SquareHue Museum Hop Paris November 2016 & Thanksgiving Nail Art

Press Sample

This is going to be a two in one post. I have swatches of this Months Square Hue polishes and some nail art that I did with more Square Hue Polishes. I had actual proper Square Hue Swatches of each polish BUT apparently them memory card went missing and I didn't have time to redo them before I wanted to get this post up. 

I do think that we need to listen to Shinedown Asking For It. No joke, cutest freaking music video ever! 

Let's get into it! 

So, I am sorry but this is the only picture of the polishes that I have. I don't think it matters if it is swatches on one finger or on 4. As long as you can see the polish, then what does it matter? At least that is how I look at it. 

We are going to be working from the pinky (left) to the pointer (right). I will save the Zombie Turkey for last though. 

d'Orsay

I don't even know how to pronounce that to be honest. But d'Orsay is a peachy-pink nude polish. I wont lie, when I first applied this polish originally, I bloody hated it. Upon wearing it the second time, I do actually like it! It is such a lovely and opaque polish. 

Pompidou 

Girrrrl/Guuuy No joke, this is my favorite polish out of the entire year! I LOVE holographic polishes! I mean, let us be real, who doesn't like holos?! I have a special place in my heart for holographic brown polishes though! I have worn this polish the most out of the entire year. This one is a bit thinner than the other two, but it still only needs maybe three coats.

Louvre 

This matter polish is a cement grey and it is one of those polishes that you need to use the least amount of strokes possible. That is to just get it to look even! When I first applied this, I couldn't get it even to save my life! You can still see some marks in the polish, but it is still gorgeous! I did apply a top coat on the end, just so you could see what it looks like shiny...and then I smudged the corner. I know, shame on me. 

As much as I grumbled about d'Orsay and Louvre in the beginning, I actually like the entire collection! Pompidou is for real a must have though! I am quickly learning that Brown may be my favorite color, is that weird?!


Okay, so for the Turkey, this really was my first time doing nail art in probably....a while. I only just found my dotting tools and I am missing the one that I actually needed. Next time I will probably get some striping polishes so you can tell the difference between the head and neck. Can you tell that I didn't think it totally through?! Honestly, it is not my best work butt I am still a noob when it comes to nail art, so you can't judge me! I have taken that away! Muahahhaha.

All polishes I used were SquareHue, but of course if you want to try and do your own Turkey, you can use any polishes you want. 

Base - Johnston Canyon

Feathers - Mönch - Nani - Slot Canyon - Sandstone

Head - Pompidou - St.Vincent - iPolish - Slot Canyon

My turkey wouldn't have looked like a zombie if the polish wouldn't have ran >_< I thought it was totally dry! Apparently not though! Bummage


Have a fantastic day! <3
Autumn

A Glittering New Years Eve with Claws Up

Contains Press Samples from SquareHue

I was talking to my girl Jacquie (Claws Up) on Snapchat one day (auttyw) and somehow we got on the topic of doing twin-nails for New Years Eve. Heck yes! I was so excited! We finally decided on a design and cue the existence of trying to find the perfect polishes to use. Then cue the stress of oh my polish gods, how am I going to do this dang cup?! Thank goodness for Google Images, you don't even want to know what the OG design looked liked! Calling it a mess was an understatement! I have no shame in admitting the fact that I worked on this way longer than I should have (almost three days) as well as I used the most ridiculous amount of nail polishes!

Lets back up a little bit and just explain what I went through. I had the design down packed and they looked awesome! ...Or well, my opinion of awesome, then it came to top coat them! Y'all know we need that extra shininess in our lives! Cue the huge sighs and freaking out, my top coat made the tips of my nails cloudy! I've had it happen before, but another thin coat fixed it right up! Not this time though, it made it worse! So, I had to go back and fix it and just....added even more polishes to try and cover up the fact that the top coat messed them up!

The freak out and stress aside, I'm actually really pleased with how these look and I can't wait to see how Jacquie's turned out! I'm really glad that we did these together! We are going to have another post together, but of course, I still need to work on it! It's not going to be that difficult though! I love doing collab posts, even though they are few and far between.

