Beauty-fuls: We heart getting nailed! In the spring nail trend kinda way...

OOhhhhh wooooo hoooooo!

We loooove a good manicured hand (well hands and feet) and this spring brings us the most unbelievable nail trends eva!

Fashion finally made it's way to the tips of your toes people and it is gooooood!

The bestest part about nails getting soo much attention in the world of beauty and shmashion is that you can super recessionista it up and do it at home instead of spending your hard earned cash at a salon.

The #1 trend so far this spring is the putty color trend.

A few weeks ago we threw it at you in the Spring beauty trend post and since then it keeps getting bigger and biggger! (No, not because of us...because it looks fantabulous on everyone!)

Putty colors are seriously chic and for the lack of a better word...polished!

We still vote for the Chanel Particuliere but if you don't feel like spending a grip then the best runner up is the OPI one we talked about.
Buy it here!

There is one trend we knew right away would be huge for spring is the white polish trend.

And no, not because we are fortune tellers (um hi...remember this Matte Polish post? yeah we may have been a bit to ahead of the trend) but because one of the most gorgeous style setting women in the world was wearing white polish last summer and debuted it at her Spring '10 LAMB fashion show.

** Wow long run on sentence**

The radiculous Gwen Stefani loves her some good polish and when she stepped on stage with perfect white paws we were all a flutter.

SO crisp....sooo clean....sooo futuristically cute!

We love OPI Alpine Snow for this look.

It's a stunning matte white.

Wanna take your white to the next level? We super do! Add rhinestones (80's style) for a crazy cute look!

If you have shorter nails do slightly smaller stones...but the look is TDF!

A few months ago the gorge Miss Me posted about our love of half moon manis and reverse frenchies and we are still obsessed!

The half moons and reverse frenchies are crazy chic and fashion forward still in the most vintage way ever.

They have been doing these since the 1940's but they are back!

Here is a great tutorial on how to do your own half moon mani. Super easy and cute!

You can use any color combo you want but make it bright and fun!

Our most favorite new way to do the tired old french mani? With glitter tips!

There is something soooo...Je Ne Se Quois about it.

Hahahahahah how rad is this Conair Glitter putter on-er?

We don't know if it works but you know us and gadgets! Gotta have em.

In case you don't want to hassle with the gadget...here is how to do your own glitter tips.

Directions: After applying the base color, use the polish with the larger glitter pieces and apply to 1/3 of the end of your nail. Use the glitter polish with the smaller pieces and apply over the other glitter layer to 1/2 of your nail. Line the end tips with the precision brush. Just try not to bust out your jazz hands too often. Helpful tip: To remove glitter polish, soak half a cotton ball in remover and hold it in place over your nail with a piece of tin foil. Wait two minutes, and twist to remove all the glitter.

Speaking of super rad and fun nails...the Minx nail foil trend is getting bigger too! Thank the nail goddesses above!!!

You can literally have the most insane colors, designs ever and they last for weeks!

We are dying over this striped Minx look.

It can be a bit $$$ so if you just want an insane gold or metallic-y finish on your phalanges Orly Luxe FX Foil makes a few crazy shiny robot like colors for waaaay less moolah.

Thanks ALU for letting us borrow this from your rad site!

You are soooo welcome! We do it cuz we heart you! (Well and we heart Gold Polish ;) )

Last but never ever least (just the hardest one to do) we looove the Lace nails from the Tracy Reese Show.

Super pretty and girly in a sick rock n roll kinda way.

You gotta go buy thin, thin lace and nail glue it to your bare finger then coat it with super sticky topcoat to get it to stay...

OR

Try minx!

You knew it was coming people! The best way to DIY your own radiculous nails? (besides the 2 DIYs above of course) With nail art pens!

We heart Sally Hansen's pens to get the job done. Cheap and fun!

