Good evening!
Got a quick little post for y'all, with this week's 40 Great Nail Art Ideas prompt :) My art prompt, to go with the glitter or flakie topper, was simply just accents, so I combined it with a challenge I'm taking part in on IG. It's #clairestelle8dec if you want to take a peek.
My base was OPI Give me Space, which is gorgeous by the way. This may be my next pedicure color lol. Over that, I added a coat of KBShimmer Dark Matter. My accents were snowflakes, for the other challenge, which were from Chez Delaney Xmas 001, stamped in MdU light blue.
I'm kinda in love with this mani. It turned out sooooo beautiful.
Glitter or flakie topper Inlinkz-
Good afternoon!!
I've got four pretty manis I want to show you today. The first one, today's, is one I've wanted to try for a while. I picked up OPI's Sheer Tints over a month ago, and had yet to try to them. I finally got around to, after seeing many manis using them.
Most of the manis I have seen used a pure white, like Alpine Snow. I chose instead to use My Boyfriend Scales Walls. For some stupid reason, I needed to do three coats instead of my usual 2 for it. Anyways :P Then I just applied all four sheer tints over it, followed by Seche.
Yesterday, I did another negative space mani. Those seem to be all the rage right now, and there are a few different ways of doing them. I did mine using Scotch tape, Zoya Odette and Brigitte, and Art Club black striping polish. All topped with Seche.
On Monday, I featured a new-to-me indie brand, Enchanted Polish. There's a lot hype surrounding this brand; you'd think it was magic in a bottle. Don't get me wrong, the one I won in a first timers giveaway is nice (I won Hey Jude), I don't think it's any better than other indies I own.
Hey Jude is a multichrome with a sprinkling of holo. It shifts through a golden green to teal to purple. I needed three coats for my mani.
And, of course, Sunday was Stamping Sunday. The challenge for that was using a plate that ended in 2. What I came up with was neon bubbles! The base colors are Bleached Neons from Maybelline: Day Glow Teal, Pink Punch, Bleached in Peach, Citrus Collide, and Lime Accent.
This mani gave me the opportunity to use my new stamping polishes from Mundo de Unas. Oh. My. God!!! Best stamping polishes EVER!!!! I had ordered all her neon colors plus black and white. What I used in this mani were neon orange, neon green, neon pink, neon blue, and neon yellow. I loved how these stamped so much that I will be getting more at some point. You can get them here; this is also where I've gotten my Handy plates.
The stamping plate I used was Messy Mansion MM02, matte topcoat was Wet 'N Wild.
You be the judge >.<
Good evening!
So, a group I'm in on Face Book does something every month called the Monthly Palette Project. In short, there's a group of colors you pick from and follow the rules. I don't normally take part of them, but I sort of "challenged" into it lol.
This is the palette for November:
The rules called for picking two colors and also using brush art of some kind. Mind you, I only really have the blues on this palette, but I remembered I have OPI's The "It" Color, which kinda satisfied the golden yellow.
I used that as my base color at 3 coats followed by a coat of Seche. I pulled out my fan brush and proceeded to create a hot mess with Zoya Natty and China Glaze Kaleidoscope Him Out, topped off with Seche.
Good evening!
I've got today's Stamping Sunday mani to show you :) Today's theme was, literally, anything goes. Now, I've seen quite a few manis in Adventures in Stamping that are, just, wow, and then there were a few naked nails pics lol. I think mine falls somewhere in between.
My base was 3 coats of OPI's DS Coronation. It had been quite a while since I lasted used it, and I can't image why I hadn't. It's a beautiful, silver scattered holo. You don't need a special base for balding or streaking. I topped with Seche and let that dry as I cleaned up around the nails.
For the stamped images, I used Messy Mansion plate MM05. I bought this plate specifically because my husband loves dragons :) I used Color Club's Beyond to stamp the images with. Yep, holo on holo. The black wasn't quite as bold as I wouldn't liked, but I think that's more user error than anything else.
Good evening!
Ok, so I FINALLY, finally finished swatching my recent acquisitions lol. I know I've devoted a post to what I'm about to show you, individually, but I'm gonna put them together here. Tonight is the three Indies I've bought/received as a gift :) Two are matte glitters, one is a holo.
First up is the holo. Dark Emerald is from up and coming Indie seller Aly's Dream Polish, from the Holographic Euphoria collection. This collection had literally dozens of different colors. Most of them had a pretty strong holo effect; Dark Emerald's is a little more subtle, but the color is gorgeous. I only need two coats for opacity.
Now, the two matte glitters are from two different sellers. Pink Lemonade is from Amy's Nail Boutique, and Sand Art is from Pretty & Polished. I love them both. I layered one coat of Pink Lemonade over 2 coats of China Glaze's Sunshine Pop. PL is a mixture of matte pink and yellow, tiny hex glitters, suspended in a clear base.
Sand Art is a mix pink, lime green, bright blue, darker blue, and red violet matte glitters in a clear base. I layered 2 coats of Sand Art over 2 coats of Zoya Robyn for this swatch.
One tip: You will want to either use Gelous before you top coat over PL, or double up on your preferred topcoat. Sand Art isn't as rough when its topped, I've found, but I think it could have benefitted from a coat of Gelous.
Good evening!
It's not very often I get to do a product review, but tonight I have one for you. It's of a brand new indie polish maker, Aly's Dream Polish. She offers one of the largest color variety in holo polish I've ever seen. That's right, I said holo. She also offers holo topcoats. I'm going to show you one of her full coverage holo colors.
Meet Dark Emerald......
First, I love the bottle shape :) This pic was taken in full sunlight, and you can see some the holo-ness in this pic.
For my swatches, I only needed 2 coats to achieve full opacity. The formula is nice, very comparable to OPI's DS holos. There is some slight linear holo tendencies, but that's only in direct sunlight; the rest of time it's scattered. Here are the sunlight pics......
The next pics were taken inside with a flash.....
Overall, I'm very happy with the whole experience and with the polish, I totally recommend Aly's Dream Polish. As of March 29th, her store is open for business, which you can find here, but don't take just my word for it! Check out her FB page to see what happy customers are saying about their polish!
*Please note, I purchased this polish, with the intention of reviewing it :)
Good evening and Happy April Fool's! Have you fallen for any pranks/jokes today? Or were you the mastermind behind one (or a few!)? I didn't pull any, but I certainly fell for one xD Needless to say, I was little embarrassed and annoyed about it, but oh, well. It was harmless lol.
Tonight's dupe post is no joke though. Up for comparison are OPI's DS Coronation and Milani's HD. Here's the bottle pic:
Just by that alone, you can tell that they are very close. Once I got them on the nails, I couldn't really tell the difference, to be honest, except for the formula. Coronation took 3 while HD needed 4 (note, this may be user error, not the fault of the polish). See for yourself. Index and ring fingers are Coronation, middle and pinky are HD, no topcoat at all. I know the third pic is blurry, but even in that one you can't see any difference between the two.
Final thought: if you can't find Coronation in your area, or you just don't want to pay the price for the DS line, I recommend getting the Milani. In addition to the silver holo, they have 3 or 4 other colors available in the 3D holo line that are very pretty. They're scattered holo, but holo nonetheless. So, at about a quarter of the price and readily available, I'd say it's a win win :)
