Jeweled tips

These nails were created by sculpting gel on forms and custom blending glitter for my client. Pretty neat!

Vampire Diaries

I'm only calling my post "vampire diaries" because the color is called "vampire red" by Nubar. Not because I'm some vampire obsessed teenager.

This look is pretty goth for me, which isn't my normal style...but my client requested this it and in the end it's pretty classy!

Basic Instinct

Most of my clients come in search of wild, adventurous artsy nails. But sometimes, a girl just needs a basic, classic look. And for that, there's nothing better than a clean French manicure. This set was done with Gelish soak off gel by nail harmony.

Birthday Extravaganza

When a client is turning 21 and has no idea what to get on her nails but knows she wants to blow everyone away - why not try these?

Disneyland Nails

A grown up version of Disneyland themed nails. No tinker bell or cinderella here.

Miami Vice-ish

Or maybe more Nicki Minaj-ish? Or maybe just some crazy creation I came up with? You decide.

Feathered Friend

My bestie wanted feathers on her nails. With a few swoops of black acrylic paint from my striper brush, the eagle had landed (like my lame pun?). Houston - we have feathers. On pastel peach nails with the infamous glitter accent nails.

Tribal and Geometric Nail Art

These are recent nails I've done themed with geometric shaped and tribal designs (with a modern twist of course) All done with gel polish and acrylic paint for the designs.

Bring In Your Mini Me

Have a little one that fancies your grown up nails? Bring her in and I'll give her a pint-sized treatment with nail art that'll make her forget she wanted a candy bar. Glitter? Tons. Hello Kitty? We got her. Roses? Check.

Ombre Glitter

I love the ombré trend especially when done with glitter. What do you think of my latest done with shades of green and gold?

Rich Girl Nails

So they may have been crafted out of a dollar bill but who doesn't love cash? Paper? Scratch? Skrilla? Cabbage? Cheese? Bread? (Did I cover all bases of slang for money?)

Stripes x Four

I can't help it. I'm officially hooked on painting stripes on nails. First it was me, then Judith, Lisette and Shakira. Who's next?!?

Ready for Carnaval? I Can Help.

Art Deco. Or Something Like That.

In really proud of these nails. A client came in with a photo and asked me to replicate. We put our own twist on it and came up with these nail designs using Gelish Seafoam, It's A Lily and Black Shadow. The lines were painted with gold acrylic paint.

Mardi Gras in May?

My client had a sweet sixteen Mardi Gras themed party to go to this weekend. She didn't know what she wanted and let me have creative control. So here it is: Shellac and a rockstar gold, green and purple Mardi Gras glitter nail!

Summer Hotness

Rawr! This was done with Essie (have to come back with the name of the color) and Chanel Mimosa on the middle finger.  Hand painted cheetah spots on the middle finger. Booya!

Neo Hippie Dippie Nails

Marbling with gel is hands down my new favorite nail art technique.  It looks way complicated and wild, but it's really quite simple.  It wasn't my intention to create anything remotely hippie-ish, but it just so happened that the fnished product looks a bit like those shirts the kids on Haight street used to wear back in the 70s.  I think some of them still do, except now they are designer and clean.  Posers!  Alright, enough of my rant.  On with the nails!

Gelish "Copacabana Banana, Shake it Til You Samba and Ooba Ooba Blue" gel with marbling

Stiletto or Almond?

Sculpting nail extensions is tricky business. But I'm getting better! A young client of mine came in and wanted "stiletto" nails.  After chatting, I figured out she really wanted "almond" nails, which are much less severe than "stilettos" (think pointy, sharp and ultra long) and a bit more functional for actually accomplishing simple tasks in (like texting, typing or anything that involves the dexterity of your hands for that matter).

These were done with Young Nails synergy gel on nail forms. Polished with Gelish "It's a Lily" and sprinkled with glitter.  Two hours later and here lies the finished product. Does it get girlier than this??

Gaga for Gel

I haven't posted in so long.  But that doesn't mean I haven't been putting in work! To make up for missed time, here are a few of my favorite gel manicures I've done over the last couple of weeks.




Gelish "Ooba Ooba Blue with hand painted cheetah spots



Young Nails "White 101" with houndstooth and pink gradient glitter

Shellac "Tropix" with a silver glitter accent nail and hand painted cheetah spots 

Young Nails "Green 102" with gold glitter gradient

Disco Fever

I wanted to do a white gel nail with pastel paints sponged over it.  The effect did not turn out how I imagined so I when all else fails - add glitter!  After my white gel cured (Young Nails Mani Q White 101) I took my white gold glitter and pressed it in to the nail with an eyeshadow brush. Now, I could have stopped here and been super blinged out with the glitter alone...but I couldn't help myself and starting painting on cheetah spots with my acrylic paints. Topped it all off with Young Nails Mani Q top coat and I was pretty pleased with the results. In person, it looks like a disco ball.  Loves!

Do cheetah's like disco?