Mish Mash Challenge: Purple

Purchased By Me

Welcome to the first day of the Mish Mash Challenge! Some of you joining us for this challenge are familiar faces that were involved in the ABC Challenge, sorry I missed the last part of that btw, and I'm glad that we have some new faces as well! Welcome to our group ladies, if I don't follow your blog already please bare with me and I will follow as soon as possible! 

BlueSea BowTies form KKCenterHK Review & Nail Art

Press Sample

Good morning!! I have another review of some nail art goodies from KKCenterHK today! I have had these for a while and I should have gotten to them sooner! Oops! I hope the sweet people at KKCenterHK aren't too upset with me! I just really needed to get some inspiration for these and I finally came up with this. I hope you all enjoy! 

G is for Galaxy Nails

Happy Wednesday my polished pretties, and welcome to another day in the ABC Challenge! Today's mani has been on my list of "Nails To Try" for a very long time now. I participated in another challenge hosted by Kimber over at Kimbers Lacquer Korner, the 31 Day Challenge. There was a Galaxy day in that challenge, I skipped it. :/ Boo me. I don't know why but Galaxies really intimidate me, they seem so time consuming and I've seen some that look like blobs of polish and paint so I skipped it because I was afraid that mine would be hideous. However, I am trying to branch out just a little more and try things that I may not like or I am intimidated by. 

Nail Pattern Boldness: Hello? Collection Review & Swatches

Happy Monday!!! Today I have an amazing Valentine’s Day collection from my most favorite Indie maker! I know that there are a TON of Vday collections out there and you may be feeling smacked in the face with them, but these are more than just Vday polishes! These kind of make me think of  that scene in Bambi, when everything starts to thaw and all the animals get Twitterpated! LOL These polishes aren’t just a bunch of hearts in a bottle, they are flowers and butterflies too! Very Spring like and not just your ordinary Vday polishes, so these beauties can be worn long after the obligatory flowers have died and the conversation hearts have disappeared!

Flash Your Tips: All My Sisters Collection Review

Happy Thursday everyone, today I have the All My Sisters Collection from Flash Your Tips to show you, 4 glitter top coats! Flash Your Tips is a pretty new Indie, opening back in November. So lets take a look at what goodies Rachel, the creative mind behind FYT, has for us in this collection! 

ABC Challenge: D is for Dotticure

 It's week four of the ABC Challenge and I finally have a list made out of what I plan on doing for the rest of the challenge! Woohoo! Now I just hope I can execute them the way I see them in my head! :/ Today I decided on a look I had done a while back, when I was first starting to play with my polish and I hadn't even started my blog yet. I have a picture of it on my first post along with several other crazy looking manis,which you can find here. It's not much of a post really, but a gallery of photos that I had taken and just slapped on to the page, but it's funny to see then vs now! 

Polish TBH: Girl Please Collection Swatches & Review

Happy weekend loves! I have a quick review post for you today, 4 of 6 from the new Girl Please Collection. I'm just going to jump right into, so here it goes! 

ABC Challenge: B is for Buttercup by Sally Hansen

So I tried and tried to come up with nail art that started with the letter B, and as you can see I failed. I am having a bit of Nail Art block right now. I can't seem to think of any designs that I wan to try. This makes me a sad girl. :(  I love, love , LOVE nail art, so to draw a blank 2 weeks in a row is really depressing.  Anyway, I decided to use one of my untrieds.

Try It On Tuesday: Essie Wrapped In Rubies & Sally Hansen Copper Penny

Welcome to another TIOT! Today I am, again, swatching 2 untrieds. Hopefully I can knock out most of my untrieds by the end of the year if I pair them up like this and also if I swatch them in collections as well! 

U-Neek Polish: Hearts Collection Swatches & Review

Hola lovelies! Today I have some really beautiful Valentine's Day Polishes from U-Neek Polish's Hearts Collection. Every one of the 4 colors has, you guessed it, heart glitters! Let's get to it...

Ooh La Lacquer Review: Beware of the Plastics & Pink Wednesday

Happy Sunday all! Before I get to the review I want to remind you all of the exciting things to start Monday with my new schedule. Here is a refresher: Mon, Wed, Fri are review days. Tuesdays are Try It On Tuesdays (TIOT). Thursday is Nail Art, and every other weekend is set aside for stamping. I will soon be participating in a very relaxed challenge with some of my buddies that were in the 31 day challenge! We will be doing the ABC challenge, pretty easy since it's just using a polish that the name or brand starts with whichever letter we are on and we are doing it weekly instead of daily! So if any of you are down with the challenge please head over to Kimber's Lacquer Korner and leave her a comment on that post letting her know your URL so she can add you to the list! You can do it! Once a week is super relaxed! 

