Merry Christmas Eve!

I've been wanting to do winter pine cone nails for awhile. I just love the look of frosted pine cones on wreaths and used for decoration. I painted and dipped pine cones last year and have a few hanging up around my house all year long!

They aren't the best pine cones ever, but the idea is there! I actually really liked how it turned out. Then I really didn't like it, but it's growing on me again. :) The thumb nail is my favorite. Overall it looks Christmas-y.

KH

Christmas nails

I wish I had more time to do detailed nails, but unless I wanted to stay up past midnight to do them, I just have to make do with really simple designs. Like this one. I've seen it floating around Pinterest and Facebook and it looked easy enough to me!

Sorry for the awful lighting. I forgot to take a couple pictures at home, so I had to snap one quick at the office. I'm spacing on all the names, but they are all Sally Hanson polishes. The base is the shimmery Triple Shine in two coats. The silvery glitter is Sinful Colors. I added a holo-ish glitter to the tree to kind of look like lights. It's hard to see though. If I had Fairy Dust by China Glaze I think, that would have worked better! I've always loved the look of that polish, but I've never seen it to buy it. 

Hopefully I'll get some time to do another Christmas design before Christmas is over!

KH

Silver/Gray with flowers

Having a day off is so great! I still have a few household chores to do and babies to play with, but I also get some time to do my nails! :)


I'd seen a post once with gray and pink flowers. I can't remember what it was or where I saw it, but the idea has stuck with me since so this is what I came up with.

The last one is a little blurry... I think the topcoat was too shiny because it just wouldn't focus that well. 

I'm WAY out of practice on doing roses. The pointer finger one is the best, but I just couldn't get it down for the rest of them. The base is Sinful Colors - Tantalize. It's has a slight shimmer and is pretty sheer with one coat, but I didn't want it too gray, so I just left it.The roses have a base of Sally Hanson - Sheer Ecstasy, then Sinful Colors - Captain's Delight and the white is Sally Hanson - White On. The darker gray on the little stems is elf - Misty Haze. I topped it with Sally Hanson - Instant Dry top coat. It works pretty well actually. It's very very shiny, almost too shiny, but I like it well enough. 

KH 

Marble nails

I've been wanting to try this for awhile. Apparently you can drop some polish in water, like with a water marble, and you can spray either hair spray or hand sanitizer spray and it separates the polish. I couldn't get it to work at all, so I ended up just using the saran wrap blotting method. It seemed to work best for me.

On the ring finger I tried the spray method with the dark gray polish and it sort of worked... I was wanting more of the lines like marble has, but I could only really get it to work once. Maybe I need different spray?? I'll have to try again another time. Oh and terrible clean up on this one.. oops!

KH

I'm Back!

Things with two new babies have been pretty hectic, especially working full time on top of that. My little boys are almost 8 months old now and they have been such amazing little guys. I was lucky enough that they pretty much slept through the night since day one! It is awesome watching them grow, play and laugh with each other.

I'm slowly getting more time for myself, so I picked up a couple new polishes the other day just for fun and was inspired to do nails again!

I just kept it really simple and easy. I used my usual base (which after almost a year of no use, it sadly is thick) Sally Hanson - Sugar Coat. The glitter is the new one I bought, Rimmel - Glitter Bomb top coat. You can't tell, but the big glitters are a pretty rose pink. Hopefully, I get to do nails more often. I have some Halloween ideas I'd like to try. 

KH

Blue flowers

Well, no babies yet. I'm considered full term for twins on Sunday but I'm really hoping I can make it to February. That's only a week-ish away, I think I can make it! Granted, I'm really getting uncomfortable and I'm carrying babies that are a little over 5 pounds each! That's a lot of baby! My ankles definitely feel it.

Onto nails. It has been awhile and my nails were getting so long. I had to cut them anyways, so I decided to do some simple flowers. I chose blue for the flowers just because it's different than my usual pink.

You can't really tell, but the base coat is actually a very sheer, minty green color. I used Sally Hanson-Sea. If I did more than one thin coat, you could be able to tell, but I didn't want to make it too green. I might try a more green base with blue flowers another time. My pink is running out, so I had to come up with another base that wasn't just clear, or plain white. So the flowers are in Sally Hanson-Rain Check, white, Sally Hanson-White On and the leaves are Sinful Colors-Beau Khaki. After trying to remember what names are of colors, I realized that I use a lot of Sally Hanson! Ok, that's all for now.

KH

Baby Shower!

I've been slacking a little on nails, just because I'm so exhausted all the time! I sleep as often as I can, which isn't very much anymore. I'm so uncomfortable all the time. But I can't believe my little guys will be here soon! In 4 weeks I'll be considered full term. That is just crazy! At my last appointment about a week ago, I was 32 weeks, measuring at 41! So my belly is definitely getting bigger. Though it doesn't really look that big, I don't think anyways. A lot of people say I look pretty small for twins. Goodness..I have so much to do to prepare, but I don't think I'll ever get prepared enough.

Anyways, this Saturday is my baby shower! So exciting :) Since my nursery theme is elephants, moon and stars, that's what I tried to do on my nails. This took me forever because I had to mix colors and redo some and had to get up and walk around every so often. But I like how it turned out! There are a few flaws, but I just couldn't bring myself to redo them again. I did do some touch ups after I took pictures. My phone just wasn't focusing and I just couldn't stand there forever so I just went with the ones I took before touching up.

Aren't they cute!! They really did take forever though. I can't remember all the colors I used, but most of them are Sally Hanson colors. Pink - Spun Sugar, White - White on, Yellow-can't remember, but it's mixed with the white to tone it down a little. Same with the blue. It's mixed with the white also. The gray is Sinful colors and the darker outlining is with ELF. I completely for got to look at color names, but I know I've used them before, so the names are on this blog somewhere. :/ I can update this later if I get some time.