STORY OF MY LIFE

So I had long nails. THEN one broke and I filed them all down! They grew back out. ANOTHER ONE BROKE!!! now I have nubbs waiting to become beautiful butterflies. Stay tuned. My dears follow me because my next one is going to GREAT!

Taped Tile!!!

So I've been really excited lately, I've had a lot of BIG things happen in the past couple of weeks that are helping me cope with the loss of my mother. Though I would never admit that to my uncle, knowing he would use it against me later in my decision to move to a completely different state. I've gone back to work and BOY am I glad to be back. A paycheck and an amazing group of people to be around! I started teaching the 3rd grade girls at my church in the children's area. My high school's rival football game is this friday, So glad to go see some old teachers and friends! My all time favorite of this week is I bought my plane ticket to go see my amazing boyfriend of 5 years in Pensacola, FL after 4 long months of phone calls and skype it'll be nice to see him. So proud of my marine!! :)

ANYWAY! on to the manicure, the colors I used are.

• Suzi And The 7 Dusseldorf's - OPI
• A Grape Fit! - OPI
• Nude - China Glaze 

Suzi And The Seven Dusseldorf's, A grape Fit, Nude

The Look!

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I used Deborah Lippman's Matte Top coat on all my fingers except my accent!

The Tutorial VIDEO! 

Color Club Fall!

Today's manicure is yet ANOTHER fall design. As of right now I'm on a french tip kick. A small part of me wants to have the "model" nail shape that almost everyone has and loves. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about the perfect role model for these shapely nails is Mixed Mama. To me she has the PERFECT nail shape. Though I know we are a community of all shapes, sizes, and lengths. Let me just tell you how scared I am, that once a full coat of colored polish goes on my nails I'm going to hate it and go back down to short nails. One more thing before we move on I'm going to try and start doing picture by picture video tutorials because I know reading can be tedious and most of us busy bodies out there barely have time to paint our nails. ANYWAY! on to the manicure.

For the look today I used

• Put A Pin In It - Color Club 
• Cuckoo For This Color - OPI
• White On White - China Glaze
• Seche Vite Top Coat
• Seche Clear Base Coat 
• and of course MASH rhinestone wheel in black!

Below are the two main colors featured

Put A Pin In It, Cuckoo For This Color

The Look!

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ON TO THE STEPS!!! 

Step 1:

Apply a thin coat of Seche Clear. This prevents staining and also helps the polish last a little longer!

Step 2:

Now on to the french tip! You can do this one of two ways. You can use tip guides found on Ebay (this is the method I used) or you can use a brush and pure acetone. I'll post a video at the end of the post showing you how to use the second method! Apply the stickers to all your nails first! I cannot stress this enough! If you do it one by one you will constantly have to repaint another nail! Once you are done with the stickers go ahead and ONE BY ONE! paint the tip of your nails, quickly removing the stickers off of your nail to be sure you don't take off the polish you just painted!

Step 3:

For the Cuckoo For This Color double line I used a nail art brush also found on Ebay for really cheap to carefully go along the smile of my nails! (YAY for happy nails)

Step 4:

Using dotting tools once again found on Ebay using the smallest dotting tool I have (toothpicks or bobby pins work too!) I applied a single dot of White On White. Then taking the other end of my dotting tool I swept from the middle towards where I wanted the center of my flower to be. I repeated this step 4 more times, making it 5 total petals!

Step 5 & 6:

I applied my MASH rhinestones in black to the center of my flower. Following this entire look up with a single application of Seche Vite! 

The link to the second option for creating french tips:

It's a lot easier then it looks I promise! 

I hope you readers enjoyed this look! If you enjoyed it or just wanna help a fellow blogger out be sure to subscribe! 

Inspired By Fall!

So since I'm in the first few stages of starting this lovely place I figured I'd give all you lurkers out there something to look at other than a "No Post Here" title. The look is inspired and in honor of the first day of fall!! Fall is one of my favorite seasons! As I'm sure is many others. The leaves start changing and the world becomes even more beautful. Anyway! I'm starting to sound like a hippie so on to the manicure!! 

For today's manicure I used 4 different polishes shown below. From Left to right the colors are

• Every Month Is Octoberfest - OPI
• Times Square Tangerine - NYC
• Need Sunglasses? - OPI
• Gold Digger - China Glaze 

The look was inspired by a lovely Robin Moses. At the end of my post I'll post the youtube video to show you how I attempted to do this look but I'm no Robin Moses. My nails ended up looking like a grunged out fall manicure but either way still FALL!!

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  I used used this Fall leaves For Autumn Tutorial.

I hope you all enjoyed my attempt! Be sure to follow for more Wonderfully Whimsical things!