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Hey guys :) I have some simple nails today. I wore these for several days as a full mani! I am still trying to be good and get through wearing my new polishes before I buy any more :) This is one of my Zoya Earth Day purchases...Zuza is a gorgeous shimery teal and I LOVE it! On my ring finger is Zoya Godiva, a sparkly nude textured polish (PixieDust). I really love these together!   sun shade

Hey Guys! Things have been crazy for the past week since school has been out. I don't know how I'm going to keep up blogging during the summer but I'm sure gonna try! I've had these for a week and and am just now getting to swatch them and get them up here! Today I have the newest of the Zoya PixieDusts! They are continuing with the "Magical Pixie" formula that debuted earlier this year. I picked those up during the Zoya Earth Day Sale so I would have them to compare with these! :) I haven't swatched them officially here but I have used them in a few tape mani's! (you can see them here with Lux and here with Vega )  I did include them in the bottle shots at the end for comparison! The formulas on these are very consistent. There are larger chunks and fine pieces of the pixie dust in tinted jelly bases. They are definitely "chunkier" than the original Pixie Dusts, and really sparkly. For me they have more the consistency of a glitter top...

Hey guys! Happy Friday! This is the second week of my vow to do watermarbling once a week so I can get better at it. Doing pretty good so far! This time is used 2 of my Picture Polishes. As soon as I got Totes I knew I wanted to do something with it along with Honeydew, because they remind me so much of melons! This came out ok, I don't love and yall don't have to either :/ Totes seems a lot more opaque than Honeydew, so the green kind of gets washed out. It almost creates a bit of an ombre effect with the white base, I guess that's cool? I don't know how some ladies hold 2 bottles at a time and look graceful! I can not!  shade  sun I thought this would look cool with a matte topcoat, I think if the green was more opaque it would. Anyhow, this Picture Polish matte topcoat is one of the first PP's I got, how awesome is the name? Genius, and it makes me giggle.  matte

Hey guys! These are my nails for the #LLGarden prompt on Instagram! I knew I wanted to do something with my new butterfly punches, but this came out totally different than my original plan! I still might do that some day. My favorite butterfly is the Blue Morpho. They are huge blue butterflies with black edging around their wings. I was going to use one of my iridescent blue OPI's for this, but changed my mind! I took artistic license and used Orly Macabre Masquerade , which you can see on its own at the end of this post. I wore it for a day and them used my new larger butterfly punch out as a reverse stencil and painted over it with OPI Black Onyx. One layer of Seche vite topcoat and that's it! I really like how it turned out-very different for me!   sun   shade Here is the Orly  on it's own. It's Macabre Masqueradea blue jelly base with micro red and silver glitters. This was part of the Orly holiday collection that came out this past winter, and ...

Hey guys! I have another one of my new Picture Polishes! This is Badass made in collaboration with Shelly of SassyShelly.com. BOY did this one knock my socks off! Let's just gawk for a minute. I mean really.  sun  shade As soon as I put this on the first nail I was like OMG IT'S THE CREME VERSION OF ALCATRAZ ROCKS! I've mentioned it before but my number one fav polish of all time is OPI Alcatraz Rocks. (So much so that when it went on clearance I bought 1 or 4 more for backups) I grabbed my current bottle for a quick comparison.  comparison Now since Alcatraz Rocks is a texture they aren't exactly the same. I always think it has such a charcoal colored base until I see it next to an actual charcoal colored base and then realize how purple it is. In these pictures the OPI is on my ring finger.  sun  shade I'm not wild about wearing texture on  my toes so now I can wear this! I love this soooooooo much I'm pretty sure I...

Hey guys! Happy Memorial Day! What are yall's plans? We are gonna just stay around here, probably go to the pool and grill some burgers! The usual! Today I have my very first Nautical nails...and I have to say....I'm in love!!! I had something way more complicated planned, involving a different design on each nail, a mixture of dots and stripes and all that. When I started working on my white base, this just sort of happened on one nail and I decided to just keep it simple and keep all 3 the same! And I Love it so much! For the anchor nail the base is China Glaze First Mate ( of course I'm using my nautically named polishes since I have them, right?) and I just used a small dotting tool to make the anchor with gold polish. I used OPI Honey Rider, which is  a texture, to make it stand out more. For the other nails, the white base is Island Girl Pineapple Plantation. Kind of on the fence with this one, it's almost a neon white, if that's even possible! It was ch...

Happy Friday! Woo hoo for holiday weekend. Today I have another so-so attempt at watermarbling. I don't know why I'm having so much trouble with it lately! I'm going to try to do it every week on Fridays to try to get better. I know it takes a lot of practice! At least this time I didn't have any air bubbles, so that's improvement. This design is by Colette of My Simple Little Pleasures. She has a million You Tube tutorials on watermarbling, seriously, check her out! But....wait until you have some time because you will get sucked in! I discovered her channel searching for tutorials and found this one first. It's supposed to look like Watermelon! I don't know why my pink kept disappearing :( and my nails are super short right now so that's a challenge also! But I know I can master this look and technique on short nails so I'm  going to keep practicing! Search My Simple Little Pleasures or Watermelon Watermarble on You Tube if you want to see the lo...