Fashion on your finger tips? Yes and PLEASE! There is no easier way to show your style then through your nails....done and done!!!!

xoxo things we heart

Beauty-fuls: We heart beauty blogs!

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OK, by now you probably have figured out how much we luuuurve a great beauty product and we are a wee bit obsessed with finding the newest fun products to help make us feel a bit more luxurious and lovely.

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So we thought hmmm...why don't we pay homage to our fav beauty obsessed sister blogs that we get oh soooo inspired by...

These are 5 of the best places to go for your ultimate beauty fix...so sit tight beauty junkies...hold on to your make up bags (and wallets) and have a blast reading the cutest most informative beauty blogs around!

P.S. Because these are all our most favorite-y faves...they are in no particular order...oh wait! Yes they will be in alphabetical order so no one feels left out! ;)

Not interested in beauty products? Not a junkie of all things glam-y or just a simple, easy breazy beauty?

Well then look no further than All Laquered Up.

One of the best nail (yup nails and toe nails!!) blogs to turn to.

Her crazy amount of knowledge, research and love of all things for your "digits" is on another level!

You would never think there was sooo much for your gorgeous phalanges! She was the reason we knew matte polish was going to be HUUUGEEE (it will...just watch).

Beauty Addict...we LOVE this one!

It's written sooo cute. Kinda like a diary and soo quirky. And the products she finds and (really) tests out are soooo good!

They are not the..."hmmm..I'm gonna go on other blogs and see whats cool out there and post too.." No...no...she finds, tests and totally informs her readers of the raddest, and sometimes not the most "Cool" or "PR" backed products around...but they are always great, useful and trusted.

Oh yes!!!! We lurvey love this one!

Thank you Beauty Parler (yes, we are sure she knows the spelling is silly) for your amazing and cute writing, your fantasmic knowledge and just being super easy and fun to read.

She always posts about the latest and greatest products out there and always has a lot (but never too much..she never gets boring) of info to back it up.

Oh...p.s. her pictures to go along with her posts are soo good...you will never wonder what she is talking about...it's like reading a magazine.

Love, love, heartville Beauty Snob!!!!!! From beautiful people, to beauty products...hair and fitness and home remedies...this one packs a 1..2 PUNCH! It reads like a who's who of products and blog rolls.

This blog is part of the spectacular Snob family (scroll down on her site to see what we mean) so you know you are in good hands...or faces ;)

So informative! So fun! So easy to read! And sooo many reviews and tips you will never have to read the yucky gossip sites ever again!!! WOooo hooo...

And last but soooooo not least our go to...read everyday...beauty blog....Bella Sugar.
Sound familiar??? That's because it's the hot sister to Pop Sugar and Fab Sugar and Casa Sugar and the rest of the amazing Sugar family of blogs.

Not only does Bella have countless beauty product trails, quick and simple explanations and product breakdowns, the most of the moment product...they also have amazing contests where they team up with (who we assume is a hhuuuuggge sponsor and product pusher of theirs..) Sephora. They do weekly giveaways and contests.

Now we don't think they test all of the products they talk about (I mean who has the time or the skin?) but the info they give you is, for lack of a better word, informative.

This is a for sure go to beauty blog. Oh and hit up their other sites too!

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Sooo many beauty products sooo little time...or sooo many products and sooo little idea of what to do with them??? You are in luck...here is the one...the only...the famous YouTube sensation....Panacea81.

Stop going to the mall and either paying for a makeup lesson, or being coerced into buying a million things from the girl who not so skillfully applied your mask o' makeup...visit P81 and learn all of the tricks and trades that you really will never find anywhere else.

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She is sooo good, you will actually go out and spend some of your hard earned paycheck to do keep up with her fantastic tutorials.

Hey...there is a reason she has over 7,000,000 (7,152,899 to exact), her own website and her own channel with 245,000 subscribers.

Feel beautiful (you are), be beautiful...and reward your inner beauty with a lil outer beauty gift ;)

xoxo t.w.h.