Music Monday: Sick Of Sarah's 2205

Hello lovelies!

Are you guys ready for another week at work or school? I'm not! I'm currently writing this at 3:15 am while sitting in the studio, taking a little break from my homework. Blah, I'll never learn. I accomplished quite a bit today though, so I guess that's good. 

Anyways, onto the nails!

I told you guys that I was having a striping tape moment this weekend!

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FingerFood Theme Buffet: Week 13 - Monochrome

Hello lovelies!

I'm back again with my nail post for today! Today's theme for the Theme Buffet is either monochrome or Mother's Day nails. I decided to go with monochrome since the US doesn't celebrate Mother's Day until May. And plus, my mom wouldn't actually see them since I'm at school so I'll wait till May for that so I can show her! She doesn't know about the blog or how to use a computer really...so yeah....uhm...

Let's get right to the nails!

I'm on a little striping tape kick again this week, I figured I would warn you guys now haha.

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Weekly Recap 3/23 - 3/29

Hello lovelies!

Here's another weekly recap!

• FingerFood Theme Buffet: Week 12 - Freestyle
• Music Monday: William Beckett's Benny & Joon - Single
• Indie Fridays!: Squishy Face Polish - Electric Eel + Ursula
• Tri-Polish Challenge: Geometrics
• Patterned Wednesdays: All Of The Polka Dots
• Golden Oldie Thursdays: Yellow / Peach
• Lacquer Legion: Lucky
• Indie Fridays/Saturdays!: Squishy Face Polish - Dragon Princess + Teal Me More
• Guest Post at Lipstick, Polish, & Blush, Oh My!

Look at all those posts this week! I'm all caught up on my posts and I'm getting ahead on nails for this week so we're doing good! I used blue a lot again this week, whoops. I'm not even going to try to avoid it anymore haha!

This week was full of some extra posts. The Lacquer Legion post for this week was all about luck so I posted about my lucky polish that I always wear during presentations. I also wrote a guest post for Sam of Lipstick, Polish, & Blush, Oh My! Go check that out and give her blog a look around! I think everything on the blog this week was really fun, I'm loving the little ties from my Music Monday post!

Here are some of the upcoming challenge themes!

And a song for today:

Sleeping With Sirens - If You Can't Hang

Thanks for reading guys and check back later for some nails!

-Marisa! (:

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Guest Post at Lipstick, Polish, & Blush, Oh My!

Hello darlings!

I have another post for you today, this one will be super quick. I wrote a guest post for Sam over at Lipstick, Polish, & Blush, Oh My! You should definitely go check it out if you can!

Here's a teaser picture (;

Thanks guys!

-Marisa! (:

Indie Fridays/Saturdays!: Squishy Face Polish - Dragon Princess + Teal Me More

Hello lovelies!

I told you I'd get this post up for you soon! I'm really trying to get better at not slacking anymore, I know lately around the end of the week I just kind of disappear. But I'm working on it! This weekend is going to be spent doing work so I should be able to get a lot done. I started last night by clearing out over 100 GBs of storage on my laptop! My baby runs so much better now :3

Anyways, onto the nails!

I saved my favorite 2 Squishy Face Polish's for last! This first one is called Dragon Princess!

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Lacquer Legion: Lucky

Hello lovelies!

Yep, so me staying on top of things lasted for all of about a day...whoops haha. You guessed it, I fell asleep before I wrote my posts. I'm putting this one up super late tonight and then I'll get my Indie "Friday" post up for you guys tomorrow. 

But the Lacquer Legion is back!

I'm in love with these nails, I'm so happy with how they came out!

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Golden Oldie Thursdays: Yellow / Peach

Hello lovelies!

You guys are never going to believe what I did yesterday! I had all of my homework done before 10pm. Yeah, you read that right! 10PM! And yet I'm still writing this at 2:30am...at least I painted my nails (;

Anyways, onto these nails!

Also, this is a Golden Oldie Thursdays post that is up on time! I'm so proud of myself! I think I've earned a little nail polish shopping spree (:

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Patterned Wednesdays: All Of The Polka Dots

Hello darlings!

Guess who is actually writing her post at a decent hour tonight and is actually ahead on her homework! THIS GIRL! I bet you thought that you would never read that sentence on this blog! I'm so happy. I have homework for my illustration class done (due Thursday), I'm almost done with my interactive project (due Thursday), and I got a head start on a book that isn't even due until next Friday. Shocking, right?!

Anyways, this is a nail blog!

I'm pretty sure I said a few weeks back that I hate doing dot manicures, and yet every Patterned Wednesday post that I've written has dots....hmmm, weird.....

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Tri-Polish Challenge: Geometrics

Hello lovelies!

