Plastic Wrap Mani

Hey guys!

I tried out the plastic wrap technique and it wasn't a total success. If you haven't seen any manicures done like this, the process is pretty simple. All you need is two or more different nail polish and plastic wrap (yes, that stuff you use to wrap your leftover food up in). First paint your nails like normal and let them dry completely. Make sure you have little pieces of plastic wrap ready to use, roughly 2 inches by 2 inches. After your nails are dried, paint only one nail at a time and before it dries, crinkle your piece of plastic wrap and light dab off the still wet polish, wait for that to dry and apply our top coat! It's a pretty simple process. Where I messed up was my color selection, as you'll see. The colors I used were OPI Purple with Purpose and Zoya Reece.

It didn't turn out badly, it just didn't turn out as well as I hoped. If Reece was more opaque it would have been better I think. I thought about doing another color on top but in the end I didn't. It's definitely a technique I will do again! Hope you guys enjoyed!
Lindsey

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 

Reece

Hey bloggers!

The last NOTD that I have before Valentine's Day is Reece, another polish from Zoya. Spring seems to be on it's way, at least temperature wise so I thought something with a little more Spring feel was fitting. This color is a little hard to describe because it's always changing in the light. The best way I can describe it is a light purple/pink with a yellow/light green shimmer.

The last NOTD that I have before Valentine's Day is Reece, another polish from Zoya. Spring seems to be on it's way, at least temperature wise so I thought something with a little more Spring feel was fitting. This color is a little hard to describe because it's always changing in the light. The best way I can describe it is a light purple/pink with a yellow/light green shimmer.

Lindsey

Anja

Hi bloggers!

Sorry about the lack of posts lately, I know we keep saying that almost each post it seems like but we are trying to get back into the swing of things so I'll have a few NOTD looks coming up before Valentine's Day and of course a Valentine's Day look of my own that you should be on the look out for. Hello, run on sentence lol anyway on to the nails. This beautiful deep plum color is Anja from Zoya.

So pretty, so smooth. It went on perfect with only one coat. I typically do two coats at least but this one went on so well the first time, I just stuck with one. If you haven't tried any Zoya nail polishes, I would definitely recommend giving them a try! I have loved every color I've gotten from them. I think I have about 5 or so now and none of them have disappointed me. They are just quality polishes that have great wear times as well as beautiful colors. Also, if you check out their blog they have great sales too!

Oh! And an update on my New Year's Resolution, still going strong! Not only did I decide to stop buying polish, I decided to put roughly $10 in with my change that accumulates over time every month that I don't buy polish. Once the end of the year comes that money is either going to go into my bank account or towards something fun for me and my boyfriend, a vacation or a little weekend get-away or something! Anyone else still going strong with their resolutions?

Lindsey

Paint the Town Red and Kissy

Hi bloggers!

Two or three weekends ago, my boyfriend and I went to his college formal and danced the night away (well, mainly me)! My dress was black with some lace and to add a little color, I wore red suede high heels. Red tends to be my go to color when it gets colder out and obviously since my shoes were red, my nails had to match! I layered two colors for this look. The colors I used were Milani Paint the Town Red and Zoya Kissy, which is more on the pink side than red but I really wanted to use it!

I'm still trying to find the best lighting in my house to take pictures of my nails now that the time change has happened, during the week I don't get home in time for the sun to be high enough in the sky to take good pictures outside so bear with me!

Anyone else getting excited about the holidays coming up? I sure am!
-Lindsey

Grave Stones

Hi bloggers!

The Halloween nails continue with grave stone nails. I used a wet Q-tip to create this look similar to my glitter gradient and galaxy nail designs. I also used come crackle polishes as well. The base coat I used was Dove from Zoya and the crackle I used was Sally Hansen Fractured Foil Crackle Overcoat. The colors used to with the wet Q-tip where Avocado from Love & Beauty and Sephora by OPI A Leg-Warmer. The black detail is China Glaze Liquid Leather and the green grass is China Glaze Jolly Holly.

I hope you guys have liked our Halloween posts and given them a shot!
Lindsey

Zoya Caitlin

Hi bloggers!


Here is just a quick post of a simple look but I absolutely loved these two together! Zoya Caitlin and Sally Hansen Crackle Overcoat in Antiqued Gold.

