Don't go chasin' waterfalls!

I thought the song was appropriate for the mani I am going to show you in this post. lol Plus I just love that song, and TLC.

Anyways... so lately I have been looking for inspiration to do my nails because I just don't know what to do with them anymore and I get sick of just painting them and not doing anything cute to them. So I kept seeing lots of different ladies posting waterfall mani's and thought they were so cute and been wanting to try them, so I decided I would. I have been putting them off for awhile because I thought they would be hard to do. They're actually pretty easy once you get the hang of it. You can see on my thumb that I was just drawing lines from top to bottom and trying to make them perfect, but then I realized you just have to let the brush flow, like a waterfall.

I am sick of winter and all this snow we have been getting so I decided that I would do some bright summer colors. I used Kate by Julep for my base coat. This is not a very good white to just wear as a solid color, but works good for doing nail art over top of it. Then for the stripes I used the following: Neon Pink nail art duo pen by Art Club, Purple Rain by Art Club, Green Stem by Salon Perfect, Holo Silver nail art duo pen by Art Club, Lilac Hologram by Art Club.

This was my first attempt at doing waterfalls, and honestly I did my thumb first and had to stare at it for awhile and decide if I was going to continue or not. I didn't really like them, but I told myself maybe they'll look better once I do more. Once I did all my nails, but before I put the Lilac Hologram glitter on, I didn't like them and I was going to take it all off and start over with different colors. I thought, maybe it just needs a little sparkle. I added the glitter and LOVED them.

I got a lot of compliments on them so far too and I think they turned out pretty good! Hope you guys enjoyed my post and have a great week! xoLeah

Purple Polka-dot bikini & Shocked

Hi there :)

I was at Walgreens like a week or two ago and I saw new Fergie colors! Omg!  I am not really much of a fan of Fergie's music, but I seriously LOVE her polish collection. They were buy one at 3.99$ get one 50% off.. I didn’t have a lot of money to spend but I was like I don’t even care I love these!!!! I picked two and I had a few other little things, at the checkout I used my Walgreens card and my total was only like $6.38 and I was like oh…. THESE POLISHES ARE CHEAPER WITH MY CARD??!?!? I felt like I won the nail polish lottery! 

One of the colors I picked was Purple Polka-dot Bikini. It’s a gorgeous purple, it reminds me of the crayon Purple Mountains' Majesty. It was kind of hard to pick up the true color on my camera, in a lot of the lighting the pictures were coming out blue.  But thankfully I did get a few good shots!

                                          ( ^ That's my boy cat in the background there! ^)

Isn't is so pretty?! I just love it!  This is two coats and if I was just wearing it by itself I would probably go with three.

I decided to use one of the new polishes I got recently from Wal Mart. It's from a brand that is kind of new to me, Salon Perfect. I have a few polishes I bought a while ago but never used because they never replied if they were cruelty free. Leah had messaged them and they replied and yes they are cruelty free! I read that they are actually an off brand to China Glaze but I can't find the article I read. If I find it I will update this post! 

The color is called Shocked. Its a blue, pink and purple glitter mix and it actually dries with a grit to it. It reminded me of the Feathers polish from Nails Inc. The blue glitter in this polish is so dope!  In some lights it's almost iridescent blue but in some lights it's just blue matte glitter. Super cool. 

I actually really loved how this turned out. I even got a few compliments on it! :D It was a really big pain to get off, but I think mostly because I am out of cotton balls and I only have cotton squares and they suck. Even still , totally worth it! 

Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoy! 

xxooo

Pan

Summer!

I am so excited that summer is finally getting here! This last couple days in Michigan have been slightly chilly, but I am just so glad all the snow and low temperatures are gone! We have had some other weather that I am not so excited about. Last week there were 4 tornadoes that were about an hour away from me. Scary stuff!

This weekend my family and I are going camping and I am so excited!!!!! I haven't been camping since before I got married and I have been married for 7 years this september. Thats a long time without camping, especially when my family used to go every summer, multiple times during the year.

So since we are doing this summer themed mani contest, Panacea and I wanted to have some mani pics of our own for inspiration! I also was asked to do a favorite season mani for a polish group I am in. Spring and summer are my favorites, but since I love summer colors better and needed a summer mani, I went with summer for it, that way I could use the same mani for both!

I had lots of fun doing this mani, but right before I did it I was having a really long anxiety attack. So I was still kinda shaky and stuff when I was doing it so its sloppy.

I got to use a bunch of new stuff too!! All of these are new summer polishes I picked up that I haven't got to use yet. I also used some of the nail art design rods I got. I forgot to take a picture though of them, so you can just see them on my nails. lol

Salon Perfect Haute Pink, Claires Flames, Salon Perfect Yowza Yellow, 

Ruby Wings Meadow, and Funky Fingers Power Play. 

Then for the little details I used these!

Art Club Black, Art Club Purple Rain, Art Club White, and Art Club Neon Pink.

All the colors hung on pretty good except for the Claires polish. It was peeling off the next day. The Ruby Wings is holding up the best! Plus it changes to a purple color in the sun, so thats awesome!!!

Thumb - Summer, pointer - bikini,  middle - martini, ring - fruit, pinky - beach towel.

So since I had an anxiety attack and it was like 1am when I did these, I totally forgot to take progression pics. So at least I remembered to take a final pic! haha I messed up the S and then tried to fix it and made it worse. I didnt want to start over, so yea.... haha 

Hope you guys enjoyed my mani! Have a great week everyone! xoLeah