An Update.

Hello All!

It has been so long. Our life has been a whirlwind these past months. Life gave us lemons, and we tried making lemonade, but sometimes there were just too many lemons. Hehe. Long story short, we had to move and make a lot of financial adjustments, but we're making do and doing much better.

 I just wanted to post what my nails have looked like the past few months, as I try to get back into the swing of things again. Here's to the first of many more posts to come!

Day 14 - Flowers!

As I have gotten further along in this 31 Day Nail Challenge, the more intricate the challenges get. Because of this I have decided to do my nails every other day, or every few days. Just so I can enjoy my hard works a few days before removing and starting the next challenge.

At this point in the challenge it's safe to say that each challenge from here on out will be a new experience for me. Well besides water marbling, but that was such a fail that I still can't say I have much experience in that one either. Haha. So I took to the web, to research flowers, and how to tutorials. It was NailNerd.com : How to Paint Rose on Your Nails that caught my eye and gave me the know how to do what I had imagined on my nails.

I used Wet n Wild Megalast I need a Re-Fresh Mint as the base coat. Took about 3 coats. I dabbed the flowers on my nails with Pure Ice Gossip! and drew in the details with Sally Hansen, Hard as Nails, Hard-core Party. For the leafs I used Pure Ice Wild Thing, and a un-marked bottle in a grass green color. 

Refresh-Mint

As I'm starting to rebuild my nail polish collection, I have been choosing to purchase the more affordable brands, in order to buy more of them. Once I accrue enough polish, I will start buying the pricey better quality polishes. As I mentioned in my first post, I ordered the Konad stamping polish, to better my stamping ability. Until then I wanted to add some sort of stamp to my nails.

 I chose to use the SE22 plate, on my accent fingers with Jordana NP-139 White Pearl polish. Given the fact that it dries incredibly quickly, I think it turned out pretty well. For the base color I used Wet n Wild Megablast, I Need A Refresh-Mint. It comes with a "Mani-Curve Pro Brush" instead of the normal sized brushes nail polish come with. At first I was a little thrown off by the wide, different brush it actually worked out well. For the top coat I used, Sally Hansen's Diamond Strength No Chip Nail Color, in Diamond (Clear). I actually do not care for this polish, it doesn't leave the shine I would like it to, but this time it worked out.


I really do recommend the Wet n Wild Megablast, it's well worth it, and they have a lot of great colors!