Ok, I'm finished rambling now! So on to the polish...

Different Dimension: 3 Christmas/Holiday Polishes

I apologize for the late post, again! What I have for you tonight are some polishes I won from an Instagram giveaway a few weeks back from @nic_tchelly and @missibarry. (If you're on IG you can find me @sassypaints2012)I have been trying to work them in a post between review posts, it's been difficult but I had to show them off to you before Christmas!

Day 22 "Inspired by a song"

Hi all, I know I'm late posting but at least I'm posing closer to the actual day than I have been! Today's mani was a tough one for me. I had a few ideas and I just wasn't feeling any of them. That on top of the killer headache I haven't been able to shake for about a week now I just said eff it and went with the song that kept popping in to my head all day anyway Mariposa Traicionera (treacherous butterfly) by Mana. 

Actually they were inspired by the album art for the single. 

2 manis,1 post. Both Nail Fail!

Hey all, sorry I've not been keeping up with my challenges lately. I have been pretty busy with reviews and I have been a bit put off with the challenges since I broke my nail. Nail art is virtually impossible to do on my right hand since I am right handed. My left hand is pretty useless unless it's holding a bottle of polish. LOL 

I did completely bypass Day 19 (Galaxies) in the challenge. I will do one before the challenge is over, cross my heart! Today I have Days 20 and 21, Water Marble and Inspired by a Color.

I want to remind you that at the very beginning of this challenge I said that I would show you even the most ugly, failed attempts. And these frankly belong in that category. 

Freak Show Polish "Sword Swallower" *New Indie Review*

Happy Humpday ladies! It's gross and gray here, the rain has stopped and I'm praying to the baseball Gods that it stays away for the next few days so the Cards can finish this up and move on to the World Series! Ok enough about my baseball wishes and on to the reason you all are here...POLISH! 

Freak Show Polish to be more specific.

I warn you now this is a bit picture heavy and lengthy. 

Nail Pattern Boldness "Hades"

Hello lovelies! How is everyone doing this Monday evening? My Monday is going really well, it's my 1st wedding anniversary! Yay! My hubby told me for our anniversary he got us tickets to go see Wicked!!! What a sweet boy! Especially since I know he really doesn't like musicals! It's not till December but i don't care because it's WICKED!!  Ok, I'm sorry for the out burst but I just had to tell someone!

On to the nails! I have been sitting on this one for a little while. Since Allison from Nail Pattern Boldness went on vacation I wanted to wait until she was back to show you the latest goodies I had gotten during one of her last restocks! 

Day 16 of the 31 Day Challenge "Tribal Print"

Hello ladies, yes again! I know, 2 posts in one night!? It's a miracle! LOL I had been so behind in my 31 day posts I really wanted to try and keep in schedule since I have a really full month! Today was the day in the challenge, along with day's 18 and 19, that I have been dreading! I've never done a tribal print mani before. I have adored the time some of you girls take to put into the very detailed tribal but I just don't like spending that much time on a mani that I know will be taken off in 24 hours anyway! However, once I saw my inspiration for this mani I actually got a tad bit excited about it.

I started off with 3 coats of Orly Dayglow. 

Dayglow was part of the Feel The Vibe collection and my favorite white in my collection so far. It has a slight blue shimmer to it, which is extremely hard to capture in pictures. Take my word for it, it's beautiful!!!

These earrings were the inspiration for this mani. I found them on Pinterest. Here's the link to my board with the pin if you're interested.

Next I used Spoiled Distant Memory and Sally Hansen Golden-I to create my designs

I know my designs aren't an exact match for the pattern on the earrings but they were my inspiration none the less. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out, much better than I expected!

Don't forget to check out the links below for the other great tribal manis that were done!

-Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
- Robin Sparkles 

I want to end this post by telling you all that my friend Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed is having a giveaway! She has an awesome blog with a butt ton of free hand nail art! Her blog is one of my faves! Go follow her and enter her giveaway by clicking the picture below!!!

Blood Splatter Nails

I know I didn't post my flower mani for day 14, I really had every intention of doing it but I just lacked the motivation to do it. I've  had a few things in my head that I wanted to do and post for this weekend as well but I spent most of Saturday night painting nails just not mine.

I went to my mom's house and we were going to have a manicures and wine night. There were 6 of us and I was under the impression that we were going to do  mani's on each other. WRONG! Lol It turned into me doing it all and I only got 1 glass of wine! O_o 

So Oooops! I failed please forgive me. I will have a new challenge post up tomorrow, I promise!