Today is the last day of this month's Tri-Polish Challenge colors and I'm honestly really upset. There are so many amazing combinations and designs that can be done with blue, green, and purple! Not to mention, they're my 3 favorite nail polish colors.

Anyways, let's get into the nails!

I really really really love these nails! Gah, yay!

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Indie Fridays!: Squishy Face Polish - Electric Eel + Ursula

Hello lovelies!

I promised you guys that I would get my Indie "Friday" post up for you all! So here it is!

Let's get right into it, I'm continuing on with my Squishy Face Polish collection!

This first polish is called Electric Eel!

Music Monday: William Beckett's Benny & Joon - Single

Hello lovelies!

Guess who procrastinated all weekend and stayed up way too late on homework last night? Me! You can all just assume that this will happen every single Sunday until I'm done with school in a year and a half.....and maybe even longer if I go to grad school, still haven't figured that one out yet....

Anyways, nails!

I think these are so adorable! My nails look so fancy! :3

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FingerFood Theme Buffet: Week 12 - Freestyle

Hello lovelies!

Look I'm back! Are you excited! I hope you all shouted yes or at least nodded your head (:

Let's get right into today's post!

I have to admit that I love when challenges have a "freestyle" day because you get free reign to do whatever you want!

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Weekly Recap 3/16 - 3/22

Hello lovelies! 

Here's another recap!

• FingerFood Theme Buffet: Week 11 - St. Patrick's Day
• Guest Post at The Nail Snail!
• Music Monday: Ivory's Ivory - EP
• Tri-Polish Challenge: Royals
• Patterned Wednesdays: Vintage Dots & Stripes
• Golden Oldie Thursdays: Ruffles

Ugh, I hate missing posts for you guys. Makes me feel bad, I will have my Indie Friday post up for you soon. Hopefully tomorrow. I'm hoping school slows down a bit so I'll be able to get back to being more into the blog because I know I've been quite absent. 

Anyways, I still think that there were some fun things on the blog this week! I'm in love with my Music Monday and Patterned Wednesday post! Hopefully I can keep it up into this week! And I did my first guest post this week! If you aren't already following Lucy over at The Nail Snail, you really need to check her out!

Here's some of the upcoming challenge themes coming up:

And a song for today:

This Century - Sound Of Fire

Thanks for reading guys!

-Marisa! (:

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Golden Oldie Thursdays: Ruffles

Hello lovelies!

I'm so sorry for the no posts over the past 2 days. This has just been a really rough week between homework, I had a deadline for a design at my internship this week, and then one of the clubs that I'm in we're cutting it really close to our deadline of getting the book we're designing to the printer. We spent 8 hours in the studio last night working on it and we still have quite a bit to do before we can send it off *hopefully* on Monday morning. And basically any moment that I wasn't working, I would end up falling asleep. So, not too much time for blogging.

I promise that'll get my Indie Friday post up to you guys at some point, I'm aiming for Monday at this point. And I hope to get my posts set for this week so I don't miss out again, we're working late on the book again today though so who knows /:

Anyways, onto the nails!

Can I just say right now, that I really strongly dislike creating ruffles manicures! They take so long and I can never get them to come out straight. D:

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Patterned Wednesdays: Vintage Dots & Stripes

Hello lovelies!

We're basically halfway through the week, woo! Today is going to be such a long day, I'm thinking I'm probably going to end up in the studio until some extreme hour again tonight. Blah.

Anyways, onto the nails!

I'm so happy with how these nails came out! I think they're so pretty!

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Tri-Polish Challenge: Royals

Hello lovelies!

I hope you all survived your Mondays! I can already tell that this is going to be a rough week but I'm almost looking forward to it? I really like the projects that we're working on right now but they still need quite a bit of work, so we'll see how it goes.

Anyways, onto the nails!

Look at all those sparkles! I'm in love!

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Music Monday: Ivory's Ivory-EP

Hello lovelies!

I'm going to try and keep this post relatively quick (this never happens....) Remember when I said that I didn't do any homework over break? Well, yeah, ended up staying in the studio until 3am finishing everything up and then decided to color my hair and eat mac and cheese when I got back...Why? I don't know.

Anywho! Onto the nails!

I tried an abstract design again, this one has potential I think!

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Guest Post at The Nail Snail!

Hey lovelies!

I know a 3rd post today, like seriously, why? But like seriously! I did a guest post over at The Nail Snail for Lucy. She runs an awesome blog and you should definitely go check her out!

Here's a little teaser to the post! Click the picture to see more (;

Thanks guys!

-Marisa! (:

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FingerFood Theme Buffet: Week 11 - St. Patrick's Day

Hello lovelies!

