The Nail Art Guild: Out Of This World

Hello lovelies!

Late post tonight but Happy Valentine's Day! I don't have holiday inspired nails to show you though haha.

Anyways, onto the nails!

Galaxies! Galaxies are out of this world. Oh, I could totally say that you guys are out of this world, so I painted galaxy nails and BOOM! Valentine's. Nailed it.

31 Day Challenge 2015: White Base

Hello lovelies!

It's Friday woo! I only had four days of classes this week but it seriously felt like it was finals week or something. This is going to be fun!

Anywho, onto the nails!

Floral. Floral makes me happy. FLORAL ALL OF THE THINGS!

31 Day Challenge 2015: Rainbow

Hello lovelies!

Today is my first day of classes, can you believe it? As usual, I stayed up way too late so this will be a quick post.

Onto the nails!

If you guys follow me on Instagram, then you've seen a sneak peek of these nails. Well, look, here they are! And if you aren't following me, boo haha! I'm trying to post more there with sneak peeks and nail mail photos, so here's a link to check it out. Don't worry, I'll wait while you go visit me there (;

The Nail Art Guild: Seven Deadly Sins

Hello lovelies!

I'm back with another post for you guys because The Nail Art Guild is posting today on Instagram. This week we're doing manicures about the Seven Deadly Sins, which, was super hard! Gah!

Anywho, onto the nails!

Who can guess which one of the seven sins I decided to paint?

31 Day Challenge 2015: Film

Hello lovelies!

This is my last full week of "freedom" before school starts up again! Well, kind of freedom, hence the quotes. I still have to work and I've supposed to have been doing school work over break but uh, you know, no. Whoops. Yeah, I'm not happy with myself....but at least we have nails to look at and that makes me happy!

Also, technical note thing, I guess. I switched my commenting system over from Disqus to IntenseDebate yesterday because I found out that some people haven't been able to comment on the blog. I myself like Disqus but if it's not letting people comment I'm willing to let it go. I like getting comments from everyone so hopefully the switch will fix the issues. Please let me know if you are having any issues commenting so I can try to fix it! I honestly installed it in like ten minutes before going to work yesterday, so I haven't really looked into much of it yet. Feel free to send me an email or Facebook message if something comes up! Thanks!

Okay, nails. Now. Look!

I did Jurassic Park inspired nails!.....again....wee!

The Nail Art Guild: Holiday Songs

Hello lovelies!

Can you believe that Christmas is in 5 days? That's so crazy to me considering that I haven't even been home from school for a week, and I've only bought one Christmas present so far....so yeah! I wait to the last minute every year and you'd think I'd learn by now but uh, nope....

Anyways, onto the nails!

Brownie points to whoever can guess what Christmas song these nails are inspired by!

N.A.I.L Linkup: Santa

Hello lovelies!

I'm back and it should be for good this time! Things got pretty hectic with school but yesterday was my last day of classes. I have a few final projects due next week and I haven't really been painting my nails much so I need to get on that, but I'm back!

So, onto the nails!

More Christmas nail art!

Nail Art Link Up: Music

Hello lovelies!

Look, two posts! I've got a few things that I need to get up before the end of November so I'm double posting to get it all in.

So, onto the nails!

I got to do some music inspired nail art! I miss doing these!

N.A.I.L Linkup: October - Favorite Indie

Hello lovelies!

Today's post is going to be quick because I need to go to bed! 

So, onto the nails!

I have no idea why I wanted clouds on my nails but I did, so now I have cloud nail art to show you guys (:

1 Year Blogaversary Giveaway

Hello lovelies!

I have a really fun post for you guys today because I'm holding my first giveaway! I wanted to do something fun for my 1 year blogaversary to celebrate how awesome this past year has been and a giveaway seemed like the way to go. So, I've collected some of my favorite things from the polish world and one of you will get to try them out!

So, let's get to what you can win!

The prize includes:

- 1 set of Nail Art Brushes from Winstonia

- Sally Hansen's Pixel Perfect + White On

-Sinful Color's Black On Black + Why Not

-Lucky 13 Lacquer's Hold On To Your Butts + Hey, Darling! (customs)

I use this exact same set of brushes for most of my nail art and the little square brush is actually my current clean up brush. Sally Hansen and Sinful Colors are my 2 favorite drugstore brands. And finally I created 2 custom polishes with the creator of my favorite indie brand, Lucky 13 Lacquer! I *obviously* had to get myself my own bottles of the customs and I swatched them so you guys could see how awesome they are!

So first up is Hold On To Your Butts!

If you've been reading my blog from the beginning (or you just read my about me), then you know that I love dinosaurs and the Jurassic Park series is one of my favorites. I've never been able to find a Jurassic Park inspired nail polish so I came up with this one! The name came from probably the best line of the entire movie series!

