Manicure Mania

My nail polish addiction has grown into another OCD hobby of mine. Just like couponing, I'm always on the look for the next fabulous nail polish. I follow several beauty/make-up blogs and often try to duplicate their works of art. As of November 2011, I own over 200 bottles of nail polish. Since then I've added more. I'll list out the brands in another post. For now, here are some pictures of my works of art.

I love yellow. And against this orange and my beautiful brown skin, its just pops.

Lately, I've been wearing the Sally Hansen Salon Effects. They are nail polish strips that come in a variety of cute designs. I'm finally getting use to applying them. These will probably be my go to for vacations. 

GLITTER! I love it I love it I love it! I used a base ruby red coat of red and applied some glitter on top. POW! I felt like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.

Splatter nails, I talked about this in My Addiction to Nail Polish post 

 Leopard nails. This was an experiment. I need to purchase nail pens to get the right effect. But that neon yellow still made them stand out.

Newspaper nails. This is done by using real newspaper. Its quick and easy to do. I found the How To on Lipglossipings blog. I think I'll do this again and try adding some color.

My Addiction to Nail Polish

Hi, my name is Allywood and I'm addicted to nail polish, painting my nails, reading blogs about nail polish collections....anything related to my NAILS. This addiction started about a year or so ago and I've never looked back. Your nails can make a statement about who you are, your personality and your artistic side.

The other day while reading Clumps of Mascara, I came across a fabulous nail technique: splattering. She saw it on Once Bitten who saw it on Getcha Nails Did who saw it on the PolishAholic. (PHEW). I immediately went to each site and read each review and post. PolishAholic has a step by step tutorial and thus I tried .

Take a look at my splatter nails.

These are the different polishes I used. I used white as the base polish. I don't have the names of the other polishes but I can post those later.

Next up this newspaper nails that Lipglossiping posted about. This should be sweet.