Heavy - Lauri Ylönen

"It's heavy 
but you are not the only one 
who's tired of giving 
afraid of the oblivion 
Could it be that your curse is a bliss? 
But the weight of the world never felt this heavy "

I am so still loving this song even after listening to it A LOT over the past year. The lyrics, the music & Lauri's voice are just amazing. If you've ever seen Lauri, you'll know why I chose one of his songs as the title for this feather mani. He's a bird! LOL :)

Anyway, On to the nails! 

This week I decided to do feather nails! I haven't done these in a while & the first time I did them I followed Summer's tutorial!! They turned out fabulous!  (Of Course!)

I found some pink & turquoise feathers at Hobby Lobby a while back. I didn't just want to put them on a nude background so I used Fly by O.P.I. from their Nicki Minaj Collection & a pink from the Color Club All About Color Collection. (I have looked everywhere & I can't find the name of any of these colors). I of course followed that with Sally Hansen's Hard As Nails top coat & a coat of Seche Vite Rapid Dry Top Coat.

 I did this mani on Sunday & I just took it off tonight. They held up really well even after all the abuse I put them through this week! I hope you all had a great week!! :)

Swagger Jagger - Cher Lloyd

Hey guys! 9 days until I leave for my trip!! I'm so super excited I can barely stand it! Its the biggest trip I've ever taken. I haven't mentioned it much...bbecause it hasn't even seemed real... but it is! Ill be going to the finale night of fashion week in knoxville, then flying to disney for a few days, then roadtripping to nashville for a concert (omg one direction) and then going to washington dc and nyc! Eeeeeeek. Seriously gonna be crazy.

Anyway! Onto the polish... I recently received a package from my friend jewli in PAA. She sent me more TWINS! Haha I love them. I decided I would use troy and gabriella first. I mattified gabriella with matte about you, and free handed a sparkly tip with troy. I actually liked this mani and normally I loathe any french tip.

I think I'm gonna try and do a series of all of my essence twins. Who do u want to see next? Edward/bella romeo/julia or chuck/blair??

xoxo -s

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Get Over It - Ok Go!

Rainnnnny Sunday. Ahhhh...

Well, this mani features 2 of my favorite colors ever. Lucky duck by orly and skull and glossbones by opi! I did this mani a few weeks ago when my nail polish group did a 'retro' theme.... I had planned for this mani to look like old school wall paper... but I don't think I hit the nail on the head... I still like it!

I used a striping brush to make the lines and a mini dotting tool for the small dots. This was a quick paint job haha. I thought about doing something like this only a little more intricate. Would u guys be interested in that? Let me know!

Also, I want to start doing tutorials... what should my first one be? I did an easter bunny tutorial when we first started the blog, as well as a zebra stripe tutorial but I haven't done any lately. Leave me suggestions!!

xoxo - Summer

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We Are Young - Fun. feat. Janelle Monáe

This week I wanted to do something a bit easier on myself since I have a really long work week ahead. I decided to go with a jelly sandwich since I have actually NEVER done one before! I really can't believe that I haven't tried this sooner because I love the way it turned out.

First of all I started off with a coat of Seche Clear Base Coat. I then applied 2 coats of O.P.I. Too Hot Pink To Hold 'Em from their Texas Collection. It's a beautiful color and a great jelly polish. Next I added To The Glitter End! from Sephora by O.P.I. It's a fabulous gray metallic chunky glitter. I keep wondering if it is a dupe for the Deborah Lippmann I Love The Nightlife. I have been fan girling over that one since I saw it! Then, I added another coat of Too Hot Pink To Hold 'Em on top of the glitter. Fabulous! The glitter almost has a purple hue under the hot pink coat. I finished it up with a coat of Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat. Seche is definitely my favorite base & top coat hands down.

I seriously can not get enough of this song "We Are Young" by Fun. It is absoultely brilliant. You might recognize the song from the Chevy commercial that has been in rotation ever since the Super Bowl. If you haven't heard of them before be sure to check them out!

Happy Valentine's Day - Collection Post!

Happy Valentine's Day! We hope you all had a lovely day. As promised, here is the collection post. Thank you so much to every person who sent in their pictures. Enjoy looking through the pictures and be sure to check out their blogs! You all are extremely talented. 

From now on, we'll start off the collection post with our number one favorite. We loved all of the manis...it was a close call...but we decided on Joy as the number one for this post :) Great job, Joy! Light, flawless and girly color on this mani that seems to represent Valentine's Day in its entirety. 

Joy from http://okaynowjoy.blogspot.com/

Enjoy the rest of the pictures after the cut :)

I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston

Hey guys!

