ROSE TUTORIAL: Using dotting tools

Hey everyone! I hope you are all having a fantastic day. It's almost Friday, yay! One of my followers requested a rose tutorial and I was a bit hesitant since I've never done roses by hand. But I was bored last night and decided to wing it. I loved how it came out so I decided to post it! Enjoy!

This is super easy and only requires some dotting tools! Don't have a dotting tool? Here are some alternatives:
-toothpick
-a sharp pencil
-a pushpin
-bobby pin

Let's get started!

Products you will need:

-(Not pictured): Base & Top Coat: Seche Retain & Seche Vite

-4-5 Polishes: Icing: Electric Emerald, OPI: Strawberry Margarita, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear: Mint Sorbet, Pure Ice: Super Star

-1 very small dotting tool, a medium sized, and a large dotting tool. (Mine are double ended so I only used 2)

1. Apply Base Coat

2. Apply 2 coats of your base color

3. Take your large dotting tool and make uneven circles with the color of your choice

4.(Optional) Repeat step 3 but this time use a different color
*You don't really need to use a different color, unless you are making one rose pink/white and another white/red or a different color

5. Take your smallest dotting tool & a different color polish and start making little crooked lines on the circles

6. With the medium sized dotting tool & a green polish and make small leaves on some roses

7. Mix green and white or take a lighter green

8. Take your small dotting tool and make small lines in the middle of the leaves

9. Clean up your cuticles

10. Apply a top coat and you're done!

Girly Mani/ Ideas

Hey everyone! For today I have a girly mani. I had so many ideas for this one so you can either look at it as one complete mani or you can look at it like an idea for a girly mani on each finger. Enjoy!

*Also I got an instagram! Yay! So be sure to follow me on there: esmenailaddict (Thank you Thalie for coming up with that!)
*I also changed my twitter username to : EsmeNailAddict (Thank you Lydia for letting me know I could change it!)

From index to pinky:
-Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear: Pink Satin
-Sally Hasnen Insta-Dri: Presto Pink
-BM 19
-OPI: Pink Margarita
-Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear: Pink Satin
-BM 12
-Wet n Wild: Tickled Pink
-Revlon: Popular
-Wet n Wild: Black Creme
-BM 14
-Kleancolor: Pink Lady
-Pure Ice: Super Star
-BM 21

Gradient Challenge: Day 7: Glitter

Hello everyone! I hope you are all having a lovely Saturday and enjoy the rest of your weekend! Today is the last day of the gradient challenge Kelly from Nailpocalypse and I did. I had so much fun with all these challenges and it was great working with her!

So for today's challenge I did each of  my nails a different colored glitter gradient with some hearts! Enjoy!

*Don't forget to go over to Kelly's page to see what glittery awesomeness she came up with!

-Icing: Sparkling Emerald
-Essence: Choose Me
-Sally Hansen: Blue Me Away
-Kleancolor: Holo Blue
-OPI: Purple w/ a Purpose
-Kleancolor: Holo Chrome
-Sally  Hansen: Presto Pink
-LA Colosr: No name
-BM03
-Pure Ice: Super Star

Splatter Mani

Hello my gorgeous readers! I'm sure you have all seen splatter manis. I've never really wanted to try these simply because it looked hard to achieve.

Along with galaxy nails, and the string method (Which I decided to do; stay tuned for those within the next couple days)

However, they were actually pretty simple and fun! I used some bright colors which are perfect for summer! Enjoy!

-Pure Ice: Super Star
-Straw
-OPI: Strawberry Margarita
-Sally Hansen: Mellow Yellow
-Pure Ice: Hot Tamale
-Seche Vite

Have any of you all tried this yet?

My New Wallet Mani

Hey everyone! So a couple days ago I did a mani inspired by my old wallet and today I'll sharing a mani inspired by the new one! Enjoy! Have a great weekend! :)

-Wet n Wild: Black Creme
-Dotting Tool
-Pure Ice: Super Star
-Temporary Tattoo
-OPI: Strawberry Magarita

Newspaper Mani!

Hello everyone! So many of you have probably seen this a million times but I still wanted to share this mani with you all! Before I started this blog, I  tried to do this mani and boy I did not know what I was doing back  then. I didn't know how to grow my nails out, I didn't know how to apply polish correctly, and I didn't know how to clean up my edges. Take a look at my pre-blogger days:

This was July 14th, 2011  way before I started this blog:

And this is now:

-Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear: Wet Cement
-OPI: Malaysian Mist
-Rubbing Alcohol
-Newpaper
-NYC: Matte Me Crazy

Lazy Sunday

Hello everyone! I hope you are all enjoying your weekend! For me today is one of those days where I just want to relax and watch tv all day!! Today's mani is just a hot pink layered with a neon pink jelly with glitter! Enjoy! :)

-OPI: Strawberry Margarita
-Icing: Power to the Pink
-Seche Vite

My 1st OPI Nail Polish!!!

Hey everyone! This might sound shocking to some of you that I've never owned an OPI polish, but its never really caught my attention. However, a couple weeks ago my grandma gave me an OPI polish (Malaysian Mist) and a bag full makeup!!

