Olympic theme? My boyfriend made me do it!

So I have been feeling kinda blue the last few days, wearing nothing (yes, nothing) on my nails since Sunday! So last night my dear boyfriend came over, took me to dinner and proceeded to tell me I needed to do my nails… and he was gonna tell me how…

Here is what he picked for me, after digging thru my stash and complaining because “all my reds look pink” Hahaha :)

He told me how to alternate the colors so that it would be “red, white & blue” starting on either side of the hand, get it? Red, white & blue! Lol

He also instructed me to only use a little bit of stars so you could still see the polish color underneath! I like how it turned out and I’m glad he “made me do my nails”. I feel better today, when I look at my hands or feet I see glittery stars and think about how much he cares and how hard he tries to cheer me up!

Do you like how it turned out? Does your significant other ever “tell you” to do your nails?

Have a great weekend everyone! And don't forget to enter my giveaway, it ends tomorrow!!!

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Fiorella :)

My 4th of July nails:)

Hello all, so here is my attempt of a blogpost/tutorial or at least my desire to show you what I ended up doing for my 4th of July nails :) Hope you like it, any questions or comments are welcome. Have a happy and safe 4th! 

Products I used:

• Nail Therapy Basecoat (Julep)
• "Kate" (white- Julep)
• "January" (red- Julep)
• "Blue my mind" (OPI)
• "America" (red+blue+silver glitter - Julep)
• "Luxe and Lush" (China Glaze)
• Fast Dry Top Coat (Julep)
• Tape (regular dollar store brand, nothing fancy)
• Craft scissors (I used one with small and big waves from Walmart, less than $2)
• PATIENCE!!!

Here is where I got the scissors + tape idea from: http://birch.ly/MXXvV1 as you can see, you can start from any idea and make it your own :)

I applied 3 coats of Kate

It was my first time doing something like this and I wanted to make sure the tape wouldn't pull off the white, so I did the white and waited about 24 hours to do the rest. Basically I cut the tape and placed it on my nails making sure the parts near the cuticle were secure, I alternated fingers/colors so I would have less of a risk of messing up (that way only every other nail would have tape on at the time).

I found the tape peeled easily enough without lifting any of the white but definitely recommend waiting at least 2-3 minutes before peeling it off so the other color is somewhat dry. I did 2 coats of both the blue and the red on the taped nails. On my pinky I used America (2 coats).

At this point I was just going to put some top coat but I couldn't help myself, I needed some glitter :) -don't judge- so I went with "Luxe and Lush" which is basically glitter flakes and wouldn't overpower the whole thing. 

Right hand

Left hand

Close up

 I love polish and wear all kinds of colors changing it about once a week, but this is the first time I actually tried something a little more complex than just putting tons of glitter on or doing colored tips. I am pretty happy with the results, it was time consuming but I enjoyed the adventure and Netflix kept me entertained :)

What do you think? Comments? Questions? Suggestions? 
Thanks for stopping by :)
Fiorella :)