Delicate Manicure FT OPI Don't Touch My Tutu, OPI Happy Anniversary & Lynnderella Love Lace and Lilacs

Greetings Fellow Earthlings! 

I don't often wear delicate manicures but when the need calls, you answer. I experimented with some layering, because delicate doesn't have to mean boring.. and came up with this shimmery jelly sammich.

Layering Combo:

OPI Don't Touch My Tutu

OPI Happy Anniversary

Lynnderella Love Lace and Lilacs

OPI Don't Touch My Tutu 

You can see a bit of visible nail line but I am okay with it. I was worried you'd be able to see my unsightly stained nails through this sheerish mani (and you can a bit in pictures) but in person it wasn't noticeable!

I hope you like todays post! Thanks for reading!

My Picks from the Desserts d'Antoinette by Lime Crime

Herroh polish people!

Today I am showing you the two polishes I picked from Lime Crime's Dessert d'Antoinette Collection. This collection was right down my alley, super bright pastel colors. I know right? That description doesn't even make sense. But it is true and that is why I like them I guess!

A few things to note about this line:

-They come in VERY cute purple and white boxes with unicorns and bows... that I don't have a picture of, sorry.

-The bottles are frosted glass with the Lime Crime Logo and the names are on a black label on the bottom with a cute logo.

-They are slightly smaller than your average polish at 9ml and retail for 5.99 on the Lime Crime website, a few of which are sold out right now. They only ship within the US though. But you can also find them at Harlow & Co & KarmaLoop which both happily ship to Canada.

-They don't dry to a really shiny finish, not matte, but not uuuber shiny. They need topcoat if you want a lot of gloss.

My first pick was Milky Ways. A vanilla off-white creme. Its slightly warm toned and pulls to the yellow side of off-white on my skin. I like it because it is in the white family but without being straight up white. Formula wise I heard amazing things and that is was a two coater, but I needed three to even everything out. Not a terrible thing, but worth mentioning.

My other pick was Peaches <3 Cream. A bright pastel peach. If you follow my blog, you know why I needed this one. It is THE cantaloupe colour I have been searching for!! I originally thought I found "this" colour when I tried Julep Hayden, but I was wrong.. THIS is the perfect cantaloupe polish. It just didn't exist when I was originally looking for it! This is two coats and I love it! My sister really loves it, which I am thrilled about because she was the original reason I was looking for a polish this colour.

After seeing swatches of the other colours from other bloggers, I now realize I also need Lavendairy, Once in the Blue Mousse, and Pastelchio. And possibly.. Ok no. I need the rest of them. I really like them.

Overall thoughts:
Awesome colours, good price, decent formula. I think these are a win!

Sunday Swatch Spam FT. OPI

Herrrroh.

Today I've got some swatch spam for you by OPI. Take a peek!

OPI We'll Always Have Paris Suede

Pinky-purple-heaven in just ONE coat.

OPI Orge The Top Blue
Perfect medium blue creme in a perfect two coats.

OPI Danke Shiny Red.
My favourite one-coat red by OPI. Stunning shimmer on this one!

OPI Alpine Snow.
3 Thin coats of a stark white. Perhaps a bit too stark for me, but it works if that is what you are goin' for.

OPI Funky Dunky.

Two coats of grape purple perfection. I love that this always looks purple and never too dark.

OPI Fly.
Excellent teal creme/crelly. I love this one. Bright, clean, awesome.

OPI You Only Live Twice
Raspberry Glassfleck with a three thin coat formula. It seriously glows. I love this one.

& That is it for today! I hope you liked my Sunday swatch spam :)
Thank you for reading!

SMYTC Holiday Nail Art Challenge! Day 5: Reindeer!

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer.......

Hi everyone! Today marks the halfway point of the Holiday Nail Art Challenge and todays theme is Reindeer! I was a bit intimidated by this challenge because I knew I would have to freehand it but I think it went pretty well! I took my time and proceeded with muchos caution.

The base color is two coats of OPI Alpine Snow with one coat of Happy Anniversary on top. Happy Anniversary gives insane amount of pink and green shimmer. It looks like glistening snow. I wish my pictures picked it up better!

