smells like teen angst

This is a little avril-lavigne-back-to-school-line but this plate was too hilarious to pass up. There is a spider, scorpion, skull (with crossbones), an eagle, and a cobra! Amazing! So here it is :)

like a coogi sweater, but for your nails!

I am really into this woman from Germany's blog right now. Her name is Susa and her blog is http://supanails.tumblr.com/. She is super talented and her designs are ridiculously dope...

almost as dope as Biggie.

business casual ;)

This mani reminds me of a gentlemans casual tie or something out of one of my J Crew-peppered day dreams.

Sugar Skull

This mani took kind of a long time - although most of it was probably spent looking at images online. I have sugar skulls on the back of my legs but they're kind of hard see ; )

hot pink crocodile!

With all of these new plates I'm gonna be wrapped up in stamping for weeks! I am really happy with the bigger images, the designs turn out way better :)

Ssssssnake Print

another new design <3

• base coat - Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Wet Cement
• image plate - BM-215 with China Glaze - Awaken

giraffes!

I saw a picture of a boy and girl giraffe greeting card and I thought I would take a whack at it :)
here is the card:

and here are the nails:

last weeks nails

So last week was the Ann Arbor Art Fair and I worked ridiculously long hours in unbelievable heat. I didn't have time to blog all of my nails, but I did manage to keep them cute throughout the whole ordeal! I can't remember all of the different polishes I used but I don't really own anything you can't but at the drug store. There were one or two franken-colors when I couldn't find the right shade but most are pretty standard.
day 1.

day 2.

day 3.

day 4.

day 5.

and today's nails.

Hopefully I'll get back on track tonight (if this storm doesn't knock out the power!)

chartreuse and puce

 Probably two of my favorite colors plus they just sound awesome. I felt like this was a little less flashy than the past couple of days but a bit more appropriate for work ;)

• base coat - China Glaze - Electric Pineapple
• image plate - BM20
• design - China Glaze - Senorita Bonita & Sinful Colors - Nirvana

rose garden

I got the Island Escape collection from China Glaze yesterday and I just don't know what to use first! I've seen this style of rose mani a few times and I love how girly it is. It was really easy to do and it went pretty fast.

• base coat - Mint Sorbet - Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear
• roses - Hazard- Sinful Colors, Speedy Sunburst - Sally Hansen Insta-Dri
• leaves - Cha Cha Cha - China Glaze

cherry blossoms!

I had completely forgotten that I had ordered image plate M66 from Konad last week and it arrived today along with some other pretty great stuff. I love the designs on this plate, and they transfer so well! I decided to use just the cherry blossom stamp...

• base coat - China Glaze - For Audrey
• branches - Sinful Colors - Nirvana
• cherry blossoms - Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Speedy Sunburst

I'm really happy with how this turned out and am tempted to leave it on for more than one day ;)