Twinkle twinkle little star...

Twinkle twinkle little star... :) these were so easy to do. I just sponged colors onto a black base coat and added white dots. Soooo... These are your colors:
- Black!!!
- White
- Metallic light blue
- Light orange
- Yellow

Tools:
- Dotting tools!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Sponges

Directions:
1. Paint solid black over a thick base coat. I used Essie's "Licorice."
2. I sponged light blue into 2 corners of my nail really lightly. Kind of like a cloud. I used Essie "Coat Azure."
3. Then I sponged a little bit if orange in side the bigger blue area. I used "Brazilliant."
4. Then I sponged on the yellow lightly in a few random spaces but mostly over the other to colors. Make sure the other colors are still
Visible.
5. Add a little scattering of white dots over the nail. On each one make a cross that looks like a twinkling star.
Ta-da!!! :)

Up up and away!

Hi everybody! Sorry I haven't posted in so long! It has been a crazy summer but now that school is starting I'll start posting again. Anyway... This is a hot air balloon (in case you couldn't tell) flying floating in the sky with some birds. I did my birds the lazy way, :). To do this design you will need these colors:
- light sky blue
- white
- black
- bright yellow
- bright orange
- bright blue
- greenish turquoise
- brown

Tools:
- Sponge and dotting tools for clouds
- Skinny brushes

Tips:
- For the clouds, I sponged little bits of white onto the light blue and then did a group of dots resembling a cloud inside of it.
- Think of the design on the balloon as a bunch of Ms stacked on top of each other.
- Make balloon part as big as possible so the design on the balloon part is more noticeable.

We're off to see the wizard...

I am in the play "The Wizard of Oz" this summer. I got the role of... drum roll please .... DOROTHY!!!! I am so excited. Of course, I just had to decorate my nails with a wizard of oz theme. On my pinky is the scarecrow, on my ring finger the lions mane, on my middle finger the tin man's heart, on my pointer finger Dorothy's dress, and on my thumb I put a rainbow. Some where over the rainbow! So, I'm not going to explain this one because this would be a really long blog post but, I will give you some tips.

• You might want to use a lighter blue for Dorothy's dress.
• Use a SUPER skinny brush for the stitches on the scarecrows shirt.
• Just put on a blob for the patches on the scarecrows shirt because it looks more natural and good that way.

You're My Hero!

NO THESE ARE NOT THE AVENGERS!!!!! Omg! Everyone kept saying "Oh, are those the avengers?" No they are not, batman is not an avenger according to my little brother. I did Captain America on my thumb, Iron Man on my pointer finger, Batman on my middle finger, Superman on my ring finger, and Spiderman on my pinky. This design tool a REALLY long time. It was hard. These are the polishes I used:

• White
• Orly, "Haute" (captain America shield red, superman outline and s, Spiderman, and Ironman base.)
• Essie, "Mesmerize Royal" (Center of captain America, base for Superman)
• Stripe Rite skinny brush, gold (ironman accents)
• Black
• Orly skinny brush bright yellow (Ironman eyes, Batman circle, Superman diamond thing)

Happy Memorial Day!

Happy memorial day everybody! Memorial day only comes around once a year so I had to take advantage of it. When else could I do these? Anyway, some people asked why I put the blue heart on my ring finger. It is because everyone should love the soldiers for what they did and it is red white and blue just to be patriotic. So, here is what I used:

• Essie, "Navigate Her" (green base coat)
• White (ring finger base coat)
• Orly, "Haute" (red stripes)
• Orly light blue skinny brush (heart)
• Orly brown skinny brush (camouflage)
• Essie, "Pretty Edgy" (camouflage)
• Essie, "Brooch the Subject" (camouflage)

Steps:
1) Paint "Navigate Her" on all nails except the ring finger.
2) Paint your ring finger white.
3) Use "Pretty Edgy", "Brooch the Subject", and Orly brown skinny brush to create camouflage. Draw thick, short squiggly lines that overlap a little with all of the colors listed.
4) Paint vertical red stripes on the ring finger with Orly "Haute".
5) Add blue heart with Orly light blue skinny brush on top of red stripes.

Mario Time!

If you have a Wii or a DS you definitely know who Mario is. Even if you don't you still probably do. During some of his games, he has little power ups, tools, and enemies along the way. There a little fuzzy brown dudes that try and get Mario and there are red snapping flowers that eat him. To get past these, he has some tools like the star, the flower, and the mushroom. Those are what these are. They took SOOOOOOOO long. I think it was worth it though. Here is what you need to do this...
- Sally Hansen, barracuda
- Orly, brown skinny brush
- Essie, brooch the subject
- Milani white and black skinny brush
- Black
- White
- Orly, yellow skinny brush
- Orly, haute
- Essie, pretty edgy
- Orly, green skinny brush
- dotting tools
- skinny brushes

1) Paint "Barracuda" on all nails.

THUMB:
1) Use "Brooch the Subject" to paint a long oval in the middle of your thumb.
2) Use brown Orly skinny brush to make 2 dots at the bottom and a triangular shape at the top.
2) Use black and white for eyes. Fitting tools are helpful or this. Put them in the triangular shape at the top.

POINTER FINGER:
1) Paint "Brooch the Subject" on the tip of your nail almost like anfrench manicure.
2) Add rectangles and other irregular shapes to the tan tip with the brown Orly skinny brush.
3) Put "Pretty Edgy" on the nail coming out of the brown and tan area. Then add leaves.
4) Use "Haute" to make a big oval. Then do a smaller yellow one inside it. Inside that, put a white oval with 2 black lines for eyes.

MIDDLE FINGER:
1) Paint a star with yellow Orly skinny brush.
2) Add lines for eyes.

RING FINGER:
1) Paint a green rectangle at the tip of your nail with "pretty edgy"
2) Paint a line coming out of the rectangle with the same color
3) Add leaves to the stem
4) Paint a red heart shape at tip of stem
5) Paint white lines on top edges of heart
6) Add white dots to flower

PINKY:
1) Big red dot with "haute"
2) White dot layered on red dot slightly
3) White dots on red part
4) Black lines for eyes

Teacher Nails

Yes, even our teachers want us to do their nails! It is so much fun! Grace and I literally count down the days until we do it. We love how much they appreciate it because they are more than teachers to us. We always surprise them and they try to guess what it is. One of these teachers loves Barbie. She has some in her class room and even has a shirt with them on it. That is why we chose Barbie nails. For the other teacher we did cows. She lives in Wisconsin and there are tons of cows there. Also, they are super cute!