WE’LL BE COUNTING STARS ~

Usually, I’m not really a strass or stickers kind of girl when it comes to nail art. I like to do everything free-handed but I got these cute stars in an advent calendar and thought that they’d be perfect for nail art. They actually really do the trick! They turn this simple mani into something classy. Plus, it’s very easy to do.

Polish I used :

OPI : Bare My Soul

IKEA VIBES ~

I literally took the Ikea logo colors and put them in a nail art. I didn’t even realize it until I finished the mani. 

Polishes I used :

Maybelline : Broadway Blues

Maybelline : Electric Yellow

Revlon : Sunshine Sparkle

White & Black Polishes

THE SWEET GRADIENT ~

So for this nail art, I did a gradient using red and pink which give a valentine’s day vibes I think. I do a lot of manicures with them vibes for someones who doesn’t love this celebration lol but it just that I love using red and pink together. On top of the gradient, I did pattern using white polish.

And because I don’t have a lot of imagination, I realized that this nail art is a reversed version of an old one that I did a long time ago.

Polishes I used :

OPI : Sweet Heart

Essie : Beauty Marked

Sally Hansen : Red-Handed

White Polish

BUT I GOT YOU THIS ROSE ~

Another flowers nail art! What can I say, I love doing them on my nails. I feel like it’s kinda effortless. They don’t have to look perfect because hey what flowers are perfect anyway ? That’s the nature beauty. 

I like how the flowers turned out, I think that they’re delicate and cute. Also, the colors look great together.

Polishes I used :

OPI : Pink-ing of You

Essie : Lapiz of Luxury

Essie : Fiji

Bourjois : Magenta-dam!

Sephora : Lilac Fantasy

Zoya : Gemma

White & Black Polishes

SIMPLICITY IS KEY ~

Chevrons are really an oldie but a goodie of mine. It’s a design that I really liked doing back in the days. I guess I still can do them! I really like how they turned out, they look like I used some stencils but I swear they’re handed-painted!. Btw, it’s probably one of the most common things people assume about my nails. They think that I use stencils or stickers even for really detailed nail art. It kinda makes me mad lol. Like you spend hours on your nails for people to say that you use stickers.

Polishes I used :

OPI : Samoan Sand

Essie : Après-Chic

Ciaté : Cosmic Love

Maybelline : Foil Flash

White Polish

15 BOWS ~

When you can fit 15 bows on your nails you know that they’re pretty longs lol. 

These bows are definitely not my best but I like the colors I used. They look together and are perfect for the spring.

Polishes I used :

Essie : Lapiz of Luxury

Essie : Take a Walk

Formula X : Splendid

Formula X : Incandescent

Sephora : Lilac Fantasy

White & Black Polishes

INTO THE JUNGLE ~

Another nail art that I did to match my co-worker’s nails! We did it for the release of our company catalogue. For the little story, I work for a skills training company (not the sexiest field, I know lol) and each year we release a catalogue with all of our courses. The theme of this year catalogue was plants to symbolize the competences growth. So I reproduced the cover on my nails and my co-worker asked her nail lady to do it too. I was quite nervous to do it because I never did this type of nail art before but turned out the most difficult part was finding the right colors lol. I like them, they look cool I think. My co-workers were quite impressed because they looked like the cover. 

Polishes I used :

L’Oréal : Vert Epoque

L’Oréal : Crocovert

Bourjois : Rose Cupcake

Bourjois : Palm Peach

Bourjois : Vert Chlorophylle

Essie : Garden Variety

Rimmel : Apricot Punch

Kiko : n°427

Sinful Colors : Jaune Pastel

Maybelline : Ceramic Blue

Maybelline : Chic Chartreuse

Formula X : Splendid

Zoya : Gemma

SUNSET LOVER ~

We were in the space in my last post and for this nail art I take you a lil below, in other words, in the sky! I’m trying to make you travel through my nails, welcome on Jenny’s Airline!

I really like how it turned out. I was a little bit afraid for the cloud but I think that they look like cotton candy lol. I used a flat brush to create them. I was inspired by a DIY phone case video. I thought that the colors were pretty together and also I never tried to do a sunset on my nails so it was the time.

