Super Bowl Nails

So it's Super Bowl Sunday! The game, the commercials, the half time show!...I don't watch any of it. Super Bowl Sunday is all about the Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet for me. It's just so adorable and there's no confusing rules to learn cause it's just puppies running around and being ADORABLE! I want all of them! Anywho, I did paint my nails for the game even though I won't be watching it. The logos were surprisingly easy to do but I was a bit impatient and the Bronco smudged a little bit. Good news is you can't really tell how bad in the pic.

As I sit here writing this I'm thinking about doing something for the puppy bowl but who knows, I have a lot of nails planned for this week and next week so I might just skip puppy bowl nails and go right to doing those.

Zoya Zebra Nails

My mom bought this awesome wrapping paper from Home Goods last June that's sparkly Zebra print and I used it to wrap my friend's Christmas gifts. Festive I know, but that's just how awesome this paper is! Well it is kind of hard to work with, but I digress. Anywho, I have some paper leftover and the roll is still in my room. I look at it all the time it's just so pretty!

As you know by now I got Dahlia in the last Zoya promo, and last night I had such a cartoon lightbulb moment. Dahlia is the PERFECT sparkly black to recreate the Zebra wrapping paper on my nails! Of course I also needed color cause I'm just that girl. Sparkles and color everywhere! I bought a new pair of jeans at Rue 21 the other day that are kind of cranberry colored, super fun! I plan on wearing them Friday so I went looking in my stash for a color to match. Zoya Areej was the closest, though a bit more purple than cranberry I admit. And then I thought how cute? Zoya Areej was my very first Zoya that started my addiction and here I was using it in a mani with one of my newest Zoyas. The zebra print's not perfect but I still think it's cute and it seriously is a perfect match to the wrapping paper!

Hopscotch Nails!

 I'm back! My cousin won her game! It was so fun to go and watch I can't wait to go do it again. Made me miss playing though. I was going to do a Swatch it Saturday but got caught up in organizing and changing up my stash list. My Zoya order came though so expect one this week!

I did these nails a while ago for the Rite Aid contest last year. Apparently I forgot to hit publish so the post never happened...oops! That's life though. I had such a hard time thinking of what to enter and then everything that I tried was a fail, including the first version of these. I tried to make the background look as pavement-y as possible by sponging black and sparkles over a gray. I also had a hard time fitting the numbers in the tiny boxes. My paint brush didn't want to cooperate with me that day. Now that I have Zoya Dahlia(that I've always thought of as a perfect pavement polish since it has the texture) I'm thinking once the weather gets warmer I can recreate these and hopefully it'll come out better. We'll see!

~Katy

My Cousin's Basketball Game

So today my little cousin has a basketball game and I'm going to cheer her on! From the Facebook posts it seems like they win a lot so I'm really excited to watch. I did nails for the fall when she played volleyball so maybe I'll post those sometime too even though it's not volleyball season anymore. Anywho, her school colors are green and white and I decided I wanted to whip out my new Zoya Pixie's that I got for Christmas. I used Zoya Chita(you have no idea how much I was lemming for her so gorgeous!) and Zoya Godiva as an accent. Sitting here typing this post I probably could've used Dhara too for the basketball but I didn't really want the basketball to be textured. I also used Zoya Skylar(my cousin's name) to write her number and Zoya Angelina on the basketball nail along with NYC Color Time Square Tangerine and Sally Hansen Boca Mocha.

New Year, New Name

Wow long time no blog huh? Sorry about that! I've still been painting my nails I just lost steam and only remembered to post the pics that I did take on my personal Facebook page. But not anymore! I made a few New Year's resolutions this year(which i never do) and I intend to stick to them. One of them is to get back into blogging, and not just when I enter a contest and beg for votes. I'm talkin' almost everyday type blogging; Swatches, tutorials if I try something, regular manis, all of it! So this year I'm super motivated and inspired and with that comes a new name!

I'm not sure if anyone reading this remembers my Blue's Clues nails from back in the day but ever since then every time I painted my nails I always sang the Mail Time song from the show only it was Nail Time. It keeps it fun even when something I'm painting turns out to be a total fail. And so in the spirit of fun I have decided to change my blog's name to Naaail Time! Apparently there is another blog named Epic Nail Time that was too close to just 'Nail Time' hence the extra letters but that's ok, it's like we're all going to sing the song when we visit this little project of mine.

Here's my nails
I sometimes fail
When I post you'll wanna wail
Naaaaaails!

~Katy

Happy St Patrick's day!

Happy St Patrick's day everyone! I tried to stay somewhat close to the original point of the holiday with this mani so hopefully it's not too terrible. I also entered this into Set in Lacquer's contest. *crosses fingers*

Single Awareness Day Forever Alone Nails

I did these for the OPI Happy vs Anti Valentine's Day contest. Everyone was doing happy ones so I figured I'd do anti ones. They didn't come out quite like I wanted them to but I think they're still nice.

