White on black lace tips

Hey guys! Simple junk. My nails broke right before I had to go to a wedding last saturday, so I went ahead and put acrylics on myself. Not a fan of acrylics, but they did the job and I thought they looked pretty nice. These are black tips with white lace inlaid in the acrylic. A little subtle for me. I loved the shape.. though I couldn't do anything since they were so long, haha.

Ugh.. I got in a terrible accident on thursday, the day after I put these on. It was really, really bad.. lucky I'm alive bad. I have some nasty bruises, and of course, I hurt my hand. It's getting better, but it hurts if I use too much pressure so I can't grasp things properly. It's been rough since I can't do nails, which, you know.. main source of income. It's been getting better, so hopefully by the end of this week I'll be able to work properly again. You never really appreciate your thumb until you can't use it, you know..

The Avengers/Loki inspired nails..

Hey guys.. I saw The Avengers and just couldn't help myself. I loved Thor when I saw that(mainly Loki), and the Avengers just.. omg. So good. SO GOOD. I just want to hold Loki and cuddle his evil and identity issues away.

I did these on some fakies since my nails were too short for what I was picturing. I'm really sorry the pictures are so bad, they look a LOT better in person. Oh well.. who cares, it involves Loki, haha.

Okay, I'm done. I swear.

Simple swallow and rose.. also, yay diploma!

In light of that terrible theft page actually being deleted, I decided to post. I'm still not going to update as often as I used to, most likely.. especially when I start working. Anyways. I had Cinderella by Sinful Colors on for a few days and it was getting a little chippy, so I did a little bit of nail art to cover the worst of it. Nothin' fancy.

Polishes:
Cinderella, Sinful Colors
Acrylic paint

I also picked up this bad boy today, and registered to take the state boards. I feel accomplished.. which is rare, haha.

Oh, look.. more thievery.

A reader of mine was kind enough to alert me that yet another Facebook page has been stealing photos from bloggers, nail artists and swatchers. While I'm sadly used to having my work stolen and not credited, I CANNOT STAND when people deliberately cut out my watermarks, and have the NERVE to replace them with their own. WHY is this considered okay? Why even do this? It takes more time to edit the photos than to simply take the photo and link back to the source!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Indievolutions/212137828883061

The link to the Facebook page, in case anyone wants to pass it around. I know there's dozens and dozens of pages and sites like this, but I'm getting so sick of it. Honestly, one of the reasons I don't post much anymore is because of theft and editing of my images. My nails may not be amazing, but they're mine, and I put time and effort into them. I expect people to respect that, but no one on the internet respects anything since it's "LOL just the internet!". I'm done wasting my time and effort on this. The beauty blog world has gotten increasingly vicious, and it's just not worth it anymore to me. I'm not saying I'm going to delete my blog, but I'm getting to that point.

I'm sorry to all the wonderful, supportive people that follow me, but I probably won't post much unless it's something I truly want to share. When a hobby or a passion starts to make a person feel shitty, it's time to take a break.

Gradient experimentation

Hey guys! Two simple gradient experiments from this weekend.. the top one was done by layering the polish in stripes on a makeup sponge, while the bottom was done using a brush and diluting the darker color with clear polish to create a gradual gradient(the Madeline Poole technique, I believe). Both give different results, as you can see. The brush technique is more subtle. The makeup sponge technique needed more blending and layering to make it as bright as I wanted it. I like them both! I topped the blue with Zoya Maisie and it looks even better, thought my camera doesn't show it well.

I got lots of compliments on both. I did my mother's nails as well with a triple blue gradient as she said she had people stopping here everywhere to look at her nails, haha.

I'm also happy to announce that this week is my last week of school.. my final exam is today, then I have 3 practicals this week. Thursday, I'm all done and will be certified! After that it's just a matter of passing the state boards and getting my license. Exciting stuff. I want to thank everyone for being so patient and sticking around through my schooling.. I know I haven't updated much at all. You guys are great for all the support and encouragement I've received.

Red rose nails.. rawr.

Hey guys! Tonight was my school's fashion show.. the theme was Grimm's Fairytales. One of students was doing Rose Red for a model, and asked me to do the nails for it. It was really fun! It was neat to play around with extreme length and acrylic sculpting.. they're just fake nails that I extended with long tips, blended, painted, then sculpted over with acrylic for the roses. That ring is one of my polish rings I made, too.

We didn't place, but it was still fun. They seemed to be a hit at the show with everyone who saw them. Can't wait to play around more!

Purple flower.. aka I suck at sculpting.

Hey guys.. nothing too fancy tonight. I've been super busy since I'm graduating soon. I still have these stupid acrylics on so I was just screwing around with sculpting.. I definitely need to work on it more.

I'm doing some nails for my school's fashion show monday, so hopefully I'll get some good shots of those. I went a little crazy on them, lol. I promise I'll try and post more when I'm not so stressed out!