This is 3 coats of Hold On To Your Butts on its own. The formula was easy to work with and the glitters are suspended really well. There are black and white shreds, small brown squares, and holo glitters all in the red base.

Next up is Hey, Darling!

Hey, Darling! was inspired by my past and current hair colors. Which for some reason seems to be a constant area of inspiration for me (nail polish + design wise) but I thought it would make a cool polish and I was right!

This is 3 coats of Hey, Darling! on its own. The teal base builds up nicely and most of the glitters came out of the bottle really easily. Kyoti did warn me that the blue triangle glitters sink so those take a little more effort but they're totally worth it. And fun fact, the blue and neon green glitters would be my current hair colors!

Here are some macros:

Now onto the rules and the part where you get to enter:

- Open to the US only (sorry international friends)

- You must be 18 years old (or have proof of parental consent)

- Closes September 19th at 12am

- Rafflecopter entries only, the winner will be chosen at random

- Email addresses will only be used to contact the winner

- The winner has 72 hours to respond to my email before a new winner is chosen

- I'm not responsible for a lost or stolen package

- ENJOY!

#happyoneyearheydarling

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Thanks for reading guys and again, thanks for making this year awesome! Hopefully this next one is just as great (:

-Marisa! (:

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Lacquer Legion: Fandom

Ello!

I have another post for you guys today! This one's for the Lacquer Legion!

Onto the nails!

This month's theme is "fandom" and look, I did something other than Doctor Who nails. This time I did Harry Potter nails!

Oh Mon Dieu 2 - Outdoors

Hello lovelies!

The OMD2 challenge is back and today we're posting our outdoors nails! Or kind of outdoorsy/semi-inspired by the outdoors/maybe, I don't know.

Onto the nails!

See, outdoorsy! Right? Or maybe a very minimalistic idea of the outdoors (;

Oh Mon Dieu 2 - Feathers

Hello lovelies!

Hopefully everyone's week is off to a nice start! I get tomorrow off from work so I'd say mine is off to a decent start (:

Anywho, onto the nails!

I feel like I've tried a lot of different things while doing this challenge, which is why I love them. And is no exception since this is my first attempt at feather nails!

Oh Mon Dieu 2 - Favorite Polish

Hello lovelies!

I don't really have anything interesting to say for an intro today....but we're up to day 10 of the Oh Mon Dieu Part Deux challenge!

Onto the nails!

Okay, so today's challenge is to use your favorite polish....How am I supposed to pick a favorite!? That's so hard! D:

The Never Ending Pile Challenge: Gold

Hello lovelies!

Guess what I just realized! I'm seeing Paramore and Fall Out Boy in concert in a week! I'm so excited. I haven't seen Paramore live in almost 3 years, it's been so long!

Anyhoo, onto the nails!

You know those days when you have a really cool idea so you try putting it on your nails and it doesn't turn out how you pictured? Yep, 100% these nails. Meh.

The Never Ending Pile Challenge: Brown

Ello lovelies!

How was everyone's weekend? I'm excited to have a day off from work today. I've been slacking on painting my nails lately so it's all I plan on doing today!....and possibly color my hair, maybe, we'll see about that one....

Anywho, onto the nails!

More Doctor Who nails! :D

The Never Ending Pile Challenge: Blue

Ello lovelies!

How is everyone's week going? Mine's been pretty uneventful between working and trying to go to Sally's but driving there to find out the store moved...I was so upset! Luckily they opened a new one so I'm going to try and check that out today. I need to buy one of those giant jugs of acetone since I've been going through so much of it!

Anywho, onto the nails!

I love these nails so much! These are probably in my Top 5 Favorite designs for the month!

The Never Ending Pile Challenge: Purple

Ello!

I'm back from my trip even though I may or may not have gotten lost on the drive down to my friend's house and almost ended up on my way to New York City....Yep, I'm directionally challenged and don't pay attention to road signs! But I don't have anymore road trips planned until the beginning of July so I'll have extra money for polish buying (;

Anywho, onto the nails!

I haven't done drippy nails in a while!

The Never Ending Pile Challenge: Solar/Thermal

Ello lovelies!

I hope you all had a lovely week! I got the chance to hang out with some friends last night and it was wonderful! I'm spending today painting some of their nails for a wedding they're attending and I'm so excited (:

Anywho, onto the nails!

I stamped again! I promised you all that I would work on it so here ya go (:

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The Never Ending Pile Challenge: Discontinued

Hello lovelies!

I finally have a challenge manicure for you guys this week. Woo! And I get to go to a design conference today! Today is a good day (:

Let's get onto the nails!

Halloween came a bit early this year incase you were wondering....

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