Pretty Flowers

Hi all today I'm wearing Mint Julep from Salon Perfect's Sugary Sweet Collection and I decided to do a little free hand nail art. A simple and cute manicure.

 

 

 

I started off with some grass made with Salon Perfect Loopy Green and Escape Neverland I also mixed those two together to make another shade of grass to make it all blend. 

 

Next I added some dots with Salon Perfect Put a Ring On It and Lilacking Control. 

 

 A simple and bright manicure that didn't take to long and is a mix of bright and pastel!
I hope you have a great day!

Nail Art Wednesday.......Water Marble Tutorial Video

Hey everybody! Happy Nail Art Wednesday.....and yes this is going to be a great day especially if you want to water marble and haven't got the hang of it yet.

Here is the one thing y'all have been waiting on .....Water Marble Tutorial Video!!!!

Update: Just wanted to add a few pictures for y'all to look at:) This is how the water marble in the video turned out!

How did you like the tutorial??? Want more water marble tutorials or nail art???

Happy Polishing Everyone!

Love,
~Anne~

Take me to the beach! Nail Art Wednesday

Hi everyone today I have for you my play day! I was coming up with a fade to wear and I have been practicing my nail art...so a day at the beach...

So first up is the one I liked the most except for the white. I still have a heavy hand when it comes to some stuff and it just doesn't work but the white is supposed to be light fluffy clouds..and if you look close to my ring finger (second from the right) you will see I added a sail boat ^_^

So after the clouds didn't work I tried out another way starting with blue and ending with orange I like how this turned out because to me this was more of a sun coming up instead of going down ^_^ 

I have to say the fade is pretty easy to do the first manicure I did I had only 3 colors plus black and white...the second manicure I had 4 colors plus black and white. Some practice has gone into me painting with a striping brush. I did have fun making these I always love to see an idea come together!

What is your favorite summer manicure? What are you wearing the most of neon, or bright colors?

Nail Art Wednesday......Taped Up

Hey everybody:) Today I have a super easy nail art tape mani for y'all. First off I have to share this with you... I won a Milani summer gift set that was worth $800, okay take a second to digest that...... that's right think all the pretty nail polish and tons more. I will put up a picture at the end of this post:)

On with today's mani:) I went out with my kids the other day and put on a quick coat of Milani Violet Dash, this polish is a one coat polish that is super pretty ♥ . As I was out running around like my head was cut off, I looked down at my mani and thought this needs a little something. So when I got home I looked through the new polishes I had and didn't really see the color I wanted :( But I have a small box on my work desk of polish that haven't been swatched and...you guessed it I found the perfect match, Pop Beauty 63 Mint Magic. These two polishes together are just beautiful ♥.

So here is what I did.....   On all my nails except the ring finger I put on a base of Mint Magic. Let that dry and just to be sure everything would be dry I added a top coat of Seche Vite. Then dug in my drawers and found my nail tape, if you don't have any go to ebay and find some its super cheap. I taped a cross on the top left of my nail and the painted over it with Milani Violet Dash (did the opposite on the ring finger). Super Easy Right!!!! Top coat and you are done:)
Here are the pictures:)

What do y'all think???? I love it and just think its a great combo:) And as I promised here is the picture of the Milani prize I won ( sorry its not the best), it took up most of my table, I had to stand on a chair!

Happy Polishing Everyone!
Love,
~Anne~

Nail Art Wednesday....I ♥ you!

Hey everybody:) Its good to be back blogging, although I really loved that mini break:) Today I have a look that I just fell in love with, I first saw this mani on Pinterest (LINK). I was like oh yea baby! I changed a few things.....I used a darker pink and a darker gold, plus I used some nail art stickers I had lying around ♥ .
Okay so I have to tell y'all that this mani was a little harder than I thought it would be...the lines are hard as crap to get straight and then painting the gold lines on that...wow I really didn't know what I was getting myself into. But at the end of the day I LOVE IT!!!! Here are the are the great pictures:)

So what do y'all think???? I am so in love with this look I have had it on for about 3 days now (thats huge for me). Since we are back blogging is there anything that y'all want to see more of on Southern Sister Polish??? Leave a comment and let us know:)

Happy Polishing Everyone!
The product(s) in this post were provided to me for review. For more information please visit our Disclosure Policy Tab.

