More Textured Half Moons

I have said it once, and I will say it again: Textured polishes are the best for half moon nail art! They are for the most part really thick which is what you need in a polish for doing half moons, plus the different textures make them look that much more awesome! This one isn't very winter-esque, but I don't care!

This is also the first time I have used a holo as the base color! Me likey.

Let's start off with the green nails: The holo is Color Club- Kismet (Halo Hues Collection 2013). Probably my favorite of the color club holographics, since it is green obviously. I used two coats, but you can get away with one thick coat if you want. The green textured polish is Kiko- Spring Green 643 (Sugar Mat Collection 2013). The first time I saw this polish was on My Polish Stash. I died. Kiko released a lot of amazing textured polish, but of course we American's can't get them that easily. Luckily my nail mail buddy had connections in Europe, and I got this beauty! It is amazing. I wish there were more green textures out there

The purple and pink nails: The holo base is Emily de Molly- Peer Pressure, I used two coats. I first show cased this polish here. Seriously the best pink out there! The textured purple is a polish I am really surprised I haven't heard much about. I don't even think I have seen it on any main stream blogger's blogs. The polish is OPI- My Current Crush (The Texture Effect LE Duo). This polish also came with a OPI base coat. I first saw this at ULTA and I am sure my jaw literally dropped. I wanted to get it since there were only 3 on the shelf, but I stopped myself and luckily when my boyfriend took me on my nail polish shopping spree, this was at my nail supply store! I actually didn't get that good of a deal since it is $10, and my shop had it for $9. Oh well

I hope you enjoyed these! And you will probably be seeing some more of these in the future :P

Tape Nail Art Using A England Holographics

I will probably never enjoy doing tape manicures, but the outcome really is awesome. It just takes too much time! I don't know what made me decide to do one, I think I just wanted to use all my A England's all at once. I think this brand was one of my first indies I ever owned. I got these way back when Llarowe was small and only carried Glitter Gal, A England, and a few other brands. I died when I saw Scrangie's swatches of these, she does these polishes much more justice than I ever will.

As you can see, I have been really into color blocking lately

The colors I used on my index and pinky are Ascalon (light purple), and Tristam (dark blue). Ascalon is the only one out of all of these that isn't a one coater, but a duchrome holo polish? MINE.

The light green used on my middle and ring finger is Dragon, and the dark green is Saint George. I think Saint George is the most popular of all there shades. It is pretty much never in stock unless there is a restock. But oh my gosh, I just looked on Llarowe, and all of these colors are in stock! Go get you some!

My Thanksgiving Day Nails

I really had no time to do something fun on my nails for thanksgiving, what's new. Plus, I had class the day before Thanksgiving, what's up with that?! So, I finally got around to using this polish I have had a for a really long time since it is very Thanksgiving appropriate. Paired with one of the new China Glaze Halloween shades from this year.

The black shade is China Glaze- Bat My Eyes (Monster's Ball Collection Halloween 2013). I used two coats. It is a black base packed with small and micro gold glitters, and there are also orange bar glitters in it too. Those don't show up on the nail too much, but I am okay with that since I am not the biggest fan of bar glitters! You can probably still get your hands on this in ULTA or Sally's!

The beautiful brown shade (never did I think I would say "beautiful brown shade"), is China Glaze- Mahoganie (Specialty Glitters Collection). My nail supply store has pretty much all of the specialty glitters, and this one really stood out to me because of the unique shade, and the awesome holographic glitters in it! This is also two coats, and unfortunately hard to find.

Long time no see...AGAIN

I really just have the same excuse for not posting, school.....I am wrapping up finals this week, then I am going to try and do as many Christmas nails as possible! I am definitely going to recreate my South park nails too! I will actually have some more time to do my nails next quarter anyways since this quarter of my program is the "lightest" one. We will see...

Anyways, here are two manicures I did a long time ago. I have more photos to edit, so the next posts won't be too Christmasy, but the ones to follow will be! I am already rocking some awesome Christmas glitters as we speak.

