Gradient Sunset Nail Art

This is by far my most successful gradient attempt. I love this so much *heart eyes emoji*

In today's design I used: OPI Natural Nail Base Coat, SinfulColors Snow Me White, and I believe I used China Glaze Escaping Reality for my pink, Stoked to be Soaked, and the newer formula of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow. Seche Vite as well as Essie's Matte About You.

GRADIENT Palm Tree Sunset nail art

Instagram Post :)

"I love the way this gradient turned out! so thankful for peel off
base coat, you all know how much I hate clean up lols"

Share your recreations with me on instagram using the hashtag #inspiredbykass

EASY Half Moon design | NO TOOLS NEEDED // nailsbykassie

Hellooo! I'm back with another post. Two in one month, this has got to be a record for me. 

I definitely did not start out this mani to do a black and pale pink half moon. My original plan was to dry out little tiny flowers I found on some local trails where I live but the didn't turn out the way I needed them to so this is what I came up with instead. I have actually never attempted a half moon mani before but I really do like the look of them some of the time. 

In today's design I used: OPI Natural Nail Base Coat, Seche Vite, Wet n' Wild "Black Creme" and E.L.F. Nail polish "Wedding Bells".

My camera has a really hard time picking up the pink tones in Wedding Bells, it makes it look like it's leaning more on the brown side of an opaque nude polish. If you want this polish but don't have E.L.F. near you a nearly perfect match is SinfulColors "Easy Going", this does lean more to the brown side but is still very pretty pale pink nude.

EASY Half Moon design | NO TOOLS NEEDED // nailsbykassie

Instagram Post :)

"Simple little half moon from last week. This is the first time I
have ever done a half moon before, I really like it"

please please please share your recreations with me on instagram @nailsbykassie and using the hashtag #inspiredbykass

Pink and Gold

oh my gosh, remember me?

it has definitely been waaaaay too long.

I wanted to do something simple but really pretty and saw something like this floating around online for quite some time so I gave it a shot. It's super easy to achieve.

In today's design I used: OPI Natural Nail Base Coat, NYC Base Coat "Strip Me Off"

Sally Hansen Extreme Wear "Giant Peach"

L'Oreal "The Statement Piece"

Pink and Gold Summer Time Mani

Tips: 

1. You MUST topcoat before placing the tape on the nail. It will make the polish dry quicker and make it easier to pull of the tape. 

2. As seen in the tutorial I used scotch tape on my index and middle fingers to create the triangle, make sure you put the tape on the back of your hand and peel it back off the get rid of some of the stickiness. This helps in helping prevent your nail polish pulling off from your nail and ruining your design. 

3. Make sure your polish is completely dry before lay the scotch tape down. As you could see my polish pulled up from the tape. I waited about 20 minutes but since it was so hot where I live this day the polish stayed tacky longer than expected. 

Instagram Post :)

"cute little design I did last week. I love love love this gold polish!"

Easy Floral Nail tutorial

Hey ladies

I finally filmed another tutorial! :)
check it here or on my youtube channel "Kassie May"

Instagram Post :)

"simple floral design I did this week. I'm not too into fall nail art trends, but I've
been loving micro floral designs."

Bonus Blog Picture :)

Hope you enjoyed the video.

And remember to share you recreations with me on instagram using #inspiredbykass :)

Covergirl XL Nail Gel Swatch & Review - Rotund Raspberry

This is going to be my first review blog post, and I'm not so sure how to start or what to include, but here it goes!

I used my OPI Natural Nail Base Coat before applying this polish to protect my nail. 

The bottle shows the colour to be more pink than the deep red that it turned out to be. 

This is as true to the colour that I could get.

PROS:

• So smooth and easy to work with. 
• Pretty opaque
• Needed two coats to even out.
• Dryed fast
• An initial high shine with out top coat

Since this line claimed to have the "gel nail effect", I decided to not top coat the polish,

to keep the finish like a gel nail. Personally, I do not think that it had that finish, although it was shinier than most other polishes. 

I wore this polish for 4 days. I use may hands a lot and I am always jamming my nails into things at work so polish tends to chip on me quite easily. While I had this polish on, I managed to rub my nail on my bathroom counter, and you could see where I had dragged my nail because it left colour behind. I'm just assuming this is because I didn't have a top coat on. 

Here are the chips I had after the 4 days of wear....

CONS:

• The shine dulled after the first day of wear.
• Colour transfer when rubbed against another object.
• Chips if you use your hands a lot.
• Will not last the 2 weeks it claims to.
• Very, very slight staining (this could have just been personal to me. I usually get stained from deep red colours)

I still really like this polish despite the cons since I think a lot of them can be fixed with a top coat. They also have really nice colours in this collecting!

alright, I guess that's enough of me rambling about this polish! 

Hope you have a great day :)

xx - Kassie

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Watermarble!!