Mad props to you Jaq for listening to me freak out because I couldn't find the polishes and that I changed a setting on my camera and the OG pictures were messed up and just no bueno! You are seriously my best frand! I don't know what I would have done if it weren't for you girl!

I've got two pictures for you! One with and one without the flash! Enjoy my Glitter New Years Eve Nails!

 They aren't perfect but you know what...nail art is not my jam and for a n00b, I think they are nice. :)

Polishes Used:In order from the pinkie to index
SquareHue 1921 Style & Speed
SquareHue 2002 Idol

SquareHue 1977 Night Fever

Wet n Wild Kaleidoscope

Cult Nails Nevermore

Sally Hansen I♥Nail Art Pen Neon Pink

China Glaze Travel In Colour

Cult Nails Nevermore

SquareHue Sampokeskus (12/14)

SquareHue 2001 Never Forget

Wet n Wild Kaleidoscope

ORLY Luxe

China Glaze Angel Wings

Wet n Wild Kaleidoscope

Oh So Wet Top Coat

Jewels at the cuticle are from Sally Hansen

I told you that I used a stupid amount of polishes! 

I know it's a little messy but I like it :)

Go check out Jacquie's blog http://clawsup.blogspot.com/ and see what she did for her Glittering New Years Eve Mani! 

Also HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I hope that you end 2015 on a positive note and start 2016 with a smile! :) 

♥♥♥♥♥

Autumn

Cult Nails Dotticure

Yaaaaassss, it's been a while since I've done a Cult Nails NOTD.

This manicure focuses on most of the polishes from the Deceptive collection from October 2012. I kind of wanted to attempt to make it look like the color drop nails that Cristina from Let Them Have Polish did ages ago, but as you can see, it just didn't happen. I didn't do mine the way she suggested because I simply did not have the patience to wait to long. SO, I decided to dot it up. I'm not 100% happy with this look, however it does remind me of Mardi Gras. SO I guess that's something. 

Ahhhhh yeeeeees

So the only polish that I'm missing from the collection is Charlatan, unfortunately I don't have it and wont be able to get it. *sniffles* 

Polishes Use:
Wet n Wild Black Creme
Cult Nails Two Timer
Cult Nails Doppelganger
Cult Nails Alter Ego
Cult Nails Deception
FingerPaints Endless Wear Top Coat. 

So what do you think? I'm still not 100% happy, usually nail looks grow on me as I type posts up or as I stare at the pictures, but it's just not happening. Maybe I'll try it again and see what we get!

Sally Hansen I heart Nail Art Studs

Purchased Myself

Today I've got some nail art studs to chit chat about! I've been getting REALLY very into nail art, especially studs, jewels and glitter placement. Don't be fooled by the tiny vials that these come in though, you definitely get a LOT of studs. I do want to give a tiny warning, the vials are GLASS and one of mine has already broken so you have to be really careful, or put them into something else.

For about $6.99 (depending on your region) you get three vials with three different colors of studs... as well as 2 different kinds (more on that later) You get black, clear/silver and gold. Now The gold ones are different from the other two, these remind me of Rivets while the other two, I would call rhinestones instead of studs, but that's me.

The kit comes with a cuticle pusher stick..thing... What is even the technical name for it? One end is a hard plastic "cuticle pusher" while the other end is more slanted and has a point. This is for applying the studs, but I say nay. I had the WORST time trying to apply the studs using this thing, not only that but if you're not careful you WILL mess up your nail polish. I use my fingers to apply these, then if need be I'll use the pointed end of the stick to move them around.


The Black studs are pure black.

The Clear ones have a silver base, so you get that kind of shift where you get a hint of silver.

The gold studs are gorgeous. These are probably my favorite out of the trio.

I think that this kit in a whole is pretty awesome and I LOVE that they come in vials instead of a wheel.  I did take mine out of the vial because on broke. For $6.99 I think that it definitely should come with more options.. If you go to an Indie polish maker that sells studs or jewels I'm sure you can get more of a variety for cheaper. I know Cult Nails used to have a gem wheel, but I don't see it on the website anymore.

I do like this kit, but honestly the price point is a bit high for me. Maybe I'm too cheap or something but I paid around $3 (i think) and got 12 different kind of rhinestones from Cult Nails when she stocked them. So there are totally cheaper (but equally as good) retailers out there!

