Life Hack: French Manicure

I have always struggled to do French tips on my nails. Even though I don't paint them much, French tips are actually something I've attempted!... and failed. You have to be so precise or it just won't look good. Here is an insane life hack that makes doing your nails much easier! 

-July

Multicolored Fingernails

Hey! Happy summer all :) Here's some great summery nails that look perfect for spending a week up at the cottage! There wasn't much of a explanation given so try your best and good luck. 

July

(source is on the picture)

Paint your nails with a base color and let them dry completely. 

Then come back and paint a layer of another color on top, and before it dries, you dab pieces of wadded up saran wrap on top lightly to get the faded effect (as seen above). Then add top coat.

Feathery Nails

Hola! This is July and since many of you don't like recipe posts, I thought I'd do some fashion posts from now on with the occasional recipe. I was browsing Pinterest and found this really cool nail design where you can put a feather on your finger nails and, well, I'll just let you look at the picture ;P
~July

Source (sorry the source is in Chinese/Japanese/I don't know what language)

Beaded Nails

Yo everybody, July here and today I decided to post a video that I found on Youtube. 

I think these are some pretty rockin nails, but I never have my nails done so I would not be able to do these. I would love to see pictures of your attempts though! Email them to
julya.emmance@gmail.com

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcyLSaNEv4A&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Good luck with those!
Julya

Oh, and here's the video to of how to get it off, which is also very important!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O76bN76NXm4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Two-Tone Nails

I've returned with yet another nail art idea. Here we have the Two-Tone Nails, which I am currently sporting on my own hands, but with my own twist that looks nothing like the picture.

Whaddya need:

- A whole lot of nail polish colors

Whaddya do:

Paint half of your nail one color, and the other half a different color. My added twist is to take yet another color and do a HORIZONTAL stripe near the top of the nail, but still leaving space above the stripe. You could do this with a different color combo on every nail (like I did) or you can keep it simple like the picture above. Let the polish dry and enjoy your beautiful nails! ;)

<3 Seana

Mr. Penguin Buddy Nails

Hey, ya'll. Sea here, with a fun nail art idea! Here it is:

Aww! The cutest thing ever, eh? I'll have more nail ideas coming soon, but for now, here's how we make our Mr. Penguin Buddies.

Whaddya Need?
For this project you will need:
White, black, orange/yellow, and any other nail polish color.

1. First, take any color that you'd like (except for white) and do a nice coat of polish on all of your nails. Make sure to do double-coats when working with a more watery type of nail polish, since that tends to be a bit thin. Let the polish dry.

2. Now, take your white polish and paint a large oval onto your nails almost up the the tops of your nails by the skin, (you can do all of them, or you can go every other like in the picture shown above) and let it dry.

3. Now the fun part! DECORATING! Whoop whoop. (: Alrighty, take your black nail polish and make two little dots near the top of the white ovals on all of the nails that you decided to penguin-ify.

4. Next, you'll need your yellow or orange polish. Take the polish and make two half moons next to each other, leaving a bit of space between, on the bottom of the white part of your nails. Those are the feet of your penguin. For the nose, put your brush sideways to make it sort of a sideways oval, and dab a bit of polish below the eyes to make its lovely little beak.

Once those beauties are dry, you'll have the most fab nails on the block! (: Enjoy your penguin-ified nails!

<3 Seana

July's own two cents: This is so so cute isn't it readers? If I tried that though, we would have nail polish all over the floor and all over the face and hands..... Not the best idea, huh? Send us pictures of your Mr. Penguin Buddies and we'll post them on our blog! (Sea and my email addresses are on the right side of our blog)