Hi everyone, welcome to Thursday. It isn't until I sit down to write this post this morning that I realize how ridiculous it is. Meaning, today the high is 1 degree and right now the wind chill is -25 degrees. Ooops. Oh well, I'm sick of winter, snow, and never feeling warm so I've already been wearing spring colors for a little bit now. The work meeting yesterday went fine, although I couldn't tell if they were just mad at us the entire time. After six hours of information, my brain was done. I'm still unsure how I feel about it, right now the organization of our section is atrocious and I don't think yesterday got to the root of the problem.
Anyways, in this midst of this "polar vortex" I bring you some spring nail art. I found the picture below on Pinterest and immediately knew that I wanted to re-create it. I have to say, I love the final outcome. To create this look, I started with a base of China Glaze White on White. I topped everything with Seche Vite to dry, and then used blue painter's tape to create the white stripe down the middle. For the stipled blocks of color, I used a very thin nail art brush and used short strokes to create the same look on the bathing suit. In order, the colors I used were Zoya Maria, Wet N' Wild Sunny Side Up, Zoya Sara, OPI German-icure by OPI, and OPI Uh-oh Roll Down the Window.
I'd love to know what you think of this nail art, obviously I like it :)
Hi everyone, happy Hump Day! I hope your week is going by well! Today I have a section wide meeting at work (to last the entire day) which is our very first. I'm not really sure what to expect because it's unheard of for all of us. I guess we will see how it goes :) If all else fails, I painted my nails a bright dandelion yellow so I can stare at them. If that doesn't work, I can stare at the pegasus curtains in the conference room and wonder what decade thought those were a good idea (picture to follow on instagram).Today I am excited to show you a new-to-me Indie brand. I originally won a gift card for Beyond The Nail and ended up picking out five mini bottles of polish so I could try out a bunch of glitters :) Let's get right into it! I won't be mentioning the formulas of any of these polishes in the sections below. I had zero problems with the formulas on any of these. They all applied smoothly with no digging for glitter and no problems with thin or thick formulas. Yay!
Vintage Dress
Vintage Dress is a glitter topper with large yellow flowers, silver hearts, long white bars, shreds and flakies, light blue hex, pastel pink squares, blue hex, and micro iridescent glitters in a clear base. For the swatches below I used two coats of Vintage Dress over the plain black, Essie Licorice. I thought this polish was so unique and delicate. I loved the look over black because you could really see every unique piece of glitter in the polish. I also did not dig for the larger glitters. Love this one!Blushing ElephantBlushing Elephant is a glitter topper with wild watermelon pink hexes, larger matte grey hexes, and black hexes in a clear base. I thought the glitter combination in this polish was really cute and funky. I like anything that's funky or a little bit different and I thought the name was really cute! For the swatches below, I used two coats of Blushing Elephant over OPI Mod About You. Cherry Bomb
Cherry Bomb is a glitter topper with micro red hexes, cherry red squares, large creamy yellow hexes, bright white hexes, and matte grey hexes. This polish was the only one I wasn't in love with out of all the glitters that I picked. I think a lighter base color like a cool grey might make all the difference and to be fair, red really isn't my kind of color. I'm pretty sure I ended up picking this one for its name but if you are a red glitter fan, I think this would be a hit. I used two coats of Cherry Bomb over Zoya Maria.Summer Citrus
Summer Citrus is a glitter topper filled with soft pink, bright yellow, pastel yellow, very pale pastel green, and medium orange glitter. Oh summer in a bottle...this is it! This polish reminded me of sherbert colors and I absolutely loved it. I used two coats of Summer Citrus over OPI A Roll in the Hague.Evening Rainbow
Evening Rainbow is a glitter topper with a mix of chunky and fine glitter in red, yellow, blue, lavender, and white. Oh man is this a pretty polish! My favorite thing about this polish was the tiny micro colored glitters, they seemed to just transform my base color. For the swatches below, I used two coats of Evening Rainbow over OPI Live and Let Die.Overall I was really pleased with my first experience with Beyond The Nail. I really loved the glitter combinations in each of the polishes and they seemed really well thought out and executed. Cherry Bomb was the only polish that I didn't love just based on my personal preference, but the rest I was thrilled with. My only negative would be the brush that came in the mini bottles. I thought the brush seemed a little small for the bottle, although I didn't have any application problems. Maybe that's just another personal preference.Beyond The Nail polish is created by two sisters located in Canada. Their polish is available through Etsy and you can find their shop here.
Hi everyone, welcome to Tuesday. Thank you to everyone who left me a nice birthday message, I really did appreciate it! I wasn't in the best of moods yesterday to be honest. I had a really bad skin reaction on my face (I think from a new face wash) and it has turned my face into a red rashy reptilian-looking mess. It's painful, looks disgusting, and won't go away. That kind of put of damper on things haha! I am back at work today and we had a snow storm overnight. Driving this morning scared me because the roads are icy but what can you really do.
Today our theme for Twinsie Tuesday was Seasonal Gradient. I had a little bit of a struggle with this one because I had so many ideas in my head. One afternoon I was driving home after work and the sky was the coolest color. It was mint and sky blue and the clouds were a deep purple and the rest were pink. I don't think I've ever seen a mint colored sky before, but it was really cool. That's where the inspiration from this mani came from :)To create this mani, I started with a base of Essie Absolutely Shore, which is a very pale mint color. For my gradient, I sponged on China Glaze Fancy Pants and then finished off with a piece of glitter on each nail from OPI I Snow You Love Me.Don't forget to check out the manis from these other fabulous ladies. Have a great day everyone!
