Spontaneous Shatter!

Hey everyone!

*shields self* I've really let myself down the past couple of weeks and I am sure I have let you all down as well! I'm sure you've noticed that I've not been blogging much, I'm not going to go into details about the reasoning. It has nothing to do with blogging or anything online, it's all just personal stuff that has been going on. I've not really been on twitter either. I've just become disconnected from everything it's kind of depressing. I do have a couple makeup reviews coming up and another special review. I'm super excited about them all, but have just not been feeling up to much lately.I'm supposed to be doing a nail art challenge but you see how far that has gotten right?! I am going to work on it this coming week though! I promise!! I'm super Lame right? Le sigh, tis life though!

Unfortunately I tried to photograph this manicure so so many times and unlucky for me I could only get ONE decent picture, the rest were blurry or just pure crap. SO I do have only one picture of it, but I actually REALLY like this mani, it's cute.

I know crackles are out, but I just got my grubby hands on some of OPI's Shatter polishes a couple weeks ago at Big Lots for $1 so, trends begone I'm gonna use them! :P

I used

China Glaze Spontaneous

OPI Silver Shatter

On the ring finger it's a polish I made myself from 2 Color Club metallic foil polishes.

I put Wet n Wild Kaleidoscope on top of that.

I think it looks cute. Unfortunately this is the only picture I got and it's still not a fantastic picture. I am in the process of reshaping my nails so please excuse them being a nasty mess.

I hope you all are doing well!

xx

GIGANTIC Nail Polish Haul!! *updated*

Hello everyone!

Before I even get into this post I want to tell you that I am so sorry I am so behind! When we went to Orlando for 3 days we were SUPPOSED TO have Wifi in the room and there was NONE. I will be damned if I am going to sit in the lobby for hours with weird people watching me. Trust me it KILLED me not being able to interact and blog like I wanted! :( BUT I am going to get back into the groove! Unfortunately as well I'm going to have to stop the FOTD Challenge. I really don't want too but with moving then having no internet to do posts I am about 2 weeks behind and I wont be able to make those days up. It stinks!

Since I was working Premiere for the brand Olivia Garden I KNEW I was going to have Sunday off because I had a CVS Nuance party with ClumpsOfMascara. Corrinne from GalacticLacquer and I decided that on Sunday before the party we were going to SHOP! Let me tell you, this girl is amazing for one, but she was also a bad influence, but in a VERY good way hah. She influenced a chunk of the polishes that I bought. Haha which is A-OK with me! But lets get into the polishes! (there are ALOT) All of these polishes were on amazing deals for Premiere. I'll tell you the prices, but honestly don't expect to find them at these prices unless you go to a beauty trade show like this

The first polish I have to show you is from Trind. This brand of polish comes from Holland. It also happens that they were giving this color away. None of their polishes have names but the label says CC116

This purchase was DEFINITELY influenced by Corrinne 100%. I probably would have not bought it if she wasn't there actually.

Nail Envy & Avoplex Cuticle Oil $8 for the set.

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Wearing Your Heart On Your Nails .. Tutorial

Hello everyone!

This is my first time doing a nail "tutorial". So please bear with me! xx

In my NOTD for my birthday, I had put hearts on my nails and had asked if you wanted me to show you how I did them.  The lovely Rose wanted to see how it was done, so I figured I better do it before I forget. I'm going to be wearing these nails for Christmas so I did them in red and green. The hearts are a bit hard to do at first I must admit, but once you get it down how to make them, it goes pretty quickly.

You could use a dotting tool, but I don't have one. I used a Bobby pin, it's pretty much works the same way as a dotting tool. You just have to be a bit careful with the end of the bobby pin, I have realized that. So onto the tutorial!

Oh.. I am by no means good at doing nail art, so please don't mind them :P

What you will need:

1 bobby pin pulled apart

Your nail polish's of choice

Base coat

Top coat

Something to put your nail polish on.

Cuticle Oil (extremely optional)

directions:

First of all, you need to paint your nails. It doesn't matter the color. For this I used China Glaze 3D Fantasy. It's a holographic red polish.(it has been discontinued unfortunately, but with the influx and popularity of holographic polishes you will be able to find something like it.) I used two coats of this. I was to STRESS THE IMPORTANCE of letting this base coat dry completely. To where you can press on your nails and not seen any type of indentation. If your nail polish is not completely dry, it will mess the rest of your nail up.


