Pink and Gold Floral Nails (Re-do!)

Hello everyone!

Hope you're all doing well. Sorry for my lack of blog posts! I'm back at college and will be posting a little less frequently. I've been working hard to not disappear like last year, but I still won't be posting as often as I do in the summer.

I've really been loving this series I've been doing on my blog recently where I re-do some of my most popular designs. So, I decided to continue it and re-do my Pink and Gold Floral Nails!

I did these in July of 2016, and they are one of my most popular manis to date. They're probably one of my most reposted pins on Pinterest!

When I did them last year, though, my nails were super short and now looking back, I'm not super happy with how the photos look! Now that my nails are longer I thought the design would look a lot nicer.

Floral Studded Nails | Sally Beauty

Hello everyone!

Today I have another nail design using products from Sally Beauty! And I'm so happy with how this one turned out :) I feel like its been so long since I did a floral design. I always end up loving these girly manis!

While on my Sally's haul, I picked up another Orly Breathable nail polish. This color, "Pamper Me" was just too pretty to pass up! It is a beautiful light pink creme. It is pretty much opaque in two coats, but I am wearing three thin coats on my pinky and index nails.

Pink and Gold Floral Nails

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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 :)

Pastel Floral and Polka Dot Nails

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!

Gradient and Floral Nails

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I have yet another girly design for you today, but this time I tried my hand again at freehand flowers! I find that every time I try them out, I improve on them a lot and I'm pretty happy with how they turned out this time :)

Gradient Heart Nails

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I have great news! My college application process is coming to a close and that means that (*fingers crossed*) I will have more nail art time. Yay! :)

I recently received some adorable Valentine's Day nail vinyls from Snail Vinyls. I absolutely loved the heart nail stencils, so I decided to do this simple gradient heart design!

My 17th Birthday Nails

Hello everyone!

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.

One of my all-time favorite manis that I've ever done is my blue and silver quatrefoil design using the Moroccan Vinyls from Snail Vinyls, so I decided to recreate it for my birthday!

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 :)

Navy and Pink Mix & Match Nails | Daniel Wellington Watch Review

Hello everyone!

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! **

 

Chevron Floral Nails

 Hello everyone!

Today I have this really girly and fun chevron floral design to share with you all!

I've really been wanting to do a freehand floral pattern, and I recently fell in love with a chevron and floral pattern of a phone case that I found online. I did this nail design inspired by that pattern! I've also seen @nailstorming on Instagram do a lot of these kind of manis lately and I have been obsessed with them! I would say that this design is a combination of the two of those things :)

Royal Princess Nails

Hello everyone!

In case you haven't heard, there is a new royal baby: Charlotte Elizabeth Diana! I thought it might be fun to do some girly princess nails in honor of her :)

A while back I received this crown nail charm from Simply Spoiled Beauty and I thought it would be perfect for this design! (I don't currently see this exact charm listed on their site, but they have a ton of other nail bows and nail art tools that I'm sure you all will love.

Use code ERIN40 for 40% your order on www.simplyspoiledbeautyproducts.com!

OPI Infinite Shine Floral Watermarble Nails

Hello everyone!

As you can probably tell, I have joined the nub club.... Yup, I've had three nail breaks in the past two days. Ugh.

But I am continuing with my series of watermarbling attempts; this time with a flower petal marble using "Running With the In-finite Crowd", "Pretty Pink Perseveres", and "Get Ryd-of-thym Blues" from the new OPI Infinite Shine line. 

*I received 10 polishes from the OPI Infinite Shine line (as well as the base and top coat) from Preen.Me through their #PreenMeVIP program, however, this does not affect my comments or opinions on the polishes*

Pink and White Lace Nails | Born Pretty Store Nail Wrap Review

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As many of you probably know by now, I absolutely love girly, pink designs, and I love the look of lace nails. However, I don't have the patience or fine enough brushes to paint them by hand, and I have never tried stamping before so I haven't attempted doing lace nails that way.

Luckily, Born Pretty Store was kind enough to send me these gorgeous white lace nail wraps to try out! They have a clear backing and have little silver rhinestones as a little accent.

Soft Purple Gradient Nails with Born Pretty Store Bow

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Today I have a nice "refresher" mani to share with you all. I wanted to do something simple and pretty that would compliment this cute little silver nail bow from Born Pretty Store (these come in a bunch of different, silver and pearl designs, but the one I'm using here is #727).

After a serious amount of resisting from reaching for a light pink, I picked up Color Club "Holy Chic" for the gradient in this mani. Not only do I love the name, but the color is stunning and creates such a lovely gradient when paired with white. I've really been loving purples and blues lately, and while this is definitely a light purple it does lean towards that sort of cool purple/periwinkle color. It is gorgeous!

Valentine's Day Nails: Pink Stripes with Heart Studs

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!

I've been a little under the weather for the past few days but I wanted to do a quick Valentine's day design for you all!

I've seen a lot of lip manis, a lot of pink gradients, and a lot of gradient hearts, so I wanted to try something different and a little more simple. I decided on this stripe design, and I used the heart studs to capture the Valentine's day theme.

Pink and Gold Nails | Mani Swap with Julie @wannaknowasecret!

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Today I have this fun pink and gold mani that I did in a mani swap with Julie (@wannaknowasecret)!

Julie reached out to me last week asking if we wanted to do some nail art together again. It has been so long since we last collaborated! Of course I said yes, and we decided to do a mani swap! I chose this beautiful design of hers, inspired by Ashley Tisdale. I just love the combination of light pink and gold!  Click here to see her original version of this mani.

I'm pretty sure that Julie free-handed her accent nail in her mani since she is a nail wizard, but I used the skinny straight stripes nail vinyls from Twinkled T to be more precise since I just do not have that kind of free-hand skill! Haha :)

Pink Leopard 3D Bow Nails & Simply Spoiled Beauty Review

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Today I have a fun and girly design using nail art pens and a 3D nail bow from Simply Spoiled Beauty! I am especially excited about the bow; Simply Spoiled was very generous and I received a bunch of them. I can't wait to use them for upcoming designs! They are beautiful and are such a great, unique accent to any nail design.

I looked through all of the bows and charms I was sent and found this white bow with pink leopard print. I immediately knew I had to incorporate it in a fun and girly design!

This is what I ended up doing: