BFF Nail Art Challenge: Girly Girl

 For the 2nd installment of BFF Challenge, the theme was Girly Girl. :) I was thinking of doing something flowery, but we have flowers coming up, so I wanted to do something that is girly, but better fits my personality. :)

I started out with 2 costs of this gorgeous seafoam from Color Club, Blue-Ming, and then added the heart accents with Orly Glitz.  I added a topcoat of HK Girl to finish it off.

 How adorable are these? :) I am so in love with these, it is not even funny.

(ignore the bottle, I put the wrong sticker on! oopsie)

Don't forget to check out the other lovely ladies in on this challenge, They have some pretty great nail art as well! :)

Thiamere of On Beauty Stuff & What Else's

Pram of My Nail Polish Addiction

Bec of Lacquer Dreams

Kerrie of PishPosh and Polish

Emma of Manicurity

Alyssa of Fancy Phalanges

Sally Of Nail Pron

XOX Caitlin

PS: my giveaway ends soon!! Don't forget to enter!

Cherry Blossoms

I was sitting in my little polish area painting my nails with the Color Club polishes I found at Burlington Coat Factory(the Color Club Blossoming set!) and I really wanted to do some cherry blossoms.  the colors just screamed cherry blossoms to me. lol So here they are!

The base is Color Club Hydrangea Kiss, from the blossoming collection, the brown is China Glaze Mahogany Magic, the pink is Color Club Sugar Sheer, and the black accents are acrylic paint.  I used one of my nail art brushes for the stems and dotting tools for the flowers.

XOX Caitlin

RuPaul's Drag Race

@RuPaulsDragRace Season Finale was on last night, and I decided to do some RuPaul Nails!

Shoutout to Sharon Needles who won. You rock girl! 

RuPaul is THE authority of drag, and is such an amazing person. 

I couldn't help but give her big hair. ;)

This is the photo that inspired me:

Photo from http://www.tvgasm.com/wp-content/uploads/rupaul-glam-closeup.jpg

I debated not posting these, because I was afraid they don't do her the justice she so awesomely deserves, but I was encouraged to post it. 

I hope it does her justice. :P

XOX Caitlin

Freehand Roses

 For today's nails I did a freehand Roses. I think these turned out very well.  

I used Zoya Skylar as the base.  Then I used Zoya Bevin for the leaves.  I used Color Club Sugar Sheer for the base of the flowers and then I used Barielle Cosmic Kiss for the accent on the flowers. 

I really like these. They only took about 20 minutes to do.   :)

XOX Caitlin

Happy Little Clouds

I have a quick post for you today, some Clouds! These clouds are inspired by Nailside, who does the most amazing clouds.

The base color is China Glaze Concrete Catwalk, The green is China Glaze Electric Pineapple, and the Pink is China Glaze Traffic Jam. The white dots are with Sinful Colors Snow me White.

Just saying happy little clouds reminded me of Bob Ross. lol.

(Image from google)

Who doesn't love Bob Ross?!? ;)

XOX Caitlin

Charlie the Unicorn!

 I am doing this nail art as a submission to Neverland Nail Blog's Nail art contest, which is titled "Do you believe in Magic?" and of course I had to do Unicorns! and how awesome is this nail art??

The unicorns are freehand.  The base is Color Club Twiggie. The pink unicorn is Barry M Strawberry Ice Cream, the purple unicorn is Barry M Berry Ice Cream. The white unicorn is Sinful Colors Snow me White.  The Candy Mountain is Color Club Poptastic, and the black accents are Wet N Wild Black Creme.

Here is a macro of the unicorns. :D

What do you think?

XOX Caitlin

Nautical Nail Art!

Today I have for you some Nautical Nail Art! Who doesn't love stripes?

For this design I used Sinful Colors Snow Me White as the base, some red metallic striping tape I got from Ebay, and China Glaze First Mate for the anchor using my dotting tool. 

I think this came out pretty well. :)

What do you think?

XOX Caitlin

Day 10: Creative Lacquer Challenge Superheros

For todays challenge I chose WonderWoman. :)

The Red is Cadillac Red from Color Club. That is my favorite red at the moment. 
The blue is Royal by Revlon.
The stamp is from the Cheeky Set CH4.

XOX Caitlin

Day 2 Creative Lacquer Challenge: Favourite Color

My all time favorite color is Chartreuse.  I just love the color. I love the name. The color is just vibrant and pops to me! So these are the nails I came up with for the Creative Lacquer Day 2 Challenge:

China Glaze - Electric Pineapple
Accent nail is freehand paisley with Sally Hansen Silver Sweep and Color Club Chelcea Girl

 I like it. :):)

And here is what appears when I google Chartreuse: lol

my nails look a but more yellow than these photos, but I do believe that it is a variation of Chartreuse. 

Don't forget to check out Bec's nails over at Lacquer Dreams!

XOX Caitlin

And a reminder of what is to come:

More Nail Art!