Polishes I used :

Kiko : n°315

Kiko : n°270

Skin Food : PK216

Maybelline : Lookout Lemon

Sephora : Comic Time

White Polish

LOOK AT THE STARS, LOOK HOW THEY SHINE FOR YOU ~

I have a galaxy nails for you! I really like them. What I like is that it doesn’t involve gradient or anything which I find a little tricky for a galaxy design. Also, it’s pretty colorful and that’s not necessarily common for galaxy nails.

I already did a more classic galaxy nail art some times ago which I really like too.

This nail art is inspired by Banicured_ on Instagram.

Polishes I used :

Essie : Hang Up The Heels

Essie : Take A Walk

Essie : Can’t Stop Her In Copper

Essie : Lots of Lux

Kiko : n°645

Kiko : n°228

Bourjois : Rainbow Apparition

Milani : Racy Green

Etam : Baby Boy

White Polish

THE COMEBACK OF THE OG ~

It's been a long time since I did my beloved "gradient + pattern" nail art. It's a design that I did quite a lot back in the days. Lately, I've been trying to step out from my comfort zone so that's why I didn't do this nail art as often as before.

For the gradient, I used the same colors than for this nail art because I thought that the colors were great together.

Polishes I used :

Essie : Garden Variety

Accessorize : Sugared Lilac

Revlon : Coy

Bourjois : Flambant Rose

White Polish

COLORFUL STRIPES ~

Nothing is more simple than some stripes so you better make it funky with some colors! I’m just not sure about the colors that I choose lol.

Polishes I used :

Essie : Dress Call

OPI : Kiss Me On My Tulips

OPI : Are We There Yet ?

L’Oréal : Pop Poupée

Kiko : n°834

Maybelline : Lookout Lemon

Bourjois : Violet Couture

WATERFAIL ~

This is probably my 125497th attempt at watermarble and I still don’t want to acknowledge the fact that I’m just not good at this. But I won’t give up! I will make it right one day. I’m an aries so I’m just very persistent. In my defence, I think that the polishes I used weren’t good for watermarble. The orange polish seemed to be the only one right for this technique. It depends on the brands, the texture of the polish... Watermarble is already difficult enough and on top of that not all polishes work for it.

Polishes I used :

Bourjois : Orange Création

Maybelline : Berry Stain

Sephora : Green Tea Time

White Polish

FLOWERS OVER AND OVER AGAIN ~

Yet another flowers mani for you! They are really an easy to way to have a cute nail art so I can’t resist to do them on my nails.

Polishes I used :

Maybelline : Mint For Life

Maybelline : Rosy Pink

Londontown : Candy Floss

Yes Love : K027

Sephora : Icy Cocktail

Essie : Crocadilly

White & Black Polishes

THE FRENCH FAIL ~

You know when you have a nail art in your mind and when you do it, it doesn’t turn out the way you wanted... this is exactly what happened with this design. I’m not really happy with the final result. 

Check out my other takes on french :

French mani by Jenny ep 1 ~

French mani by Jenny ep 2 ~

Polishes I used :

Maybelline : Mod Mauve

Londontown : Candy Floss

Essie : Getting Groovy

WHEN YOU CAN’T TRAVEL IRL SO YOU DO IT THROUGH YOUR NAILS ~

2020 was supposed to be the year of trips *blood tears*. This year, I was supposed to go to Spain and Vietnam. Obviously, it has been cancelled because of a certain pandemic.

Since I can’t travel and literally can’t move from my home, I figured out that my nails could be a way to compensate that. My last trip was in UK with my best friend last year. I don’t even know when we will be able to travel again. 

This is not the first UK mani that I do on my page, I did one some times ago and I was really proud of this nail art!

Polishes I used :

OPI : Keeping Suzy at Bay

Salomé : Red

Claire’s : Glitter

White Polish

TAKE A BOW ~

I have another “accent nail + gradient” mani for you. I love these kind of nail art because it’s quick to do and good when you don’t have any inspiration.

So for this nail art, I did a gradient on my pointer, middle and pinky fingernails and I did bows on my ring fingernail.

Polishes I used :

Essie : Limo-Scene

Essie : Take A Walk

Maybelline : Eternal Lilac

Sephora : Will You Be Mine ?

