Hard Candy Black Tie Optional

Hi again guys! I have a huge slight obsession with black and white. So I knew I needed this glitter right when I started seeing swatches of it.

Hard Candy Black Tie Optional is a black and white glitter containing large, medium, and small black and white hexes along with black bar glitter. It is definitely a layering glitter. I decided to wear this over Essie Bottle Service from this summer's neons collection (review coming soon!).

American Apparel Summer Peach

Hi guys! Today I have a very pretty summery polish to show you all :) This is American Apparel Summer Peach, a super bright peach creme. I think this would look fantastic on tanned skin for summer. I also wore this topped with China Glaze Fairy Dust because it just makes everything better.

Triangle Nail Art

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a lovely weekend :) Today I have some fun nail art to show you all. This was one of the first times that I have done some nail art and felt proud of it so I'm super excited for you all to see it! This was inspired by Whitney of Dressed Up Nails! I absolutely adore all her nail art and I always go on her blog or Tumblr for inspiration!

ABC Challenge N is for Neon

Hi guys! Today I am posting my letter N mani for the ABC Challenge. I though neon would be pretty appropriate as summer is coming up and weather here has started to get warmer. I am really looking forward to all the summer collections and can't wait to wear tons of bright and neon colors :)

ABC Challenge- M is for Matte

I'm back! I know, I know I've been missing for ages. Finals took over my life and then I got super sick over spring break. We're talking bed for days. But I am back and I really missed you guys! I've finally started feeling better and work and school have slowed down a bit so nails are making their way back into my schedule (yay!) I know I missed a couple other ABC Challenge posts so I'll be adding them onto this post.

Anyway, onto the nails.....

For letter K I used Spoiled Kickin' the Habit, a neon fuschia. I was not a big fan of this at all. The brush absolutely sucked. It was more of just a big bushy thing rather than a brush. Also, depending on which way you turned the bottle it was a different color. And the color in the bottle was different than the color on the nail. I shook it up so much and I still felt like the pigment wouldn't mix up or something. Ugh.

Orly Hope and Freedom Collection Swatches!

Happy Tuesday! Hope you guys all had a lovely weekend and didn't have too much trouble waking up with Daylight Savings taking away an hour of sleep. Today I have swatches of a really fun collection that I have been dying to find ever since I saw swatches of it. For all of these I used no basecoat (spoiler: no staining on any of them!) and one coat of Sally  Hansen Insta-Dri as my top coat.

Orly Melodious Utopia- 4 coats. Officially my favorite yellow! I loved this so much! The formula is not streaky at all but it is a bit sheer. It was pretty opaque in 3 coats, I just did 4 so you could see the full effect. This has tons of pink and orange shimmer in it, making it unique (in my collection at least)

Sinful Colors Paparazzi/ Almost Famous Collection Swatches

Hi guys! So its just now hitting me that this will be my first post with swatches of an entire collection. So please bear with me... if you see any room for improvement or have any tips/comments let me know! Hopefully this is helpful for you. I'll start by saying that all of these swatches are one coat of glitter over a base color. They were all very packed with glitter with no fishing or dabbing required! Truly a joy to apply and wear, I think these are great for a glitter newbie or someone who already loves glitter polishes! No more words, on to the pretties! Warning: this is really pic heavy...hope you enjoy!

Sinful Colors Showstopping over Pure Ice Superstar!

Showstopping is a mix of small pink glitter with a ton of holo hex glitter. Very pretty!

Revlon Whimsical

Hi everyone! Hope you have all been having a lovely week so far! Today I have a polish that everyone was obsessing over at one point, Revlon Whimsical. This is a light blue sheer jelly with pink and blue hex glitter in it. I know a lot of people were disappointed by this, especially because its supposed to be a dupe for Deborah Lippmann Glitter in the Air, but it is more sheer. I find that if you layer it over a light blue polish you get the same effect with the added benefit of being able to layer it over any color you want! Look on the bright side people! :) 

ABC Challenge: G is for Illamasqua Glitterati

Hi everyone! I'm back again with the ABC challenge and this week we are on letter G! So of course, since my default is glitter, I had to pick a glitter polish. I've been waiting to try this one and I'm excited to share my thoughts with you

ABC Challenge F is for Zoya Frida (plus Revlon Heavenly)

Hi again lovelies! This week we are on letter F in the ABC Challenge! I have been excited for this week since the start of the challenge and I could not wait until letter Z to show you Zoya Frida! Frida is a dark teal jelly. The formula is great, I just wish it was a little more opaque but I still love it. I know that a lot of other nail and beauty bloggers have done this but I did a jelly sandwich with Frida and Revlon Heavenly! On to the pics!

