31 Day Challenge 2012: Day 1

RED NAILS

Today is Day 1 of the 31 Day Challenge!!

I am also doing 30 Days of Untrieds

PCOS Awareness Month

September is PCOS Awareness month. PCOS stands for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Nory over at Fierce Makeup and Nails asked if anyone would like to participate in doing a teal mani to show our support for PCOS Awareness month. 

Most of you don't know that I was actually tested to see if I had PCOS about a year ago, thankfully I do not but it was very scary to think that it could be a possibility. So, of course this mani was right up my alley and I had to show my support.

This mani ended up turning out better than I had imagined! For each nail there is actually a meaning behind the design.

For the thumb I chose to do the teal ribbon by using some loose glitter I had. The thumb represents the ribbon and the support that this cause has.

For my index finger I have two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and I stamped using BM-201 with Butter London Slapper (the perfect teal might I add). My middle finger is the same colors but opposite. I chose this stamp because I know that PCOS can be a struggle for women and they may encounter quite a few bumpy roads that are forever changing.

My ring finger is a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and a loose glitter gradient of teal glitter. This represents how hopefully, the women with POCS, their symptoms can slowly fade.

My pinkie finger is a base of Butter London Slapper with a coat of Nicole by OPI Somebody Teal Love. This finger represents the light, or shimmer in this case, at the end of the battle against PCOS.

You can also check out Nory's post along with her personal story here!

For more information about PCOS, please visit any of these links:

http://www.pcoschallenge.com/ - Support System to help women with PCOS

http://www.facebook.com/PCOSFoundation - PCOS Foundation

http://www.facebook.com/pcosfight - PCOS Awareness

http://www.facebook.com/pcosdiva - PCOS Diva

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) - Symptoms 

(source: http://women.webmd.com/tc/polycystic-ovary-syndrome-pcos-symptoms)

Happy 4th of July!!

Happy 4th of July!!! 

I decided to do a mani to celebrate.

Right hand: 

Thumb-white base with red gradient & Dollish Polish It's A Me Mario!

Index-OPI DS Coronation with silver holo pressed on top

Middle: blue base with blue holographic glitter pressed and glitter stars

Ring-white base with red and blue gradient

Pinkie-white base and China Glaze Ring in the Red

Left hand:

Thumb-white base, Lush Lacquer Snap Crackle Pop, Dollish Polish Its A Me Mario, and blue holographic glitter pressed on top

Index-OPI DS Coronation

Middle-China Glaze blue base with glitter stars

Index-white base with blue and red gradient and a silver holographic rim

Pinkie-white base with China Glaze Ring in the Red

I really just decided to do a random mani and only had red, white, blue, stars, and GLITTER in mind :)

I hope everyone celebrating has a wonderful and safe fourth of July!

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

OPI NYC Ballet Collection

Today I have two of the OPI NYC Ballet collection nail polishes. OPI Care To Danse? and OPI Pirouette My Whistle. At first when I saw swatches of these online I didn't care for them too much, when I saw them in person it was a whole other story!

OPI Pirouette My Whistle is a lovely glitter with mini silver glitters and large hex grey-silver glitters. Its really dainty and gorgeous!

I then decided to do a jelly sandwich and layer another coat of Care To Danse? on top.

This collection apparently wasn't supposed to be in stores until April. I found these at the salon in JcPenny's. They retail for $8 but if you purchase 2 or more they are $6 each.

Valentines Day Mani

I know Valentines Day is a little ways away, but it's one of my favorite occasions so I couldn't resist starting a mani.

Here are the colors and tools I used for this mani.

Sally Hansen White On, OPI DS Temptation, Lynnderella Love Potion No 99, Orly Bubbly Bombshell, Lynnderella The Telltale Heart, Shany Nail Art Stripers, OPI Planks A Lot, OPI That's Hot! Pink, Bundle Monster nail art tools, and Bundle Monster plate BM02. 

I also used a heart rhinestone from an ebay set which is not pictured.

 Here is a picture without flash to show the dimensions of the glitter.

What do you think? Im hoping to do a few more Valentines Day inspired manis, so I would love some feedback!

Nail Mail!

About a week ago there was a deal going on at Plum District. The deal consisted of purchasing a $50 gift card voucher to Bloom.com for only $25. Bloom.com carries many different beauty products, but my interest was the nail polish.

They carry brands such as CND, Essie, Zoya, OPI, and Sally Hansen just to name a few.

I ordered some of the OPI Nicki Minaj colors and a Zoya.

The packaging was done cute and safe for nail polish!

They wrapped two nail polishes per burrito.

Here are the colors I ordered from L to R:

OPI Fly, Did It On 'Em, Metallic 4 Life, Save Me, Super Bass Shatter, and Zoya Neeka

OPI Fly, Did It On Em, M4L, Save Me, Super Bass Shatter

Zoya Neeka

close up of OPI Save Me

Did you take advantage of this offer? I think overall this offer was really worth it! I only paid $17.50 out of pocket!


UPDATE!!!!
KGB Deals has the same deal going on right now! $50 gift card to Bloom for $25!!! Only 940 deals left out of 2000!!! This deal ends in 3 days!