Black Polish

PASTEL FLOWERS ~

Pastel still and always, I will never stop lol. I did something (not bad ; unlike what Taylor Swift would say) really simple for this mani : gradient on my pointer, middle and pinky fingernails and flowers as an accent nails on my ring fingernail.

Polishes I used :

OPI : Sweet Heart

Essie : Hubby For Dessert

Essie : Play Date

Maybelline : Sea Sky

Maybelline : Mint For Life

L’Oréal : Ocean Breeze

Bourjois : Flambant Rose

China Glaze : Fairy Dust

White Polish

HAPPY EASTER ! ~

Let me deliver you some sweetness and cutness for this Easter ! I take out my fave pastel polishes to do the perfect Easter mani. I have to say that I’m pretty proud of it. I mean look at this cute rabbit! All these colors look so good together, you all probably know my love for pastel by now.

Polishes I used :

Maybelline : Nebline

Maybelline : Lookout Lemon

Maybelline : Party Blue

Essie : Dress Call

White & Black Polishes

THE CHECKED NAIL ART [with a polish that doesn’t check the boxes] ~

For today, I have a checked nail art inspired by Pshiiit_Polish. I used striping tapes for this mani and as you can see I have still a long way to go with it lol. This is definitely not the best striping tape nail art that I’ve done.

I just want to make a quick review of this nail polish from Little Ondine. It was actually the first time that I used this brand on all my nails. I used it for my donuts nail art but not enough to truly have an opinion on it. For the little story, I found this polish at Urban Outfitters on sale. I was pretty interested by this brand because the composition of their polishes are uncommon. They are water-based, non-toxic and odor-free. As a nail polish addict I had to test it, I was curious. Let me tell you guys, I’m really not that difficult when it comes to nail polish. If the color is pretty and the consistency not too sticky, I’m ok. I’m not even asking for a quick dry or long lasting nail polish because it’s the top coat job. This specific nail polish from Little Ondine doesn’t check the 2 important boxes for me. The color is not pretty, I won’t say it’s disgusting but it’s disgusting lol. I had to put a white polish under it to make it somehow opaque. As you can see it on my pointer and pinky fingernails, the application is not regular. I don’t know if it’s this polish that sucks or the entire brand. It’s true that nude polishes always require a lot of coats and are sometimes sticky but this one... is by far the worst polish I have ever tried in my life. I’m pretty convinced that this nail art could have looked better if it wasn’t for this nail polish.

Polishes I used :

Little Ondine : C521

Bourjois : Flambant Rose

Bourjois : Orange Création

Essie : Coconut Cove

Maybelline : Upper Gold

SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW ~

Here’s a rainbow nail art for you! I really love doing rainbow on my nails, I like how it’s colorful. Maybe I’m a little bit weird but I like doing vertical stripes on my nails, I find it kinda therapeutic. This mani is really easy to do but I think the colors make it special.

For the little story, I wore a stripped shirt with similar colors at work while having these nails and everyone was like : “oh you matched your nails with your outfit!” and honestly it wasn’t planned. It wouldn’t come to my mind to match my nails with my outfit especially if people gonna notice it. My nails make me stand out alone enough and honestly sometimes they put me in awkward situations where people would stare at my nails and ask me million questions about them lol. It makes me wanna disappear. It’s not mean or what, people are interested and it’s flattering. It’s just that I don’t like being the main focus.

Polishes I used :

Bourjois : Orange Création

OPI : Kiss Me On My Tulips

Nailmatic : Grazia

Hema : n°810

Sephora : Way To Heaven

Innoxa : Bleu Electrique

Kiko : n°315

White Polish

RED SPRING ~

I have another spring mix’n’match nail art for you. 

So for this mani, I did flowers on my pointer fingernail, bows on my middle fingernail, a (failed) tartan design on my ring fingernail and I put red glitter on my pinky fingernail.

Polishes I used :

OPI : Red Lights Ahead... Where ?

Maybelline : Wine at 5

Mavala : Red Diamond

Kiko : n°427

White & Black Polishes

MMM DONUTS... *Homer’s voice* ~

So we’re still bored in the house and in the house bored eating anything to spend the time ? This donuts mani is for you! 

I did this as a matching nail art with my co-worker. She found a picture of this mani on Pinterest and asked her nail lady to reproduce it on her nails. I did it at the same time so we could both have the same design on our nails.

