Hey Everyone,
Today I have a really fun manicure to show you. I saw some striped nails on Work/Play/Polish and was inspired to do something similar. Since I’m obsessed with neons lately, naturally I had to go with some super-bright shades. 
These were my favorite nails that I’ve worn recently. I think we should just look at them, don’t you?
Neon and Grey Striped Nails
I had to include these shade pictures to demonstrate just how bright the colors are. They practically glow even in low light.
How To Get These Nails:
- Base coat.
- Apply one opaque coat of white nail polish. I used my thickened up OPI Alpine Snow.
- Paint your nails half Essie Lights and half ChG I’m With The Lifeguard. I just free-handed the half-and-half nails, they were a little messy and uneven but it doesn’t really matter since you’ll be covering most of them up.
- Apply a coat of Seche Vite and allow to dry thoroughly.
- When your nails are completely dry, use the straight french manicure guards or a thin strip of tape to cover one strip of pink and one strip of green.
- When your tape is nice and adhered to your nails, use ChG Elephant Walk (from the On Safari collection) to paint the exposed parts of your nails.
- Immediately remove the french manicure guard stickers, but allow some drying time before applying your topcoat. When you polish over the stickers your polish might be a little thick and you don’t want it to smear over your neon stripes.
- Apply top coat (I use Seche Vite).
- Show off your bright yet neutral nails
What do you think of these nails? Do you do tape manis very often? I like dong a plain scotch tape manicure but if I’m being honest, these with the little strips kinda give me fits. You’ll hear more about that later on in the week when I show you the mani I’m wearing as I type this! 
As always, thank you all for reading and commenting, and till next time- Happy Polishing!! 
i think i will copy it tonight on one of my friends..
Oooh awesome! You totally should!
my friends didn’t come.. so maybe i’ll do it in the weekend..!!
Oh Booo!!! Well then, I guess weekend it is!
I like how it’s a really noticeable mix.
I suck at tape manis…my polish is never dry and I always just end up messing up the polish with the tape and then I give up. Why do I like nail stuff when I suck at nearly all of it, haha?
Is this your mani from Twitter or is that a different one?
Im pretty sure I shared this on twitter (cuz I always do! Haha) but I’m not 100% sure which one you’re thinking of. And yes- drying time is key. I pull my polish up all the time. This time I was good and waited but then my lines were all wavy. Who knows. I like nail stuff and suck sometimes too. It’s a curse. :-/
I want to experiment more with gray! It looks great.
Thank you!! Grey is such a good go-to polish. This one is particularly nice cuz it’s shimmery but I also love OPI skull and glossbones but it’s more of a greige. I use it all the time for a base for nail art.
Love it! I have to stop myself from wearing gray all the time. Todays mani is gray…again. Never tried it with neons. Awesome combo. Thanks for the mention.
No problemo. Your grey and teal and burgundy nails gave me the idea.
I love grey and greige too. I wore skull and glossbones forever over the winter.
Nice, love the color scheme
Thank you! These were some of my favorite nails for sure!
This screams 80′s to me. I don’t know why all of a sudden I saw those black spandex bicycle shorts my mom bought me with the neon stripe down my thighs. Wow, I was a stylish kid. Or when I would wear 3 pairs of neon scrunchie socks with my keds. hahahahaha
I think the grey is unexpected and it works!
They are kinda 80s, huh? Now that you say that, they bring up visions of scrunch socks and leggings for me as well. Haha. Dang, you WERE a stylish kid! I suppose you had a fanny pack, too. :p
Seriously tho thanks for the compliment and I’m glad you like them. Hey if nothing else- they don’t have any glitter!
OMG…i so had a fanny pack. I remember wearing scrunchy neon socks with my LA GEAR Brats. I am dying over here thinking about LA GEAR Brats.
Hahaha idk what a brat but I remember LA Gear brand. You were styling and it just keeps getting better!
LA Gear Brats were like their most popular sneakers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfd9q5i81hs hahahahaha omg I am cracking myself up.
Oh no I remember those! Hahaha. Idk if I had any but I’m betting true answer is yes.
haha.
I had to seriously beg my parents to get me those…I think my brother got some of the LA Gear sneakers that had a pump or something…or maybe they were Nike. I dunno. Ahhhh….that was fun. lol
Welcome to memory lane. Haha. One of the kids at the park seriously wants a fanny pack. He thinks they’re coming back. We can only hope he’s wrong.
Fanny packs are wrong on so many levels. They are horrid…and my dad still wears one when he travels. I can’t believe it because those things make it easier for someone to pickpocket you AND you are a fashion fail.
Yeah I mean they’re just bad all around. Oof. Shame on your dad and the kid at my park. His name is Bubba… if he ever reads this be deserves the call-out. :p
What is it with you and bubbas? Bubbacharles and now a kid at your park?
You wanna hear a funny story? (I’m going w yes) I met the kid (teen) named Bubba three years ago (we got our dog ~5 years ago). His nickname is Bubba actually, he has a different “real” name. Anyway, he told me his name and then idk how it came up but he told me his middle name…. Charles.
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was meant to be.
I know right?? Seriously it was too weird. He’s getting kinda old for the park program now but the last two summers he was my BFF every single day of the summer. Now it’s just a couple of days a week, which is fine… they grow up fast.
This is so awesome, Nicole! The neons look great with the grey!! I need to try that…
Thank you! I’m sure yours will look fantastic… you have the most awesome neon-nude/neutral combos!!