31 Day Challenge, Day Eighteen: Half-moons

I want to start off by saying I love half-moon designs. I also want to point out that I love this combo, it just shouts: "WELCOME TO SUMMER!" ^_^

The colors I used are China Glaze: "Lemon Fizz" and "Peachy Keen".

I simply adore everything about China Glaze polishes, they are long lasting and super easy with applying. 

I tried out a new top coat, :( R.I.P. Seche Vite, Julep Freedom Polymer Top Coat. It's super shiny, fast drying and I'm going on day three with no chips! 

31 Day Challenge, Day Three: Yellow

Yellow has got to be the LEAST inspiring/ attractive color for me in terms of nail design. Also I find that I need to reiterate how much I dislike photographing glitter polishes, nothing ever captures it properly. So after flip-flopping from my real camera to my phones camera to outdoor pics and then indoor pics I've decided to showcase this look via my phone. I used China Glaze's- "Lemon Fizz" with Clear nail glitter powder.

Clear image to give you an idea of the placement of the glitter

Me blurring the image to give a hint of the sparkle

31 Day Challenge, Day Two: Orange

So I finally did half moons, and I have to say I'm pretty pleased with the result. It's clean and classy and leaves enough wiggle room for you to throw in a little extra something. For this design I used regular paper reinforcements (Which I own in clear but would def recommend using white so you can actually see what you are doing), China Glaze- "Peachy Keen", Nail Tape (For my ring fingers) and Studs; along with my fabulous Julep- Ingrid.

Have I told you recently how much I enjoy being a Julep Maven?! I'm only about three months in, but getting two polishes monthly that has great color and brush quality along with free products for manis and pedis- how can you pass that up!? Take the quiz, it'll tell you what kind of maven you are, and then you can be well on your way for have your only personal care package waiting for you at home on a monthly basis.

Any-hoo, back to Day Two:

Thanks for reading!

Green Machine!

So I want to start off by saying I LOVE-LOVE-LOVE this color by Julep (Fiona- Boho Glam), I also LOVE Julep. Because I have so many polishes it just helps to get my polishes mailed to me randomly monthly. Check out Julep

The application if this polish is perfection, it's smooth and absolutely even.

From Bundle Monster 2012 

China Glaze- "Flyin' High" and "Heli-yum"

Tape Me Up

I decided to start if the new year with some tape manicures, LOVE tape manis! The first was actually inspired by my boyfriend, who although he makes fun of nail obsession he does ask me questions that force me to see my colors differently- sometimes less is more. My second look is inspired by packapunchpolish, I just LOVED this manicure the moment I saw it.

Look #1
What I used:

Essie- "Angora Cardi"
Nails Inc. - "Black Taxi"

Look #2

What I Used:

"High Hopes", "Grape Pop", "Four Leaf Clover", "Heli-Yum", & OPI- "Havana Dreams"
the Glitter used but not shown is OPI- "Spark-Tacular! Top Coat"

Using nail tape to create the boxes and then fill them in randomly did take time, but it was definitely worth it!

Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree...!

So I was really excited to do a Christmas tree and Ta-Da! It's a really simple design but I like how it turned out.











What I used:

Milani- "Twinkle"
Seche Vite (Top Coat)
Brucci Acrylic (Basecoat)
Nails Inc- "Chelsea"
China Glaze- "Four Leaf Clover"
OPI- "Be-Claus I Said So" (ornaments)














       

As usual there's the issue of properly trying to capture glitter on camera

In this up close shot you can see the purple glitter more clearly

Right hand


In other news my Bundle Monster case came!

Happy Polishing!

Favs: Perfect Pinks

Since I'm new to blogging, I've decided to catalogue some my favorite colors designs over 2012. One thing I have noticed through this process is my growth and change of taste. I also realized I did a disproportionate amount of pink nails this year... :-X  Enjoy!

China Glaze- "Heli-yum" & "Something Sweet"; BM03

Essie- "Muchi Muchi"

China Glaze- "Something Sweet" & "Admire"; BM21

China Glaze- "Admire"; Nails Inc- "Chelsea"; BM21

China Glaze- "Heli-yum"

China Glaze- "Heli-yum"; Konad M56

OPI- "Japanese Rose Garden"

OPI- "Japanese Rose Garden";  Konad M60; China Glaze- "Admire"

Revlon- "Gold Coin"; Sally Hansen- "Fushia Shock"

Feelin' Clingy

So I FINALLY overcame my fears and tried the cling-wrap manicure. I far from mastered it, but for the first try I'm pretty happy with the result.

I welcome feedback! thanks!!