Nail Deco Of The Week #106

Essie – Orange! It’s obvious

Julep – Blake

Frankened coral

Gradient sunset with palm trees!

2-3 layers

add topcoat + clean up

 

ombre using ashleebashlee’s technique (frm soompi)

oh, also used fauxnad stamping for the trees!

Nail Polish Haul

Nail polish haul from bloom.com and drugstore.com! 🙂

Essie – As gold as it gets (gold glitter topcoat)

Essie – Orange! It’s obvious. A bright red-orange cream. This is my first orange nail polish!

Zoya – Chloe (Fleck glitter!)

Zoya – Bevin => a dusty light jade cream. Also a close dupe for OPI – Thanks a windmillion!

OPI – Wooden shoe like to know (brown with copper glitter)

OPI – I have a herring problem => periwinkle blue with fine silver glitter

Revlon – Whimsical => a dupe for Deborah Lippmann – Glitter in the air! a pastel blue jelly with pink and blue glitters
I actually bought this one off of drugstore.com, not bloom. 😀

Oh and if anyone wanted to see a China glaze – For audrey (my all time favorite color!) & Zoya – Bevin comparison (Bevin appears lighter in the bottle than when applied):

Now for swatches! Sorry I didn’t swatch all the colors,I’ll try to do that later when I can find the time! 🙂

Zoya – Bevin. Excellent dry time and smooth application! (2 coats)

Zoya – Bevin with Essie – As gold as it gets layered over

Zoya – Bevin with Revlon – Whimsical layered over! The glitter is rather hard to control. I had to keep moving the glitters around in order to achieve the look that I wanted. This also contributed to the streaks of baby blue. D: Whimsical’s not the best, but it’s still a nice cheap alternative if you want Glitter in the air!

Zoya – Bevin with Essie – A cut above and Revlon – Whimsical layered over it

Also wanted to show you guys my plant! We had a de-stress event on campus where they let us paint pots and plant flowers. 🙂

Can you tell that I have a strong color preference? 😛

Surprise! Painted the inside too. Bright orange!

I have no idea what seeds they gave me… but they’re beginning to sprout already so I’ll find out soon! 🙂

This LA sunshine is pretty amazing tosomeone who grew up in a one-season-city (ahem, San Francisco). Everything that I tried to grow in San Francisco pretty much failed. Though I suppose it may have had a lot more to do with my incompetence than SF’s weather!

I feel like I’m turning into a plant hoarder. I’ll show you guys my other mini plants perhaps in my next post? 😀

Nail Deco Of The Week #104

Essie – Limo-scene

China glaze – For Audrey

Covergirl Boundless Color – Disco Dazzle

I layered sheer pink (Limo-scene) over my For Audrey tips + glitter. 🙂

PS My bottle of Revlon – Whimsical comes in the mail tonight! Horray! I’ll be posting swatches and more nail deco soon. 🙂

Nail Deco Of The Week #101

Essie – School of Hard Rocks

Julep – Trina

Sally Hansen Insta Dri – Mint Sprint

Sally Hansen Insta Dri – Lickety-split Lime

Magnetic Polishes + misc swatches

Wanted to post up some pictures of the magnetic polishes that I was playing with at Sephora 🙂

nails inc. Trafalgar Square (chrome) — middle finger

nails inc. Special Effects Electric Lane Holographic Glitter Top Coat — index finger

nails inc.  Houses Of Parliament (purple) — thumb

Aren’t they cool? 🙂 For the magnetic polishes, you swipe a thick coat of iron-powder infused polish and quickly put the magnetic cap on top of the wet polish. I found it a little tricky not to let the cap touch my nail (and apparently others have this problem too since the tester cap had quite a bit of residue!) but after about 5-10 seconds, the polish will dry to a cool pattern! If you’ve ever seen cat-eye beads, the finish is kind of like that. They cost $16.00 a bottle at Sephora and come in 3 colors (chrome, purple, teal). I couldn’t bring myself to buy a bottle, hopefully there are dupes to be found!

Two more swatches:

Zoya – Neeka (not quite as glitter as it looks in the bottle, but still very pretty! this color is also darker than it appears in the bottle)

Essie – School of Hard Rocks

 

New polishes + OFFTOPIC DIY TORN TIGHTS FOR BOW FLATS TUTORIAL

I ordered some polishes from Bloom.com 🙂

Essie – School of Hard Rocks

Zoya – Neeka

OPI – Suzi Loves Cowboys

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri – Lickety-Split Lime

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri – Mint Sprint

Lickety-Split Lime, Mint Sprint, School of  Hard Rocks, Neeka, Suzi Loves Cowboys

I am sooo happy with the Insta-Dri’s! The formula is great, you’ll only need 1-2 coats for an opaque finish. I can’t believe I haven’t tried this line earlier since it’s been around for so long! I will def be buying more. Neeka is a 1-2 coater as well. Suzi loves cowboys is a bit sheer, but the dry time is satisfactory.

Now onto the tutorial!

I like to wear sheer tights, but somehow I always seem to ruin them after 1 or 2 wears. I usually just toss them, but I’ve recently thought up of a fun way to recycle! What can you do with torn tights you ask?

Now I suppose to I could have just worn my torn tights like Miley…

But that’s never really been my style. Here’s what I did instead!

1. Grab your torn tights…

2. Snip off the legs and feet

3. Turn them into bows! I’ve noticed that sheer tights are very good for making fluffy bows. You won’t have to worry about the ends fraying because if you stretch them they’ll just fold over by themselves. the torn part won’t really show because your tights will scrunch up and it will be hard to tell.

 

Now you can turn your bows into pins… or  jewelry… whatever! The possibilities are endless. 🙂 I decided to spruce up a pair of flats by super gluing them on.

Easy, right?

Nail Deco Of The Week #98

Creative Nail Design Effects topcoats 🙂 (sapphire sparkle, crimson sparkle)

CND Crimson Sparkle over Essie Damsel in a Dress

Nail Deco Of The Week #83

clay roses, flat back pearls, flatback gems
la colors art deco – silver
essie – sag harbor
wet ‘n’ wild – french cream

Nail Deco Of The Week #57

barielle swizzle stix
essie sag harbor

LA colors nail art polish – silver

nail deco of the week #50

essie – sag harbor

i’m so happy! 🙂 i’ve been wanting this color for a longgg time. i’ve noticed that i get a lot of compliments from strangers on the street when i wear blues or greens, lol.


decided to add some nail stickers 🙂