I spent the last two weeks of July in Michigan with my family and friends. It was an amazingly fun time! But, of course, I can't go two weeks without redoing my nails. And, since my loved ones universally recognize me as The Nail Girl of the Family, I got several requests to do peoples' nails. Let's have a look at what I spent my vacation downtime doing!
My first few days in Michigan were spent at my oldest sister's house. Unfortunately, she couldn't take much time off of work. But it was kind of okay, because I got to spend one entire day with my two year old nephew, and I had another whole day to myself - in which I spent most of the day painting my nails. I wanted to match my new bathing suit and my new dress, a feat that would admittedly have been easier in high school when 80% of my wardrobe was the same shade of blue. But I accepted the challenge with my intermediate nail art skills!
the clothes in question.
I used Jamberry Arcade on my thumb and pinky - a wrap that I bought specifically to match my dress. Zoya Ryan was another easy choice for my middle and ring fingers to match both the dress and my bathing suit. And to help match my bathing suit, I threw in one nail of CDB Lacquer Passionate.
(side note: I used a blow dryer to heat up my Jamberry wraps this time, and
they went on SO smoothly! never using my space heater for wraps again!!!)
I painted my toes to match my bathing suit a bit more exclusively, but I was silly and didn't take a picture of it! I used the dry brush technique and ORLY Saturated, Zoya Oceane, Sephora Papaya Daiquiri, and Passionate and Ryan again. I'm so bummed that I didn't take a good picture of it! Maybe I'll just have to recreate the pedi soon. I am, after all, going on an end of summer vacation to Ocean City, Maryland this weekend, where I will be wearing my bathing suit a lot!
The same night that I did my nails, I painted my sister's nails. Purple is her favorite color, so I definitely wanted to use Saturated on her. Still on a dry brush kick, I did two accent nails using Zoya Tallulah and Sinful Colors Bikini. The white background is Salon Perfect Sugar Cube.
She loved her nails so much! Steph has never much bothered with makeup or nail polish, and now that she's a mom she bothers even less. I painted her nails in her basement hunched over an end table, but we might as well have been at a high-class spa for how excited she was about her manicure! Then, when she woke up her son in the morning and was trying to put his clothes on, he grabbed at her nails and said, "what's that?!" <3
At a girls' night with my best friends from high school, my friend Melanie wanted a simple grey manicure. I used China Glaze Intelligence, Integrity, and Courage on most of her nails with an accent of CDB Lacquer He Sees All.
I painted a few other peoples' nails, but I was having too much fun with them to really think about taking pictures for the blog. All of the other manis that I did were simple colors with an accent color, though, so you're not missing out on any super-special nail art!
What's your favorite look from this post? Have you ever painted your nails to match a vacation or trip? Let me know in the comments!
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