First Ever Cult Nails Haul!

Hello Loves! (Just as a warning this is going to be picture heavy!)

Today I am going to show you what I purchased from Cult Nails!

As most of you know, or at least anyone who is in the Nail Polish world knows that it is Cult Nails Second Anniversary. A 2nd Anniversary trio was put out for sale so I decided what the heck I'm going to purchase it! Before I get into the haul though, let me just give you some background info..

Cult Nails is a 4-free as well as Cruelty Free nail polish brand. Maria (owner/founder) is located in Florida. I LOVE supporting Florida brands.. since I live in Flo-rida as well. Funny enough where the brand is located is DIRECTLY on the other side of the state, you could draw a straight line and connect the two. (the little things in life) Enough about that.

I purchased a total of 5 polishes and Nail are Rhinestones. 

I went back and forth for probably 4 hours before I finally settled on purchasing anything. What the hell right? Mine as well, I just dwindled my nail polishes to less than half of what they used to be and I've wanted to try a couple of her polishes anyways.

I decided to go ahead and purchase the 2nd Anniversary Trio which retails for $36 but it currently on sale for $30. I'm not sure when the price goes up to $36, but I think it is within the next few days. 

There is a little treat that comes with purchasing the trio though. From the website itself ;;

*Free gift will be either a pair of cubic zirconia earrings, a pair of 1/2 carat genuine diamond earrings (2 pairs will be given away), OR 1 pair of 1 carat genuine diamond earrings (1 pair will be given away).  FREE GIFT ONLY AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME, WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!  Earrings will not be replaced if imperfect, damaged, lost, stolen, or missing.

So 3 lucky ladies are going to be getting REAL diamond earrings! Holy crap, that is 1. absolutely generous of her to do! and 2. pretty freaking amazing and it makes opening the box from her even more exciting. Even for those who don't get the real ones, there is still going to be a pair of CZ earrings. In my opinion, it's still a win win.

When I received the box and opened it, you can tell that they definitely take care of their polishes when shipping. Each one was individually wrapped in paper and it had a sticker on it with the Cult Nails logo and the name of the polish. You can definitely tell that she takes pride in not only creating her polishes but as well as the packing and shipping aspect of it all. Along with each individually wrapped polish there were cotton balls to help cushion as well. This was probably one of the best packaged things I have ever seen.

Swatches are under the bottle shots / descriptions

The polishes in the trio are
Tempest - High gloss white nail polish -2 Coats

Blaze - Gold and Copper glitter (Does this remind anyone else of Gryiffindor from Harry Potter?!) 3 Coats (the only reason I used 3 coats is because I smudged it and did 3 to even it out. You can get away with 2 coats though)

Fetish - Black with a wax looking finish to it. -2 Coats

All 3 of these are absolutely GORGEOUS. I've been wanting a white polish for a while so I am pretty excited for it! As for the other two, I am equally stoked for them! 

I also purchased;;

Alter Ego - sheer top coat that casts a green and gold tinge over any polish you put it over. This is also limited edition ($12) I LOVE top coats like this, so I am excited to try it out over different polishes.
1 coat over ORLY Liquid Vinyl

Mazo - Sheer Nude with gold shimmer. (This is on last chance for  $7) I've been drawn to nude polishes lately and I decided on this one and am pretty excited about it! 3 Coats

Swatches:
Sunlight

Shade

The last thing I added to my order, just because were the Multi-Colored Nail Rhinestones. I thought they would be cute to jazz up a manicure!

So, what do you think?! I personally think I fared pretty well considering CN is a Independent brand. In total with tax included I spent $55.12.  I wanted to get Nevermore, BUT I figured since there was already a black polish in the set, I didn't need another one.. even though I still want it like a crazy person.

These polishes definitely exceeded my expectations! I am so pleased that I decided to go ahead and purchase these! 

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Upon reading the CN twitter, the Anniversary polishes will be sold individually starting on MONDAY 28/01/13! 
They also so ship internationally, so for you beauties who want to try them out you can! xx

Disclaimer: I purchased the above mentioned products with my own money. I am in no way affiliated with Cult Nails nor am I being sponsored or paid to talk about the above mentioned products. All opinions are 150% my own.