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Generally when I sit down to do my nails, I have at least some kind of loose idea of what I want to do. I mean... if I didn't, I'd spend a lot of time sitting at my nail desk wracking my brain, so it's definitely best that I do it this way. That being said, sometimes I sit down and I have no idea and I just decide to play. Admittedly, while really fun this is generally not a good way to get to great nail art, but this time around I feel like it turned out sort of great and I legitimately had no idea what I was going to do here - even right in the middle of doing it!

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Like a lot of people who like to do nail art, the dreaded watermarble has been a technique that has eluded me in regards to actually getting good at it. It's worked out a few times, but there have been many times when I've tried and just thrown up my hands. Enter a water marble stamping plate! Now, I will admit that this isn't going to give you the same look as an actual watermarble, but I do think that the look it creates (especially with the right base) can really bring the same vibe to a mani. So for today's nail art design, I paired this sort of rainbow base with crisp black watermarble stamping and to say I'm obsessed would be an understatement!

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So here's a little story... Last week I popped into Superstore first thing in the morning to pick up a couple of grocery things before work and I ended up perusing the beauty department and as I began to make my way towards the back of the store to go in the direction of what I was actually there for, I saw one of those free standing displays full of Sinful Colors polishes. In my experience, when those displays pop up is when we here in Canada are about to get something new and (hopefully) good from Sinful and I definitely, definitely was not disappointed on this front. I will admit I'm not actually sure what this collection is called because I can barely find anything out there about it - which is part of why I wanted to share these swatches because this is SUCH A STUNNING COLLECTION and needs to have attention. 

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Once upon a time, I was weirdly intimidated by dotticures because something about getting them balanced and perfect seemed impossible and stressed me out. In truth, they're one of the most beginner friendly, forgiving and versatile techniques out there. Of course, I still don't think to do them very often. For this week's #CBBxManiMonday, though, I decided to try something a little bit different using a dotticure and stamping to create a very, very 80s summer look. (Anyone else still deep under the Stranger Things shadow from earlier this summer and all for 80s nostalgia? Can't just be me?)

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So I had this idea... I was looking through the stamping plates in my collection that I could pull out to use for the rest of the summer and I grabbed for the Whats Up Nails B056 Coasting To The Sea plate and had the idea of doing something with sea creatures.. Under The Sea, if you will. And then my brain was like... UNDER THE GALAX-SEA, as brains do from time to time, and immediately an idea started to form. There really is sort of something that feels... sort of the same when you think about space and the deep sea, so it kind of made sense in my head to combine the two. And this is what happened!

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It seems like every summer I find myself wanting to do some sort of mermaid or fish scale nails, but I don't just want to do the same thing every time so I find myself really trying to think of different techniques and looks for the base. The trick, I think, is maintaining a texture that suits the feel of fish scales while also really doing something different with it. I actually think that the sponging technique I used to create this base might be my favorite so far when it comes to this style of mani because it gives a really beautiful, shimmering texture that I think suits the fish vibe perfectly. 

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I, like so many other people over the course of the last couple of years living in a pandemic, have recently gotten super into playing around in the world of fragrance. I've actually been meaning to feature more fragrance here on the blog but hadn't gotten around to it until a brand new Canadian fragrance house called FOOPE Fragrances reached out to me and asked if I'd like to try out their three brand spankin' new fragrances. Of course I was absolutely dying to give them a sniff and a test and share them with you guys - just in time for their launch!

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As I sat down to do this week's #CBBxManiMonday, I found myself inspired by two things. The first was this mani from @themermaidpolish that I completely fell in love with when I saw it - though I will fully admit that the mani I did is really nothing at all like that one at the end of the day. And the second was mermaids, though again I would say that the inspiration ended up leading to a sort of loose interpretation. Honestly, it didn't even occur to me that all of my inspiration was leading back to Mermaids until just now... but it is what it is. I'm pretty much madly in love with what came out of the inspiration here and I think the combination of the flowy water-like stamping and the bold neon base fits the Summer theme pretty well. 

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Looking through all of the nail art I've done this summer, there isn't a lot of respite from the bright and I have to admit that I was feeling a little bit fatigued with all of that color so I decided to go for a design that's a little more muted and soft. Admittedly, a not insignificant portion of this design is inspired by The Golden Girls, which still holds up as one of my favorite TV shows of all time. When it comes to the aesthetic, there's something about that sort of washed out tropical Miami in the 80s vibe that just absolutely calls to me and that's what I sort of leaned into with this mani. 

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I have to say, I'm fully back down a rabbit hole of wanting to do gradient nails, which is convenient since it's such a great base for a lot of different summer nail designs. I've also really, really been enjoying putting together gradients using stamping polishes from Pueen - they just perform and blend so beautifully together for such an effortless gradient application. When I showed this mani to my best friend, she said that her immediate first thought was Vince Neil Pants and I really, really don't know why I love that very specific 80s hair band reference, but I really, really do!

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