Best Thing I Never Had - Beyonce

Holy BadDay Batman - UGH!!!!!!! Really not having a fun day kids, let this be a lesson. Grow up and marry a rich man. Save yourself from WORKKK!!!!!! Haha but

anyway, I have for you today.... A HALF MOON MANI!!!!!!!!! Idk why I don't do these more often. I really like them even when they're simple! Very chic. Ooops, did I say chic? I think I broke the first rule of being chic! Never say the word chic! Haha

I used Sinful Colors in Mint Apple and Nirvana - which is basically the best brown polish EV. I just LOVE the shimmer in mint apple tho. Drooooooling over these colors together. I mean really.

Yall like it right? You better!

xoxo - Summer.

Shopping Day!

I went to a boutique today to buy some designer jeans on sale. On the way out, I saw OPI Shatter and had to turn back around and buy these! The blue really caught my attention. I can't wait to try it out! I'm going to paint my mom's nails tonight.

Has anyone else tried these colors? What base color do you suggest?

-Alexis

Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO

ahh... this song. I love to hate it. It isnt so bad the first few times.. but after that... I just want to claw my eyes out. HA, but I chose it to title this post because my boyfriends little sister and her bestieeee totally did the dance basically all night last night. entertainnning to say the least lol

ON TO THE POLISH!!!

Im not Sure why I decided to do triangles.. but this is what happened. I did this at work.. so excuse the excess cuticle oil all over the place lol I super duper love caitlin by zoya. I mean just look at all that purpley gray goodness... I mean rarely do I ever just wear plain colors with no accent nail or design... but this color.. I just love. I really could have just worn it. 2 coats for full opacity... and look at the shine BEFORE a top coat of any kind... LOVE it.

I just used dove and caitlin from the zoya promo.. along with the smallest end of one of my dotting tools.... honestly I can make better designs with that than a nail art brush. I feel it gives me more control lol.... sooooo until next time...

xoxo Summer

I Wanna Go - Britney Spears

OK - So let me start off by saying, I REALLLY did want to love this polish.. The color is great and all... but I just cant.

This is Shocking Pink by China Glaze. Its one of their neons.. and I was at sally's the other day.. and just bought it on impulse. In theory its wonderful. but in reality.. it chips and needs like 6 coats... and its streaky... but I mean... im sure its a good accent color... right?

FAIL.

In other news: My puppy (butters) thinks that he is a human and sleeps like this every night. Best thing in the world to wake up to..

AND THERE YOU HAVE IT FOLKS!

xoxo - summer.

Losing Your Memory Now - Ryan Star

Glitter Bomb!

So the facebook group that I joined a few weeks ago decided to do a different mani every monday - and I have participated a few weeks now. This mondays theme is Glitter Bomb. Which basically just means.. glitter every where, glitter all day every day, glitter on glitter, glitter glitter glitter. You get the picture.

I decided that I would do something simple and I would wear it for my interview on tuesday as well.. The picture above is with NO flash..
This picture obviously has flash.. but it doesnt give the mani justice. I think that the first picture us WAY more accurate.
I used China Glaze for audrey - WnW party of 5 glitters - and Essie Matte about you. I just layered and layered the glitter over the for audrey on my accent fingers and put the matte finisher on top of the glitter! I like the way it makes it look frozen :p

xoxo - Summer

Isn't She Lovely - Stevie Wonder

Sorry I have been M.I.A this weekend, I had A LOTTTT to do... mainly.. a baby shower. Which was my FIRST party that I have ever planned for anyone/anything. The theme was Zebra with pink and purple accents. I knew I was going to be doing a lot with my hands.. so I didnt do anything fancy since I was sure that they would chip. and they did. but here is the design I did for the shower. Everyone loved them.. but to me... they are so ehh... I normally do muchhhh better free hand zebra but I did them at work.. and felt rushed.