I gotta the say that this kind of nail art is not really what I’m used to but it was cool letting my co-worker choose the design. It made me do something I would not have chosen myself.

Polishes I used :

Revlon : Coy

Rimmel : Round And Round In Circles

Little Ondine : C521

Models Own : Apple Pie

Sephora : Lilac Fantasy

Maybelline : Sea Sky

Bourjois : Flambant Rose

THE BIRTHDAY FAIL ~

So today is my birthday and yay what a dream to spend your birthday in quarantine. I would never in a million years have imagined that one day I would spend my birthday in quarantine. Thanks to technology, it was actually cool. I virtually hung out with them and it was pretty cool.

For this nail art, I was inspired by Nyanails on Instagram but I totally failed it. Not gonna lie, I’m not keeping this design on my nails. As soon as my birthday is over, I’m going to take these off. I failed so hard that I didn’t even bother doing it on my other hand.

Polishes I used :

Essie : Flawless

Essie : Pure Pearlfection

Sinful Colors : Jaune Pastel

Revlon : Peachy

Bourjois : Orange Création

Make Me Up : F1

Maybelline : Maybe Blue

Yes Love : K027

White & Black Polishes

SPRING VIBES ~

Since we can’t really enjoy spring and sun because you know quarantine, let’s bring them on the nails! That’s what I did with this nail art. I did some flowers, dots and tartan pattern. 

Polishes I used :

Models Own : Cornflower Gleam

Sephora : Icy Cocktail

Revlon : Sunshine Sparkle

OPI : My Twin Mimmy

Skin Food : BL509

White Polish

THE RAINBOW FRENCH ~

It seems like I have a thing for french manicures at the moment but not the boring and typical french with white and pink polish. No! I’m more about the revisited and creative french. I was inspired by BadGirlNails on Instagram for this nail art. When I saw this design on her feed, I knew I had to give it a try. It’s incredibly simple to do and it looks good. I love how the nude polish make the colors polishes pop. I think that I found my favorite nude polish. I used it in quite a few of my manicures and I really like it. It’s OPI “Samoan Sand”. Btw, we can still see the TJMaxxx price tag on the bottle -don’t ask me why I don’t take it off-. We love having beautiful nails on a budget. Polishes I used : OPI : Samoan Sand Accessorize : Sugared Lilac Rimmel : Apricot Punch Nails Inc. : Notting Hill Carnival Modelite : F40 Modelite : F45 Maybelline : Sea Sky

THE PINK FRENCH ~

Let’s say I tried something here... I first started by applying a pastel pink polish all over my nails then I did a french using a darker pink polish. Finally, I drawed gold triangles and lines under the french.

Polishes I used :

OPI : Sweet Heart

Hello Kitty : Lea Doll

Barry M : Christmas Gold

SPRING MIX’N’MATCH ~ Flowers on the nails are always a good idea to brighten the mood. I really like drawing them on my nails. It’s kinda ironic because I don’t like flowers irl. Polishes I used : Rimmel : Happily Evie After Rimmel : Just Buy Me Innoxa : Ruban White Polish  

CUPCAKE ANYONE ? ~

Here’s a nail art for the food lovers (which I am). Because y'all are bored in the house and in the house bored and eating to pass the time, this mani is totally appropriate.

Polishes I used :

China Glaze : Man Hunt

Barry M : Passion Fruit

Rimmel : Riviera Red

Accessorize : Sugared Lilac

Maybelline : Enduring Pink

OPI : Brake for Manicures

Bourjois : Beige Distinction

Bourjois : Green Fizz

Essie : Take a Walk

White Polish

THE VALENTINE’S DAY NAIL ART WANNABE ~

This mani really gives me valentine’s day vibe. It’s like the colors are screaming love! romantism! Everything we hate don’t we ? One of the polishes I used is really all about love because its name is “Will You Be Mine ?”, a literal proposal.

Polishes I used :

Gosh : Neon Baby

Bourjois : Rouge In Style

Sephora : Will You Be Mine ?

White Polish

CHEETAH GIRL ~

I’m not really an animal print kind of girl but sometimes I love me some leopard print for a quick mani.

Polishes I used :

Bourjois : Rouge Poppy

Nocibé : Choubichou

Black Polish