Wooo! finally a successful watermarbling try! :D

I absolutely love how this turned out *insert heart eyes emoji*

What I have found that works the best is using room temperature distilled water. The polishes also have a lot to do with the out some of the marbling, some don't spread as well as others. You just have to try out the ones you have to see what works best for you!

In todays design I used:

OPI Base coat, China Glaze Fast Forward Top Coat, and DISTILLED water.

SinfulColors in Snow Me White

SinfulColors in Black on Black

ColorClub in Pucci-Licious

Instagram Post :)

"Was I successful? I THINK SO! So Happy with the outcome of this water marbling :)"

Blog Bonus Picture :)

Here are two pictures of what the polish looked like on the water, I just thought it looked uhh-mazing! but then again, I am easy impressed ;)

I'm not sure is you can tell but my favourite polish is Pucci-licious. Love everything about it, it is literally the most perfect nail polish ever, but I haaate the name.

I hope you liked my watermarble!

I hope you have a splendid day :)

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Purple & Gold inspired by BadGirlNails

Hey! It's been a while since I posted on my blog because my life got a bit more busy this month with starting my new job, weekend trips and summer activities :)

Since I was not on instagram much this past month I didn't feel inspired to create something of my own. 

One of my favourite accounts in instagram is badgirlnails, she is honestly amazing. This design is inspired by her. Enjoy :)

I used:

OPI Base coat and China Glaze Fast Forward Top Coat

China Glaze in Sweet Hook

L'Oreal in The Statement Piece

Instagram Post :)

Bonus Blog Picture

"First design of August and it was inspired by the brilliant@badgirlnails. She is seriously amazing. Her original design was
nude, white and gold. I thought I'd put my own spin on it
and make it purple, white and gold"

I give all credit to badgirlnails for this design and I encourage you to go over to instagram and follow her.

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KeshiaLilly inspired design

Aloha!! :)

Today's design is inspired by KeshiaLilly from instagram. She is a super nice lady that I am always inspired by. Enjoy! ;)

I used: 

OPI Base Coat and Color Club Fast Dry Top coat

OPI in Elephantastic Pink

Instagram Post :)

"I really like how this turned out, but it definitely cannot stand against @keshialilly's 

almond shaped original! I honestly don't think there is anything better than 

black, white and pink designs"

Bonus Blog Picture

In the comments below let me know your favourite top coat, I'd love to try some new ones! 

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Katy Perry inspired nails

Hey Ladies!
I'm so overwhelmed and still completely stunned that I got to see Katy Perry this past Friday (July 18th, 2014) at the Air Canada Centre. Katy is one of my top 3 favourite artists (Demi Lovato, and Ariana Grande are the others in case you wanted to know)  and has been for 2 or 3 years now. If any of you has seen someone you really love in concert after waiting for such a long time, I'm sure you know how I was feeling before, during, and after the concert. I would like to thank my best friend, Natalie, for taking me along with her, love you girl!

I'd like to share a few pictures with you all before we get into the nail stuff if that's alright ;)

We had these special glasses that made lights look
like spectrum's from a prism. I looked super cool!

She entered the stage from inside a triangular prism

And her first costume was super cool too

Kitty Purry as Katy Perry

Another shot of the prism effect

Her exit from the stage :)
She did come back and do two more encore songs
 that were Birthday and Firework

And now onto the nail stuff ;)

For this design I used Essie's Grow Stronger Base coat and Color Club Fast Dry Top Coat

OPI in Barre My Soul

China Glaze in Take a Trek

Instagram Post :)

"This past Friday I went to Katy Perry's Prismatic World Tour.
I can safely say it is was the best concert I have been to, and
one of the best nights of my life so far!"

Bonus Blog Pictures

I used the same nail vinyls in my last post to get the chevron on my ring finger 

This was inspired by Katy's 'MTV European Music Awards Costume, here it is....

Obviously mine is not the same as her costume. I felt like it looked better on my nails if the shapes were straight edged. If you haven't seen her performance, you should definitely check it out, I'll even give you a link ;)

In the comments below let me know what your favourite singer or band is and your favourite concert experience you've had, I'd love to hear your stories! :)

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Purple Aztec

Heres is a colourful aztec inspired design!

In today's design I used:
OPI's Base Coat, Color Club's Fast Drying Top Coat and Black acrylic paint

Color Club in Pucci-Licious

Color Club in Take Me To Your Chateau

Color Club in Twiggie

Color Club in He Loves Me

Instagram Post :)

"Aztec inspired design :)"

Bonus Blog Pictures

Ahhh! Can I just say that I love this so much, it's just so pretty! I did this design with the help of StickMeNails chevron nail vinyls. I placed the points of two strips together creating the diamond shape which I then lined with Twiggie and then removed the vinyls with tweezers. After that, I followed the chevron pattern with the other colours I listed above to fill up my nail while leaving some white spaces.

If you like this design be sure to follow my instagram for more of my pictures! If you want to recreate this, use the hashtag #inspiredbykassie in your post and I'll follow you :)

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