"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.

"Bunny Nails" Feat: Orly "Flirty"

They're cute hu? I got my idea for my bunny nails from Cute Polish around Easter. If you have never watched any of her videos i'd go check them out because, she has tons of tutorials that are easy to follow and excellent for people who don't feel confident in their nail art skills.

For this mani...
Orly "Flirty"
Wet n' Wild "French White"
China Glaze "Side Saddle"
Nubar "Oh Baby Pink"

Orly "Flirty" Happy Go Lucky 2011
I will never stop loving this polish. It was one of the firsts in my polish obsession and remains to this day to be one of my favorites. "Flirty" is a bight pink creme shimmer polish that dried with an interesting but not awful texture. In fact the texture is quite neat. My only gripe about this polish would be that the formula does have a tendency to be a little thick, but that helps to achieve opacity in two coats, shown above.

Wet n' Wild "French White" Core Wild Shine
Using the brush from French White i created half circles on my ring finger and thumb. With a dotting tool a used a generous amount to create the ears by dragging down a dollop into the half circle. This step can be rather intimidating, but if you practice on a nail wheel or even paper first you will be able to do this with confidence. Just remember to take your time. Also make sure you are using an opaque white. Sheer whites will only become troublesome.

China Glaze "Side Saddle" Rodeo Diva 2008
Nubar "Oh Baby Pink" Hypnotic Valentine 2010
With a dotting tool i used "Side Saddle" a dark shimmer brown for two large dots to begin my eyes. With a smaller dotting tool i made a small oval for the nose and filled in the ears.

Wet n' Wild "French White" Core Wild Shine
Again with the French White and my dotting tools. I used a medium dotting tool for the eyes. I continued with a larger dotting tool and gobs of polish to create my dripping mani on the rest of my nails. I achieved this by placing a series of dots where i wanted the drips to end and continued by filling in the empty spaces by dragging around the polish with my dotting tool. I was sure to be generous in the process to ensure i didn't snag on my layer of "Flirty."

I finished with a top coat. This was such a simple design that i positively loved. It does take a bit of time and patience but i do think the end product it worth it.

"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.

"Seeing Stars" Feat: China Glaze "Smoke and Ashes"

OMFG HUNGER GAMES! Not really, still haven't jumped on the hype, i'm just buying the polish. Today i have an overkill look that i did for a Polishaholic Mani Monday challenge. I still don't know when to stop. The theme was Sun, Moon, or Stars. I chose stars because i had Kleancolor "Blind Date" with stars already in it.

For this mani...

China Glaze "Smoke and Ashes"

Color Zone "Unknown Blue Glitter"

China Glaze "Icicle"

Kleancolor "Blind Date"

Make up sponge

Striping brush.

 China Glaze "Smoke and Ashes" Capitol Colors 2012 (Hunger Games)

When i told people i thought i got "Stone Cold" and found out i had "Smoke and Ashes" i was kinda disappointed. However, like all the colors i've seen from the Capitol Colors collection in honor of the Hunger Games, this is a unique polish. I would describe "Smoke and Ashes" just as it's name. I picture wet (or hot rather) tar sprinkled with glimmer ash. You know at first how ash it really neat looking before you touch it or it blows away, "Smoke and Ashes" preserves that look. This it two coats, and this it the first polish in a while that has bubbled on me. You can see on my thumb in the left picture and on my ring finger on the right photo.

Color Zone "Unknown Blue Holo Glitter"

Before my trip to the swap meet i had never heard of Color Zone. This polish caught my eye because of the bright blue base and huge holo hex glitters. With a makeup sponge i added extra glitter to my tips going about half way down my nail.

China Glaze "Icicle" Holiday 2011

This is where i went to far. Originally i wanted thin silver lines mixed in with the glitter from my tips, but i was having issues with my striper brush and i ended up with fat silver kinda lines on the opposite side of my nail. I was annoyed.

 Kleancolor "Blind Date"

Now for the over kill. The reason i went for the stars is because this was for a Mani Monday theme challenge. I used my striper brush to individually place the stars on my nails. I picked all the stars off by the end of the night, because they stuck up, and bugged the crap outta me. Over all, i need to keep it simple. Hope you enjoyed this mani more then i did :)

"Blue Skies" Feat: China Glaze "Kinetic Candy"

You know what I love? The warm. You know where it's perfectly warm right now? Southern California. You know where i live? Yea, you already know because i tell you all the time and my picture's back drops are clear blue skies. lolalolalolalo. Here's today's post :)

For this mani...

China Glaze "Kinetic Candy"

Essie "Trophy Wife"

Color Club "Sexy Siren"

Pure Ice "Wild Thing"

Rimmel London "Misty Jade"

Behold, from the Electropop Lights collection by China Glaze released for Spring 2012, here is "Kinetic Candy". This shade is nearly a baby blue, but has a little quirk about it that makes it brighter then a pastel. Like the rest of the collection, this is another creme that applies perfectly smooth in two coats. If there is one collection i can get behind and recommend to people, it would be Electropop.

With a makeup sponge i sloppily sponged on diagonal lines across each nail with Essie "Trophy Wife". Though "Trophy Wife" is a stunning teal on it's own, lightly sponged its weird and awkward...And if you look to my ring finger on the left photo you will see i messed my nail up. I will next show you how glitter fixes that problem.

"Glitter fixes everything", and this is proof. You can't even tell my nail was nicked after two coats of Color Club "Sexy Siren". This glitter polish was enough to blur out my horrid sponging and still let the color contrast show through. "Sexy Siren" is made up on a blue micro glitter, and while it's not a good polish to use on it's own, you could do wonders with layering.

Here is where i should have stopped instead of adding the smaller dots of Rimmel "Misty Jade" seen in the first photo. With a medium and small dotting tool i did two half circles of Pure Ice "Wild Thing" to create a simple design.