Orly Prelude to a Kiss & butter LONDON Tart with a Heart

Here is one of my favorite combinations to date!!! Orly Prelude to a Kiss with butter LONDON Tart with a Heart. I love the look of this manicure. Tart with a Heart is a great glitter topper that adds flair to a seemingly boring creme polish. Enjoy!

COLORS

Orly Prelude to a Kiss

butter LONDON Tart with a Heart

I topped off this manicure with a coat of Gelous and Seche Vite.

Another FSU Mani

I went to an FSU baseball game last April and this is what I wore! It was put together really quickly the night before the game, so it is rather sloppy. I hope you enjoy!

COLORS

Zoya Blair

L.A. Colors Wave Length

Wet n Wild 24 Carats

Oh, and my boys in garnet and gold won the game in extra innings! Go Noles!!

Sinful Colors Be Happy & Revlon Whimsical

Here are a few pictures of Sinful Colors Be Happy and Revlon Whimsical. I really liked how these two polishes looked together.

Enjoy!

Another Quick Mani: OPI and Nicole by OPI

Hello! Here's another quick mani that I love because of the colors. Enjoy!

COLORS:

OPI Light My Sapphire

Nicole by OPI Kendall on the Katwalk

St. Patrick's Day 2012

Here was my Saint Patrick's Day mani for 2012. Enjoy!

 Pinky fingers

 Ring fingers

 Middle fingers

 Index fingers

As you can see, I decided to go with white Konad in the final design rather than the green.

Thumbs

The final mani!

COLORS:

a England Dragon

essie Blanc

essie Pretty Edgy

Rimmel Rags to Riches

Sally Hansen Insta Dri Snappy Sorbet

Sinful Colors Call You Later

Sinful Colors Irish Green

Sinful Colors Olympia

Sinful Colors Pot O Gold

I'm here! A neutral glitter fest for you, my dears!

*waves awkwardly*

Hello! Sorry for my absence from the blogosphere... Graduate work is difficult, and I started a new job, so things have started to get consistent. Hopefully, my posts will reflect that consistency!

So, here we are with a pretty snazzy neutral glitter. I used Rimmel Pink Bliss as my color with butter LONDON's Tart With A Heart as a glitter overcoat. I thought the result was pretty nice, myself. Check it out!

Tart With A Heart is more holo in person. It's difficult to capture on camera!!!! 

The furbaby, Chloe! 

As you can see, Pink Bliss left me with a little VNL (visible nail line), but adding Tart With A Heart made the VNL a little less noticeable.

BASE COAT:

Unknown

COLORS:

Rimmel Pink Bliss

butter LONDON Tart With A Heart

TOP COAT:

Unknown (probably Seche Vite)

Day 10: Gradient

As I said in the Day 9 Rainbow post, I recently bought butter LONDON's No More Waity, Katie and I knew I had to do the gradient based on this polish.

Here are the pictures!

So, I won't lie. The first time I saw this polish, I just wanted my piece of the Royal Wedding. Is that shameful? Haha. This was also my birthday mani. February's birthstone is amethyst, which is purple. I also wasn't feeling very flashy on my birthday, so I went for something a little more subtle. I love this polish. As you can see by the pictures, I had some slight application issues. I blame my impatience, however; my right hand looked fine.

I might try No More Waity, Katie with different base and top coats next time. My gradient accent nail held up awesome in comparison to the butter LONDONs.

BASE COATS

butter LONDON Nail Foundation Flawless Basecoat

nails inc Kensington Caviar (ring finger)

COLORS

butter LONDON No More Waity, Katie

nails inc The Thames

Jordana Celebration

TOP COATS

butter LONDON Hardwear P.D. Quick Topcoat

nails inc Kensington Caviar (ring finger)

Let's see... Next is Day 11 which is... *drum roll*... polka dots. Or, as I like to say, polka spots.

Currently, I'm not wearing any polish. I removed my polish last night. Today, I filed them down real good and oiled them up! The oil has already absorbed, so I'm going to oil back up, and check out some other blogs. I need some inspiration for the polka spots! :) Have a good day everyone!

Day 8: Metallic

Hello! I revamped the blog for spring time and I hope to be a posting queen tonight. I need some time to myself, and I've decided to devote it to the blog.

This is Day 8: Metallic. I did this mani Valentine's Day. I also added a little "how to" on how I did my gradient to make this mani legitimately metallic.

Here we go!

These first two pictures are of OPI's Excuse Moi! 

Pictured above are the tools I used for the gradient.

As you can see, I used polish, cardboard, tweezers, and a makeup sponge (the wedge-shaped kind).

 Unfortunately, I got a little carried away, and forgot to take pictures. So I will explain my steps:

1.  Put drops of polish on the cardboard. I've found cardboard isn't that absorbent.

2.  Grab your tweezers and pick up the sponge.

3.  Dip the sponge into the polish.

4.  Sponge your nails. Heavily sponge the areas you want thickly covered. Lightly sponge the areas you want to be sparsely covered.

The final product after the gradient sponging! 

Then, I went a little Konad crazy. I added a netting type pattern and hearts. The netting is courtesy of YouMix Cosmetics XL Stamping Plate A and MASH 19. I stamped using the Konad Black and Konad White polish.

BASE COAT

OPI Nail Envy

COLORS

OPI Excuse Moi!

Konad Black

Konad White

TOP COAT

Seche Vite (Excuse Moi! top coat)

Sally Hansen Insta-Dry (gradient and stamping top coat)

STAMPING PLATES

YouMix Cosmetics XL Stamping Plate "A"

MASH 19

Well, there we have it! Hope y'all enjoyed it! :)