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My At Home Manicure Routine: A Quick DIY for 7 Chip Free Days

Christine — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 19:17:53 +0000

There’s something about fall weather than makes me crave a good manicure. The drop in temperature, and turning leaves make me want to break out my knee high boots, big sweaters and apply a great fall manicure in a deep berry tone, a dark purple or even a classic red shade. Over the years, I think I’ve tried just about every nail product out there in my quest to further perfect my at home manicure technique. Would a different base coat give me a longer lasting manicure? Maybe that top coat would be shinier, or a different cuticle gel would work even faster. It’s been years since I shared an updated version of my DIY nail polish routine. From start to finish, this process takes me about 10 minutes, then drying time after that. My typical manicure lasts completely chip free for 7 days, and then I change the color. Remove Old Polish My first step is always cleaning up. I remove old polish, making sure to get all of those bits that like to cling around the outer edges. My favorite polish remover is hard to find, but it’s always available on Walmart’s website. It immediately removes polish, but…

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My Quick Winter Pedicure Routine

Christine — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 20:00:00 +0000

As much as I love going to get a pedicure, it isn’t often that I have an hour to spare for such a luxury! I have everything that I need at home to do my own pedicure. I have to admit that I’ve developed my own “lazy” system to get a pedicure done in the shower. The whole thing probably takes at most 10-15 minutes. This is my quick winter pedicure routine! I do my at home pedicure in the shower because so many of the steps require water, are easy to multi-task with things like deep conditioning my hair, and the products often work better if my feet have been in warm water for a while. You could easily do this pedicure in the tub, but I’m a shower girl. Before Your Shower As I’m getting ready to get in the shower, I remove my nail polish. I prefer to do this with an acetone polish remover wipe, non-acetone wipes also work but take more scrubbing and I want to be done fast! I prefer wipes over remover and cotton rounds because the pads provide extra friction to get the polish off quickly and completely. In the Shower Once…

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Want Great Cuticles at Home? Here are 12 Great Products To Get You There

Christine — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:00:00 +0000

Great cuticles take a lot of work. This isn’t a once a week treatment, instead you need to take care of your cuticles multiple times a day to keep them hydrated and looking perfect. There are a lot of cuticle products out there, but which ones are great and how often should you use them? How do you get perfect cuticles at home? I thought I would share my favorite cuticle products and tips on how to use them to get perfect cuticles at home. The real secret is to keep up with using the products. Travel seems to always make my cuticles especially dry, I can get on to a plane with perfectly manicured nails and get off a few hours later with dried out cuticles with hanging skin everywhere. I have an answer for that too. The Best Cuticle Removers My best tip for great cuticles is the regular use of a cuticle remover. I usually use a remover about once a week, though when the weather gets cold and dry, I will increase my use to every 5 days or so. I usually use cuticle removers around the entire nail plate, since they’ll help prevent hang nails…

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5 Must Know Glitter Nail Polish Tips

Christine — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 17:37:34 +0000

The Secret to Applying Glitter Nail Polish It looks so pretty in the bottle, but what is the secret to getting the glitter nail polish to actually apply glitter to your nails? I hate applying glitter polish to my nails only to end up with a lot of clear polish and about 10 pieces of glitter. If you want your nails to actually have glitter, you can always do the makeup sponge trick, though this requires something to put on your skin and the glitter always ends up super bumpy for me. Instead, I simply invert the bottle for about 30 minutes before application. The glitter will move toward the top of the bottle, and when I then go to apply the polish more of the glitter will be picked up by the brush. Once I have dipped my brush into the polish, I sweep the brush along the lip of the bottle to push the polish down the brush. Rather than pulling my brush out, I hold the drop of polish against the inside of the bottle lip with the brush. Let the liquid of the polish drip down, it will leave even more glitter on the brush. When…

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My Must Have Mani-Pedi Items

Christine — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 20:00:00 +0000

I don’t talk about it on the blog so much, but I’m a mani-pedi girl. When I have the time (which isn’t super often, given I have 2 young girls), I love to have my nails done. I don’t go out for a professional mani-pedi. Instead, I do it myself at home. I like the convenience, I know where the tools have been (and how they’ve been cleaned) and I have polish at home that I can easily touch up with later. I thought I would share my favorite products to use when doing an at home manicure and pedicure. The products do get swapped in and out as I try new things, but I’ve found that these are the tried and true. The products that I keep stashed in my office polish area, that I rebuy, and that give me the best results. 1. Cuticle Remover: Sally Hansen Instant Cuticle Remover (available at ULTA, Amazon) Before starting, I love to put a thin bead of this around my cuticles, move it around a bit with my fingertip. I push back my cuticles with a fingernail and then just wash my hands. It takes under a minute and makes a…

