french mani monday

Hello! Ah Monday is almost over... today was actually not so bad of a day. Work flew by and I seemed to have a productive day. I have no complaints overall. For some reason, I struggle to produce blog posts when I'm home... not sure why, but I need to overcome that! I've been doing my nails regularly, I just have no motivation to blog.

Yesterday I needed a palate cleanser, so I went with a French manicure. I loooove French manicures- I really should do them more often. It just annoyed me how fast they chipped. I was doing a lot of work with my hands today, so it's my own doing, but still very annoying. Here they are:

 

I freehanded the French tips, which I'm pretty darn proud of. I have no artistic ability whatsoever but these could probably fool you into thinking I do. ;D This is OPI Alpine Snow on the tips and a coat of the soft Essie Cloud Nine. I then topped it with a new top coat of mine, Cult Nails Wicked Fast. It really did dry really fast, and I noticed that it seems to be much thinner than my faithful Seche. 

What do you think?

Original French Manicure

I absolutely love French manicures, but I never do them because my nails are never all the same length. WELL, we've finally achieved similar-lengthed nails and I decided that called for a French mani!


I use the nail guides like these. They're stickers you buy for a couple of bucks at the drugstore in the nail care section. I love them!









Polishes used:
(no base coat because it screws up the nail guide stickers!)
OPI Alpine Snow for the tips
Essie A Lot Of Shekels 
Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat


Overall I'm really happy with this manicure! It looks great.

Inspired to do a French mani..

Yayyy! I'm so proud with the manicure I'm about to post pictures of! I did a French manicure using OPI's "Mimosas for Mr. & Mrs." and "Alpine Snow." I truly love the look of a French mani! I really focused on this manicure and it came out as such. I used the tip guides (as shown below) because my hand simply isn't steady enough to paint straight lines on my own. Regardless, they came out nice. I have to work the next two days so we'll see how the polish stands up to the food service industry.