Round 33! Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas!

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So last month's BTN was super late and this month's is super early, lol! We wanted to do something for the Super Bowl and were inspired by a post from Kelli Marissa (formerly the Nail Polish Challenge).

I used my trusty Zoya polishes again. They have the best colors and creme finishes for nail art! I also like to use the same brand for nail art, I know it's weird. And I have the most Zoya creme polishes, lol.

Willa (black)
Emilia (Brown)
Purity (White)
Hunter (Green)

Clearly I need a better detail brush and to practice straight lines, lol!! I also used the Pretty & Polished Wax topcoat to mattify this mani.

Are you a fan of the Super Bowl? I don't have a pony in this race but I'm rooting for the.... (insert team here that won't upset anyone) LOL!!

Be sure to check out Alaina's post to see her nails!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 32 of Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas! Zoya Stripes!

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And here we are for another Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas. For this month, we wanted to do something to incorporate some yellow because blech to this time of the year for the weather, amiright?

I figured that I might as well finish off Zoya week using some of my favorite Zoya polishes for this nail art. I used Willa, Pippa, and Kelly, and a dotting tool.

I used 2 coats of Pippa on my index finger, two coats of Willa on the pinky, and then 2 coats of Kelly and Pippa on the middle and ring fingers. Then, using the dotting tool, I dotted Willa over those colors for the stripe patterns.

I even did a traditional The Little Canvas pose, haha.

What do you think? I love yellow, whether it's in polish or anything else. It's just so happy and cheery, don't you think??

Be sure to check out Alaina's nails!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 31 of Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas!

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We've come to the last installment of Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas for 2016! And uhhhh we may have forgotten to post this earlier so let's be honest, I'm phoning it in for this round LOL!!

We went with a simple glitter and dotticure, perfect for NYE. The polishes I used were Wet n Wild Black Creme, Cirque Never Nude, Halcyon, and Helios.

I applied 2 coats of Wet n Wild Black Creme to my nails, except for the middle nail, which was dressed in 2 coats of Cirque Helios. Then I used Cirque Never Nude and Halcyon for my dots on my ring finger. At first, I wasn't sure about the gold with the nude and rose gold but I really liked it together!

Happy New Year! And be sure to check out Alaina's BTN!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Bestie Twin Nails with the Little Canvas! Round 30!

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It's time for Round 30 of Bestie Twin Nails with Alaina from The Little Canvas! I'm not sure how we've done these for 30 months already! Holy moly!!

Anyway, this time we are doing a flower dotticure. I used all China Glaze polishes for this mani, starting with Kalahari Kiss for the index and ring fingers. Velvet Bow is the pinky finger. I used Blonde Bombshell for the middle finger. For the dots, Velvet Bow, Sun's Up Top Down and Life Preserver were used, along with Blonde Bombshell for the gold dots. One top of topcoat, clearly applied too soon after painting, hence the smearing.

Be sure to check out Alaina's manicure. I'm sure she used something awesome. Or something exactly the same. Probably with more words. Hehee.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 29: Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas!

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It's time again for Bestie Twin Nails with Alaina from The Little Canvas! Today we are doing a simple orange and black dotticure AND I have two Sally Hansen polishes to review for you!

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Black to Black is a standard black creme. It's very black and could be considered a one coater but I wanted a tiny bit more so I did two coats. Orange Zest is an orange creme and this had a thinner formula, needing 3 coats for complete opacity.

Then I dotted OMGhost from last year's Halloween release onto my ring finger, along with Black to Black. And for the flakies on the middle finger, I added Nine Zero Lacquer Flakie All The Things!

We wanted to add some "goobley eyes" to the pointer finger. My daughter calls googley eyes "goobley eyes" and it just cracks me up every time she says it, lol!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 28 of Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas!

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It's time again for another Bestie Twin Nails with Alaina from The little Canvas. I am going to be honest some more, lol: I told Alaina we needed a really easy manicure for this month because I've been crazy busy, lol.

So we picked a simple black to gray gradient. I used Zoya Storm and Trixie for a bright shiny sparkly gradient. Since Trixie is so metallic, the lines weren't very blended but I still like it!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 27 of Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas!

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How is it August and how is it time for another Bestie Twin Nails with Alaina from The Little Canvas??

