Pink and White Chevrons

Happy Friday everyone!! Today I have a fun and easy nail look for you!

I used the Kiss Nail Guides that I hauled the other day, Fing'rs nail polish in the shade Don't Even Pink About it, Sinful Colors Snow Me White and Cosmic Dust from Salon Perfect.

I started out with painting two coats of Snow Me White on my ring fingers and applying two coats of Don't Even Pink About It on all my other fingers. The first coat of DEPAI was really streaky, but applying a second coat evened everything out nicely. Once my coats of Snow Me White were dry I applied 2 of the smaller chevron guides to each of my ring fingers, then applied one coat of Don't Even Pink About It. I did not wait for that to dry before I peeled the guides off, everything went smoothly, no peeling of the paint or messing up the crisp lines. Once all those coats of polish were dry, I applied a coat of Cosmic Dust.

For those that have not heard of Cosmic Dust, it is a 100% Dupe for China Glaze's Fairy Dust! Here is a slightly out of focus shot to try to show the sparkle off some.

I really like the way this came out even though I dinged up my ring finger, it's simple yet really cute. Of course it being a neon it did chip pretty bad on my third day of wearing it, but I can live with that ;) Another interesting thing about this polish, even though it is neon, it does not dry 100% matte, it's more of a semi-matte.

Yay! Now I can check off #36 Pink from the #SBBNailChallenge

It's off to work for me! Hope you all have a great weekend!

Review: Born Pretty Nail Wraps

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Nail wraps, stickers, decals, whatever you want to call them are such an easy way to achieve an awesome looking mani, that looks like it took forever to do, in just a matter of minutes! I love using these types of products when I don't have time to actually paint my nails, these I can just stick on and go.

When I saw these on the Born Pretty Store's website, I had to have them, they are very cool and different looking in my opinion. They are the Shimmering Powder Color Changing Full Nail Sticker. These come in 8 different colors, I chose style M149. I love how inexpensive these are too, only $2.88 each, plus you can save an extra 10% by using code: SMBW10

I found these to be very easy to work with, just like any other nail wrap, you simply peel it off the paper, stick it to your nail and file off the excess. Since my nails were not long enough to get the full gradient effect from the wraps, I chose to alternate them by flipping them around. I think it looks really good. They also last a good while, I applied mine on a Saturday and wore them till Thursday and I only have minimal tip wear. I did apply a clear top coat and that may have helped them to last as long as they have. I feel like I could have wore them for a several more days, I just wanted a change LOL, I would get these again!

Hope you all have a great weekend! I'll be back on Monday maybe with a polish haul ;)

Review: Creative French Tip Nail Guides

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Today I have another great product from the Born Pretty Store to share with you! It's their creative french tip nail guides, these come in two styles and they are only $1.58 each. I chose style #2

I do not have nails that are quite long enough to do french manicures with, so I decided I would use these in the same manner I would striping tape.

I used China Glaze Hang-Ten Toes for my base color, applied the french tip sticker and painted over all that with a black cream. I liked the way it came out and I love the bright pink with the black, one of my favorite color combinations!

These nail guides are super sticky so you have to be 100% sure that your nail polish is completely dry before applying them or you will pull your polish off. For me these worked really well, I did not have any areas where the polish seeped under the guide and as long as my polish was completely dry they did not pull my polish off.

Another super quick post! Today is my day off and they Hubby and I are planning on going out to do a little shopping :) Hope you all are having a fantastic day! Don't forget you can save 10% off your entire order from Born Pretty Store by using code: SMBW10

Review: Kiss Complete Salon Acrylic Kit

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Today I want to share with you my thoughts on the Kiss Complete Salon Acrylic Kit. First off let me start with the reason I went out and purchased this kit; simply I just have bad nails. It seems like no matter what I do to try and help them grow, nothing helps, I end up with weak nails that break and peel like you wouldn't believe. I've tried nail hardeners, I've tried using Vitamin E oil on them, filing the ends to 'seal' them off and I've not seen any real results from any of that. I got to a point where I was just fed up with my polish peeling off because my nails were peeling so off to Walmart I went to get this kit.