I almost always do an accent nail anymore. I just think they make any manicure a little more interesting but aren't always necessary if there is a lot already going on. Like I said, just a simple one today, hope you enjoyed! 

-Lindsey

Matte Polka Dots

Hey Bloggers!


So this design my boyfriend actually picked out. This past weekend we were both sitting on our laptops, looking through our regular websites and he happened to look over at mt screen and see a matte nail polish designs that had different color polka dots all over and told me that it had to be the next thing I did on my nails so here we go! As I said before, I love accent nails so I only did the polka dots on my ring fingers.

 

 I used Metro Chic Matte from Sephora by OPI as a base coat on all of my nails. For the dark purple dots (which are a little hard to see in the photo) I used Grape Pop from China glaze, the gray dots were Dove by Zoya, and the white dots were White on White by China Glaze. Even though the Metro Chic was matte, I wanted the polka dots to be matte too so I used China Glaze's Matte Magic. I really, really liked how it turned out so props to my boyfriend for picking it out!! lol 

Hope everyone's week is going well! Be on the look out for another water marble this week from me hopefully!

-Lindsey

Happy July Fourth!

Hi guys (girls, too)!

I can't believe it's the fourth of July! Summer is going by so quickly! To be honest, growing up, Fourth of July was my favorite. It was the middle of summer, everything was always in a happy place for the fourth. It was always a happy occasion. As a family, we always go watch fireworks and cookout for the fourth.  I love July fourth!

Moving on, Things have been nice lately, days by the pool, going on evening walks with Adam and our puppy (Comet), and just lounging around. I love lazy summer days. I've been thinking about my Fourth mani for a little while, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but finally decided.

Using Zoya's Sooki, China Glaze's White Cap and Blue Paradise, I made my Independence Day nails! I decided to honor our Flag! Stars and stripes!

Looks like my camera wasn't cooperating... Sorry about that. 

I hope you have the best fourth of July, what are your family traditions?

Brielle

Laziness has gotten the best of me.

Okay guys. I got married last week, and I seriously have not painted my nails since. I have been going bare ALL WEEK! I cannot remember the last time this has happened. It was so awful. All of my nails broke off and look like a 6 year olds. Seriously.

Ew, sorry this is a really disgusting picture, but you have to see it. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET MARRIED!

Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew.

Anyways, FINALLY I painted my nails this morning (when I should be working on my summer classes homework).  True Blood comes back on tonight, so I thought I'd celebrate (as much as I wanted to slap some You Don't Know Jacques, I didn't). 

This is Zoya's Sooki! A magnificent red creme that looks amazing in one coat! I'm still pretty weary about Zoya's formula. It's still not... just....right. Maybe I'm being weird, but it's just different and I don't know if I like it. 

A quick picture, this color looks so different with flash, sunlight, artificial light, etc. So pretty.

 Look how weird all my nails look in this picture. They're all a different color!

 Sunlight:

 Red nail polish always reminds me of my Grandma, it's what she ALWAYS had on her nails, and thanks to her, I inherited her love of polish. Since I wear her engagement ring as my own, it just gave me the willies having red nail polish on, so I thought I'd photograph them both for you!

 Man my fingers look chunky. ha

So there it is! Zoya's Sooki! Make sure to tune in to HBO tonight at 9 for the season premiere of True Blood (one of me and Lindsey's favorite TV shows)!


Brielle

Love, plain and simple.

Hi bloggers!


Since Brielle is getting married this weekend, a post about love is only fitting! When trying to decide what I wanted to paint my nails, I looked at the group of polishes that I have yet to use, this Zoya color yelled "PICK ME!" loud in clear and I couldn't have been happier with it. The color by Zoya is called Colbie. 

 

Something else I'm really loving right now is my love ring from Forever21. I just love it, plain and simple.  I've worn it quite a lot since I got it and for under $5, makes it even better.

 

Hope y'all enjoyed and that you have a week full of love and happiness! I know we are!! 

-Lindsey

Haul Time

Hi Bloggers!


