Fancy Half Moon Mani!

Good morning, readers! Today's post is a quick one showing a mani I wore a few weeks ago but didn't have a chance to make it to the blog yet. I just love Rebecca from Rebecca Likes Nails so when I heard the news that she had been able to make her own collaboration shade with Picture Polish, I was so excited! And, the color is so pretty I just HAD to buy it as soon as it went on sale. I ordered from OverallBeauty.com and threw in a Picture Polish Jade while I was looking through the Picture Polish section. It's been on my radar for a while and I am really glad I ordered it when I ordered Siren Song because I loved how they looked together!

The Digit-al Dozen DOES Skittles Day 5: Brown and Turquoise!

Good morning, readers! It's the final day of "Skittle Week" with The Digit-al Dozen. This is a random mani but I loved the color combo and I can see myself wearing some of the individual finger designs as a full mani in the future!

Dior Saint Tropez, Picture Polish Lagoon, Picture Polish Demeter, and Butter London Teetotal are the polishes used.

Thumb: gradient of all 4.
Index: gradient of Saint Tropez and Teetotal.
Middle: gradient of Lagoon and Demeter.
Ring: gradient of Teetotal and Demeter.
Pinky: gradient of Saint Tropez and Lagoon.

The bottles even look pretty next to eachother!

What do you think? This was one of the messiest manis I've done in a long time but it was worth it, these colors together are awesome! 

Thanks so much for reading!

Fuchsia and Blue Skittlette!

Pata Puffer II  is an

previous press sample.

Good morning, readers! Happy Monday! I have a fun skittlette manicure to share with you that I wore a couple of weeks ago. It's very simple but I think it's the color combo that made me love it so much.

• My thumb and pinky have 2 coats of China Glaze Flying Dragon, with top coat.
• My ring finger has 2 coats of Kiko Sugarmat 644
• My index and middle fingers have 2 coats of Picture Polish Freya's Cats, topped with Elevation Polish Pata Puffer II, with top coat.

A little bonus outdoor shot. China Glaze Flying Dragon is really bright in the sun!

What do you think of this color combo? Thanks for reading!

*A polish in this post was sent for me to review with my honest opinion.

Picture Polish Lagoon and Freya's Cats Skittlette

Good morning, readers! I have a quick post for you today.

I recently bought some of the new Picture Polish collaboration shades from Overall Beauty and thought that Lagoon and Freya's Cats went well together. These polishes are so super sparkly and I loved wearing this mani!

I'm showing both with 2 coats below.

What do you think? You can get Picture Polishes from their site, as well as many of their distributers.

Thanks for reading!

Picture Polish site: https://www.picturepolish.com.au

Distributers Network: https://www.picturepolish.com.au/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=8

Digit-al Dozen DOES Tape Week Day 3: Hole Hearted!

Good morning, readers! I have the third design for the Digit-al Dozen Tape Week today! This was actually the final design I did (look at my teeny nubs, I had a break and decided to chop them all off short and start new) but I loved it so much that I bumped it up in the queue.

I was inspired by this Chalkboard Nails design using stripes and shapes from hole punches. I decided to go with the heart shaped hole punch and love how it turned out! It is very Anniversary or Valentine's Day appropriate.

• I started with 2 coats of Enchanted Polish May 2013.
• I then used a striping brush and both China Glaze Dandy Lyin' Around and Color Club Miss Bliss to make some vertical stripes.
• Apply a coat of Seche Vite top coat.
• I used my heart shaped hole punch to punch three hearts side by side in painters tape.
• After my coat of Seche Vite had completely dried on my nails, I put the tape on the nail and firmly pressed down around the heart shapes.
• I filled in the hearts with 2 quick coats of Picture Polish Focus and peeled up carefully before it dried.
• Lastly, I applied another coat of Seche Vite to seal it all in!

Super easy and very lovely design! 

What do you think? Thanks so much for reading! Come back tomorrow to see day 4 of Tape Week!

piCture pOlish pshiiit!

Hello readers! I got awesome nail mail today, and had to take off my current mani and put on one of the polishes I got: piCture pOlish pshiiit! Ever since the piCture pOlish blogfest 2012, I've been wanting this polish(as well as Amethyst, which also arrived today) and couldn't wait to get my hands on it. It was supposed to be sold exclusively at Pshiiit boutique or the piCture pOlish website. I've heard that recently it's also been made available at Llarowe!

I had a hard time getting good pictures of this polish. It's a blue teal jelly packed with a golden green shimmer and has blue/green flakies so it's different at different angles. Completely gorgeous and goes right in with my favorite polish color family: teals/aquas. I did three coats but two would have been fine.

So complex!

I used:

Duri Rejuvacote

3 coats of piCture pOlish pshiiit

1 coat of NYC Grand Central Station top coat

What do you think? I'm trying to think of any nail art I could do with it, but for now I'm wearing it alone. Thanks for reading!

piCture pOlish Blog Fest 2012!!

Hello readers!! I have a super exciting post for you today! All over the nail blog world today, you will be seeing tons of posts for piCture pOlish Blog Fest 2012! All of their new shades are available for purchase today and I have 2 to show to you!

piCture pOlish is an Australian company that also sells Ozotic brand polishes on their site! They have a network of members all over the world that carry their polishes so you don't have to pay shipping from Australia, which is really great! They are also one of my favorite brands and I was so excited to be able to participate in this years Blog Fest!

I was lucky enough to receive these two gorgeous shades: Demeter and Tease! Check out the bottle shots before I go into more detail about each:

I just love the little sayings on the front of each bottle!

piCture pOlish even has these awesome QR code labels on each bottle! Scan them with your smart phones and you will be brought right to piCture pOlish online or the Network Member where the bottle was purchased!

First up I have Demeter! This is a special Holographic Shade from the Collaboration Collection and was jointly created by the Canadian Network Member, Katie, from Harlow & Co. This shade is exclusive to piCture pOlish online and Harlow & Co. It's a gorgeous brown with gold holographic flakes that is stunning inside and outdoors! This is 2 easy coats with top coat.

The holographic effect is more noticeable in person than in my photos.

Next I have Tease. This is a new Mesh Shade and will be available at piCture pOlish online as well as through all Network Members. It's a bright barbie pink packed with teeny silver glitter. I loved this more than I expected to once it was on my nails. They were so sparkly and seemed to glow. This is 2 easy coats with topcoat.

I had some inspiration while wearing Tease for some simple nail art. I wanted to bring out the silver glitter in Tease so I decided to do gradient glitter tips with teeny silver glitter! 

I used Ulta Sequins and a torn makeup sponge for the gradient glitter tips.

What do you think of the new polish shades? Which is your favorite? I love them and am so excited to see all of the other Blog Fest 2012 posts today. I'm anxious to see the other new colors! 

Thank you so much to the ladies at piCture pOlish for letting me be a part of Blog Fest 2012! 

piCture pOlish can be found:

online at www.picturepolish.com.au 

on Facebook piCture pOlish - a week on your tips never on your hips!

on Twitter http://twitter.com/picturepolish

on Pinterest http://pinterest.com/picturepolish/

Here is a listing of all of the Network Members for all over the world: http://www.picturepolish.com.au/information.php?info_id=11

*I was sent these polishes to review with my honest opinion.

Naild'it Summer Lovin Water!

Hello readers! I actually have a real post for you this afternoon! Thanks for sticking around during my absence and understanding that my posts won't be as frequent now that I am a happy momma to TWO kids. Owen is doing great and we are getting the hang of it around here, thank you all for the warm wishes toward him. Hailey is being an awesome big sister as well--a perfect little helper!

Okay, onto the polish! Andrea from Naild'it on Etsy sent me this gorgeous glitter to review and share with you guys. I love it so much! This is from the new Summer Lovin trio and is a wonderful mix of different colored glitters. As described by Andrea on the Etsy listing: "Summer Lovin Water is a loaded glitter nail polish with blues, teals, aquas, whites, greens, purples, blacks, with blue hearts and hexes." 

After seeing a few different base colors on the Etsy listing photos for Summer Lovin Water, I decided to go for something different. I decided on piCture pOlish Wisteria with accent nails of China Glaze Starboard. I like how they match their corresponding glitters and the blues stand out so much!

Look at the blue heart!

I used:

Orly Nail Defense

2 coats of each piCture pOlish Wisteria and China Glaze Starboard

2 coats of Naild'it Summer Lovin Water 

1 coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast

I just love the combo of colors and glitters in Water! It applied easily and was packed enough that one coat would have covered it. But we know how much I love glitter, so two coats for me! All in all, I definitely love this polish and I'll be adding some more Naild'it polishes to my wishlist! What do you think?

Andrea's Naild'it Etsy Shop can be found here, her full size(0.5 oz/15ml) bottles retail for $8.50.

*This polish was sent for me to review with my honest opinion.

Shimmer-thon Day 10- Cassandra!

Good morning readers! Today is the last day of the Shimmer-thon. I'll be showing you the final of the 10 Shimmer Polishes I had for you. Tomorrow look for a recap of all 10 in one post to help you pick your favorites!

I saved Cassandra for last for 2 reasons. Reason 1 is that there was no way I was going to swatch her alone and let me stained nails show through against the pretty holo glitters. Reason 2 was that she was one of my favorites and I knew I'd be layering her in an awesome combo for you.

Cassandra has holo hexes as well as iridescent glitters that flash different colors in the light! I love that the holo pieces are more of a white and not a silver. It makes this unique! Once I got my new Picture Polish Wisteria this week from Llarowe, I knew I'd want to wear Cassandra over it. It is like a match made in heaven! I love it so much!

 

I used:

Orly Nail Defense

2 coats of Picture Polish Wisteria

1 coat of Shimmer Polish Cassandra

1 coat of Shimmer Polish Glass

This is only one coat of Cassandra over Wisteria! Look how packed it is! I just love this one so so much! I think this is such a fun a girly mani and plan to wear it as long as it lasts! Another good reason for saving it for the last day-- now I won't have to take it off to change it for tomorrow!

So what did you think of the Shimmer-thon? Which colors are your favorites? Are you excited for the big post tomorrow of all 10 colors together?

Cindy has an etsy shop HERE if you are interested in this or any of her other polishes. The polishes retail for $12 each. You can also find her blog with contact info HERE and her new Facebook Page HERE.

What do you think? Thanks for reading!

*This product was sent for me to review with my honest opinion

Day 19: Galaxies

Good morning everyone and thank you for stopping by my blog! Today's challenge was Galaxy Nails and I was a bit nervous about this one. Thankfully, though, it's a lot easier than I thought and I ended up loving it MUCH more than those half moon nails yesterday! It was a lot of different colors and glitters sponged on with a ripped up makeup triangle and I don't even think my pictures do it justice. Much prettier in person because the different angles show the different types of glitters.

 In the sun.

Out of direct sunlight.

I used: Base color of Pure Ice Electric!

A coat over that of OPI I Juggle...Men

Then I sponged on in various areas:

Essie Blanc,

Ulta Material Girl,

piCture pOlish denim,

Wet n Wild Jungle Fever,

a-england Lady of the Lake,

Ozotic 528,

China Glaze White Cap,

and Nubar 2010.

Top Coat of Out the Door.

I really like how these turned out and keep looking at them. I even love my right hand because it was easy enough to look as good as the left in this mani! You should definitely try it sometime!! Thanks for reading!

Nail Mail and Haul Post!

The past 2 weeks have been big for me in terms of getting nail polish! I got a lot of nail mail, and also had some new hauls from Ulta, Sally's, and Kroger. Here are the pictures(please click to enlarge!):

 a-england Lady of the Lake and Tristam! Purchased at Llarowe

 Ozotic 528, 505, and piCture pOlish denim from my husband!

 OPI Roadhouse Blues and I Lily Love You from Kroger grocery store!

 China Glaze Traffic Jam from Sally's Beauty Supply!

 My Ulta Haul on the butterLONDON sale day!

 L-R: Ulta Taupe on a Rope, Ulta Chic Peek, bL British Racing Green, bL Big Smoke, Ulta Army of 1, and Ulta Material Girl.

 The entire Wet n Wild On The Prowl Collection!! My friend Alyssa was able to find these for me and send them my way! 

L-R: Buy Me A Drink, Ready To Pounce, Behind Closed Doors, Tangled In My Web, Correction Tape, Jungle Fever, Ink Well, and Cougar Attack

essence nail art twins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(the extra bella and edward for my giveaway aren't pictured). Ruth was able to send these to me from Spain! I love them!!!!!

L-R: Bella, Edward, Thelma, Louise, Chuck, and Blair.

Such an amazing 2 weeks of polish for me!! Hope you enjoyed reading!