Today we are doing a beautiful sunflower manicure! Sunflowers are my second favorite flower, just behind daisies. Don't you think a giant field of sunflowers is just so happy and friendly to look at? It's my favorite! So I grabbed some of my favorite Sally Hansen polishes and one of my all time favorite  China Glaze polishes and got to work.

I started with a base of Sally Hansen Byte Blue, a gorgeous cobalt blue creme. I only did one coat because I knew I would be covering most of the nails with other colors or glitter but you do usually need two coats.

For the sunflower detail, I took a small brush and outlined the half circle for the center of the sunflower using Cocoa A Go Go. Then using Sally Hansen Butterscotch and Mellow Yellow to alternate the sunflower petals and used Butterscotch to dot the middle of the brown Cocoa A Go Go. So as not to leave the index and pinky nails out, I added one coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust and then topcoat for all the nails.

Definitely not my best work but I really like these!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 26: Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas!

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BTN Time with Alaina from The Little Canvas!

This time we wanted something simple but still sort of bright and summery.

I used Zoya Ling as my base color (two coats), then used Purity and Willa on a fan brush and did little half lines on my nails. It's SO SIMPLE but I honestly loved these nails so much!

Do you love these? I don't now why I love these so much but I really do!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 25: Bestie Twin Nails With The Little Canvas!

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Hey hey hey, it's time for another BTN with my buddy Alaina from The Little Canvas!

For this BTN, we chose a simple dotticure and striping tape mani, inspired by Nicole from Young Wild & Polished.

We went with mint and purple versus the brighter green and purple. I used three colors from Virtuous Polish (which is no longer open for business, unfortunately): Purity, Queen Ester, and Rahab. 

This is a pretty straightforward  manicure so I won't really go into too much detail: I used a dotting tool and some striping tape, lol. The polishes I used are matte polishes so a glossy topcoat was required. 

Be sure to check out Alaina's nails!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 24 of Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas!

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WOW!! It's been 2 years of Bestie Twin Nails with Alaina at The Little Canvas! I have thoroughly enjoyed these prompts and while my nail art is certainly not amazing, I am glad that I've been doing these BTN's!

For this month, Alaina and I decided to recreate one of our favorite manicures and do a new one so it's DOUBLT BTN! WHHHAAATTTT???!! So get ready....

Let's start with the recreation manicure. I honestly have no idea why I love pineapples so much but I just really love pineapple decor and graphics and pineapples pineapples pineapples! So of course, we decided to recreate our pineapple manicure! And since we are watching Psych, it is very fitting.

This time, I used all KBShimmer polishes for this manicure. The green holo is Ins And Sprouts, the gold is Sun & Games, and I used Eyes White Open and Chick Me Out for the pineapple. I don't have a black KBShimmer so I had to use an Art Club black striper for the detail.

Yep, still love the pineapples, lol.

For the next manicure, we wanted to do something bright because as I was looking through our hashtag on instagram (#fftlcbtn, if you're curious), I noticed we hadn't done a lot of bright manicures.

We decided on a diagonal gradient with black splatter. For this, I used all China Glaze polishes:
Yellow - Celtic Sun
Pink - Bite Me
Green - I'm With The Lifeguard
Blue - DJ Blue My Mind
Purple - That's Shore Bright
Black - Liquid Leather

I did use a Sally Hansen Insta-Dri for my white base, OMGhost.

Uhmmmmm what?! I freaking love these, if I do say so myself. But who doesn't love a neon splatter, amiright?!

Be sure to check out Alaina's BTN post and leave her a single word comment. She'll know who sent you.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 23 of Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas!

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You know what time it is: BESTIE TWIN NAILS TIME with Alaina from The Little Canvas. Guys. GUYS... we've been doing this feature for almost 2 years!! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!? Oh boy, I guess we need to do a giveaway at Round 24, eh? ;-) And lookie!! We have a fancy graphic, courtesy of Sarah from 25_Sweetpea! Thank you!!! We love pineapples.

For this BTN, we decided to do some cute little clouds, inspired by this blog post here. Usually, I would say because this is springtime but it's been snowing and gross here lately and is just now finally starting to resemble spring. Come on, buddy... you can do it! Just warm up and give me some sunshine!

For my base, I used two coats of Zoya's Rocky. I forgot I owned this polish until I was organizing in my helmer drawers last week and it's just so pretty. It's a bright blue but with a hint of gray to it.

