ABC Challenge-A Is For...

Guess what! I Joined A Challenge Over A Kimber'sLaquerKorner! Oh how I love working with these girls and plus there are some new girls this time around too! so that should be pretty cool,I love how flexible Kimber makes her challenges. For this ABC challenge we will only be posting once a week which should be a piece of cake, plus I really needed this because I have been a very bad bad blogger :( so this is my way of making up for lost time :) So yeah, I'm sure you are all familiar with the ABC challenge, Have a polish whose brand name or name or even nail art design starts with an The letter of the alphabet so for today My A stands for.....Sinful Colors-Athens, CrowsToes-Absolum and Abstract nail art.

-Sinful Colors-Athens: is a dusty teal creme that glides on with two coats
-Crowstoes-Absolum Your potions master: This clear base is packed, i mean loaded glitter! it has black bar glitter,Orange hexes,blue hexes black glitter,silver and green it really is a beautiful mixture but one problem I have with Crowstoes is that the formula is pretty thick :( but thinner helps saves the day.

Check Out my girls!

Kimber @ Kimber'sLacquerKorner

Gini @ Sassy Paints

Kat @ Hooked On Polish

Lisa @ Lozlosa

Diana @ Nails By Diana 

Nicole @ Nicole Gets Nailed 

Nailista

Lariesa @ Me, Myself, and Polish

Patty @ Patty And Goldie's Day Off

Meredith@ Perfectly Polished

Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine

Sammi @ GlitzNGlammer

Polishaholic

Dionne @ Glittery Fingers

Aly @ Wonderland Beauty

Kate @ Painted Pony Nails

Sarah @ Faithfully Polished

Small Budget Beauty 

Brittany @ Pretty, Pink, and Chic

Alaina @ Dont Spill The Acetone

Simona @ Light Your Nails

Elle @ Miss Nail Polish 

Holly @ Facebook (blog link coming soon!)

Sonya (link needed)

31 Day Challenge:Day 10-Gradient

Welcome to Day 10! I must admit I loveeeee Gradients! They are one of my favorite things to do, recently I discovered that if you brush a light coat of Glue around your cuticles and let it dry the polish that gets on the sides is easily removed so no need for the acetone and brush ladies! anyways here is what I have to show you for today!

Polish Used 
China Glaze-Kinetic Candy
Sinful Colors-Zeus
Diamond Cosmetics- Not Your "Hum Drum" Plum
Sparkles By Julie-Sugah
You Can find this awesome topper Here On Julie's Etsy Store
P.s: Her Original Version of Sugah includes iridescent glitter which I asked if she could remove from mine so if you would like the same version I have just send her an E-mail :) plus she has a great selection of polishes!

 Don't Forget To See The Awesome Gradients

 the Girlies Created :)

-Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner

-Kat at Hooked On Polish

-Diana at Nails By Diana

-Aly at Wonderland Beauty

-Meredith at Perfectly Polished

-Nicole at The Color Republic

-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails

-Cee at Absolutely Cee

-Sam at Polished Art

-Nail Narcotics

-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed

-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches

-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful 

-Mixed Mama

-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine

-Patty Greenberg

-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa 

-Mari at Nailista 

-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L 

-Gini at Sassy Paints 

-Chameleon Stampede 

-Pam at Nail-E-Glance

-Me, Myself, and Polish 

- Robin Sparkles  

XOXO

-Diana

Acid Denim Wash And Aztec Print

I've been stuck in such a funk lately, it's like I'm completely washed out of ideas for nail art and nothing just seems to look right :( However I finally pulled it together a bit and came up with this. Denim Wash And Aztec Print,  for my pinky, middle & thumb I did the Cling Wrap Technique and for the ring finger and pointer I did a reverse Denim wash Gradient

Polish Used:

Sinful Colors-Neptune ( 2 coats)

Sinful Colors-Snow Me White 

Black & gold Acrylic Paint for the Aztec print

XOXO
-Diana

Summer Challenge-Final Day!

