Starfish nails

My best friend Jackie is getting married next month, which means I get to go to Vegas with my sister. I don’t think I’ve been so excited for a wedding since my wedding. I just booked the hotel and it is finally feeling close. I’ve only been to Vegas once before (also with Jackie) and we had a blast. I think it is kinda funny that the two trips I’m taking this year are to Vegas and Disney World, I’m a diverse lady J. I don’t know what nails I’ll do for Vegas but I’m sure they need to be very sparkly and super gaudy; I shouldn’t have a problem with that.

For some reason I decided I needed beachy nails and I got to say, I’m loving these nails. For this manicure I used Sally Hansen CSM Barracuda, China Glaze Itty, Bitty & Gritty, and Orly Prelude to a Kiss. When I used the China Glaze last time I hated it but it for this manicure it worked so well for my starfish. I love the different textures on my nails!

Starfish nails

These nails are just fun, they are bright and beachy and I really love them. I can’t get over how great the starfish turned out. They were a little tricky to do but only because as the paint dried it was really hard to put on so I had to work fast. My shells are just ok, I did the shape of them pretty well but the lines just look weird. I think I should have made the lines thinner and made the shells bigger so I could do more lines.

Now I want to do Patrick the starfish nails

I originally got the light blue for Cinderella nails but after using it for these nails I’m super happy I got it. It’s such a pretty blue! I love the Sally Hansen CSM brush too; it’s very wide which works great for my nails since I have quite a bit of surface to cover. I don’t think it would be a good brand/brush if you had small nails unless you really like getting messy. Hope you enjoyed my starfish nails as much as I do J

China Glaze - Itty, Bitty & Gritty nails

I hate sleeping alone, I’m so spoiled and now I have a hard time going to sleep in my house by myself. In case you couldn’t figure it out by context, Thad is gone tonight. Thad and I have lived together for almost 8 years and I’ve only been alone a handful of nights (I told you I’m spoiled).The girls and I are having a rough go of it. They just keep looking at me and making audible sighing noises. I’m terrible about scaring myself when I’m alone, I’m sure watching this Law and Order SVU marathon before bed is a solid plan; nothing creepy ever happens on SVU. To be honest I won’t be sleeping totally alone, Jules will keep me company tonight, I just hope she doesn’t fart in bed.

I feel like China Glaze tricked me. I finally bought a bottle of textured nail polish and I feel like it was a mistake made by the polish company that some PR genius decided to market as being on purpose. For this manicure I used China Glaze Itty, Bitty & Gritty. This color was super thick and I only used one coat for these nails. I also really like the coral color, but I hate the textured polish look.

Itty, Bitty & Gritty nails

I decided to do palm trees and birds because I thought that the texture might look sandy and tropical. I don’t even know what to say about this polish, it really looks like a mistake to me, like they had 80,000 bottles of messed up polish and someone had a light bulb moment and said “let’s pretend it was on purpose!”

They feel like plaster

The only thing I can think that this polish would be good for is starfish. The color and texture would be so perfect for starfish that it makes me want to do starfish nails. I don’t think I’m going to be tempted to buy more textured nails polish.