"Muted" Feat: Sally Hansen "Lacey Lilac"

Good day lovelies. I do help you are doing well. Today i have for you a rather muted look that still has a fun flare. I think this would be a good mani for the workplace, or anywhere you want not to be to obnoxious with your nails.

For this mani...

Sally Hansen "Lacey Lilac"

Finger Paints "Pretty as a Portrait"

Orly "Mirror Mirror"

Orly "Twilight"

 Sally Hansen "Lacey Lilac" Xtreme Wear

I began with two beautifully creamy coats of this perfect purple. Lacey Lilac, along with many others in the Xtreme Wear line. The formula on these are perfection, and the price is penny pinching awesome (under $3.) My nails were kinda jacked up when i did this mani, hence the lumps and bumps on my thumb and pinky fingers.

Finger Paints "Pretty as a Portrait" Core

With the brush from this bottle i covered less than half of my nail diagonally. I loved this polish for layering over another because of the opacity and shiny creme formula. The sheen is obviously brighter and sets it a level up from Lacey Lilac. With a dotting tool i made an average of three dots along the diagonal half.

Orly "Mirror Mirror"

I bet looking at this photo you're all like, oh,...what changed? I added yet another diagonal layer of Mirror Mirror. This polish is freeking rad. Formula is A+, opacity A+, color is A+. It's straight gray. I never thought i'd buy a gray polish, or even use this more than once, but i love Mirror Mirror. I've fallen for weird nail color like this and grays and kind of a favorite of mine.

Orly "Twilight" Holiday 2011

For whatever reason i'm not holding Twilight in these photos, I'm sure you can live with this. The final step for this mani was to coat it all with a shimmer top coat. Twilight is a silver shimmer top coat that i like to use in conjunction with blues and purples. I think the silver adds a little something extra that would never shine with out it.

"St. Patrick's Day" Feat: Sally Hansen "Black Tie"

Happy late St. Patrick's day! I had every intention in the world i putting this mani up on or before St. Pattie's, but it didn't happen. I got distracted and stopped caring, so now it's late. What else is new.

For this mani...

Sally Hansen "Black Tie"

Finger Paints "Comet's Collar"

Milani "Gold"

Sally Hansen "Sun Kissed"

Pure Ice "Wild Thing"

Orly "Lucky Duck"

China Glaze "Champagne Bubbles" (Not Pictured)

I used two coats of "Black Tie" and layered "Comet's Collar" over it. With a make up sponge i used "Champagne Bubbles" about half way down my nails. Milani "Gold" for the extra sparkle and gold goodness. 

On my thumb and ring fingers i made an orange band with "Sun Kissed" for my clovers to sit on. I used "Wild Thing" and "Lucky Duck" layered on top of each other to make my clovers stand out.

"Spring Flowers" Feat: Essie "Play Date"

Happy almost spring except the freeing down pour and stupid cold over the weekend! Yet again,  find myself lagging on post, but what's new. I'd like to shout of to the new followers before we jump into this look, thank you all for paying attention. Now before my fingers freeze, lets begin.

 For this mani....

Essie "Play Date"

Sally Hansen "Mellow Yellow"

Sally Hansen "Sun Kissed"

At the center of this delightfully fresh nail look is a new favorite of mine, Essie "Play Date" a perfect nearly pastel purple creme that will blow your mind in person. This is two coats of Play Date and i had no problems with application or dry time.

With a dotting tool i painstakingly created three to four "petals" with Sally Hansen "Mellow Yellow." The Sally Hansen Extreme Wear line has become one of my favorites for nail art. They have thick, creamy, and very opaque formulas that allow you to create a design the first time with out going over it or using white as a base. They come in a wide variety of bright colors and i recommend all of them.

Finally, i used Sally Hansen "Sun Kissed" and a smaller dotting tool to make my orange dots on each petal and the center.

Fab Five for February

I found my self severely in love with a few many tons of polish through out the month of February, and i wanted to show you a few of my favorites. I've narrowed it down to my Fab Five, which i hope to be a reoccurring monthly segment on my blog.

BEHOLD! My Fab Five for February.

China Glaze "Dance Baby" , Essie "Armed and Ready" , Sally Hansen "Wedding Crasher" , Kleancolor "Holo Pink" , Barielle "Buddah-ful"

China Glaze "Dance Baby" from the Electropop collection.

I love this lacquer because it is the candy creme pink i have been dreaming of. Smooth and perfect formula gives perfect coverage in two coats. It looks much lighter in the bottle but on the nail is the perfect bubble gum pink.

Essie "Armed and Ready" from the Go Overboard collection.

This polish is difficult to appreciate if your not in person. Hidden below the much of the dark army gray green are tons of micro gold sparkles that only make an appearance in the sun.

Sally Hansen "Wedding Crasher" for the Diamond Strength line.

This is a favorite of mine because it's a glitter that can be worn alone or layered in top of pinks and purples to entirely change the whole look of the color. Pink and silver glitter sit in a highly pink tinted base with a dreamy formula similar to the rest of the Diamond Strength line.

Kleancolor "Pink Holo"

I feel like this polish is like "Wedding Crasher's" little sister. It is another glitter good for layering or to be worn alone. I wore this over "Dance Baby" and could not take my eyes off my nails. I have a soft spot for perfect pinks and glitter, especially holo glitter.

And lastly "Buddah-ful" by Barielle

This polish is...lets say unique. A light milky nude jelly base with green flakies and incredibly difficult to photograph. This is best layer over other polish but the nude base highly dilutes any color under it. I've yet to find the perfect pair for this polish but am no less infatuated with it.

"Stars and Spots" Feat" China Glaze "Aquadelic"

I had heard rumors that those smelly Kleancolor metallic polishes are excellent stamping polishes. I didn't believe it, but after trying five different polishes every time i got to do a stamped design i gave it. I had a Purple Metallic just sitting in my rack, i feel dumb for letting it be idle for so long.

    For this mani...                                                               Bundle Monster Plate BM20

                    China Glaze "Aquadelic"                               Medium double end dotting tool

               Kleancolor "Metallic Fuchsia"

               Sally Hansen "Green with Envy"

I began this mani with two creamy coats of China Glaze "Aquadelic" from the Electropop collection. These photos are in natural sunlight. This polish is a baby blue aqua. It mostly reminds me almost a powder blue, but glossy. Much like the rest of the Electropop set, the formula was as perfect as can be

Using Bundle Monster plate number BM20, the star pattern and Kleancolor "Metallic Fuchsia" which is actually purple i stamped my design on each nail. I'm not to great at stamping, and in addition to my lame stamping skills, the image on the plate was to small for me nail. -_- annoyed.

 I used my dotting too and Sally Hansen's "Green with Envy" to fill in the empty spaces with green dots. I then put a smaller dot of Aquadelic inside each green spot to create green rings, not very good green rings; but green rings never the less.