Girls We Have Reached the end of the Summer Challenge!! Awesome Job to all you talented ladies who cranked out beautiful designs this month! & a huge thanks to Kaki And Theodora for creating this challenge, It was so fun! Well, Being That today is the last day the theme was to re-create our favorite Manicure, I had such a hard time with this, Because many of you had awesome designs that I would love to re-create, But I finally picked one & the one I went For Is Chiro's Favorite Summer Song Manicure! and if you guys don't know who Chiro from Nail Of this Week  is, check her out, Plus click on the link to see her manicure that I just re-created ! In her original design she mentioned that in the photo that she got inspiration from the guy with the box on his head was wearing gold pants something she missed when doing her nail design, so i decided to incorporate that into this manicure :)
Polish Used:
Sinful Colors-Snow Me White( 2 coats)
Revlon-Gold Coin(2 coats-Ring Finger)
Coastal Scents-88 eye shadow Palette (for the soft touches of color over the white)
Acrylic Paints- Pastel Green, Black,Brown

In the sunlight, my hands look ridiculously red here..not accurate

In the shade

Mine Did not look as good as Chiro's, but i tried! lol
again thank you girls for the wonderful experience of my first time joining a challenge :)

Check out the last of the girls :)

Summer Challenge-Day 13 (Whales/Dolphins)

Hey Lovelies! Wow i'm actually posting a challenge on time lol! So yes continuing with the summer challenge, today is Day 12 13 (July 25) and the theme is favorite water animal. Well I went for 3 A Killer Whale, A Sea Horse And a Little Starfish. I must admit that my sea horse looks a little weird, Sorry ! :( I was in a bit of a rush. But anyways here it is :)

Note To Self- Must Make LightBox, sometimes my hands ridiculously dark and that just makes my cuticles look like S*&# lol

Polish Used:
Sinful Colors-Cinderella
Jordana Glitter
Rest Acrylic Paints

Damn That Broken ring finger Nail Messes up the pic LOL

Here's the rest of the girls! :)

Summer Challenge-Day 8(Beach)

Hey Dolls, Day 8 of the summer challenge! and the theme is beach. I don't know about you But when I go to the beach it is nothing beautiful lol in reality the beaches here in NYC tend to be dirt, full of people and of course full of seagulls hoping someone will feed them, Lucky for them when I go to the beach I am the one that throws them a piece of whatever I am eating so that is what I based My Manicure on

I started with 2 coats Of Sinful Colors-Cinderella ( gosh that polish is a beauty) and then I created a Gradient with two other blues and then drew one single Seagull standing in the sand :)

Maybe next time I Will do the bird on just one entire nail lol

well don't forget the rest of the girls!

Oh, Another Drip Mani?

Um,YES! lol I know the whole drip fad came and went but you know it's still around! Yesterday I showed you a mani with a drip accent nail and I loved it so, hell why not just make the drips on all my nails! I love, love the way this looks,sorta looks like drips of strawberry ice-cream because,yup I went pink :D
What I Used:
Sinful Colors-Snow Me White (3 coats)
random color changing polish (hot pink to light pink)
Black Acrylic
Doting Tool (for the drips)
Stripping Brush (for the lines)

-Diana

No Nudes Here.

I'm just not a nude shade type of girl, I love looking down at my hands and seeing those bright colors pop! like WHAM! That being said check out today's manicure :D which includes gradients,drips and black glitter :D
Colors Used:
China Glaze-Sugar High (Up & Away Collection)-3 coats (Great Formula)
Sinful Colors-Summer Peach (Neon Orange)-3 coats on Ring finger (Ehh A little streaky)
Sinful Colors-Black-For the drips
Nubar-Black Polka dots-2coats

In The Shade

In The Shade

 Sunlight

So what do you ladies think? :)

-Diana

Summer Neon's

Stripes,triangles,neon colors,and something funky what does that make? Today's manicure :D I was in the mood for something abstract looking with some neon colors and this is what I came up with,check it out

Colors Used

Revlon-Gold Coin (for the outlines)

Sinful Colors-Snow me White.

