Tribal Inspired

Hey guys!

I've got a tribal inspired look that I love! Tribal and color blocking is everywhere right now so why not put it on my nails?

The colors I used from left to right, Delia's Bright Purple, Sephora by OPI Read My Palm, and Sephora by OPI Rumba Romance. I also used a Stripe Rite polish in black to make the lines on my ring fingers.

You guys know how much I love my accent nails! The first picture is in natural light and the bottom one is with a flash.

I really love all of the nail art I've been seeing lately but it's always on every single nail and for me and my personality, it can get a little much which is why I like my accent nails even more! Hope you guys enjoyed!

-Lindsey

Easter Nails

Happy Easter everyone!
If you don't celebrate Easter, then happy Sunday! Lots of colors and a franken are coming your way! The base colors I used from left to right are OPI Play in the Peonies, Zoya Catlin, OPI Time-less is More, China Glaze Light as Air, and Sally Hansen  Diamond Strength Diamonds

The colors are in reverse order on my nails and Diamonds was used as a top coat on top of them just to give a similar finish to all of them. I love adding Diamonds on top of colors just to add a little shimmer on top especially if the colors don't have any shimmer in them.

Next comes the polka dots! The colors I used for the polka dots from left to right are China Glaze White on White, Sephora by OPI Blue Grotto, my own glitter franken, and OPI Purple with a Purpose.

My glitter franken was just a bunch of little Bon-Bon polishes mixed together in an empty bottle. It didn't quite turn out how I had hoped it would but I still like how it turned out. Here are on some close ups of it in the bottle and on my nail. 

I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend and are ready for the week ahead!
Lindsey

Velvet Bow and Ring in the Red

Hi bloggers!

Before you look at the pictures and say to yourself "Her nails are chipped! Why would she post a picture of chipped nails?!", let me explain. This manicure lasted me a full 7 days with very minimal chipping.  I changed up my nail polish routine a little bit but for the most part it still the same to my Mani Prep post plus two more tips. I'll do a blog post about them soon.

Anyway, on to the nails! The two colors I used were China Glaze Velvet Bow and China Glaze Ring in the Red as an accent.

As you can see, very little chipping!  Be on the look out for more details on how I made it last longer!

Hope everyone has a good holiday :) I'm not sure how many posts will have up before the new year but we'll see you on the other side! 

Lindsey

Glowing Pumpkins!

Hey bloggers!

Cute pumpkins that glow under black light would be a great look for a party or clubbing night. The colors used for the pumpkin included the black light orange from the drug store, China Glaze Jolly Holly that is the green stem, and China Glaze Liquid Leather for the details, and for the crackle I used OPI Black Shatter.

My boyfriend and I named the pumpkin Hugo. 

I don't have a black light to see if the orange really does glow but from the consistency of it, I wouldn't be surprised if it did. Also, as you can tell my shatter, didn't shatter very well. I got this when OPI first came out with the black shatter so it is getting a little old. Has anyone else noticed theirs getting worse as it gets older? I'm kind of mad about it because only one of my nails really shattered instead of just streaking.

I've got at least one more look coming, possibly two so be on the look out!
Lindsey

Simple Ghosts

Hi bloggers!

Here is another easy Halloween manicure featuring some pretty flakes and a ghost or two! I bought two different Halloween polishes from the drug store and this purple flaky goodness was one of them. It was definitely more of a jelly than I had expected so I had to layer on the polish and I still didn't get it as dark as I had wanted. I should have done a test to see if I needed to put down a darker base coat or not, but I obviously didn't. I wanted the purple to sort of look like the night sky, a dark purple or blue would have done the trick as a base. For the ghost accent nails I used China Glazes White on White and Liquid Leather.

Obviously if you wanted all of your nails to have different ghosts, you could do every nail or every other or whatever you'd like but you guys know how I love my accent nails!

Also, I noticed with this manicure and a few others that cheaper drug store nail polishes smell. I realize that ALL nail polish smells when you put it on but cheap nail polish doesn't loose it's smell over time like higher end polishes do. I know it's something that isn't a huge deal and might sound a little snobby but sometimes I get a whiff of it a few days later and it's just gross! Has anyone else noticed that? 

Hope you enjoyed!
Lindsey

Breast Cancer Awareness Post: Hot Pink Ribbons

Hi bloggers!
Here is my third breast cancer awareness post, this one featuring the pink cancer ribbon! My other posts are more inspired simply by using the color pink, but this one really screams what it's all about! The two colors I used were China Glaze Fucshia and Sephora by OPI Dear Diary. Fuchsia is a great hot pink, especially for the summer and Dear Diary is a great sheer light pink.

