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Nail fails. They happen to everyone, myself included. The concept for this mani was simple, stenciled stars using a nude and light blue color scheme. Seems easy enough right? So I thought at least.

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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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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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Last night I was feeling really lazy after a long day of work, but I knew I had very little energy to put forth to change my nails from plain to Heeyyyyyyyyy! Thus, the Nail Art Society Festival Princess kit came into play.

Aside from the Summer of Love nail wrap, my kit also came with marquise shaped gold studs (which I lost somewhere in my house after I opened my package), and an NCLA nail polish in I'm With The Band.

See how I punched a heart shaped hole in the Summer of Love Nail Wrap eh?


The wrap itself was beautiful but with the curvature of my nail beds and my lack of skill with these things made it pretty hard for me to use.


Overall, the Nail Art Society Festival Princess Kit was a great bang for your buck at $11.95 + shipping, but in hindsight I probably would've used a blow dryer to try and stretch the wraps.


Press Sample Have you got the hang of using nail wraps?
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Press Sample No nail art today but I do have some eye-catching beauty implements to show you.

Monday I discussed my all too frequent nail breaks and today I going to tell you what I used to cut them after three extreme nail breaks.

After I openly wept, I started with ArteStile Clippers to cut them down to size.


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There comes a time when I have to realize that my thoroughly planned manicure becomes a failure for one reason or another. And here we are with another contribution  to When Good Manis Go Bad.

A few days ago I finally sat down ready, willing. and able (so I thought) to fulfill another installment to the Art Dealer Chic series. The original idea was to take the print on Miguel's shirt and put it on my nails. I thought I couldn't go wrong. Seriously though, the print is literally a bunch of stick figures.


Let's back up so I can tell you exactly how this manicure started! I laid down a base color of Sation Lollipop! Goes The Princess. No problems there, so let's move on to the nest step.

Next, I sponged on a gradient using Sinful Colors Dream On, China Glaze Flying Dragon, and Dare To Wear Violetta.
So far, so good. I actually really loved how smooth the colors shifted into one another. By far my best gradient to date! And then came the stick people...

I painted the stick figure with my go to white nail polish Dare To Wear Flawless White. My issue wasn't with the polish. The hassle came in when I realized it had been such a long time since I did any somewhat detailed nail art and it was 3am (way past my bedtime by the way). My lines didn't come out very crisp so I scrapped the idea to cover every nail with tiny stick people, and do my thumb and one guy on my middle finger.


I guess I killed two birds with one stone. Some Art Dealer Chic nails and yet another episode of When Good Manis Go Bad.

Since this post is coming to a close, How about some product porn?
Have you ever have any idea for your nails that you just couldn't fully execute?
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Not to long ago I purchased these floral print jeans. I felt inspired! I searched my stash for the perfect colors. I sat down. I painted my base color (Illamasqua Phallic by the way) and then everything went left.

My mani isn't entirely a fail but it isn't what I envisioned it to be.

Since it's a quarter to 3in the morning while I'm typing this; I don't have any product porn for you, but if your inquisitive in nature like me, please read on.

Base: Illamasqua Phallic purchased by Mr. Nail A College Drop Out ;)
Orange flower:  a mixture of Barielle Peach Popsicle and Dare To Wear Hotspot
Pink flower: Barielle Pink Flip Flops and New York Color Fuchsia Shock Creme
Blue flower: Barielle Ocean Breeze and L.A. Colors Atomic
Leaves: Essie Mojito Madness. Zoya Shawn, and Barielle Green Apple Chew

Here's an A for effort!
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Last week I had the idea that I was going to paint my nails gold and lime green. Only to have the same thought interrupted by, "Hey! I'm going to do a water marble!" Time came and went and finally I said to myself, "You know Briana, there's no time like the present and you should really knock this off of your designs to try list." Little did I think it would become quite the nail fail.

You ever have a nifty idea in your head about how you're gonna paint your nails? Ever make an attempt at it and fail? You did? Well, I'm glad we're in this together!

A few days ago I had this idea about making my nails look like Pop Tarts (even though I'm more of a Toaster Strudel gal myself). Please believe me when I say that in my mind this was going to be awesome. Tragically it wasn't.


Because every paint job can't be ice cream.
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After months of growing my nails,,, one broke =...(


My poor little thumb nail.

Can I have a moment of silence please?
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