#31DC2014 - Day 28: Inspired By A Flag

I've probably mentioned before on here that I'm mixed Dutch-Indonesian and French. I've even written a rap dedicated to Indo food. But today I'm bringing you nails inspired by the country I was born in, the American flag.

The blue is Revlon - Royal layered over a base of Sinful Colors - Snow Me White, which I used for my white stripes along with Wet N' Wild Mega Last - I Red A Good Book.

I wore these with a vintage looking red. white, and blue dress and did faux victory rolls, so I decided to throw in a nautical twist and did gold anchors using Kleancolor - Americano.

I love the classic look of cat eyes and red lipstick.

I also love the pinup style and I'm totally inspired by it. I think it tied in with the theme well.

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#31DC2014 - Day 10: Gradient Nails

Today's nails are the first time I'm trying out a cotton candy gradient. These came out so cute and kawaii, they remind me to My Little Pony.

I used Love & Beauty - Ivory as a base, then did the gradient with Wet N' Wild Wild Shine - Tickled Pink and Kleancolor - Pastel Blue. I topped it all off with Santee - Moon Light Glitter and placed a few stars from it on my pointer and ring fingers.

Of course this made me crave actual cotton candy.

Look at how delicious it looks, I wanna grab it right out of my laptop monitor. Now I need to go find some.

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#31DC2014 - Day 5: Blue Nails

This challenge is turning out to be a parade of my favorite polishes and since yesterday I've decided to explore more of my glitter collection.

As a result here are today's simple and sweet nails. Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Brisk Blue with Pure Ice - Strapless over it.

I've done this combo before and I never get tired of it. Strapless is such a pretty glitter.

What else can be more blue than a Smurf?

Like my green lipstick, this is another thing that I own and don't use that often. It's actually a hat with ear flaps and blue braids on each side. Maybe when the weather gets colder I might actually use it. The question is, what goes good with a Smurf?

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Butterfly Wing Nails

Here's an oldie but goodie from the vault that I never posted. I think I did these probably in April of last year. I went to my cousin's birthday party and did them to match a butterfly print hi-low skirt that I wore. I remember I had JUST broke a nail and had to cut them all down.

I gotta say this is a cute design for short nails. I don't remember all the polishes in this but I do know I used Love & Beauty - Ivory for the base. I think I used this in every set of nail art that I did around this time. I still really love it, it's the perfect not quite white.

Have you ever tried butterfly nails? I think I need to try these again, especially since I just had yet another broken nail!

Subtle Mint Gradient

Hey guys! It's been a minute, I know. My "cold" turned out to be an infection and I was on two kinds of antibiotics before I started feeling better, the second of which made me feel sicker than I had felt before!

I pulled this one from the vault. I did these a few weeks ago to match my outfit. Only thing was it just wouldn't photograph well enough to show off the gradient, but when I put my nails in front of something it showed up a little. So you get bits and pieces of my shirt and jeans.

I used:
Wet N' Wild Mega Last - I Need A Refresh-Mint
Sinful Colors - Cinderella

Super subtle right? Here's an Instagram collage with my outfit. My cuz was out of town so no proper OOTD pics.

I've got some good posts coming up, including my first O.P.I. (really I didn't own any till now) and my Halloween nails and costume. As soon as I get the pics, I'll post them. Until then check out my Instagram, I toss up some quickies on there before I do full posts.

Little Twin Stars Twins

Hey guys! I tried out my first jelly sandwich, inspired by Nouveau Cheap's My Little Twin Stars manicure. I fell in love with her nails when I first saw that post and knew I wanted to recreate it except I didn't have any of her polishes, or even any that came close.

Until last week, I was at Walmart and lo and behold they have a big new Sinful Colors display up. AND IT HAD CINDERELLA IN IT! I've looked for it since it came out. Along with Cinderella, I picked up Glass Pink, which looks like her pink sister, and Gorgeous. You guys coulda guessed that I wouldn't have just bought 1 right? ;]

I used:
Sinful Colors - Cinderella
Sinful Colors - Glass Pink
Santee - Moon Light Glitter
Love & Beauty - Bubblegum

TIP: If you're using a shape glitter with stars or hearts or something, here's a trick I learned doing these nails. Use the polish brush to grab the stars and a toothpick to fish it out and apply on your nail. If you need more stars, close your bottle of polish and shake it, then turn it upside down and shake it again. When you open it up, there should be more stars on the brush to fish out.

TRUST ME. This way is easier. It was taking me so long to get stars, I thought by the time I'd be done the iPhone 10s would be out and dinosaurs would somehow have come back. Just be careful to not let go of the bottle when you're shaking it, cause it will fly out of your hands. And if you're like me, you will do these at 2am and your mom will comment that it was so loud it sounded like a bomb. Indeed.

Have any of you ever tried out a jelly sandwich? I'm excited to try more!

KleanColor - Pastel Blue

Here's a quick swatch of KleanColor - Pastel Blue. The store I always get my Santee polishes from cleared them out and replaced them with KleanColor. I haven't found the metallic ones yet but I'm lovin this pastel color enough to wanna pick up some other colors.

I didn't do any art on this cause I took it off pretty quickly to do some outfit-inspired nails for a day at the movies with my cousin. Can you guess what we went to go see?

The answer to that and more in the next episode of Miss DeVious DiVa! :D

Happy 4th Of July!

Happy 4th of July guys! How was your 4th? Mine was pretty awesome! First off, I'm excited to say I was featured as Tuesday's Newbie over at *Tanesha Marie* ! Check it out and check out her other posts while you're at it, you won't be disappointed.

