Fourth of July: Dotted American Flag

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Today I finally have some Fourth of July nails for you! These are inspired by the flag, but I did dots instead of stars!

Red: Sally Hansen Patent Gloss Moto

White: Pop•arazzi Icing on the Cake

Blue: Sinful Colors Blue Persuassion

Silver Glitter: Sephora by OPI Flurry Up!

The blue polish was textured, and I used Nail Vinyls to make the stripes. The silver was done using the glitter sponging method.

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#NailArtApr: Day 22

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Today is a late post, but its my nails for Earth Day! In honor of Earth Day, in recycled the white from my last manicure!

White: Zoya Purity

Blue: OPI Sheer Tint I Can Teal You Like Me

Green: Zoya PixieDust Chita

Blue Striper: Salon Perfect Nail Art Striper Blue Skies

Green Striper: Salon Perfect Nail Art Striper Spring

I used the white painted on all nails and added the sheer tint on top of three of them. Then, I drew the continents on using the PixieDust. I really liked using these together to create the Earth look, because I thought it made it more interesting!

For the "accent nail", I used the stripers to draw a tiny Earth!

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Easter: Baby Chicks

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The other day I decided to do some baby chick nail art! I know I have seen the baby chick hatching before, but I don't know who originally did them!

Yellow: OPI Good Grief!

Yellow Texture: Nicole by OPI Roughless Sand in My Shoe

White: OPI Alpine Snow

Black: OPI Black Onyx

Other Supplies:

B.M.C. Flocking Powder

Icing Nail Wheel

Dotting Tool

Chevron Nail Vinyls

For these nails, I started by painting my thumb, middle and ring fingers with Good Grief!, and then quickly put a layer of the flocking powder on the thumb and ring finger. For the eyes, I used a couple of black round studs. To make the beak, I used a gold diamond stud and cut it in half so I would have a beak for both chicks. I attached them using OPI Top Coat.

On the middle nail, once it and a top coat were dried on there, I used the chevron nail vinyls to create the cracked looking egg. I used a dotting tool to create the eyes.

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Superbowl XLIV Nails: Patriots

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I created nails for both teams this year, because I am not a huge sports fan in general. I do enjoy the Superbowl, though, which is why I still made nails for it!

These nails were similar to my Seahawks nails. You can find the details about those here.

My thumb was done the exact same, using Zoya Pixie Dust Chita, for the field, and the Salon Perfect Nail Art striper in white. My accent nail with the Patriots logo was done with Nicole by OPI in Yoga Then Yogurt for the base, and then Sally Hansen nail art pens for the details!

My red and blue nails were Wet 'n Wild Megalast in Echo Dark and Rouge 66. These were both from their fall 2014 collection. For the football nail, I used Essie Partner in Crime as the base, and Salon Perfect striper in white. This time, I used OPI Ice-Bergers and Fries for some dots on the football. I felt like this made the football look more realistic, and fun!

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Superbowl XLIV Nails: Seahawks

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Congratulations to the Patriots on their big win on Sunday!

I painted my nails for both teams this weekend, because I'm not a big football person, so I was indifferent on who won. I enjoyed doing them both!

First up is the Seattle Seahawks! For the blue polish, I used Revlon Urban, and the green was Finger Paints Silkscreen Green. The white base for the logo nail was Nicole by OPI Yoga Then Yogurt, and for the design I used Sally Hansen Nail Art Pens in silver and blue.

The football was done using Essie Partner in Crime, and the football field base was Zoya Pixie Dust in Chita. For both nails, the details were Salon Perfect striper in white. I put matte top coat on all but the football field, using OPI Matte Top Coat.

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Snowflake Nails

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With all of this snow hitting different parts of the United States, and it being the end of January, I was inspired to do some snowflake nails!

The base color for all nails was Zoya Rebel. On my index and pinky fingers, I did an ombre using Rebel and China Glaze So Blue Without You. On my ring finger, I used Sally Hansen Sugar Shimmer in  Sugar Cloud. The glitter on my thumb was Pure Ice Strapless.

To make the snowflakes, I used the Kiss Nail Art Paint in White and Silver Glitter (creative names, right?) I drew the snowflakes with the white striper, then added some dots with a dotting tool. To finish it off, I used the glitter on the largest snowflake and traced over it to add some extra sparkle!

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31 Day Challenge: Day 25

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Today's theme: inspired by fashion!

I was inspired to do a plaid and tweed mani! I had a new topper by Revlon that I wanted to try. It is called Tweed Mini, and it is what I have on my middle and ring fingers. I liked it a lot! I only needed two coats on top of my base color and it's very opaque! Especially for being a topper. The only thing to keep in mind about it that can be tricky, is that you have to work quickly. Normally with a topper, the pieces in it can be spread out, so wherever you put the brush first is not going to be where they stay necessarily. For this, the first place the brush touches keeps a lot of those pieces behind, causing that spot to be very dense. I think I did a good job about fixing it though.

My plaid nails were done with Milani Nail Art Blue Print and Salon Perfect Nail Art in Black Ink. I think they turned out well, but I've also done stripes a lot before!

The base for all my nails was Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Matte White Pick It Fence.

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31 Day Challenge: Day 21

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Today's theme: inspired by a color!

For this one, I chose to go with a L'Oreal polish called Skinny Jeans. Ironically enough, I was wearing skinny jeans today! All of the blue in the manicure is that polish. It is a textured polish, which is nice because it does dry fairly quickly, and adds to the effect.

