So this manicure looks pretty simple, right? Well this took me THREE HOURS. Let me explain. Grab your popcorn.  I had a lot of inspiration pictures of lemon nails, but didn't really know what I wanted to do exactly. So I decided to just wing it. I knew I wanted to use my new lemon decals on a couple fingers, and I decided to do some sort of yellow French tip on the other nails...

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I have a fan brush. I never use my fan brush, and I have no idea what a fan brush is really for. That is, until recently. I saw a tutorial from cutepolish using a fan brush to do a fun, breezy look:  Easy peasy, right? So i did it with gels! It didn't take very long, and I like how it turned out. And of course, I had to throw on some seashells and...

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So, in my head I had the idea that I could get my nails to look like those precious stone beads. You know, the ones that kind of look like glass, kinda look like amethyst? I'm not sure if that's what I ultimately ended up with, but it wasn't bad. I used sharpies for this design and tried two methods: 1. dipping the brush into acetone to blend the colors; and 2: spraying the nail...

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After I took off last week's turquoise disaster, I went back to my roots and did a tropical gradient. That was also a disaster, and I took it off before the day was even through. I didn't even bother taking a picture because it was THAT much of a disaster.  Do you ever find that sometimes you do your best work when you aren't even trying? I didn't even think this design through. I was...

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I didn't like these nails. I think the problem is my nails aren't long enough, so when I put a lot of nail deco on, it just looks crowded. I took these nails off before the week was out. Also, it was really messay around the cuticles for some reason. I usually do a  better clean up job than that! These nails were just overall disappointing. ...

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