ABC Challenge: D is for OPI Don't Touch My Tutu

Hi lovelies! Sorry for the super late post but it has been an absolutely crazy day. I had class from 8-4 then spent the next few hours studying for the midterms I have Friday. Feels like I can't catch my breath sometimes! Anyway for this week's challenge we are to show you all a polish, polish brand or nail art technique that starts with the letter D.

Turquoise and Coral Frankens!

Good morning lovelies! Quick post about some frankens I have made over the past couple weeks. Lately I have been obsessing over coral and turquoise so that was basically all I could think about for my first frankens. I did have some issues with polish being too thick and stuff but I think I just need more practice finding out what works and what doesn't. On to the swatches! 

First up is a coral jelly. I wanted this to be more sheer so I could use it jelly sandwich style so I'm not completely sure how I feel about this. The color is also less bright than I wanted it to be. I have to try wearing it again before I make up my mind. This is two coats without top coat. I love how shiny it is! For this one I used so many polishes I don't even remember them all (haha)

ABC Challenge C is for China Glaze!

As you all know I have been participating in the ABC Challenge hosted by Kimber from Kimber's Lacquer Korner! For this challenge we are to show a polish name, brand or type of nail art that starts with the letter of the week. This week we are on the letter C. I guess I subconsciously wore a lot of China Glaze this week so I will show you a few shades that I wore. China Glaze is definitely one of my top 5 nail polish brands. I usually really love their seasonal collections and adore many of the shades in the permanent line. All right enough rambling, on to the pictures!

First up is Surreal Appeal from the Cirque du Soleil collection! This is a great pink leaning coral (which I have been obsessed with lately- the weather here is so summery!) 2 coats with top coat shown below

Nails Inc. Sweets Way

Happy Friday! I have a lovely polish to show you today that I really really enjoyed wearing. It will be making another appearance for sure. Nails Inc. Sweets Way is a white base with pastel pink and blue matte glitter from their Sprinkles line. I really liked this a lot. It applies very nicely but it did need 3 coats for opacity, then 2 coats of Seche Vite to smooth out all the glitter. I think that has more to do with my application being sightly sloppy than the polish  being too sheer. On to the pictures!

Essence Modern Romance and OPI Crown Me Already!

Happy Monday! Today I just want to quickly share my NOTD. I just bought Essence Modern Romance which is my first Essence polish! It is a lovely peach color with bright pink shimmer. The shimmer was more visible in the bottle than on the nail but it is definitely there even though it was hard to capture in photos. I also did an accent nail of OPI Crown Me Already on my ring finger. 

Pink Wednesday! OPI Sparrow Me the Drama

Happy Wednesday! As per Mean Girls, on Wednesdays, we wear pink! I have about a million pink polishes and this is a fun way to show them to you guys. Today I started off with OPI Sparrow Me the Drama from last year's Pirates of the Caribbean collection. I wish I bought the entire collection and I'm still looking for a couple of them. OPI Sparrow Me the Drama is a nice neutral pink that is the tiniest bit dusty. I love dusty or greyed out polishes so this is perfect for me. I then layered a glitter over it that I had been lemming for a while, Seche Collage Overlay, pink (purple?) and holo hex glitter, silver bar glitter, and white hex glitter.

Pics after the jump

China Glaze Swanky Silk

Hi lovelies! This polish was on my wishlist for a while and I recently found it in a clearance bin at Sally's for $3.29. Awesome deal. I think this is a great gold/ rose gold duochrome. I know a lot of you may not love a polish like this, but for me it is quite fun.

My First Nails Inc. Polish and Spazzing Camera

Have you ever bought a polish just because of the name? Once I heard that Nail's Inc. had a polish named Baker Street, it was immediately on my wishlist. Baker Street is not only the street on which my favorite literary character, Sherlock Holmes, lives, it is also a beautiful blue creme that I am in love with. For some reason it reminds me of winter so I added a lot of glitter which reminds me of snow and I have a wonderful winter mani. Enjoy!