Tough Girl

I chose to an edgy look for this one. Combination of pink, a girly bow, and barbed wire.

These rhinestone bows can be found for $2.98 at Born Pretty.

The wheel comes with 12 individual bows. (Mine had a freebie extra black bow that was loose within the bag this wheel was sealed in. Bonus Jonas!)

I used Wet N Wild Pom Pom Kelly layered over a white polish to make it pop. 

Then I stamped black with BM 323.

These bows are quite big. I put it on my middle nail because it was just too overwhelming to the others.

They are completely flat, no curve to them. This makes them hang and catch on every little thing. This can get annoying very quickly.

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Neon splatter/shredded/hair spray marble

I tried to play around again with the shredded effect/hair spray on a water marble (first attempt was here) I wanted to see if I could mimic this look from amkuch15, white base with neon splatter.

This is Sinful Colors Snow Me White, Wet N Wild Pom Pom Kelly, & Wet N Wild Nerd Alert: Screech.

I first tried layering 4 different neon shades, but I couldn't get consistent splattering sizes so it was just a garbled mess. :( Too, this entire process was a big pain in the butt. These 4 nails took me several hours. No joke! It was ridiculous. Maybe it was the particular aerosol hairspray I was using, but sometimes it would just create big spots in the polish, then the next time it would blow all the polish to the edges and shred it into tiny little specks. So frustrating.

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Experimenting with "shredded alcohol/hair spray water marble"

I saw this Nail Pop tutorial on Pinterest for turquoise stone type water marble. 

You just drop the polish in the water and then spray it with rubbing alcohol (I used hair spray). 

I used Wet N Wild I Need A Refresh-mint, and Sinful Colors Black on Black just to test run. Sorry that they are not more pictures, but after I uploaded them, I realized most came out blurry. :/

I think it looks awesome and I want to play around with it some more! I'll be sure to better document the process next time around ;)

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Gumdrop & For Audrey Comparison

Kaitlyn wanted to see a side by side comparison of Orly's Gumdrop and China Glaze For Audrey because I mentioned they were near dupes.

I also added Wet N Wild I Need a Refresh-Mint because I find it's pretty close too.

If I had to find something different... I guess For Audrey may be a minuscule darker?

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A Striped Kiss

These are some nails I copied from a Pinterest find. I'll include the picture at the very bottom.
I used Wet N Wild I Red A Good Book, Sinful Colors Snow Me White, & Sinful Colors Black Striper - Time Off. I stamped the kiss image on BM02 with Konad white and then used a striper brush to fill it in with red paint. (That's mainly because I didn't have an opaque enough red stamping polish)

*edit*
I had trouble getting to the original source, but thank you Kelsie for helping me out! The original post was from Marta @ Chit Chat Nails, seen here.

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LA Girl Glitter Addict - Provocative

I got this polish in a clearance bin at Charlotte Russe back in October. I don't remember exactly what it ended up costing.

 

Here I layered one coat of Provocative over Wet N Wild Through the Grapevine because it matched well to the fuchsia color of the glitter.



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Pink & Purple

 An alternating sideways gradient of pink and purple.

I used Wet N Wild Megalast Candy-licious & KleanColor Lavenbaby.



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Wet N Wild Megalast Minis

My mom gave me this gift set the other day because she's an enabler. :) I believe she said she picked it up at Walgreens and it was around $4? It has 8 mini Megalast polishes, and she did good because I only own 1 of these in the full size version! I didn't take a picture of the entire package, sorry I'm a bad blogger.

 

Candy-licious

2 coats. Generic but beautiful medium bubblegum pink.

 

Through the Grapevine

2 coats. Walks that middle ground between pink and purple.

Under Your Spell

3 coats. Shimmery Burgundy

I Red A Good Book

2 coats. Candy Apple Red

Break The Ice

3 coats. Shimmery white.

Disturbia

3 coats. Rich, shimmery dark purple.

 

 Sugar Coat

4 coats. Pale pink. This one was the worst formula. Streaky and a pain to work with. :(

 

Haze of Love

2 coats. Deep berry red. This is the one I used in this gradient.

 

 

 

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Mauve Gradient

Here is a smooth gradient I did the other day utilizing 2 polishes that can give off that mauve-y grandma tone that some people don't care for. I actually like it and I think the gradient fade makes it much more interesting.

The 2 polishes I used are both Wet N Wild Megalasts.

Undercover & Haze of Love

(The one on the right is a mini bottle from a large variety set mom got me.)

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Grandma's Flowers

Wet N Wild Megalast Undercover, it's that funky rose/mauve shade that either you love or hate. And most of the time it reminds you of what your grandmother likes as her nail polish color. Here it is and some vintage-y flowers I felt just added to the look.

Pictured is 2 coats.

I just used a dotting tool to create simple flowers. Then added a few random polka dots and tiny leaves using a small nail art brush.

I chose to do one solid accent nail and then just a line at my cuticles for the other nails.

The polishes I used:
base- Wet N Wild Megalast Undercover
flowers - Color Club Secret Rendezvous & Sinful Colors Beautiful Girl
dots - Lime Crime Milky Ways
leaves - Zoya Yara

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