Halloween Challenge: Witches & Freestyle

Sorry ladies! I missed a day!! This is going to be a quick post. So here are the past two Halloween challenge days :)

Witches:

Wet N Wild - Black Creme

China Glaze - CG in the City

Pumpkin Polish - Moon & Black glitter

Witch & Hat stamped with Konad special white polish

Freestyle:

Milani - Creme Brulee

Orly - Fresh

Wet N Wild - Black Creme

Milani - White

I really love how the Frankenstein nails turned out!!

Have a lovely week, everyone!

Halloween Challenge: Black Cats

Hello ladies! :) Hope you are all having a lovely week so far! Today's nail art for the Halloween Challenge is black cats! This is one of the very first times I have free-handed a design! I think it turned out pretty nice! Not as creepy as I wanted.. but still black cats!! :)

Products used:

Sally Hansen Lustrous

Sally Hansen Pink Blink (nose)

Kiss Silver stripe glitter

Seche Vite

**PERSONAL NOTE:

I officially started my new massage job today! Well.. I started training :) I am so excited!!! Also, one of the greatest perks of being a LMBT is that I am able to get a membership at CosmoProf (which I did!!!). That means China Glaze and OPI nail polish HALF PRICE!! It's AWESOME! Plus access to salon brand products at a super low price! :)

Halloween Challenge: Trick or Treats

Hello everyone! I know, I know... I am awful at keeping up with my blog but I do still keep up with reading posts from other bloggers!! I will make it up to you though... I am doing this Halloween Challenge! I WILL do all of them :) I have seen another one also but this one is a little different!

The first day is "Trick or Treats" so of course I went with candy corn... I LOVE candy corn nails :)

Here is the challenge :)

Products used:

OPI Natural base coat

Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow

China Glaze Papaya Punch

Milani White

Kiss silver glitter stripe polish

Butter London Hardwear top coat

Thanks for stopping by!! Are you guys excited for Halloween yet or what!? :D

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!!

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

I am EXTREMELY late on this post.....

TGIF ladies!! These are the manis I wore on Christmas and New Years... I cannot believe I haven't posted them yet!! Enjoy :)

Christmas Nails! What I used:

OPI Natural Nail base coat

Orly - Rock It! (two coats)

China Glaze - Twinkle Lights (tips)

Seche Vite

I really love how this turned out! I actually wore this for about a week!! (I had to do a few touch ups though)

 New Years Nails!! What I used:
OPI Natural Nail base coat
Sally Hansen french natural nail color (base)
Sally Hansen - Wedding Crasher (two coats on tips)
INM - Northern Lights
Seche Vite

Very sparkly and fun!! I LOVE WC, It's a great glitter!



Well there you have it! I'm only a month late on these ;) I hope you enjoyed and I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

Golden Sparkle

Hey ladies :) I have a very simple but really cute mani to show you today! I know I have been seriously slacking in posts lately but one of my new years resolutions was to post more on my blog!! :) So I will definitely work on that!!

Julep nail therapy as a base

China Glaze - Passion
INM - Northern Lights holo glitter
Seche Vite

:)

Cost is No Issue ;)

Hello ladies! I am SO sorry for the disappearance lately! The girl I work with has been using all her PTO days so I've had to work a lot more than I usually do. Along with the craziness of the holidays quickly approaching, it has consumed all of my time! Today I have Wet N Wild - Cost is No Issue from the Ice Baby collection.

This is two coats. I also added a coat of INM Northern Lights, a coat of Gelous and topped it off with SV of course :) I hope you enjoy! I LOVE this glitter!! :) SO fun and bright!

xoxo

Icy Nails

Happy Thursday! I have been so swamped with work lately... and I will remain busy until next Wednesday when I start my vacation! This is a pretty simple but very cute mani. Hopefully, the snowflake will encourage the weather to start getting cold ;) I love winter!

What I used:

OPI- Natural Nail base coat

Sally Hansen - White On on the tips

Color Club - Starry Temptress top coat

Sally Hansen Color Quick - Blue Chrome snowflakes stamped with bm14

I like how it turned out :)

Christmas Tips!

Hello ladies! I hope you had a lovely weekend! Sorry that I have been MIA since Friday. I did a lot of Christmas shopping with my mom and also wrapped LOTS of presents! It was nice :) I am definitely in the holiday spirit! So I did my first Christmas mani of the season! I hope you enjoy!

What I used:

OPI - Natural nail base coat

Sally Hansen - natural french manicure base

Index and ring fingers: two coats of China Glaze - Ring in the Red

Middle finger and pinky: two coats of China Glaze - Jolly Holly

All tips were topped with one coat of China Glaze - Party Hearty and lined with Sinful Colors - Flower Girl

Topped with Seche Vite of course :)

What do you think!?

