Grey Cup 2012

Was anyone watching the Grey Cup last night? I was at my cousin's house with Jacob, and I am sooo glad that the Argos won! At the beginning it seemed that they would have an easy win but Calgary put up a good fight :)

of course, following my major sports game tradition, I of course did my nails with each team on one hand, since it was late last night when I finished them I'll have to take pictures of them once I get home so expect a post with pictures later tonight... unfortunately some of my nails aren't in the best condition since some things have fallen off, but I'll replace those and make them all nice for the photo, but here's the horrible quality photos I posted on Instagram:

Calgary Stampeders (booooo)

Toronto Argonauts (woo!)

 Have a great day, Julie xo 

Officially My Best Gradient Manicure

So I am super excited to write this... I did this manicure about a week ago, but only got around to posting it now, but I was feeling up for a challenge so I decided to give myself a gradient manicure... only instead of a horizontal gradient I was going to do a vertical gradient instead!!

I am sooooooooooooo happy with the way it turned out :)

I used a matte top coat first but then I took some photos with a regular top coat on top of the matte one! Ready for the gorgeousness?!?!

BAM!!

NOTD: Hexy Glitter Accent Manicure!

I know, I've been gone for a while... bad Julie is bad! However I was doing a kid's camp all last week and most of my other time was spent with my boyfriend - that's not to say that I didn't do my nails!

There was this cute little girl in my 'crew' named Lily who developed an obsession over my nails and she would look at them every day and tell me what I should do the next! She had these gorgeous golden blonde curls too - it reminded me almost of what I was like when I was a little kid!

Now to the important part: today's manicure!

First Bundlemonster Manicure!

So with my Bundlemonster plates that came in the mail today, I was really eager to try them out so originally I decided to do one nail a different colour with a darker/lighter shade used to stamp with a different design on every nail... but after several attempts at a finicky small design I decided to go with something bigger ☺ for some reason with just having the base colours my nails reminded me of pastel macaroons... yum!

Waterdrop Manicure

I can honestly say that this is probably the manicure that I'm most proud of... and it took me a long time to do it as well!

I thought of the idea the day I was doing my Euro 2012 nails, and on my pinky finger I was doing "2012" in acrylic paint... to my surprise when I watered it down to make it a little bit easier to work with, it created this transparent colour, so I took that and ran - I've done watercolour manicures before with nail polish and acetone/nail polish remover but I decided I would make a different kind of effect, kind of like translucent water drops!

the final effect...

EURO 2012 nails (old)

So I know that Euro ended a while ago, but I was looking through photos of nails that I've done and wanted to post these! 

I apologize for the tipwear and the hang nail on my pointer as well, but as you know the show must go on... ☺