Taped gradient nail art

Nothing to disclose

No review today! Are you surprised? I haven't done any nail art just for fun in a while so I decided to start playing around with different heart themed ideas since Valentines Day is just around the corner. This is a mani that could easily be worn for any occasion, not just VDay since I went low key on the hearts.

Born Pretty Crystal Rhinestones Review

Press Sample

Hi loves! Sorry I have been missing for a little while. There is a long drawn out story with way too much personal info so I won't even bother getting into it. I will say that my posting may be a bit sporadic until I can get my heath issues under control. 

Anyway, I have a quick post tonight featuring these crystal  rhinestones I received from the Born Pretty Store. I really love Born Pretty, there is so much to choose from, they have great prices and free world wide shipping! 

Single Chevron Nail Art Using Nail Vinyls!

Press Sample

Hello my polished friends! I know it’s unusual for me to post on Saturday but I am still working on catching up and I really wanted to show you all this one! A few weeks ago I did a review post on a nifty thing I had recently been lucky enough to try out; Nail Vinyls. If you didn’t see my original post on this awesome nail art necessity you can see it here. I decided to do a little mani recycling and use the awesome single chevron Nail Vinyls so I could wear a sexy polish even longer! 

Chevron Nail Art: "Nail Vinyls" Review

Press Sample

Hello my polished pretties! Today I have a mani that I hope you all will enjoy! I recently have been given the opportunity to try out and review Nail Vinyls! I was super excited to try these bad boys out. I love tape manicures but I don’t always have the right kind of scissor or the patience to try and cut the tape perfectly. This is the reason I have never tried the chevron pattern, I just convinced my self that I didn’t particularly like that design. I was lying to myself! 

I received 3 sets of vinyls: single chevron, regular chevron and straight.

I decided to try out the regular chevron first! I told you I was lying to myself about not liking that design. 

Illamasqua " Lament" & Nars "Orgasm"

Purchased By Me

Hello loves, welcome to another Try It On Tuesday! It's been a couple of weeks since I posted a TIOT here so I figured I needed to do one even though it's been a busy day and I am taking care of my poor sick hubby.

KKCenterHK Angel Wing Water Decals

Press Sample/Gifted to Me

Hello loves! I have been meaning to post some KKCenterHK nail art manis for a loooooong time now. I had a bunch of nail art decorations for review and they got placed in a bin that was overlooked as the crap on my polishing table piled up! Ooops! :/ So I will have a few nail art designs coming up soon! 

Today I have some water decals to show you. I've used nail art stickers and nail tattoos but I've never used water decals before so I wasn't sure what to expect. 

PC: KKCenterHK

RBL Aqua Lily

Purchased By Me

Real quick Try it On Tuesday post... since I'm running super behind! Recently I was saying how my biggest lemming is Rescue Beauty's Aqua Lily! Since it has been discontinued I was really sad I would probably never find it! I had actually seen one on a blog sale for $35 a few weeks ago, I whined and whined so my hubby said he's get it for me for my birthday. I emailed the gal right away only to find out I just missed it! I was HEARTBROKEN! Well it had still been on my mind a few weeks later and when I said I would love to get it for my birthday one of my lovely readers offered to sell me her extra bottle at normal retail price! Yay! I got to squash a lemming and hubby didn't have to hear me whine about it anymore! LOL Birthday wish fulfilled! 

My Mint Mani For Talia Joy

Hello loves. I am so sorry I have been away, things have been busy. I  have been trying to keep up with what has been happening while I have been away and everyone knows that the beauty world lost one of it's most inspiring young stars, Talia Joy Castellano. She was only 13 years old yet she made a huge impact on so many lives by being a fighter. She was a bright, beautiful, wise and positive young woman who will be missed. 

Nicole from Nail Polish Wars had a great idea for anyone who was interested to create a mint manicure to show a little love and support to her family. I wanted to join in, even if I am a little late. Here is what I created. 

