Teal Tuesday: Half Moon

Welcome to another Teal Tuesday! As you can see from the awesome graphic (courtesy of Missy from Gnarly Gnails-linked below), this week is half-moons! I had grandiose plans, but thanks to an exhausting weekend and the arrival of an awesome swap package, there was a change of plans.

I used two coats of Impala Azul Pavão which is a gorgeous teal creme. It applied very well. Absolutely love this polish. I'm experimenting with my nail shape. I can't decide how I feel about it. I hate the middle nail, but that's pretty constant no matter the nail shape haha. With this mani on, it really reminds me of vintage manicures.

Then I used reinforcement stickers to block off the half moon part of my nail. Then I applied one coat of Jade Energy which is a teal linear holo. I absolutely love this polish and I can't wait until I get the rest of the Jades!

Make sure to check out these other Teal Tuesday blogs! If you'd like to join us, click on the badge at the top of my page!

Missy at Gnarly Gnails

Rhonda at Nails Beautiqued

Kirsten at Geeky Owl

Amanda at Mandy's Polish

ColorSplash Nails

Simple-and-Beautiful

Aimee at Persistently Glittery

Nat at No Holos!

Ana at Cherries Sweet

Caitlin at  Caitlin's Creative Corner

Ariane at  The Frenzied Polisher

Kia at  Lacquered Libra

31 Day Challenge: Day 18-Half Moon

Short post because I'm out of town. My family and I went to Dallas to buy stock for our store. One of the first manicures I posted on this blog was a half moon manicure. I actually like them a lot. For this one I decided to use two polishes I bought on Saturday, both from OPI pop star collections :)

I used two coats of OPI Pink Friday and then one of The One That Got Away. Nicki and Katy! I then topped it off with one coat of both Finger Paints Flashy and Motley. This manicure is super girly, but I like is a lot more than I thought I would.

Also doing this challenge is Emma of Manicurity, Bec at Laquer Dreams, Julia at Julia Loves Nails, Linda at Nail Polish Enthusiast, Kirsten at Geeky Owl, and Jenna at The Key to Jennasis. You should definitely check these lovely ladies and their nails out!

New Year's Eve Nails!

I actually did this mani a couple of weeks ago before I decided to actually start a nail blog.  When I was trying to decide what to do for NYE, this popped back into my mind! I really love this mani. I did two coats of Color Club Sugarplum Fairy. I then used paper reinforcements to make a half-moon mani. For the last color, I used China Glaze Blue Year's Eve. When I first came up with this, I wanted to do a half-moon, but couldn't bring myself to completely cover up the gorgeous glittery-ness of Sugarplum Fairy. I chose Blue Year's Ever because I was looking for something that was beautiful on its own, but that was also thin enough to let Sugarplum Fairy shine through. 

artificial light.

artificial light with flash.

blurry to show holo glitter.

I really love how the amazing holo rainbow becomes blue/green under Blue Year's Eve. It reminds me of Deborah Lippmann Across the Universe and helps calm my lemming a little bit. It's like an amazing sparkly sea on your fingertips! Here's a crappy cell phone pic from the first time I did this mani:

Happy New Year to everyone!!!!