Are you guys ready for work/school tomorrow? My Spring Break is over and I'm so sad to see it go. I'll miss sleeping until the afternoon….or sleeping in general…..I still haven't done my homework yet either….whoops. Hahaha okay, yeah. Good start back, right?

Anyways, onto the nails!

St. Patrick's Day is tomorrow! I'm Irish so normally I would celebrate but I have class all day so yeah, not happening this year ):

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Weekly Recap 3/9 - 3/15

Hello lovelies!

Here's another recap!

• FingerFood Theme Buffet: Week 10 - Dots & Stripes
• Music Monday: White Picket Fence's You Get Me High
• Tri-Polish Challenge: Jagged Tips
• Patterned Wednesdays: Retro Plants
• Golden Oldie Thursdays: Purple
• Indie Fridays!: Squishy Face Polish - Pink Anemonemone + Electric Avenue

Not every post had blue in it this week! Woo! We're making progress! Another good week on the blog, the nail art was a bit simpler I feel but still pretty! I was able to do a super sparkly manicure for the FingerFood Theme Buffet and I was able to show off some of the new Zoya Awaken polishes! I just realized that I used a lot of Zoya on the blog this week….oh well!

I'm also super happy with how my swatches came out this week, I feel like I'm improving with my swatching abilities. She even shared them on her instagram! I also introduced a new *feature* Patterned Wednesdays! I think it's going to be a lot of fun and I'm super pumped to show you guys what I did for that this week!

Here are some of the upcoming themes for challenges:

And a song for today:

Every Avenue - Picture Perfect

Thanks for reading guys and check back later for a nail art post!

-Marisa! (:

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Indie Fridays!: Squishy Face Polish - Pink Anemonemone + Electric Avenue

Hello lovelies!

I think this might be one Friday that I'm actually sad to see come around. My Spring Break is almost over, which means I should probably do my homework……maybe. 

Anyways, I'm showing you guys a different indie brand today!

Onto the nails!

Up first is Pink Anemonemone!

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Golden Oldie Thursdays: Purple

Hello lovelies!

Look who's posting another super late Golden Oldie Thursday post 2 weeks in a row….whoops. I accidentally fell asleep last night before I could write this, like I fell asleep at 8pm….so not normal. But then I was wide awake at 7:30am this morning, not normal, and then took a nap haha. So yeah, it's only 11pm here so I'm still technically on time!

Onto the nails!

I promise that this polish is actually purple! But my camera seriously hates this color though.

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Patterned Wednesdays: Retro Plants

Hello lovelies!

Hopefully your week is going well so far! I'm back in Albany for the rest of break and I couldn't be happier! I'm supposed to go to my internship still today but it's supposed to snow really badly again. So who knows. Why couldn't the snow storm wait until break was over? Meh

Anyways, onto the nails!

Look! Little things all over! Haha

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Tri-Polish Challenge: Jagged Tips

Hello lovelies!

Anyone have anything interested planned for their Tuesday? I feel like Tuesdays aren't interesting. It's kind of just a blah day. I'm hanging out with my dad today and then heading back to Albany. Nothing too exciting. 

Anyways, onto the nails!

I knew the minute that these 3 polishes arrived that I needed to use them for the Tri-Polish Challenge!

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Music Monday: White Picket Fence's You Get Me High

Hello lovelies!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend and if you're returning to work/school today, good luck! Haha I have no plans today. I should probably work on some homework but getting ahead on nail posts sounds like more fun! (:

Anyways, onto the nails!

These are so earthy looking. Weird for me, but I dig it haha!

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FingerFood Theme Buffet: Week 10 - Dots & Stripes

Hello lovelies!

Time for a nail art post! It's uhhh 6am *cough cough* whoops, so this might be a little quick.

Onto the nails!

Have you ever just been in the mood for nails that are so sparkly that it almost hurts? Yeah me neither….(;

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Weekly Recap 3/2 - 3/8

Hello lovelies!

Here's this week's recap:

• FingerFood Theme Buffet - Week 9 - Flowers
• Music Monday: The Lonely Forest's Arrows
• Tri-Polish Challenge: Watermarble
• Line Art
• Golden Oldie Thursdays: Skittles
• Indie Fridays!: Coated In Polish - Let It Snow + My Pop Tart Melted + Going To War

Anybody have any idea what my favorite color nail polish is? Hahaha maybe I should challenge myself to a week of no blue nails. Wow. Can't do that this month though since the Tri-Polish challenge colors include blue hehe (; 

I think this was a good week on the blog though! I feel like I'm struggling to follow up some of the more detailed designs I did during the Nail-Art-A-Go-Go challenge. But I'm on Spring Break and I'm not working so I have plenty of free time, we'll see what I come up with! If I had to pick a favorite manicure for this week, I would definitely pick my The Lonely Forest nails! I loved them so much!

