Alright; so I do a lot of nail art … I’ve already made a few posts about it, but I can’t help it – nails are one of my favorite things to do. ^^;; I haven’t made tutorials for any of these designs … I was thinking of maybe making a video compilation of a bunch of my nail art designs and asking people to vote on which ones they want to see done. I dunno; we’ll see – there is a whole lot hanging around because I hate boring nails … A plain color just seems so dull to me; I always need to spice it up even with just a few lines or something.
This post is basically an, “I was flipping through my photos in the phone and realized I had a lot of pictures of my nails that I haven’t posted yet” collection …
Anyway … here; have some nail candy 🙂
This is a variation on the same design in 3 different colors; the purple one is on a friend’s nails. The red one was the first time I did it at all, so it’s the most plain. The green one is jazzed up with a few flower shaped gems – which I believe was my St. Patrick’s Day style for 2013, actually – and the purple one has purple stars and glitter across the colored section. Just an example of how you can really switch it up just changing the color and adding or taking away glitter/stones/dots … little tweaks can step it up a notch (or in some cases take it too far over the top, so watch out for that ^^;;).
As for this design, the one on the left is a little messy – I did it on the train into the city when I was still commuting from the friend’s house I was staying at. One morning I couldn’t sleep and I found my For Audrey by China Glaze and a black striper in my bag, so I went to town xD The picture on the right is older, and is a slight variation on this one in so far as there are little rhinestones in the middle of the V-shaped French. Otherwise they’re the same though, and I do love gems, so I prefer that version – but you can of course go either way! Actually, I think I got this design from a YouTube video I watched a long time ago, but I can’t remember … 
Next up we have a sort of more fall themed manicure; I actually just did this one recently because I received the warm gray/brown background color in my Ipsy glam bag for December 2013. I was just going to paint them with that, because I liked the taupe-y color, but again … Too boring. Can’t have that, now can we? ^^;; So, I just grabbed a yellow striper and painted a few yellow leaves – honestly, they were supposed to look like flower petals, but that didn’t end up happening the way I wanted it to … And of course, I’m a total sucker for gems, so again we have a little bling in the corners. Word to the wise though; expect them to fall off pretty quickly if you put them in that spot – they look nice for like, 2 days, and then as soon as you start doing anything, you lose them one right after the other. It’s not very practical placement, but it looks nice, so … whatever. ^^;;
And here’s a cute design; or at least, I thought it was cute. Can you guess what it is …? Probably the most inappropriate nails for a vegan to have ever … Bacon and Eggs! I dunno I was in a weird mood and I decided that I needed breakfast food on my nails or something … So this design was born.
Sorry the picture’s so blurry; I was taking a picture of my right hand with my left hand holding the camera because I liked it better than the nails on my left hand. Which is funny because usually my left hand comes out better (since I am left hand dominant) … But whatevs. ^^;;
Here’s a fun one; of all of my color changing nail polish, my yellow/orange is my favorite … probably since orange is my favorite color. But anyway – this is a really quick simple design I did mostly because I wanted to really showcase the color change … The middle is what it looks like normally, the right side is just after I doused my hand with cold water, and the left is just after I doused it with hot water. Color change manicures are really fun; I have a purple to pink one and … I think a blue to green one as well? Either way; these are def fun polishes to wear especially in like, spring or fall when your hands are warm but the air outside is cool. It makes for the best transition effect on your nails. :3
Here’s a fast Chevron I did when I was camping last summer – it doesn’t take any tools at all. All I had with me were 3 polish colors … I believe they were OPI’s Skull and Glossbones as well as Mermaid’s Tears from the Pirates of the Caribbean collection, and OPI’s Kiss Me on My Tulips is the bright pink. It was actually super easy; this manicure probably took … I want to say 15 minutes total. And I don’t think it looks too bad for not having any tools or anything … Also painting it while laying in a sleeping bag because it was cold … xD
Here is a design that looks similar to the purple, green, and red ones from earlier in this post, but they’re a little bit different. A lot simpler – and I guess more work appropriate if you work in an office that doesn’t allow you to be a free spirit … Well, but they’ll let you be a free spirit enough to have more than a solid color nail … Or will let you paint your nails at all, since I’ve worked places where that isn’t a thing. Which always made me super sad… ^^;;
But anyway; this was just a sort of quick experiment – I like the diagonal French tip instead of straight across, but you can always see the white part of the nail sticking out. But I don’t like to have a solid background color either … So I wanted to see if adding a stark color like black would distract enough from the lighter part of my nail sticking out like a sore thumb. I don’t really think it did, but it’s not a bad manicure, anyway I guess. ^^;;
Only a couple more, I promise! xD This one should look familiar – this is a design by CutePolish on YouTube for Movember; I wore this for the entire month in 2012 (told you some of these were old) and this was one of the weeks. I think mine’s not as cute as hers, probably because the ends don’t taper as nicely and the bottoms aren’t as well rounded as they could be, but I think this was the first or second attempt, so I hadn’t really gotten the whole shape down yet … Also look at that pinky nail! Sometimes, since my pinky and ring fingers grown the longest, it looks like I have a drug nail or something until I break down and cut it before it gets too long … Or else nature does the job for me and it breaks off and I swear for a few weeks before it grows back out again. ^^;;
But anyway yeah; mustache nails – I really am not sure what else to say, except that actually, looking at them now, these nails look a little boring … They need a little something – but then again, I like bright colors and craziness and lots of stuff going on … Not that you couldn’t tell that from the other nail art I’ve posted.
Anyway; almost done – two left. This one was just a concoction that I came up with when I was moving. Once again, all I could find was my For Audrey and black striper, but I also had a dark taupe-ish brown color from NYC that probably doesn’t have a name, it’s probably a number ^^;; But either way, I kind of just threw these things together and came up with this … Once again, look how long that pinky nail is xD This is a bad habit I really need to get out of …
And last but not least, this one should look familiar; it’s my Chocobo pedicure! No one really seemed to care about this at the end of the Moogle manicure I posted on YouTube … But I still thought it was cute so I’m including it here.
Leave me a comment if you want to see a tutorial of any of these, and until my next post …
May your life be full of color!
❤ RaeynnBeau
You guessed it (or maybe you didn’t?) Polar Bear nails! Which I keep trying to type as Panda Bear nails, though they are very similar so can you blame me …? Anyway, I just posted a tutorial on how to do this nail art on YouTube, but if you wanted to see more pictures, you’ve come to the right place. Or, if you haven’t seen the video yet, you can check out the design and decide if you want to watch. (It’s a really short video though, so it won’t take up too much of your time!)
As for materials used, they are as follows:
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