Sorry the second picture is a bit blurry, my cat bumped my arm EVERY picture I tried to take because she wanted some attention.

One more breast cancer awareness post then on to some Halloween ones, hope you enjoyed!
-Lindsey

Breast Cancer Awareness Post: Mystery Muse

Hi bloggers!

Another Breast Cancer Awareness Post, just a quick one today. This look is featuring Mystery Muse from Finger Paints, a nice metallic light pink. Although it isn't all that noticeable, I did use China Glaze Magic Matte on my ring fingers as an accent.

I've got two more Breast Cancer Awareness posts that will be posted in the next few days and then on to Halloween nails! Hope you enjoyed!

-Lindsey

Fun With Cracks

Hi bloggers!

As I've stated before, I love glitter polishes and I love crackle polishes and the two together is just wonderful but as more and more companies are coming out with crackle/shatter polishes and more and more people are using it, just having a crackle top coat is getting a little boring so I decided to spice it up a bit.

The base coat I used was Sparkle Teal Sunrise by OPI, a absolute beautiful glitter!

Next instead of just covering my whole nail with the crackle polish, I tapped off parts of my nails so I tapped them of diagonally with Fractured Foil Crackle Overcoat by Sally Hansen. I also used Lightning Bolt Crackle by China Glaze on my ring fingers that I tapped off down the middle, so my ring fingers had two different crackles going in two different directions. I wasn't crazy about the color combination once it was on my nails but I think with the right colors it would have turned out a lot better!

Hope you enjoyed!
-Lindsey

Elegant Party Nails

Hi bloggers!


As I've stated many times before, I LOVE accent nails!! This is certain accent nail is an easy way to add a little flare to your nails for any special occasion or just for the hell of it! I started off with Play in the Peonies by OPI, which Brielle raved about to me and I'm surprised she hasn't posted about it yet. I love it equally as much as she does! Soo pretty, it's the perfect "baby pink" in my eyes.

Now on to the accent nail. Along with glitter and accent nails, I LOVE LOVE LOVE gradient glitter nails. They are my go-to party nail look. I used three different colors to create this look on my ring fingers, from left to right: Covered in Diamonds from Studio M, Sparked from Wet N Wild, and I Miss You from Sinful Colors.

 I use a wet Q-tip to create my gradients but you can also use cosmetic sponges to do so as well. Once again, glitter + accent nail + glitter gradient = one happy girl with pretty nails :) Hope you liked them! 


-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

Water Marble Aptempt #2 & EOS Lip Balm

Hi bloggers!

Sorry it took me a little while to post this but here it is, my second (really fourth of fifth try that were done before we started this blog) water marble attempt. I used a lot of colors in this one, probably more than I should and once again I didn't pick out a good base coat color but oh well. I still like how it turned out.

Colors from left to right: Revlon Star Light (which I used as a base coat), Sephora by OPI Ocean Love Potion, Sephora by OPI Underwater Fantasy, Sephora by OPI Blue Grotto, Jesse's Girl Glee, Sephora by OPI Dark Room, and the last one is Nyx Blue Avenue that I only put on my ring fingers.

Both Brielle and I love EOS lip balms. I've tried three different ones: (left to right in picture below) Summer Fruit, Sweet Mint, and Lemon Drop. 

They are flavored and I've liked every one I've tried.  There are two others that I probably won't try simply because they are flavors I don't like but they are Honeysuckle Honeydew and Tangerine.

 

I also included a picture of what they look like because I was a little surprised when I first used it that they were spherical, just like the packaging itself. Good lip balm= smooth lips. And btw EOS stands for the Evolution of Smooth. 

Would you guys like more posts on other beauty products we like? Let us know!! 

 -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

Signature Look

 Hi bloggers!

While Brielle has a favorite color, I have a favorite look. It's just so hard for me to pick a single color so today I'm sharing with you all my favorite look which is the accent nail! I love doing an accent nail because I get to use more than one color and typically get to use a glitter polish (which from my last post, we all know I love!!). For this look I used two butter LONDON polishes, All Hail the Queen and Rosie Lee as an accent.

This combo is one that I have worn multiple times which is surprisingly, I don't wear the same color combos a lot but this one always catches my eye and they just go perfect together! I'll be wearing this mani this weekend for a wedding I'm going to (my dress is hot pink :D).

Unless Brielle posts something this weekend, this could be our last post till next week so be patient with us please!

-Lindsey