Feeling simplistic today...

Starting the year out with a very simple polka dotted Mani. This new year is full of new plans & projects, so I will be quite busy & probably a little scarce in the first quarter. You will see an occasional post, but probably not as frequent. That being said, one of the new plans this year is to have a baby, yay! So in my web searches I find myself drawn to all things baby & found this really cute little dress that made me smile & I thought how pretty those colors looked together...voila, polka dot nail inspiration! the only difference is I reversed the colors.

Inspiration

Christmas take one:

As promised I am back! I am still nursing some very short nails, but then again my nails have never really been long, anyways I'm kicking off the season with a very simple Christmas plaid design. I copied 100% from this site, she did a matte version & mine is a bit more sparkly!

Inspiration

Merry Christmas!

Mother's day simple dotted mani

For Mothers day I didn't have much time, what with all the cooking & cleaning in preparation for spending a lovely day with my mother-in-law, so I just did a very simple mani. I wanted something pink, because pink always reminds me of mothers, it's soft & makes me smile. I used OPI On her Majesty's secret service as my base & then placed some random dotted gradients in pink.

LDTTWC, day 6: They don't make'em like they used to...

Yay, I'm so excited for this day of the Time Warp Challenge that Lindsey created, cause we get to look back on happy childhood memories & the simple joy of playing silly games that kept us entertained for hours. Imagine not having tv, computers, video games or even a bicycle growing up? Well, such was the life of my family of 7 girls growing up in Brasil during the 80's & 90's. If we weren't outside climbing trees, at the beach, or playing soccer, we were indoors playing a variety of indoor games such as; Lego, scrabble, snakes & ladders, pictionary & other board games. But I had to narrow it down & ended up picking 2 favorites to design for you today; Pickup Sticks & Jacks. Can you imagine getting kids nowadays to play pickup sticks, they would look at you like you were crazy, lol!

For the pickup sticks I used various colors as my base in white, blue, green & yellow, any colors would do. I then used acrylic paints in the same colors for my two accent nails. 

For Jacks I used Elf Innocent as my base & then used acrylic paints for the Jacks & ball.

Snow Leopard

Haven't done an animal print in a while...so here's one using Zoya Dove as my base & then adding pink acrylic paint leopard prints. Not much explanation needed on this one, leopard print is pretty straight forward & makes for a fun & easy design.