Girl's Nails - Sunday Dress Mani

This Saturday Princess A wanted a mani to match the dress she was going to wear on Sunday for church. I gave her Essie's Fun in the Gondola because it matched the flowers on her dress but she wanted a different color on each nail (which I coincidentally learned today is called a skittle mani). So we ended up with all those different colors. She had Fun in the Gondola (pink), Sew Perfect (olive green with silver shimmer), Sinful Color's Unicorn (yellow, see my swatch here), Sephora by OPI Dear Diary (a pale pink, discontinued), and Wet and Wild's Megalast in Hush-Hush (milky white creme, discontinued).

Not a super sharp pic but it's hard to get a 6 yr old to leave her hands still, even when she wants you to take the pic in the 1st place. 

Sherbet Girl's Nails - Sephora by OPI

One of the things I love to do with my 6 year old daughter is to give her a weekly Saturday manicure and paint her nails. This whole routine started when she was around 3 and had just started preschool. She was very nervous and started to bite her nails. I saw her future flash before my eyes, stubby nails, irritated, painful cuticles, other girls pointing and laughing. There are many things I can't control in her life, but one thing that I did feel was my responsibility was too teach her to not bite and how to take care of them. So now every week they get a trim and polish, and every few weeks I do the whole mani-pedi thing.

We spent a days at the beach a couple of weeks ago and she wanted something bright and colorful so sherbet nails it was! Colors I used were from the now sadly discontinued Sephora by OPI collection. The light purple is It's Hippo to be Square, the peachy coral is How Cute is That, and the pink is Access 24/7. 2-3 coats per color with Seche Vite as topcoat. 
It's very easy to do if you have a steady hand and a steady kid. I started with the bottom color, painting one stripe at a time in each hand, working my way up.