CATCHING UP!: Old manis that I never posted!

As you all know, while I was in school I was extremely busy! I did paint my nails and take pictures but I just never posted them! So here are a few throw backs! Keep in mind, I had to keep my nails really short :(

Index, middle, pinky: Wet N Wild Black Creme

Thumb & ring: Chine Glaze Icicle topped with OPI Crown Me Already

Chine Glaze Pink Voltage

Wet N Wild On a Trip w/ Northern Lights and China Glaze Snow Globe on the tips

China Glaze Lemon Fizz striped with Kiss White striper and some nail stickers :)

Hope you enjoyed!!

Ink Flakes

Once again, this is a manicure from a while ago (hence the "long" nails lol) I have several manis that I haven't posted on my computer so I hopefully be able to post more soon :)

This is two coats of OPI Ink topped with a coat of Finger Paints Twisted. I REALLY like how it turned out.. I can't believe I haven't posted this yet!!

I hope you enjoyed this post! I hopefully will be able to post more often (I KNOW I keep saying that lol)

LOVE YOU GUYS <3

xoxo

I'm BAAAAAAAAACK :) + cute Owls :)

HI LADIES!!!!! <3 I have missed you all terribly :( But I will be able to post more finally! I've gotten into the swing of things with work and school and hopefully I will have some extra time to paint my nails (and then remove the polish for class *sigh*) and post for you guys :) I really appreciate all of the comments and support from you guys. Thanks for bearing with me! Okay, this mani is actually from a WHILE ago! The pictures are a little blurry (sorry!) and it's not very neat but this was my first attempt at some owl nail art :D

Hahahaha it's kind of a failure but it looks cute from far away LOL! :)
The beaks are round instead of triangular.. it's looks kinda stupid haha oh well!!

I used:
OPI Pamplona Purple (bodys & spots)
Zoya Heather (light purple bellies)
OPI In My Back Pocket (beaks)
Wet N Wild Black and White Creme (eyes)

I hope you enjoy! I will have some new stuff up soon :) .... with my little stubby nails haha

<3

GLITTERBOMB THURSDAY & update

Hello ladies!! As some of you may know, I am obsessed with glitter & anything sparkly (my mom calls me a blackbird hahaha)!!! So I have decided to start a weekly post for myself called GlitterBomb Thursday! I am really excited to do this :) So here is my first GB post:

What I used:

OPI Natural Nail base coat

China Glaze - Icicle (one coat)

OPI - Crown Me Already! (one coat)

China Glaze - Snow Globe (one coat)

Seche Vit

I LOVE THIS GLITTER COMBO!!! I don't really care for Snow Globe over solid colored polish, but it looks FABULOUS over glitters! CMA is hands down my FAVORITE glitter in the entire world! It's so dense and super gorgeous!

As for the update... I start massage school on Monday... YAY! I am SO excited you guys!! I have been waiting to do this for a while and I'm really excited to finally start school. I will be a full-time student and I will have class Mon-Fri so I may slack off a bit on my blog. but I assure you my nails will always be beautifully polished! ;) Because of school (and the loan money that will cover most of my bills, thankfully!) my hours will be cut at work so I may actually end up having more time to spend on my blog (since I get out of school at 3 and will only be working three days a week)! The only down-side to being in school is that I will have to keep my nails very short while I'm still practicing so I don't scratch anyone :( My massage therapist is able to have her nails longer (about as long as I let mine get) and she has never scratched me but she has also had more practice! So I am warning you now... you will be seeing nubs for a while! :(

I hope you guys enjoy my weekly glitterbombs, because I sure love having outrageously sparkly nails ;)

Have a fabulous day! <3

Chinese New Year!

Hello ladies! As most of you may know, today is the Chinese New Year! So Happy New Year to all of you who celebrate! This is the year of the dragon :) So in honor of CNY I have created this festive and simple mani!

What I used:

OPI natural nail base coat

OPI Red (two coats)

Nicole by OPI - Glitter in my Stocking (tips- one coat)

Chinese symbol stamped with WNW Black Creme on ring & thumb from BM221

Topped with Seche Vite

What do you think!? :)

Share the Love: Day 5. Wrapping up my 5 Days of Glitter!

