Neon Easter Eggs with Born Pretty Store Nail Art Supplies
- Sunday, July 13, 2014
- By Missy
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Pretty Jelly & Sticky Nails Maleficent Duo Review
- Monday, May 26, 2014
- By Missy
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Ok - I don't know about YOU, but I am SUPER excited for the new Malificent movie. I am a huge AJ fan as well as Maleficent. I always gravitate toward the bad guys in stories, and she was always the ultimate bad guy to me growing up...there was so much mystery surrounding that character, I'm very excited to see her story unfold.
The reason I bring this up is because today I have this great collab set from Sticky Nails and Pretty Jelly themed around Maleficent.
Le'ts go!
The reason I bring this up is because today I have this great collab set from Sticky Nails and Pretty Jelly themed around Maleficent.
Le'ts go!
BCA Pink Week - Day 1 - Joby Nail Art
- Sunday, October 13, 2013
- By Missy
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 | I'm embarking on a special challenge this week (3 actually, but this one is for a good cause) for Breast Cancer Awareness. I was invited to join up by Nory of Fierce Nails and Makeup and I had some time to devote to the cause! This will be a full 7 day week of pink mani's, each day with interesting information about BCA. |
 | OPI announces the launch of its seventh annual limited edition Pink of Hearts promotion, featuring the classic sheer pink shade Pink-ing of You and the new sparkle-packed hue More than a Glimmer. Pink of Hearts 2013 will also include pink ribbon and crystal decals (10 each) to embellish nails. |
 | OMG you guys! I have had so many setbacks this week it is a straight up miracle I have new posts! It started last friday with my endometriosis kicking in full throttle, then the minute that dissipated I came down with what can only be figured to be a gallbladder attack that is STILL hanging in there after 4 days. And now what? I HAVE A STY. OMG, shoot this old horse already. Today I have a a few gorgeous polishes to show you AS WELL AS some cool nail art deals you can buy and do yourself! If you are ready to be classy, come on! |
China Glaze - Goin' My Way?
Born Pretty Store - 3D Gold Stickers/Decals
Ruby White Tips - Hail to the Holo
Ruby White Tips - Jane's Lemming
Ruby White Tips - Math Sucks
Ruby White Tips - Side-Tracked
First up is a new Holographic Top Coat from Ruby White Tips - Hail to the Holo.
When I was chatting with Laura, the creator of RWT, she told me it was THE BEST holo ingredient she had ever come across. I am inclined to agree.
I'm showing you Hail to the Holo over China Glaze Goin' My Way, because quite honestly, I have been in dire obsession to get my hands on a chocolate brown holo. My look...is over! How awesome is this top coat??? I left the middle finger without so you could see how the top coat affects the base color, but if anything it only enhances it! She threw this in I think as not something to review but just to try out and see what I thought of it, and man, I need a big one now...
Oh chocolate rainbows, how do I love thee?!
The thing that most wowed me about this top coat is the fact that these are indoor pictures. Holo is usually rather shy under my lamp, but this one wanted me to feel its presence.
Here is the link to the listing for Hail to the Holo - because you need it NOOOOOW.
Next up we have Jane's Lemming - a really unique flash polish that has a neutral/nude base with blue/violet shimmer.
These are the types of polishes I die over. I'm not a huge "have to have all the holos!" or omg a duochrome! but give me a flashing shimmer polish that has a unique color combination and I WILL SWOON. This was just 2 coats and no top coat - super delightful formula.
I am so into doing some blue art or maybe some stamping over this one in the future - SO GORGEOUS!
Here we have Math Sucks. What a hilarious name! I always loved math in school....yes, its true, I have ALWAYS been a weirdo. Here we have a pinkish red jelly with dare-i-say STUNNING purplish/aqua shifting microglitters and even the occasional black glitter seems to pop up for a cup of tea. I don't know if it's accidental or on purpose but I love it! It makes it feel a little more fruity,
This was 3 coats with a top coat. The first layer goes on really sheer and you think to yourself...oh shit why didn't I layer this one? And then you're like, oh well, too late now, just go with it. And then you're like, man I'm glad I'm so smart.
Got a little nail line showing, but sometimes thats nice and sometimes some people like it. I can dig it on occasion, and this juiciness is that occasion! Great formula again! Gorgeous top notch shimmer and color palette!
Now I am also throwing in a bonus art I did using Math Sucks! I got these 3D gold decals from Born Pretty Store to review awhile back and I thought the contrast of a classy gold design over a fun jelly polish would be interesting. I kind of loved it. Alot.
