Not Like the Movies with Turquoise Shatter

Hi bloggers!

Just a quick and easy one today! I got a few new OPI colors recently and wanted to try two of them out together. I used Not like the Movies from the Katy Perry collection as my base coat. I wasn't so sure about this color in the bottle but I really, really liked it on. It's more purple-y on my nails and more green-ish in the bottle. It's a little hard to photograph though!

Next I wanted to try out the OPI Turquoise shatter on top of it. I've tried OPI's, China Glaze's, Sally Hansen's shatter polishes and I like OPI's the best, followed by Sally Hansen with China Glaze coming in last.

(before the edges got cleaned up a bit)

At first I wasn't sure about the two colors together but it's grown on me and I really like them together now!

Hope you enjoyed :)
-Lindsey

My First Franken: Glittering Pearls

Hi bloggers!

A while ago I posted about making my own franken polishes and here is my first one! For this one, I used a bottle of Wet N Wild clear nail polish and mixed in four different kinds of Nyx eye shadow pigments. The colors from left to right are: Glitter Mania in Crystal, Ultra Pearl Mania in Fanta Pearl, Ultra Pearl Mania in Mink Pearl, and Ultra Pearl Mania in Lilac Pearl.

I tried to keep an equal amount of the colored pigments in the mix but the Fanta Pearl color seemed to be more pigmented than the others so I put less of it in the mixture. It is kind of sheer but I still really like how it turned out! I plan on making each of the colored pigments into their own polish, not sure but we'll see.

Be on the look out for more and more frankens from me!!
-Lindsey

OPI Lucerne-Tainly Look Marvelous - Chanel Graphite Dupe

Hi everyone! So sorry I've been MIA, I'm on vacation in San Diego with the Husband! It's been so nice, and now that I'm sunburnt and crispy I am a little slower than he is, so I have time to write a blog!

As you know, I am a huge LOVER of Chanel nail polishes, but the price does not fit in with a college married persons budget, so I do what I can to get over my lust. In comes OPI's Lucerne-Tainly Look Marvelous. It's a dark charcoal black that looks very similar to Chanel's Graphite (I think).

Chanel Graphite:

(Image from here.)

While Graphite has a little yellow/golden undertones, Lucerne-Tainly Look Marvelous does not. It's a flat black shade, but similar all the same. I originally purchased this nail polish in a set, from Ulta shown here it was so cheap I couldn't pass it up! I got two amazing polishes out of it too!

OPI:

To me, it will be the closest I can get to Chanel's Graphite. I hope you think so too! Also, It can make happy husbands because $9 is always better than $25!

Happy Friday everyone!
Brielle


Ps, This polish required a felt removal. I'm going to be posting on that soon! Keep your eyes peeled! (What a weird saying!)

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

Water Marble Sucess!

Hi bloggers!


After several attempts, I finally got a water marble I was happy with! It took a little tweaking of my colors to get it to work out well. The colors I used from left to right were: a silver/light grey from Love & Beauty, For Audrey from China Glaze, Confetti from Jesse's Girl, and Purple With a Purpose from OPI.

I used Love and Beauty as my base color. The picture is a little foggy. It was so humid out my lens kept fogging up! This is only one coat. 

Originally I wanted to use this color as part of my actual water marble but it just wasn't wanting to work well with the other colors so I had to lose it, leaving only three color in the actual water marble. I really, really liked how this one turned out. In the pictures, it's kind of hard to see the Confetti but when it would catch the light just right, it looked so pretty!

Hope you enjoyed and have learned from my water marbling mistakes!
-Lindsey

Mermaid Tail

Hi bloggers,


I tried out a new Love & Beauty polish from Forever21 today and I had kind high hopes for it and feel a little let down by it. Let me show you why and explain...

 

I do love the flakes in this polish but by itself, I feel like it made my nails look like they just had a green tinge to them, not that they were painted and who wants green nails? Not me! This polish would look really good over greens, blues, possibly yellows, and possibly purples though! So in order to try and save this, I put another new polish from Love & Beauty on top of it and really liked how it 

came out. 

Even more flakes and glitter added on top! I thought it looked kind of like a mermaid tail. I'm really glad I tried out these two polished together! 

On a side note, I thought the flower bottle was so stinking cute!! I also got a pink one too that I'm excited to try out! 

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again" totally worked in this situation!

-Lindsey

China Glaze Senorita Bonita

Hey guys! It is HOT HOT HOT here! Jeesh!

I decided to beat the heat with my nails and think of the islands... I tried out China Glaze's Senorita Bonita! And oh yes, this was a beautiful lady.

This red toned purple is absolutely gorgeous! I tried to capture the shimmer and the shades that the duo chrome gives off, but it was hard, this polish is definitely better in real life.

This is two coats over a milky ridgefiller basecoat (ORLY)

Sorry you can see my red camera reflected in my nails! ha!

The shimmer really fails to be captured by these pictures, but I swear, it's there! This is one pretty purple polish (say that five times fast!) and you'll have to see it in person to realize how different it is from most other purples!

Stay cool out there!

Brielle