Secondly, I got to spend the day with my cousin aka one of my favorite people ever. I found out she's interested in photography so we had a mini photo shoot in my aunt's yard and um yea, I was totally impressed! I will have those pics up soon but for now here's my mani that I wore for the 4th.

I decided to do some red, white, and blue skittles. This is another mani that I really really liked. And by that I mean you get picspam. My cousin told me my blog needs more pictures because people like pictures sooo this post will be very likeable haha.

I used:
Wet N' Wild Wild Shine - French White Creme
Revlon - Royal
Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Brisk Blue
Sinful Colors - Ruby Ruby
Sinful Colors - Hottie
Sally Hansen Crackle - Snow Blast
Santee - Moon Light Glitter

Hope you like it as much as I did. I realize it isn't the 4th anymore but every good 4th of July goes on into the 5th of July, right? Right!

Still Believin' In Magic...

Hey guys! I'm still rockin my contest entry nails. I had some tip wear and a few chips so I covered them up with Sinful Colors - Nail Junkie. Awesome name right? Since I only did the tips, this ended up looking like a cool gradient.

If this post were a song, I'd be screaming REEEEEMIX right now. :]

That's all for now. I've got a few good ideas so I can use some of my new Wet N' Wild polishes. Hopefully I'll have the time to actually do them!

Do You Believe In Magic?

Here's my contest entry for Neverland Nail Blog's Do You Believe In Magic? Nail Art Contest.

I did my base with a blue franken and added Sally Hansen - Glass Slipper (perfect name for a magic mani right?) and then Wet N' Wild - Bow In My Presence on the tips. It looked so pretty, like I had dipped my nails in fairy dust. I didn't really want to cover it up with a lot of art, so I did a magic wand on my thumbs and had sparks flying from it, forming a heart on my ring fingers.

Really, I'm not out to try to win this contest. I'm only out to try to be the last person entering haha. It's after 11pm, think I got a good chance to do it?

I used:
a blue franken
Sally Hansen - Glass Slipper
Wet N' Wild - Bow In My Presence
Revlon - Espresso (magic wand stick)
Wet N' Wild - Precious Petals (the stars and sparks)

I hope you like it!

Here Comes Peter Cottontail...

Hey guys! I mentioned in my Spring Watercolors post that I hadn't decided if I was gonna go all out on Easter nails or what. Well, I TOTALLY did. These took several hours, doing a lil at a time and letting the polish dry. Once again I used only the brushes on the polish and I busted out a trusty toothpick. Here they are, it's not like I'm posting them a week after Easter or anything, right? ;)

I won't list what polishes I used because there were so many. I probably used Wet N' Wild polishes the most. If you'd like to know anything in particular, feel free to leave a comment or contact me. I updated my blog to include links to all the social networks I'm on, and you can now subscribe via email to my feed.

I won't make a seperate outfit & makeup post because I did kinda neutral makeup and didn't get as many cool or interesting shots. Here's a few that made the cut. My cousin took these in my aunt's living room, while the entire family was sitting around talking. So I felt super awkward posing in front of them lol.

Yea couldn't really go all VOGUE!!!! JAZZ HANDS!!!! in front of the aunts and uncles haha.

Make sure to subscribe, I'm trying to provide as many ways as possible for people to get content. Good stuff coming up this week, including my first post on getting creative with wrapping a gift (on the cheap too), and a post on the awesome Born Pretty Store. Stay tuned!

Tonight We Are Young Part 2

My cousin and I turned our other cousin's room into our own lash bar before we performed together. My cousin is, as she puts it, "not a girl" ! She's never worn fake lashes before, and as for me, well I've only ever worn crazy Halloween ones. She's interested in them so I picked some up for us. This was the first time I've ever applied a pair on anyone. It was fun! The majority of my friends have always been guys, so we don't spend a lot of time applying lashes on each other haha.
We're not experts and well, we probably shouldn't have taken pics at the end of the night, after waiting to eat till after we performed and then jumping on the leftovers!

So here's my cousin. She did her makeup with an e.l.f. palette and her lashes are Revlon Beyond Natural - Double Wink. She wanted crazy ones and these were the craziest they had at the store. I think they look like feather lashes. Or something Katy Perry would wear.

As for me, I went with something toned down.

Eyes:
M.A.C - Retrospeck eyeshadow (as a wash over the lid and under the brows)
Wet N' Wild Vanity palette (the gold and some of the brown, in crease)
M.A.C - Blacktrack Fluidline
Wet N' Wild Mega Lash Clinical Mascara - Very Black
Revlon Fantasy Lengths - Flirty

Lips:
Wet N' Wild Silk Finish Lipstick - 516C Sunset Peach
M.A.C - Girl About Town
Love And Beauty Lipgloss - Cherry

Something about that pic reminded us to Nicki Minaj. We don't know why either. We had video of our performance but it turned out too dark, which is too bad, because we definitely rocked it like true Barbz that night!

& just because no post is complete without an action pic:

Pink & Blue

How do you save a mani when you can't do a full new mani but you want to cover your nails anyways? Oh and you don't wanna use your original color and just cover with that because it's too sheer and will take too many coats? You pick other colors and cover whatever isn't covered! AND THEN ADD GLITTER!

These kinda reminded me to Red Bull cans.

For the original mani I used:
Sinful Colors - Bianca
Santee - Pink Speckle

Then covered with:
Revlon - Royal
Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Brisk Blue
Pure Ice - Strapless