Tuesday, November 29, 2011

O.P.I. Suzi Loves Cowboys and BM 203

I really wanted to do a Thanksgiving water marble last week, but the only brown brown that I own is a sorbet and it was a disaster =| It was also my birthday on Thanksgiving and I kept debating whether to do Thanksgiving or birthday nails so I just did something with brown LOL. Here I used O.P.I. Suzi Loves Cowboys and stamped using BM 203 in China Glaze Passion. After a few days I added one of Essie's new Luxeffects in As Gold as it Gets and it looked really cool, except I didn't make time to take pics. I really want to do a giveaway, but nursing school is practically drowning me right now so I think I have to wait until next month.


Thursday, November 10, 2011

China Glaze Westside Warrior and Konad M78

Today's post is a mani I wore a couple weeks ago. It's a simple design, but I kind of like doing manis like these sometimes because it doesn't take long to think it up (I'm SO indecisive) and it's hard to mess up. For my base color I used China Glaze Westside Warrior and stamped using Konad M78 in Konad Princess Apple Green. I like it because it has a kind of marbled look to it!



Wednesday, November 9, 2011

November Haul

I haven't been to "nail polish heaven"  for couple months and that's a pretty long time in nail polish land because so many new polishes are always being released. Anyways, it basically means I bought a bunch of nail polish! I wanted more, but I'm not made of money so here's what I picked up:


China Glaze's 2011 Holiday "Let It Snow" Collection:

L to R: Velvet Bow, Winter Berry, Poinsetta, Ring in the Red

 L to R: Holly-Day, Glittering Garland, Blue Year's Eve,  Champagne Bubbles

L to R: Tinsel Town, Icicle, Snow Globe, Twinkle Lights



O.P.I.'s "The Muppets" Collection:


L to R: Warm & Fozzie, Designer... De Better, Pepe's Purple Passion

L to R: Wocka Wocka, Meep-Meep-Meep, Animal-istic

L to R: Divine Swine, Gettin' Miss Piggy With It, Excuse Moi


L to R: Rainbow Connection x2, Fresh Frog of Bel Air, Gone Gonzo

L to R: Zoya Kissy (from Zoya's Holiday 2011 Gems and Jewels Collection) and Color Club  Wild and Willing


I'm lucky the nail polish store I go to sells these for half of what you would pay anywhere else. The OPI were $4.25 each, China Glaze were $2.75 each, Zoya was $4, and Color Club was I think $2.50. I think I'm going to get more Zoya's from the Gems and Jewels Collection, but at the time I told myself no because I thought it would be overdoing it lol. As you can see, there are TWO of Rainbow Connection. Since it seems to be so popular (and GORGEOUS), I decided to grab an extra and since my birthday is coming up, I will have a giveaway for Rainbow Connection and announce it on my birthday! I can't wait until my winter break from nursing school next month so I can finally play with everything.

Monday, October 31, 2011

Halloween Mani #3 Water Marble with Spiders

Happy Halloween everyone!! Here's my last Halloween mani. I had so many other ideas, but unfortunately just didn't have enough time to do them. I guess I'll have to wait until next year for those. Anyways, I wanted to do a marble with black in it, but I decided not to because I wanted to stamp over it. I first used a base coat of Wet n Wild French White Creme and then marbled using Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Sun Kissed, and China Glaze Life Preserver. I stamped using BM 13 in Konad Black. I tried using the spider image from the same plate and it wouldn't pick up for the life of me! So here you go, you can all laugh at my freehand spiders =P