Bring on Spring

Aces Wild


Rainbow Snakeskin


Neon Snakeskin


Pink and black with mirrors. Matches the wallet perfectly!!


Crown Royal


Close up of Crown Royal


Pink glitter with black


Black and green fade

Super Glitz

Here's a black and pink marble with silver impressions

This is a pearl fade with silver and turquoise mylar.

Close up of one of the Sparkles glitters Champagne Bloom with Neon Funfetti over top.

Champagne Bloom with Neon Funfetti

We didnt' have time to complete a back fill, so we cut out pieces of the black and filled them with green. It's nice to be able to change up the look of the nails in a short period of time!!

A Little Love

So today I did my friend Shauna's nails and she suggested I add some additional info to my blog. I decided I'd start to include details of my road to perfection.

I started learning to do nails back in June 2010 and I'm finally read to take my practical and written tests. I thought I had the basics learned until this morning when my dear coworker, Emily, helped me understand the fundamentals of using the electric file. I had always been a little hesitant of the electric file and was fearful of burning clients, so I would use short motions and light pressure. This morning, Emily provided me with a new bit for my file and explained about longer strokes with medium pressure. Presto!! Shauna's maroon nails were quickly disappearing with the clear base shining through!

Shauna likes wearing her nails short and laying out a fade allows for more color on her nails. We tried smile lines in the past and they looked great, but the color was really short. Shauna wanted various shades of pink and something fun for Valentines. I laid out a light pink on the free edge with a fade of darker pink and glitter. I used some impression tools and imprinted white pearl hearts and triangles.

"If Hallmark produced nails this is how they would look"


Here's a picture with the overhead light off.



This is with the lights on.

New Glitter Rocks!!

So I bought some new glittlers from Sparkles Nail Products and I absolutely LOVE them!!! I wanted to show off a couple of the glitters!


These are Sparkles #119 Two Flaky

Another pic of the Two Flaky

These were done with Sparkles #28 Camo. We added some black impressions on the ring fingers.

Having Fun

We did green and gold for the Green Bay Packers!! To add a little more fun we put in pieces of mylar!!

Ashley's daughter loved Ashley's nails so much she wanted a set of gel for herself. Here's some gold and green glitter done with gel.



This is a set of black acrylic with purple glitter. We inserted some mylar for the extra color.

Simple set of gel nails. We mixed a rose glitter, big chunks of sparkle, and some pearls.

The Fade

One of my favorite clients is Marci. She loves the dark colors and likes to have a little bling here and there. I was thinking what would work great for Marci and I decided she was a Black Cherry kind of girl. I wasn't sure she was totally sold on the color, but she seemed to like the after product.

I laid out the dark color and faded in a rose glitter. Not too shabby!!

My First Post

So I've decided to start a blog showing off some of my starter nail designs!! I started my training in June 2010 and I've made some great progress!! My plan is to start posting more pictures of the work I've done!!
Here is one of the first sets I did. We laid out black and silver marble and did circle impressions.


This is the first set I put on myself. It was pretty tricky to try to do my own nails but they came out nice. I did black and hot pink marble.


Here's some Christmas spirit!! This was my first set of candy canes. Turned out okay!!


We wanted a little something exciting after the candy canes. We layed out black acrylic with mirrors and did snakeskin in pink and purple.

This was my third attempt at doing my own nails. I did them right before New Years and wanted something a little flashy. I'm getting TONS better!!!

My client wanted something different than the set we put on but there wasn't enough time for a back fill. I took the electric file and cut out random patters and filled them with hot pink. The final product was purple and black glitter with mirrors and the pink overlay.