Love,
~Anne~

Nail Art Wednesday.....Watermelon!

Hey everybody:) This is a quick nail art Wednesday post about my favorite summertime fruit....Watermelon!!
I have a love for watermelon that is growing bigger everyday, the other night my hubby made me a watermelon margarita...YUM!
Take a look at these great pictures of my Watermelon mani!!!

 Hope y'all are having a great summer! Tell me what you think of this watermelon mani :)

Happy Polishing Everyone!
Love,
~Anne~

Nail Art Wednesday.... Happy 4th of July

Hey everybody:) Today I have a awesome 4th of July inspired water marble:) This is one of my favorite holidays... food, fireworks, family, fireworks, swimming, fireworks, my kids having fun, did I mention FIREWORKS!!!!!
So this water marble took some experimenting to get the look I wanted...by the end I was tired. Finally I came up with this combo.... red base I used  Nicole by OPI- OMB! and then I marbled with Hard Candy- Mr. Right, a white(just whatever),Zoya Trixie (for dots) and a clear. That's right a clear!!! This has to be one of my favorite water marbles to date....RED, WHITE, and Blue = ♥ . Here are the great pictures:)

How are y'all spending the 4th ???? I hope y'all have a happy and safe 4th of July:)

UPDATE: Do you want to learn to water marble? Here is the NEW Water Marble Tutorial Video:
http://southernsisterpolish.blogspot.com/2012/08/nail-art-wednesdaywater-marble-tutorial.html


Happy Polishing Everybody:)
Love,
~Anne~

Nail Art Wednesday: Flag Manicure

Hey all! This manicure was so much fun to create! I started with a white base then stamped with the Salon Express Stamping Kit S22 (my kit came from Sally's) plate using KleanColor Metallic Blue...I didn't really stamp straight but I did try..(I'm sure I could have made it straight if I was willing to tape up my nail but this worked just fine). AFTER that dried I top coated my nail and let that dry...I actually stepped away because I have been known to ruin a manicure when I thought it was dry and it wasn't...came back taped over the blue stamping part. Then I took some tape and just cut strips and after putting that on my nails I painted over it with KleanColor Metallic Red! I took the tape right off as soon as I was done and let it dry because KleanColor are known to bleed with topcoat.

I'm really happy how this came out! It took a little time but I like it!

Thanks for checking us out again today make sure you check back Thursday , Monday and the 4th for More 4th of July Manicures!

Nail Art Wednesday.....Start of Summer

Today is the first day of summer! Let's enjoy it...For today's manicure I used a white base to get my color's to pop a bit more and then I took my pink (Electro Candy) and with a nail art brush I swiped downward towards the tip (stopping at the middle) doing all of my fingers...While my pink was still wet I swiped (with the same brush--but cleaned) from the middle to tip with my orange (Tangerine Scream)..I then repeated the process...this is how it turned out! 

I was then thinking of stamping since I haven't done it in awhile and miss it! So I took out my Konad M57 plate..and my KleanColor's in Metallic Pink and Metallic Orange..it seemed to fit at the time...coated half of my plate with pink and half with orange and stamped!

I'm not sure if I like how this turned out with the stamping...but C'est La Vie! I hope everyone enjoys your first day of summer! ^_^

What's on your nails right now?

Nail Art Wednesday....... Hello Kitty and Friends!