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and if you are shopping today or already did your shopping on Black Friday, I hope you get everything you need and don't get trampled lol! Today is the last day in my journey with four other amazing bloggers in our Share the Love week. We each did a guest post on each other's blogs and we're finishing up the week by posting our last themed mani on our own blogs. As you may know, my theme for the week was glitter (honesly.. are you surprised? lol). I figured in honor of Black Friday and the big kick-off for Christmas shopping I would do a Christmas themed glitter manicure. I really like how this came out!

What I used:

OPI- Natural Nail Base Coat

Sally Hansen - French manicure natural color

China Glaze - Twinkle Lights (tips)

Sinful Colors nail art - Be My Valentine (red)

Sinful Colors nail art - Jungle (green)

Seche Vite - top coat

Don't forget to check out my guest posts from this week on everyone's blog! I really enjoyed doing this with such great bloggers! I met several awesome people and I am thankful for that! :) You girls ROCK!

Chelsea of Nailed (Monday)

Amanda of Amandalandish (Wednesday)

Sarah of See Sarah Swatch (Tuesday)

Rachel of Top Coat It (Thursday)

Share the Love: Day 3, Guest post from Sarah of See Sarah Swatch

Hello everyone! How excited are you for Thanksgiving tomorrow!? I know I am super excited! I am also very excited to have Sarah from See Sarah Swatch guest post on my blog today! Share the Love has been super fun so far and I've had the pleasure of meeting several new blogger friends!! 

Hi, everyone! I'm Sarah from See Sarah Swatch. Thank you Heather for hosting me today!!

For today's post, I have a super sparkly franken for you:] I call it Super Nova Girl [like from that movie Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century!]

3 coats

Doesn't it look like a polish Zenon would wear??:

Ahhh this polish was a lot of fun to make [& wear]. I want to thank Heather for hosting me on her amazing blog today, and if you want to see my last franken tomorrow, take a look at Chelsea's blog at http://www.nailedblog.com/ ! & now, I leave you with this:

What a gorgeous polish! That glitter is amazing! Thank you so much for being a guest on my blog, Sarah, I really enjoyed your post and I'm sure all of my readers will as well! :)

If any of you would like to check out the other lovely ladies involved and see my guest posts, just click the links for their blogs!

Amanda of Amandalandish (I will be guest posting on Amanda's blog today!)

Chelsea of Nailed

Rachel of Top Coat It

Sarah of See Sarah Swatch

Share the Love: Day 2, Guest post from Amanda of Amandalandish

Hello everyone! I am very excited to have Amanda of Amandalandish (Click here to check out her blog!) guest post on my blog today! Amanda is the one who had the idea for Share The Love! It has been super fun so far and I've had the pleasure of meeting several new blogger friends!! Kudos to Amanda for the great idea!! Please enjoy her post and don't forget to check out her blog!

Happy Tuesday!  And happy two day before Thanksgiving!




Day 2 of my 5 Days of Greys is the most jazzy of my greys and is the one I looked forward to swatching the most.  OPI Designer...De Better! was one of the two must-haves from the Muppet Collection (at least for me) and it truly photographed beautifully.




However...




I am super disappointed in how this looks on my nails in real life.  For some reason, it sorta falls flat.  While up close, you can see the lovely bronze glitter embedded within the silver foil, from far away, that edge gets lost and it just looks like a light champagne foil.  I know that bloggers have raved about this color which makes me all the more upset.  I don't know...I just wish there was more depth there when your face isn't two inches away from your hand.

Application was lovely in 3 coats.  I will definitely give this OPI another run before I officially give up on this and hopefully something will make this work on me.  If nothing else, it's nice to showcase something fun, different, and sparkly in the middle of the short work week.  




Thank you to all of Heather's lovely followers for reading and thank you to Heather for having me!




Stay tuned for Day 3 of my 5 Days of Greys over at Chelsea's Nailed Blog!

OH MAN! What a BEAUTIFUL polish! That detail is amazing! Thank you so much for being a guest on my blog, Amanda, I really enjoyed your post and I'm sure all of my readers will as well!! Thanks again for putting this whole thing together!

If any of you would like to check out the other lovely ladies involved and see my guest posts, just click the links for their blogs!

Amanda of Amandalandish 

Chelsea of Nailed

Rachel of Top Coat It

Sarah of See Sarah Swatch (I will be posting on Sarah's blog today!)

Yesterday's Halloween Nails!

