Today I have a super easy 4th of July nail design to share with all of you.
A few weeks ago, Sarah from 25Sweetpeas asked me to participate in her Summer Magazine Collaboration, themed around the Fourth of July! I highly recommend checking out the full magazine; it is filled with amazing nail designs, music playlists, food, fashion, and more from some amazing nail bloggers.
You can find the Summer Magazine here. Now, onto the nails!
Once again, I have to apologize for my hiatus. I took a break from doing a ton of nail blogging to focus on finishing up my sophomore year at college. It was a crazy semester!
Now that it's summer, I've been working full time and I'll admit, sometimes I feel like I'm running low on inspiration. Not to mention my nails have been constantly breaking... But I was able to grow them out long enough to do this simple rose gold and blush nail art!
The shades I used were "Buff and Tumble", "White on Time", and "Petal to the Metal". I just thought these pink-toned shades went together so well! I think this is a beautiful color combination. I also used the Snail Vinyls Right Angle vinyls to create the design on my ring finger, and used dotting tools for the small accents on my pinky and index nails.
This was my first time using the new Sally Hansen Insta-Dri polishes, and I have to say that I was impressed! The brush is perfectly designed (very much like the usual Sally Hansen brush) and makes for an easy application with a nearly perfect cuticle line. I also found these polishes to be very self-leveling! And at the price, it's hard to beat. I can't speak for the longevity yet, as I haven't worn one for longer than a day, but hopefully I'll be publishing a more in-depth swatch/review of one of these shades soon.
The Sally Hansen Insta-Dri polishes go for $4.99 a bottle and can be found at Ulta, CVS, and Walgreens.
This is a pretty simple design, but if you're interested in seeing how I created it, then you can check out my YouTube tutorial here!
Hello everyone! Since I really enjoyed re-doing my blue quatrefoil nails last week, I decided to recreate another one of my favorite manis! This one is an oldie but a goodie: my pink and gold X nails from when I did a mani swap with Julie from @ wannaknowasecret! (Her username is now @ julie_awouters). When I first did this mani, I used individual straight nail vinyls to create the X shape since I didn't have my beloved right angle vinyls yet (can you believe it?!) Check out my original version from over 2 years ago here!It's awesome to see my improvement over the years. Keep on reading to see how I created this design!
Hi everyone! It's time for another #SwatchSunday! For the past two weeks, I've been reviewing some new polishes that I received fromSnail Vinyls. They have started to stock some nail polish brands, which is awesome! Today's #SwatchSunday is for one of the Ella + Mila polishes that Snail Vinyls is stocking, called "Little Plum Dress". If you're interested in purchasing this polish or any other products from Snail Vinyls, don't forget to use my code NAILSBYERIN for 15% off!
Hi everyone! It's Sunday, which means that it's time for another #SwatchSunday post! You might remember from last week that I got some new polishesSnail Vinyls recently. They have started to stock a few nail polish brands, includingElla + Mila. Today's #SwatchSunday is going to be for this gorgeous teal polish, "Under the Sea". I love the name of this! I immediately start imagining Sebastian sing "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid when I use this polish. If you're interested in purchasing this polish or any other products from Snail Vinyls, don't forget to use my code NAILSBYERIN for 15% off!
Hello everyone! Today I have a #SwatchSunday post for you guys! I feel like it's been a while since I did my last one, and I really want to have these as a regular thing on my blog every Sunday. I recently received a few new nail polishes from Snail Vinyls! They are stocking tons of new items in their store, including a few nail polish brands. One of them is Ella + Mila, and I have always wanted to try their polishes! For the next few #SwatchSunday's I'm going to be reviewing some of their polishes for you all. :) If you're interested in purchasing this polish or any other products from Snail Vinyls, don't forget to use my code NAILSBYERIN for 15% off!
Today I have more nails to go with my new socks from Living Royal! When I saw these mermaid knee high socks online, I thought they were so cute! They have multicolored scales and even a fish tail at the bottom. I immediately knew that I had to do some mermaid scale nails to match.
I had to get a picture of these socks to show how the feet look like the bottom of a mermaid tail! And after some difficult maneuvering, I got a this picture with my nails and socks in front of my pool. I thought it was perfect for the mermaid theme! :)
Hello everyone! Today I have a review of a product that is very new to me (although I know I'm late to the party on this). I tried out a chrome powder! This one is the Mitty Chrome Powder in "Blue Bullet", which I was sent by Snail Vinyls. **I'm also excited to share with you guys that I have a discount code for Snail Vinyls! Use the code NAILSBYERIN at checkout to get 15% off! If you're interested to read about my experience with this chrome powder, just keep reading! :)
Hello everyone! Today I have another floral design to share with you. I guess I've been on a floral kick lately haha :) But I'm really happy with how this design came out! One of my favorite nail polish colors is Color Club "Holy Chic!". It is such a gorgeous cool-toned purple, and it is perfect in two coats! I used that as the base for my floral nails. I also wanted to add some metallic accents to this design so I used Salon Perfect "Gold Leaf" for the gold parts of this design.
