OPI Ski Teal We Drop Swatch

Herroh!!

Today is just a quick post with one of my favourite teals! This is OPI Ski Teal We Drop. It came out with OPIs Swiss collection from fall of 2010! Its gorgeous. Two coats of shimmer teal goodness. Great formula.

Hope you like it! Thanks for reading :)

OPI The Impossible Swatch

Greetings!

Today I have one of the OPI "Liquid Sand" polishes to show you! This is The Impossible from the Mariah Carey collection. I got this as a Valentines Day gift from my Secret Cupid. I was so happy! <3 

This is two coats. It is a coral leaning red textured polish and is super bright. Brighter than my pictures show. There are some holo hex glitters in there that sparkle as well as the occasional big holographic star glitter! This took a bit longer to dry than I am used to because of the lack of fast-dry topcoat. It wore very well though, except a few of the stars came off (probably because my nails are pretty curved).

I like the look of this one and the texture didn't bother me at all (except the couple of stars that eventually fell off!) What do you think? I think its a great polish for the summertime :)

Thanks for reading!

Erica's Nails & More Nail Art Challenge! Day 8!

Hello and welcome to day 8 of Erica's Nails & More February Nail Art Challenge!

Today is just a quick post. The theme is "polka dots". 

I did a very pink dotticure with little flowers. 

I used OPI Alpine Snow, OPI Kiss Me On My Tulips & SH Insta Dri Pink Blink (my untried!)

It is quite a simple design, but I quite liked the way it turned out :)

Thanks for reading :) xo

Ericas Nails & More Nail Art Challenge! Day 5 Valentines Day Nails

Happy Valentines Day & welcome to day 5 of Erica's Nails & More Nail Art Challenge!

Today is clearly themed Vday nails. I spend my Valentines Day with my fur boyfriends and girlfriends at my local SPCA. I go about three times a week, and this week is no different :) Furbabies need loving too. Plus its way more fun than the same ol' dinner & a movie.

Anyway, I digress. Here is my manicure!

I used OPI Pink Friday, China Glaze Seduce Me, China Glaze Midnight Kiss & Rainbow Honey My Love! I was so happy to get my Rainbow Honey order so quickly & I was most excited to try the LE, My Love (my untried!). I love it! It is full of gold sparkle and pink shimmer, iridescent goodness, and silvered white and pink heart glitters! Very pretty combo. I added some stripes and heart rhinestones too :]

Do you like it? I'm quite happy with how it turned out! I like that CG Seduce Me darkens the tone of it a bit and the heart rhinestones and Pink Friday still add a bit of fun!

Oh and looky at what I got in the mail!! I was part of a Secret Cupid Swap and this is my gift that I received from the lovely Chasadie! I LOOOVEEE IT so I had to show it off! I had been lemming Zoya Aurora for FOREVER. And I wanted to try a liquid sand so badly and she picked the PERFECT colour :) I also got a ton of cool samples (I'm most excited about the John Frieda ones ;) I don't know how she knew that those are some of my favourite candies but they almost didn't make it to the picture because I ate them all up immediately!

And just for a bonus, here is a picture of my last years Valentine, Mr. Duke!! I am happy to say that a year later, he is in a happy forever home. Warm, safe & sound with a forever family. Now THAT is a happy Valentines Day story <3

Don't forge to check out the other awesome nail art from Day 5!!

Could You Guys Do Me a Favour? (FT Valentines Day Nail Art!)

Hello!!

One of my favourite (and Canadian!) online polish retails, Harlow & Co are hosting a Valentines Day nail art contest!

This is my entry!

I used Picture Polish Fairy Floss for the base (from Harlow & Co) & then the plaid was done with striping tape, a LOT of dry time, Color Club Poptastic, & OPI Kiss Me On My Tulips! I added hearts on the ring finger and thumb and topped it all in topcoat. 

If you could all do me a favourite and click HERE, find my picture, & vote for me. I would be super thrilled. I am very proud of how this mani turned out :)

Thank you for reading!

Erica's Nails & More February Nail Art Challenge! Day 1: GALAXY NAILS

Hello!

Fun news! I'm participating in the February Nail Art Challenge put on by the fabulous Erica from Erica's Nails & More!



Today is the first day and the challenge is Galaxy Nails! I know people say there is no "right or wrong" way to do Galaxy Nails. But mine always end up looking smudgy and very UN-space-like. Anyway here is what I came up with!

Don't laugh!! It really was my best efforts! I tried these a couple of times and this was definitely the best outcome.

I used GOSH Nero as my base. Nero is a fabulous one coat black. I sponged with OPI Alpine Snow, HITS HK Mint, Joe Fresh Fluo Blue, OPI Koala Berry, & a-England Avalon. I topped the whole thing with OPI Last Friday Night for some sparkle and smoothed it all one with g&g HK Girl topcoat.

Keeping with the theme of untrieds.. I used OPI Last Friday Night for the first time. Why did I wait so long to use it??? Its PERFECT for layering! 

I hope you liked my efforts and be sure to check out the other awesome nail art from the challenge!!