O-P-I Designer Series

First I want to say Happy Tuesday and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my little man. Well, not so little man. It's hard to believe he is 9 years old today! Here, I will share a picture of him when he was a wee baby and now. He was 5 months old in the baby picture, and the "now" picture is of him at his birthday party this past Saturday. Makes me tear up a bit. Okay...anyway! LOL.

So, my friend Jacque went dusty hunting and found some OPI - DS and I was able to snatch up 6 of them! OMG I LOOOOOOVE them! One of the ones I was able to snatch up was Original. Apparently EVERYONE wants Original and I can see why. She is so gorgeous! I put two coats of Zoya - Perrie then I used two coats of OPI DS - Original. What do you lovies think???

I am in Love with Zoya!

Happy Monday everyone! What is your favorite brand of polish? I'd have to say my all time favorite is Zoya. I just love them. Every time I use one of my Zoyas I say to myself "why don't I own every single Zoya color?"

Today I am blogging about the manicure I just did. I used Zoya Dana as my base color, shes a beauty. I then used Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Black Out for my stamping. After that dried I used O.P.I. Designer Series - Passion as my tips. I took my color club strip-er - Black Hologram for my stripe. I absolutely love this manicure that I have many others I could blog but just wanted to share this one with you all. Unfortunately, my stupid pictures came out so shadowed today and I'm not sure why. Anyway, I hope you enjoy; ignore my stubby nails. I had to file them down because as I was cleaning Friday and getting ready for my sons birthday party, I broke them. :-(

What is YOUR nail polish color choice?

Hello all and HAPPY MONDAY!

I'm just curious, what is your nail polish color choice? My favorite color is PINK however, I tend to buy more purples then anything. I am not sure why I always buy purples, purple isn't my most favorite color. And I realized they are so difficult to photograph. But I always buy them, and I LOVE them when they are on; so if anyone has any tips for photographing purples DO share with me.

In this post I will be talking about Sinful Colors - Daddys Girl. I see it as a gel type formula. I absolutly LOOOOOOVE this polish. I got it in a swap I did with my good friend Jacque. It was easy for me to apply, I love the after look, I just love this polish period. I can't wait until I use it again. It is BEAUTIFUL. I used three coats and to me it turned out A-MA-ZING! What do you lovelies think?

Again it is so hard to photograph, it looks like its a blue, it really is a deep purple. And BEAUTIFUL!

Velvet Bow by China Glaze Review

Hello everyone! I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend! I am in the process of potty training my two year old, so it's been pretty busy and hectic around here, but I think we are making progress!

Anyway, China Glaze sent me a few polish's to do for review. I do want to mention that I was NOT compensated for my opinion on this polish. Now on to my review. I will be straight up honest; I do NOT like Velvet Bow. It was very thick and kind of difficult for me to put on, yet at the same time I needed three coats because you could see thru it. I did not think with a polish so dark that it would need three coats. I didn't necessarily like the color, it's a dark red/purple color.

I added some Flakies to it; I put on Finger Paints - Asylum, and to be honest, I still don't like it. I'm not even really sure why, maybe because we had a fight when I was applying it. I also went to mention, it did not clean up well; you can see in these pictures, it stained my skin. :-(

Nail Adored - Give-a-way!!!

Hello everyone and happy Thursday! Go check out one of my good friends give-a-way on her blog. You can access it HERE. There will be TWO different prizes given away! So go go go! Submissions end on 2/2/12! Check her out she's pretty AWWWWWESOME :-)

Polka Dot Mani

Hello all! Happy Hump Day! Today I tried a mani and it did NOT work out. I got aggravated so I took it off and started over. I really like the way they turned out FINALLY but wish I used a smaller "dot". I knew I wanted to use a pink, so I ended up using Orly - Sweet Temptation as my base color. Such a beautiful color and I could have probably only used one coat, but I'm a two coat-er to say the least. :-) I would describe this color as a rosie color, just beautiful! I then taped it off and painted Zoya - Anja on the tips of my nails. I took a silver nail art stripe tool to seperate the two colors. Then I took my dotting tool (by the way best invention EVER), and made my silver dots. To make the dots I used Wet 'N Wild Wild Shine- Metallica. I think this manicure turned out rather well!

