Valentine's Day Nails

Blogging from my phone today cause I wanted to show y'all my nail look that I had created for my anniversary and Valentine's Day, our anniversary is 4 days before. I am so happy with the way this came out! When I first got ready to do my nails I had picked out one stamping plate and two nail polishes, I ended up using three stamping plates and four nail polishes. 

The polishes I used were Jamberry and Raspberry Sorbet from Duri Cosmetics, Snow Me White from Sinful Colors and Mer-Magical from Pure Ice. The plates I used were plate F11 from Born Pretty Store; it's one of those French tip plates, Mash-48 I'm pretty sure I got this off Amazon and the last plate is also from Born Pretty Store it is plate number QA91. 

I used Raspberry Sorbet as my base color, I love these Duri polishes they dry super duper fast! On my ring finger I used the LOVE image from QA91 I made a 4 square checkerboard pattern using Jamberry and Snow Me White on the image, scraped it and then stamped it. I used the same technique for all the stamping in this nail look. I took the French tip plate and used the heart pattern and stamped my middle finger and also my thumb. After stamping I felt like there was too much 'blank' space between the stamp and the other part of my nail, so I filled that space in with Mer-Magical for a little bit of sparkle. For my little and index finger I used the Mash plate and stamped heart clusters. 

I am seriously so in love with how this turned out! I don't think I have ever used more than one stamping plate for one nail look, but now that I have I will do that more often. 

I hope y'all enjoyed this as much as I did!  Have a great rest of the weekend :)

Mint Mani

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Y'all I am so in love with today's mani! I was going through my drawer of unworns trying to decide what I wanted to do with my nails and I kept coming back to That's What I Mint, the last of my unworn Essence polishes, I'm a sucker for mint shades so I love this one too. I didn't want to paint them a solid color so I dug around in that drawer some more and found one of the polishes I had picked up from Rue 21 which also has mint in it's name, Mint Crush. I decided I would give these two a try together, I swear they were 'Mint' for each other! LOL see what I did there.

I started out with two coats of That's What I Mint, of course application was flawless and it had a super fast dry time. In the bottle you can see some shimmer, but it did not show up on my nails. I used Mint Crush for my stamping color and used Mash plate 42, picked that up on Amazon. Mint Crush is a fantastic polish for stamping. Next time I'm near a Rue 21 I am going to pick up some more of their polishes!

So in love with both of these colors and the cool stamping design, hubby even said it was cool looking :)

Tomorrow I think I will do an empties post so I can stop hoarding trash LOL Hope you all are having a great day and if you live in the south watch out, I've heard it might be kinda stormy :/

Valentine's Day Nails

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♥♥♥Happy Valentine's Day♥♥♥

Valentine's Day, the perfect day to break out all the pink nail polish, what am I talking about any day is a good day for pink polish! My Valentine's Day mani features two new polishes from Duri Cosmetics Tutti Frutti Spring/Summer 2014 collection, Raspberry Sorbet and Jamberry.

Jamberry, I want to say is a baby pink by just looking at the bottle, but it's just a little bit darker looking on the nails. It's a cream polish that dries super fast. When I first applied this as my base color I didn't really like it, but the longer I wear it the more I like it. I think it would look cute on the toes for spring.

Raspberry Sorbet is a super pretty, darker pink color, that in my opinion looks like it could possibly be a jelly polish, I will need to experiment with it a little bit more. This one took a little longer than Jamberry to dry, but I love it!

Another thing that I love about all they Duri polishes I've tried is that they all dry with a nice shiny finish to them. I do apply a top coat over it just to protect my mani though. All Duri polishes retail for $6.00 and are available at Duri.com as well as salons and specialty stores nationwide. Duri polishes are also free from DBP, Toluene and Formaldehyde.

On to the mani! Like I said I used Jamberry for my base color then I used Raspberry Sorbet to stamp cute little hearts on using Mash plate number 48. Even though I smudged my hearts a little I still really love this mani, I just think it's really cute and so appropriate for Valentine's Day.

