A Long Time Ago In a Galaxy Far, Far Away... STAR WARS DAY!

Happy Star Wars Day!!! May the fourth be with you. ;)

Of course, I have another Star Wars manicure for this year's Star Wars day! I had a hard time coming up with something different from last year but I did it...and I really like it! 

I decided to incorporate a galaxy manicure with some famous Star Wars ships. 

This was my first time trying the galaxy mani and I'M IN LOVE!!!!

It was so easy. Even when you make a "mistake"...it adds to the beauty of the finished product. Once I finished the galaxy design, I hand-painted an X-Wing on my thumb and a TIE Fighter on my ring finger. Those were...not so easy. :P 

I hope you enjoy my Star Wars mani as much as I do.

GO RAVENS! Super Bowl 2013 Manicure!

As promised, here is my Ravens Super Bowl manicure! :) 

 I told my husband and my dad that if the Ravens made it to the Super Bowl that I would do a Ravens manicure! I'm not a football fan but I do love Baltimore.

I decided to do the menacing Raven's eyes on my middle and ring nails with some "explosion" accent nails.

I used Orly Charged Up, Sinful Colors Black On Black, OPI Dazzled By Gold, Essie Laquered Up, Sinful Colors Snow Me White and (of course) Seche Vite as my top coat.

Hope you enjoyed this mani and have a great Super Bowl weekend!

GO RAVENS!

Lindsay

Happy Birthday to ME...and my BLOG!

That's right! My blog turns 1 today! ;)

Oh, and I turn 29. :P Obviously I did my nails for the occasion!

So, here is my birthday manicure. Nothing too crazy. I wanted to go with a chic but sparkly look today so I did a Half Moon manicure using Layla Holographic in Flash Black and a new polish that my husband gave me for Christmas from the new OPI Mariah Carey collection in Anti-Bleak. I love both of these polishes and would highly recommend them. (Mariah Carey Collection is in stores now...go by it!) 

I hope you all enjoy my birthday as much as I will! haha

;) Lindsay

GO O's!!!

Well, Hello there! Two blog posts in one week?! Am I feeling alright?! :P

Today I have a Baltimore ORIOLES manicure to show you! I am not a huge sports fan but the one sport I can understand and enjoy going to watch is baseball...and since I am from Baltimore I like the O's...naturally! They happen to be doing pretty well this season and I know everyone in Baltimore is pretty stoked about it. 

Besides the fact that they are doing well, I have a few other reasons to have my nails like this!

Tonight I will be going to the O's game with my dad, sister and my husband. It's a special game because they will be unveiling the statue of Cal Ripken Jr. at Camden Yards. (Today is also the 17th anniversary of Cal Ripken Jr. breaking Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played...2131!) Oh, and they're playing the Yankees...bringing my team spirit is a must!!!

 On Saturday, my husband's cousin is getting married and the wedding has an Oriole theme (Congrats Jenn and Derek! :D) and I will be going to another Oriole game next Tuesday! 

So, I hope you enjoy the design I came up with! It was a tough one! The striped nails are done with tape and the "O" and The Bird are painted by hand...

Yes...I'm crazy. ;)

GO O'S!!!!!!

Thanks for reading and don't forget to click the blue button on the right that says "Join this site" so that you can follow Manicure What Ails You! 

Peace, Love and Home runs! 

.....for the O's...not the Yankees! :P

Lindsay

A Rainbow Dotticure!

For today's post I have a spotty dotty manicure...or a "dotticure"! :P I was feeling really uninspired when it came to my nails this weekend so I decided to try something new. I wanted to go for a rainbow look so I used a few different shades of each color and a dotting tool and this is what I came up with! I thought it was fun and different than my usual mani. I may be trying this in other colors soon! It's SO easy! Look how cheery the rainbow colors are! :)

Thanks for reading! I hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend! :D

Blue Glitter Explosion!

I just love the clean look of a tape manicure! Can't beat it in my opinion! Today I did an "explosion" design using Essence Colour & Go in "Grey-t To Be Here", Essence Colour & Go in "Black is Back" and OPI's "Absolutely Alice". The colors kinda go with the weather today...dark and cloudy. I like it though! 

I even ended up doing this design on my toes! This RARELY happens! I usually end up having a manicure that doesn't match my pedicure. Mostly because I hate giving myself a pedicure. :P LOVE painting my fingernails....not so much the toes. Oh well! 

Enjoy the Blue Glitter Explosion mani!

With a flash.

Toes! :P

....toes again!

Hope you're having a wonderful weekend! 

Lindsay ;)

Converse nails!

Our friends, Ben and Laura had a lovely converse themed wedding yesterday and I just HAD to have nails to match the theme! 

 With my shoe. :P

With my trusty bottle of Seche Vite!

Me and the bride. :)

Congrats to the happy couple! :D

I'm so glad I was able to be there (with an appropriate manicure!) to celebrate such a special day! 

Olympic Manicure!!!

I don't know about you but I LOVE the Olympics! 

I really don't think anything makes me feel more patriotic. :P I couldn't resist doing a festive olympic manicure! I'll be tuning in to watch the Opening Ceremony tonight ...and my nails are ready for it!

This was a fun (but really hard!) manicure to do!

Yes, I hand painted those teeny little rings...what was I thinking??? :P

London 2012!!!

Just so happens that I used a Nails Inc. LONDON polish (Baker Street) for this manicure. :P

Are you all as excited for the games as I am?! Will you be doing an olympic mani for the occasion? I wanna see!

Have fun,

Lindsay

Geometricky!

 

First official post of the summer! :D

Not sure of the inspiration for this nail design(s)...it just sort of...evolved into this! haha

I started with just the yellow (Zoya Pippa) and (because I cant leave well enough alone!) I added a tape design with Orly Fancy Fuchsia and OPI Fly the next day. I think it turned out to be a fun, summer-y manicure! 

What do you think? What colors are you wearing on your nails this summer?

May The Fourth Be With You!

Happy Star Wars Day!!!
Spent some time today working on a Star Wars manicure! Enjoy!

                                              

May The Fourth Be With YOU!

Lindsay

I'm back with an abstract "Cloud" mani!

I bet you thought I died, didn't you?! Nope. Alive and well....just a busy girl! :)
I hope you all are doing well and enjoying Spring so far! :D
Today I have a mani that I did last week. It's sort of and abstract "cloud" mani. I used Orly "Wild Wisteria", "Essie Braziliant" (which is also on my toes right now! I love it!) and Sinful Colors "Snow Me White". This was my first attempt at the "cloud" and I like it! It actually wasn't that hard...even though it was freehand. No tape involved here! I hope you like it and I will be better about updating on here more often. :)

Hope you all have a very Happy Easter!

Lindsay

Valentine's Day Manicure

Hello, everyone! Just a post to show you my mani for Valentines day! :) I'm not much of a fan of the holiday but any excuse to do nail art is fine with me! :P
All nail art is by hand except for the two hearts on the pinky...those are glitter.
Hope you enjoy it!

Happy Valentine's Day, Lovelies!
<3, Lindsay