Then I dotted some little clouds with Zoya's Purity and drew the little smiley faces on with Willa.

Aren't they cute??

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 22 of Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas! Splatter!

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It's time yet again for another Bestie Twin Nails with Alaina from The Little Canvas! For this month, we wanted to do a simple splatter manicure using some greens for St. Patrick's Day. We decided to do a gradient under the splatter!

I grabbed a few of my favorite Zoya's and got to work. I started with a base of Zoya Josie, then used Josie and Veruschka for my gradient. I used Zoya Richelle for my splatter and applied a little bit of Maria Luisa for some extra gold fabulousness. And then some INM Out The Door topcoat.

Super splattery, right? Haha.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas Round 21! Arrows!

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It's time again for a Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas! This time, we were inspired by Paulina's Passions and her fabulous arrow manicure, as I made Alaina start watching the tv show Arrow and now she's hooked ;)

I grabbed some of my Virago Varnish polishes for this mani and got to work. I used Bloody Mary, a very very dark red burgundy creme. I did two coats so it appeared as dark as possible. Then I used 2 coats of Crave, which is opaque in 1 coat! Amazing.

Next I applied two coats of Don't Turn On The Light, a stunning dark teal holo glitter. For the arrows, I used Bloody Mary and Scandalous. My arrows are really wonky but I can't seem to find a small enough detail brush for things like this. What's your fave detail brush??

I definitely need to practice my detail work but I like this manicure! Also, if you don't watch Arrow, you should. It's pretty awesome :)

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 20 Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas

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It's time for another Bestie Twin Nails with my buddy Alain from The Little Canvas. You know the drill: let's get to the good stuff.

This time, we wanted to do a black and gold NYE festive manicure and I realize it's no longer NYE but who cares, lol. We used this picture by SoNailicious.com for inspiration!

I started with OPI DS Pewter for my base color because I somehow don't own a plain black OPI. Wut? Then I used the brush in the OPI I Cannoli Wear OPI to stripe that color down the middle. using a small striping brush, I painted OPI Glitzerland on the side of I Cannoli Wear OPI. I added topcoat and boom. Done.

I love black and gold together. Why do people do this primarily at the holidays? Ugh, it's so pretttty!!! Now go check out Alaina's nails and leave her a one word comment! I mean it! One word!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 19 Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas

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It's time for another Bestie Twin Nails with my buddy Alain from The Little Canvas. You know the drill: let's get to the good stuff.

For this prompt, I chose a manicure by Sensationails4U on Instagram. Super festive!

I started with ILNP Cherry Luxe (2 coats), on my index, middle and pinky nails. Then 2 coats of ILNP Juliette (which is gorgeous!!). For my Christmas tree, I used Lucky One and Limelight, with Iconic for the little tree stump. Finally, I added a green nail stud to the top of the tree!

Whatchu think? I'm not usually so festive with my nails, lol!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 18 Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas!

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It's time for another Bestie Twin Nails with my buddy Alain from The Little Canvas. You know the drill: let's get to the good stuff. For this month, we were inspired by this post by Alonda Loves Polish.

I used my trusty Zoya's, starting with a base of Zoya Brittany from the Satin collection, which covered nicely in two coats. Then I striped Raven, added Tomoko in the middle and then zig zagged more Raven. Finally, I dotted and striped some Purity on for the accents. Slapped some matte top coat on and boom. BTN'd!

Whatchu think, gurrlll???

(I'm kinda of distracted and tired right now, lol!!!)

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 17: Bestie Twin Nails With The Little Canvas

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It's time for another Bestie Twin Nails with my buddy Alaina from The Little Canvas. You know the drill: let's get to the good stuff.

For this post, Alaina picked a candy corn dotticure, because she's obsessed with seasonal manicures, lol. I'm not big on them personally but this was cute without being too Halloween-y for me.

As always, I used the same brand for my manicure and this time, it was China Glaze. I came across my beloved Riveting while I was reorganizing my helmer drawers a few weeks ago and forgot how much I love it. Okay that's not true, but I forgot that I haven't used it in a while so I new that I wanted to use it soon.

This manicure inspiration required a naked nail so I used my Nailtiques base coat and then dotted Riveting, Solar Power and White Cap and slapped on some topcoat. This is probably the fastest manicure I have ever done, lol. It was so simple! I quite like it! It's festive but not over the top.