Today I have a very simple and chic design to share with you. I have seen a lot of people doing marble nails lately and I think that they look super cool and I wanted to try it for myself!
I decided to incorporate a little bit of gold and blue into this mani as well. I have to say, I'm so happy with how this turned out! So cute and totally my style.
I painted my index and pinky nails with Essie "Blossom Dany" (seriously, if you don't own this shade, drop everything and get a bottle of it right now. Absolutely one of my all time favorites.) and did a white to "Blossom Dandy" gradient on my ring finger nail. I used some single chevron vinyls from Snail Vinyls to do the skinny chevron lines on my nails. I wanted to incorporate the gold polish without it overpowering the rest of the mani, and I think that these thin accents worked really well!
Here's a close up of the marble nail:
If you want to see how I did this mani, including my technique for the marble effect, then check out my YouTube tutorial here:
Hello everyone! Today I have a super fun post for you all: a mani swap with the one and only Nails By Miri!
I have been such a huge fan of Miri's nail art for a long time, so I was so excited when she agreed to collaborate with me. I decided to recreate her coral and gold X nails!
Hello everyone! Today I have a super girly design to share with all of you. I was just kind of brainstorming some nail art the other day, and I decided that I wanted to do a nail art design that incorporated chevrons! A few years ago, chevrons on my ring finger was literally every other mani for me. Haha I am still obsessed with this look, but I haven't done any chevron nail art in so long. I am so in love with how this design came out! **Also, I recently made a Facebook page! Click here to check it out and please be sure to give it a like :)
Hello everyone! Happy 4th of July! What better way to celebrate than to put some red, white, and blue on your nails? I decided to create this mix & match patriotic mani to wear for the occasion. (I am so proud of myself for actually doing a holiday manicure in time for the holiday, haha) I wanted to add a fun twist to the usual stars and stripes mani, so I did two accent nails with the Star Swirl Nail Vinyls from Snail Vinyls and (surprise, surprise) Starrily "Ultima" on my index and ring fingers. I think the result is a really fun and cute 4th of July design!
Hello everyone! Today I have a very colorful, neon nail design. It's perfect for the warm, bright summer weather we're having right now :) I really wanted to do a design with the gorgeous new polishes from Salon Perfect's Neon Pop! Collection that they very kindly sent me. There are so many of those polishes, so I didn't use all of them, but I chose three of my favorites from it. I really love this color combo! :)
Hi everyone! Today I have this super girly pastel mani to share with all of you! It has been a while since I used Essie's "Blossom Dandy" in a manicure, and I really wanted to use it in a pretty spring design. This polka dot floral design was the result!
Today I have a very simple nail design that is just completely my style. You might remember something similar to this: my blue and silver quatrefoil nails from last year. Obviously I love this mani :) I recently got a few new nail polishes from LiveLovePolish.com, and one of the polishes I purchased was Cirque Colors "Deco", a gorgeous grayed-purple/mauve creme. You can read my full review of this polish here. I decided to recreate one of my favorite designs with this color, and I love the result!
Hello everyone!
Long time, no see! I know that some of you have been missing my nail art and I apologize for my long absence.
For those of you who don't know, I started my senior year in high school this year, which means my life has been taken over by college applications/preparations. On top of that, I am planning to be an art major, which means any extra time I have is spend on art pieces to create my portfolio.
With all of the time I have had to spend on my portfolio and college aps, my nail art was pushed to the back-burner. I have only worn plain colors on my nails for weeks... Sometimes even nothing at all! But I have a quick winter-y nail design for all of you, which is perfect for Christmas and through the rest of winter.
Today, August 16th, is my 17th birthday! I wanted to sincerely thank you all because last year around my birthday, I had 34,000 Instagram followers. Now, I'm nearing 72,000! It's amazing to see how this little account of mine has grown over the years.
I didn't get a chance to get a nice picture of this design, so here's a old-style iPhone photo of this mani :) Haha throwback to when all my photos were like this.... This mani did not turn out perfect because I did them late at night in a rush but I just like having a little something to celebrate on my nails :)
Recently I was contacted by the Swedish watch company, Daniel Wellington. They asked if I would like to try out one of their watches and share it with all of you! After looking through all of their beautiful designs, I really fell in love with their Classic Southampton watch. I created this nail design to match the navy and pink band of the watch!
** They also were kind enough to give you guys a discount code that you can use until August 31st, 2015! The code is nails_by_erin, and it will take 15% off your order on www.danielwellington.com! **
Hello everyone!
I am SO excited about today's mani. I had this idea in my head of how I wanted to do a design with these amazing Right Angle nail vinyls from Snail Vinyls and I ended up loving how it looked so much that I did it on both of my hands! It's one of those nail designs where it turned out exactly the way I had hoped! Yay!! :)
