Birthday Nail Party

Last night, we were lucky enough to join a super fun group of ladies having an awesome birthday-weekend kick-off party. Needless to say, there were tunes, treats, and champagne. Before joining the party ourselves (new friends, yay!), we got down to some serious nail business! Everyone had great ideas for their manicures and we had a blast picking out colours and coming up with super original designs. Check 'em out!

Some sassy royal blue and silver leopard print nails...meow!

Adorable red and black heart nails

The birthday girl's gin and tonic inspired lime slices manicure...love it!

Hot pink with french tips and, obviously, Hello Kitty!

The spooky-awesome evil eye manicure

Grey and lilac chevron manicure...a pattern that is very hot in the scrapbooking world ;)

Nude with neon pink french tips...we love this modern twist on a classic.

Easter polka dot manicure - so cute!

And, here are all the ladies having a blast!

Showing off their nails!

What an awesome nail party. Have a great long weekend, everyone!

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Evil Eye Manicure

I have wanted to try this manicure for a while now. I saw this picture of Alexa Chung and saved it in my "nail folder" (filed next to my hair folder on my computer...yup) and it has been waiting to be recreated.

Pretty spooky, right? I love it. Plus, this weekend I went to a psychic convention with my friend Kat. We browsed the stalls set up by local mediums and psychics and, other than the psychics' crafty handmade signs advertising their specialities, there wasn't much to look at other than a stall of pretty amazing jewelry. This woman was selling a whole range of jewelry, including sacred geometry pendants which are quite amazing looking. In the end, I went home with an evil eye pendant for $5 that looks something like this (except it had silver eyelashes on the top lid):

I think it will look pretty neat on a thin silver chain. Apparently, evil eye jewelry protects the wearer from the evil eye and its harmful consequences (essentially, bad luck).  In fact, the jewelry fights evil energies and will bring you happiness, prosperity, professional success, true love, friendship, good health, etc, etc, etc. Whoa! Prettay prettay prettay impressive.

For the manicure, I used Deborah Lippmann's Waking up in Vegas as the base (because it is my go-to neutral greige and can also be a little bit spooky if used correctly). Then, I hand-painted the white shape of the eye, outlined it in black, and added the blue iris by using the back of a paintbrush. The pupil was added with a dotting tool. This is how it turned out:

Boo! Eye am watching you.

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