Bright coral chevron vinyl nail art - OPI Live Love Carnaval

Hey Everyone!

It just will NOT stop snowing in my neck of the woods!  Arggghhhh!  So to combat the snow I decided to take a mani vacation and use a super bright fun Summery color, OPI Live. Love. Carnaval.  Add some gold and chevron vinyls and you have insta-Summer!  Check out what I did.

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OPI - My Vampire is Buff and LAMB chevron decals Vinyl It Up mani

Hey my Friends!

It probably seems like I post a lot of bright manis but when it comes down to it, I love neutrals. Nothing makes me happier than a creamy neutral, le sigh. So for today I'm using one of my all time fav neutrals and golds. Shall we proceed?



OPI My Vampire is Buff. Look at it! I've worn this color countless times but each time I fall more in love with it. It's like the color of fresh almonds. This is 2 coats.



What about the tree nail charm? Too cute, it's from ebay.



The gold is OPI LAMB, it's like an ultra fine dense glitter. It does dry to a satin finish which looks great but I chose to add top coat here.



The nail vinyls I used are from Vinyl It Up, mini chevrons, my fave size! So perfect for my small nail beds, I get maximum zigs and zags lol



This could be one of my fave manis in a long time, thanks for reading!

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Julep Just for Yule trio - Emer Myrtle Brigitte chevron nail vinyls

Merry Christmas Everybody!!

Today I was inspired by the movie Elf.....ok that's not true lol After I did this mani it kind of reminded me of that movie in a weird way lol Here is what I came up with!





How gorgeous is this green Emer from Julep?! I like green polishes but I never go Gaga over them but this one grabbed ahold of my heart. Perfect formula, and the color is just so rich it was almost a one coater. This was exclusive to the Julep trio Just for Yule. The rest of the polishes I used also come from this set.



This pretty red creme is Julep Myrtle, another one with a great formula!



The white base is Julep Brigitte. For the chevrons, I used mini chevron nail vinyls from Vinyl It Up. The jewels are from ebay.



This is my fav holiday mani for the year! Thanks for stopping by!

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Julep - Kam Dana and Brandt - chevron nail art

Hey!

It’s Tuesday, which is kind of like the most boring day of the week. Tuesday lacks an identity. Since I am actually bored here on this Tuesday, here is my break-down of the week.

- Mondays are universally hated. I’m pretty sure you can say Monday in any corner of the world and you’d be met with the stank eye.
- Tuesdays – see opening paragraph.
- Wednesdays are hump day signaling you made it this far might as well NOT kill yourself.
- Thursdays get you excited for Friday and a lot of people partake in Happy Hour or thirsty Thursdays. Thursday basically mooches off of Friday.
- Fridays need no explanation. It even has its own acronym and restaurant, TGIF(ridays). I think TGIF is the original LOL, just saying.
- Saturday is the best day of the week and everyone knows it. Nothing beats waking up whenever you damn well please Saturday morning and then going to bed at the crack of dawn after binge watching some Netflix alllllllllllllllll night.
- Sundays are accepted as lazy days and typically involve overindulging in copious amounts of homemade cooking, preferably by your Grandma.

So for this boring day I decided to do a bold graphic look to pump up my Tuesday, check out what I did!





For the main color I used Julep Kam, a vintage spearmint crème as my base. It’s got such a cool retro vibe, I did add some thinner since it was a little thick.



For the ring and middle finger I used Julep Dana as my base, it has a little blue shimmer to it very pretty. Then I used some right angle nail vinyls from at Vinyl It Up, these were sent for review. And they are awesome! I slapped on some Julep Brandt over the vinyls before removing to leave the chevron print.



Then I added some 2mm black studs from ebay.



Super happy with this mani! Definitely amped up a boring Tuesday, thanks for stopping by!

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Lucky Lacquer - Fleur Rose chevron nail art

Hello my polish Friends!

It’s Monday……uggggghhhhhhh. I work Monday-Friday (yuck) so I wanted to wear something cheery to start the work week! I recently purchased some beautiful cremes from Lucky Lacquer after seeing swatches over on Instagram. Bright cremes always get me lol These are perfect for a Monday. I couldn’t decide which to try first so I kinda just went with them all haha





This is Fleur Rose, a very bright salmon pink. It is definitely brighter in person but one of those shades my camera just can’t capture. It’s not quite neon, just shy of neon. Formula was nice and creamy, this is 2 coats.



For the base of the accent nails I used 2 coats of Alpine Phlox, a pale nude pink with a hint of purple. Can’t wait to wear this one on it’s own!



I don’t consider myself that great at freehand nail art but I think I did ok with this one, I purposely picked a design that wasn’t supposed to be super straight haha



The other colors I used in the accent nails are Dahlia a cool purple magenta, Teal We Meet Again a blue leaning teal, Fleur Rose, and Alpine Phlox.



Colors from Left to Right: Teal We Meet Again, Dahlia, Sweet Pea (not used in this mani), Alpine Phlox, and Fleur Rose



I’m so excited to wear all these colors again, they are so pretty and great cremes. If you want to pick up some of these polishes from Lucky Lacquer use my code STAR to get an extra 10% off your total order whooo hooooo I love discounts!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Julep Briana and Dana - blue and white chevron nail art

Hey All!

My Julep October 2014 Black Magic Collection polish lover upgrade box arrived right before I left for vacation a couple weeks ago, I was sad I would have to wait to play with them butttttt I WAS leaving for vacation so I wasn’t that sad, come on now haha. There are some beauties in this collection but Briana and Dana inspired me first. I was feeling like some Chevrons…….





Julep Briana is a bright navy crème, it’s much brighter than Julep Michelle if you have that one. I love blue cremes! And this one is perfection, sometimes they can be very dark and look black most of the time but Briana looks navy blue at every angle. This is 2 coats, it applied very nicely.





Dana is a white base with ultrafine blue shimmer. This is a black light reactive polish but sadly I don’t have a black light to test it. If you would have caught me when I was 15 I definitely had a black light AND a lava lamp in my room lol I was cool. Who remembers the store New Age Creations?! I’m really digging Dana, the blue shimmer is subtle but very pretty especially in the sun. It covered pretty well with 2 coats but you could see a few patchy spots so I added a 3rd coat. Maybe a touch thick but nothing too bad.



I used some 2mm blue jewels from ebay on the middle accent finger.



On the ring finger I used chevron nail vinyls from Vinyl It Up, these are the mini size. I love this size! I have small nail beds so this size gives me lots of chevron pattern.



Overall I adore this mani! I like the way the dark blue and white play off of each other. Thanks for stopping by!

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