Fruit Salad Smoothie Nails

Today I'll be showing you the summeriest of manicures ever created! Just kidding! but it is really bright and happy

Week 21 of the Year of Polish challenge had the theme: Fruit Mani
I received some fimo fruit slices from a super neat friend of mine and had yet to use them so I decided to take this opportunity to try them out

First of all, I love these little slices. They are so tiny and cute! You can buy fimo-fruit by the stick and cut each slice yourself, or for a little more money, you can purchase them pre-sliced! You can find these on ebay as well as at Sally's

I started with a brightly colored drip mani, added some glitter, and found some contrasting fruits to stick on

Orly in Spark

China Glaze in Aqua Baby

Sally Hansen in Coral Reef

Orly in Green Apple

Color Club in Pucci-licious

Art Deco in Silver Glitter

Fimo fruit from Sally's

I opted against adding a topcoat over the fruit. First of all, I knew I would not be wearing it very long since I am behind on the challenge, but also because I think they look prettier when they are not completely flat against the nail. 

However, their lack of flatness did become a problem. They kept getting stuck in my hair and while watching a movie, I did peel a few of them off... but I saved those and now I can reuse them! silver  lining eh?

I still really like the way this looked. I would re-do this mani for a nice summer pool party or barbecue! 

Does it bother you when things hang off of your nails?

Until next time ^_^

Matte nails

I heard about matte nail polish sometime around last November, and from the moment I discovered it, I wanted it. It took me a while to locate some in my area, but a quick trip to Ulta supplied me with OPI You Dont Know Jacques (taupey brown) in matte and Suzi Skis in the Pyrenees (dark grey) and Lincoln Park After Dark (dark purple) in suede.

So matte and suede both dry to a matte finish, but the suede colors have small flecks of silver in them as well. What I really like about these polishes is how quickly it dries! its amazing!!! the color coverage is also impeccable. Especially the suede colors. One coat and you're done. The Jacques is better with 2 coats.

After a few days of wearing the matte colors, I noticed that some shine had appeared. Nothing too dramatic, just a little buffed appearance. So I decided to pair it off with with a shiny black liner so that even after it became buffed, you could still tell a difference.

Brown- OPI - You don't know Jacques
Black- Art Deco liner in Black

Also, here are some more fruits! I did these for a friend, she also took the picture. Hence the better quality. But, success!! My arty friend showed me how to take better focused pictures with my camera so that shouldn't be an issue anymore.

First hand- orange, watermelon, pineapple, kiwi, and peach
Second hand- plum, strawberry, lemon, grapes, and lime

Summer fruits nails

Hello Everyone!

My name is Samantha and after spending so much time looking at other people's nail blogs, I thought I would give it a try. I plan on posting whatever design I happen to do as well as others' designs that I think are neat.

I may also post up random blogs... I'm not really sure yet but we'll see where it goes! for the moment I would like to show you some of the designs I did this summer. (Picture quality isn't great... I know. I will have to work on that)

Enjoy!thumb is a watermelon, then lemon, strawberry, pineapple, and lime!

These are the strawberries I did for my little sister

Favorite so far: Watermelon nails!