I love turqouise stone, especially with copper! The color is so tranquil and the black veins are so unique to each stone, like a fingerprint. Gotta love nature!

I saw a tutorial pin on pinterest, for doing turquoise stone nails. This is my attempt at the manicure. It didn't quite work as planned. They came out more marbled than veiny, but they still looked nice. I may not have worked properly because my black nail polish is rather thick. Instead of breaking apart when I sprayed it with alcohol, it just swirled into a marbled formation. Oh well. It's still pretty. I might try it again some day, with a newer black polish.

DIY: Glitter Nails

This post is my attempt at an at home glitter manicure per a pin I found on Pinterest. It looked easy enough and fairly cute, not to mention sparkly.

I started with my glitter and base coat. I put on a thick layer of base coat and dipped my wet nail into the glitter. It coated my nail fairly well. I let that dry, then added a top coat. The glitter will come of onto the brush and get into your top coat, so you will have random glitter in your polish after this. The first layer of top coat merely absorbed into the glitter, so I added another layer. It STILL sucked up the top coat, so I added a third layer, which absorbed AGAIN! So I added a fourth layer, which also go sucked up. At that point I said screw it. I never did end up with a smooth look.

Below are photos of the final product.

 

 

This manicure started chipping right away. It got too chipped for me to leave it on, by day 2, so I removed it. Removal is awful! Not only is it the normal pain of taking glitter polish off, but my hands were covered in red paint from the glitter, which took another round of acetone to get off.

I will honestly never do this manicure again. It's such a pain to do and take off, and did not even come out looking like it was supposed to.

My hopping dog

I swear my dog holds a world record for jumping...

copper nails

Let me start of by saying that copper is my favorite metal. I love it so much that we had a custom engagement ring made for me in rose gold, before rose gold started becoming popular. When we made my engagement ring, there were NO rose gold engagement rings on the market. Now they are everywhere (of course.) 

With that is mind, it would make sense that I would love copper nail polish. My mom posted a photo of a copper polish she had found at the drug store. Of course I had to get myself a bottle. Below is what I did with it.