Nothing To Disclose Well hello there. Today is the first of two things: 1) the first post since I graduated college 2) the first post of a new series, The Counterfeit Drop Out.

Yes. I, Briana Nail A College Drop Out, finally finally FINALLY completed college. Thank you for all for sticking with me through my blogging hiatus while I finished out my last few semesters. Now back to our regularly scheduled program


Welcome to The Counterfeit Drop Out. The series that works designer logos of brands I currently can't afford into my broke ass budget. So let's keep FAFSA outta this aight? Cool. To kick this new series off, I decided on the American skateboarding shop and clothing brand, Supreme.


I started this set with a base color of Zoya Alicia. When I planned these nails out in my head, I definitely thought the base color would be more visible. That wasn't the case but still a good choice nonetheless. For that shmoney, I used some water decals and nail art stickers from Aliexpress. And for the Supreme logo? I used Mundos de Unas Logos 2 stamping plate with Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Wild Strawberry.

Anyone else too lazy to fully clean off their stamping plates when they're fone with them? No? Just me?

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Nothing To Disclose You know how you plan out a mani in full detail and then when the time comes for execution it flops? Like really flops? Welp, that happened to me. Back in October I bought some decals and sketched out an idea for a mani. Monday night rolls around and the sketch on paper just failed in real life. *sad face*


There's just too much going on here.


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What could be better than Dirty, Sexy, Money? $100 bills y'all! Hence today's mani.

DSM is a two-coat, dusty, turquoise créme and I'm pretty sure I couldn't love it more for this fall/winter season.


For my accent nails I used some left over $100 bill water decals because... well it only makes perfect sense to pair money with even more money!


And just for funsies, here's my right thumb. You know, in case you thought I didn't have one.


See that nasty looking gash in the corner of my poor little thumb? My friend and I were drinking at her place and for some odd reason I had to pick up the cardboard box in her living room. And then it cut me. *sad face* You know what's even worse? I had to have another friend put a bandage on my thumb for me.



Nothing To Disclose Let that be a lesson for you kids. Don't drink and pick up random ass boxes in a living room.

Do you have any weird drunken stories? Or do you wanna talk Benjamin Franklin nail art?

Let's exchange stories/talk all about the Benjamins in the comments!
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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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Now that Nail Crush Week is over and both of the giveaways are closed, it's time to announce the three winners of the Dope Digits Nail Decals Giveaway!

But first I've got a Dope Digits mani of my own to share.


For this mani I used OPi My Vampire Is Buff, Mint Sweet Liberty, Orly Instant Artist Jet Black, and Dope Digits Illustrated Alphabet Nail Decals.
For whatever reason my camera can never capture the true color of Mint Sweet Liberty so I'll probably post a photo on IG taken from my phone so you get an accurate image of the color.

Speaking of Insta, awhile back I posted a picture of Dope Digits packaging and that's exactly where I got the idea for this mani.





And now for the winners!

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The winners were emailed last night and given 48 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen.


Before I end this post I want to thank Sava over at Dope Digits for sponsor this giveaway. Make sure you head over to her Big Cartel shop and pick up a set for yourself if you haven't already!

Happy Hump Day!
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I remember it like it was yesterday. It was during the final quarter of 2013 when I stumbled upon an Instagram account with water decals unlike anything I had seen before. A short time passed and the IG account in question announced their Big Cartel shop was open. As soon as I got home from work, I opened my laptop and placed an order. A minimal amount of time elapsed and my nail art goodies are on my coffee table (unrelated side note: I hate coffee) and then this mani happened.

If you haven't figured it out by now, I'm talking about Dope Digits! And yes I've bought even more water decals from this shop and I have yet another DD mani that's just in time for Nail Crush Week!

 In total I used eight bottles of nail polish and seven Not-So-Sweet(heart) decals to create this look.

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Are you as excited about Dope Digits' decals as I was when I first saw them? You can buy them on DopeDigits.bigcartel.com.

Valentine's Day is just around the corner. Who needs flowers when you can have fly nails?
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Nothing To Disclose First nail art of 2014 today! I've been buying water decals like crazy these days and thought I should probably use the ones I have before I buy even more.
I bought two sets of decals that had onomatopoeias and that brings us here.


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Nothing To Disclose Before we get started let me preface this post by saying that my mom lectured me about the inappropriateness of today's manicure and then went on to ask if I was going to post them on the internet. My reply to her was a simple conversation ending, "yup." So if you're going to tell me about how degrading or how nsfw this mani is, don't.


Now that all advisories have been made let's talk nails! Awhile back, I stumbled upon some crazy water decals from Dope Digits on Instagram and I knew right then and there that I needed them. I waited for her Big Cartel shop to open, placed my order as soon as I got home from work, and waited for them to arrive at my doorstep. I would have used them sooner but I got these decals around the same time of my series of terrible nail breaks.


Before I forget, the $100 Sephora/Ulta gift card giveaway is still open. Enter here.


Nothing To Disclose Well there you go folks, sexually suggestive nails just in time for hump day!
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Flashback to earlier this summer Born Pretty had nautical themed water decals listed as a new item and I knew I had to have them. Fast Forward to now (a week before Thanksgiving) and I finally used them. I know, nautical themes are typically a summer trend, bad Briana.


See! Off-season manis can be fun!

I started with Sation Strumming My Nails a base color for all of my nails. For my index and middle I sponged Sation Strumming My Nails, Barielle Surf's Up, and China Glaze Mingle With Kringle. And on my thumb, ring, and pinky I used China Glaze With Love for the stripes.


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