Who's ready for some neon?

Hi all! I have to show you what I'm wearing today this is going to be a real quick post. I couldn't decide on the neon I wanted to wear so I decided on using all of them. This is China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy, Celtic Sun, Orange Knockout, Pool Party, Turned up Turquoise and Flying Dragon over a white base. I wanted something unique for this mani so I did a brush stroke. Very simple and easy to do! 

The last two pictures really capture the neon-ness of these! I hope everyone has a wonderful day and weekend! Tell me what's your favorite neon? 

Neon Dot and Clean

Have everybody:) Today I have a really cool mani that I saw on a friends FB page and wanted to try it out. For my version of this mani I started off with a white base coat, after that dried I dotted neon colors (one at a time) and dipped a q-tip in acetone and cleaned it off. Here is a link to the short video.... LINK , shout out to stylish_mom for the inspiration! Here is my version I like to call "Neon Dot and Clean".

Leave me a comment and tell me what you think of this mani! I did try this look with black but neon and black don't really mix to well when you are trying to take the color off :(

Happy Polishing Everyone:)
Love,
~Anne~

Palm Tree Tutorial

Hey everybody! Today I have an awesome and easy way to dress up those summer beach manis..... Palm Trees! This tutorial is easy and really just takes 4 steps to making the perfect palm tree mani.

Step 1  Super easy, start off with any summer color. I just happen to have a summer ombre on when I wanted to do these. In my ombre I used China Glaze Pool Party, Flip Flop Fantasy, and Sun Worshiper.

Step 2 is a couple of simple lines going from right to left. This gives you a base to start your palm tree and gives you the illusion of water.

Step 3 is the trunk of the palm tree. If you look at pictures of palm trees near the water the trunks are always curved, and doing this in the mani makes it look better than a straight line going up and down.

Step 4 is placing the palm leaves. This may take a little practice, just keep in mind that you need to do a slight curve in the leaves. I start from the trunk and pull my brush out.

















That was super easy! Here is a shot of the final mani ♥

I love this look so much! This really looks great as a pedi♥  Leave me a comment and tell me what you think of this mani:)

Happy Polishing Everybody!

Love,
~Anne~

Neon Rainbow

Hi all today I tried something new...not sponging just using the nail polish brush I painted a rainbow...then covered it with a stamp from my XL-A LeaLacC stamping plate with konad white special polish. 

I really liked this and the dots calmed the rainbow down a bit but it still was NEON.

Let me know what you think. How do you wear your neon's?

Tie Dye Nails

Hey everybody! Today I have a great summer mani for y'all ..... Tie Dye Nails!! So do you remember when you where a kid and your mom said lets do something different like tie dye, and you were thinking of those awesome tees they sell at the beach but yours came out like a dirty old shirt? Well that is what happen with me and this mani the first 3 times I tried and then I finally got it right and that is what I have for y'all today!

I started off with a white base polish, took out all of my China Glaze neon's and got to work. I usually work ROYGBIV ( the colors of the rainbow) but started this mani backwards. You have to work not fast but quickly. So from the bottom corner right side I used a dab of Creative Fantasy, around that Splish Splash, Kiwi Cool-ada, Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, Sun Worshiper, and finally Pool Party. And then with a thin angle nail art brush dipped in acetone I made my lines, I did this very light so that the white would come back through and make the tie dye affect. Here are my Tie Dye Nails!

The night I did these nails we went outside to play a game with the kids and my nails looked like they were glowing in the dark, I love them! My daughter wanted me to do her toes, so much fun!
Leave me a comment and tell me what you think of these Tie Dye nails!

Happy Polishing Everybody!
Love,
~Anne~

Step By Step..... A Taped Mani

Hey everybody:) Today I have a taped mani that I think your going to love ♥  I wanted to go through my steps of what I do with tape and how I use it :) This mani really did turn out better than I hoped and I really think it might be a great way to accent a nail maybe not the whole set but defiantly one:)

Step 1:
Paint a white base coat, I used Zoya Snow White. After a minute I put on Seche Vite fast drying top coat, this for me helps with not pulling the polish up when I pull off the tape.







Step 2:

This picture shows the tape of a mani that I didn't like :(

Cut tape and place where you want it. *Remember that the tape covers the base coat, so when you pull it up white is going to be there.

Step 3:
Paint, this is the part some people hate. You have to be really careful and paint between the lines. I did my Maybelline Sunset Prisms first and then painted Milani Pool Party. As you can see in the picture I skipped a section, I just wanted this big whit strip at the bottom. And yes it is a little messy but it is worth it:)






Step 4:
Remove your tape. Be careful, I used a tweezers and pulled from one side to the other.


Step 5:

Step five is really just clean up and top coat and your done! I added a gold stripe in the middle of this mani ♥










Here are the final pictures of this taped mani:)

So what do y'all think??? I love this,  I'm so ready for warmer weather (warmer not hot!) Leave me a comment and tell me what you think:)

Happy Polishing Everybody!
Love,
~Anne~

Nail Art Wednesday: Dots

Hi everyone! Today's Nail Art Wednesday is brought to you by Kat over at The Kracked Kat. She showed me this picture from this blog and told me to get to it. ^_^ So I said what the hay I can do this but I told her "you have to do one also!" Joint adventure accepted ...so we both got to work and here is what I came up with! My first picture is taken on a cloudy day where we where about to have rain (a whole afternoon of rain little did I know). So I couldn't capture the manicure like I wanted because it was very dark out. Here it is!

The colors I used above are O.P.I.- Fly, China Glaze- In the Lime Light, Flying Dragon, Flip Flop Fantasy, Pool Party.

So I figured I'd wear this for a bit and take pictures the next day! Boy was I wrong came in and BAM banged my new manicure with the door and messed it up! But I figured I had a few good pictures >.< nope but I do have that one to show you!

So I Started over another day doing the same manicure but with a brighter purple so it would pop more...and on accident I grabbed another blue (they are right next to each other in my melmer so I just picked up one)

The colors I used in this one are O.P.I.- Suzi Says Feng Shui, Finger Paints- Pop Art Purple, China Glaze- In the Lime Light, Flip Flop Fantasy, Pool Party.

I really love how each color just pops over the black!

Now Here is Kat's isn't it lovely! I told her that I will be copying this in the future...I hope you will check out Kat's post!

I love both looks so much! I need to get some more use out of my neon's before fall starts.

Are you still rocking summer colors or are you ready for fall colors?

Thursday Special.....Fade into the Sunset

Hey everybody! Today I have a gradient mani for y'all:) I'm in love with these manis and love doing them for y'all:) For this mani I used all China Glaze .... Sun Worshiper, Pool Party, Flying Dragon, Frost Bite, and Fairy Dust on top. These are super easy to do they just take a little time...I will say blending is a must. Now I have seen people use a triangular make-up sponge to do gradient manis and they come out great, I guess I don't do that right cause it never works for me. I blend everything with a tiny sponge ( tiny!!), takes a little longer but it works for me:) Here are the great pictures!!!

So what do y'all think of all these gradient mani people are doing....are they worth the time or just really pretty to look at???

P.S. Have you entered our giveaway??? Here is the link....HERE:) *CLOSED*
Happy Polishing Everyone!
Love,
~Anne~