So its almost valentines day and even though I despise this holiday... I figured id do some sort of mani for it! I knew lots of people would be doing hearts.. so I tried to do something a little different. So I went with a drag marble with my dotting tool! Yayyyy! Haha, its so simple and a lot easier than actually water marbling. I used china glaze merry berry, essie high maintenance, and essie cute as a button.. and put them on in three stripes and then drug the small end of my dotting tool across to make this design. I did a 'sublime' mani like this a few months ago and loveeeed it.

I chose this as the title because litterally... as I was writing this... I found out whitney had passed. So sad.

xoxo - S

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Turn Me On - David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj

Hello everyone! Last week I did a mani for the sweet side of Valentine's Day. Today's mani is the sexy side!



I started out with a beautiful color from one of the sets Ulta put out recently called Paint The Town. It is a darker red color that I really loved. I almost didnt want to paint over it because it was fierce on it's on! On my ring finger I used WnW Black Creme. I then free handed the red lips. I was going for the look of fish nets on my pointer finger. I used a Bundle Monster plate for the design. Then I used China Glazes Ruby Pumps for the other fingers.




Red just screams sexy right!?

I thought I would also include a picture of my Valentine since it is almost here.


This is Jax asleep in my lap. He is a Scottish Terrier. I fell in love the minute I saw him. I think I have the cutest Valentine ever! ;-)

Pearl - Katy Perry

Hello! Today we have a guest post from Jackie. She contacted us and we were very excited to work with her. Jackie does outreach for the Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance (a leading web resource for mesothelioma cancer).

Lasting Beauty: Small Actions Big Impacts
By: Jackie Clark

For centuries women have known the positive association to looking good and feeling good and this holds true for any woman in any circumstance and in any culture. From a local farmer in rural Africa, to a heart surgeon in a developed country, the smallest effort to look beautiful not only enhances inner beauty but also reflects a spirit of hope and self worth. Beauty is a language across boundaries and can be especially significant for those who are depressed, grieving, or suffering from a chronic disease, for example, a patient with a diagnosis of a cancer with a less positive prognosis like mesothelioma. Two especially quick and relatively effortless beauty rituals include applying eye shadow and nail polish. Not only do these two small actions make a difference, but also they have other benefits for women both young and old.

Domino - Jesse J

Hey guys! So as we announced on the first.. we recently decided that we would be doing 'music video Mondays!'

This week we chose the song domino by jesse j. its a catchy song and there was plenty of inspiration to choose from.. I love the winged eye liner that alexis did... so pretty!

I just did a simple mani inspired by her nails outfit. Admittedly this isn't my best mani... I had the flu...butitried! Heheh! Next week I promise will be better!

Pumpkin Soup - Kate Nash

Hi everyone! I'm so excited to be sharing my nail polish addiction with all of you! I have been an avid nail blog reader for months now. I must admit that reading this wonderful blog & seeing all of the amazing things that Summer and Alexis come up with is how I got the nail polish bug! They are two very talented ladies! I am so honored that they asked me to contribute.

Since it is February & Valentine's is right around the corner, I thought I would do something centered around that theme for this week and next week.

This week's theme is Sweet Hearts. I got the inspiration from those heart shaped candy with the messages that taste like chalky antacids! (The SweetTart kind are my favorite.) I wanted to mix it up and do something different on each nail. I thought my hearts & poka dots came out pretty good. I have to say that it was my first time doing lines free handed & they got a little wobbly. Practice makes perfect though! I also, of course, had to have some glitter!

I used quite a few different polishes for this mani. I recently bought 3 colors from China Glaze's Electropop Collection: Gothic Lolita, Sweet Hook, & Dance Baby. I used 2 Orly colors: Basket Case & White Out. Then 2 colors by Essie: Marshmallow & Turquoise & Caicos. Finally the glitter one is from the Katy Perry O.P.I. Collection: Teenage Dream.

I realize that my post title does not sound like a song for Valentine's but if you listen to it, you'll hear that it has nothing to do with pumpkins or soup. :)

P.S. Be sure to keep reading all February! Lots of great posts coming next week from Alexis and Summer!

One year anniversary!

Today is a very special day for us. It's our one year anniversary! One year ago today we got together to make our very own beauty blog. It has been a great year for us. Thanks so much to everyone who has followed us and viewed our posts. We never imagined the amount of support we would get in just one year! We are extremely excited for what is to come in 2012.

• In honor of our celebration month, Brooke will be our weekly guest poster! Welcome to the team, Brooke! She will be posting every Friday for the month of February.
• We will start having Music Video Monday posts where we will copy a look from a music video or post a look inspired by a music video. Please, if you have a favorite music video at the moment, leave us a comment!
• We will have other surprises and special guest posts to post throughout the month which we are not quite ready to announce yet. We can't wait!
• We have a new logo! The layout will be evolving throughout the month.

Thanks for all of the support. We love you all!

Xo, Summer and Alexis

 

 For this special post we decided to do looks in our blog's color: purple!

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