Hi girls! I'll be away from 25th March to 1st April. Please kindly contact me after 1st April for appts. Thank you!

I update my twitter and instagram more often than my blog with nail pictures. You can follow me there. username: cynfulnails

:)

Hi girls! I'll be away from 25th March to 1st April. Please kindly contact me after 1st April for appts. Thank you!

I update my twitter and instagram more often than my blog with nail pictures. You can follow me there. username: cynfulnails

:)

Orly Royal Velvet gets funky...

I picked this up......I'm going to say a few weeks ago, but I can't honestly remember, at Ulta. It's part of the new collection that Orly has out. Out of them all though, once again, only 1 stood out to me, lol, and it was Royal Velvet, man, I just can't pass up a purple/blue duochrome! As always the purple was a lot easier to see in person, my camera just wanted no part of it.

Here is a bottle pic, and you can see the purple tons better, it really does look just like this on the nail.

Here is 3 coats on the nail with SV

and since i haven't done my black tips in ages, I slapped them on as well :) I really just love how Royal Velvet appears to be glowing on my nail!

Good From Far, But Far From Good...Like most men

You all know exactly what I'm talking about. You're out with the girls, maybe had a few drinks, see a hot guy across the room, you make eye contact, they make their way towards you, and BAM, you're instantly wishing they would have stayed on other side of the room. Well, this is how I feel about this mani, lol. Since I loved my other feather mani so much, I discovered a site that had small super fun feathers for sale. I got a few packs, and even some colored dried leaves that I shall try soon. Well this is how the mani started. I used 3 coats of Hard Candy Sky. I wish the bright blue shimmer, that you can see in the bottle in the 2nd pic, was more visible on the nail :(

Here is 1 of the packs I got. I ordered them from www.vivalanails.co.uk. Each pack I got had a different amount of feathers in there. This one had 3, and my pink one had like 6.

and just so you can get an idea of the size

This was after I cut the feather down to my nail size

This time, I applied the feather in the opposite direction, just to see. I wanted the light blue to poke out through my tips. I first brushed on a layer of Elmers Glue, then pressed the feather on top.

This was after it had mostly dried, and I trimmed the tips with clippers. The hard thing about feathers, is all the individual feathers are attached to the center stem, and once you cut them across, they are of course no longer attached :( so as I began placing, and trying to center the feather, it does split some, and the glue makes them stick in clumps, but it makes for a pretty cool effect on my tips.

Here is the final mani, with 2 coats of SV over top, to make it super shiny

Now from afar

See...I told you!!! lol.

ZOYA Summertime Collection Swatches & Review

I just posted swatches and my review of the 6 polishes in theZoya Summertime collection up on the review blog... Check it out!

Jumpin' Through Hoops

Apparently there is some sort of competition going on right now with some college men & women who try to through a ball through a hoop & net. Go figure, it's March again, and what does that mean? March Madness. You got it. :) College basketball competition in full force!! Unfortunately, the teams of my home state of Michigan are already out of the running, so who do I root for? Who knows- but with this manicure I'll be looking 'sporty' doing it! :-D BASKETBALL nails!! They even FEEL like basketballs, it's weird.

I used OPI Ginger Bells as a base, then mixed it with Barielle Coco Bar for the dots, which I applied with a dotting tool. (which, honestly, was a scoring tool from my graphic design stuff since I can't seem to find my dotting tool) For the lines, I used American Apparel Hassid. Topped off the first 2 coats of OPI Ginger Bells only with Seche Vite top coat, because I wanted the dotted texture to show up, like it does on an actual basketball. :)

She shoots, she scores?

Random Swatch : CQ Golden Green

Okay, guys, I have quit a few random swatches just hanging around as 'Drafts' in my blog 'Posting' section, so maybe every few days, I'll do a Random Swatch post in the afternoon :)

This is from the new collection of CQ polishes that I saw at Rite Aid last week. There were a few pretty ones, but all looked so close to ones I own, except this beauty! She is called Golden Green, and it's the best description of the color.

Clear pink acrylic nails

Yes, its all the girly hearts and bows~




Pretty pretty~ Tiny red chrome hearts embedded within the acrylic nails.

Clear pink acrylic nails

Yes, its all the girly hearts and bows~




Pretty pretty~ Tiny red chrome hearts embedded within the acrylic nails.

Bridal nails

Love love love love this!

Customer came and asked for bridal nails and I was thinking, "glitter? flowers? ribbons? crystals?". Then I came up with this design! The silver strips are embedded within the acrylic nails and it matches well with the soft pink glitter and white acrylic flowers. LOVE!