New Year's Nails

Now that Christmas is over, we can move on to the next holiday. New Year's. To me, New Year's is all about sparkling. Sparkling clothes, sparkling wine, and most definitely sparkling nails.

I mean, don't you want to shine bright like a diamond?

Take a look at some fabulous New Year's nail art. Get some inspiration. And if you do something fun on your nails for New Year's, snap a photo and send it to cassidy@onstagehairdesign.com and I'll post your picture!

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Which is your favorite look?

How To Tuesday: Chevron Accent Nail

This post comes with a small disclaimer:

This is Cassidy's first time doing nail art. Do not judge her.

Whew, I'm glad we got that out of the way. Guys...it took me an hour and a half to paint my nails for this tutorial. You know when the last time it took me that long to paint my nails was? Never. Because there's no way I would ever paint my nails if it took that long. 

But luckily for you guys, I worked out all the kinks in this tutorial, so hopefully it won't take you that long.

For polish, I used one metallic (Color Club's Put a Pin In It)  and one regular finish (Ulta's...some pink color that I couldn't find the name of). 

Step 1: bottom coat

Two things: 1. I'm only doing an accent nail on my ring fingers, but you can do all your nails if you feel over-achieving. 2. I put the metallic first, but I think when I do it again, I'll put the regular first.

Let it dry. all the way.

Step 2: shapes & paint

The reason it took me so long was that I couldn't get the tape right. It wouldn't cut and then it wouldn't peel off. My mom suggested painter's tape and this worked like a charm.

So basically, you get your craft scissors that make cool shaped lines. Cut some tape and place it where you want.

Then you want to paint over it using your other color. Pull off while still wet.

Step 3: top coat

a top coat is important since you've got two different polishes on. 

Paint the rest of your nails, and ta-da!

Friday Link Love 1/6/2012

two thousand and twelve!

• Whoa. This girl with dancing eyebrows is so very strange...and yet, I can't look away. 
• What do you think of wearing rings mid-finger, between your two finger joints? I'm not so sure. 
• Vaseline...it is a miracle product. There's just so many uses for it! 
• The most anticipated movies of 2012. I have to say, I'm squealing in my chair for about half of them. Bonus points to those of you who can guess which ones!
• Here's a different list of most anticipate movies. Though this one doesn't make me feel as...anticipated. 
• This article on the face symmetry of celebrities is an interesting read. Some of them look almost the exact same!
• Anyone love Etsy as much as I do? Well, here are 10 shops your need to know about. 
• This link might just be for myself, but I'd thought I'd share nonetheless. 20 new year's resolutions for 20 somethings. 
• The history of hair.
• I absolutely love Elle Fanning and her amazing sense of fashion. 
• Something everyone should know: how to fix a broken zipper.
• Mod Cloth tells you how to naturally exfoliate your lips.
• This 8 step makeup tutorial is so natural and pretty!  
• I might be late in showing you these holiday hair tutorials, but I think they'd work all year long! 
• How to do face contouring. 
• The best dressed ladies of 2011. 
• A straight brow...hmm...interesting. 
• Do you love Free People? Well, then this is the perfect nail tutorial for you!

What do you see this first week of 2012? Tell me in the comments below! 

Crackle Nail Polish

About 7 years ago I used to be obsessed with crackle paint. I did crackle paint picture frames, crackle paint boxes, crackle paint everything. And then I kind of forgot about it. So you can imagine my delight when the new big thing is none other than crackle paint nail polish!

I've been seeing it everywhere. If you surf the internet as much as I do you've probably seen it too. But if you haven't here's the rundown.

It's just like crackle spray paint, but for your nails. You use a regular polish as a base coat, then apply the crackle polish for a top coat. The top-crackle coat will crack and show the bottom coat through. Just like in the picture above.

I tried some crackle polish last night. Here's what I thought about it. 

I used a dark purple almost black color as the bottom coat and a dark pink for the crackle top coat. When I put the top coat on, it was difficult to see the pink color very well. There weren't any directions on the bottle so I didn't know if I was suppose to do a second coat. But, I did one anyways since I could barely see the color. 

And let me tell you, when the polish starts to crackle it is cold! It must have some kind of science behind it on why it makes you nail cold, but who knows? I don't. I think with the other side of my brain.

O.P.I Pink Shatter

The end result was pretty cool. The pink didn't show up as well as I thought it would, like it does on the cap to the bottle. But overall I'm fairly impressed with this new nail trend.


Have you tried crackle nail polish? What do you think of it? Love it? Hate it? Meh?