Mac Ruffian Inspired

Hey guys!

I was flipping through my May edition of InStyle and came across pictures of the Mac Ruffian Press-On nails and fell in love! The nails are going to be released in June. They are two or three toned nails that have a half moon and a french tip. I'm sure it's been done before but this is the first time I've seen it so I decided to give it a shot. I'm not a huge fan of french tips personally because my natural nail shape doesn't really work well with the typical french tip shape but I figured with a half moon at the bottom, it might work a little better.

The colors I used from left to right: Nice is Nice from Essie, Dove from Zoya, and Anja from Zoya.

As you can tell, I wasn't patient enough to wait for my nails to be totally dried so Anja, the dark purple, streaked when I put my top coat on. If this ever happens to you, you could always add a layer of glitter to help hide the streaks if you don't try to clean the streaks up. I just left these because I didn't feel like doing either when I originally did them, it was late and I was tired and just decided to let it go. No one even noticed until I would point it out. 

I hope you guys like it and give it a shot! I'm sure the Mac ones are going to be a little pricey so why not do them yourself! 

Lindsey 

Essie Marshmallow

Hiiiii!!!!!

Confession: I HAVE BEEN LUSTING OVER THIS POLISH FOR YEARRRSSSSSSSS! Okay, maybe a year or so, but it seems like FOREVER!

ESSIE MARSHMALLOW

Santa finally put this in my stocking and I was SO EXCITED!

I know I posted about Mummy May I... OPI's Halloween white that I love! Well, where Mummy May I forges ahead in opaque whitey goodness, Marshmallow forges ahead in milky white goodness.

Oh my. I love this polish. Okay. In the picture, there are two coats on top of a ridge filling coat (my typical ORLY Ridgefiller) which is a white creamy consistency. My nails may look a little more opaque than they should, but by golly, they are beautiful!

This is a perfect way to start my new year! Clean and refreshing 2012! By the way, I cannot believe it's 2012! We're old! Haha.

I hope you are having the BEST start to the new year and are staying true to your resolutions (I'm terrible.. Adam and I never make any resolutions, to me they just seem silly since I break them so quickly) I guess if I had to have one, I just want to get off the couch more often whether it be seeing friends, going swimming, working out, whatever! Just getting out of the house every so often. Naturally, I am a Cancer, and we are homebodies! I just like being home with my husband and my doggies (they are great snugglers!). This can still happen! Just not every day all day! GO! SEE! DO!

Anyways ... Resolutions are a good thing ... I think!
Peace and love!
B

Barry M Pink Flamingo

Hi bloggers!

As promised, here is one of the polishes Boldnbella sent us! Pink Flamingo from Barry M.

It is such a pretty color! It's a wonderful summer color but with the season's changing, I definitely have found myself going for deeper, richer colors or nudes but this is still a beauty!

I also have another set of dupes for you. Essie Nice is Nice and China Glaze Light As Air.

The main difference between these two polishes is how opaque they are. China Glaze could have cover fine with one good coat while Essie would nee probably three coats to get around the same even, opacity. That being said, both colors or equally as pretty. 

Hope you enjoyed and have had a good week so far! 

-Lindsey

Meet Me At Sunset

Hi bloggers!

Here is just a quick NOTD look featuring Meet Me At Sunset from Essie, a beautiful orange-red color which is another good color for transitioning into fall.

Also, another set of dupes. I love both of these glittery teals in the bottle and on my nails but I do not however like taking them off.  Excuse the blurry first picture, I got a new camera recently and I'm still trying to get use to the settings.

When it comes to the glitter/flakes in these two polishes, as you can tel, Teal of Fortune is more blue, while Glee is more green. As I said above, I did not enjoy taking these off and here is why-both of them stained, not my nails, but my cuticles and surrounding skin. The two colors are Wet n Wild Teal of Fortune and Jesse's Girl Glee, both of these are two coats. Although they both stained the Wet n Wild stained more. Both pretty colors but be prepared when it comes time to take them off.

Hope you enjoyed!
-Lindsey

Mini Haul

Hi bloggers!


Just wanted to show you a few of the new polishes I've bought over the last month (roughly), nothing too crazy exciting today but keep looking a little later on this week to see how a few of these looked on!

 

From left to right: Essie Nice is Nice, Essie My Perfect Pair which included Meet Me at Sunset and Smooth Sailing, two Love & Beauty polishes from Forever21 that don't have names, Wet N Wild Fastdry Waves of Enchantment (which I used in my water marble), and Wet N Wild Fastdry Sea of Dreams.  

Question: Would you guys like to see an occasional post on other beauty products besides nail polishes? Make up, face products (washes, lotions, cleansers, etc.), perfumes, other things along those lines? We would still stay a nail polish blog obviously, just something else to mix it up every once in a while. Give us your thoughts please! 

Like I said before, be on the look out the rest of the week for posts featuring a few of those polishes above. 

Hope y'all had a good Monday! 

-Lindsey

Bridal Series: Essie Better Together

Hi everyone! Sorry long time, no blog. I'm taking two summer classes and the final plans are coming along for the wedding, AND! My mom is in town! Woo. 

Anyways, now that I have time to take a breath, heres a brand spankin' new blog! (ps, I finally bought a new Seche Vite! Thank the gods!)

Essie's Better Together! 

I have been coveting this nail polish since I saw the posters for Essie's new bridal collection called Borrowed & Blue. 

Better Together is a light pink and sheer. This is two coats. 

Better Together applied like a dream and topped off with a coat of Seche Vite! NO bubbles! Yay! This polish is so beautiful! It is the most perfect pail pink, it makes my nails look nice and clean without saying "hey look at me!" Which is totally what I'm going for since It's about me, not my nails (for once)!

I couldn't be happier, and I think I have found my wedding nail polish, through all the nudes, this is it. Essie's Better Together is also significant because our song for our wedding is "Better Together" by Jack Johnson. 

Thank you for all your support through the bridal series, and I can't wait to try out more nudes and more importantly variety in my polish in the future! See you (maybe before) when I become a Mrs!

Brielle

Bridal Series: Essie Topless and Barefoot

I loveeee me some nudes!

Next up: Essie Topless and Barefoot, a pinkish nude. Opaque and a nice polish in all.

I got this polish in... April I think. Loved it! LOVEEEEEEDDDD it. It's such a pretty pink nude color and it matched really well with my skin tone. But now, It's gone all thick and gloopy. What is my nail polish's deal?? I haven't stored them in a different place than I normally would. I mean, they're in a stack n store in the corner of my room, no real direct sunlight, it's cool, no real humidity, what's the deal? Maybe I should stick my favorites in the fridge for a while... I really don't want to buy thinner, but I have a feeling that's exactly what I'll have to do.

Well, along with being gloopy, my polish bubbled...again. Man! I have to get on top of things. I used two coats as one was streaky. (I'll have to see if my Sand Tropez polish is the same as topless and barefoot, since I bought them at the same time) Well, this is two coats with a coat of seche clear (yes, I know this is a base coat, I used it as a top coat - I'm desperate, okay!)

Okay, here's Topless and Barefoot!

While taking pictures, I decided that two coats of polish wasn't enough! I tried some top coats! L to R: OPI Teenage Dream, Sephora by OPI Only Gold for Me Top Coat, Sally Hansen 05 Diamonds Top Coat, and CND Effects Gold Sparkling #570. 

I couldn't believe how much the CND Gold Sparkling top coat changed the color of the polish to the eye! It was crazy, it looked like it had yellow undertones vs pink! 

I'm glad we have another contender for Wedding day nails! Moving forward!

Brielle