Happy Birthday to Me!

Happy birthday to meeee! Happy birthday to meeee! Happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday to meeeeee!


So, I'm eighteen now...I can vote (yay!), smoke (gross!), buy lottery tickets (meh), and enter nail polish giveaways that require you to be 18 (yay!). To celebrate, I did a cupcake manicure. It's a good thing my non-grey days are Friday, or I would've had to incorporate grey somehow (shh, though...don't tell, but I don't think my prom mani tomorrow is going to have any grey in it). So, here it is:

indoors, artificial light

I did the same thing on the right hand, except my accent nail was my thumbnail instead of my ring finger. In hindsight, I kind of wish I'd used the thumb for the accent nail on both hands, because the cupcake on my left thumb looks a bit distended. Anyway, here's what I used for the mani:

Base: China Glaze Sea Spray

Stripes: American Apparel Dynasty and an unnamed Charlotte Russe polish

Icing: Wet n Wild White Creme

Cherries: OPI Red My Fortune Cookie over Wet n Wild White Creme

Sprinkles/glitter on accent nail: Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday (how could I not use it!?)

I did everything (well, except paint the base coat) with a dotting tool, which worked pretty well for the most part. However, it would have been nice to have a proper striper brush for the stripes - I have one on the other end of my dotting tool, but the bristles have come apart so that the brush no longer has a fine point. I'll have to come up with something else, but for the time being, my dotting tool stripes look decent from a distance. All in all, I was pretty happy with this manicure. 

I probably won't post tomorrow because I'll be really busy all day (and night), but I'll be back Sunday - until then, I hope your weekend is off to a great start!