Hello everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your Halloween weekend! I know I did! I will do I separate post for the mani I was rocking at the party I went to later this week, but for Halloween I wore this:

This is one coat of OPI - In My Back Pocket, with one coat of the neon orange pumpkin polish that is pictured. Then I stamped\ images from BM224 (ring & thumb) and BM222 (index, middle & pinky) with WNW Black Creme. Of course it was also topped off with a coat of seche vite :) I love this!

Glamrock Halloween mani :)

TGIF everyone! Aren't you glad it's the weekend! I know I am haha :) Today I have another Halloween mani for you. this is two coats of Nina Ultra Pro - Glamrock with OPI -Black shatter layered over my index, middle and pinky finger. The skull on my ring finger was stamped from BM-211 plate with Konad special white polish. I can't believe I didn't buy black shatter sooner! I LOVE IT!

Pink Wednesday + Support BCA!

Hello ladies. Happy Wednesday! For many of you, your work week is half over! YAY! For today's mani I am using China Glaze - Go Go Pink that came in a pack from Sally's with Seche Vite for Breast Cancer Awareness. This is three coats with one coat of OPI - Princesses Rule! and topped off with a coat of SV. :)

Unfortunately, my camera does NOT like taking pictures of glittery nails :( at least the color shows up nicely!

Ulta + Zoya + Rite Aid Haul!

Hello again! On Tuesday I got my package from Zoya. I ordered four polishes during their BOGO Free sale the other week. This are my first four Zoya polishes and I love them!

Left to right:  Heather (of course I had to get this one! hehe) Happi, Kiki & Jem

Then yesterday I stopped by Ulta to take advantage of their OPI sale (buy 2 OPIs get a free top or base coat) so this is everything that I picked up:

Left to right: OPI Crown Me Already, Princesses Rule!, Zom-body to Love and Black Shatter in the duo pack, Natural Nail Base Coat & Revlon Princess

After running some other errands yesterday I decided to stop by Rite Aid as well. I had a 20% off coupon and their polishes were BOGO 1/2 off. I also bought the light green pumpkin polish (not pictured) for my little sister :)

Left to right: Neon orange pumpkin polish, Sinful Colors stripers in Be My Valentine, Flower Girl, Jungle & Jesse's Girl Firefly

I am very happy with all my purchases! Did you pick any awesome polishes this week?

xo heather

Mmm... candy corn!

Hello ladies! I had SO much fun doing this mani. I've actually had it on my nails for FIVE days now! Which is definitely a record for me lol. And guess what the best part is!? STILL NO CHIPS!!!! I picked up the China Glaze and Seche Vite set for BCA from Sally's last week (along with Nina Ultra Pro - Glamrock) mostly because I wanted the Seche Vite! I have never used this top coat before and MAN have I been missing out! It's AWESOME! Okay enough of my blabbering.. on to the pictures!

Hoooooly cow.. I didn't realize how crooked my lines were until I uploaded the pictures from my camera haha! Oh well. I did this by hand so you can't expect TOO much from me! :P For this mani I used:

OPI- In My Back Pocket (orange)

Sally Hansen - Mellow Yellow (yellow..duh)

Wet N Wild - French White Creme

Kiss nail art paint - Silver glitter (for the line on my ring finger)

and a Spider sticker from a pack I got at Walgreens! Isn't it cute? :) Here are pictures of the stickers I picked up...

Yes, I picked up two of the same packs... because there weren't multiples of the stickers so I HAD to have a back up! I will probably use these all year hehe :)

Thanks for stopping by! Have an awesome week.

First Halloween mani of the year!!

Hello everyone! I hope you had a good weekend, I know I did! This mani is actually from a few days ago. I broke the nail on my middle finger last week so that's why it's so much shorter!! I have another amazing mani coming up for you tomorrow! :) This is two coats of OPI - In My Back Pocket with one coat of Wet N Wild - Creepy Pumpkin and then I added a little skull that came in a pack of stickers from Walmart. Simple and adorable!

I LOVE HALLOWEEEEEEEEN! :)

I hope you guys have a good Monday. Hopefully it will go by quickly! :)

Alligator Skin

I am all over this Pure Ice First Time!! I love this green color, it's absolutely gorgeous! This is one coat of First Time with e.l.f. Matte Finisher top coat and then OPI Black Shatter over it! I love this look :)

I like how it cracked on my thumb, forefinger and middle finger the best. I like the thinner cracks. I used a thinner coat on those fingers. On my ring & pinky I used a thicker coats and it had larger cracks. It's pretty awesome though! Looks like alligator skin

xoxo Heather