Happy Memorial Day !!

How do you like my Memorial day nails? I took a small break for a while and started up again . I just can't stay away from doing them and using Konad.

These are IBD gel nails , base coat is Lavander Cloud , with Konad basic stamping polish in blue and red . IM Plate M14.

It's a boy !

Happy Mother's day fellow bloggers . Hope everyone had a great mother's day. I am now five months pregnant and we just found out that we're having another little boy. My lil guy is developing well and so far were having a good pregnancy .

I did this manicure in honor of my son who is kicking me in my tummy day and night . I decided to go short this time around . Once again I used my awsome nail forms and of Course Konad .

For this mani I used Sally Hanson Salon nail polish in Model Behavior and Konad special Polish in White with Image plate M 76.

New Manicure .

I attempted to do another manicure . My red nails were lovely ,non lifted or broke or anything . Only had one problem on two of my nails the gel did not attach and so I ended up picking at them and than ended up just taking them off.

I decided not to give up though and gave it another try . I bought some new tips , applied them like normal . Than took the dual forms and fit them to my nails . I took the dual form put a light coat of gel and cured it for 1 minute with my natural nail with bonder.

I filled the dual form with gel , I did two coats of gel in the form , put it on my finger and cured it for 3 minutes . After 3 minutes I took off the form and shaped my nail . I really love these forms because all you have to do is remove the form , you don't need to file the nail at all , only the sides .

A perfect smooth nail comes out all the time . I painted my nails a nude color and than attempted a double color stamp using Konad special purple and green polish with Image Plate M54. A lovely spring mani .

New nails with dual nail forms

I had my 20 year celebration with my sorority last night . Of course I had to do my nails , my nails did grow back some , but because of the damage to them they grew back a little deformed. What a great chance to use my new dual nails form ,purchased from Ebay for $6.00.

The nail forms look like regular nail tips but have tabs on both sides and are really flexible and rubbery. The were very simple to use, you can use nail tips or just the form . I had to end up using tips , it is going to take while for me to learn to use the right amount of gel to get strong tips.

What I did was applied clear tips , filed them , added my bonder and than applied a thin coat of gel to the nail form. I cured both by nail with the bonder and the nail form for one minute . Than I applied a good amont of gel to the nail form. I put the form on my nail , held down my nail and cured it for 3 minutes . I made sure to whip away a gel the seeped out the sides .

Once the cure was done ,I took off the form and a perfectly smooth shinny nail. I didn't even have to whip my nail clean with my cleaner. I than painted my nails red pearl by China Glaze and stamped them with Kondad black polish IM 53.

I took them off .

The nails that I did needed to be filled but I got so busy and had no time to fill them . The gel ended up lifting up , well I picked at them and ended up taking the gel off of my nails. I have been thinking about trying to sculpture them but I'm not too sure. The gel that I had put on my nails did not come off , until I picked it off . If I had not picked at my nails I would probably have the nails on still. I have come to realize that just the gel sticks really good . I really want to try to sculpture a small tip on them , but I know it will take a good couple of hours to do them . Of course I have been going on Utube and finding videos about sculpting nails . In the midst of my research , I came across some thing called "Popits" " dual nail forms on the Coolnail art website. I googled them and I read about them watched tons of videos and confirmed that you can use gel with them . How exciting . I went on ebay and bought a set , they were only $6.00 . I can't wait to try them.

My second attempt .

My nails were still not looking so hot , So what did I do , spent two nights watching Utube videos on how to do gel nails . Some had directions written down , some had music , some had people talking about how to do the gel nails .

I really really really love gel nails . Anywho , I didn't add any tips or sculpt any tips , I have decided to start out small. I once again put gel on the very thin short nails that I have . They came out really smooth and they look as neat as I could get them with my two year old son bugging me .

In all the videos I watched , I learned that I could possibly have been putting the gel too close to my cuticles . This time when I applied my bonder and the gel I made sure I only applied it to the middle of the nail and made sure not to touch any of the surrounding skin. After I applied the gel and filed my nails , I cleaned them and put tea tree oil and sally hansen nail growth serum.

I am hoping that leaving them short will result in me doing them less than before , and with out tips theres nothing to break off or come off .

Heres a picture of what my nails look like right now . I am hoping that they will grow some .

My plan did not work ... ugh

So what I did yesterday did not last today . All the gel peeled right off . I know why because there is no nail surface to hold anything . I put a ridge filler on my nails to make them look some what decent . A some nail majic to protect them some .

My nails are a complete mess , it like I just have skin left on my right hand and on my left I have three normal fingers . I read somewhere that it takes about six months for nails to grow . When this baby is born I should have some kind of nails hopefully .

I hope I don't give in and start to do them again or turn to glue ons !!! Wish me luck I really need it !!