Nubar- Lime Green Glitter

Yes, that is actually the name. I have been eying this polish for so long, but since my nail supply always had it, I just kept putting it off. My boyfriend took me to my nail shop to go shopping for my birthday, so I took that as an opportunity to get all the polishes I have been wanting for while. This polish is so freakin amazing! It is two coats of just straight up lime green glitter. I got it to be super shiny by using Gelous base coat first, then adding my Poshe fast drying top coat. My only complaint is that it is a pain in the but to photograph. I really need to invest in a tripod so my pictures don't come out so blurry, or my camera just can't handle awesome glitters like this....

Onto the next:

Total opposite from the pictures I just showed you.

I got two of these polishes from my nail mail buddy on Instagram, and she hooked it up with the entire China Glaze Halloween collection, plus this amazing nude! The nude shade on my two middle fingers is Zoya- Kennedy (Feel Collection Winter 2011). I used two coats, seriously a flawless polish. Zoya does cremes like no other. The grey color on my index and pinky is OPI- Berlin There Done That (Germany Collection Fall 2012). Two coats of another amazing creme.

Then I added China Glaze- Boo-gie Down (Monster's Ball Collection Halloween 2013). Another indie-esque polish from a mainstream brand! They made up for that one black and white polish they released with their Cirque de Soilel Collection....This is one coat of awesome glitter bomb heaven!

That is all I have for today...I will probably edit my photos and post on Friday since that is my last final!

Simple Swatch and Ombre

Here is what I have been wearing on my nails the last 5 days:

And some pictures in sunlight with the bottle:

Pretty awesome, huh?

The glitter I used is Cirque- Electric Circus (Arcus Collection 2013) This glitter is mainly green, blue, and red large, medium, and small hexagonal glitters. It reminds me a lot of the glitters inside Emily de Molly- Soon, only Electric Circus is jam packed with glitter, I have just one coat shown here. No dabbing required at all!

On to the colors I used underneath, starting from thumb to pinky: Jessica- Lime Cooler (Gelato Mio Collection Spring 2012), Illimasqua- Radium, Illimasqua- Nomad, Jessica- True Blue (It's A Girl Thing Collection Spring 2013), and Inglot Breathable Nail Enamel - No 669. All five were just 2 coats.

Here are two more pictures in more cloudy lighting. I took these pictures at different times of the day...

Holographic Chevron Tips

The last time I did nail art like this, I called it fish tail french tips, but I guess it is more of a chevron french tip. I can't remember where I first saw this design, so I am by no means taking credit for the idea... Anyways, here it is:

Droooool

I have to start busting out all my holos out while the sun is still out before it gets all gloomy every day!

I started out with 2 coats of Cirque- Chyrsopoeia (Alchemy Collection Fall 2013). Seriously the most amazing goldish yellow holographic polish! I have been wanting a yellow holo, but there never seemed to be one...until this, and Jade also has one, but according to the review it is a little more green. I still want it!!!

After that dried, I started with the lighter color of the chevron, which is Jade- Uau!. A true orange, which you don't see very often! Too bad you can barely see it in the photos. Lastly, the green I used is Nubar- Reclaim (Going Green Collection 2009). Any green holo will have a special place in my heart. I was originally going to use the green holo from Cirque, but it wasn't very opaque with just one coat, and Reclaim is opaque like nobody's business!

I hope you enjoyed these!

Super Exciting Post!

Well I finally had a chance to do my nails on Wednesday after having nothing on them for like 4 days! And this polish made me feel so much better since it is a custom polish made just for me :)

Trelly's MISC Polish- Jennibertt

I contancted Cassie, the maker of Trelly polish, to talk about making a custom. I basically told her what I wanted in a polish, and she went mixing away and made the perfect Jennibertt polish!

Obviously I had the base be a Jennifer green, and she came up with the perfect shade! And I asked for purple, pink, and blue glitters in small, medium, and large circles and squares. It is so pretty :) She mainly mixed large blue circles, large purple and pink squares, medium pink squares, and tiny little blue and pink microglitters in there. What I love the most is that there is no way of NOT getting a lot of glitter on the nail. I tried applying a thin coat of mainly the color for my first coat, but no matter what there was glitter on the brush! So amazing!

I used two coats here. You can contact Cassie for her to whip you up a custom polish, I highly recommend it. While your'e at it, buy some stuff off her site