Pillow Inspiration

While browsing Apartment Therapy this past weekend I found a throw pillow I just needed to have (this house tour if you're curious).  I tracked down the pillow to its source, Designer Fluff, where I was completely dismayed at how much it cost. Needless to say, you will not find one of these pillows on my couch.

You will, however, find a similar design on my nails. For this manicure I used two coats of OPI My Vampire is Buff, stamped Bundle Monster plate BM-422 on top using Konad Special Polish in Purple, then added gold accents with a dotting tool and Orly Luxe.

Zoya Ziv

For New Year's Eve I wore a really cute pink lace dress with gold lining (from ModCloth, Surprise to the Occasion). To coordinate, I used two coats of Zoya Ziv on my nails. It was prefect!

Gelish My Nightly Craving

For Christmas this past year I received a gel kit (Gelish if you couldn't guess from the title) which I want to use during heavy work/stress periods when I don't have time to do regular polish manicure upkeep. After combing through swatch galleries online, I settled on Gelish My Nightly Craving as my first work appropriate color.

I'm heading to Orlando for a conference in a few weeks and will be able to test how it wears then.

Sweater Nails

By far my favorite winter season nails are sweater nails. When I first got into nail art I had to put together my own sweater stamp using a variety of plates - now there are several stamps to choose from! Winstonia, Nail Craze, MoYou London and more all have sweater designs you can purchase. I have the Nail Craze plate and that's what I'm showing you today.

Please excuse my nubs, my nails have had a rough winter so far.

For this manicure I used two coats of OPI  My Vampire is Buff, stamped with Nail Craze plate NC 03 using Konad Special Polish in Royal Purple.

Quilted Rose Stamping

I recently bought a set of Pueen stamping plates and have been pretty excited to try them out. This was the first manicure I did with them.

For this manicure I started with three coats of OPI My Vampire is Buff. Using Zoya Dana, I stamped the quilted rose image from Pueen plate 22. I probably wouldn't use Dana to stamp with again, the image isn't as crisp as I would prefer, but otherwise this manicure turned out really well.

OPI Pink of Hearts 2013

I love the breast cancer awareness sets that OPI puts out every year. This year's set included a nail art component in the form of rhinestones and pink ribbon decals.

In this manicure I used three coats of OPI Pink-ing of You, and two coats of OPI More than a Glimmer on my ring finger. I added one of the OPI pink ribbon decals on top of More than a Glimmer and to my other nails I added a rhinestone near my cuticles.

Basic Stamping Design

A basic stamping manicure today.

Three coats of OPI What's With the Cattitude.  Then I stamped an image from DRK-A using Sally Hansen Silver Sweep.  On my accent nail I used two coats of Cirque Debris.