For Audrey - Nubar 2010

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend.! I had a great weekend myself, I had a nice relaxing weekend with my son, just him and I. It was a great time.

Today, I must get back to blogging. I probably have a weeks worth of blogs to do. So today, I'm going to start with a manicure I gave myself a few weeks back. It sort of reminded me a winter, or snow. :-) I think because of the "glistening" look that Nubar 2010 gave it. For Christmas I received a few gift certificates to Amazon and wasn't sure what polish's I wanted to get, however, I knew I wanted to get polish. :-) My good friend Jamie, is my personal shopper when I don't know what to get, so two of the polish's she suggested were China Glaze-For Audrey and Nubar-2010. One day I said I am going to use For Audrey, she was absolutely BEAUTIFUL alone, but I still wanted to add something to her, so I tried Nubar-2010, I LOVE how this manicure turned out :-) What do you think? Click on the picture to enlarge :-)

Happy Thursday!

Hello lovies! Sorry I have not been updating, I've been super busy and to be honest, I keep forgetting to take pictures of my nails. :-o Oh well, back in the swing of things now. First, I want to say THANK you for following me. :-) I am thinking of doing a give-a-way when I hit 100 followers. So share with your family and friends!

Now back to blogging!

This post is with some polish I got in a swap. I used Seche Vite - Rebuild as my base coat, which by the way is AMAZING. I then used two coats of Sally Hansen - Insta-Dri - Slick Slate as my main color, which is a lovely color. Then I topped it with two coats of Essie's - A Cut Above! I absolutely adored this manicure!

What would you all like to see in a giveaway?

Nubar Prism Collection - Absolute

I did not own any Nubar, but my good friend Jamie from Nails Adored is my personal shopper and tells me what I should buy. So she suggested Nubar 2010, which I bought but I also bought a couple other Nubars. And Absolute was one of them. Absolute is absolutely gorgeous :-) I get lazy some times when I do my nails and don't feel like putting all the coats I would like. This one could have probably used 4 coats in my opinion. It's very sheer when you put the first coat on. I used 3 coats, it still came out rather pretty. So I used one coat of Seche Vite - Rebuild formula, three coats of Nubar - Absolute, one coat of Seche Vite - top coat, then I used my dotting tool with Zoya - Kylie2 to make a flower, and used my dotting tool with Zoya - Pippa for the inside of the flower. I thought this manicure turned out rather well. :-)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! - 2012

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a safe evening! I just stayed home with my kids and my husband. I made pigs in a blanket, rice krispie treats, pizza dip, and a meat/cheese with crackers try. We played games and had a fun family night! So anyway, here is my New Years Nails. :-) I hope you all enjoy them like I do. I got some China Glaze polish's to sample and review. One of them was Haunting. I absolutely LOVE Haunting. It's black with a little Silver glitter. It is so pretty. I applied 2 coats and love how it turned out. I ended up doing some stamping on them, I used BM21 and used Wet N Wild Shine - Metallica. LOVE LOVE LOVE this manicure.

Dotting tools

Do you have dotting tools? I just recently got some dotting tools and I LOVE them! I used Finger Paint's Lavender Highlight for the purple, I used Suzi Says Feng Shui for the "tealish" color, then I used Watermelon Watercolor for the pink dots. I wasn't too happy with the way they turned out. I think I needed to use different color contrasts. I think they were all too close in darkness, etc. So needless to say I didn't "love" this manicure and it only lasted a day because I took it off. I like the design just not the colors together.

 I did a base coat of the Finger Paints - Lavender Highlight, I let it dry then I taped it off and used OPI - Suzi Says Feng Shui. Then I used Watermelon Watercolor for the dots with my dotting tool. I then topped it with Confetti's - Ice Ice Baby to give it a glitter look.

What do you think?