If you've been reading my blog for any amount of time, you'll notice my one favorite things when it comes to nails are spikes! Today I decided to dig up a few of my gold spikes, as well as some nail art foil a purchased two years ago to bring this manicure to life.

Welcome to the fifth and final installment of wedding week! You should know that I'm itching to get back to my neons and show you a few Icing polishes I picked up the past few days. But for now I have one last matrimonial manicure to show you.

First off, sorry about the hiatus. If you've seen my Facebook post you'll know that high winds knocked out my internet connection. But now that it’s all back to normal and I can continue to bring you relentless amounts of sarcasm, sexual innuendo, and of course, NAIL POLISH!

Sunday was Earth Day and while I intended to have this post ready by then; it would have involved me to wake up out of my I'm-too-tired-from-work-so-don't-wake-me-for-anything-less-than-Justin-Timberlake nap. And that brings us where we are now.

Step 1. Base Coat - I used Nail Life Gripper
Step 2. Base Color - Revlon Posh
Step 3. Let base color dry and apply nail art foil glue.
Step 4. After the foil glue has dried to a clear, tacky finish, apply nail art foil. - In this case it was Jungle Tides
Step 5. Apply a "normal" top coat i.e. a top coat that isn't quick dry or anything special. I find that OPI Top Coat works pretty well.
Step 6 (optional). brush glitter on tips of nails. - Milani Jewel FX Teal
Step 7. Now you can apply your top coat of choice. - Seche Vite

If you didn't know my favorite color in the whole wide world is gold. So what's better than having it readily available to leer at on my finger tips?


I decided to make my ring finger and thumb accent nails and used Kashmir Gold nail art foil. Quick and easy tutorial for applying nail art foils can be found here. My other nails are Icing Glimmer. 
Glimmer is a more of a beige shimmer with hints of gold and copper glitter. If you're not really into neutrals like myself, you'll love this one.

How do you feels about accent nails?
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I recently bought a TON, okay 26, rolls of nail art foil from dollarnailart.com and one of my fast favorites was English Rose.
 *This and all other nail art foils available at dollarnailart.com are approximately 1 inch wide and 5 feet long.

Before I applied the foil I painted my nails with Sally Hansen Inst-Dri Whirlwind White. It claims to be a one coat polish and to dry really fast. While it does live up to the "Insta-Dri" part it was definitely a two coat-er for me.

After the polish dries you apply one layer of nail foil adhesive.  Wait 3 - 5 minutes for it to dry (it will still be tacky, but that's a good thing).

Carefully place the foil on the nail (shiny side up) and gently rub until the acetate backing starts to peel off on it's own. And then... *insert drum roll here*


Bam! Kick ass nails just like that! Apply one layer of clear top coat that IS NOT quick drying i.e. Seche Vite, let dry, then apply any no chip top coat of choice.

Enjoy my darlings! Love, Peace, and Polish!