Paint ALL The Nails...

My name is Linda and I am obsessed with Nail Polish and nail art. Spending ridiculous amounts of money on nail polish bottles that will most likely be worn once, such an unhealthy addiction. ;) So I decided to start a blog featuring my nail art. All art is mine unless stated otherwise. Feel free to submit anything you would like to see(: rm_f1st('7','220','true','false','000000','8dwb5nvm2j8','true','54ff00'); Search here for specific nail art! It helps to use vague words, for example "rainbow" :)

[lacquerlinda]

BIRTHDAY NAILS!!! :D

My birthday was on April 4th and I took the time out of my busy schedule to conjure up a Nail design. I turned 20 and that explains the X's. It's the roman numeral for 10 and 2 of them = 20. :) I decided to add some abstract-ish birthday balloons to my other nails. I really love how this turned out!

Colors Used:

OPI - Straweberry Margarita

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Celeb City

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Mellow Yellow

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Blue Me Away

Wet N Wild Fast Dry - How I Met Your Magenta

China Glaze - Gaga for Green

Sinful Colors - Snow Me White

Milani Nail Art - Black Sketch

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I sincerely apologize for the lack of posts!

I have been so busy the past few weeks. Putting details under a read more. :)

Buuut since my birthday is next week I plan on doing birthday nails and posting those for all of you to see. My gift to you guys on my birthday :)

I have been so busy with influxes of tests and papers at school. And worrying about when I can finally get my car I just paid for. And trying to practice driving so I can get my license (turning 20 next week!). Also something that has been taking A LOT of my time is getting my business started. And also the fact that I'm gonna be in an entrepreneurship expo at my school in about two weeks. I haven't even been painting my nails as much lately! Hopefully once the expo passes and I don't have that preparation to worry about anymore I can begin regularly posting again. I love you all and promise to be back very soon <3

[lacquerlinda]

Random Swatch!

Barielle -Slate of Affairs

I ordered this polish on a whim. While I do love it I'm a bit sad. When I applied it and put a top coat on it and all that it didn't look like the pictures I had seen online. Bummer... But I still love and appreciate this color <3. It's a purpley-grayish color with blue shimmers in it. I had a terrible time trying to photograph it and the best photo I could get only shows the blue shimmer in the bottle.I wanted to do an accent nail so I just added Sally Hansen Crackle in Snow Blast. :)

(1 Base coat, 2 coats, 1 Quick Dry Top coat)

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Nail Polish Clean up Tutorial

In this video I show how I clean up my cuticles/nail bed after painting my nails! :D

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Pastel Rainbow!!!

I recently got rhinestones in the mail and my pastel rainbow has been completed so I decided to do a manicure using both! :D I love this so much right now that I don't want to take it off. And usually I take off manicures after like 3 days. I have had this for about 5 days now. <3

Colors Used:

China Glaze -Something Sweet

Sinful Colors -Unicorn

Essie -Navigate Her

China Glaze -Kinetic Candy

Essie - Lilacism

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Nail Polish Haul!!!

I recently discovered a fabulous website by the name of Transdesign through a youtuber. Let me just say this website is FANTASTIC!!! I'm doing a mini review before getting to the polish. Everything is so cheap! And they package the polish so nicely and with care. In the china Glaze boxes you see above they took the time to put a little packing peanut in between each bottle!!! And everything was in a box filled with packing peanuts! I will definitely purchase from there again.

As per the second picture Left to Right

Barielle - Slate of Affairs. This one I added to my cart last minute. It was a color I had been swooning over for a few weeks. I just decided last minute that I was going to get it. It's kind of a grayish purple with blue shimmer in it. I love the uniqueness of this polish! (Price - $3.60 at Transdesign.com)

China Glaze -Papaya Punch. I have had this polish on my wishlist for a few weeks. I also have been in the need of a really bright orange because my last one got all gooey. I need to invest in some nail polish thinner :/. But I decided to go with this one cause China Glaze is my new favorite <3 (Price - $2.99 at Transdesign.com).

China Glaze - First Mate. This polish has also been on my wishlist for a while. I've really been wanting a navy blue for the longest! (Price - $2.99 at Transdesign.com).

China Glaze - Lighthouse. This was a color I just randomly discovered while shopping on Transdesign. I really liked it so I simply had to get it! :) (Price - $2.99 at Transdesign.com).

China Glaze - Something Sweet. This I discovered a while ago and simply had to add to my wishlist. I have been on the mission to complete my pastel rainbow. (I have all the colors of the normal rainbow, next was pastel! ;D). And this is the pastel pink I chose to fulfill part of my pastel rainbow! I love it it is such a beautiful light, pastel pink! (Price - $2.99 at Transdesign.com).

China Glaze - Gaga For Green. I have greens, but they are either bright neon, shiny, shimmers, pastel, or dark. So I have been wanting a sort of grass green color. and this is the one! :D (Price - $2.99 at Transdesign.com).

