Hey all! I love love love dark green nail polish. In fact, I would even go so far as to say that if I had to pick a favorite type of polish, it would be a dark green. Recently, Born Pretty was kind enough to send me some products to try out and feature here on the blog and one of them was this absolutely stunning rich evergreen shade and basically as soon as I had it in hand I just needed to get it onto my nails. Admittedly, I was in a bit of a hurry when I put this together, but it's actually a pretty easy design to throw together and because it's gel polish you can really just cure it and go. 

So let's get into it!

Have I had this exact mani in mind for months at this point? Absolutely, I have. I actually bought the base polish I used for this  mani with a marble/jade sort of design in mind because I think it's the perfect color and texture to effect the look of natural stone and I've also had this stamping plate for ages but hadn't gotten a chance to use it yet. I personally think that a stone look nail always has a really cool effect and it's also a super versatile design idea that you can do a lot of different things with. 

So without further rambling, let's get to the nails!

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I don't use nail powders very often when I do my nails, but more and more recently I'm finding that I love other people's nail art featuring them and it makes me want to play around and try them too. When I first saw the Pueen Mermaid Nail Art Kit*, the obvious choice would have been to do some mermaid nails, but ultimately I decided that instead I wanted to try something a little different and I'm kind of obsessed with how it turned out.

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Hey all! Today's mani is actually one I've been planning on doing for ages now but I just hadn't gotten a chance to actually get on my nails. Last year when Whats Up Nails released two different stamping plates featuring various silhouette images that you can use to create layered landscape designs, I was really, really excited because I love those types of designs and I loved that each of the two plates was really curated in a way that makes it super easy to put together a cohesive design across your entire hand while still keeping each nail different. So now, finally, I put together these quite simple under the sea silhouette nails and I'm sort of in love!

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I have come to terms with the fact that I am simply not a minimalism kind of girl, as my version of minimalism seems to just be excluding the kitchen sink but tossing everything else in there. That being said, I recently saw some really simple nail art designs from professional nail techs that were really simple and featured nail powders and I really wanted to do my own version of that type of design. Lucky for me, Pueen sent over their Holographic Nail Art Kit* and it seemed like the perfect time to try out a design that my by standards is very, very minimal but also just... so cool. 

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Happy  Monday, all! Our March theme for #CBBxManiMonday is Spring/Green and because I'm neck deep in a random hyperfocus around doing a sort of rainbow gradient through my feed (my brain, I'm telling you...) I decided to stick with something springy in a blue color palette for this week and I'll transition into the green of it all next week. I don't think I've ever done a gradient skittle before using all one color, but I've really wanted to and with the stamping design I had in mind for this one it seemed like they time. 

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So... as I typed the word Minimalist into the title bar for this post, I really did acknowledge that this is hardly what most people would call a minimalist manicure, but I do think that as far as galaxy mani's go that would be how I would describe this one so I'm going with it. Now, I will be the first to tell you that hand painted nail art is very much not my forte, but I'm trying to get a little practice in now that I've been playing a lot more with gel nail art, and I'm having a lot of fun with it. Hopefully I do get a little smoother with it sometime soon though....

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So even though where I live it is absolutely nowhere near being spring weather, it has been a very long winter at this point and I am just so ready to lean into spring now that we've officially entered what I think most of us in the northern hemisphere would categorize as the spring months. So now that my brain is in the spring months zone, I decided to start with what I think of as a very springy sort of vibe with a fluffy cloud design that I've actually been holding onto in my mind for months now - just waiting for the arrival of spring. Anyway... 

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I've gotten to the point in my collection where I will sometimes buy things I'm really excited about, but then it's either not the time or for some other reason I put it into my collection and forget about it. Over the weekend, I was reorganizing some stamping plates when I came upon the Hit The Bottle To Boldly Go Stamping Plate, which I was like... basically obsessed with getting my hands on when it was first released but didn't get a chance to use right away because of the holidays and... Well, you get it. It still had the blue plastic on it, so it was time to peel it off and put it to work.

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Hey guys! So admittedly, I actually didn't realize until about 9 o'clock last night that I didn't have any nails to post today, so this one was a little bit thrown together at the last minute, but I'm actually really sort of in love with how they turned out. I absolutely love a sort of mix and match abstract stamping plate and I've been really, really loving the Whats Up Nails A026 All Lined Up Stamping Plate* ever since they kindly sent it over to me, so I decided to pull it out and just try something pretty simple overall since it was a sort of last minute, unplanned design. Honestly, this plate is just great for that!

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