Black French Tip & Flower Pedicure

Yikes! Sorry it's been so long guys! I'll save the full explanation for a later date, but to sum it up:

1) Busy semester
2) Illness
3) Laziness

Anyway, let's jump right into the post now! Summer is perfect for pedicures. Good weather means open-toed shoes and bare feat. It's super important to take better care of your feet this time of year since people will see your toes now! So in honor of summer, here is a classy, simple and clean looking pedicure.

This pedicure is the same as a traditional French manicure, except I substituted the white for black. I love black tips; it's a nice modern touch but still conservative for the workplace. To finish it off, I added two small white flowers on my big toes only.

If you don't know how to do a french manicure, there are dozens of tutorials out there, especially on Youtube, so I won't explain how to do this one. This is just to give you an idea. :)

Labyrinth Inspired Manicure - FAIL!

So this is definitely not my best nail art... ok, fine. I failed completely. It's hideous, lumpy and just around bad. I can't imagine it would look good one anyone's nails. But I'm going to share it with you guys anyway so that it might inspire someone to build upon it and make it work. Don't say I didn't warn you!

I love the movie Labyrinth, I've been obsessed with it lately. So I wanted to do a manicure inspired by it. The colors that come to mind are purples and blues... and glitter!



So I got the brilliant idea to take those colors and mix them all together to look cloudy and mysterious...



...yuk. But, oh wait, it gets worse when I try to add those little floating crystal balls...



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Yeah... I told you it was ugly!

I was really disappointed. It looked so much cooler in my mind... I'll probably attempt this one again some time in the future, but I'll used different methods. Anyway, I hope some good came out of this and someone finds a way to build off of it!

Black and Blue Wavy Manicure

I wanted to play around with the Blue Sally Hansen nail art pen some more. It was really interesting that it came out matte... So here's what I came up with, nothing special.

Basically what I did was paint my nails black, and draw in little squiggles. I fulled in the bottom half and toped it with a clear coat of nail polish.

I was a little disappointed that started to give a crackle look. You can see it best on my thumb and index finger. It even crackled a little worse after I took the picture. I don't know what that was all about, so I'll have to fiddle around with it a bit more.

P.S. Does this remind anyone else of the Backstreet Boys? XD