Sinful Colors-Black

Sinful Colors-Pink; The formula for this pink neon polish was on point I used 3 coats,no complains! 

Sinful Colors-Neon Melon; I don't think the name is very fitting for this Highlighter Yellow,however the formula was also a dream to work with I used 3 coats but I can still see my nail line. 

  

Before I go, To all the mommies out there

that are the mom's and dad's of their children

Happy Father's Day To You :)

-Diana

Bloo-Cheese Anyone?

By Bloo-Cheese I am not speaking about the Blue Cheese used to dip your celery sticks in lol (which by the way I hate!), I am talking about The characters from the Cartoon network show Foster Home For Imaginary Friends. The characters in this show are so cute! but for this manicure I only Picked two, Bloo And Cheese. This is a mix match Mani I like these types of manis they are a lot of fun. The two polishes of choice were China Glaze-Lemon Fizz from the Up and Away Collection,This color is a very mellow yellow creme that is a little bit streaky I used 3 coats for complete coverage. The other Shade I used is Sinful Colors-Grecian Sun a very pretty Dodger blue Crelly that went on super smoothly and gave me full coverage in 2 coats. So here it is :)

Like Always Thank You for Looking! :)

-Diana

Edgy nails

Hey Lovelies today is just a quick post to say hello! and to show you a manicure that I did today which I am loving! this can work for those who don't like black nail polish or think its to boring. With some gold leaf foil you can make that black polish go from blah to BAM lol,all I simply did was paint my nails black, shook up the bag of gold leaf foil then finger by finger pressed the foil against my nail that would stick on the inside of the bag and Voila! then top coat to seal everything off :) Also I want to point out that my nail shape is currently going through changes,in previous post you have seem them go from square to oval to a little bit of edge and now they sorta look to pointy...I'm not sure how to feel about them, what do you guys think does it suit me?
Polish Used:
Sinful Colors-Black On Black (3 coats)

Well that's all for today girls :)

-Diana

Big Paintings On Little Canvas.

Ladies!, I have a special post to show you today! As some of you may know I love art! specially Abstract, pop-art and anything with trees,birds and COLOR!. now Im no artist but when it comes to my nails I TRY lol, so imagine my amazement when about two weeks ago an artist by the name of Mike Grubb, (a world know artist who is known for his abstract,pop-art and vibrant art work) contacted me!,telling me he had seen my nail art on the page of an artist whose work I had previously replicated. He asked me if I would like to collaborate with him and replicate his art work on my nails! You guys had to see how excited I was!, Within minutes of reading his E-mail I responded telling him I was more than honored and I would LOVE to. After looking at his art I was stoked because the type of art he does is the type of art that I absolutely love and wish I could have all over the walls of my apartment.His work is simply amazing! it seriously reminds me of Andy Warhol art, at the end of this post I will share with you his link, so you can see yourself how awesome his paintings are. Now,the nails, Out of all of his paintings I decide on these two which I really really liked the first is Called Love Birds  and the second, Sunset On Cactus here they are
To Enlarge Click On the photo.

Love Birds

Background Color: China Glaze-Sweet Hook
Technique used: Sponging

Original Painting by Mike Grubb

Photo Credit

Sunset On Cactus
Background Color:Sinful Colors-Snow me white

Technique used-Watercolors

Original Painting By Mike Grubb

Photo Credit

         I Hope you ladies have enjoyed this post! 

I sure had a lot of fun doing these paintings on my nails :D,

Before I go, If you want to see more of Mike Grubb's Work here are a few of his links :)

Mike Grubb's Personal Art Web Site
Mike Grubb Art-Fineartamerica

Facebook Fan Page

Enjoy Your Day Everybody!

-Diana

Halloween Colors in Spring?