Be sure to check out Alaina's dots, even though she cheated and used acrylic paint :-p

Oh my gosh you guys probably should know that Alaina and I text every day and watch tv shows together even though we live in different states and I leave the most blah and boring and sometimes mean comments on her stuff but it's totally just me being sarcastic and funny and she knows I'm just kidding. So yeah. I'm not really mean, lol!!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 16: Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas!

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It's time for another Bestie Twin Nails with my buddy Alain from The Little Canvas. You know the drill: let's get to the good stuff.

Alaina mentioned something about how it was Childhood Cancer Awareness month and that gold was the color for awareness. She then found this picture on Pinterest and we both said "YES" immediately when the time came for selecting our manicure. I then had the brilliant idea to make some of our BTN's focus on charity/cause awareness because who doesn't love crying?! I'm only kidding about crying (sort of), but I thought it was a nice idea to do manicures that focus on awareness and if it helps to bring awareness to some people even a little, that is an accomplishment.

The first organization that pops into my head when I hear "childhood cancer" is St. Jude Children's Research hospital. I know there are many many many hospitals and organizations devoted to helping children with cancer but St. Jude is always the one I think of the most. I am so very blessed to have not personally dealt with such a situation such as childhood cancer and cannot imagine the stress, coupled with the crippling medical costs. St. Jude provides cutting edge medical options and care while freeing parents from the burden of the cost of these treatments. Did you know that 75% of St. Jude's budgeted costs are covered by public donations? I didn't realize until just at this moment of drafting this post that they relied so heavily on public contributions.

I'm giving you this information as a PSA to seek out an organization that you care about and donate! I don't have a lot of money to donate but even $10 is better than nothing. This sounds preachy and it is not intended to be but I know that a lot of people think if they can't donate hundreds and thousands of dollars, that it's not worth it to donate at all and that is not the case. Every little bit adds up!

Okay, longest post ever! Now onto the nails!!

I used Orly Highlight, Gumdrop and Bling, along with some KBShimmer Chevron Nail Guides.

To start, I painted all of my nails except my middle finger with Orly's Highlight and let that dry. I painted 3 coats of Orly Bling on my middle finger and applied two coats of top coat.

Once my other fingers were dry, I used Gumdrop and Highlight on a makeup sponge to apply a gradient to my pinky and index fingers, and applied the chevron nail shields to my ring finger and then blobbed on two quick coats of Bling. Topcoat all the nails and boom. Done.

I really love this manicure and I'm not sure if it's because the colors are so light but this gradient is one of the most perfect gradients I've ever done! LOVE!

Go check out Alaina's nails and leave her wordy comments :)

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 15 of Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas!

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It's time again for Bestie Twin Nails with Alaina from The Little Canvas. This time, I chose a floral design, which I know doesn't sound anything like something I would like.... HAHAHAHHAAHA!! Did you believe that for a second? Like I would ever not like a floral anything :-) Anyway, this is a design by Ashley from Plump & Polished.

I quite liked this design! What do you think?

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 14: Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas!

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We're back again with another BTN and this time, we are attempting the dreaded WATERMARBLE! DUN DUN DUN!!! I suck at watermarbling, regardless of how well the polish performs. I'm just bad at it. There is no reason other than... I'm just bad at it, lol. But I want to get better and that's partially what this Monthly BTN is for so let's get to it.

I used all Orly polishes for these except that I Salon Perfect Sugar Cube as my white base. I alternated Gumdrop and On the Edge and attempted a sad water marble design. Water marble masters: WHAT IS THE TRICK TO DESIGNS? Like, I don't get it. As quickly as I drop the polish, it crusts over and the toothpick or water marble tool doesn't make a line, it drags the polish??? Ugh. Anyway.

Then since I was already liquid latexing my nails, I figured that I might as well do all the nails and did a gradient using the same colors. I added a coat of Mirrorball because duh. It's Mirrorball.

My watermarble is just never going to be perfect but I thought this looking passable! My liquid latex messed up the marble on my middle finger when I took it off but whatever. I marbled. It happened, lol.

Now everyone go look at Alaina's nails and comment that she has to at least do one finger for a glitter placement manicure for an upcoming BTN! She's just being stubborn and difficult in this area. LOL.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda