Smooches!

Hi to all my fellow polish lovers :D Today I was am so excited to share one of my Bundle Monster stamps I got for Christmas from my boyfriend's parents. They are the best! 

This is 2 coats of OPI's India Mood for Love on all my fingers but the ring. That finger has one coat of Ulta's Set the Nude which kind of looks like an off-white matte. Then I added a layer of Essie Kisses & Bises for a sheer pearly / pinky glow. 

Once that dried I used Bundle Monster plate 303 to stamp on big kisses using Konad's white special stamping polish. Most of them transferred really well. I only had a couple which ran a bit when I put top coat over them ie my pinky...

Next I used the same OPI that I had on my other nails along with a dotting tool to create the polka dots on my ring finger. I gave everything a coat of Out The Door top coat (it doesn't seem to peel off as easy as Seche Vite & costs about $1 less) and glued on a hot pink bow for the finishing touch. I wish I had done these a bit closer to Valentine's Day but you can't win them all ! 

Glitter Gradient & Zebra Bling

Hi all! Hope everyone had a great start to the New Year. I have been busy busy busy since Christmas and am definitely looking forward to some of the craziness dying down a bit. Most of all I am looking forward to finally having some time to go through my apartment to reorganize and get rid of things... Yes sadly even some of my nail stuff because I just don't think my tiny apartment can hold anymore. But anyways, on to what you're really here to see, the manicure!!! :D

Even though New Year's has come and gone, I am still majorly in the mood for some bling! For this I used 1 coat of Essie Case Study on all fingers, kind of a tan nude. Then I used Color Club's Orna-minty to do the glitter gradient on all my fingers but the ring finger. I feel like the gradient could have come out a little better since it looks similar to a french manicure in this picture but in person it looks a lot more like a gradient. On my ring finger I used 3 coats of Orna-minty all over. I then put on a top coat so it would have a smooth finish and used Wet & Wild Shine's Blue Moon to hand paint in the zebra print. 

I then decided I still needed just a bit more bling LOL and added 3 silver rhinestones on my pointer finger and finally felt complete. What do you guys thing? I ended up loving the subtlety of the nude and glitter gradient with the pop of the wild zebra bling.  

All I want For Christmas

All I want for Christmas is some more Butter London polishes!!! JK but I do love them! Everyone I have tried has gone on so nice. Thank goodness Coterie occasionally puts them on sale or I would never be able to afford them. Hope everyone is starting to feel the Holiday Spirit. I know I am, and I needed a manicure to prove it!

For this manicure I used three coats of Butter's Saucy Jack on all my fingers except my ring and attached a silver rhinestone to the top center. 

On my ring finger I have 3 coats of OPI's I Don't Give a Rotterdam. I really loved this shimmery gray/blue. Then I used skinny red striping tape going both horizontally and vertically to look like ribbon on a present. Then I used 3 red rhinestones to recreate berries. I hand painted the leaves using OPI's Skip the Gift Wrap as the final touch. What do you guys think Christmasy enough? After seeing how cute my ring finger turned out I kind of wished I did them all that way!

A Christmas French

Hi bloggers! I know it has been a super long time since my last post but I swear the holidays got here and I just don't know what happened to time. I think it just evaporated. I'm sure it didn't help that I decided to pick up a Holiday job at Sephora in JCP and a couple of math tutoring jobs. Thank goodness I did because the extra money has been great this Holiday. The extra discount at JCP and Sephora products doesn't hurt either :)

Now on to the manicure. I owed my boyfriend's sister Kelly for a fabulous favor she did for me so in return I did her gel nails and a beautiful Christmas French. I loved how it turned out.

For this manicure I used a brand new Holiday OPI, that I got free from Ulta with a purchase of 2 other OPI polishes. It's called Skip the Gift Wrap. I used this for the french tip and the leaves. Then I used Silver striping tape I got for mere cents off of EBAY. Then the berries were just three red rhinestones. Hope you like them! They definitely put me in more of a Christmas mood! 

Another Pink Wednesday in Support for Breast Cancer

Hello blog-o-sphere!!!! Today I have another Pink manicure to show support for Breast Cancer awareness month. I was so excited for all these pink manicures, but it quickly made me realize I didn't have a whole lot of pink polishes. Totally strange considering I love the color so much. Thankfully, Ulta had their Orly and China Glaze on sale buy 2 get 1 free plus I had a coupon for $5 off so I was able get some gorgeous new pinks!!

Here is the overall manicure when I finished. 

First I started with 2 coats of Orly Preamp. I absolutely love this polish it has some gorgeous but super subtle shimmering pink glitter undertones.

Not sure I really captured it in either of these photos too well, but you get the idea LOL.

For the stamping I used Konad's special red stamping polish and Bundle Monster plate BM02 for the kisses and BM16 for the zebra print. For the polka dots I used Sally Hansen's Diamond Strength polish in Diamond & Rubies and my dotting tool. I won the bows on EBAY last month and have been totally obsessed with them ever since! Can you blame me though?!

 

I wasn't too sure of using the red polish because I didn't want it to look too much like Valentines Day, but sweetest day is coming up this month. 

Everything that Glitters is Gold

Hey! Today I am so excited to show you a couple of the new Butter London polishes I got from Coterie. (If you want to check it out feel free to message me your email and I will be happy to refer you!) I was so excited to be able to get these Butter Polishes for such a great price. I got three polishes for about $16 including shipping which was awesome, because they normally retail for $14 each, which I could never afford, unless I only bought like one polish a year or something LOL

This is what my finished manicure looked like. but I think I loved it at almost every step of the way too!

I first started with two coats of All Hail the Queen. This polish went on gorgeous even in one coat, and dried really fast. The formula was a dream to work with so I can kinda see why they charge $14 for it. I could ALMOST justify it, it went on that nice! Plus all the holographic shimmering undertones made it so pretty and multi-dimensional. Needless to say, I left this on alone for a few days because I was so enamored with it! 

Next I applied a coat of Butter London's West End Wonderland which is the gorgeous gold glitter you see here . What I really loved about this polish was how fine the gold glitter was so it only took one layer of top coat. Unlike some of the other glitters I own, which even after 3 coats seem to be begging for more. Then I put a little bit of Sinful Colors teal glitter polish called (how fitting) Nail Junkie to add a little accent nail. I ended up really loving these two together. 

Overall, I really just can not say enough good things about the Butter polishes. If you have the budget for it, they are totally worth it and if your like me and you don't, here's to hoping for another great sale. :D

Power of the Pink

Since it's October and Breast Cancer Awareness month I decided to do a pink manicure. I couldn't decide on just one design or polish or glitter... LOL So i guess I went a bit pink crazy but I ended up loving the finished product. Hope you guys do too!!!

For this design I used the polishes pictured below

L --> R : Sinful Colors Glass Pink, Sally Hansen Extreme Wear  Strobe Light, Essie Your Hut or Mine, Essie A Cut Above
 

Oddly enough I still felt like something was missing and decided to make my ring finger a glitter gradient. 

There much better LOL. You don't even want to know how long this all took me and how many layers of polish this all took! I will say that the Glass Pink polish by Sinful Colors was VERY sheer and thus took like 3 layers over a base whitish base coat polish. I did my nails while over at my friend Kristine's house so sadly I did not have my dotting tool to make the polka dots perfect and just had to free hand them.

Here's the polish I used for the darker gradient with Strobe Light.

Rockstar Pink by Sally Hansen

What pink manicures are you gals rocking this month????