Hey everybody:) I have for y'all today Hello Kitty and Friends!!!! Ever since I was little; I'm talking little, I've always loved Hello Kitty ♥. We had a Sanrio store at the mall and every weekend (well almost) we would go, it was just the thing to do.... and my sister and I would stay in the store for an hour or two, mom would always have to come and get us. But anyway the love I have for Hello Kitty and her friends has never went away!
This post is going to look similar to the Black Cat Friday post I did, you can check that out here. I added Hello Kitty, Keroppi, Badtemaru, Pochacco and yes Chococat is still there. I'm so glad I finally got around to doing these for y'all and I just know they are going to bring those great childhood memories back:) Here are the great pictures!

So are you thinking of Hello Kitty memories yet??? This was all done free handed and took a great deal of time... thank goodness I have a pool for the kids to stay busy in!
Let me know what y'all think, which friend is your favorite???

Happy Polishing Everyone!
Love,
~Anne~

Nail Art Wednesday..........Neon Flowers

Hey everybody this is going to be a quick post:) I wanted something simple for this week's nail art, so I went with flowers. Super easy and they are cute to boot! Here are the pictures:)

These are just done with a dotting tool and can be any color you want:) I love the neon flowers with the black. I'm working on something big and can't wait to share it with you:)

P.S. I have a post over at Midnight Manicures that you should check out here is the link:
http://www.midnightmanicures.com/2012/06/guest-post-hawaiian-inspired-mani-anne.html

Happy Polishing Everyone!
Love,
~Anne~

Nail Art Wednesday......Flamingos

Hey everybody:) Sorry I was MIA last week .......... it is super busy here! But I have for you a super cute summer mani for y'all........Flamingos!!!!! I saw this pin on Pinterest (y'all know I love me some Pinterest)
Little did I know that this was going to be kinda hard to paint. The backround color is blue and the pink I put on top of it was making purple....this really pissed me off, so I had to put down white so no colors would blend( instead of painting once I had to do things twice, everything you see that is pink had to be painted white first). This really took all afternoon.....but I think they are kinda cute:) I started off with China Glaze Towel Boy Toy, I used Zoya Lara for the dark pink of the body, and Zoya Shelby for the wing. So I guess on with the show....here are the pictures:)

Well whatcha think???? I'm really liking the summery feel........... think I'll go jump in the pool with the kids:)
See ya!

Happy Polishing Everyone!

Love,
~Anne~

Some of the product(s) in this post were provided to my for review. For more information please visit our Disclosure Policy Tab. 

Nail Art Wednesday.....Ahoy!

Hey everybody:) I'm here today with a nautical inspired mani.... for all my girls who are going on vacation soon, pay attention!!! First off....... I'm in love with Pinterest....and the other day I came across a really cute pedi picture and thought I could do this for my nails ...OH YEAH!!!!      

I started off with really cleaning my nails good, gave myself a good soak and scrub:) and then I jumped right in with China Glaze Blue Iguana on my ring finger, this goes on shear so I started here first...so I could layer it up.
Next step was the tips, I used my trusty Zoya Snow White, I always try to do this carefully but you have to cleanup anyway * shrugs shoulders*.
After that I broke out my trusty clean up brush and make sure my tips look pretty good:)
Add a layer of my Blue Iguana.
I let this dry for a few and then get my nail art brushes (I love these), and add a thin line under my tip of Blue Iguana.
Add another layer to my ring finger. Let dry for another few.
Now on to the nail art... the anchor was the hardest part of this mani. I took my time and still had to clean up a little *sigh* oh well learning is half the fun for me:) Finally I added a bottom base color to my tips, and top coat and your done!!! Wow I think I might need a vacation after that, lol. Here are the awesome picture!!!

no flash

no flash

with flash

*HUGE SIGH* I'm in love!!!
So what do y'all think....my mom said she loved it but I should have done this in red! My daughter just thought it was super cool:) Even the hubby said that he loved it:)  I loved it so much I wore this for 5 days...yes you read that right...5 days!!!! I did have to fix one nail but yeah I loved it that much:) Let me know if you try this and email me a picture, I would love to see it:)

Happy Polishing Everyone!
Love,
~Anne~