Cheetah: Stamp VS Hand Painted

Hi all! The nail design that I am currently wearing is a hot pink, hand painted cheetah print! I figured it would be fun to compare my Konad cheetah print stamp to my hand painted cheetah print. This was my first time doing cheetah print, and I am very happy with the results!

So which one is this? Haaaa! Not hard to tell that this is the stamp. I did this nail design a very, very long time ago. I no longer have the yellow nail polish, but I think it was a Sally Hansen polish. The black was the Konad "special polish". 

Pros to stamping:

1. Quick

2. Fairly simple

Cons:

1. Can have a messy clean up

2. If it is a more detailed pattern it is hard to line up

Here are my hand painted nails! 

Pros:

1. Can easily place print where you want it (I placed mine as a border on one side)

2. Also relatively simple

3. Can use more than one color easily (there is a way to do this with the stamp too)

Cons:

1. Time consuming

So...which do you prefer? Should I keep with the hand painted? Or just use a stamp because my hand painted cheetah print is terrible?

Paint on!

Felicia

As Sweet As A Rose

Hi all! Today I bring you my FIRST attempt at roses. These nails were heavily inspired by @just1nail on Instagram. She has some amazing designs, and, I'll be honest, these are a straight up copy! I just changed the colors. Not only are her designs amazing, she's really nice! She's definitely worth following.

Colors Used:

Base coat--Seche Clear

Peach base--China Glaze "Peachy Keen". I LOVE this color!

White base--Essie "Blanc"

Purple polka dots--Essie "Nice is Nice"

Roses--acrylic paint

Top coat--Seche Vite

I created the roses using  one of my dotting tools. 

I definitely plan on revisiting roses at some point!

I'd love to see your rose manicures! Use the #FFProses or share your photo directly to my Facebook by clicking the link in the sidebar.

Thanks for reading!

Paint on!

Felicia

Smells Like School Spirit

Hi everyone! Today I bring you TWO nail designs. One of them is a year old. The other is from August of this year. They are both school spirit themed nails. For those of you that don't know me all that well, I am a sophomore at Indiana University studying human biology. So, if you're a Purdue fan, I'm sorry. These are IU nails!

These are my nails from last year. (Yes, I was watching South Park in the background!)

Colors used:

Base coat--Seche Clear.

Red base color--Sally Hansen complete salon manicure in "Right Said Red". This is probably my most loved red that I own. I must love it a lot since I accidentally bought two! But it does go on smoothly and has a large brush that makes it super easy to apply. LOVE this polish.

White and Silver--It's So Easy stripe rite. This is the polish that has small, thin brushes for painting designs. Recently I have strayed away from using these. They tend to get thick very quickly since they spend a lot of time open. I have moved on to mostly using acrylic paint.

Top Coat--Seche Vite. This isn't the only top coat I own, but it is the only one I use on myself.

These were my "back to school" nails this year. The design was partly inspired by Cute Polish.

Colors used:

Base coat--Seche Clear.

White--Essie "Blanc"

Lines on paper(red and blue), IU symbol, and lines on pencils--It's So Easy Stripe Rite

Black writing, pencils--acrylic paint

Top coat--Seche Vite

I would love to see your school spirit nails! Use the #FFPschoolspirit on Instagram or click the link in the sidebar and share them on my Facebook page. 

Thank you for reading!

Paint on!

Felicia

Happy Halloween!

Wooooo! I'm back to updating my blog. =D And it has a new, giraffe-ier look! YAY!

Today I bring you this year's Halloween nails. Last year I had a sharp candy corn nail (Link to that post). This year I still managed to have candy corn ring fingers, but it looked very different than last year's!

This idea came to me in one of my classes. I started sketching it before class started. I tend to sketch out some of my designs in the margins of my notebooks. Originally I had the middle nail blank, but blank is just too boring! (I recently had my orange extensions fall out and have been doing crazy hairstyles to make up for it! See my Instagram for these hairstyles.) 

I must say, the candy corn is my best gradient ever. See my first, second, and third attempts at gradient nails. They're pretty terrible. Haha. 

I didn't dress up for Halloween this year. I don't really have a reason to. 

Yeah, I'm a crazy college partier. HA.

Paint on.

Felicia

New Years/Simple Design

I did have some awesome nails for New Year's! I just never posted them. (=

I used some new China Glaze polishes that I bought at Sally's with my $50 gift card! The lady at the register asked if I did nails for a living. Haha. I wish!

Then I got back to school yesterday and I decided to quickly paint my nails before bed.

Just something quick and simple!

Paint on.

Felicia

The Late Christmas Post

Hi all! This is the late Christmas post. I'm home in Winamac and working my butt off! I have not had any days off other than Christmas Eve and Christmas Day! I've been making good money though and I will be able to pay off this last semester of college!

Here are my Christmas nails!

My parents got me a $50 gift card to Sally's Beauty. I stopped by there today and spent $62 on polish, acetone, and polish thinner!

Hope you had a great holiday!

Paint on!

Felicia

Holly for the Holidays

Hey guys! It's been a while. I went home for break and did my nails, but didn't get any photos. That's why it's been so long! 

Enjoy.

Paint on.

Felicia