Bubble Nail Art

I did a version of these on a friend of mine a few weeks ago and I loved them so much that I decided to recreate them myself! These bubble nails are really easy to do with the polish of your choice and some dotting tools! 

I began with two coats of Zoya Bobbi on all of my nails except for my accent nail, which is two coats of Zoya Hazel. I then used Zoya Purity and my largest dotting tool to create a scalloped french tip. I also dotted two to three large dots above the tip. I used a smaller dotting tool to add some smaller dots around the larger ones above the scalloped tip. Then, using the base color, I dotted inside of all of the white dots except for the tip. Enjoy! :)

KBShimmer Summer Collection

Welcome to my first Monday post! I've been having so much fun with indie polish lately that I've decided to increase my indie posts to twice a week! Hope that's ok with all of you! <3 Today I have three polishes from the KBShimmer Summer Collection. KBShimmer has a fantastic reputation and I have loved every single polish I've ever used by them. They are smooth and easy to apply. They dry normally and they always, always look absolutely beautiful! These new polishes from the summer collection aligned perfectly with my previous experience with KBShimmer. 

The three polishes I received to review were Blinded by the Bright, Grayscale, and It's Razz-ical. I immediately loved all three as soon as I took them out of the package! They are everything I could ever want in a summer collection: neon, holographic, and glittery! YAY! 

I've been obsessed with neon for a few weeks now, so I began with Blinded by the Bright. This bright, neon yellow polish has a rainbow of glitter in it and it didn't even need white undies like most neon yellows do! This is three coats alone:

Grayscale is THE BEST black and white glitter top coat EVER. Why? Because it also has grey glitter in it! GREY! AHHHHH, I just love it! This baby has white, black, and grey glitter in all shapes and sizes: hex, rectangle, circle, and square. One coat is all you need! I chose to use Square Hue Ocean Drive as the base for this gorgeous glitter top coat. 

Finally, I have It's Razz-ical. What can I say, this beautiful polish is pretty much the epitome of everything I love in a polish. Pink? Check. Glitter? Check. Holographic elements? Check. LOVE. This raspberry hued crelly polish is chock full of magenta, silver, and pink glitter. All of the glitters are holographic and absolutely sparkle like crazy! I took pictures normally and with an LED light to show how sparkly this beauty is in the Sun! This is two coats of It's Razz-ical all by itself! Enjoy! :)

Circular Dotticure

Sometimes I sit down with colors in front of me and have no clue where I'm going to go with them! These nails were the product of that situation, hahaha! I wanted to use the Irresistible and Stunning Collections that Zoya sent me because the colors are just so amazing, but I didn't have an idea. So, I ended up doing a circular dotticure! Of course, in the nail art community, there's always some similarities. I've had two links sent to me since I posted this and I absolutely could have seen either of these manis while perusing Pinterest or other blogs, so I wanted to be sure to link to them! One is by The Polish Playground and the other by The Silverinator!

I began with two coats of Zoya Jacqueline from the Lovely Collection. I then used Darcy, Thandie, Josie, Yara, Rocky, Amy, Hazel, Rikki, Kerry, and Bobbi to create the dotted circles with my dotting tool. I alternated between using a larger tool and a smaller tool. I also alternated between the creams of the Stunning Collection and the metallics of the Irresistible Collection. I wore these nails for a week and a half! Enjoy! :)

Indie Spotlight: Windestine

I have three beautiful polishes to show you today! These were sent to me by Freda over at Windestine. These glittery polishes are smooth as can be and really gorgeous! You should definitely check out Freda's polishes if you haven't already had the pleasure! 

Androgynous is completely unique to my collection! It's a really dark rose base with turquoise glitter in a variety of sizes. There's also some iridescent glitter in there as well, which is awesome and subtle! On me, the polish actually almost looks like a nude color, which I love! This polish is a jelly, so it requires at least three coats. I did three coats without undies and I still have a little visible nail line: 

These next two are glitter top coats and they are so pretty! The Girl With the Best Smile is micro light green glitter, fine pink glitter, and small lavender glitter. I did two coats over Zoya Purity and Zoya Raven. I absolutely love this glitter combination! :)

The other glittery top coat is Jeweled Sand which consists of sand, pink, and turquoise colored glitter. Again, I used two coats over Purity and Raven. These glitter top coats applied perfectly and were so sparkly! Enjoy! :)

Striping Tape Nail Art

I have some really fun nails to show you today! I got a lot of compliments on these since they are so bright and shimmery! They are really easy, too, as long as you have some striping tape! :) I began with two coats of Zoya Darcy, an awesome, bright yellow!

Then, I took my striping tape and put it across the bottom of my nail as if I were doing a french tip. I then added one more piece of tape above that line. On my accent nail, I did striping tape all of the way up:

I then polished over the tape using Zoya Amy. Remember, when working with striping tape, always pull the tape off as soon as you're done polishing on the color you put over the tape. I polish one nail at a time, then pull the tape off before I move on to the next nail. Enjoy! :)

Starry Night Nails

Starry Night has been a favorite painting of mine for forever. I did a project on Vincent van Gogh in high school and recreated the painting for that project. I also went to see Starry Night at MoMA in New York City a few years ago. Then, when my husband and mother both wanted my painting from high school :), I painted another one. I just love it. I even had a Starry Night case of my phone for awhile and I also have one on my Kindle. It's more of a great love than an obsession, I promise. I don't know why it took me so long to create some Starry Night nails! I've had the idea in my head for quite some time, I've just been slacking on putting brush to nail. BUT, here they are!

I began with two coats of Zoya Natty. Look how gorgeous she is:

I then used Zoya Arizona to dot on the stars and I used an orange stick to draw the moon. Then, I used a long, thin nail art brush to do random strokes of Zoya Purity and Zoya Pippa around the stars and moon. After than, I used Zoya Rocky and Zoya Blu to do random strokes around Purity and Pippa. It didn't turn out exactly like I wanted it to, but I'm really happy with them for my first attempt! Enjoy! :)

Indie Spotlight: Chirality Special BTK

Chirality has a hilarious (in my opinion) cereal killers line. She pairs up a cereal name with a serial killer's name and makes a milky based, glitter polish to go with it! I think it's quite ingenious and reminds me of an art gallery I once saw that was called Cereal Killers. Amanda also writes hilarious stories to go with each of her polishes. Here's the one that she wrote for Special BTK: 

"As she poured her Special K cereal into her bowl, our seemingly bored housewife pulled up her laptop and begins connecting with the fellow neighborhood ladies to organize another HOA meeting. The group chat was harmless at first until our bored housewife's dark side took over; a side any normal person would fear greatly. Soon, this new dark force began calling her female legio to arms, this becoming and army hellbent on destroying one lone heroine by uncovering deadly secrets that go back decades. They do not understand her differences which they fear greatly and now they must take her down. Will she be able to rise above this army of vicious female soliders, these troll marauders, these desperate housewives? Their leader is prepared to do battle...right after she's done with breakfast."

I bought two of her cereal killer polishes from her first collection. Her second one just came out. The one I'm showing you today is called Special BTK. It's a mash-up of Special K and The BTK Killer. It's a milky base with red glitter! I had a little trouble with this one at first. It was a little thick and splotchy. I figured out that doing it in three thin coats was the best idea and as I worked with it, it became easier! I love how it looked when it was on! Enjoy! :)