Nail Care is FUN!

Please take care of your nails!

Nail care is so very  important. I learned this the hard way. When I first started doing nail art, I would never use base coat or even clean up my cuticles because I thought these things were a waste of time. HOWEVER, I learned that these are very important things to do to keep my nails healthy.

After some time of painting my nails, I noticed that they would start to get discoloured. I learned that it was because I would pile on nail polish without taking care of my nails. So, what did I do? I started with giving myself manicures at least one a week.

Here’s the recipe and what to do..

• 1 cup of warm water
• 1 teaspoon of natural honey
• 4 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon.

Mix these together and soak your nails for about 10-15 mins!

After this, wash your hands and apply cuticle oil (Essie Apricot is my Fav but you can use whichever one you like). You want to push back your cuticles and any dirt off your nails with a cuticle pusher then use a pair of cuticle nippers to get rid of all that dead skin (you’ll see it!). After this, you should wait for your nails to dry then buff and file them to make them nice and smooth. AND before I forget, don’t forget to moisturize!

If you’re planning on painting your nails after this, please make sure to use base coat! I never thought it was that important but a base coat will protect your nails and not let them get discoloured. My favourite base coat is “all in one” by essie because it protects, helps strengthen, smoothens and shines your nails!

 Another quick little tip:

 If you find that your nails are very discoloured try this soak:

• ½ cup of hot water
• 1 table spoon of baking soda
• 1 table spoon of hydrogen peroxide 

Mix together and soak for up to 10 mins (I would only do about 8). Do the same steps as the other soak. I STRESS not to do this one that often because this mixture isn’t that good for your skin but you can do it once in a blue moon if (and only if) you’re dispraise!

Products I've talked about in this blog: 

 Essie Apricot Cuticle Oil   

                                                                       


Essie All-in-One Base Coat

Cuticle Pusher



Nail Buffer


Cuticle Nippers














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Winter Nails :)

Burr! Baby it's cold outside!

With all the snow finally on the ground, it feels like winter is really here! My little brother was in the backyard with his friend and they actually built a snowman! What does this have anything to do with nails? It inspired me to do winter themed nails! What comes to mind when you think of winter? Well, for me, it’s snow and snowmen, penguins and coldness. But when I was thinking what to do for my nail art design, I thought to use blue and white, to draw snowflakes and maybe a little snowman on a nail or two.

First, I started searching for nail art tutorials on snowflakes. I noticed that a lot of them had a gradient base going which I really liked! I found a really cool snowflake design on YouTube by Simple Nail Art Designs, you should totally check it out! Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIDU0T7k0R8

I tried it out but instead of doing the gradient design for the base, I just decided to make my base a nice royal blue. Then I got my white nail polish and a thin brush to paint on the snowflakes. It took a couple tries, but I finally got it! I just did a simple design with big snowflakes on my thumbs and middle fingers and little white dots on the rest (made some dots bigger and some smaller to make it look like snow). Here’s a photo, let me know what you think J

I wanted to paint a snowman and a penguin but I felt like it was a little too much for this design. I’ll definitely try it with another design though. 

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My First Blog Post!!

Hello Nail Art lovers!

What a typical girl blog right? But hey, here’s my story... My love for fancy nails and nail art began when I went for my first manicure ever which was back when I had my high school prom. Yeah, that late! I only did a French manicure just like everyone else but I loved not having to look at my regular short and stubby nails. Then I came to college and I started noticing all these girls who had their nails done all the time, I thought to myself “damn, I'd love for my nails to look that fab”. I started noticing people with some crazy nail art and wanted to see if I would be able to pull it off. 

One of my friends in my program at the time loved nail art too which is probably what got me more into it. So I bought myself a whole bunch of nail polish. At first, some cheap nail polish I found on sale in shoppers because I thought it didn't matter what brand you got or how expensive it was. Though, I learned that it really does matter! If you're a first time nail polish shopper, I advise that you spend a little bit more on a bottle if you want it to last a lot longer! If you think it’s unnecessary to spend $12 on a bottle of nail polish like I first did, you should look for coupons or get the good ones when they're on sale. Trust me. 

Anyways, I started reading nail art blogs and watching all these YouTube tutorials on cool nail art designs. I came across this one design called “newspaper nails” which looked really interesting and I wondered: “how the hell do you do that?!” I really wanted to learn how to do them so I searched it up and figured it out. Turned out, it wasn't even that difficult! The first time I tried it, I couldn't really get my nails look that nice but I kept trying until they were close to perfect. I was pretty impressed and proud of myself because the process took more time than you’d think! Other people also started noticing my newspaper nails and commenting on how cool they thought they looked so I started getting more into nail art from then on. 

My first manicure ever!

My first attempt at "Newspaper Nails"