Essie....I Love Nail Polish!

Hey everyone!! Im back!! Sorry for the hiatus!

I promise this post will make up for it!

Essie Barefoot in Blue

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I Love Nail Polish Once Upon a Starry Night

I recently came across a facebook page that posted a ton of cute nail pictures. Then I started to see that she was creating her own nail polish! At first, I was unsure if she was going to sell them, so I sat back and watched the beautiful creations. Then one day I was browsing on etsy and came across her store!!!!! I snatched some babies up so quickly, I think my keyboard was smelling like burnt rubber!

Here I have Once Upon A Starry Night from her latest winter collection. It is a combination of blue, silver, white, prism, and star glitters. GORGEOUS COMBINATION!!!

I have layered one coat, plus dabbing, of Once Upon A Starry Night, over three coats of Barefoot in Blue.

I Love Nail Polish is currently having a sale of 40% off! Head on over and tell Barbra I said HI!!!

31 Day Challenge 2012: Day 5

BLUE NAILS

Today is day 5 of the 31 Day Challenge! Today is also the first day of the official NFL season and my 'boys are playing!! So what better than to do a Dallas Cowboys mani!!!

Blue polish used: Catrice Nautica

Untried polish used: Catrice Nautica

Come back tomorrow for Day 6!

Jade Holográfico Gradient

The other day I posted about Jade Hypnose, a gorgeous teal-blue holographic nail polish. 


Today, I have a gradient using Jade Hypnose
Jade Fascino Violeta

Fascino Violeta is a beautiful deep purple holographic color!

Holographic gradients are super easy to do and a great way to spruce up your current mani!! I love how easily the blue and purple blend together creating the perfect marriage in gradient world!

Swatch Spam: Rainbow Honey

On this fine sunny day I have some swatch spam for you all :)

Rainbow Honey: 

The Equestria Collection

I have swatched all of these over black and white, in the sun and in the shade. The left side of the nail is over black and the right side is over white.

Celestia
A gorgeous multi-colored flakie polish that can change the look of any base color!

Mare of the Moon

A deepened purple blue with holographic hex glitter and moon shaped glitter.

The Worst Possible Thing
Holographic deliciousness! Lilacs and blues with silver holographic glitter. A great layering polish!

Pinkie Promise
That gorgeous yellow flakie base with pink bar and hex glitter mixed with blue and yellow glitter. Do you see how the base color changes over black?! CRAZY!

The Element of Magic
Purple shimmery flakiness packed base with various purple glitters and small holographic glitter.

20% Cooler
A blue shimmery base with multiple different colored hexagon glitters.

Hoof Wrassle
An orange, jelly, sheer base that builds up gorgeously! Also packed with yellow and gold glitters.

A Little Kindness
A color shifting lilac and pink flakie base with gold, purple, and opaque glitter.

If you haven't heard of The Equestria Collection by Rainbow Honey, you should catch up!! These polishes are so gorgeous and I could not wait to get my hands on them! Oh and the packaging and bottles are to die for and are super cute!

Currently she is working on pre-orders, but should be finishing soon and opening up for shop! "Like" Rainbow Honey on Facebook for updates on her next shop opening and new colors and collections!

Indie Feature: Pahlish Horse With No Name

Pahlish Horse With No Name

Pahlish has been a favorite indie polish seller for quite some time now. I recently got a surprise package from her that consisted of three polishes, this being one of them.

This polish is a gorgeous dark blue jelly with teal, purple, pink and blue glitters....it is TO DIE FOR GORGEOUS!

This is not available for purchase but I strongly recommend purchasing some from her!! Any of her polishes are gorgeous but I will list a few of the ones that I absolutely love!!

Glittoris

Fire in the Taco Bell

Total Eclipse of the Heart

Your Silver Lining

Mermaids Strike Again!!

Mermaids have inspired yet another mani for my nails!!

It was actually very hard to do both hands!! I am glad I took the time and had the patience because they really turned out nicely!!

I did a gradient for the pink, blue, and purple from dark to light. On the thumb I started with white and stamped with the Red Angel plate 111 using the three colors. On my accent nail, I did a gradient with pink, purple, and blue and then stamped with the RA-111 using white. The glitters I used are just loose holographic hex glitters.

Not So Blue Mani

Do I have a comeback mani for you!! I was inspired by a nail artist named Chelsea. Chelsea is the blog owner of Get Nailed, and boy is she creative!! I followed one of her videos on YouTube to create this look.

The colors I used are Sephora by OPI Slushied and OPI My Boyfriend Scaled the Walls. For the glitter I  did it a bit different then the way Chelsea uses them, I just used loose hex glitter I bought from Nail Envy.

I hope you love this mani as much as I did, because another variation is coming your way very soon!!

Chelsea Get Nailed on Facebook

Chelsea Get Nailed on tumblr

Chelsea Get Nailed on YouTube

Envy Nail Supply

Candeo Colors Divebomb Jelly Sandwich

When I received Candeo Colors Divebomb in the mail I knew immediately I wanted to do a jelly sandwich.

For those who do not know what a jelly sandwich is, when it comes to nails, it's when you apply a color, like a cream, then add a glitter or flakie, and top it off with a jelly-like finish nail polish.

For my jelly sandwich I used New York Summer Hot Sky Blue. New York Summer has some awesome jelly polishes!

This next photo looks a bit off on my skin color, but I edited it to show the depth of the glitter in the jelly sandwich.

I applied two coats of NYS Hot Blue Sky, then two coats of Candeo Divebomb, and finally, one coat of NYS Hot Blue Sky.

This mani lasted me quite a while, for more than 4 days wear! The formula on both of these polishes were excellent!

Chanel Nouvelle Vague

Nouvelle Vague is a gorgeous turquoise nail polish color released by Chanel in their Summer 2010 collection.

This color applied like butter and was perfected to my liking in three coats. Now I can't decide whether I want to stamp over this or do a glitter gradient!! So many choices!! I may just leave it as is in all it's glory and simplicity.

HITS Cutie Pie and Jazz MATTEFIED!!!

As you may have seen my posts from the past couple of days I have added and added to my HITS Cutie Pie manicure! Well today, I have another addition to it!

Hard Candy Matte-ly In Love

Whenever I do duochrome mani's it's almost second nature for me to add flakie and matte to it, it just brings out so much character to the nail polish!!