Xmas polish 2012(finally)

I'm finally getting around to posting all the polish I got for Christmas this year lol. Believe it or not I still have some from last Christmas that I haven't gotten around to using yet. Plus 6 more Zoyas  from their last promo. I've used a few of these already and so far so good.

Kiss Nail Dress Review

I received this design of the Kiss Nail Dress strips in my Holiday VoxBox from Influenster.com. The following review is my honest opinion and isn't changed based on the fact that these were free. I'm not like that lol.

Anywho, I'd never tried these before or the Sally Hansen version. I sort of view them as cheating in the nail art world lol but I can understand the appeal for people who either don't have the time, or think they don't have the talent to do all the intricate designs seen all over the internet. I myself have felt that way at times and have looked at the designs on these strips for ideas on what to do.

The instructions are somewhat easy to follow which was nice for me since I was a first timer. The filing the excess off presented a bit of a challenge to me cause I wasn't exactly sure which way to go about it. I managed ok but I probably should've looked on youtube for a video to be sure lol. There were also a few of the strips that weren't fully covering all of my nail but looked like they would when I pulled them from the sheet they were on. I get annoyed when I miss a spot painting so the parts that were still showing no matter how little bugged me as well.

I'm not sure if I filed wrong or if I didn't smooth it all the way down on my nail in some parts but EVERY thing I touched that could possibly have fuzz attached it ended up being attached to my nails and it was annoying. I liken it to when you get stuff stuck to the sticky parts of band-aids or when the sticky part gets wet and gets all icky and gross lol. I spent hours pulling off fuzz from my nails and finally I just had to take them off.

These didn't fully live up to my expectations but that might just be operator error? I'm not entirely sure. I think I'd try these again if the right design came along and then maybe I could confirm if the problems I had were just because of me or not lol. The design I received was very sparkly and when I wasn't picking fuzz off it they were really pretty.

Happy New Year!

It's 2013 now people! New Year's Eve is my best friend's bday and this year we went to Times Square! It definitely had it's ups and downs and I've pretty much slept all of today and I'm REALLY sore but it was so worth it! We didn't get the glasses but we did take a bunch of the confetti. I also took a nap in the middle of the street somewhere between 3 and 2 hours to go lol and hours 6-4 to go were the hardest.

25 Days of Xmas Nails Day 25: Presents for the Children Wrapped in Red & Green

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope everyone is having a great day!

25 Days of Xmas Nails Day 24: You Know Dasher...

Today is the 24th day of the 25 days of Xmas nails. The Reindeer are starting to get excited so I figured I would paint them on my nails for today. I didn't do all of them this time though. Oh and of course I had to do a little Santa :).

25 Days of Xmas Nails Day 23: Santa's Sleigh

Today is the 23rd day of the 25 days of Xmas nails. Santa is starting to get his sleigh ready so today's nails are Santa's sleigh. I pictured these 100 times better in my head but I had the worst headache ever when I was doing these that I don't really like them at all. Oh well :/. Oh and the thumb is a bunch of presents just in case you couldn't tell lol.

25 Days of Xmas Nails Day 22: Ugly Sweater Party

Today is the 22nd day of the 25 days of Xmas nails. I decided to do ugly Christmas sweater nails. I don't think these are my best but they're definitely not my worst. There's just room for improvement.

25 Days of Xmas Nails Day 21: Santa Claus is Comin' to Town

Today is the 21st day of the 2 days of Xmas nails. Santa Claus is Comin' to Town is my favorite Christmas movie so when I was watching it the other day I thought to myself that it would be perfect to do for the 25 days of Xmas nails. :D I did the Burgermeister Meisterburger, the Kringle coat, Kris Kringle(Santa lol), Winter Warlock, and Topper's scarf.

25 Days of Xmas Nails Day 20: He's Making a List...

Today is the 20th day of the 25 days of Christmas. I decided to do a naughty/nice list today since you know Santa has one and he checks it twice ;).

25 Days of Xmas Nails Day 19: Hang Your Stocking with Care

Yesterday was the  19th day of the 25 days of Christmas. I was out shopping with my mom all day and we didn't get home until 1am this morning so that's why I couldn't post this yesterday.

25 Days of Xmas Nails Day 18: Deck the Halls

Today is the 18th day of the 25 days of Xmas nails and I'm cutting it super close lol. I saw a pic a while back on pinterest of card nails and thought it would be different and cool to do a deck the halls with boughs of holly nail to make it Christmas-y :). And to add just a tad more christmas to it the numbers commonly on cards were switched out for a more festive xmas.

25 Days of Xmas Nails Day 17: We're a Couple of Misfits

I love the misfit toys just because I'm a bit of a misfit and I feel like all of us are in some ways. Don't you just love when movies are like that? So relate-able to everyone :).

25 Days of Xmas Nails Day 16: Catch Me If You Can

...cause I'm the gingerbread man! Today is the 16th day of the 25 days of Xmas nails. I decided to do a gingerbread man and his house today. I'm not a fan of gingerbread so I'm more of a graham cracker house and sugar cookie man person lol. This picture isn't the best as it's hard to photo the detail of the snowy roof when the background is white too. Design flaw I suppose lol.