I looked at a couple other kits before I made the decision to go with this one. One reason I went with the Kiss brand is because I've used one of their acrylic kits before

TIOT: Orly Halleys Comet

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I have found another favorite nail polish, Halleys Comet from Orly! In my opinion it's one of those rare polishes that looks better on the fingers than it does in the bottle. It has a light translucent teal base full of teeny tiny gold and teal flecks of glitter. It applies like a dream and dries a lot quicker than I thought it would, which is good considering I had to use 3 coats to make it fully opaque, although in the sunlight you can see my  nail line. With all the little flecks of glitter, it is super sparkly and looks amazing out in the sun, I have a short video posted over on my Instagram if you would like to check it out.

Short post, still trying to get over my cold :/ Not sure what posts I will have up this week, I'll let it be a surprise for us all :)

Memorial Day Nails

My plan was to get this up yesterday, but as we all know that did not happen LOL then I was goning to get it posted this morning before I headed out to the event I was attending and I just didn't have the time. Better late than never right :)

I used Cherry Merry and Lucky Strike fom Duri Cosmetics and Snow Me White from Sinful Colors. I painted all my nails, except for my ring fingers white, put down some striping tape and painted them again with Cherry Merry. I used a holographic Color Club polish for my stamping. I would tell you what plate I used, but I'm too tired (lazy) to get up and go see which one it was, if you really want to know let me know in the comments and I'll let you know ;)

I hope you all have had a great weekend! I will be back Monday with a look at the Spring Voxbox from Influenster!

Pure Ice Happy Hour

I'm finally back, did ya miss me? My allergies turned in to a cold that my hubby decided he would share with me, over the cold but the allergies are holding on.

Anywho today I wanted to share Happy Hour from Pure Ice with y'all! It's a gorgeous coral cream, that applied really nicely. Not sure about the dry time, it's been well over a week since I used this :/ I will have to say the wear time has been great, I just started getting chips, usually polish will chip on me much sooner, so very happy with that aspect of it.

I liked Happy Hour on it's own, but as usual, I  felt the need for a little bling, so I topped it off with ELF's Fairy Dust. It's been said that Fairy Dust is a dupe for Essie's Shine of the Times! I should do a comparison since I have them both.

 I do have another photo up on Instagram of this nail look if you want to check that out :)

Thank you to everyone that left a comment wishing me well :)

I hope you all have been doing well and I hope you have a fabulous day!

Tomorrow I will have a textured polish from Avon to share!

Review: Born Pretty Water Decals

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Today I have a nail look and review. Born Pretty sent me a couple packs of of their Feather water decals for review. I have used the Fing'rs nail tattoos and they are quite similar to these water decals.

The instructions say to paint your nails, let them dry. Remove film from decals cut out the one you want to use and plunge it into water for 10-20 seconds. Moisten the fingernail and stick the pattern in position, sop up water with a paper towel and blow dry, then top with a top coat.

When I read the instructions I thought why do I have to blow dry them, I didn't the others, so I did not blow dry them, I just put on my top coat. My top coat ate away at the decal!

So a few days later I thought let me try them again and see what happens. I still did not blow dry them, I just waited about 20 minutes after I had finished applying the decals to apply my top coat and that seemed to work just fine.

I like these water decals, I think they are a great inexpensive way to spice up a manicure. The decals only cost $.99, come in a variety of styles and you get free shipping! Plus you can save an extra 10% by using the coupon code: SMBW10

Have you used water decals before? What did you think about them?

Halloween Nails Mini Series Part 1

I thought I would do a little mini series of posts for a few different Halloween nail looks. I am not a professional nail do'er by any means, so these are suitable for beginners :) I will post these each Thursday for the next couple of weeks.

For my first installment of Halloween nails I have done a water marble using three different colors; Pure Ice Black Out, Sinful Colors Clementine and Wet n Wild Sunny Side Up. When I do water marbles I tend to make the flower pattern in my polish but for this one I decided to just go side to side and I really like the way it came out.

Would this be a nail look you would do for Halloween?

Come back next Thursday for a new Halloween nail look!

Mish Mash Challenge Week 7: Least Expensive Polish

Welcome to week seven of the Mish Mash Challenge! This week we are creating manicures with out least expensive polishes in our collection. I went back and forth about which ones were my least expensive, I thought, well the ones I've won or were gifted were free, but I opted to go with a polish that I bought myself, I used Mind Your Own Beeswax from Spoiled. I got this polish when CVS was having their 75% off sale and I only paid $.49 for it!

