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Last week on twitter I let word out that some labor intensive nail art will finally be delivered on Friday. Well folks, Thursday night turned into 2:35am Friday morning and my mani still wasn't finished. So Friday night I put the final touches on it and debated if it was worth posting; I'm kinda considering it a nail fail because my lettering needs a ton of work.


Anyway, I digress. As we all know I love Instagram so when I kept seeing a wall that said, "Be bad until you're good" all over my news feed, I knew I had to: a) had to find the artist behind it. b) put it on my nail beds.

A few seconds of Google searching lead me straight to Lakwena Maciver, an amazing modern artist from London with an incredible knack for design, and use of bright colors. An added bonus? She occasionally posts flicks of her own nails.





A little side note: I was holding out on changing my nail shape until they grew out more, but the corner on my ring finger snapped, so back to stiletto I went.




And here's one last pic, just cuz'.



Overall I'm kinda "meh" about these, but at least I know I need to improve.

If you want to see more of the When Nails Imitate Art series, click HERE.
If you want to see more of my honest, failed attempts at nail art from the When Good Manis Go Bad series, click HERE.


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Got ideas for other artists I should cover? Wanna talk about your biggest nail fails? Sound off in the comments below.
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Ah, just in time for your hump day needs.

If you've picked up on the starter pack/Rick Ross reference, congrats! You know this nail art look is about what else? Pineapples. ;)


For some reason I'm being drawn to items with pineapples on them. Not really sure why, but I've got a t-shirt and the phone case to prove it. And now I've got the nails.


You all know I love neon, so a base color of Color Club East Austin was a no-brainer. And because I love gold I had to emphasize the gold glitter on my iPhone with Ruby Wing Sunflower.

A little side note: Ruby Wing polishes change color depending on whether you're indoors or outdoors; but because I've had this polish for years, Sunflower no longer changes color & stays the bright, yellow gold you see in the mani.


I hate mini nail polishes, but it was buy one full size Color Club, get a mini Color Club free at Beauty Plus Salon. I never turn down free nail polish, so that's exactly how I ended up with a mini East Austin.


Every now and then I share my mani sketches on my Instagram *cough* @DropOutNails *cough* and have been thinking about posting them here.

Let me know in the comments if you want to see more posted here on Nail A College Drop Out.

Pineapples... #NailACollegeDropOut #TuneInDropOutLovePolish #NailArtinUpInThisBitch #iwasntready #ididntfinish

A photo posted by Nail A College Drop Out (@dropoutnails) on Jun 30, 2015 at 7:05am PDT

And for the sake of (somewhat) uniformity with every other blog post, here are some mani pics with my standard black backdrop.



This isn't the first time I've tackled pineapple nails. Dare I say, "I wasn't ready." Anyway, click HERE for the first pineapple mani I did a few years back.

Give yourself a pat on the back if you actually read this entire post and laughed at the Kevin Hart, Rick Ross, and starter pack meme references. You the real MVP. *insert MVP award emoji here*

Wanna see more of what's in my sketchbook on the blog? Wanna trade corny jokes about bae coming over? Or just chit chat about your hatred of mini sized nail polish? Let's talk it out in the comments.
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The pics taken inside my lightbox don't do the holographic loveliness any justice.

Got a little bit of sunshine in between the overcast the other day. Full scoop now on NailACollegeDropOut.com. Clickable link in bio. #holographicnails #TuneInDropOutLovePolish #NailArtinUpInThisBitch #nailartist #brownbeauty #browngirlbloggers #blackgirlswhoblog #blackbloggersunited #tmblrfeature #proudbeautybloggersofcolor #ethnicbeautybloggers #nailpromote #naturalnails #stylishnailartbrush

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Thanks for hanging out with me in my little corner of the internet for the last four years! Here's to more nail art and Tom foolery! *cheers*
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Yup, you read the title of today's post right. Today's manicure is inspired by Bob's Burgers and Netflix!


I remember when this show first came out and I saw the commercial my immediate thought was, "This is the dumbest shit ever." Well imagine my surprise when I started watching it on Netflix in January 2014 and it became my one of my favorite shows.


Tina is my favorite member of the Belcher clan, but let's be for real here, Louise is a mastermind. Hands down.

Originally, I wanted to painted "BOB'S BURGERS" inside the yellow box on my middle finger, but alas my tiny print nail art skills aren't that evolved yet.
Quick side note here. My new Twitter handles is @DropOutNails which is the same as my new IG @DropOutNails.