I really do like the color pink that I used. Im not even sure what it is called since it was a coworkers.. What I do know about it is, that it is from forever 21 and that it smells like cotton candy when it is dry. how fun? sooo fun.
Now onto the baby shower pics - keep in mind that I did this entire baby shower for less than 50 bucks. Below is a picture of the food... which of course is my favveeee part! hahah - the cupcake stand that you see, I actually made. All together it cost me 3 dollars.. and worked like a charm. My sister liked it so much she actually took it home with her. you can also see the wooden 'L' which I bought for 50% off and painted the zebra stripes on.. so cute. also.. the candy paci's I made for like 2 bucks.

The Centerpieces below were made by a family friend, Jennifer. She basically took the picture that I sent her, and duplicated them.. but I actually think they came out BETTER than the picture I had shown her. Theyre made out of diapers so that my sister can actually take them home and use them! The candy has custom labels on them with the baby's full name. I ordered about 100 of each for 3 bucks from ebay!
Everything that I used for the place settings was from the dollar tree - minus the zebra plates that I bought at party city. Everyone raved about them, and my 6 year old brother (asher) helped me set everything up!
Well there it is, my weekend in a nutshell. What do y'all think? Cute righhhht?

Like I Mean It - Stars Go Dim (harry potter nails)

Well, tonight is the midnight premiere of the final harry potter movie. I wont be attending... because Im a grown up now. bummer. But I thought I could do something simple to celebrate - I know Alexis is going to be doing HP nails and I am sure hers will be better than these.... since this was a last minute attempt. but they turned out ok!

Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz (OPI's day of shatter!)

Earlier this month OPI announced that today was the 'day of shatter' and made a facebook event and invited everyone to wear shatter today. I didn't think I was actually going to participate because I am not a member of the shatter craze - however... I did decide that since I had purchased the shatter polish at full price, when it first came out, and only used it one other time.. that I should at least do something.

This is a pretty basic shatter mani - I diagonally painted the nails in 2 shades of pink and then covered in the thinnnnnnesssstttt coat of shatter possible (we all know if it goes on thick it will NOT shatter correctly) and this is the result. I like the way it shattered for me. Sorry for the short post.. more coming soon!

xoxo - Summer.

Day Old Hate - City and Colour (puppy spam!!!)

HELLLLEWWWWWWW!!!!

Sending you guys something simple for this weekend - I ran out of polish remover (sinful, i know!) so I didnt do anything super fancy. Howeverrrrr... this color is great. I used Sinful Colors in Paradise and the 2nd polish is Pure Ice named In The Mood - hilariously enough my boyfriend actually bought this for me.

You Can see how short my middle finger nail is in this picture. I know I should file them all down since I broke the one so they are all the same length.. but I really dont have the heart to yet :/ HAHA!! PUPPPPYYYY SPAMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These are my wittle babies!!! the dachshund is named Sunnie and she is about a hundred years old! haha and the Beagle's name is Butters (yes, like the kid from south park) and hes almost 3! Theyre my babies and spoiled beyond belief. Now everyone saw AWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!

hugs and hi-5's!

Summer

Oasis - Wonderwall

This is how I spent my Friday night. Goodbye 4th nails and hello Brit nails! Harry Potter comes out in a week...so this is fitting, I suppose. This definitely was a bit hard to do freehand, but I think it turned out okay. I still need to clean up around the edges.

How'd you spend your Friday night? Hope it was grand! Enjoy the weekend!

-Alexis

P.S: 100+ followers?? THANK YOU : ) We appreciate it so much!

You Lie - The Band Perry (my nails are famous! sorta)

HIIII Y'ALLLL!!! It's me again, Summer.

Today was a blah day for me.. but something exciting DID happen. THE BAND PERRY tweeted a picture of my nails!!! Highlight of my day! I really do love their music ANNNND they are the biggest success story to come from my hometown of Greeneville, TN.

This is the picture that they tweeted!!!

