Sweet Candy Nails.

Today's manicure has a theme I love, candy. The base color is one I don't think I've used for nail art before, Julep Maya. The design is done in acrylic paint and I added a bit of glitter with Color Club Starry Temptress. 

Four Corners Nails.

I realized I hadn't used striping tape in a while and decided to do something simple with it. 

The base color for the manicure is OPI A Good Mandarin is Hard to Find and the other color is OPI Ate Berries in the Canaries.

Zoya Giveaway!

I'm holding an exciting giveaway of two of the polishes from Zoya's fall 2012 collection; Toni and Natty.

Entering is very simple. To start off make sure you are following this blog, and then leave a comment on this post letting me know what kind of manicure you could see yourself doing with the polishes from this collection. Be sure to leave your email address in your comment so that I have a way to contact you if you win!

You have until October 7th to enter, so be sure to get your comment in this week. This giveaway is only open to people in the contiguous United States.

Thank you to Verve 360 Pittsburgh salon for providing the prize for this giveaway!

Rainbow Dotted Nails.

Today's manicure has  a bunch of different elements. I did a different gradient on each of my nails to create a rainbow, and then I added a shimmer polish on top of the gradients, and finished things off with gradating dots. 

The red to pink nail was done with Julep January and CND Raspberry Plunge. The yellow to orange nail is CND Bicycle Yellow and CND Electric Orange. The green to teal nail is OPI Don't Mess with OPI and China Glaze Shower Together. The blue to purple nail is China Glaze Spontaneous and China Glaze First Mate.

On the warm toned gradients I added CND Raspberry Sparkle, and for the cool toned ones I added CND Sapphire Sparkle. Then the dots were done with CND Oilslick and a few different sizes of dotting tools.

Girly Floral Nails.

Today's manicure is probably my favorite stamped design I've done in a while! I painted my nails with China Glaze Spontaneous and then I stamped a pattern from BM-221 with Sally Hansen Lively Lilac. To add more dimension to the design I added a floral print from BM-224 with Sally Hansen Fuchsia Chrome. 

Funky Watercolor Nails.

For today's manicure I decided to try out  the watercolor technique. I could definitely see myself doing it more in the future, it's so easy to do and hard to mess up. I started with two coats of Milani White on the Spot and then used a bunch of my favorite neon polishes for the watercolors.

The watercolor design looks cool on it's own, but I decided to add a fun pattern on top. I used a Sally Hansen black nail art pen to add the same pattern I used on these nails.

Cool Toned V-Gap Nails.

I realized I hadn't done a v-gap manicure in a while when I saw photos of them all over the runways at New York Fashion Week and decided it was something I needed to do more of.

My color inspiration actually came from my hair, which I've been enjoying having dip-dyed (colored ends.) The ends of my hair are currently purple and my teal, so I used OPI Ink and Wet n Wild Teal or No Teal.