The white base nails are Sally Hansen Insta-Dri OMGhost. The silver "seams" are done with China Glaze Icicle and the bronze colored zipper is China Glaze Swing Baby.

Overall, I wish this manicure would have turned out better. I like the idea, and it definitely looked better in my head. I just need more practice, really! I think that maybe I'll attempt this one again, when I'm not in a hurry, and I've had more practice drawing with textured polish! And I can hopefully find a better way to draw a zipper and seams...

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*All polishes were purchased with my own money. All opinions are my own and truthful. I am not sponsored in any way.

31 Day Challenge: Day 17

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Today's theme: glitter! My specialty!

For this, I decided to do it a little more fun than I did last year. I had several glitters in my collection that were unused, so I knew I had plenty of options. These two polishes that I went with sort of popped out at me!

The blue polish is Pure Ice Sparkling Seas. I was under the impression that this was a glitter polish, but apparently not. I needed four coats of this, and it was still pretty sheer. However, I loved this polish! It is gorgeous, and very fun and feminine. It also matches well with the glitter I chose, which was Milani Sugar High. This glitter. It's AMAZING! Milani does amazing glitters in general. Every time that I use one of their glitters, it makes me want to go buy another one!

Overall, I loved this manicure. I don't want to take it off tomorrow! I'll definitely be doing something similar again, because I have more polishes from Pure Ice that are similar to this, and from the same collection, the "Sparkling Seas" collection.

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*All polishes were purchased with my own money. I am not sponsored in any way. All opinions are truthful and my own.

China Glaze Crinkled Chrome Collection Review

Hey guys! I was originally going to do a mini review, and choose just 3 polishes to purchase and review. Since they are all basically the same, but with different colors, I figured that would suffice. Then, I tried one of them...

From left to right: Wrinkling the Sheets, Don't Be Foiled, Iron Out the Details, Crush Crush Baby, I'm a Chromantic, and Aluminate.

These polishes are amazing! I purchased Aluminate first, and fell IN LOVE with it! These polishes apply so smoothly. They are fairly thin after the first coat, but once a second coat is on there, they are perfect. For them to dry quickly and properly, thin coats are needed.

The look they were going for was, obviously, to look like chrome, but crinkled. I saw the effect immediately. It literally looked like someone took a piece of aluminum foil, crumbled it, and then opened it back up...if that makes sense.

They stay on well, and do not chip very easily, that I noticed. There is no top coat used on these, or the effect goes away. I did not try a top coat on it, but I do not think it would work, because this is a textured polish.

There are small beads in the polish, as well as bar glitter, but it's not glitter...it's just awesome. I think that if they only had one of these in the polish, the effect would be harder to see.

The collection has 6 colors all together.

This is Aluminate, a silver chrome.

This one is I'm a Chromantic, a pinkish color.

This is Crush, Crush, Baby, a light purple color.

Above is Iron Out the Details, a sort of blue-gray color.

This is a teal-ish blue, called Don't Be Foiled.

Finally, is Wrinkling the Sheets, which is sort of a green.

As far as price goes, these polishes were pricey...at Ulta. I purchased three of them there, and the other three at Sally's Beauty Supply. I did not find them anywhere else, but they are worth the price if you have to buy them at Ulta!

My favorites were Aluminate, I'm a Chromantic, and Crush, Crush, Baby. The last three, the two blues and the green, were very similar. I wore Iron Out the Details on one hand, and Don't Be Foiled on the other. Unless they were next to each other, it was almost impossible to tell the difference.

I definitely recommend them to anyone who likes textured polishes.

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*All opinions are my own and truthful. I purchased all polishes with my own money.

Essie's Encrusted Treasures Mini Review

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Today, I wanted to share my opinions with you on just two of the Essie Encrusted Treasures polishes. I know that now, they are slowly becoming less readily available, and much harder to find, as well as picked over. I got my hands on two of these, though, just a couple of weeks ago, or else this would have gone up much earlier.

These are the two colors I got: Lots of Lux (left) and Belugaria (right).

I saw Lots of Lux, and decided to get it. Now, these ARE meant to be textured polishes. It was a whole line of textures, kind of like the Sally Hansen Sugar Coat polishes.

When I put on Lots of Lux, I fell in love. It went on so smoothly, and looked gorgeous! I thought the color was great, and it had some sparkle in it, so it wasn't so flat looking. There was so much dimension to this color. After the first coat, I was worried that trying to put on the second coat would be tricky, and would ruin what I had. Fortunately, all it did was add to it. It went on well, AGAIN, and made it look even prettier than before.

The texture never "wore off" the way I was worried it would. It was smooth to the touch, but still, of course, a little bumpy.

Then, I bought Belugaria. And I must say...this one was a waste of $8.00. It was horrible. The polish was thick, and goopy while trying to put it on. It was also super patchy. There were areas that had a ton of the beads in one spot, and then others that were just a very thin coating of black. I hated it as soon as I put on the first coat, but decided to try a second coat, hoping maybe that would even it out...it did not. It stayed patchy, being thick in some spots, and barely there in others.

This picture of Belugaria is not good, because I didn't even try to clean it up. I just took it off after about two hours.

Basically, I would say that the collection probably had goods and bads. Again, I did only purchase these two, but if you happen to see others out, I would give them a try!!

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*All opinions are my own and truthful. I purchased these two polishes with my own money.