For this mani I was going to do something different on each finger, but after I did a water marble on each of my ring fingers I liked it so much I just did it to all my fingers. I put down 2 coats of MYOB, then used Black Satin, a cream polish from Rimmel (I also got for 75% off at CVS) and the MYOB to make a nice water marble design. I am very satisfied with how it turned out.

I can't wait to see what everyone's least expensive polish manicures look like. Stop by and check them out.

Mish Mash Challenge Week 5: Music

Welcome to another installment of the Mish Mash Challenge! When I seen the theme for this week was music I had a brilliant idea in my head, paint music notes on my nails, can we say total fail. Y'all it was such a disaster, I tried 3 times to paint them on and it looked terrible each time. So I was thinking what in the world am I going to do for music. My hubby offered to paint them on for me, and I was like okay, but before he got the chance to we went to visit my family and my Niece wanted me to do her nails, and she brought out these nail stickers and guess what was on there, Music Notes! Week 5 Mani saved LOL!

For my base colors I used White on the Spot from Milani and Black Out from Pure Ice. I then placed the stickers my lovely, mani-saver Niece supplied me with on my ring fingers as an accent nail. After I did that I still thought it looked a little plain so I topped my nails with some Color Club glitter polish that I won in a giveaway that the fantastic Liz, from A Mani Maniac, had a few weeks ago.

And here is the end result:

Stop by the other ladies blogs and see what they did for Music Week! I'm still healing from my oral surgery, so it may be later in the week before I get around to every ones blog.

Mish Mash Challenge Week 3: Metallic

It's Wednesday and that means it's Mish Mash Challenge day! This weeks challenge which was metallic nails. I have a whole set of L.A. Colors polished that are labeled as metallic that I think I have only wore one color from, so I thought today would be a great day to showcase another color from that set. These polished do not have names or numbers which is kind of a bummer, so well just call this one 'The Green One'. Application was great and I love how quick it dries. I felt it was a little plain so I decided to add a rhinestone on my ring finger. Not sure if the stone really helped or not, but I thought it was sorta cute.

Be sure to stop by and see what the other ladies did for Metallic Week!

Mish Mash Challenge Week 1: Purple

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I'm so excited for today, as I am starting a new weekly nail challenge with some wonderful ladies! This challenge is called the Mish Mash Challenge, basically because it is 30 weeks of random nail challenges!

For week one the challenge was Purple. I chose a polish that I don't think I have worn before, Amethyst by Sinful Colors. It is a beautiful medium purple cream polish. I thought it was a bit blah by it's self so I added Essie's Luxe Effects in Shine of the Times on top of it. I really like the way it came out.

Be sure to stop by and see what the other ladies did for purple!

ABC Nail Challenge: Letter N

Happy Wednesday! It's time for the ABC Nail Challenge, today's letter is 'N' and today 'N' stands for NEON! Although my camera totally washed out the polish even without the flash LOL.

I went with something simple this week, the weather where I live has finally started warming up and Hubs and I have been running around all week :) I used Sinful Colors 24/7 and stamped with MASH Nail Art Stamp Stamping Image Plate No 48.

Be sure to check out what the other ladies did for the letter N.

Review/Swatch NYC Lexington Yellow

Finally I have found a great yellow colored nail polish, NYC's Lexington Yellow!   I picked up this polish from Walmart for $1.72

I love this color, it's just a great sunshiny yellow. It's not too bright, to me it's just the perfect shade. The only complaint that I have about this polish is, that it's streaky. I had to apply 3 coats before it no longer looked streaky. Other than that I love this polish, great bright color for spring and summer.

For this polish I'm giving it an application rating of 2/5, just because of the streaky-ness. For pigmentation I'm going to give it a 4/5, I feel like because of it being streaky you have to apply to many coats to achieve good pigmentation. For quality again I'm giving it a 4/5, only because of it being streaky. For price it gets 5/5. As far as longevity of the polish, I can't really score that for two reasons; one, polish rarely stays on my nails for 3 days, I like to change it up, and 2, which is probably a result from number one, my nails chip and peel like crazy :(

Overall: 15/20

 Wanted to spice up the yellow, as if it needed it LOL. Threw a few streaks on with a fan brush, using another NYC polish I recently purchased.

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