I do have some mani pix for you tonight, though! Tonight was the season premiere of Dexter so I had to do blood splatter nails. I was inspired by a mani Victoria at Manicurator did on her black and white day of her 31 day challenge.

For this look I used SH White On as the base color then SC Ruby Ruby in the spray bottle with a little bit of Orly thinner!

I was so happy to finally see my favorite serial killer again! I am so in love with Michael C Hall as Dexter! He's so friggin HOT! I know there is something wrong with me! LOL

In other news! I will be starting a new challenge that will run the full month of October!

This is a work at your own pace challenge with 10 different Halloween themed days. If you are interested in joining contact datyorkLOVES (Our awesome challenge host!) email her your blog name & link or FB page link, by Oct 10th! (E-mail: datyorkloves@gmail.com)

Also keep your eye on the blog, I will be posting some reviews in the next week or so featuring a couple of new Indies!

***Don't forget to enter my Giveaway!***



Jelly Belly Nails

Hello ladies! Today I am doing a combined challenge post. It is the 9th day in the 31 Day challenge which call for "rainbow" nails and it is also the 10th and final day of the My Favorite Things Challenge, it calls for my favorite mani.

Today's mani was inspired by my favorite candy...Jelly Belly Jelly Beans!

Colors used:

Pinky

Wet n Wild Sunny Side Up

Sinful Colors Sugar Sugar

Ring

Sinful Colors Innocent

China Glaze In The Lime Light

Sinful Colors Last Chance

Middle

Sally Hansen Coral Reef

Sinful Colors Cross My Heart

Index

Orly Skinny Dip

Sinful Colors Lavender

Sinful Colors Let's Talk

Thumb

Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow

Milani Dark Coffee

Originally I wanted to do my spun sugar mani for this day but I decided that it had been a while since

I had done a Saran Wrap mani so I opted for that instead. I have only done the Saran Wrap technique once, that time I painted the second color over the first then took the SW to the nail. This time I decided I wanted to try the other way: putting the polish on the SW and dabbing it on top of the base color which would mimic the speckled pattern on the Jelly Beans.

Did I manage to capture the essence of the Jelly Belly?? LOL

I'm glad I chose to do this for my final Favorite Things mani, there are just so many things I love about this! I really enjoyed this challenge and I hope you all did too.

I will still be working on the 31 day challenge for a while still so make sure to check on the future mani's, the best is yet to come!

Don't forget to show off your teal mani's for Ovarian Cancer Awareness on my Facebook Fan Page  for the whole month of September.

Also don't forget that once I get 100 Facebook likes, GFC followers or Twitter followers I will be hosting my first giveaway! And I have super special surprise news about that giveaway...so like and follow, 100 is just around the corner!!!

Check out the other mani's for both of these great challenges!



Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner

-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Greta at How Was Your Day?
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
-Robin Sparkles

Glitter and Violet

I am now on day 7 for the My Favorite Things Challenge and day 6 for the 31 Day challenge.

So I wanted to come up with something for both in 1 mani since they both fell on the same day.

I decided that I wanted to do a royal colored mani since violet/purple is such a royal color!

 

 

First I started off with Sally Hansen Golden-I

 

Then on my ring finger and thumb I applied Orly Sashay My Way

 

Next I attempted a ruffian look by adding e.l.f Royal Purple

 

Now I should have stopped here but for some reason I didn't...

 

I'm not too crazy about the rhinestones but I wanted to see how it would look.

Now I know. LOL

 

 

I also attemped a purple camo per my husbands request. It turned out better than I thought it would.

I just couldn't get it to photograph well for some reason.

 

 

Those were the best 2 out of about 30 so I gave up. LOL

 

Now I am going to start swatching...Dollish Polish will be first and on my next post! Yay!

So check back for that!

 

And as always, Go check out the other ladies in these two challenges!

 

 

 

Cee:Absolutely Cee

Stephanie Louise:All Things Beautiful

Miss L:Beauty by Miss L

Mandy:Chameleon Stampede

Kat: Hooked On Polish

Kimber: Kimber's Lacquer Korner

Liz: Lozlosa

Lariesa: Me, Myself & Polish

Mixed Mama:Mixed Mama

Mari:Nailista

Diana: Nails By Diana

Pam:Nail-E-Glance

Becca:Nail Narcotics

Nicole:Nicole Gets Nailed
Patty: Patty and Goldie's Day Off

Meredith:Perfectly Polished

Sam:Polished Art

Gini:Sassy Paints

Shelby:Shelby's Swatches

Joanna:Sweet Polish of Mine
Nicole:The Color Republic
Kate: The Painted Pony Nails

Aly: Wonderland Beauty