Today I just wanted to do more nail art with my new dotters, because they are super fun and easy.  I have a set of 5 I bought off of ebay (that I will do a post on, as soon as all of my ebay nail stuff comes in!) and I love them.

I have some pink scroll print nails over black today.

I used Wet N Wild Black Creme as a base, and then used my smallest dotter to draw the design with Color Club Hot Like Lava.

XOX Caitlin

Hello Kitty Nail Art!

Rebecca from Rebecca Likes Nails is hosting a nail art contest!

"THE THEME:

My favorite things! I want you to create a manicure that you think I'd love, using my favorite nail art techniques or themes, which are: gradients, animal print, bows, dots, and Hello Kitty.
Create your manicure using one (or more!) of those 5 ideas, and submit it.
Your design doesn't have to be limited to these ideas but just make sure at least one is included somewhere.
Feel free to go back through my posts and take inspiration from them!"

I chose Hello Kitty and Animal Print!

I did a Cheetah print on all of the nails except the ring finger, and I used dotting tools to freehand the hello kitty head onto my nails.

The colors used:

Color Club Poptastic - background
Color Club Hot Like Lava - inside of cheetah and HK Bow
Wet N Wild French White Creme - HK
Wet N Wild Black Creme - details
and as I stated above I used my new dotting tools from ebay!


What do you think of them? Are you entering the contest?

XOX Caitlin

Some Under the Sea Nail Art!

Sarah at Chalkboard Nails is having a nail art contest, and  I decided to enter!  The main requirement was that your nail art be painted with a dotting tool, so I pulled out my trusty dotting tool, and went to work!

I believe that this would be a squid, from the shape of the head, so look at my cute purple squid! 

The polishes I used are: OPI Skull and Glossbones as the base, then OPI Funky Dunkey, Zoya Caitlin, Wet N Wild Black Creme and French White Creme, and topped it off with a coat of Seche Vite. :)

Also, I only used the round dotting tool end, because the brush part is gross, and I wasn't even supposed to use it anyhow. 

 What do you think? Will you be entering?

XOX Caitlin

Boadway Wednesday: Rent

Today's broadway nails are Rent. I haven't seen it on broadway, only the film, and it wasn't one of my favorites, but it is very well known. 

The Inspiration for these nails:  

XOX Caitlin

The Lion King

Ok, so This is going to be the first in a series of Wednesday Broadway Mani's.  Broadway is something that I love dearly, so every Wednesday from now until I run out musicals, I am going to do freehand nail art dedicated to one Musical in particular. This week is Lion King.

(I may at times use a stamper, if I find that the stamper would be perfect for the theme that I am doing, because obviously any stamp is going to be much cleaner than freehand. also I will not name the polishes that I used, because there will be alot. lol.  I also may use acrylic paint. )

Onto the Nails:

The Sun on the horizon:

The title:

Pride Rock:

The Lion:

A tree in the middle of the desert:

And the Broadway poster:

XOX Caitlin

What do you think?

Stamping Sunday: Stars(Galaxy Nails)

For stamping sunday in the Adventures of Stamping group, we were supposed to do stars.  I unfortunately do not have any star stamps. :( so I decided to do a Nebula! or galaxy nails, or whatever you would like to call it!

And this is kind of a tutorial, it shows you how I achieved the Galaxy Nails!


First step: Paint them black. ( I used Wet N Wild Ebony Hates Chris) 

Second Step: I stamped on KleanColor Metallic Sapphire using plate RA 107. 

Third Step: I sponged on white in different directions. I used Wet N Wild French White Creme  (as you can see, the Metallic Sapphire soaked up the white, but I think that it looks really cool)

Fourth Step: I used a really tiny paint brush and added dots for stars. 

 Fifth Step: I added Finger Paints Twisted.

Sixth Step i added Funky Finger Sand and Stilettos to the edges of the white. 

Lastly I went back and sponged black on top of the white to mute it a little bit.

I really like the way my galaxy nails came out! What do you think?

XOX Caitlin

Phantom of the Opera Nails!

Ok, so ALL of my friends know that Phantom of the Opera is my ALL TIME favorite movie. (even my sweet 16 was phantom themed, and my puppy is named Raoul.) And this past summer my awesome boyfriend took me to see it on Broadway! :)

Today I have Phantom of the Opera nails. I thought they were needed since I got my Konad M73 yesterday! I have been dreaming about this manicure ever since I first saw the plate, and it doesn't disappoint. :)

I used Sinful Colors Snow Me White as the base.
Wet N Wild Black Creme as the music stamp and the black accent for the mask.
LA Colors Red Striper for the red rose.
Color Club Perfect Mol-Ten as the stem and leaves of the rose.

I absolutely love this. :) I Don't want to take it off!

 XOX Caitlin

Bonus picture: Me before we went to see phantom!

Another Bonus Picture:  Me at my sweet 16 almost 4 years ago! lol.  Phantom themed party!

Another Bonus Picture: My puppy Raoul! (he's almost four!)