Here are some of the challenges I'm still taking part in:

And a song for today:

Mayday Parade - Jersey

Thanks for reading guys and check back later for some nail art!

-Marisa! (:

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Indie Fridays!: Coated In Polish - Let It Snow + My Pop Tart Melted + Going To War

Hello lovelies!

Look I'm posting on time today! Woo! All I have to do is make it through today and then I get a week off from classes. I'm so excited! I'm only going home till Tuesday but it'll be nice to see some of my friends and my dog! (:

Anyways, let's get into today's Indie Friday polishes from Coated In Polish!

I'm going to start this post off with Let It Snow!

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Golden Oldie Thursdays: Skittles

Hello lovelies!

My apologies for this post going up so much later than usual….a whole 12 hours later than normal! It got to the point last night where it was either write this post or sleep for a little bit before class. Clearly, I chose sleep and then I had a full day of classes and meetings so I couldn't write this earlier. I can't wait for Spring Break this week! I need sleep and time to catch up on manicures! 

Anyways onto the nails!

Please ignore my messy cuticles and the staining. This is what happens when you rush nail art at 3am!

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Line Art

Hello lovelies!

I hope you're all doing well and hopefully this week isn't treating you to badly! I'll be so happy when this week is over because next week is my Spring break! Gah! I'm so excited and the best part is that I'm not working! :D

Anyways, onto the nails!

Wednesdays used to be dedicated to skittles manicures but I'm debating turning it into "Patterned Wednesdays" or just letting it be a free day to let myself do whatever. Thoughts?

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Tri-Polish Challenge: Watermarble

Hello lovelies!

I'm going to try and keep this post quick since I need to get some sleep (this will probably be a lie haha). I've been exhausted all day and of course I'm up way too late again tonight. Last night, I burst out laughing during the Q&A section of one of my classmate's copyright presentations and had to walk out of the room because I started crying from laughing so hard. And that is why sleep deprivation is bad haha! Oops (;

Anyways, onto the nails!

The Tri-Polish Challenge is back with new colors this month! And I really like these ones!

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Music Monday: The Lonely Forest's Arrows

Hello lovelies!

I'm back again getting back into my normal posting schedule! I know that I said I was going to do a week of simple nails but I decided against it haha.  So, we're back again with another Music Monday post! I really missed these posts…

Onto the nails!

I've been wanting to do these nails for so long and I finally did them! Gah!

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FingerFood Theme Buffet: Week 9 - Flowers

Hello lovelies!

Look my FingerFood Theme Buffet posts are back on Sundays! Woo! I feel like I kind of put all the other challenges on the back burner last month and I kind of neglected being active in the other groups but I'm back now! And I'm excited!

Onto the nails!

I've been wanting to paint roses on my nails for a while now so this was perfectly timed!

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Weekly Recap 2/23 - 3/1

Hello lovelies!

I'm back with another weekly recap!

• Nail-Art-A-Go-Go: Day 23 - Oils
• Nail-Art-A-Go-Go: Day 24 - Abstract
• FingerFood Theme Buffet : Week 8 - Cute
• Nail-Art-A-Go-Go: Day 25 - Watercolor
• Tri-Polish Challenge: Striped Triangle Tips
• Nail-Art-A-Go-Go: Day 26 - Graffiti + 200th Post
• Nail-Art-A-Go-Go: Day 27 - Pointillism
• Golden Oldie Thursdays: Orange
• Nail-Art-A-Go-Go: Day 28 - Art Nouveau
• Lacquer Legion: Adoration
• Indie Fridays/Saturdays!: Coated In Polish - Slumber Party + A Polish Dimension

This was another week full of posts! I have to admit that I'm happy to be going back to my normal posting schedule. My vault of manicures is basically empty right now haha. 

The Nail-Art-A-Go-Go challenge is over now. I feel like I really owe Missy a lot for this challenge since it really pushed me to try new and different things. I'm super proud of everything that I posted over the course of the challenge and think it was a lot of fun. Posting everyday was hard but that'll teach me to procrastinate haha. 

I'm kind of debating going back to some of my original features but I'm not sure at this point. I guess you'll just have to come back and see through out the week! (;

Here some upcoming challenges that I'm still taking part in:

A song for today:

Lights - Banner

Thanks for reading guys and check back later for some more nail art!

-Marisa! (:

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Indie Fridays/Saturdays!: Coated In Polish - Slumber Party + A Polish Dimension

Hello lovelies!

I promised you guys an Indie Friday post today, so here it is! I didn't mean for it to go up this late but I've been having a pretty decent day of relaxing and some cleaning. But here I am with the post!

Today's post features Coated In Polish!

This first polish is called Slumber Party!

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