Then I did the reindeers with:
-China Glaze Mohogany Magic for the fur
-Wet n Wild Black Creme for the outline & antlers
-Red loose extra fine glitter for Rudolphs nose
-OPI Alpine snow for the eyes
-HK Girl topcoat to smooth it all out

I love that Rudolphs nose adds some sparkle on the accent nail! I first saw this awesome design on www.thenailasaurus.com I believe!

Thanks for reading and don't forget to check out the awesome nails of the other gals in the challenge!

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SMYTC Holiday Challenge! Day 3: Snowflakes!

Hey everyone!

It is day three of the Holiday Nail Art Challenge! Today is snowflakes!

I decided to do some stamping. Now if you follow me, you know that I am not talented with stamping but since this is a "challenge" I thought I would give it a try anyway and I am actually really happy with the results! Check it out!

I started with a white base, OPI Alpine Snow.

Then I thought that was too boring. So I attemped a gradient. I am not good at gradients. I find it to be one of the most difficult nail art techniques. I sponged on NARS Kutki, one of my favourite light blues. I wish the colours blended a little better but the more I practice, the better I get.

Now for the stamping. I have different snowflake stamps from Konad plate m59. I did them with Sally Hansen Silver Sweep. I find the smaller stamps way easier to transfer and apply than the full nail designs so these turned out pretty good. But it looked boring.

So I added a few more snowflakes in Color Club Cold Metal. I loved how it looked. I was proud of how my stamping has gotten better with practice :)

To add some sparkle, I used a coat of China Glaze Fairy dust, a fine holo glitter topcoat. I thought it looked a lot like glistening snow!

Then just for fun, I put rhinestones in the middle of each of the blue snowflakes! I thought it was pretty cute!

Here is one with flash!

I am actually pretty darn happy with how this manicure turned out! I improved on two of my nail art techniques! Both gradients and stamping. Its not perfect, but its definitely better than I could have done before!

Don't forget to check out the other awesome ladies' nails from SMYTC!

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Last 5 days of Halloween Rolled into ONE post! PIC HEAVY!

Hey polish people! 

I finally got my camera and computer to work together and I guess this post is better late than never! So without further ado.. here is the last five days of my Halloween series rolled into one post!! I'll let the pictures do the talking and keep my descriptions to a minimum.

DAY FIVE

OPI Flit a Bit & CG Stone Cold. Flit A Bit is the perfect pumpkin orange and stone cold is the best charcoal grey matte ever!

DAY FOUR

WnW Fantasy Makers Rest In Pieces. Fuchsia microglitter in a black jelly base. Looks way better than this picture in real life.

DAY THREE

CG Riveting and CG Stone Cold in a half-moon halloween mani. I love the gold glassflecks in Riveting and CG stone cold is so opaque that it was easy and ended up looking quite cool! 

& Here it is with topcoat.

DAY TWO

OPI Alpine Snow and OPI Big Apple Red in a drippy-icky blood manicure.

Then I turned the blood into HOLO blood with Jade Vermelho Surreal! I think this is pretty cool.

DAY ONE

& Here is my last Halloween mani. This one might have been my favourite :)

Zombie-esque gradient nails using:

OPI Gargantuan Green Grape Matte

a-England Dragon

Dollish Polish Zombie Flesh

I think they turned out pretty good! But then I sponged on some red blood to add some EXTRA gross-ness. Cool, right?!

& There you have it. This is my 10 Days of Halloween series completed! Sorry that the last half was late but I am glad I finally got to post them. I hope you all had a safe & happy Halloween!

10 Days of Halloween! Day 5: Candy Corn Nails!!

Hey polish people!!

Today I have some nail art to show off! I did these Halloween themed candy corn nails a little while ago and I actually think they turned out pretty good! I just did one layer at a time using some scotch tape to mark off the lines. Easy peasy!

Colours used:

OPI Flit A Bit

OPI Alpine Snow

Color Club Almost Famous

I think these are perfect for Halloween! What do you think?