Take your second color and place a small amount of it on the surface you choose. (It could be a piece of paper or I used the lid to my Bath & Body Works candle since I can clean the polish off and reuse it) With this step, do not place a lot, because it will start to dry and could mess your nail up as well.
Make your two dots on your nail where you want the heart to be. In this picture I places them pretty far apart, but the closer the dots the better the heart comes out in my opinion. The farther the dots the bigger the heart and it becomes a bit more complicated to get it looking uniform. This nail polish is Orly's Jealous, Much?

How far apart you place your dots also depends on the side of your nail as well. My ring finger's nail is quite large so.. :P

The next step requires you do dip back into where you places your spot of polish. The reason for this, is so that it is easier to drag down and create your first part of the heart.

Place the bobby pin in one of the first dots and draw down in a diagonal. Then repeat with the other dot.

And there you have it! Your very own heart manicure! This is perfect for valentines day, BUT I am deciding to use this for Christmas. :)

Let the heart dry and apply your top coat. If you want your nails to be completely smooth, you may need to add a second layer. In the picture above, there is no top coat as of yet because I am not quite done, they needed to dry :P

On the tips of my nails I used China Glaze Glistening Snow and on my left for the hearts I used Jolly Holly from China Glaze's 2011 Holiday collection.

(Okay no idea what happened to my nails. Over night they chipped and the polish shrunk. I'm very sorry for them looking like crap in the last two pictures.)

For my base coast I used Sally Hansen's Continuous Growth treatment and my top coat is Out The Door.

Tip: The hearts that you do with your dominant hand will wind up looking better than those done with your non-dominant hand..at least that is how it is for me :P

If you try this out, tweet me a picture! I would love to see how they come out!

First ever NOTD/NOTW

So this is my first ever Nail of the Day/Nail of the week!

I might do this every Saturday night! :D Haven't decided yet



Im super excited about it too!
I just redid my nails and really wanted to share what they look like with you all!!!



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So as you can tell, most of them have the flash. A few don't. I only used the flash so the color would come out correct :)



What I used was ::



Orly Bonder basecoat

Orly Crawford's Wine (red)

China Glaze's Liquid Leather

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Clear



Crawford's Wine, only took one coat! It is that Opaque! Baha.

Instead of using a top coat, I use a clear polish, because with some top coats it tends to chip my polish instantly, with a clear polish I can get it to last a couple days. :)



Oh ! You'r going to need some scotch tape also!

So you can get the top part of your nail straight :)



I hope you all enjoyed!!<3

Let me know if you would like to see these every week!  I change my polish about once or twice a week!





Thank you!

OPI Cuckoo For This Color

Here is the first in my Polish series!

The first polish I am going to talk about is OPI's Cuckoo For This Color. These are $8.50 each! Well, at least where I got them, the are $8.50. You pretty much have to find a  Salon  near you that sells OPI.
Luckily for me, the Salon in my local Walmart has these and since Walmart is literally walking distance from me, they are easily available. Now how I got ahold of these was my Salon had them on Buy 1 Get 2 Free Clearance. Ive been eyeing these for quite some time now and just haven't bought them. When I saw there were 4 left for the Buy 1 get 2 Free I jumped on 3 of them, since the other was a duplicate.
Cuckoo For This Color is a dark pine green with shimmer of teal, green and silver flecks of micro-glitter.
After looking into it, this color is from the Swiss Collection that came out in 2010, so I am not sure why my Salon still had it, I guess cleaning out their back stock what polishes.

This color is extremely dark IN the bottle, while it is still dark ON your nails, its very pretty. You can clearly see that it is a dark pine green color. For this being one of my FIRST OPI polishes I am pleasently surprised and happy with it!
Although I didn't get much wear out of it, not even a day. As you can tell in the pictures, my nails are already chipped and I had JUST painted them, giving them enough time to dry before I took the pictures. Then again, my nails are kind of crap and thin anyways and NO nail polish stays very long, regardless of how well I prep them. They just don't stick. Ive even had acryllic nails fall off of me within a few days. LOL.

Anyways, my only beef about the polish is the brush. I actually think its kind of a crap brush. It leaves the nails looking a bit streaky on the first coat, but it goes away after you apply the second coat. It only takes about 2 coats to make this completely opaque. So it is pigmented.
Ive not used a top coat in any of the pictures by the way. :)

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You can still find this nail polish on Amazon and I am sure you could find it on Ebay.

Have you tried this polish? What do you think of it?