Right?! I am OBSESSED with vintage wallpaper, flocking, damask, all of it...so I HAD to have these decals for these girly designs! But I mean you get a ton of stickers on that sheet, and its only $4.51!
These aren't water decals but actual stickers, that are kind of a big deal to get off the page but have such good adhesion that once you apply them, you get why it was a slight hassle. And they don't have those annoyingly ugly sticker edges either. Win.
If you like the stickers - you can use my discount code at Born Pretty Store to save 10% - it's MG10L91
And lastly - here is Side-Tracked - a cement grey base with purple shimmers - the sister to Jane's Lemming!
Another 2 coater here, great flow to this polish, gorgeous color you really have to see to appreciate!
Kind of like a covert spy - you think it's one thing but then it's quite simply something else entirely!
Laura is knocking fantastic polishes out of the park ALL THE TIME.
And she has got some great works in progress (i know of 2 spectacular ones coming VERY soon) - so make sure and check her shop out, and follow her, and all that internet stuff you do when you like a thing!
**some items in this post were sent to me for free by the company or their PR firm in exchange for my honest review**
Well it has been a hot minute since I did a tutorial!
So here is something I thought up in my crazy brain a week or so ago, and since I had some swatching to do and couldn't get to it right away, I decided to get it prepped and make it into a full on tutorial!
So what is a split splatter?
Essentially this manicure is consisting of 3 different nail art technique.
So here is something I thought up in my crazy brain a week or so ago, and since I had some swatching to do and couldn't get to it right away, I decided to get it prepped and make it into a full on tutorial!
So what is a split splatter?
Essentially this manicure is consisting of 3 different nail art technique.
- DIY Nail Decals - painting polish and designs onto a plastic or wax paper surface and peeling them off and re-sticking them to your nail.
- Splatter Manicures - splattering paint all over your nails like a Jackson Pollock painting.
- Tape Manicures - cutting tape into shapes and polishing the remaining space of nail to make a design
Seems complicated? Nope.
Lets get started!
THIS is what we are going after today:
This is a 3 Color Manicure with endless color combo possibilities. And trust me when I say, it really is so easy even a caveman can do it!
You will need 3 Polishes. Generally, 2 polishes and a black or white, but like I said, the possibilities are endless!
For this I have used two colors by Catrice - Miss Piggy Reloaded and Reggaeton. Try and choose colors that aren't Jelly's or lack opacity. When you splatter, you want those colors to pop.
Now the next step is easy but I did not photograph it. Get a piece of plastic that is somewhat thick, like a freezer bag thickness, or some wax/parchment paper. I used parchment paper.
Paint two stripes, about an inch wide (more depending on how long your nails are) and about 6 or 7 inches in length, one in each of your main colors (here, it would be the pink and brown). Paint each shade with a couple of coats, to make sure it is nice and opaque and also so it is easier to remove.
Now include your third/splatter color, and with all three of the bottles open you will begin splattering. For the brown patch of polish I took my pink and white and splattered by dipping a straw in the polish bottle and then blowing the color out onto the brown. Then I repeated this step with the brown and white polish over the pink patch.
Allow these to dry overnight or several hours. You have many coats piled up and it will take a good amount of time for this to try.
Once it is fully dry, peel it up from your surface to get this:
Here is a close up to see in comparison to my hand, how big I made my polish strip.
Next you will take each of these strips and cut them into vertical stripes, just wide enough to fit on half of your nail vertically, roughly 1/2 an inch.
Now, it's up to you if you want to have a color foundation on your nail when you start. I bypassed that as I figured these were opaque enough.
Whether you have a color on or not, allow it to dry and then you will need to use a top coat (or basecoat if you skipped the base color option). Paint one nail with top/base coat at a time. You don't need to allow dry time, once you apply that coat, take one strip (the pink) and apply it to your nail and move it til it's edge is in the center of your nail. Then take the other colored strip (the brown) and do the same, trying to get as close to the edge of the pink side, better to overlap it if needed than to leave a gap in it. Here are all 5 nails with the strips placed on them.
After you have gotten all nail strips applied, your next step is going to be to remove all of that excess polish.
What worked best for me was simply to pull down on the parts that went over my nail tip and rip em off! Then all of the parts that were around the cuticle - easy peasy! Just take your usual clean up brush dipped in acetone and sweep em away - its polish and it really is as easy as cleaning up your regular manicure.
