Finals Week Blues: Day 5 - Blue Stamping

Hello, ladies of blog world!

I am hella excited to announce that I am FINALLY finished with this semester. I still have most of my sanity, too! :vD

I'm also pretty stoked that this is the last day of 'Finals Week Blues'... I love my blue polishes and all, but I was getting really bored with it. :/ SO, for the last day of this series I decided to stamp a bit. Here's how it turned out:

This was the most difficult manicure to have ever been photographed, btw. I took/edited photo after photo and THIS was the best I could come up with. Oh well, I tried. Hopefully you get the idea. ;) The darker blue that I used is Barielle Berry Blue while the light blue foil I stamped with is Color Club Lumin-Icent. The stamp is from plate BM-222. I also didn't realize that this design  had a "center" to it until after I had already started stamping, which is why they're not completely centered. :P 

Anyway, this is all for tonight and for the 'Finals Week Blues' series. I hope you enjoyed it. :D

Thanks for reading!

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31 Day Challenge! Day 20 - Water Marble Nails

Hey, ya'll!

I'm really tired from working a 12 hour day so this post is going to be pretty short. Day 20 was water marbling and this was my first everrr attempt at it. Here's the final result:

Excuse the haggardness of these; this photo was taken after working three shifts (working in a restaurant is terrible on my nails :\). I have to say that this definitely got the most compliments out of any mani I've ever done, and this won't be the last water marble I do. ;) The polishes I used were China Glaze White on White, Barielle Thrilling, and Orly Lucky Duck; they worked really well for this technique. Any difficulty I had was my own fault, heheh. 

How do you ladies feel about water marbling? Thanks for reading! ^_^

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31 Day Challenge! Day 12 - Striped Nails

Heyyy! This is going to be a super short post because I have a Spanish test tomorrow morning and I need to continue studying, SO here are my striped nails!

*Natural light, no flash

*Natural light, no flash + matte topcoat. <3

I was really really pleased with these. ^_^ I wasn't sure how well the red/grey would go together, but I looove it. It looks a bit Christmasy, maybe? Anyway, I used Barielle Thrilling and Zoya Petra (which is one of my new faves, btw) and thin striping tape. Do you guys like it? :D Thanks for reading!

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31 Day Challenge! Day 11 - Polka Dot Nails

Good afternoon, all! ^_^

Right now I'm feeling very relieved because I just finished my rough draft (with one minute to spare, might I add!) and I officially have nothing else to do tonight that pertains to school, which means I shall be doing my striped nails and possibly working on the look of my blog later on. Oh, I have to do my INSANITY workout at some point, as well. xP Aaand I have clothes to put away that have been washed for a week now. I should probably skip that nap that I've been thinking about all day... :( Anywho! Here are my fall version of polka dot nails:

Please excuse my blurred pinky and half blurred ring finger. First the sun wouldn't come out when I had time to take pictures, then Thanksgiving happened, and then I picked at my middle finger's polish. o_O I didn't even get my thumb in this one, humph. I'll do better from now on, promise! The polishes I used:

Thumb: Barielle Unraveled Rust 

Pointer: OPI Tasmanian Devil Made Me Do It 

Middle: Milani Blackberry Baby

Ring: Color Club Artsy Crafty

Pinky: Estée Lauder Devil's Food

Each nail was then dotted with a dotting tool using the base color of the previous nail. :)

This was my first polka dot mani and I thought some nails turned out better than others, but practice makes

 perfect. I'll definitely be doing more of these! :$

Thanks for reading!

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