China Glaze - Kinetic Candy. I absolutely love the Electropop collection from China Glaze so of course I had to get two more (Gaga for Green was the other one). Plus getting this pastel blue has completed m pastel rainbow! :D So happy! <3 I love baby blues!! (Price - $2.99 at Transdesign.com).

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Nail Art Haul!

I purchased this set of 10 wheels from BundleMonster on Amazon for a whopping $17.99!! And shipping was free. I saw a lot of reviews and people were really pissed that the wheels were smaller than they thought. I think they are just the perfect size. I do have a few upsets from this haul however. The picture on Amazon shows all the wheel sections completely FULL with rhinestones. This isn't true for the most part. In the photos the sections were filled to the brim. Also my other issue with this purchase is there are a lot of repeats. Some of them don't bother me be cause I know I will use them a lot, and some of the repeats are the same design different colors. No issues with that. My issue is repeats of the same design AND color. Oh well. I'm happy with my purchase for the most part. Can't wait to really use some of these! :D

Plus, 10 wheels for $17.99 is such a steal. So happy I found this. :D

[lacquerlinda]

IS there a special program or template I can get to design nails on the computer?

Such as doing something like this VVV

[lacquerlinda]

ladycabbage answered your question: What are these little metallic strips I keep seeing on nail art?

It’s called striping tape. ^___^

Know where I can buy some? :O

[lacquerlinda]

What are these little metallic strips I keep seeing on nail art?

http://victoriac7.tumblr.com/post/17915051208/i-wish-i-was-more-creative-colors-used-sally#notes

Such as here^^^

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Random Swatch!!!

Sinful Colors - Cinderella. I bought this before even realizing how popular this color is becoming. I love it. I think it is absolutely gorgeous. My only problem with it is the formula. It's a bit jelly like. This swatch is 3 coats. It is very sheer and I think this polish would look really nice over another color. Its a very shimmery, sheer pastel blue. It also has some pink shimmer in it as well. You can see it on the bottle in the picture. Alot of people having been saying though that its got flakies int it. To me it just looks like pink shimmer. I was lucky enough to grab this on sale for $0.99. If you like the color hurry up to your local Walgreens! I have heard lots of stories of pharmacy's being completely out of this color! I might do a Cinderella themed manicure one day...simply because this color does remind me of Cinderella. :)

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Pokemon Nail Art!!!

I have a list of nail art to DEFINITELY try. I was having nail artist block one day so I broke out the list and picked what I felt like doing. Thus this Pokemon nails were born! My left hand is the pokeballs, right hand is Pickachu. I got so many comments about these nails, even after they started chipping away.. :D. I love this manicure and I definitely want to do more pokemon nail art in the future. :)

Colors Used:

OPI - Big Apple Red, Alpine Snow

Milani Nail Art - Black Sketch

Sally Hansen - Mellow Yellow

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Cloud Manicure!

This manicure is done over Wet N Wild Fast Dry Collection - How I Met Your Magenta. Cloud manis have become increasingly popular and I have been wanting to try it for a while. I love the color for the base coat but I was in the mood to add some simple nail art. The blue is Sally Hansen - Blue Me Away and the white is Sinful Colors - Snow Me White. I didn't want to dull down the brightness of the base color with dull polishes so I used another bright and white to make the blue and pink pop even more. As I mentioned in my post for the base color swatch (HERE) there is orange shimmer. You can definitely see it better in this photo!!

I love the cloud manicure and can't wait to try it again. The possibilities to the combinations of colors to use is ENDLESS!

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Random Swatch!!!

Wet N Wild Fast Dry Collection - How I Met Your Magenta. Let me just start off by saying I love the names of all the polishes from this collection. I think its really cute and clever. Some of the names are stretching it a bit though XD! I originally didn't plan on buying this when I first saw it at Walgreens but then I saw a bunch of pictures of it after application and I LOVED IT!! It's a very bright pink with pink and a bit of orange shimmer. (At least that's how it seemed to me). the picture does the shimmer quality of the polish no justice. If I remember correctly this was just one coat! Might have been 2. My memory sucks... I definitely recommend this to anyone in love with bright shimmery polishes! ($1.99 at Walgreens)

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Random Swatch!!!

Pure Ice - Calypso. This was the base color I used for my Plaid manicure awhile ago. (HERE) I am stating do to reviews on polishes, I try to remember snapping pictures of my base color before doing the nail art over them. This is a very shimmery teal blue color. I got this for christmas about 2 years ago. It has sort of frosty finish. At least to me it does. I think that was 2 coats. The first coat was a bit streaky and not as opaque as I had wanted it to be. I think the polish would have looked a bit better with a third coat. ($2.99 at Walmart)

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What's the Essie resort collection? Like usually collections go by the seasons, what does the resort collection pertain to?

Also, why does Essie have two spring collections? The Navigate Her and the Go Overboard collections both come up on google as spring 2012 collection. Any one know?