I have been seeing ALOT of subtle stamping.. so I thought it might be fun to try subtle dotting...

This really is one of the most simple mani's that anyone could do.. but its really cute...dontcha think?
I got this color on sale at sally's for a dollar at their sidewalk sale and im actually really glad i did.. This is everything that I used. super simple. The purple finger paints is alot darker than this picture shows.. its a DEEEEEP purple.. but completely opaque in one coat.

Earlier in the day I thought about doing an ombre but didn't really want to put in the effort of mixing the colors.. I now. Lazy. but still... So I just did a comparison of the purples that I had at work. The polish is in front of the corresponding nail. Surprisingly.. I think my favorite is the Jolly Rancher random scented purple polish.. it was a little hard to remove but it was REALLLLY pretty in person.

Santeria - Sublime

HI KIDS!!! Its me, Summer.

Lots of things happened today... First of all, Hanson released tour dates!!! I spent most of the morning mapping out where I wanted to see them, and how many shows I was going to get to attend this tour! I'm hoping I will get to see at least 3 maybe 4 if life cooperates haha.. Seconnndddd.. Casey Anthony was found NOT GUILTY. I have no words. NO WORDS! Also... my poor little dachshund hurt her leg.. we thought it was broken but thank God it wasn't!

Anyway... onto what you're here for! TIE DYE NAILSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I absolutely love this design. I didn't know if I would love it because I had never done it before and was only doing it because I wanted to play with the new e.l.f polishes that I had bought earlier.. I chose this song as the title because my boyfriend just kept telling me that they remind him of a Rastafarian.. and that is hilarious to me.. and sublime always gives me that feel when I listen to them!

You can definitely tell that I didn't clean up the edges at all because I was entirely too excited about seeing how well they would photograph... I'm such a blogger haha

Up close you can really see the design.. It looks like Water marble but it isn't!!! It's so much easier and cleaner and you can really get a uniform design! It's like marbling for the control freak! haha The only bummer about these pictures is that you can see my poor cracked nail on my middle finger. makes me so SADDDDD. Y'all have any remedies??

Feel free to tell me whatcha think!!!

(4th of July Collection Post!) Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus

Happy 4th of July, everyone! : ) Cute, predictable title for the post, eh? Haha. I hope you all are having a nice holiday and are enjoying your evening. Holidays are always so much fun when it comes to nails, because there is so many different ways you can go with painting your nails to fit the theme. I always love looking at what people come up with for holidays. Creativity at its finest! : ) So, I decided to ask you all to send in your pictures because i just KNEW I couldn't have been the only one who did their nails or likes looking at creative holiday nails! 

Thank you to everyone who sent in their photos. I never expected to get this amount of entries! You all are very very talented. I enjoyed looking at them and I hope you all enjoy looking at them as well! If you all like this type of post - we will definitely do this for each holiday!

Leave comments for all of the lovely nail artists and check out their blogs! : ) Descriptions are below each photo.

-Alexis

Comin' Home - City and Colour

Well hi there. Its me.. Summerrrrr.

Just got back from Red lobster. DELISHHHH. Anyhoo, I decided today that I am going to go to the City and Colour concert in my town in a few months!!!! helllowwww.. EXCITING!

As most of you know its Canada Day.. which means... SLOWW day for Summer since I only handle Canadian accts at work.. so I spent most of the day painting my nails. Yes, I do keep polish there for slow days.. This is the product of my work day :) -This is gonna double as my 4th of July mani to.. Soooo hopefully it lasts! Oh, which reminds me. If you have a 4th of July Mani and want it to be posted on our blog (with credit) send it to groupieglamblog[at]gmail[dot]com for an awesome post alexis is working on!

The giveaway is officially OVER. I will announce the winner ASAP..

This was my first 'anchor mani' so its not perfect and I didnt have any of my clean up necessities.. so the edges look rough. but its ok!!!! like it???

Hugs and Hi-5's

Summer.