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What kind of manicure did you do for Valentine's Day? Any plans for VDay?
Hubby and I already celebrated VDay when we celebrated our wedding anniversary on the 10th! I think today we will just go out and play in the snow :)

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Mish Mash Challenge Week 12: Flower

I had a plan that I was going with that I seen on Pinterest, click the link to see the look I was going for and if anyone knows how to embed a pin in a blog, please let me know. I have tried copying and pasting the link that they provide when I click on embed, but I can not get them to work to save my life. Once I started on the dotticure flowers it went downhill. So I kept most of that look, but instead of dotticure flowers I used Mash stamping plate #42 and that turned out much better.

For my nail look I used Sally Hansen Blue Me Away! on my little finger and for the stamping. For my ring finger I used Ruffled Sheets topped with Beware, both from Pure Ice. For my other 2 fingers and my thumb I used Sinful Colors Snow Me White. I also added a rhinestone to each little finger, those I got from Avon. Never did a look like this before, but I really like it, something fun and different for me.

Collective Shop and Share

Over the past month I have made a couple of purchases from Avon, one from Amazon and today I stopped by CVS to check out the clearance sale they are having. They have this sale twice a year, head over to Nouveau Cheap's post about it, it has all the details about the sale and what products are on clearance!

From Avon I bought three of their new nail polishes from a couple new collections they have. One is Mandarin Magic from the Forbidden Fruit collection. It is a beautiful bright orange with gold shimmer. The other two came from their Cosmic Nail collection. I was sorta skeptical about getting one from this collection, they are described as 'stardust luster finish' polishes, but I was so impressed with the first one I bought, I bought a second one! I got Saturn, which is what I would call a burnt orange, will be a great polish for the fall! The second one that I got is Aurora, a beautiful purple shade. These have some sort of shimmer to them, to me they kinda look holographic.
I also got a couple of the i-Mark single eye shadows, one in lotus, a lavender color. I also got Biscotti, which is a cream color.

Left-Right: Mandarin Magic, Aurora, Saturn

Biscotti

Lotus

L-R: Biscotti, Lotus

From Amazon I got a couple of polishes, that I'm not too happy with and a couple of nail stamping plates. The polishes are from KleanColor and are described as holographic, which is why I wanted them. One is called Chunky Holo Purple and the other is called Chunky Holo Bluebell. They look absolutely gorgeous in the bottle, but not great on the nails. They remind me of the Essie Luxe Effects collection, which obviously are not holographic polishes, they are flakie polishes and I like flakie polishes, but would have rather had them be holographic like the were described. And they have the strongest stinkiest smell ever! Sorry if that sounded like a rant LOL :/ These polishes were $1.65 each.
The stamping plates are made by MASH. I love them and they were only $2.99 each.

L-R: Bluebell, Purple

Mash Plate 48

Mash Plate 45

From CVS I picked up three of the Maybelline Color Show nail polishes. Each of these were 50% off! They retail for $3.99 each I got them for $1.99 each! I got two of the metallic polishes, Amethyst Ablaze and Navy Narcissist. I also got one of the shredded polishes, which I assume is supposed to be like a crackle polish, called Magenta Mirage. If it is a 'crackle' polish, I can't get it to crack LOL. If you have one of these, let me know if my assumption is right or not and if it is, how do you crack it.

L-R: Magenta Mirage, Amethyst Ablaze, Navy Narcissist

Swatches of all the polishes:

L-R: Bluebell, Purple, Mandarin Magic, Saturn, Aurora, Navy Narcissist, Amethyst Ablaze, Magenta Mirage

Have you got any good beauty products lately?

If you read my ABC Nail Challenge: Letter Q post, you know I was doing a nail product trial test. I have finished my trial and am working on a review of the products I used. I will tell you that they were Julep products. I hope to have the review up by the end of next week :) Review will be up tomorrow morning :)

ABC Nail Challenge: Letter R

It's time for another ABC Nail Challenge post! Today is Letter R and I decided to use Ruffled Sheets by Pure Ice, a limited edition polish from the Runway Collection. Ruffled Sheets is a silver metallic looking polish that dries to a matte finish, or Velour finish is how Pure Ice describes it. I really like this polish, the finish is nice if you are a fan of matte polishes, if not you can top it with a shiny top coat. The first coat you put on dries really fast, but when you add another coat it seems to take a lot longer to dry than the first coat. I opted to do some stamping, I used Cherry Red from Sally Hansen and Mash stamping plate #45 and I topped it off with NYC's fast drying topcoat.

Stop by and see what the other ladies did for the letter R!