Robin Moses Nail Art Collab

Happy Sunday everyone, I hope you're all enjoying your weekend. Today I have a recreation of a recent mani by Robin Moses. Nora got a group of us together to recreate Robin's Romantic Pink Hearts mani, she has a video on YouTube in case you want to see it and give it a try (click here to watch it). I'm so glad Nora thought of this, it was so nice to be a part of it. Also, it got me using acrylic paint again, something I hadn't done in such a long time. A big thanks to Nora for bringing us together, and to Robin for inspiring us to try out some new designs. Here's the collage Nora put together for us.

For my mani, I started off with a sheer nude base. Once that dried, I added a layer of top coat because I decided to use some nail vinyls to achieve a nice "V" shape. I let the top coat dry for around 15 minutes to be on the safe side, and stuck on the vinyls, then I applied the red polish. I did one nail at a time, so I took off the vinyl right after applying the red polish. The next step was adding the gold lines, so I did that using some acrylic paint. Then, I mixed some gold and green paint and painted on the leaves. With white and pink paint, I added in the hearts. The last thing to do was to add top coat.

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I really like how it turned out. It's such a pretty design, and perfect for the upcoming Valentine's Day festivities. The rest of the participants did such a wonderful job. We were all inspired by the same mani, and we each made it our own. I have all the participants listed below so you can see their solo shots if you'd like.

Participants: Nora - Isha - Karin - Sheily - Gigi - Shannon - Tricia

Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this collab. As always, thank you for stopping by. Until next time.
-Ana

Products Used:
Sheer Nude: Wet N Wild "2% Milk"
Red: Lavish Polish "Crazy Tracy"
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Single Chevron Vinyls: Unknown

*Past Press Sample: Lavish Polish "Crazy Tracy".
*Giveaway Prize: Single Chevron Vinyls.

Halloween Mani Inspired by Kristi

Hi guys! Today's mani is a recreation of one of Kristi's manis. She's having a giveaway at the moment, so this recreation will be an entry to that. Anyway, she did a cute little Halloween mani back in October which I had to recreate. I know Halloween came and went, but I picked it because I've been missing it so much, lol. I was so sad when I had to take down all of my Halloween decorations. So, this makes up for that in a way.

Alrighty, so I started with a couple coats of an orange jelly polish. I didn't have a creme polish that resembled the one in her original mani, so I went with this one. I then picked out a dusty purple to stamp with. I stamped on the bats on my middle and ring finger, and added some dots on my other nails to finish the look. The last thing to do was to add top coat.

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Original/Recreation:

The manis don't look exactly the same, and after seeing how sheer the stamping turned out with the purple, I wish I had used a black stamping polish instead. This orange was also very difficult to capture, it looked a bit lighter in real life, maybe a bit similar to the creme Kristi used. Well, it still looks pretty nice, I hope you all like it.

As always, thank you for stopping by. Until next time.
-Ana

Products Used:
Orange Jelly: Sinful Colors "Ring the Belini"
Purple: Jessica Cosmetics "Very Vinyl"
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Bat Stamping Plate: Born Pretty Store item #23267 (BPL-031)
Medium Clear Jelly Stamper: Born Pretty Store item #26498
Manicure Saver Cotton Claw Tool: Born Pretty Store item #32220

*Giveaway Prize: Jessica Cosmetics "Very Vinyl".
*Past Press Samples: Born Pretty Store Bat Stamping Plate, Medium Clear Jelly Stamper, Manicure Saver Cotton Claw Tool.

Fall Nails Inspired by @polishedtwins

Happy First Day of Fall! Oh my gosh, I've been waiting to say that for a while now, lol. I'm so excited Summer is finally over and Fall is here. You know what that means. Cooler weather, warm drinks, boots and scarves, leaves changing color, pumpkins everywhere, Halloween, and much more. I'm so ready!