I did this mani Friday night and took pictures today so you can see some tip wear... sorry about that!

Facets of Fuchsia + giveaway reminders

Happy Wednesday! I am SO GLAD this week is halfway over... work has been INSANE! :( Today I had an awesome swatch to show you. This is three coats of Revlon- Facets of Fuchsia. It's supposed to be a dupe of Deborah Lippman's Bad Romance (which I REALLY wanted!) I don't have BR so I can't say for sure but they are pretty darn close :) I love this polish!

Just a reminder: my 30 follower giveaway ends at 11:59 PM EST tonight! So don't forget to enter!!

Click here to enter!

Also, I am hosting a giveaway for My Memories Suite software! Don't forget to enter!!

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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)

Crown Me Already! french tips + giveaway reminder

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I hope you all had a GREAT day (including those of you who do not celebrate)! I am sooooo full! The mani I'm rocking today is one I've actually been wearing since Monday! I never wear polish this long but it's so beautiful.. I can't seem to bring myself to remove it! I free-handed french tips with China Glaze - Icicle and then  added a coat of OPI - Crown Me Already! I LOVE THIS GLITTER!!! It's SO dense you only need one coat! This manicure is so simple, sparkly and gorgeous :)

I hope you enjoyed this! I've got another super sparkly french mani for you tomorrow ;) I also wanted to remind everyone that my 30 Follower giveaway ends in less than a week so don't forget to enter!! :)

Click here to go to the giveaway post!!

I actually have a REALLY cool review for you on Monday and ANOTHER giveaway :) I'm really excited to show you guys this awesome product! :D

Pink Wednesday

Hello ladies :) I hope you week is going by as quickly as mine is! Today I have for you Revlon - Starry Pink
This is like... three coats I think and no top coat.

I know my cuticles look horrible :( It makes me sad!

Happy pink Wednesday ;) Have an awesome day everyone!

Nicole by OPI Holiday collection swatches & review

Hello, all! When I got paid earlier this week, I went to target and bought all four of the new LE Holiday polishes that Nicole by OPI came out with.for this season. Instead of swatching all four of them separately, I did one on each finger because as we all know... glitter is a b*tch to remove! lol. This first picture is three coats topped with Seche Vite.

L-R: Snow-Man of my Dreams, Orna-ment for Each Other, Glitter in my Stocking, My Sleigh's in the Shop

These are GORGEOUS!!

Okay this next shot is one coat of each:

As you can see, this glitter is pretty dense. Obviously not a one-coater but not too sheer either.

This is two coats of each: 

You could probably get away with only two coats, especially if you are using this over a base color. MSITS covers the best and is actually similar to Orly - Bubbly Bombshell.

And last, this is three coats (with no top coat) 

Sorry for the blurry-ish picture... this really shows all of these glitter though!

Snow-Man of my Dreams- This is polish is a medium blue packed with multi colored glitter. You can see a lot of gold, silver, red & purple. It is probably my favorite out of the collection! Very unique in my opinion.. I don't have anything even CLOSE to this!

Orna-Ment for Each Other-  This is fantastic holiday color! Bright cheery red with lots of gold micro-glitter. I really love this one and I don't usually care for red!

Glitter in my Stocking- This is a very nice gold with plenty of red micro-glitter in it. It covers very nicely and is a great gold glitter to add to your collection!

My Sleigh's in the Shop- This is beautiful fuchsia glitter with gold micro-glitter. I was iffy about this one at first because I normally do not care for this type of color but after seeing it in person I HAD to have it! This polish also covers the best and is most densely packed with glitter.

Over all, I realllyyyyy love this collection. The colors are simple yet very eye-catching and a must have for the holidays! Nothing say holiday like GLITTER! 

I hope you all enjoyed seeing these swatches! Enjoy the rest of your weekend! :)

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!

Pumpkin Spice

TGIF! I hope everyone had a fabulous week. I got a LOT done this week. I did some polish shopping (of course) and I also ordered a bunch of Christmas presents! I usually order the majority of Christmas presents I buy online because I HATEE the crowded stores around the holidays! I decided to get a head start this year and  it working out great :) On my nails today, I have two coats of Sally Hansen - Pumpkin Spice layered over one coat of Wet N Wild - Black Creme. I loooove this polish... especially the name! Fall is my favorite season and I love pumpkin EVERYTHING. Me and my best friend always go to starbucks and order the pumpkin spice lattes... mmmm <3 This particular polish was basically IMPOSSIBLE to photograph.. which really upsets me!

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.