Malaysian Mist is a very sheer light beige with pink/peachy undertones! As much as I love this color, I don't like it on me. This was 4 coats, and was quite streaky!

 I also got 2 OPI polishes from my recent nail swap with Katee Enough rambling, onto the polish! Enjoy! :) (Oh and yes my nail on my middle finger is shorter than the rest)

Preview

Nail/Beauty Swap with A Girl & Her Polish

Hey everyone!! So a couple days ago, Katee from A Girl & Her Polish did a nail/beauty swap! She gave me some great stuff! I want to share this awesome swap with you guys so lets get started. Enjoy!

*To see what I gave her check out her blog post: A Swap with Nail Addict
*If you are interested in swapping with me check out my blog post: Want to swap products? 

From left to right: Jordana Glitter: Sequins, Essence: Choose Me & Wanna  Be Your Sunshine,  Zoya: Arizona & Myrta, Revlon: Whimsical, NYC: Matte Me Crazy, OPI: Strawberry Margarita & Purple with a Purpose 

I can't wait to swatch some of these nail polishes! & Thank you so much Katee!

Shot Thru The Heart- Day 8: Guest Post/Kisses

Hey everyone! So once again Lydia from Sekhmet's Purple Castle is back to do her guest post as part of our challenge! Enjoy! Don't to enter my giveaway! To enter click the picture to the right ====>
Now onto her guest post:
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Thursday again! :) I'm super excited about this guest post because now is officially the love month. What are you guys preparing for V-day? do you celebrate? For today's guest post I have a stamped manicure. :) Thank you Esme for letting me over for the 5th time. Don't forget to enter our giveaways. Enter Esme's by clicking here and mine by clicking here. :) Who doesn't love giveaways?

What I used:
Lo que use:
OPI - Natural Nail Base Coat
China Glaze - Recycle
Plate- B60
Color Club - Worth the Risque
Color Club - Revvolution
Seche Vite - QD Top Coat

*Don't forget to check my blog out - Sekhmet's Purple Castle to see what the beautiful Esme put together for today. :)

Shot Thru The Heart- Day 6: Pink & Red/ Guest Post

Hey everyone! As usual, Lydia from Sekhmet's Purple Castle is back to do a guest post for our challenge! :) Enjoy!
*Dont forget to visit her blog to see what I came up for Day 6: Pink & Red!!

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Hello lovely ladies,

My beautiful friend Esme has allowed me to come back once again to share some pictures with you guys. For today I have a pink and red manicure with some flakies action. Please remember to stick around we will be having 2 giveaways: one at my blog Sekhmet's Purple Castle and one here at Esme's blog pretty soon and you sure dont want to miss out. I hope you guys have a wonderful rest of the week. Oh! forgot to mention that this manicure was done before my nails had to be trimmed down due to a bad breakage.

What I used:
Lo que use:
OPI - Natural Nail Base Coat
China Glaze - Phat Santa
China Glaze - Broken Hearted
FingerPaints - Special Effects Asylum
Top Coat

Dont forget to visit my blog Sekhmet's Purple Castle to see what Esme came up with for today.

Shot Thru The Heart- Day 4: French Mani/Guest Post

Hey everyone! :) So my dear blogger friend Lydia from Sekhmet's Purple Castle is back to do a guest post/ Day 4 of our Shot Thru The Heart challenge! Enjoy!
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Hello beautiful ladies,

Here I am once again over at sweet Esme's blog. Thank you Esme for having me over! She has been a really good host and we are very excited to announce that we will be having 2 giveaways to go along with our challenge! Yay! One giveaway on my blog Sekhmet's Purple Castle  and one here on Esme's blog...TWO WINNERS!!!! :) Stay tuned for that! Now onto the nails, I want to apologize for the bad quality photos. I had issues taking pictures of this manicure and I dont know why. Perhaps the color Im not sure

What I Used: 
Lo que use: 
OPI- Natural Base Coat
Revlon- Blue Lagoon
OPI- Grape..Set..Match
Sally Hansen- Bubblegum Pink
Top Coat

Dont forget to visit my blog to see what Esme came up with today!
Hugs*

*Stay tuned on Monday for Day 5: Water Marble of our Shot Thru The Heart Challenge!

Shot Thru The Heart- Day 2: Flakies/ Guest Post

Guest Post by Lydia from: Sekhmet's Purple Castle 
*This is a part of our Shot Thru The Heart Challenge
*Click on the link above to see what I came up with on her blog!
*Here is her guest post! Enjoy:

Hello love ladies!

I am very excited to be doing this guest post today. I'm Lydia from Sekhmet's Purple Caste and I'm completely in love with all things nail related! This is my first guest post and I feel so honored! I want to thank Esme for having me over on her blog!

The second day of our challenge is here and I have some flakies for you guys! Hope you guys like it! I like how easy they are to remove compared to glitter polishes!

What I Used: 
Lo que use: 
OPI- Natural Nail Base Coat 
L.A. colors- Black Velvet 
OPI- Austin-tation Turquoise 
Finger Paints- Flecked 
Nail Stickers 
Top Coat 

*Hope you guys liked Lydia's Guest Post, click the link above to see my guest post on her blog! Also, stay tuned Tuesday for Day 3 of our challenge (Glitter)!!!! :)