Dollish Polish Super Mario Bros Collection Swatches!!!!!!! *PIC HEAVY*

Hi! I'm super excited about the collection swatches I am showing today! This is the Dollish Polish Super Mario Bros Collection! I am a MAJOR Mario fan, right from the NES. I can totally beat that game in one man, WITHOUT shortcuts. (I did it once hahahaha). I also still regularly play Mario games on my N64 and GameBoy Color. It is always fun, no matter your age. So when I saw the previews for this collection, I KNEW it had to be mine. I set my alarm for 5am and refreshed like a crazy person for an hour to snag this. I even missed the set!!! But I did manage to get all of them individually into my cart!

I'll talk about the formulas and application at the end of the post!

Here we gooooooooo!!!!!!!! *Said in Mario voice*

Here is the main man himself, It's A Me, Mario! Red and blue small and medium hex glitter with the odd holographic star in a clear base. 

(Layered over Julep Pippa, I didn't want to hide the red or blue glitter). 

Now, for his awesome brother, Go Luigi! Blue and green small and medium hex glitters with the odd holographic star in a clear base. A very appropriate book-end for the plumber brothers!

(Layered over Essie Mojito Madness and Joe Fresh Cobalt.. wanted to showcase both the blue and green).

My favourite Mario Kart and storybook character, Dino-Mite Yoshi! I love the pale yellow/green glitter in this one. There is also red and green micro glitter, medium green hexes and medium red squares! There is also a splash of small white glitters. Love this glitter combination.

(Layered over China Glaze Tree Hugger. I really like this combo!)

Next up is 1-UP! Woohoo! An extra man! This one has an abundance of green hex glitter, more sparse white hex and bar glitter, with micro green glitter! 

(Layered over Essence Black is Back. I think it would look epic over a nude too!)

And now for Bowser the bad guy.. The King Koopa! Golden yellow glitter in different sizes, Green and red glitters in different sizes and shapes, as well as black bar glitter and holographic diamonds! This one REALLY reminds me of Bowser. Amazeballs.

(Layered over Color Club Nomadic in Nude. Love love love this combination!)

Next is the female of the bunch, A Peachy Princess! This one is small glitters in lots of different shades of pink (some matte, some shiny, some leaning peach), a splash of holo glitter, and larger light pink squares all in a sheer tinted pink base! I love the glitter combination in this one! 

(I couldn't decide what to layer it over, so I tried a few in the first picture: Essence Black is Back, OPI Alpine Snow, OPI Mod About You, & Color Club Poptastic. Over white you can see the pink tinted base!)

I liked it best over black, so I did a full mani with it. I thought it showed off the glitters the best.

Here is my second favourite Mario Kart player, and the cutest little helpful guy on the block.. Toad-ally Awesome! Mostly different sizes of white hexes, with blue micro glitter, with blue squares and red hexes! My favourite part though is a splash of random yellow glitter in the mix!

(I couldn't decide what to layer this one over. First I tried Joe Fresh Butter, but it sort of hid my favourite yellow glitters!)

So then I tried it over Color Club Lumin-Icent and Color Club Almost Famous. Look at that yellow glitter in there when put over a blue!)

Here is the evil plumber, Wicked Wario! Purple micro glitter, with a splash of yellow and green hex glitters, with white squares thrown in!
(Layered over Color Club Nomadic in Nude. I should have layered this over black, this nude doesn't do it justice at all! The purple glitters are fabulous in person!)

These pictures are all one coat of polish! Some were thinner or thicker than others but they were ALL really well formulated. The only one I might have done one more coat of was Wicked Wario (or put it over black!) They all spread really nicely on my nails and I didn't have to dig or fish for glitter at all with the exception of the stars in Mario and Luigi. It wasn't a huge feat by any means.. just a quick tilt of the bottle. 

I love ALLLLL of these and I don't know if I could pick favourites.. but Dino-Mite Yoshi, King Koopa, Toad-ally Awesome, and A Peachy Princess were the first to really catch my eye! 

These aren't available at Dolly's shop at the moment but I think she mentioned they will make a comeback eventually. I don't think I can even put into words how much I love this collection... the formulas are excellent, the colours REALLY represent the characters, and the collection as a whole is tied together so well. I just love it! An awesome idea executed flawlessly by Dollish Polish! If you love Mario as much as I do, you NEED this!