Anyway, I did a mani to welcome this beautiful season, which just happens to be my favorite. I actually saw this mani on Pinterest a long time back and I saved it because I wanted to try it. This mani was inspired by Kristin from polishedtwins, click here to see her mani. I did the same glitter gradient she did, but I stamped on the leaves instead of painting them on, and I didn't color them in either. Well here they are.

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I also added a matte top coat to see how they'd look.

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I hope you guys liked them. I think they looked much better in real life though, it was pretty difficult to capture these how I wanted. I still like how they turned out, simple but cute.

Like always, thank you for stopping by. Until next time guys.
-Ana

Products Used:
Glitter Polish: Sinful Colors "Pumpkin Spice"
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Matte Top Coat: Wet N Wild "Matte Top Coat"
Black Stamping Polish: Born Pretty Store item #18135
Leaf Stamping Plate: Born Pretty Store item #38741 (Floral BPX-L018)
Medium Clear Jelly Stamper: Born Pretty Store item #26498
Manicure Saver Cotton Claw Tool: Born Pretty Store item #32220
Cuticle Guard Peel-Off Latex: Born Pretty Store item #36614

*Past Press Samples: Born Pretty Store Black Stamping Polish, Leaf Stamping Plate, Medium Clear Jelly Stamper, Manicure Saver Cotton Claw Tool.

26th Birthday Mani

 Purchased By Me 

Hi guys! So my birthday was back in July, but I never really showed you my birthday mani. I did post a short video on Instagram, but I still thought I'd share the pictures since I had them edited and ready.

For this mani, I was inspired by Tee on IG. She always does some gorgeous manis, you definitely need to check her page out. I recreated one of her simple manis which I've linked here, and I changed it up a bit. Instead of using a metallic polish like she did, I used a holo polish. Well I hope you like it.

I started off with a black base on my ring finger and pinky, and added some polka dots on my ring finger. I then sponged on the same polish on my pinky instead of splattering it because I didn't want to make a mess. Hehe. To finish off, I just painted the rest of my nails with the holo polish.

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Well I hope you guys liked this mani, even though it took me forever to post, lol. Thanks for stopping by, and until next time.

-Ana

Polishes Used:

Golden Yellow Holo: Fancy Gloss "Gingerbread Latte"

Black Creme: Wet N Wild "Black Creme"

Top Coat: Seche Vite

Christmas Kiss

 Giveaway Prize / Press Sample 

Merry Christmas everyone! If you're celebrating, then I hope you're having the most beautiful time with your families.

Here's a holiday mani I did, I was inspired by MsCharliesNails on Instagram. She did a mistletoe design and I remembered I had a lip charm that would be perfect for it. My design isn't exactly like hers, but I was inspired after I saw it. I love the outcome, check it out.

I used Envy Lacquer's "Berry Pop" and "Apple Pucker" as my base colors, and they're absolutely beautiful. On my middle finger I painted on some mistletoe with acrylic paints, and I added the lip charm on my ring finger. A very simple but pretty mani.

Landscape View:

Mistletoe Close-Up:

"Pucker Up" Charm Close-Up:

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Well I hope you guys liked the mani, and Happy Holidays to you all. Thank you for stopping by, until next time.
-Ana

Products Used:
Red: Envy Lacquer "Berry Pop"
Green: Envy Lacquer "Apple Pucker"
Top Coat: Love, Angeline "Topped With Love"
Charm: Simply Charmed "Pucker Up" Charm

*Envy Lacquer "Berry Pop" and "Apple Pucker" were contest prizes; Love, Angeline "Topped With Love" was a Press Sample.

A Weekly Dose of Rainbows: Rainbow Winter Forest

 Giveaway Prize / Press Sample 

Hi guys, I hope you're all doing well. I know I'm a bit late but it's ok. Thursday's theme for A Weekly Dose of Rainbows was Rainbow Winter Forest, check out what I did.

