Untried Thursday-

Hi guys!!!

Today I for Untried Thursday I used three untrieds! Whoop!!! I'm slowly gonna get through all these polishes I tell ya!

So as you probably know i'm obsessed with animal print. I just can't help it. When I put all these colors together I just knew immediately they would look awesome as a leopard print! First off here are the Untrieds I used.

From L-R
Essie- Watermelon
Essie- Madison Ave-Hue
Sinful Colors-
China Glaze-Liquid Leather (Used Before)


And now the nails!

 

I think these are SO cute. I love the combination of gray, pink and blue together. I think leopard print tends to be the design I fall back on. It's easy, hard to mess up and always pretty. Plus there are a tons of different ways to incorporate it into your designs. Do you have a technique you tend to fall back on? Tell me in the comments I'd love to hear it! 

Pinsperation

Hi guys!

I'm back with another Pinterest inspired mani! Todays inspiration comes from "Nuthin' But a Nail Thing".

Here is the link to her original design.

When I came across this on Pinterest I knew IMMEDIATELY that I wanted to try it! I decided to go with a white to mint gradient with sort of a gradient polka dot effect. Here is what I used and how it looked!

-Essie Turquoise and Caicos 
-Kleancolor White

 AND because I think Matte is the coolest thing ever I decided to matte them! 

 

Matte Finish By Butter London is really great! I think its one of the best out there. I found this one on a blog sale for 8 bucks! Score!!!!!

So what do you guys think? I totally love these nails. Both matte and with a top coat. I want to do this mani over and over again with different colors! LOL 

Have a wonderful Friday! 

 

Untried Thursday

Hi guys!!!

I've decided that the only way I'm going to get through my MANY untrieds is to schedule a certain day every week reserved only for untrieds. So here we go! Slowly but surely perhaps I'll be able to use everything at least once! LOL

For today's post I'm using two untried Essies. The purple is Bond With Whomever and the glitter is a longtime lemming Set In Stones. Here it is!

Such a pretty combo! I love it! Hope you guys enjoyed. Until tomorrow Ciao!

Purple Gradient

Hi guys!

Today I did a purple gradient then topped it with my fave..animal print! Gradients have been so tough for me to learn. I don't know what it is with them but I have so much trouble getting something I like. Today the gradient Gods were with me because it turned out pretty good. Heres what I did!

and here are the colors I used..

Kleancolor White, China Glaze Spontaneous, Essie Lilacism, and Out The Door for my Top Coat.


Not to shabby huh! I just might get this gradient thing down after all!

Have a great day!

How I love leopard print!

Hi guys!

I did this mani quite some time ago for a guest post then realized I never linked it here! I love this mani so much it is definitely one of my favorites I've ever done. I got the inspiration from this phone case.

Side note. I'm very angry at this case. LOL I dropped my phone and the case totally shattered. Sad day! At least I have this picture and the one of my nails to remind me how awesome it was! ;)

Anyways. Here are my nails!

Pretty close huh? My favorite part about this manicure is the fact that I did it on my nubbins! I have never been confident about doing my nails when they are short this was my first design and I have to say it was a success!








I used Essie Marshmallow as a basecoat. The print was done with Kleancolor-Neon Yellow, Barielle- Central Park (green) Zoya Coco (redish color), and China Glaze Grape Pop (purple). The black was done using a nail art pen made by Cina.

I hope you guys enjoyed this post! Until next time.... Ciao!

Playing Catch Up! ABC Challenge-D, E, F

Hi guys!!! I'm back!!! It seems like it's been forever since I last blogged and man have I missed it! In order to catch up on my ABC Challenge I've decided to group together D,E and F. Hope ya'll don't mind! So first up D! D is for....DOTS!! Dots dots dots! I loveeeeeee dots! I think if their is one thing in the world that you can't mess up its dots! Which is great for me! HAHAHA

 

 I used NYC Lexington Lilac and Pure Ice Superstar for the white and Sally Hansen Black out for the black. I was pretty thrilled with these. They were quick and easy and still looked kinda cool even though they were horribly uneven lol I just love the lilac. I am a sucker for pastels! I am so happy spring is around the corner. Have you seen all the amazing spring lines out there? My poor wallet!


Next Up! E! This one was pretty hard. I literally only have three "E's" in my entire stash. How is that possible!? I decided to go with Essie E-nuf is E-nuf. Triple E! Whooo!

I had to add some animal print in there....beacause I just couldn't see a reason not to! HA! I had issues photographing this one. In some pictures it looked red, others it looked bright orange.  I would say it's more of a coral-y color. ;)

Finally F! I was really REALLY looking forward to doing "F" Because I won a giveaway from Llarowe awhile back and my gift was this amazing polish by Femme Fatale. It's called Glinting Loadstone and it might just be my new favorite polish. Here it is layered over Black.

Look at it! Really LOOK! It's beautiful. I was so happy to win this polish its my first Femme Fatale and judging from some of the swatches I've seen of other colors, it won't be my last! Excuse my pink cuticles. The Essie totally stained my nails. :)

So I'm finally caught up! This week is "G" and that post will follow shortly. Happy to be back!

Ciao!

Drugstore Haul pt.1

Hi there!

It's been awhile since my first post. Sorry! I've been shopping a lot lately. All of these collections coming out I'm trying to keep up! Today I'm going to show you some stuff I've purchased recently; most of which were pretty cheap! Yay! I'm going to separate the haul posts into two so it won't be too picture heavy! ;)


First off I went to Walgreens looking for Wet N Wilds party rock collection. No luck! But! I came across Sally Hansen's Complete Salon Manicure Line and guess what!!!? It was on clearance for $1.99!!!!!!! Can you believe that! $1.99! Usually it runs about $8-9 bucks! I hear that they are re releasing the line so I guess thats why it's so cheap but I love a bargain so I picked up a few. I plan on going back for more this week.

Grass Sipper

Red Zin

  

 

Kook-A-Mango

Good To Grape

Shrimply Devine

All Fired Up

Lastly I got these!

Sinful Colors Ocean Side

 Essie Butler Please

 Wet N Wild Chrome Grew up in Cobalt-imore

Whew! So that was all of my Walgreens haul. I am in love with Essies Leading Ladies collection. I want every single color and I've decided that I'll buy one each week until I have them all! And those Sally Hansen Colors are wonderful! I had no problems with any of them. They went on smooth and opaque. Gotta love it! I got all of these colors for about 20 bucks. Can't beat that! My next post I will show you some stuff I found at the Dollar Store! Until then.. Ciao!