L is For Louboutin

Purchased By Me
*nothing to disclose

It's Wednesday and you know what that means!! Another ABC Challenge post! Today is the letter L. When this challenge started, I had made out a list for what I wanted to do for each letter. Well I should say I TRIED to make a list, most of my letters have me at a loss, but L was one I knew right away! I have a slight obsession with shoes, not collecting them or wearing them, just looking at them! I use to be a big shoe freak, back in my club hopping days I could rock the highest heals in the worst conditions, rain, sleet, snow, thick sheets of ice, crazy mangled streets, you name it I could do it! (If any of you know what it's like to party on the Landing in Downtown St. Louis you know that even some of the most experienced heel wearing gals have trouble on those crazy cobblestone streets, but I was like a cat!) Then I started working longer hours at the hospital, wearing nothing but tennis shoes and flip flops and partying less. Eventually the deadened nerves in my well trained feet started to regenerate and heels quickly became a thing of the past. Now I just drool over all of the super sexy sky high beauties.Wishing I could manage to pull them off again without the period of torture it takes to grow accustom to them. So my inspiration for this weeks letter, as I'm sure you have guessed by now, is shoes. And not just any shoes but Christian Louboutin's! Über expensive and equally as amazing, known for having some super classy and also super blingie looks and always with the red soles. I only wish I had owned a pair in my crazy heel wearing days. Since I never did, I'll settle for making my stilettos into Louboutin's instead! 

My inspiration

TIOT: Nails Inc. Leather Effect "Noho"

Hello my polished pals! Welcome to another Try It On Tuesday! I am trying to keep up this week, it felt weird missing last weeks TIOT post. A couple of weeks ago I was at the mall with my hubs and we were just wandering around aimlessly and he goes "Hey! Did you know there was a Sephora here?" I stopped dead in my tracks and I think my eyeballs may have popped out of my head! 

To think I have been passing it by all this time because I never go into JC Penny's! While we were there I came across the Nails Inc. Leather Effects Collection which comes in 3 shades, black "Noho", tan "Soho Mews" and burgundy "Shoreditch Lane". 

F is for Flocking Funky French!

Hi girls and boys, happy humpday and welcome to day F in the ABC Challenge! I have been looking forward to this day for a while. It's been a long time since I've done a french mani and I really wanted to see how it looked on my stilettos, since I've never done one on them. I just received my first flocking powders from the oh so sweet Nicole over at Nicole Gets Nailed so I knew I had to use some on my F day! 

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! 

Favorite Things Day 8: Hearts/Love

This mani did NOT go as I had planned it. It was suppose to be love letters and hearts with kisses and such, but the stupid stamp plate was not cooperating. I am blaming the design because I got several others to work.

I started with 2coats of my brand new Zoya (yay!) Dove. I was so happy to get this because I needed a nice cream gray!

On my thumb and pinkie I applied a coat of China Glaze Full Spectrum, from the Prismatics collection. This one has a pink duochrome very pretty. Then for a bit of extra shimmer I applied a coat of Orly Be Brave. Now I wasn't sure how much I'd like this but after seeing it on my nails! WOW! I love how the glitter changes color...it's pink but flashes the entire rainbow in the light! Simply beautiful. this was part of the FX collection but also part of the Breast Cancer Awareness polishes they released as well.If you can find this get it!

My hearts (and lips) are:

 Pure Ice Iced Merlot & Flirt Alert

L'Oreal Penthouse Pink

Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby

Finger Paints Black Expressionism

Only 2 days left in this challenge! I can't believe how fast it went!

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

31 Day Challenge Day 4 "Green"



I'm having a busy week, between the challenges and family thing and now I've started walking with my cousin everyday. ( Gotta get this fat ass in shape! ) But the challenge must go on!

For my green I used China Glaze In The Lime Light

 

 

This is 4 coats, being a neon it is a very thin formula.

 

Then I drew on some leaves? flowers? I don't know what it is. LOL

 

I used Kiss nail art polishes in white and silver then dotted using black over silver.

 

Then I added black rhinestones.

 

I like how this turned out. This wasn't what I had originally planned to do for this part of the challenge. I was suppose to do a snake skin mani using the paper towel technique. Unfortunately that was a Major FAIL! I don't know how that technique can even work, it was quite difficult. Has anyone tried it? If so, do you have any pointers? I'd really like to make it work.

 

Don't forget to check out all the other talented ladies participating in this challenge!

 

 



-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

Playing Catch Up!

My very first blog post is going to be a big game of catch up. I have several pictures i need to post to get up to date with new ones. So here it goes.

#Water Marble

#Gradient Glitter

#Gradient Glitter

#Happy Spring

#Neon Rainbow

#Silver, Black & Pink

#Teal, Black/Teal Shimmer & Glitter

#Gradient Glitter

#Cinco De Mayo

#Hot Pink Zebra

#Naked!

#Shooting Stars

#Magnetic Polish

#Nail Stamping

#Tequila Sunrise

#Rainbows

#Seeing Spots!

#Relay For Life

Well that's all for now. I will be posting more soon!