Now is the time you want to make sure all of your seams are pushed down nice and good.
Now you may notice a few patches where maybe you removed to much of the polish decal during cleanup. No sweat - take any or all of your three polish colors and just go back in with the brush they come with and add some dots or sweeps over those bare spots! You can even dot or sweep over the seams to blend the splatters together some and hide any edges.
Now that everything is filled in and cleaned up and should at this point be fairly dry (if your fill in spots were thick, wait a good time for them to dry) - just add your top coat. If you have Gelous, I suggest using it just to spackle any seams up and then finish with a quick dry top coat. But if not, no worries! The seams add to the fact that this is also a tape manicure!
Hope you enjoyed!!!
Please feel free to leave questions in the comments section if any part of this seems confusing!
Teal Tuesdays - Funky French!
- Tuesday, August 28, 2012
- By Missy
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Typically, a funky french is a twist on the standard French Manicure. And it's pretty easy to twist it but still keep it "Frenchy".
I took this opportunity to try out some Flocked Leopard Black and Gold 'Fluffy' Nail Stickers that I received from KKCenterHk to review.
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| The stickers come packaged in a cute little blue and clear package with a ziplock tab at the top. You get 2 styles, oval and square/squoval, 10 of each style in varying sizes for pinky to thumb. Essentially - 1 sticker for each finger in 2 different styles. 2 full manicures worth. |
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| The stickers peel back easily but are thin, so be careful not to fold them under themselves and get them stuck. The adhesive on these SEEMS non-existent and doesn't feel sticky at all. But once they get on your nail, they are pretty immoveable! |
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| I used the stickers over a mani of Forever 21's Love & Beauty in Teal. A polish I recently acquired in a 3 pack of Blues through Copious for yet again, only a PENNY! |
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| The leopard nail stickers are a gold metallic fabric with a flocked black leopard print. Very 3D and wicked awesome. Because they are a fabric material, they do have spots where the polish below will show through. It is more apparent in these macro shots than it is in real life, but I like how they incorporate some of your polish shade into them. And the metallic gold is super blingy! |
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| The squoval shape is the one I did for these and it was the perfect shape for my nails. I would also like to add that no top coat was used on these. I simply applied them on top of polish that had about 15 minutes of dry time. |
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| As you can see in this side view of my nails, the stickers are pretty skinny. I would not suggest these for anyone with wide nail beds, but for mine they were nearly perfect. I didn't do a side cleanup with acetone as I normally would so you could see how they just slightly didn't reach the edges of my nails. But if I had done my cleanup they would have looked perfect! Of course again, as these are macro/close up pictures, the gap is much more obvious here than in real life! |
I was THOROUGHLY pleased with these nail stickers. They went on with ease and they stuck so well!
Seriously, after this dried, I tried really hard to peel them off and it was harder to get these off than my actual polish they were stuck to! But they came off with ease when I used some acetone on them.
They retail for $2.90 for the pack you see here - which will give you 2 full manicures if you use both shapes. You can also cut them to a different shape if need be or use them on a friend!
Make sure to check out all my other Teal lovin' ladies participating in Teal Tuesdays:
Rhonda Nail Polish Marbury - http://nailsbeautiqued.blogspot.com
Kirsten - http://geekyowl.blogspot.com
Amanda Murphy - http://mandyspolish.blogspot.com
Alyssa Botello - http://fancyphalanges.blogspot.com
ColorSplash Nails - http://colorsplashnails.blogspot.com
Simple-and-Beautiful - http://simple-and-beautiful.blogspot.com
Ana_Cherries Sweets http://cherriessweets.blogspot.com.es/
Ariane/The Frenzied Polisher http://thefrenziedpolisher.blogspot.sg
Caitlin - www.caitlinscreativecorner.com
Kia~LacqueredLibra - http://lacqueredlibra.blogspot.com/
Belén - http://nailpolishlane.blogspot.com/
Jess/Once Upon a Polish... - http://gafforama.blogspot.com
Jasmin/Subtletyisoverrated - http://subtletyisoverrated.wordpress.com/
Elysse/Elyssian Bauty - http://elyssianbeauty.blogspot.com/
Gisselle/Ms.Meow - http://msmeowsnails.blogspot.com/
Allison/ Love In A Bottle- https://www.facebook.com/lovethypolish?ref=hl
Arielle/Klutzy Hands Nail - http://nailsbyaklutz.blogspot.com/
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