barbed hearts (last vday design)

okay folks! so my hubby returned (YAY)! still waiting on that bday cake tho...hint hubs! so here is the last installation of my vday designs (that i am going to label a vday design). as stated last year, vday designs can be done anytime of the year. wish the same could be said about halloween designs :/ AAAANNNNYYYYWAYS i did hearts with barbed wire on them. as always, inspiration is listed below.....

i painted them from memory (from when i saw the pic) so i forgot that there was a whole heart on the one finger nail or else i woulda done that....poop

broken, bleeding hearts

my loyal few followers that have been here for awhile know that 1. my birthday was on the 13th and 2. my husband is in the military. this year my husband was called to go to Connecticut to help with snow removal. apparently there is a crap ton up there. so he left leaving me planless for bday & vday hence the broken, bleeding hearts. so yea, he owe me a cake when he gets home which is hopefully sooner rather than later. 

well my sister asked me to go to dinner (there is a restaurant here that gives you $15 off your bill for your bray so i got to eat for free!) with her for my bday so major kudos to her for not letting me sit at home all day cleaning. but i didnt have time to do my nails so i had nasty naked nails. blah! also it snowed on my bday! it does every year but this year it was extra pretty!

inspiration below

my sister insisted on trying the milky way martinis. vodka and i do not mix well...gives me a huge stomach ache and its not pretty but i figured what the heck and tried it. was not good. tasted like chocolate milk with vodka in it (a yuck for both of those)

LOOK AT THE SNOW COMING DOWN IN THE BACKGROUND!!!

when i got home from my bday night with my sister i had 2 packages on my porch which im surprised no one took. but the one package was a bracelet from my hubby. i opened it and cried. ive wanted a charm bracelet FOREVER...

the second package was flowers from my mom and dad in florida. again, i cried when i opened them. 29 years old and ive never had flowers sent to me (probably cause my hubby is allergic and my cats eat them) but yea i was a bawl baby

they are pretty but imagine how fitting black roses or black flowers would been. lol

dont mind the counter mess. it was the only place i could put the flowers where my cat wouldnt eat them. that was my vady...cleaning, school work, and nails. 

more hearts

neither of these designs lasted on my nails. i hated both of them immediately after i did them. 

i have a problem when i use tape for nail art. i get impatient and take the tape off too soon resulting in unclean lines. i hated it!

flocking!

soooo yep i got my hands on some flocking powder. it was on sale at michaels. i paid less than $3.99 for 6 bottles of it. granted they are WAAAAY to bright for my liking (id be happy with red, white, and black ones...of course) but i couldnt pass the deal up. i have no clue what flocking powder is even supposed to be used for, other than nail art, so i will probably never use it conventionally (just like the microbeads) but oh well. just another thing to add to my huge, overflowing nail art tote. 

and i know that the last bottle of the powder looks red, but its not. its more like a fuchsia. 

so here is what i did with it...for a night...then took it off cause fuzzies stick to it like crazy and i couldnt stop rubbing the fuzziness of the powder on my nails. yea yea...texture....

so i have something else up my sleeves to try for tomorrow (?) or whenever i have another date/appointment to leave my house. i never go anywhere since all my classes are online this semester and i workout in my living room. no point in doing my nails for jillian michaels to see....... 

i got a heart on! (lol sorry couldnt help it)

soooooo this is what i have been up to. the first 2 pics were done in a couple minutes for a surprise date night. i couldnt decide if i was going to wear leopard, zebra, black, or red for my dinner date so i just put a combo of all on my nails. ultimately i decided to wear zebra. but these only lasted a day before i started picking it off.

the nails below are my friend's nails. i saw a pic online in my fb news feed and wanted to try it. she wanted bright colors so i grabbed a couple and headed to her boyfriend's house to paint her nails while her bf and my hubby worked on my jeep. i did it by first putting clear on a baggie, then crackle, then more clear. after it dried i picked it off and cut out heart shapes. 

i liked it so much that i decided to do it to my nails too...of course in my trademark red, black, and white colors that i always go to.

and well i was thinking about getting this tool box to put all my stuff in that i have because when someone wants me to go to their house and bring my nail stuff, its getting really hard and heavy to carry all my totes full of junk. the tool box has a handle and wheels so i could just wheel it around. i had it it my shopping cart last time i was at walmart and put it back because i didnt know where to store it in my house. hubby has one in the basement.....maybe i should steal his ;)

nothing much!

no new nail designs this past week. OMGoodness! i've had the same design on for a week!!! holy poop! the design help up pretty well until i started playing legos with my stepson tonight. i will see what i can come up with for tomorrow......i really want to try to water spotted technique that i saw last week.....i will give it a whirl this weekend.

anyways at sallys today i saw the china glaze collection called "tranzitions." it is polish that changes color with topcoat. i am not to fond of it. apparently it has been out for a couple weeks but i dont frequent sally's that often )only when i start to run out of my seche) so i usually happen to miss the "cool" new fad in polishes. another blogger did a review of the collection that can be found here. i personally will not be spending money on this collection....ESPECIALLY since the last chine glaze polish that i bought (black crackle) totally dried up in a little over a year. (im more of a finger paints fan anyways.) <~ speaking of which, if anyone can point me in the direction of the finger paint flakies, id appreciate it since i was only able to get my hands on one bottle when it first came out.

also speaking of finger paints, they too have a new collection called candy coated. apparently people have not taken my advice and bought the martha stewart micro beads which do the same thing and cost less than buying all of the different color bead pots from beauty supply places. i think when i got mine awhile ago i only paid $11 for 12 colors of micro beads. i dont use them that often anways because as many of you know, they never stay on for more than a couple hours since no topcoat is applied (without it looking like a real jar of caviar instead of like sprinkles which is you are going for that look, use the gel topcoat that you have to cook under the uv light).

alright i guess im done rambling for now

fox racing and beetlejuice

i have to start by saying that i havent been update much because somehow, my google password was changed. someone hacked my account and changed my password. i have a pretty good idea of who it was but after a couple setting changes (that the hacker didnt get to) my password is no longer able to be changed w/o me getting a text first. and like on facebook, anytime a creeper tries to log on from an unknown location, i also get a text. NOW ANYWAYS....

i can't remember where i saw beetlejuice nails at originally but i had a picture of them saved to my computer....but i tried to copy them and it didn't turn out very well. i didnt have the right color green for his hair (guess i need to head to the craft store and get more paint colors!) so instead of looking like beetlejuice, he looks like the joker from batman. LOL. well at least i tried! but of course, as always, started with a blank (white) canvas. i sponged my pointer and pinky and painted on a bat and beetles. inspiration pics below. 

INSPIRATION BELOW!

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after i wore beetlejuice for a day, he started chipping (i'm outta seche and need a sally's run!!!!!) so i got annoyed and took it off. i found a fox racing nail design on my pinterest feed and wanted to try it. although i'm not really into the fox racing scene, i still wanted to try it. i'm not a poser like everyone else around where i live. 

i used the ziploc bag technique. ya know, then one where you put randomly placed dots on your nails and the smoosh them all together with the ziploc bag? yea, i was trying something new. got a buncha other techniques that i want to try out as well. but the end result from the baggie is kind of like a pink and gray cammo-ish thing. 

inspiration came from this lovely lady's blog

my thumb isnt anything special. i am out of nail glue so i didnt want to put rhinestones on. instead i just threw on some pink penguin glitter (seen here) and called it a night.