Hello, my wonderful readers!!! let me start this off by first telling you guys that Walgreens Is having a sale on All Sinful Colors nail polishes and they are just 99 cents!...so since I couldn't pass off on this offer I picked up a few bottles. One of them happened to be from their neon collection I have never tried neon colors but since it was on sale why the hell not. I ended up picking up A neon orange called Summer Peach And a few others So here is the manicure and ill speak about the polishes in a bit more detail after this picture :] now you will see why my choices in colors ended up looking halloweeny, yes?

See told you! lol

 but what do you guys think about the alternation of colors on each hand?

Sinful Colors-Summer Peach

   This Color is Sooooo much brighter in person something like a orange highlighter so this picture is not accurate at all! of course like all neon colors this one has matte finish in this swatch I used a white base and about two coats of Summer Peach.In my manicure I used white base as well and seriously about 4 coats...the formula was a nightmare to work with I kept having bald spots and streaks of all sorts but finally after the 4th coat It was opaque. But still application was a pain in the A$$ lol

Sinful Colors-Secret Admirer 

  Love Love This color as you can see it's a black/grey metallic color with micro silver shimmer. The formula was a bit runny so it flooded my cuticles a little bit. However this only needed 2 coats for complete coverage 

Nubar-Black Polka Dots

  Here we have black hex glitter with some black micro glitter in a clear base.Now let me tell you to get the big pieces of black glitter I had to fish for them! it was so annoying! but still black glitter is awesome so ill do the fishing for the big pieces lol

Sally Hansen-White Veil

    This Sally Hansen limited edition glitter is soooo pretty 

it contains micro round iridescent white glitter and gold hex glitter in a clear base...it applies so well so, plus there is no problem getting the big glitter out.

Well that's it for today ladies did you like any of these polishes?
-Diana

Neptune, Love that Name!

   Hello there! :)....this gloomy weather in NYC has me feeling blue, so I figured I needed a shade to help match my mood...(what a weirdo I am) lol so anyways let me get to my point. What I am wearing on my nails today is Neptune By Sinful Colors Layered with Sinful Colors Smoking hot. Neptune is this super pretty royal blue jelly that reminds me of jeans,plus is has silver shimmer which just helps this color POP! the application was surprisingly awesome Sinful Colors formulas at times usually start out thin then get all tacky throughout the application process (well in my experience) but not this baby, it went on smooth and glided like butter, I barely needed clean up and it was opaque in 3 coats. It looked very pretty on its own but I then decided to add a coat of Smokin hot which is this micro-glittery top coat that almost gives a Holo effect ALMOST lol. ( well in the sunlight that is) but anyways Here is how this mani turned out.

P.s Please Excuse the shrinkage near my cuticles, Damn Seche Vite! lol

Close-up Of the color alone and layered.

Take Care Ladies ! :]

-Diana

Pink Sunday

It's Sunday! I hate Sundays :-\,anyways I will keep this short :). This Weekend I filed my nails Round, I have NEVER EVER had round nails, i'm more of the square girl but I guess it was time for a little change lol. My nails are short so the roundness will be a little more obvious throughout the growing process. So yeah for today's manicure I did a pink gradient. I did start with the sponging technique but sometimes with sponging for some reason pieces of the sponge start to stick on my nails.So instead I used my fan brush and created the gradient effect.

What I Used
Sinful Colors-Snow me White
China Glaze-Dance Baby
China Glaze-Traffic Jam
China Glaze-Techno

Close-Up

Enjoy Your Day :D

-Diana

Nail Art Saturday's

Hello everyone I hope you all are having a great weekend. Well I found myself inspired last night after my boyfriend being a great supporter of my blog said I never dedicate a post to him lol so here it is.Being that he is Egyptian I decided to go with Hieroglyphics on my nails :D and the Eye of Ra on My Thumb
- I used Soo Nail Color S10  as a background
 With a Coat Of Sinful Colors Smoking Hot

A cheesy shot of my nails with my boyfriends Hieroglyphics arm tattoo lol

A Nice Shot of a Pyramid Statue my boyfriend

 brought me back from Egypt

-Thank you For Reading

-Diana