"Flower Girl"

Hey guys. Just switched up the polish. Too tired for a tutorial, sorry. But google nail polish flower painting and you'll be on your way. I usually stray from intricate hand-painting but I felt the urge to get my game up. ^_^
Mostly I'm geeked that my right hand is looking just as good if not better than left! On my way to becoming ambidextrous!

--R Rated Comment--
A friend and I were recently discussing femme lesbians, drag queens, french tips, and long fake "stripper" nails. I started talking about nail techs in the hood and in the clubs and how it's a staple in urban queer communities, as well as the porn industry. She was like why? I said "who else besides queer divas and drag queens would be obsessed with women's fingers? Think about it!" wink wink. Seriously though hot queer chicks love my nails. It's pretty awesome.

-Stefanie B

"Iced Out Pink"

Hey everybody! Back to clear acrylics, and I love these!

 Products Used:
Clear Acrylic Nail Tips
Clear Acrylic powder
Iridescent glitter
Pink and White Nail confetti
Small (1mm) rhinestones (pink and clear)

Method Used:
Prep and attach nail tips
Lay down a thin coat of acrylic
While it's still wet, set in confetti
Use monomer to keep surface wet, and use a dry brush to sprinkle glitter on tips
Encapsulate glitter and confetti in a thick layer of clear acrylic. Use extra on the confetti, but not too much
Cure, and sand. DO NOT over sand the confetti area! They will lose their luster
Add clear top coat after buffing. I use Sally Hansen Diamond Shine Top Coat
While it's still wet, add rhinestones to smile line
Add Seche Vite and you're done!

I LOVE THESE!
Also, I found an awesome website with Japanese fashion magazine scans, free to download!
http://jmagazinescans.livejournal.com
And click nails on the tags. Japanese nail art can be really daunting, especially as I make my way to the 3d super kawaii fairy kei style of doing things, but I'm still going to try someday!
-Stefanie B

"New Year for New Nails!"

Hey everyone! Welcome to 2012. It should be a damn good year. Anyways I got my internet back up and running so I'm thrilled to be able to update on my compy instead of a cell phone. So check dees out:

Did these on full cover nails in December. It was great. I was thinking about Cinderella and Disney Princesses at the time!

These were my new years' blinggity bling. I really liked doing these and finally got some silver crackle and paired it on top of white for a bright foil texture, and added 3 kinds of glitter! They were sexy. Still are sexy! Even my new digital camera doesn't do em justice

So that's the start of the new year! Keep checking back

-Stefanie B

"My gift to you"

Hey guys. These are nails I did 2 weeks ago and haven't had time to upload. I did them again on full cover glue-on nails

I don't have a tutorial on this but wanted to draw attention to a key glitter used for these which is a new one from Wet n Wild Fastdry 238C Party of Five Glitters. It has big glitter and red and green stand out in it and make it an awesome holiday color. All the new Wet N Wild Fastdry line is pretty awesome so check em out!

-Stefanie B

"Candy Canes"

Happy Holidays. Well they're coming quicker than ever. I'm not a huge fan of Christmas but I think Occupy Wall St has me in better spirits. And the NBA lockout is over! Not a bad season at all.
Anyways, I don't have much for a tutorial on this, but here's the gist of it:

Start by painting nails red or hot pink works, too. I painted on top of full cover fake nails from the drugstore. Just tape them to toothpicks or something to keep from touching them. Paint a very fine glitter on top, or something foil-y. You don't want it too glittery yet. Use a white nail art striper and go to town. Check a photo for the pattern. Then I added a fine silver glitter
striper on top of the white. Voila!
More holiday nails are coming, keep checking back!

"Pretty Pretty Princess"

Hey all. My nails are doing okay. I painted these on the first snowfall after I was looking at Disney Princess bedroom ideas. My apartment's getting a facelift, get ready!

This is a really in depth tutorial. Ready set go!
Products used:
Sally Hansen Xtreme 340 mint sorbet
L.A. Colors BCC 563 Purple
Sally Hansen Xtreme 470 Bubblegum Pink
Sally Hansen Xtreme 180 disco ball (iridescent glitter)
Sinful Colors 831 Hottie (blue tinted glitter)
Pink Nail confetti
Small (1mm) pink rhinestones

Method Used
Coat 1: Paint nail tips in alternating green and purple, skipping one middle nail, paint that nail pink
Coat 2: Add blue glitter over all colors, and clear glitter to nail beds
Coat 3: Add pink stripes to tips
Coat 4: add rhinestones to tip line, and a piece of confetti underneath
Be creative, have fun!
Coat 2:

"Tinkerbell"

Finally my nails were healthy enough for acrylics again! It's winter in Minneapolis and it's getting really really dry. I had to do some nail treatments first. Anywho:

Products Used: 

Clear Acylic & clear tps

L.A. colors BCC 580 Teal

Sally Hansen HD 15 DVD

L.A. Colors Art Deco: Dark Blue, Silver, Teal Glitter, and Silver Glitter

Medium (3mm) Rhinestones

Small (1-2mm) Rhinestones

Green Nail Confetti

Method Used:

Coat 1: Paint tips teal, and one nail solid teal. 

Coat 2: Coat tips with Sally Hansed DVD

Coat 3: Add 2 blue stripes, cross them with a silver stripe

Coat 4: Coat the stripes with glitter 

Coat 5: Add Rhinestones and nail confetti

It's a lot more teal than I expected but I still <33 this