first started with, just turned me off from the get go. I think I'm going to have to try this look again using polishes that are more compatible with each other since it is a fun and bright look for the beach!

Until next time dear readers, I hope you have a wonderful day!

XO!