Lazy Days of Summer - Flip Flops

I have to admit, I wasn't too excited about this theme. I'm not awesome at delicate freehand work and I don't have any feet/flip flop stamps so I just went ahead and did something simple.

Flip Flops:

Polished Used:
-Nailtiques - Formula 2 Plus
-Beverly Beauty - Cupcake
-Kiss - Nail Art Striper White
-Kiss - Nail Art Striper Silver
-Cina Nail Art Filmo
-Out The Doop - TopCoat

This is very simple, but it I think that the fun pink makes up for that a little. Also, I got to try out some of the filmo flowers that Amanda got me for my birthday. Have you used filmo's or any 3D nail art before? How do you keep them from getting caught on things?

Also, my poor middle finger nail got caught on my shirt today and somehow tore so I had to file my nails down, you all know how disappointing that can be :-/

Make sure to check out the other lovely ladies participating in the Lazy Days of Summer:

Victoria Vertel
http://www.manicurator.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Manicurator

Alyson Epstein
http://beadsnailsfood.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/BeadsNailsFood

Amanda Murphy
http://mandyspolish.blogspot.com/

Hannah 
http://polished-prisms.blogspot.com
http://www.facebook.com/PolishedPrisms

Sue O'Connor
http://creativenaildesignbysue.blogspot.com

Katee Baum
http://www.agirlandherpolish.com
http://www.facebook.com/AGirlandHerPolish

Charlotte-Louise Bennett
http://charlottes-nails.blogspot.co.uk/

Jessica Francis
http://nearlynaturalnails.blogspot.com
https://www.facebook.com/NearlyNaturalNails

Karine Assemien
http://karinea0a.blogspot.com

Jen Guin
http://thepolishedzombie.blogspot.com

Jessica Brown
http://jessicasnailtales.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/JessicasNailTales

Ashley Rowlands-Vanderzande
http://onenailtoanother.blogspot.ca

Pryanka Arora
http://nailsparks.blogspot.com/

Anna Freedman, Erin Obriecht, Robin Storesund
http://www.polishedcousins.com
http://www.facebook.com/PolishedCousins


Maribeth Robienczak
http://obsessivecosmetichoardersunite.blogspot.com/

Kayono Lan (aka Johanna)
http://kayonolan.blogspot.de/

Sharra Farivar
http://alira23.blogspot.ca/search/label/Polished%20Prisms%20The%20Lazy%20Days%20of%20Summe\

Amanda Schott
http://countingdowntobliss.blogspot.com/

Nichole Mowery
http://aotnf.blogspot.com

Becky Barnett
http://glamfiend.blogspot.com

Sunny Monday

Hope you all had a nice weekend and thanks for bearing with me while I was out of town. Today I wanted to show you a nice "sunny" mani that I did.

Polishes Used:
-Nailtiques - Formula 2 Plus
-Beverly Beauty - Key Lime Pie
-Kiss Nail Art Striper - White
-OPI - On Collins Ave
-Out The Door TopCoat

*sigh* I liked the idea of this mani and the Beverly Beauty Key Lime Pie was one of my untrieds - I don't really like this color on me though; oh well, that's why you try them out. I got a 5 pack of Beverly Beauty polishes as Ross Dress for Less; I am not familiar with this brand though and it was fairly streaky. It did come with 1 orange, 2 blues, and 1 pink that I'm sure I will eventually try.

Adding the stripes and flowers made this mani so much better for me. Alsmost nautical (if I would have done anchors instead of flowers, lol) maybe we can call it "preppy"? Do you ever try to jazz up a mani/swatch that you're not in love with, or do you just start over?