Disneyland is cute

See? Cutesy, huh?

I went with my honey to Disneyland a bit after Christmas. Good fun! There is something completely magical about Disneyland during the holidays. *eyes sparkle* ^_^

♥ duration: 30 mins

♥ colors/steps:
▪ Orly Bonder
▪ base color: OPI's Tutti Frutti Tonga
▪ light pink striper by Art Club
▪ randomly placed irridescent glitter stripes (Art Club) in between light pink stripes.
▪ brighter pink/orange striper polish from Art Club used with dotting tool to make hearts.
▪ Orly Liquid Vinyl polish used with dotting tool to make Mickeys
▪ top coat: Seche Vite

and 1 more photo:

Coral Plaid - Mar 8, 2009

Inspired by Nail Up Magazine. I like this one a lot and I often got a lot of compliments on how cute it was. I should try one like this again...

♥ duration: 60 mins (probably...)

♥ colors/steps:
▪ Orly Bonder
▪ pearly cream color for base color (can't remember what it is.. will have to look)
▪ tip color: Orly Lola
▪ white stripes first, then black stripes surrounding white stripes
▪ gold glitter striperin between the black and white groupings
▪ silver glitter striper for a bit of flash along the manicure line.
▪ set with random pink and white gems and pearls of varying sizes along french manicure line. I opted not to do every fingernail with gems since it looks too heavy for me. So I just chose the ring fingers. All other fingers have silver glitter striper as substitute.

Jenny's Wedding - Oct 3, 2009

I did these ones for Jenny's wedding in San Diego. The whole family was there so it was a lot of fun :) I wore the brown dress I bought from Macy's and I painted my nails magenta! lol :D crazy me.

this is probably one of the most plain things I'd done with my nails in aAAAages.

♥ duration: 25 mins (b/c the gems took a little bit of time to line up properly

♥ colors/steps:

▪ Orly Bonder base coat
▪ 2 coats of OPI's Kinky in Helsinki
▪ 1 row of 5ss Swarovski rhinestones in Fuchsia
▪ 1 stripe of iridescent striper by Art Club
▪ 1 coat Seche Vite

halloween 2009

Yes, I know I picked unconventional Halloween colors. I went for Red instead of Orange. Sometimes pumpkins and bats can be cute, but I just wasn't feeling it. >.<

So I went for this. I normally don't wear just black. But I went for it! :D and yes, only my ring fingernails were red.

♥ duration: 20 mins

♥ colors/steps:
▪ Orly Bonder base coat
▪ black polish - Orly Liquid Vinyl
▪ red polish - OPI I'm Not Really A Waitress
▪ Art Club red glitter striper
▪ Kiss black striper
▪ 7ss Siam Swarovski rhinestones
▪ Seche Vite

pink scallops - Nov 4, 2009

Got the idea for this one out of a Nail Up Mag. It was made to be a light blue sky (base color) and white scalloping to look like clouds. It was cute. :D I was still in pink mode when I did this back in November. :P


♥ duration:25 mins (really simple, really quick, and super cute)


♥ colors/steps:

Orly Bonder base coat, Essie Castaway (pink tips), Kiss white striper, stain glass style nail seals purchased through Rakuten, a nude polish from Orly (label came off) as the base to make my nails look clean, and Seche Vite for top coat.

Below are the steps I took:

girls party

I went to a 9 yr old's birthday party this weekend to do nails for her slumber party. the birthday girl's mom took the photos so I don't have them yet. It was good fun :D

pink quarters

okay so I'm backlogged even in my most recent nails.. But I'm sure no one will notice... (¬.¬)

Another pink one! yes.. can't get enough of that pink I have (OPI's I'll Take The Cake). I was feeling softy and pinky again so this is what I came up with.

♥ duration: 25 mins (was probably watching Psych again)

♥ notes:
▪ I don't think I kept these on that long but they would have lasted a while.
▪ I used a larger gem this time because there was only 1 and it was almost in the middle of my nail.
▪ I designed these with quadrants in mind so here's a link to an image with numbered quadrants for reference.

♥ colors/steps:
▪ 1 coat Orly Bonder
▪ 2 coats OPI I'll Take The Cake
▪ 1 coat of a pearly white (a Winmax I picked up from Daiso)in 1 imaginary quadtrant of my nail. You have to kind of imagine where the lines will go to do this but I think if you don't stray too far out of the imaginary lines, you'll be fine. The glitter striper is forgiving :)
▪ drew 1 line of Kiss silver glitter striper vertically and 1 line horizontally across my nail following where I imagined I wanted to put my quadrants. You'll notice I have the crosspoint off center. so the vertical line is about 1/3 of the way into my nail instead of right in the middle. Just for variety :P And the horizontal line is placed slightly closer to my cuticle rather than right in the middle again.
▪ for kicks, I drew pink vertical pinstripes with Art Club's pastel pink striper in the quadrant (quadrant 4) opposite the pearly white quadrant (quadrant 2)
▪ in between the pink vertical stripes, I used Art Club's iridescent glitter striper to give it some sparkle.
▪ the final touch: 1 7ss Jonquil Swarovski Chrystal at the intersection of the silver glitter stripes adhered with Orly Bonder.
▪ 1 coat Seche Vite