Before I start, let me just say that I didn't not buy all of these in one day! These were bought over the course of around two weeks and I hardly ever buy this much in such a short amount of time! Also, Zoya had a great promo going on that let you get two polishes for free which I took advantage of. Anyway, on with the goodies :)

Top row, left to right: Wet n Wild Wild Shine in Kaleidoscope, Wet n Wild Wild Shine in Hallucinate, NYC In a New York Color Minute Quick Dry in Central Park, Finger Paints in Laugh My Art Off, Sally Hansen Crackle Overcoat in Fractured Foil.


Bottom row: 5 different Bon Bons that don't have names

 

Top row, left to right: Sally Hansen Crackle Overcoat in Cheery Smash, Sally Hansen Crackle Overcoat in Antiqued Gold, Zoya in Dove, Zoya in Caitlin, Zoya in Colbie

Bottom row: 3 different Sally Girl nail colors that don't have names

 

I'm so excited to use every single one of these polishes! Some of these I bought to mess around with frankening my own nail polishes. If you don't know what a franken is, it's a nail polish mixed from bits of other nail polishes to make a new color. I still need to order bottles, but I'll be making some of my own creations very soon! I'm already coming up with color combos that I want to try so be on the look out for those in the near future!!

-Lindsey

Zoya Mira

Hey all! I hope everyone is enjoying Memorial Day Weekend! It's so nice to have wonderful weather and a long weekend! I received my one free summer collection polish from Zoya the other day and woud love to share it with you!

Zoya Mira! I had my eye on this polish since the collection came out! I waited to get it because of course it wasn't first on my list.

Other than nudes and red, purples are my favorite! Purple is my absolute favorite color, but sometimes on my nails it doesn't look so hot. Compared to Demi, Mira was a dream. Perfect in two coats, application was wonderful and I had no problems (well if you don't count my top coat woes).

 While wearing Mira I wondered how close in color it was to China Glaze's Grape Pop. Preeeeetty darn close. In person they look identical, but on camera they turned out a little funny because Grape pop had been sitting for a while and got color messy.

Next up, I have a few nude/pinky colors that I want to show you. Since my wedding is under three weeks away, I'm looking for the perfect color for my big day! So I am in search for the perfect pinky beige nude!

Brielle

Bad few days for Nail Polish...

Okay guys. I never knew what bubbling was in nail polish for the longest time. Seriously.

I can't remember the first time it happened, but I'm pretty sure I didn't even notice it then. My reaction was probably like, oh what's that? there's dirt stuck in there. Dang.

I now know what absolute bubbling looks like.

OPI Designer Series Ruby. I got this polish probably three or four Christmas's ago from Adam's Aunt who works at a cosmetics distribution center. I was like, "Oh, thanks..." (thinking it would never be a polish I would wear... at the time it looked total old ladyish). Finally about three weeks ago, I was getting bored with my collection and wanted something different. Here comes DS Ruby. Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about this polish.

Application was a dream, no surprise, but. BUT. I ran out of Seche Vite last week and I'd forgotten how awful regular top coats are! I ran to the CVS down the road and picked up the cheapest top coat I could find, just to get me through (NYC "Long Wearing" Extra Shiny Top Coat) all fine and good. So, applied two thin coats of Ruby and then a coat of NYC top coat (I use Nail Life Gripper as a base --Love it!). After waiting forever to get no dings, I see BUBBLES GALORE! Seriously? This beautiful polish was tarnished by BUBBLES! Ugh! Here are some pictures:

Sunlight:

 BUBBLES!

The beautiful holo in this polish.

Cool Undertones

Right before this polish, I had whipped out Zoya's Demi. This was the first polish I bought from Zoya. Probably sometime late last year. A perfect deep Purple, like an eggplant color. I thought I would be in love.

The application was horrendous. Gloopy glops all over my nails, strings of polish pulling from the brush. Nothing good about it. Disappointing yet again. As I used my last bit of Seche Vite with this polish, I figured it'd be on there for a few days. NOPE. This picture is of my nails less than 12 hours after application:

ARE YOU SERIOUS? I mean, don't get me wrong, I love Zoya, I almost always participate in their promotions and their polish is usually great, but this was totally unacceptable. I'm going to buy some thinner (another first) and see if that helps Demi out from the gloops. 

Well, I'm going to enjoy the nice weather with bubbly polish, hopefully I'll live ;)

Brielle