However, I did manage to get "NETFLIX" on my thumb.


And for funsies, let's get a solo look of the mustard & cheeseburger nails.


Here are the shades used to create this look.



The season finale was last week so I need to find another show to watch on Sunday nights until next fall. *le sigh*


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"I'm no hero, I put my bra on one boob at a time like everyone else." -Tina Belcher
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It's that time once again folks, time for another round of When Nails Imitate Art!

Pushing around some nail paint. Working on #WhenNailsImitateArt tonight! #NailACollegeDropOut #TuneInDropOutLovePolish #NailArtinUpInThisBitch #browngirlbloggers #browngirlbloggers #nailartist

A photo posted by Nail A College Drop Out (@dropout_nails) on Apr 30, 2015 at 7:38pm PDT

Today's mani was inspired by Dani Michelle's "Self-Destruction"


Per usual, I saw a piece of art, I fell in love with it, and I knew I just had to attempt a nail art recreation.



In no particular order the lacquers I used for this mani are

Press SampleIt's been a super long time since I've done a manicure in all stripes so I figured why not now? Who cares that it's Saturday?!

Amirite?


I wanted to try out a simple stripe manicure with the Zoya Delight collection, and that's exactly what I did.

As far as this 6-piece set goes, I liked the variety--a.k.a the fact that there aren't multiple shades of pink.
My first impression of the Zoya Delight collection is that these are definitely what you would expect for springs shades. The lacquers with the turquoise "flash" (or shimmer in layman's terms) are nice, but y'all know I love créme finishes, and gravitated those right away.




The Zoya Delight collection retails for $54 for the entire collection, or $9 each on Zoya.com.

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Nothing To Disclose Last semester my schedule was so full of school work that I barely had the time to paint my nails. This led to months of sketches of unfulfilled manicures, so today I finally found the time to do one of them.

Instagram nails!!!!!!


I've said time and time again how much I love IG so why not express it nail art form? Amirite?


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Nothing To Disclose Last week I stumbled upon this IG post and thought, "Hmm, I can do some donut nails. It's been awhile." So here we are folks. Donut nail art for the win!


I started with a base color of OPI Did You Ear About Van Gogh?, used Orly Instant Artist Crisp White for the lettering, China Glaze Desert Sun for the donut, Barielle Life of the Party for the glaze, and Nanacoco White Witch for the sprinkles.


I really like the way this mani turned out, but my favorite nail is my thumb.


I'd say this mani is holding up pretty well after 6 days of wear.

Also, check out my first ever donut mani here!

Does anyone else suddenly wanna take a trip to Krispy Kreme? Or nah?
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As some of you may know, Tuesday was my first day of college in three years so it was only right to rock the FLOTUS, Mrs. Michelle Obama, on my finger tips.


I bought these Cha Cha Covers Michelle Obama water decals back in January and had been waiting for the most appropriate occasion to use them, and my return to college seemed more than befitting.


Cha Cha Covers picked the perfect photo of the First Lady to make this decal. Does it look familiar? It should. It's from the 2012 Democratic National Convention and everybody was speculating what shade graced her fingernails that night.



OPI sent out a press release; and if I remember accurately, Zoya even ran a promo for the shade shade they thought it was. But in the end, it wasn't even nail polish, it was Artistic Nail Design Soak Off Colour Gloss in "Vogue."

The decals were pretty easy to use and fully opaque on top of a clear base coat. If you've used a few different types of water deals, you definitely understand how awesome that really is.


After four days of wear the edges were looking rather ragged so I added a border of LCN Pink Pepper--also the same color on my thumb because these decals were too short to cover it.

So far I'm really happy about going back to school and I've been telling anyone that will listen. Ready for a kinda funny story? Well you don't really have a choice because I'm gonna tell you anyway.

The following is a conversation between me and my sales coach at work:

On Tuesday I used some of my paid vacation time so I could attend class while not getting penalized for coming to work late and my manager says, "I thought you weren't here today." To which I reply, "Today was my first day of school in three years!" "Oh they let you in? That's great!," she says. Then I retort with, "It's community college, they let everyone in." Obviously, this was followed by a hearty chuckle from the both of us.


Nothing To Disclose Pretty sure this is the best back to school mani ever. What do you think?
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