Rawr!!! My Frankenstein inspired manicure!

Hey everyone! Kourt here :) Hope everyone is having a great weekend! I sure am :) The Halloween festivities have already commenced in my world! What about you? What are your plans and costumes for Halloween? I'd love to know! I just love seeing different costumes! This year I am planning to be Hello Kitty!

Anyways I was at Walmart the other day picking some stuff up for my mom and I saw the Halloween Sally Hansen Salon Effects and I was super excited because I've been wanting them for a while now. As luck would have it they had the one I wanted the most AND I had a coupon for it! Score! Whenever I use these I just like to pair them with something else to give it a little bit more pizazz and to make it my own. I ended up getting Hot Wired which is a bright green w/ black design. When I see it I think Frankenstein so I sponged on some Zoya's Raven (a nice black) to the tips of the nail to make it look like Frankenstein's flat top hair.

Now I've used several of the Salon Effects and I've liked some and I've disliked some. This one went on super well and it has held up really well 3 days later! I just like to stare at my nails and it's hard not to because it's super bright haha!!! Now to sponge on the black I just used a simple sponge that you can find in your kitchen. I cut it since you don't need a whole sponge for your nail (at least I hope not haha.) After you cut it all you need to do is paint a portion of it with your polish and then simply sponge it on your nail. It's a really simple technique that even the nail challenged people (me) can do. Once you see the finished product it will look like it took you hours to do the manicure OR it will look like you shelled out a lot of moola to get it done professionally! Either way you will have people impressed!

So enough chitty chat, let's switch over to the pics!!!

Here's everything that you will need. The Salon Effects (obviously), Zoya's Raven, CHI top coat, sponge, nail scissors and an orange stick (which comes w/ the Salon Effects). Now I just started using nail scissors to trim the strips in half so you can use one strip for 2 nails and to trim off any excess on the sides. It's a good money saver because you can use the box of strips more than once.

So here you have the finished product. I love it personally! But I'm just biased :p

So does it look Frankenstein-ish to you? Is this a technique you are planning to try or already have tried??? Comment below to let us know (Hey I rhymed!...on that corny note, I'm out!)

The Rachel Zoe Project

Hey everyone! Kourt here :) So tonight was the start of the new season of The Rachel Zoe Project and let me tell you I am very excited! I love everything about Rachel Zoe and if I had a dream job it would be hers (or just to be her assistant would be amazing to me.) I'm all about dressing people and since I am limited to what I can wear due to my Spina Bifida, I like to live vicariously through other people (just ask my friend Amy LOL.)

If you aren't familiar with Rachel Zoe she is a stylist to the stars. She dresses people like Cameron Diaz, Anne Hathaway, Molly Sims and the list could go on and on. If you watch her show you'll notice she has a few catch phrases like "I'd die" or my favorite "That's B-A-N-A-N-A-S" LOL So using that catch phrase I decided to do a mani that would honor her famous saying. Let me just say I've been sick all day with a migraine so I just did the mani on a nail wheel so I wouldn't make my migraine worse.

I used China Glaze base coat, Zoya Raven, Sally Hansen Lightening, Kiss nail art pen, finished off with CHI top coat.

So again I am not feeling well and my hands were shakey so I did my best (Insert Dane Cook "I did my best" skit here.)

So do any of you watch The Rachel Zoe Project? I love it and I'm excited to see Rachel Zoe become a mommy :) You can watch The Rachel Zoe Project Tuesdays on Bravo 10/9c. So I'm going to leave you with a video of my girl Rachel Zoe :)

Sally Hansen Nail Strips REMIXED

Hey everyone! Kourtney here...finally I know...I had surgery last week in Houston so I haven't gotten around to doing a post. But I'm back for now :)

I was watching a youtube guru by the name of Kandee Johnson (She's amazing and so sweet) and she had a great idea with the Sally Hansen Nail Polish Strips. There were 2 ideas she had that I fell in love with and they give you more bang for your buck. Instead of me trying to describe what she did let me just post the video for you :)

Ok so now that you've watched her brilliance and charm let me show you what I came up with. I had the Sally Hansen strips in Don't Get Catty, which happens to be a limited edition set but I got it for a good price. What I did was cut the strips at an angle and applied them to my nails. You get 16 in the set but I used about 7 for both hands because I used 1 for 2 nails. After I applied those I added OPI Katy Perry's Teenage Dream to the other half of my nail. This has to be mine and Gabby's favorite glitter ever! It's just amazing and you can't stop staring at it! So onto the picture of the final result.

Here's the Don't Get Catty

And Here is what I came up with. It looks way better in person and I got a ton of compliments on it :) It also lasted 10 days with no chipping. It also survived the hospital haha thankfully they didn't take it off :) I used a new top coat my Mom picked up for me in the bargain bin at Ulta to top this off called CHI (like the CHI straightener). I really liked it and it really kept my polish on as well as dried super fast!

So after this manicure I had another idea. My Mom is a huge crafter and she has a ton of those scissor that cut special scalloped edges like these below:

So I thought why not cut the polish strips using a pair of these scissors to give it an edgy look. Well I did haha. Being on disability leave from work gives me alot of time to think up ideas and test them out. I ended up using the Skinny Jean strips and OPI Katy Perry Last Friday Night.

So what do you think? I like the unique and different...I like to think of it as a ripped jeans kind of look. Is this something you would like to try?? Thoughts would be great!

Happy 4th of July!!!

Hope everyone is having a fantastic 4th of July!!! Remember those who fought for our country's indepedence and thank them!!

Anyways we have 3 4th of July manicures to show you so let's get this bar-be-q started!!

First off with have Gabby's beautiful splatter manicure. She got the idea from a fellow blogger The PolishAholic who does amazing splatter manicures! She started off with China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat followed by Sally Hansen hard as nails in French White Tip. Then she took a coffee stirring straw and dipped it in different colored polish's one at a time and blew on the nail (just make sure you put scotch tape around the nail first so you don't get it all over your finger.) Here are the colors she used: Opi in Red Hot Gift, Sally hansen hard as nails w/nylon in Peek-A-Blue, China glaze in Fairy Dust followed by Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat. Here is her fantastic results:

Pretty awesome huh? I showed my mom and she thought it was a nail sticker haha!

Speaking of my Mom, I gave her a 4th of July manicure as well to match her outfit for church. She's a sucker for matching. She painted her nails in in Zoya's Sooki and then I added blue and clear rhinestones alternating on her tips. I followed it up with Konad's top coat.

She loved it and she said it looked like a crown which suited her since she's the Princess of the household LOL

Anyways...I just finished my manicure today. I painted my nails with OPI's Opening Night. I used my Konad and stamped a star on each nail using Konad's special white polish and Bundle Monster's image plate BM05. Lastly I added a few red triangular rhinestones followed up by Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat.

 So there you have it!! How do you guys celebrate the 4th of July?? Hope you all have a very safe holiday!!