Day 28 of Untrieds: OPI DS Shimmer

Day 28 of 30 Days of Untrieds

OPI DS Shimmer

OPI DS Shimmer is a gorgeous holo. I used Shimmer over the OPI Here Today..Aragon Tomorrow. I wanted to try and create something that was similar to Glitter Gal Lizard Belly. This ended up being much more holo, and I was super mad that the sun didn't show today!!

Here is Laurie's Untried

OPI Designer De Better and OPI Warm and Fozzie

Check out the other bloggers participating!

Alexandria at Je T'aime Lacquer

Alyssa at Always Polished

Amber at The Polished Momma

Andrea at Addicted to the Allure of Beauty

Ashley at Follow the Yellow Polish Road

Caitlin at Something Creative

Carly at Lacquered Lover

Caroline at Good Lack, Nail!

Caroline at Shadow's Nail Art

Chelsea at Pretty and Polished

Gwen at Pudgy Nails

Ingie at Limited Addiction Nails

Jacki at Adventures in Acetone

Jamie at Nails Adored

Lindsey at Nailtopia

Natalie at Gems in a Bottle

Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails

Rachel at Top Coat It

Sarah at Lucky Lacquers

Shaina at Haute Lacquer

Thalie at Glazed Talons

Taylor at Nailed to the T

Day 27 of Untrieds: OPI Here Today..Aragon Tomorrow

Day 27 of 30 Days of Untrieds

OPI Here Today...Aragon Tomorrow
HT..AT is a gorgeous dark green that I received in a swap recently. I really love deep dark colors and have been looking for a great green, well this is it! The only thing I did not care for was how streaky it applied. Unfortunately the sun was not present so I wasn't able to take very good pictures showing the gorgeousness of this nail polish!

Here is Lauries Untried

Zoya Dove with feathers

I must say that is breathtaking!! I really love this and want to try it!!

Check out the other bloggers participating!

Alexandria at Je T'aime Lacquer

Alyssa at Always Polished

Amber at The Polished Momma

Andrea at Addicted to the Allure of Beauty

Ashley at Follow the Yellow Polish Road

Caitlin at Something Creative

Carly at Lacquered Lover

Caroline at Good Lack, Nail!

Caroline at Shadow's Nail Art

Chelsea at Pretty and Polished

Gwen at Pudgy Nails

Ingie at Limited Addiction Nails

Jacki at Adventures in Acetone

Jamie at Nails Adored

Lindsey at Nailtopia

Natalie at Gems in a Bottle

Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails

Rachel at Top Coat It

Sarah at Lucky Lacquers

Shaina at Haute Lacquer

Thalie at Glazed Talons

Taylor at Nailed to the T

Mani Party!!

Today I have something a little different to show you. Recently I did my Mother-in-Law and two sister-in-law's nails. They had so much fun picking out their own colors and it was just a lot of fun for me to paint someone else's nails besides my own!


First up is my youngest sister-in-law Keihaulani, K-Lani for short. She wanted something Halloween themed so she went straight for Wet n Wild's tombstone nail polish! She also wanted to try my new Barry M purple crackle which is on her accent nail. On her thumbs I did a mini spider web.

Next up is my oldest sister-in-law Amber. She was going to dress up in 80's theme for Halloween so she wanted something to represent that. She picked out $OPI Slushied and 

Lastly, my Mother-in-law Wilmet. She wanted something subtle yet girly. She has on OPI Rumples Wiggin' as the base, then its topped with Cult Nails Unicorn Pee. The thumb and ring finger has Barry M Purple Crackle with UP on top, its gorgeous!! Lastly all her nails have on China Glaze Ghoulish Glow.

Overall it was a great mani night at our house :) Hope you enjoyed!!

OPI Mad As A Hatter

Recently I received the highly sought after and discontinued OPI Mad As A Hatter!! I was super lucky that my friend Kara had two and wanted to swap! Im really loving swaps lately!! 


When I first started drooling over this color I came across a picture that I knew I had to try immediately whenever I got Mad As A Hatter. Its OPI MAAH over a black creme, I used OPI Black Onyx.

the original photo can be found here. Thank you LeeAnnStoner :)

I love this glitter and will definitely be using it more!! Its so pretty!!!

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Illamasqua Viridian Layering Experiment

A few days ago I did a mani with Illamasqua Viridian, as gorgeous as it is, I couldn't leave it alone! There were so many things I had in mind to layer over this gorgeous color and I couldn't choose. So that is when I decided that I am going to do Layering Experiments. 


My Layering Experiments will be about a mani that I had done, most likely a solid color, and then I will choose any where from 5-10 different colors to layer with.


Now onto the beauty!!

OPI MAAH, Clarins 230, The Color Workshop, Funky Fingers Blitzen, OPI Silver Shatter

OPI Black Shatter, OPI DS Shimmer, Funky Fingers Sand and Stilettos, The Color Workshop, Nubar 2010

thumb: silver shatter, index: blitzes, middle: TCW, ring: clarins 230, pinky: MAAH

thumb: black shatter, index: shimmer, middle: sand and stilettos, ring: TCW, pinky: 2010

 I think that all of the combinations are a possible full mani for me. The Color Workshop colors did not have any names for them. Here are some up close shots of the bottles, these are very cheap and can be found in a set at local drugstores. 

This one reminds me of CND effects.

This one is similar to Make Up Store Alma.

So what do you think? Would you like to see more of the Layering Experiments in the future? 

Which combination is your favorite?

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