I get sick of layouts so fast. ^^ Coming back to this one until I design one or find another one.

I will do a real post soon. Just been busy and tired. *sigh…
Puppy.
School.
Puppy…lol.

This is how a lot of nail techs/manicurist put flowers on clients. Most of the time, they’ll just do step 1, put a dot in the middle, and a few strokes of color to represent leaves. I usually did Step 1 flowers for kids. For teens & adults, I would get fancier with it.
So here is a tutorial of how I polished on flowers for past clients.
Click pictures to enlarge.


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One coat base coat. Two coats of China Glaze in Audrey.

Dot some white polish on paper. The tools I used are dotters and striping paint [not shown]. If you don’t have dotters, you can use a pointy toothpick, the ball of a ball point pen, cotton swab [cotton removed, use for bigger flowers], and whatever you can find that resembles these dotters.

With a big dotter, dot on your petals [big dotter]. Five dots look the best. Drag petals in and drag them out [pointy dotter].

Add strokes of color on centers of petals [striping paint]. Add five small black dots [pointy dotter].

More strokes of color.

This is flower is on my nails now. The other design looks better on longer nails or on the big toe.

Easy right? If you have a hard time, practice on some paper to get your dotting right.

Products Used»
Seche Vite Crystal Clear Base Coat
OPI in Audrey
Striping paint: pink, silver, silver glitter, black, shimmery gold. On my nails now: orange-y peach, yellow, green, and blue glitter.
Sally Hansen Maximum Growth Plus in Pure White Tip
Seche Vite Dry Fast Topcoat.

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I went to Target yesterday to get me some yum-yums [foods] and of course, I couldn’t resist walking down that aisle.
The beauty aisle…
Lol. I just could not resist. The aisles of beauty shines with a glowing aura and voices travel to my ears…
“Vana…come to us. Come and look at the beautiful colors we have to offer.”
The voices get me everytime.

So I went down the aisles looking at all the brands. Pixi, Jemma Kidd, Maybelline, L’Oreal…Sonia Kashuk. Et cetera, et cetera. Then I end up in the nail polish section. I know the shelves so well that I catch on to the “New” products right away. I saw that Sally Hansen has released their new polish collection. I read about it in the magazines. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure. A basecoat, nail colour, and topcoat in one. It’s not the first of its kind, but I’m sure it’s a great formula.

I wanted to get this, but there was one thing that stopped me from doing so. The brush. I don’t know what SallyH is thinking when it comes to the brushes for this collection and the Insta-dry collection. The brushes are thick and trimmed to a half square, half round shape. Yeah, I get it…it’s to fit close to the cuticles better. I don’t like it. The Insta-dry brushes are streaky. I don’t know about the new ones. I didn’t try it. I suppose if I love the color enough, I would get it. The color and formula is all that matters anyways.
On a positive note:
I like the handle of the brushes. There’s a black rubber band on every  bottle for better gripage. About time someone’s done that. I like the bottle shape too.
The colors are pretty. Good range so far.
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Valentine’s Day is coming up. So it’s all about the pinks, reds, and purples.
Mardi Gras makeup video soon. ^^

I know I’ve shown most of these colors on my nail tutorials, but I still wanted to share part of my nail polish collection. You would think that I have like hundreds of nail polishes since I did nails for so long, but I don’t. I have about fifty something. When I was doing nails, I didn’t need to buy all the colors because I had access to them at the shop. ^^
These are the favorites that I have. The coloring is a tiny bit off because my camera is a bit color blind. Click the pictures to enlarge and to get a better look. The color also change because of the downsizing.
I haven’t gotten any of the new collections because I’m broke and I’m in beauty school. But I have enough to mix to create a new colors.

My Favorite Nail Polishes: Left to Right.

Orly in Lola
Essie in Wife Goes On

Essie in Whisper & Cute As A Button [love both of these for summer]

Essie in Ballet Slipper [big favorite for my toes] & Adore-A-Ball

Essie in Chastity & Sexy Divide [big favorite]

OPI in Black Cherry Chutney [big favorite]
China Glaze in Stella

Essie in Midnight Cami [big favorite but a pain to get off, it's like pen ink blue]
Sally Hansen Diamond Strength in Black Diamond [big favorite]

China Glaze in Beauty and the Beach [great color for designs and putting over top of another polish]
Essie in Sheltered Island [big favorite]
China Glaze in Sky High-Top
China Glaze in Bermuda Breakaway [big favorite]

Essie in Solemate
Rimmel London 60 Seconds in Climax

China Glaze in For Audrey
Orly in Green Apple
Essie in Greenport
OPI in Gargantuan Green Grape

Sally Hansen Salon in Shooting Star [great for designs]
Sally Hansen Salon in Glity Pleasure [great for designs]
Orly in Shock
OPI in Banana Bandana

Other favorites not shown..meaning I don’t have….yet. >:]

Essie:
Marshmallow semi-sheer white [favorite for my toes]
Waltz sheer white [my favorite color to wear over a french tip]
Forget Me Nots it’s like Chastity, but deeper
Minimalistic sheer lilac white
Limo-scene sheer pinkish white [great for over the french]
Sugar Daddy sheer pink [other fav to wear with the french tip]
Wicked deep burgundy red [winter favorite]
Fiji opaque whitish pink [popular summer color, also the color my parents made me practice polishing with when I was like 15]

OPI:
Russian Navy deep blue with purple shimmer
Yoga-ta Get this Blue dark blue with blue/teal shimmer [big favorite]
Windy City lilac-ish mauve with pinkie shimmer [big favorite, looks great when you wear greens]
Mod-ern Girl semi-sheer Coral
Sweet Heart it’s like Essie’s Ballet Slipper
Pinking of You semi-sheer pinkie pink
Fiji Weejee Fawn shimmery beige [I started wearing this color obsessively when I was 15. I was too scared to wear color then. Lol. Pretty funny because now I'm all about color. Should younger kids be more adventurous with color? Not me. I'm backwards.]
I’ve Got The Blues For Red deep blue-red
Malaga Wine deep burgundy
Siberian Nights very deep bluish-purple [my absolute favorite purple, it might as well be black..its so dark. But when it hits the light, it's sooo pretty. I don't know why I don't have it. Lol]

Those are pretty much my favorites for now. ^^
The thing I really loved about doing nails was having access to so many colors and seeing the new collections. Our [friends I worked with] faces would light up like a kid in a candy store when our boss bought the new collections for whatever season. I really, really want Essie in Mint Candy Apple. I am jealous of yous that have it! I love that kind of green. My fav. I also want Essie Matte About You topcoat. I love the Matte look.

After putting and taking off of polish for this post, I ended up with this one.
Essie in Au Natural.
On the toes: Essie in Whisper.

I think I’m taking a tiny break from color on my fingernails. I blued and purpled myself out. Lol.