rainbows!!!

so last week at work we were talking about rainbows in my classroom with my kids since it has been raining so of course i had to do rainbow something on my nails. this isnt the design that i originally wanted to do but it was getting late and it was quick. they are a little chipped because i took a picture of them the day after instead of right after they were one but oh well

(notice my short pointer nail ):

st. pattys day

a real quickie. wasnt even going to do anything with them but i was bored while hubby was doing his weekend warrior thing. 

HERE IS MORE OF THE Cirque du Soleil COLLECTION I TALKED ABOUT IN THE PREVIOUS POST.

first pic is the black and white glitter that i stated i needed to get.

::the whole collection::

GLITTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so i got some martha stewart glitter pen things in the mail the other week and decided to see what they would do on my nails...well i did this real quick on st. patty's day. needless to say, it didnt hold up very well once i started cleaning and doing the dishes today. 

lately

sorry i havent been posting lately. ugh ive been really sick for awhile. idk how because there hasnt been a winter here in PA...but ive been sick more this year w/o a winter than i have been any other year that there were bad winters. ugh i think we need to move to alaska or somewhere cold. it doesnt help that strept and ear infections are going around the school like crazy! on top of being sick, my allergies are driving me nuts! anyways, enough of my pitty party...here are some things i have done since posting last....

gel polish is the red polish and the black with flowers is regular polish.

 

Gel polish (used with the light). i was wondering if i could paint designs on it so i gave it a try and it worked for a couple days. 

st. patty's nails. i used the gel polish top coat then cooked it under the light so they would last until at least friday. i painted them on tuesday night and so far they are holding up pretty decently.

im not irish...and im not good with writing letters with polish.

i also have to say that the gel polish that comes in the kit from walmart claims to last 2-3 weeks. mine lasted a week not counting having to do touch ups and repaint a finger. my dishwasher broke so i have been doing dishes by hand and after soaking in the water, the gel polish completely peeled off one of my nails. the gel top coat started peeling off too. when i did decide to take it off, it was very very hard to get off and totally trashed my nails. supposedly it is supposed to come right off after soaking it in remover but, yea right, it didnt. i had to soak and pick and peel to get it off any my nails looked like complete crap afterwards.  

first design of 2012 and swatch

well it took me 10 days, but i finally did a nail design...on my toes tho. i had the snowflakes on my toes for awhile and since it wasnt snowing (hopefully it will sometime this winter) and im still wearing flip flops...in PA...in the winter....i decided to give my toe nails a face lift. and i found out that when i was doing my nails, i am missing a whole bunch of my nail pens. im so pissed! idk if the fell outta my tote in florida or what but i guess i should be glad its not my migis missing....they are the cheapos from ebay, but they were still the cheapos that i used all the time! grrrrrrrr

swatch of 24/7 by sinful colors that i got at rite-aid. i posted pics of it in a below post. it is a bright pink matte (one of my dogs hercules, wanted to make a blog debut)

i painted a rainbow on the toe too but the pony on this toe completely covered it. when i painted it didnt anticipate it turning out this big

can see the rainbow a little bit on this toe

on my other toes i tried the "water painting" that i found on chalkboard nails' blog but quickly found out that i didnt have a big enough pointed brush. all of my brushes were too skinny :(

INSPIRATION:

lisa frank

for these i used craft glue and eye shadow.....the remind me of lisa frank

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