Harry Potter Manicure!!!

Hello! For this manicure, I was inspired by Cris over at Let Them Have Polish . I did change it up a little bit though :)

I put little shields in each house's colors on my nails and then a HP symbol on my thumb. I just used tape to block off the nails for the shields and both hands really only took me about 2 hours to do. I won't go into details for each nail but here's a rundown of the polishes that I used.
Pinky - Hufflepuff - Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Mellow Yellow, Love My Nails in Black Rage
Ring - Ravenclaw - Pure Ice Fast Lane (bronze), Zoya Tallulah
Middle - Slytherin - China Glaze Jolly Holly (green), Zoya Trixie
Pointer - Gryffindor - Orly Solid Gold (matte but I added topcoat), Zoya Kristi
Thumb - HP symbol - NYC Skin Tight Denim Creme with Nubar 2010 over it and HP with a white striper
I also used CND Toughen Up base coat and Sally Hansen Insta-Dri topcoat. I really like this and I can't wait to see the movie tomorrow!!! Anyone else going to see it?

Ocean Manicure

Hello everyone! Today I have a manicure inspired by the ocean. I get to take a vacation to South Padre, Texas in a a few weeks and I can't wait to go! 

I really wanted to play around with my bottle of Nubar 2010 but I had also bought Zoya Shay and I wanted to wear that too. I decided that Shay looked sort of like sand on a beach and thus this mani was born. I started out with 1 coat of CND Toughen Up base, then I put 2 coats of China Glaze For Audrey on my pinky, middle and pointer fingers and 2 coats of Zoya Shay on my ring finger and thumb. I had problems with both polishes bubbling on me (something that doesn't normally happen to me) and I can only guess that it had something to do with humidity. Anyway, I added 2 coats of Nubar 2010 over the fingers with For Audrey and 1 coat of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri top coat over that. On my ring finger and thumb, I added 1 coat of Insta-Dri over Shay and then used a white striper to paint 2 small stars on my ring finger and a sort of shell shape on my thumb. Then I used a black striper to add three R-E-A-L-L-Y thin lines on the shell and added another coat of Insta-Dri.

Overall, I really like it! The turquoise looks like the water of the Caribbean and the flakies add the flashes from the sun glinting on the water! Okay, so who want to go to the beach now?

4th of July Mani! Lots of Pics!

Happy late 4th of July! Here's the manicure that I did! I'll give you fair warning though, there are lots of pics!

 This is the full manicure! And yes, I am holding a bottle of Nubar 2010, 

I found it on Amazon for $8.51 with shipping and tax!

I've broken this down by finger so you can see exactly what I used for each nail individually. 

I used CND Stickey for a base on all the nails and Sally Hansen Insta-Dri for a topcoat.

 Pinky

On my pinky I applied 2 coats of Zoya Kristi 

and made the stripes with a white striper.

Ring

 My ring finger was my favorite!

I used 2 coats of Zoya Tallulah, 1 coat of Nubar 2010 

and a white striper for the fireworks explosion!

Middle

For my middle finger I used 1 coat of Rescue Beauty Lounge Underware, 

1 coat of China Glaze Frosty (to make it sparkly!) and dotted it with Zoya Kristi.

 Pointer

This finger had 1 coat of Zoya Tallulah, 1 coat of China Glaze Dorothy Who? 

and I used a white striper to freehand the star.

Thumb

This was another of my favorites!

I used 2 coats of Zoya Kristi, a little silver star decal 

and then made shooting star stripes with a white striper.

This was a super over the top manicure and it didn't last very long,

but it was great for the holiday and I got tons of compliments!