Flower Manicure Using Real Flowers

Today's post will be about how to have a manicure with real flowers on it. Yes, real flowers. It's a long process, but once it's finished it looks awesome and it's a lot easier than drawing a flower on yourself.

You will need:

• a base coat
• your favorite shade of nail polish
• a bunch of small flowers (small enough to fit on your nails)
• a heavy book or two
• paper towels
• a top coat

Step 1: Drying the Flowers

Gather all the flowers and remove any stems or leaves attached to them

Place them on a paper towel face up 

Cover them with another paper towel

Take the books and stack them on top of the flowers

Leave them like this for 1-2 days, the flowers should be crispy-feeling

Step 2: Paint Your Nails 

Apply a base coat

Paint two coats of any nail polish on your nails

Wait until they are fully dry to complete the next step

Step 3: Attaching the Flowers

Once nails are fully dry, get out the flowers and put them on a table 

Choose which flowers you will use for each nail and put them into piles

Carefully spread a bit of top coat to the spot you want the flower to be

Make the top coat about the size of the flower

Gently stick the flower to your nail, applying pressure all over 

Do this with all of your nails

So enjoy!

4th of July Nails

Hi everybody! Okay, so I haven't posted in a while, so I decided to show you my 4th of July nails. I've been meaning to post these for a while now, but I haven't gotten around to it until now. They took forever to plan out, but the actual painting only took about a half hour. Here are some pictures:

Above are some shots of my fingernails. I used a toothpick for the dots and a nail art pen for the stripes. When you put them next to each other they look like a flag!

And here are my toes! I again used a toothpick for the dots, but just a regular bottle of red polish for the stripes.
So, what do you think? 

Hidden Rainbow Nails!

In case you didn't know, rainbow colors are very popular right now. So I took advantage of this and tried out a design I found online. It's super cute, and has rainbows in it! Here's what you'll need:

• 5 bright colors
• a black colored nail polish
• some semi-sticky tape
• a top coat

Step 1: Applying The Rainbow
Using a thin portion of the brush, apply a small vertical stripe of color to one section of you nail
Do this again, but with a different color next to the first stripe once the one before has dried
Once you have a stripe of each color, wait until everything is dry before moving to the next step

Step 2: Hiding the Rainbow
Once your nails are totally dry, cut a strip of tape the size you want the rainbow to be
Carefully stick the tape horizontally across your nail in the spot you'd like the rainbow to be
Press firmly on the tape so it will stick
Once the tape is well secured, open up a bottle of black nail polish
Paint over the tape and the rest of the nail, making sure not to get any under the tape

Step 3: Finding the Rainbow
Once the black nail polish has dried almost completely, peel off the tape in one motion
Wait about 5 minutes or so, then apply a topcoat to seal the rainbow in
Enjoy!

Magnetic Nail Polish

Hello! Today I will be talking about magnetic nail polish, a new craze that looks pretty awesome. I've used the nails inc. one, and so far have had good success! While it doesn't last very long and chips around the edges, if you use it correctly you come out with almost professional-looking nails every time. To get a cool magnetic effect, you first apply a coat of the polish to each nail. Once it dries (fairly quickly!), you apply a second coat to the nail you want to do first. Immediately after, you hold the magnet (attached to the outer cap on this one) over the wet nail for 10 seconds. Nails should be dry before moving on to the next nail. It's pretty cool! I have no idea what makes it work, but whatever it is works well! It's a little pricey at $16 a bottle, but definitely worth it! I rate it a 5/5!

Above is the promo picture for nails inc. magnetic nail polish. I got the picture from here

Nail Polish Review: Sally Hansen Gem Crush

Today I was out shopping in Target and came across Gem Crush by Sally Hansen. I'd heard of this before but didn't think much of it. It looks like any other sparkly polish, so I almost walked right by it. Until I saw an ad with the words full coverage on it. I thought, "No way! Sparkly nail polish needs like 7 coats to fully cover your nails!", so I bought it in #6 Razzle Dazzler. The color is very similar to OPI's Teenage Dream, but while it took me 5 coats to fully cover my nail with Teenage Dream, it took me 2 coats with Razzle Dazzler. It is a very subtle pink with sparkles all over. This is one of my favorite shades and I rate it a 5/5!

Best Nail Sites: Blogs

There's a lot of nail sites out there. So many it's pretty much impossible to find a good one! That's why today's post will be on the best nail sites out there, focusing on blogs.

Pshiiit is my all-time favorite nail site! Well, besides my own. It has great tutorials and whoever writes it really knows her nails! The blog is in French, so you're going to have to translate it. (If you have Chrome a little blurb comes up asking if you want to change it to English.) I get a lot of ideas from there, and I hope you will too!
A Polish Problem is new to me. I found this a few days ago and thought it was worth mentioning. There's some cute ideas on this one, too. I don't know much about it, so I'm not much help. But it's worth checking out!
The Dutch Nail Blog is also new to me. This one I can already tell I'll love because of the pictures and the long page of posts. It's originally written in Dutch, but I got it automatically in English. Def follow this blog!

Triangle Nails

Tutorials are so fun to do, so I've done a bunch recently! Alright, so triangle nails. These are so cool! Whoever invented this trend is really smart, because these are an easy way to get awesome-looking nails. So, let's get started! Here's what you'll need:

• A base color (the triangular part)
• A main color
• Tape (the cheaper, the better)
• Scissors
• Top Coat

Step 1: Base Color 
I prefer not to use a base coat for these because it makes nails too thick
Apply a base color, very carefully around the top
Let nails dry completely before starting the next step

Step 2: Triangles
Cut a piece of tape into a triangle shape, like this











Place the triangular part of the tape over the part of your nail you want the shape to be at
Carefully apply pressure to the tape, but not so much you might peel off the polish
Paint with your main color over the tape and the rest of your nail
When done painting, peel off tape GENTLY!!!

Step 3: Top Coat
Once nails are fully dry, apply a top coat
If colors begin to blend together, stop painting and wait a little longer to do the rest of your nails