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Something Different: Buffed and Shiny Nails

Christine — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:03:00 +0000

Now that it is 2015, it’s time to try something different! And also… to admit a bit of defeat. Why is that? I’m a girl with thousands of nail polishes. Yes, you read that right. I have thousands of nail polishes. They live in plastic drawers in the closet of my home office. This is the admitting defeat part. I love my polishes. I really do. But it is very difficult to find time to change my polish with a newborn. Even with quick dry products, there isn’t enough time to get them dry before the baby needs my attention. Because she knows when mommy has wet nails. Oh yes, she really does! So, for the next few months I’ll be sporting natural nails, sans pretty polish colors. This is a defeat of sorts (all of my pretty colors!) but it’s also somewhat liberating! No more worrying about chipped polish! Don’t worry about wearing a shade that looks a bit crazy with my outfit of the day! But, no polish doesn’t mean unkempt. Instead, it just means no polish. I’ve decided to really commit to no polish, which means buffing my nails to a pretty shine! Here’s a quick peek…

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At Home DIY Pedicure Kit: Everything You Need

Christine — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 19:00:00 +0000

Sponsored Post As nice as it is to have a professional pedicure, I don’t always have the hour or so needed to stop into my local nail salon and let someone else paint my toe nails. But, I also want to keep my feet looking pretty! I thought I would share some of my favorite at home pedicure products, you can buy all of them at Sally Beauty. I’m stocked up now for the rest of the summer, I’ll keep doing my pedis at home until my bump prevents me from reaching my toes! 1. Scrub Away Rough Spots For me, the biggest part of pretty feet is having soft feet that aren’t full of white, dry areas. Yuck. I love the Heel to Toe Exfoliating Polishing Foot Scrub, which actually has pumice in the scrub! It’s great all over my foot and helps get rid of some of the rougher parts. Next, I use Dr. G’s 3-in-1 Antimicrobial Callus & Cuticle Remover. When applied to my feet to smooth rough spots, I need to give it about 4 or 5 minutes to work. Then I use a pumice stone (I like the Mr. Pumice Extra-Coarse Pumi Bar, though I…

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Top 10 Tuesday: My Favorite At Home Manicure Products

Christine — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:00:00 +0000

Bought It Myself Today for Top 10 Tuesday we’re sharing our favorite manicure products. If you read my blog regularly, you’ll likely recognize many of these products, they were most recently featured in My Quick and Easy Manicure Routine. I’ll discuss why I like each product here, but if you want a real step by step for an at home manicure you should head over to that post instead. 1. Cutex Nail Polish Remover Pads: I love these pads for removing toe nail polish! They’re just felt soaked in polish remover, so if I run out I’ll grab some craft felt and remover, but I always seem to make a mess on my own. These pads are also great for travel. 2. Acetone Jar: This is my usual method of polish remover. I love these jars! It’s super easy to just dip your finger in to remove polish. I use pure acetone jars for glitter polish (this one is the in house Walmart brand) and Cutex non-acetone jars for regular polish. 3. Sally Hansen Instant Cuticle Remover: I use this at least once a week on my cuticles to keep them looking neat, but it also does a great job…

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My Quick and Easy Manicure Routine

Christine — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 20:00:00 +0000

I haven’t been writing as much about nail polish and manicures lately, though be assured that yes, I am wearing lots (and lots) of nail polish. Despite being super busy with my toddler, my “real” job, the blog and all of my other writing, I do manage to squeeze in manicures! It’s been a while since I wrote my Manicure 101 series, and my original My Manicure Routine post (I still can’t believe how long that thing is) is still one of my most popular posts. I thought it was well past time for a little update. I’ve streamlined my manicure process, and start to finish it is well under 20 minutes, usually under 10 minutes. To be truthful, the variable seems to be how long it takes me to locate all of my tools (you’d think I’d keep them in the same place, but they seem to always move around on my due to a little “helper”) and picking my polish color! I’ve put all of my manicure essential products in a collection, where you can follow me. My first step is always cleaning up. I remove old polish, making sure to get all of those bits that like…

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Makeup Wars: My Summer Go-To Polish Shade of 2013

Christine — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:00:00 +0000

Product Sent for Review Today for Makeup Wars we’re sharing our favorite nail polish of the summer. I have to admit that I can’t stop wearing this color! It is on my toes or my fingers all the time. I love that it is both pink and coral at the same time. Product Sent for Review

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