Looking Back And Looking Forward

Wow, what a year. So many amazing things have happened to me this year but no of it has been without sadness.

I am really looking forward to next year because I am going to be adult and making a lot of decisions that will begin the rest of my life. 

My 2015 Goals:

1. Take 1 hour each week for myself

2. Create a blog that I want to read and get to 1,000 pageviews

3. Write about good things rather than bad things 

4. Look fear in the face and win

5. Make the best decisions with help from other by asking for help and admitting weakness

6. Don't get hurt by anyone or anything

I hope everyone had a good 2014 and is going to have a better 2015! 

Thank you to everyone who has helped and inspired me! 

~Hannah

"Always be a little kinder than necessary."

Ruffle Nails

I was looking for a complex nail design for today because I had a lot of time and I wanted something that looked nice but took a lot of time. I saw these ruffle nails on ChalkboardNail.com so I decided to give them a try. 

Nail Polish Collection

I spent about six hours working on this today. I put together a collection of all the nail polish that I own. Here is all the nail polish I own (organized by color):

Testing Nail Polish

For Christmas, I got a lot of nail polish from my brother. I made it easy on him by giving him a list of what I wanted. So here is a picture of what I got:

e.l.f. Nail Polish Set Classic

Sally Hansen Sugar Shimmer Cinny Sweet and Essie Master Plan

Christmas Nails

I know that I usually post my nails over the weekend but it was super busy and I am officially on vacation so they had to wait until this morning. I had a lot of inspiration for these nails from my friends advice, some Christmas nails that I did a few years ago, and some browsing on Pinterest. As I always do when I have complex nails, I first drew them on paper to figure out which colors I would need and how to set my nails up. 

Right Hand

Left Hand

Both Hands

Nails Explained:
Right Thumb: Rudolph
Right Index: Holly
Right Middle: Present
Right Ring: Candy Cane
Right Pinky: Christmas Tree
Left Thumb: Penguin
Left Index: Red and Gold Swirls
Left Middle: Ornament
Left Ring: Santa
Left Pinky: Red, Gold, and Green Stripes

Colors Used:
Red: OPI Red
White: Sinful Colors Snow Me White
Tan: Sally Hansen Mudslide
Dark Blue: Sinful Colors Midnight Blue
Silver: Sally Hansen Silver Sweep
Gold: Sally Hansen Go For Gold
Orange: Sinful Colors On The Bright Side
Black: Spoiled Visually Slimming
Green: Deborah Lippmann Defying Gravity
Brown Metallic: Spoiled I'm Ba-roque

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Hard As Nails

This is a time lapse of my nails. I thought that it would be cool to do this for a few nails and since I had time, I knew it would come out well. Please let me know your thoughts and if I should do another time lapse in the future.

~Hannah
"If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything."

Christmas Lights

For these nails, I was inspired by my family's Christmas tree that we put up last week. Here is a picture of it...

Golden Nails and Achievement

I am so excited about these nails and there is an amazing story behind them. To start, I was looking for something simple to do because I want them not be to extravagant. But they had to be gold. They have to be gold because today, I am getting my Girl Scout Gold Award. It is the highest award any Girl Scout can earn and I am so honored to have achieved it after my twelve years of Girl Scouts. Without going into to much detail, here is what I did; I worked with seven students from my high school to preform a show at a local assisted living home. If you are reading this and you helped me, thank you so much! I really appreciate everything that you did for me and all the help you gave me throughout the whole process!

Now to the nails, I created a very simple design using a white base, gold, and gold glitter. It not only shows my achievement but it also looks perfect for winter. I hope you enjoy!

Rose Nails

Here are the nails that I promised last week. With inspiration from YummyNails and Chalkboard Nails.

Thankful

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope that everyone has a nice holiday!

Things that I'm thankful for:
1. My amazing family who are always supportive of me
2. My fantastic friends (new and old) who deal with me everyday, no matter how crazy I am
3. Anyone who has ever looked at this blog to get me to over 270 page views
4. My happiness that I have discovered this year
5. The children and teachers that I help with at my internship
6. That I have the access to a good education, clean water, food, and clothes because I know that there are a lot of people who don't have these things and I am grateful that I do have them
7. Nail polish because I have a nail art blog and it gives me a way to be creative
8. Candy, chocolate, and sweets because they are my favorite thing
9. Quotes and dancing because they speak for me when I do not know what to say
10. Music because it makes me happy and I love listening to different songs


~Hannah
"Be strong, you never know who you are inspiring."

Striped Nails

Wow! When I logged on to put this post, I had 255 page views since I started this blog! I am so happy with this, I never thought I would get past 100. So thank you!

Now to the nails, I was not really sure what to do this week so I started by painting my nails tan yesterday because I took of my nail art from last weekend and I feel weird not having any polish on my nails so I went with a basic color that I could easily paint over today.

This morning, I was browsing Pinterest looking for some inspiration and I found these really cool nails that were simple but also looked cute.

I did not really like the stripes, polka dots, and roses all together so I just went for stripes. One of these days, I need to do nails with roses because they are one of my favorite flowers, my first being sunflowers. Maybe next weekend I'll paint roses, stay tuned.