Holding Love, Angeline "Topped With Love":

I started by doing a flakie gradient using all KB Shimmer polishes, which will be listed below. When I reached the desired opacity, I added a coat of top coat. After drying, I painted on the trees with acrylic paint, the trees were inspired by nailsbycambria on Instagram. I let everything dry, and finished with 2 coats of top coat. I really need to get a new white paint bottle because the one I have gets all clumpy, which makes the nail art require more than 1 coat of top coat.

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Landscape View:

Anyways, I hope you liked this nail art. The flakie background reminded me of the Northern Lights, which went nicely with this design actually. Well thank you for stopping by, until next time.
-Ana

Polishes Used:
Blue/Purple: KB Shimmer "Moody Hues"
Green/Blue/Purple: KB Shimmer "Look On The Nightside"
Copper/Gold: KB Shimmer "Take The Punny And Run"
Top Coat: Love, Angeline "Topped With Love" Fast Drying Top Coat

*KB Shimmer "Moody Hues", "Look On The Nightside", "Take The Punny And Run" were a giveaway prize; Love, Angeline "Topped With Love" was a Press Sample.

Neon Gradient + Stars and Moon Nail Art

Hi guys! I hope you had a lovely weekend, and Happy Memorial Day! Today I have some nail art inspired by Kimberlyn from @nailmachine on IG. I was planning on doing a mani with an orange/pink/purple gradient, only thing was that I couldn't figure out what to put on them. So I go on IG, and as I'm scrolling through my feed I came across Kimberlyn's cute nail art design. It was such a coincidence that she used the same gradient, so I thought I'd recreate it. The nail art design was inspired by her. By the way, my camera totally freaked out with the neon polishes. I just wish you could see the pink and purple better on all the pictures. The pink looks more orange, and the purple looks pink on the first pictures.

I always struggle with gradients when I use polish. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, lol. Pieces of the sponge stay behind and just makes the mani bumpy and weird, which is why I prefer to use acrylic paint for my gradients. Anyways, I hope that with practice I get the hang of it. So, I did the orange/pink/purple gradient and topped it off with Wet N Wild "Kaleidoscope". Because, well glitter! Hehe. I put on a coat of matte top coat for a smoother surface, and once dry, I did the design with white acrylic paint. I finished it off with top coat.

Holding Charlotte Russe "No Name":

I absolutely love how these turned out. Going through that gradient struggle was totally worth it. Lol!
Well that's it for this post everyone. Thanks for stopping by and until next time.
-Ana

Polishes Used:
Orange: Wet N Wild "Sunny Side Up"
Pink: Charlotte Russe "No Name"
Purple: Beauty Concepts "No Name"
Glitter Topper: Wet N Wild "Kaleidoscope"
Matte Top Coat: Wet N Wild "Matte Top Coat"
Glossy Top Coat: LACC Beauty "2013 Top Coat"

Inspired Nail Art

Hi everyone! Today I have a mani inspired by @sarahmcgphoto on Instagram. She did a lip art inspired by Bettlejuice, which inspired me to do these. I really liked the design she did, and I automatically wanted to try it out. She has some amazing work, so I recommend you check her page out.

To begin, I painted on 2 coats of Wet N Wild "French White Creme", and did the rest in acrylic paints. I painted on the stripes with black paint, and cleaned up the sides with white paint. After adding a coat of top coat, I went ahead and painted the green drips. The reason I added the top coat between the stripes and the drips, was in case I made a mistake. I didn't want to risk messing up the design. I added the white highlights on the drips and let them dry. To finish off, I added the final top coat.

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Well the end result came out ok. I wasn't completely in love with these, I believe I could've done a better job to be honest. That being said, I might have to re-do these again in the future.

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Thank you for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed this short post. Remember, you can follow me on Instagram and Bloglovin'. Until next time.
-Ana

Acrylic Paints Used:
Apple Barrel White
Apple Barrel Black
Apple Barrel Lime Tree