Mini-me nails: Minions

These nails were all Maddie's choice. She has a recent obsession with minions and batman. In terms of design, I'm thankful to do the minion design(my batman design was a pain in the behind).   Here's the kicker though: little lady had a hard time staying still for this one 😕

At least my little lady was having fun! She's been pointing to her nails showing them off all week!

Mini-me nails: Watermelon

I recently did my own nails in a watermen design. It didn't take long for my two year old daughter to notice, and needlesstosay she ended up getting her own set of sweet nails! 

This was really easy to do! I'm rather shocked, to be honest. She was super still for it all and the design looked great!

Dollar store finds!

I feel like I make weekly trips to the dollar store. At least I know I'm not breaking the bank that bad when I do splurge. Anyways, in two of my most recent trips I found some exciting things:

Essie nail strips. Who knew these were a thing? Certainly not me! But I was excited to try them out. 

Easy to apply but left my nails all funky when taking them off... They stayed perfect for over a week though so it was well worth it!

Revlon moon candy nail polish. I remember when these first came out and I was obsessed with these. Oddly I never bought any though(my broke behind was cheap) but now I have two! Got these babies for a buck a piece!

Waddle waddle!

Finally, I have decided to master my favorite animal in nail art. Plus it doesn't hurt that my students were learning about animals in winter this past week! 

I simply followed a design found on Pinterest with a base of black. Then I added the white belly. Next I dotted the eyes and added my orange accents. Turned out beautiful!

To add to the Penguin fun, here are some of my other creative and penguin-y fun from the week!

Mouseketeer

I tried two things for this post! For one, I did a wonderful Mickey/Minnie Mouse inspired mani. Secondly, I tried the glue as a base trick. For those who don't know, this is when you paint a base coat of elmers school glue on your nail before painting nail polish. This ideally should make your polish peelable (not sure if that's a word but I'm going with it!). 

Let's start with the design. It looks fab!!

The designs were very easy to create. The pinkie is just simple dots. My ring finger took the most work to get the ears correctly but nothing you can't handle! My pointer started as black and I added the embellishments.

Here's the downer to this mani: it chipped sooooo quickly! I like the idea of the glue more than the actual application(although you should totally put it on your cuticles around bail to have easy clean up!). The next day, a good portion of my fab mani was gone. :(

Bloody Halloween

I am beyond psyched at this point for halloween. How couldn't I be? It's my favorite freaking holiday. I love an excuse to dress up, eat candy and get the life scared out of me. 

For this round of Halloween nails, I bring you: blood (not real blood of course) but still pretty gruesome! I found these wonderful designs on Pinterest:

I've done splattering using a straw before but it's been awhile. So, it took few try's before I got the effect I wanted. Regardless, I'm pretty proud of these nails. They look awesome(although I get a lot of puzzles questions from my preschoolers but luckily distractions are everywhere!).

Candy Corn Crazy!

Am I the only one out there who has a love hate relationship with candy corn? The first one tastes amazing but five in and I'm done. It gets boring fast. Regardless, I felt a compulsive need to do this nail design. Plus I added some glitter. Glitter makes everything better!

So the picture is my pre cleanup. I seriously have been slacking in the pictures(& cleanup around my nails!) and will be trying out some new tips I found online! Stay tuned!