Press Sample For some reason I'm starting to have this thing for floral print everything and my nails are far from exempt. Needless to say I've been eyeing this Mr. Candiipants tutorial for quite some time now and finally sat down to actually do it.




I used the entire SpaRitual Meditate Collection for these floral print nails.

Front to back: Transcend, Peace & Harmony, Introspective, Energy, Quietness, and Calm & Clear.



Instead of doing one color for the base I did a gradient with Peace & Harmony and Transcend. The flowers petals are done in Calm & Clear and Quietness. The dots are Calm & Clear and Energy. And last, but not least, I busted out my handy dandy stripping brush to use Introspective and Energy to paint the leaves.

While you're here look at my thumb!


The spring 2013 Meditate collection retails for $10.00 each at select spa and retails locations throughout the country, including online at Pharamaca.com, and Beauty.com.

Press Sample A few posts ago I did these nails using warmer shades of Sation lacquers, today's nail are going to be on the cooler side of the color spectrum.


I started with 3 coats of Sation Love Is In The Heir and use the Cute Polish Water Spotted technique by spraying instant hand sanitizer into a water marble. I modified it slightly by creating a bullseye with Sation Lollipop Goes The Princess and Sation Unicorns Are Teal.
Ahh! Can't you just feel the waves crashing? No? Just me? Well excusing me for wishing summer would come a whole lot sooner!

Press SampleMonday I had the day off work and decided to use my single opportunity for spare time as a chance to scratch a few things off of my to do list.

"What's on the menu this time," you ponder? Layla Caviar Effect!


I was going for something more form than function and I'm pretty sure I can't get any more to that point than these nails!

After I applied my usual layer of base coat, I went on to use this Cute Polish Water Spotted tutorial to apply Layla Ceramic Effect CE 39.


Next, I randomly painted on a clear top coat to get the caviar beads, Layla Caviar Effect Perfect Pink, to stick. To get a more 3D look I dabbed on more top coat to apply more caviar beads once to original layer dried.

Layla Caviar Effect is available at Aveyou.com/Zappos.com and retails for $10.50. FYI Layla Caviar Effect comes in 12 shades.

P.S. I promise I'll have something pretty and wearable up tomorrow.

Do these 3D nails make you DTF? Get it? DTF is to Jersey Shore; as Layla is to actual Italian. Corny, I know.
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Miss Professional Nail (Miss) has announced the launch of its Spring 2013 Campaign, Miss Antoinette. The collection is a shining salute to eloquent French beauty and Marie Antoinette’s glorious run as Queen of France. After a recent visit to Versailles, Miss’ Creative Director Staci Dao was inspired to develop a theme that spun a modern twist on lacquer and love. She created a color collection that reflects an exquisite Parisian color palette that would have been icing on the cake for the legendary empress.

The collection offers a royally fun twist on Marie Antoinette’s flair for beauty and beaus. Her loyal subjects were forever fixated on her extravagant wardrobe, indulgent rituals and notorious love life. Oh, how times have changed. Women still get dolled up for potential matches, yet we’ve traded private love letters for public “likes,” and traditional courtship has been eclipsed by cell phones, e-mails and turbo-texting (a triple trauma to the nails!). Dao says, “Nothing beats old-fashioned face-to-face time; beauty and sparks of attraction are still what make us click with someone.”

Miss Antoinette serves up an amorous array of polished petits fours:

Love is in the Heir: Your hands will be on cloud nine with this glistening powder blue
Of Corset I’ll Call You: This romantic lavender-rose shade is off-the-hooks
Love at First Byte: A peachy, flesh-tone nude that leaves a lasting mega-memory
Dating the Duke: A dreamy, creamy cyan to channel your inner duchess
Delete Your Junk Male: Select this e-lectric cerise red to refine your style and suitors
Guillotine Grape: A warm, wicked aubergine that will turn heads – permanently

Let your joie de vivre shine through with a grand, gorgeous mani! The line is available to like, love and lacquer you up in salons and beauty supply stores now.

All Miss products are free of DBP, Toluene and Formaldehyde.

Miss is an MBE (Minority Business Enterprise) certified company.

A week ago I received some goodies from the people over at Miss Professional Nail and today I've got a mani to show for it.

Typically I'm not a fan of pink and red shades of lacquer so I definitely felt a challenge to do something different. And that's how these nails were born folks!


I started with three coats of Love At First Byte. Then I Grabbed a make-up wedge and did a gradient using the aforementioned LAFB and You're My Lacquer Charm.
After that was try, with the help of some quick try dry top coat, I laid down some striping tape and made half moon shapes on the sides of my index and middle fingers with Delete Your Junk Male.

Would this be your usual visit to Nail A College Drop Out without some good ol' fashion product porn? It sure wouldn't be!

L-R Sation Love At First Byte, Delete Your Junk Male—both the Miss Antoinette Collection, and You're My Lacquer Charm—Candylandia

Nothing To Disclose If you follow me on Instagram or Twitter you've probably seen a fair share of "teaser" pics.
Today, after a few too many teaser photos—and pure laziness, the final product is ready for your viewing pleasure.


Like most of my recent nail art, this manicure looks absolutely nothing like it did in my head. I'm I cool with that? Damn skippy. Will I make another attempt to bring this closer to the finished product I saw in my head? More likely than not, but don't expect it any time soon.

My thumb is Barry M Indigo while my index and pinky fingers is Illamasqua Obsess. (Psst... I got Obsess for $7 Sephora inside JC Penny!).

For my accent nails I started with a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and then started painting—what I describe as strange Hershey Kisses—in Dare To Wear Kiss-N-Tell, Barry M Indigo, and Illamasqua Obsess.

Can summer come any quicker? More specifically, can any somebody, anybody,  please, release some more neon nail polish?
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Sunday night I found my self siting in front of my to do list of lacquers sent for review that I, in fact, needed to review (emphasis on the needed). I pulled two colors from from my aforementioned list and my go to black nail polish and had at it.


I started with a base of Barielle Teaser (two coats). Then I made crescent-like shapes with Knocked Up Nails 18K Gold Crown(ing). And finally I did the triangles with Wet n Wild Wild Shine Black Creme.

Overall the formula on Barielle Teaser is amazing. (But by now you should all know that I am an absolute sucker for two coat, opaque cremes.)
Knocked Up Nails 18K Gold Crowning is your average light yellow gold foil so no complaints here.
Wet n Wild Wild Shine Black Creme is an absolute must for any nail art/polish whore enthusiast. Why? Because it's 99 cents and opaque in one coat.


Barielle Teaser is part of the Earthy Greens 5-Pack ($25) or solo dolo for $8 on Barielle.com.
Knocked Up Nails 18K Gold Crown(ing) retails for $10 on KnockedUpNails.com.

How do you feel about this shapely little manicure?
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Where oh where has the weekend gone? Why is it Monday? Do I really have to go to work today? Too much week, not enough end!

Recently I've been forced back down to shorties and needed a pick-me-up-manicure and being that my gold spikes are my absolute favorite don't-mess-with-me-cause-you-not-about-that-life embellishment I had to break them out.

Last year I did a wedding nails week and I decided this would be a pretty damn spiffy addition to it.

How did I combine such wedding bliss and bad-assery(?) all rolled up into one manicure? Three thin coats of Dare To Ware Flawless White, two coats of Jade Holographico Mystic Gold, and three gold spikes I bought on eBay.

Can I just say that an opaque, streak-free bright white nail polish is incredibly hard to find? So, I highly suggest giving Dare To Wear Flawless White a try.



Side note: Nail A College Drop Out hit 100K pageviews yesterday!
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