Taking A Nail Break...Sorta

Hi my lil Sparks, (and those of you who are not yet part of the fam, welcome ! )

I just wanted to let you guys know that for the next month or so, there might not be any "what's on my nails this week" videos or blog posts, because I have decided to let my nails "breathe" for abit. I've had my acrylics on since August, and my intention was to keep the acrylics on till my natural nails grew long enough and then to just keep putting an acrylic overlay on them, but unfortunately, the acrylic I had on was begining to turn yellow and looked kind of ugly when I wanted to keep my nails bare, so I decided it was time to take off the acrylics. 

Well when I did, my nails were so soft and brittle, that they actually hurt to touch, and my nails broke ! Yep, all except 3, which looked kind of silly, so I had to cut those down as well. 

It was then, that I decided to let my natural nails breathe a little and go back to get them redone in about a month, which SHOULD (hopefully) be enough time. 

I MIGHT still do some manicures to protect my nails, and also to prevent myself from that oh so nasty habit of mine of picking at my lips, (which is why I got them done in the first place), and IF I do, then for sure I'll do a video showing them to you, but I don't find it easy to come up with nail art designs for super short nails, so I might just end up putting a base color and some sparkle over it, so my nails still look pretty in my upcoming videos lol

If you still want to see videos of "boring" plain manicures, let me know in the comment section here, on my google+ page or get at me on my social media, and I'll continue to make them for ya'll.  

Have a great weekend, and a fabulous New Years.

What's On My Nails This Week ? (2)

My nails have been in dire need of a refill for awhile now, but I knew I wasn't getting in to the salon any time till aftedr Christmas, so I decided to do some nail art, and use my polish to hide the fact that my acrylics are so badly grown out lol. 

So this is what I did. 

Its my version of a winter theme. I was going to do something Christmas related, but I figured this would blend in better than flashy Christmas art.

Do you like it ? 

Here's the products I used...

As always, basecoat first, then 2 layers of the dark blue polish by Pure Ice (which is shade "French Kiss"), but I only put it on 4 fingers on each hand, and left one bare to use as an accent nail. Index finger on my left hand, and "ring" finger on my right hand. Then, on the accent fingers, I used 2 coats of the lighter blue polish by Pure Ice (which is called "Bikini"). 

Once those dried, I used a stripper brush with a white polish to freehand 2 snowflakes on each accent nail. The using a small dotting tool and more white polish, I placed randomly placed and sized dots to represent falling snow around the 2 big snowflakes. 

Finish off with one or two layers of glossy top coat, and voila ! Done. 

I'll admit, it was strange to me to have a manicure with no glitter or  shimmer, but I think it still came out pretty nice.