I have another exciting announcement about upcoming nail art. I am going to be in my school's production of Dracula! I am super excited! My school has never really done a show that is creepy and eerie like Dracula but it is going to be fun! I am one of Dracula's brides. Stay tuned for these nails in March or so because that is when the show is.

Black, White, and Matte

This has been a very busy weekend for me. I was in my school's production of Peter Pan: the British Musical, which is very similar to the Disney version. I did not get home until 2am so I am a bit tired but I still have a nail design for you. It is very simple but it looks awesome!

It was inspired by HannahRoxNails on YouTube and one of her collaborations with LuLu's Blog.

Peter Pan Nails

My nails today have a lot going on and use fourteen nail polishes. My nails are inspired by the show my school is currently doing, Peter Pan: The British Musical, because I am in it. I am the Chief's wife and a pirate. I did not have a lot of time but I always do nails for the shows and I could not pass up this opportunity.

Sketch of Nails Before Painting

Tumblr

Last week, I got a Tumblr. I am still learning how to use it. I was told to get one by my friends because they really like my blog and wanted me to make a blog on Tumblr as well.

I have like 10 reposts and I am going to put in all my pictures from my blog on there in the next few hours. I will be posting pictures from here, funny things, and quotes mostly.

So if you want to follow me, click here: http://key-to-nail-art.tumblr.com/

Hope you guys like it,
~Hannah
"People are the prettiest when they talk about something they really love with passion in their eyes."

Nails, quotes, space, laughing, and organizing things are my passions, follow me on this journey with me as I grow.

Dot Nails

For this week, I was inspired by the video from CutePolish on YouTube.

From CutePolish on YouTube

As she says in the video, it looks hard but it only took me about 15 minutes to do both hands. 

Glitter Spider Web Nails

This nails were inspired by this post on http://www.chalkboardnails.com/.

From: http://www.chalkboardnails.com/

These nails are a perfect idea for Halloween, which is coming up at the end of the week.

Feelings

We all have a lot of feelings. If you think that you do not have a lot of feeling, I have plenty and I can share with you.

You have feelings about the person you like.
You have feelings about your friends.
You have feelings about your favorite activity.
You have feelings about objects like that key necklace from your great grandfather.
You have feelings about your parents.
You have feelings about your siblings.
You have feelings about your favorite place to visit.
You have feelings about your prized possession from your childhood.
You have feelings about your favorite song.
You have feelings about everything.

Perfect Fall Day

I have spent my whole life in New England and I love it here. I like every season equally but Fall is my favorite season hands down. It may be my strange obsession of apples and pumpkins but I still love Fall the most. 

Today was the perfect Fall day for me. I got to stay inside and be warm and cozy but I also got to go outside and brave the crisp air. 

My checklist for a perfect Fall day: 

Apple crisp

Negative Space/Cut Out Nails

These nails are not something that I thought I would like but I really like them.

From http://chelseaqueen.com/

I like the colors she choose because they make it look more sophisticated rather than other negative space nails that look sexy because of the colors. Also, I am a huge fan of pastels. 

Space Nails

I did not know what to do on my nails this week so I asked my friends. One of them sent me these cool space/star nails:

I did not want to do something exactly like that so I went to the internet to find more space nail ideas. There were plenty of ideas, I just had to find the one that I liked best.

I really like space and astronomy because I think that it is interesting how all of the stars, galaxies, black holes, etc. are all surrounding us everyday but we do not know about most of it. Also, I think space is really pretty as shown by my new obsession with NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day. I was inspired by this picture from today of a Helix Nebula:

"How did a star create the Helix nebula? The shapes of planetary nebula like the Helix are important because they likely hold clues to how stars like the Sun end their lives. Observations by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope and the 4-meter Blanco Telescope in Chile, however, have shown the Helix is not really a simple helix. Rather, it incorporates two nearly perpendicular disks as well as arcs, shocks, and even features not well understood. Even so, many strikingly geometric symmetries remain. How a single Sun-like star created such beautiful yet geometric complexity is a topic of research. The Helix Nebula is the nearest planetary nebula to Earth, lies only about 700 light years away toward the constellation of Aquarius, and spans about 3 light-years." (NASA)

Glitter Nails

I designed these glitter nails with most of the glitter that I own. They are fairly simple and only took about thirty minutes. The only problem with them are that I had to put three topcoats on top because the glitter polishes eat up a lot of glitter.

These nails are in focus to show how they look in real life.

Crayon Nail Art

This nail art was also inspired by a picture on Pinterest and a YouTube Video.

From: http://copycatclaws.blogspot.ca/ 

From: CutePolish on YouTube

I urge all of you to check out Serene's nail blog. She is currently doing the 30 day nail art challenge for the month of September. I also think that all of you should check out Sandi aka CutePolish on YouTube. 

Balloon Birthday Nails

This is my first official post, the last post was just some nail art that I have done in the past year or so.

Today I created a balloon nail art design that was inspired from this post on Pinterest:

Credit: http://the-nail-trail.blogspot.co.uk/ (blog is gone)

Nail Achieves (January 2013 to September 2014)

This post has all of the pictures that I can find of nail art that I have done from January 2013 to September 2014. I hope you all enjoy my first blog post! 

2013 Gold and Silver Nails (January 2013)

Les Mis Musical (March 2014)