When I was planning out the nail art for this year's marathon of Halloween nails, one of the designs I kept seeing all over Pinterest was this really simple design featuring a sheet ghost and some orange flowers. All of the designs I saw were from professional nail techs and were hand painted, but I really wanted to figure out how I could make my own version of this design using stamping and I'm honestly beyond thrilled with how it came together in the end! Keep reading for more! When it came to the color story for this mani, I really wanted to stick with something similar to the inspir ..read more

The first year I started doing Halloween nails here on the blog, I did my first version of this mani and I've done a different version of it every year since. This is actually the seventh version of this design I've done and I just couldn't break the tradition even though I'm pretty sure the stamping plate I used for this mani is long discontinued. Still, I love this design and I think it actually still holds up even 6 years later.  Keep reading for more! Since this design has sort of become something of a signature for me, I decided to pair it this year with what I think of as my ..read more

I feel like this might be the year of the sheet ghosts for me, if I'm being honest. So many of the designs I found myself wanting to put together for this year's Halloween mani's feature various different sheet ghost designs. For today's mani, I wanted to go a little less cute and a little more creepy than a lot of the other designs I plan on putting together and I think it came together really beautifully! Keep reading for more! When it came to deciding on the color story for this mani, I really wanted to stick with a cool, smoky blue vibe and I wanted to bring a base polish that had s ..read more

THIS POST IS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PUEEN COSMETICS.  When it comes to spooky nail art, there's just something about a sort of craggy tree silhouette, isn't there? For today's mani, I wanted to pair a really deep, smoky gradient (that I will admit, might get a wee bit lost in the midst of the stamping) with some craggy branches, bats and stars. I love how it all came together! Keep reading for more! When it came to the color story for this mani, it was really led by the stamping polish I used for the trees. I ended up deciding to pair two polishes from Color Club - Follow Me, a deep ..read more

WELL. It's surely been a while since I posted on the blog - I've still been posting consistently over on Instagram @pblnails - but when I started getting my Halloween nails ready, I knew I had to post them here as well. Halloween nail season is my absolute favorite and I have some really exciting designs ready to post here this year, but I wanted to start with something fiery and fun and spooky! So without further ado - keep reading for more! I knew I wanted a gradient background for the witch silhouette stamping - a gradient is usually my favorite for silhouette stamping, honestly - so ..read more

A while back, I reviewed one of the 12 peice Gel Polish sets that Aimeili sells and I was overwhelmingly impressed with them, so when they offered to send over another, much more spring/summer appropriate set I was very excited to give them a go as well. Aimeili really does have a great selection of gel polish shades and they are available from Amazon at a really accessible price point, which I personally love. In fact, as I write this, this 12 piece set is currently available on Amazon Canada for under $25! Keep reading for more! This is honestly sort of a perfect set for this time of ..read more

 THIS POST IS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PUEEN COSMETICS. Whenever I'm doing multiple mani's in the same theme - in this case, Valentine's Day! - I tend to find myself wanting to do something that suits the theme, but is maybe a bit non-traditional. For today's mani, that translated into eschewing all of the traditional pink and red vibes and instead going with a black and white look. In the end, I think this could also be a good vibe for your Galentine's Day or anti-Valentine's Day vibes, if you know what I mean.  Keep reading for more! Because I wanted this mani to have a lot of im ..read more

 THIS POST IS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PUEEN COSMETICS. For today's mani, I was very much in the mood for something adorable. While I'm not generally much of a pink and adorable kind of girl, there's something about Valentine's Day that just makes me go all in, so I grabbed a super bright pink polish and a bubbly hearts stamping image and I just went for it! Keep reading for more! Like I said, for my base polish I wanted to just go all in with the cuteness, so I grabbed for Sinful Colors' She Stings, which is this really gorgeous magenta jelly polish packed with warm toned iridescent fl ..read more

I'm not gonna lie - my brain is absolutely LOVING having a theme again. As soon as I transitioned into thinking about doing Valentine's Day nails, my brain immediately had about a million ideas and a lot of energy and desire to get them done. I just love a theme - it gives my brain something to latch onto. For this mani I also used a new-to-me stamping plate from Hit The Bottle that I've been dying to use since I got it months ago and a super pretty new gel polish from Born Pretty. All in all, I'm super excited about this mani! Keep reading for more! Now, I will say, I was having very ..read more

Being that my creativity has been feeling a bit sapped recently, I've been a little less active here on the blog, but I'm hoping that with the days getting longer I'll be feeling a bit more inspired and start posting a bit more frequently again. For today's mani, I kept it pretty simple with a style of mani that I personally really, really love. I paired some super exciting new gel polish with monochromatic abstract stamping and I love it! Keep reading for more! I have already very much established that I really, really love cat eye gel polishes. They're just so stunning with that beaut ..read more