Hoppy Easter

I know, I'm cheesy. It's almost Easter, so I decided to do some bunny nails to be festive.

I started out with two coats of NYC Lexington Yellow. Then I painted on the little bunny heads with Sally Hansen French Manicure Natural White. 

For the eyes and the whiskers I used Pure Ice Black Out and for the noses and the ears I used Stripe Rite Pink.

The last little bunny fell victim to my topcoat and got all smeary. Poor little guy.

For the most part, I'm really happy with how these turned out. They were a simple, easy design, but still cute!

Here are my nails with a cute little chick ornament my mom gave me in my Easter basket!

I hope everyone has a lovely and relaxing Easter :)

Down Here In the Deep Blue Sea

These nails were designed specifically for The March Crumpet Amateur Nail Contest.

The theme was blue so I thought perfect, I've been wanting to do oceany nails for a while now!

Obviously I had to find a way to incorporate pink into this design ;) No, but really, I thought some jellys would be a perfect way to say 'ocean' instead of 'blue gradient'!

The colors used for this gradient are Love & Beauty Blue, Maybelline Color Show Navy Narcissist, and Nina Pro Ulta Blu Blaze. Our lovely jellyfish friends were done with Stripe Rite Pink, a dotting tool and Sally Hansen French Manicure Natural White along with Sinful Colors Time Off.

I feel like some of their eyes got a little wonky, but hey, it adds character! 

I'm a little bit (a lot) in love with these nails, and I hope everyone voting in the contest will be too!! Thanks for coming by to check 'em out :)

Teal Chevron Tip Nails

I'm actually kind of confused about what chevron nails are, but I'm pretty sure that these are chevron tip. Google wasn't really helpful in my quest to find out.

If they're not, sue me. (And let a sister know what chevron nails are!)

I have been loving teal lately. I think it's because Spring is finally here, so I'm going a little teal crazy!

I started this manicure off with two coats of teal (Julep Daphne).

It looks super blue in this picture, it's more green in person!

After my base polish was completely dry, I applied scotch tape in a V and painted on some Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Golden.

After that had dried, I freehanded the white using Sally Hansen French Manicure Natural White.

These nails are simple and cute, and satisfy my craving for Spring styles!

Thanks for reading!

Pink Stars

Even though I was lazy and didn't post over Spring Break, I still did my nails. (I mean, obviously!)

My obsession with pink definitely shows in my nail art.. I can't help it, really!

I started this manicure out with two coats of Sinful Colors Easy Going. Then I freehanded the stars with Stripe Rite Pink.

These were super easy to do and I love the way they turned out. Definitely going to do stars in a different color again. 

I don't know if any color can top pink though ;)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I'm Irish in every sense of the word. My last name is Kelly and my mom's maiden name is O'Brien.

So you know I had to do some St. Patty's Day nails to celebrate!

If you feel like you've seen these nails before, it's because I got my inspiration from Adventures in Acetone!

For my base I used two coats of Revlon Posh.

The other colors used for the rainbow were Revlon Raven Red, NYC Lexington Yellow, Stripe Rite Green, Love & Beauty Light Blue, and Maybelline Color Show Amethyst Ablaze.

The pot of gold was done using Sinful Colors Time Off and gold microbeads from Michael's.

I love how these came out, I'm going to try to preserve them for a couple of days!

Hope everyone has a fun and safe St. Patrick's Day!!

Vintage Dots and Flowers

I'm on Spring Break and I have been enjoying it to its fullest! So much so that today is the first day I've turned on my computer in almost a week.

Last night I checked my email and realized that I had missed Polish Days! Luckily, I can still submit my design, even though I'm late!

For this totally adorable vintage design, I started out with two coats of Pure Ice Black Out.

Then using a dotting tool, I added rows of dots with Sally Hansen French Manicure Natural White.

For the roses, I threw on some dots using Sephora by OPI Casanova Is So Into Me and then added some accent with Stripe Rite Pink and Stripe Rite Green for the leaves.

I'm so pleased with how these turned out, I love vintage designs! I think I did a pretty good job for them being so last minute.

Thanks for stopping by to check them out! :)

And if you've got some extra time check out all the other talented bloggers who participated in Polish Days:

Confetti Funfetti

Well... I tried to do the pattern again from my Accidental Awesomeness post.

I think it still needs some work, but I'm definitely improving! And even though they're not perfect, they're still cute.

Is anyone starting to see the pattern?! I hope so :) 

These nails are colorful and fun, and they remind me of confetti or maybe funfetti cake, hence the name of this post.

I started these babies out with two coats of Revlon Gray Suede.

In case you're not a regular reader and haven't seen my 10,000 swatches of Gray Suede!

I used a small dotting tool to put on Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Twisted Pink, NYC Lexington Yellow, and Nina Pro Ulta Blu Blaze.

My new topcoat did me dirty and smeared my middle finger. I guess that's really my fault for being too impatient, but let's just blame the topcoat!

I will conquer this pattern. It's going to happen, just you wait and see!

Hope everyone's having a good week so far :)

3 Cheers for Black, White and Pink!

I meant to post these nails yesterday, but I found out I got into my major so I was too busy being excited about and celebrating that that I forgot!

I haven't been having much inspiration for nail art lately, too many other things on my mind I guess, so I just went with a simple design for these nails.

I started out with two coats of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Twisted Pink.

Then I taped off half my nail and painted on Pure Ice Black Out. For the white stripes I just freehanded them with Sally Hansen French Manicure Natural White.

Since my edges were a little messy, I added a line of Milani Art of Gold to clean up the look a little.

I also love the sparkle Art of Gold added to this manicure!

I also decided to try a new topcoat because my Seche Vite always gets tacky before I've finished the whole bottle. I got Sally Hansen Insta-Dri which doesn't dry quite as fast as Seche Vite, but so far I'm really liking it!