The Lacquer Legion: Crisp

Hello everyone,

This month's prompt for the Lacquer Legion is "Crisp", which is the perfect word to describe what today feels like! I decided to try a fall manicure to go with this prompt: trees with orange and yellow leaves.

This manicure didn't go as I imagined it would (I'm still not the best at free-handing my nail art), but I think they still look like trees for the most part, haha. 

In order to complete this manicure, I started by painting my nails two coats of OPI's Alpine Snow. Once dry, I sponged on OPI's I Just Can't Cope-acabana and Where Did Suzi's Man-go? to create a tree-like effect. Then, using a thin nail-art brush, I painted on the tree trunk and branch shapes using OPI's I Sao Paulo Over There. When that dried, I applied top coat.

This is one of the most tree-like nails :)

What do you think? Thanks for stopping by!

Subtle Stamped Manicure

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Today's manicure is an elegant and subtle stamped palate cleanser. I love doing these in between seasons to get myself ready for the changes to come. I'm sad to start pulling away from the bright and happy colours of summer, but there's so many beautiful colours that I use a lot in fall and winter that are calling my name now too!

Blue and Silver Half Moon Manicure

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Sorry this week's post is a little late. I haven't been feeling the best since the weekend and I'm starting to feel more myself today. This week, I wanted to step away from stamping to try another technique that I'm not as familiar with: the half moon.

Experimenting with OPI's Glitter Off Base Coat Part 2: Results

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Throughout the life of this manicure, I carried on as I usually would doing day-to-day things. Today, I decided to give my car a thorough cleaning and shine. This was the first day that anything had changed with my manicure since I applied it on Monday.

I snapped a picture before washing my car, but when I went to upload it, it was all blurry :(. The wear had been great with minimal tip wear and no unwanted peeling so far! I took a picture after washing my car. Still looking good!

 Read more to see what happened next :)

Experimenting with OPI's Glitter Off Base Coat

Hello everyone,

Over the past two weeks I have collected a few new OPI polishes for my collection that I found on sale around the city :). This week I decided to try out my new white polish (OPI's Alpine Snow) and my new Glitter Off Base Coat.

Click below to see how this manicure was created!

How the Year has Flown!

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I cannot believe that on August 28th, 2014 it was my one year blogaversary! I didn't think it was so soon, let alone that I had missed it! I have some nail art to share with you today. It was my second attempt of the day: the first one really didn't turn out as planned and ended up coming off without so much as a picture to remember it by, haha. Here's the result of the second attempt:

Click below to see how this manicure was created :)