My First Indie Manicure

I am new to this whole nail scene and when I first starting looking at websites and Pinterest, I had no idea of the magnitude of the Indie scene, nor how hard it was to get your hands on certain brands of these. Pretty and Polished was one of my favorite score some of them. I was able to get my hands on some from Llarowe.

This polish is Pretty and POlished Jawbreaker. Its a white polish with all sorts of color glitter. Once it was on, it kinda reminded me of melted chocolate chip ice cream. It was fairly opaque after 2 coats. I was able to get a couple of other polishes when they were in stock, so I hope to get those swatched soon. Overall, its a fun, pretty polish.

And I guess that's why they call it the Blues......

This manicure was last minute and not originally what I had wanted to do. I was planning on copying a manicure I saw on Pinterest, but it turned into an epic fail. The original manicure was a white nail with a gold tribal design. The gold stamping polish I have was not bright enough to show up on the white background. Oh well, I will continue searching for the perfect gold stamping polish.

So I changed it up and decided on the same design, different color. I screwed up my pointer finger and had to go meet my family for dinner and didn't have time to re-do it, so I turned it into a glitter accent nail.

The details:

Nail Color: Essie Marshmallow

Stamping Color: Konad Sky Pearl

Glitter Accent Nail: Barry M Blue Glitter

Stamp: Bundle Monster 315

Top Coat: Seche Vite

I blew out my flip flop

When I first saw the flip flop design on the new Bundle Monster set, I didn't think I would probably get much use of it. I enjoy looking at Pinterest for different nail art designs and the other day I saw someone had used this design and the result was adorable, perfect for the summer!

Products Used:

Nail Color: Models Own Balearic Cool

Stamping Color: Konad White

Stamp: Bundle Monster 309

So if you are looking for something fun and summery, this is the perfect stamp for you.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice

A few weeks ago, I ran to Kansas City for the Color Run with my sisters. Since we were there, we did a little shopping down on the Plaza. It was ridiculously hot so we ran to just a couple stores. While at Urban Outfitters, I discovered that the Model's Own nail polishes were on sale for $4.99 a piece. SCORE!!! They only had 3 colors so I bought all three of them.

This manicure is Aqua Violet Beetlejuice and stamped using Konad Special White. The stamp used was Bundle Monster-322. I just love the new Bundle Monster set, they have the cutest designs in this set.

Wallpaper My Nails

This manicure reminds me so much of wallpaper that you would find at your grandma's house. I got the pink color in the clearance bin at Ulta and so glad that I picked it up. It's definitely a favorite of mine. It goes on like a dream and is a beautiful metallic pink.

Here is a pic of the China Glaze polish that I used for this manicure. The name of the polish is Admire. I used Konad blacking stamping polish for the design and the stamp was Konad M83.

4th of July

I realize I am a few days late on posting this, but I guess it is still July. It was kind of a pain with the 4th this year falling on a Wednesday. First world problems, I know. Since my husband and I both had to work the following day, we didn't do anything too exciting. We went to my hometown to watch the parade and stayed for lunch with my family. The afternoon we came back and swam and watch the National Fourth Celebration. I think this might be the first year that I didn't see any fireworks in person. We heard plenty of them from bed that night. Yes, we are turning into old folks. Back to the manicure......I saw so many cool Americana inspired nails, I was at a loss for what to do. I ended up with a mish mash of stamps and glitter.

The details:

Red Polish: Essie Fishnet Stockings

Blue Glitter: China Glaze Dorothy Who?

Blue: China Glaze Ride the Waves

Stamping Polish: Konad White

Stamps: Polka Dots: Konad M79 Chevron: Bundle Monster 201

I did a close up of the Dorothy Who? as the group picture didn't show all the glittery goodness it has to offer.

I used to have such a thing for OPI polishes, but I am loving China Glaze so much more. The

Purple Polka Dot

I bought some dotting tools a few months ago, however I recently got a polka dot stamp that I wanted to try. It worked pretty well. I have been experimenting with non-Konad stamping polishes as I wanted to see if any of them worked for stamping. I heard the Insta-Dri Sally Hansen polishes worked well for stamping. I haven't had the best luck with them. I did however find a Sally Hansen Salon Manicure polish on the clearance rack and it worked pretty well for stamping.

The next photo is taken in full sunlight. As you can see, pre-clean up. These were taken a while back and since then I have gotten much better about cleaning up my nails pre-photo shoot.

The details on the nails: Polish: OPI Planks A lot Stamping Polish: Sally Hansen Salon Manicure Love's Me Not Accent Nail: Milani Purple Gleam Base Coat: Sephora by OPI Top Coat: Jessica High Gloss in a Flash Stamp: Konad M79

(Milani polish not in the photo)