Blurple Mani with Flakie and Stripes

Hello all,

I recently picked up a polish from L'Oreal's The Magic Top Coat colletion: The Holographic. This top coat fits the definition of a flakie rather than a holographic, but it's still really pretty. I have seen this top coat on top of black a lot, but I wanted to try it on something a little different.

This is two coats of the top coat over two coats of China Glaze's Bizarre Blurple. For the accent nail, I applied two coats of Essie's No Place Like Chrome and then decided to try a diagonal stripe design using striping tape. After I applied the tape, I painted one thick coat of the Bizarre Blurple and removed the tape, which I found to be difficult because my tweezers were not cooperating. I'm going to have to work on my technique for striping tape for sure, haha.

Here's a better picture of the sparkly particles of the top coat :). I really like the look over this dark blue/purple polish. There's just one drawback to the flakie top coat, it's not flat on the nail, so you need to add a thick layer of top coat over it to seal it in, which takes a long time to dry. It was worth the wait though!

What do you think? Thanks for stopping by!

Coral Peacock Nails

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This week I wanted to try out my ORLY Luxe as a stamp over other colours, so I decided on my favourite coral: OPI's I Eat Mainely Lobster.

For this look, I painted each nail two coats of OPI's I Eat Mainely Lobster and then stamped the peacock feather image from Nailz Craze's plate NC 01 with Luxe.

I think this is a very pretty yet subtle manicure, but I am getting bored very quickly with it, haha. It's getting closer to that wonderful time of the year when Christmas manicures begin to show up and I can't wait :). I'm gonna have to do some experimenting soon. Keep in touch to see what I come up with!

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Fall Nails

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I recently picked up OPI's San Tan-Tonio and decided to see how it looked with a gold stamp over it. I looked through my plates and decided on the leafy/feathery design from BM 210 and used ORLY's Luxe as the stamping polish.

I really like this design, but I was tempted to see how it would look mattified, so here's that look too:

It kind of made the stamp more subtle, which I like as well. I really need to try both of these polishes more often, haha.

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My Halloween Nails

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This has been a very hectic week and I haven't been able to post until today. For this manicure I wanted to try out my Bundle Monster plates' Halloween images, as I haven't tried them before :)

First, I painted my nails alternating between Essie's No Place Like Chrome and Wet n Wild's Black Cream. 

Then I stamped the Halloween images from these plates: BM 209, 211, 213, 222, and 225. 

Stamping polishes used: Konad's Special White and Black Pearl, and an unnamed orange polish. 

What do you think? I hope you all had a happy Halloween :)

Breast Cancer Awareness Month Week #4

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For the final Friday post (which is now on Saturday due to a delay) of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I decided to do a pink manicure involving lots of techniques, using heart glitter, glitter polish, stamping, dotting, and rhinestones.

For this manicure I painted each finger a different shade of pink. Thumb: Wet n' Wild's Pink Cream with pink rhinestones, index: Nicole by OPI's It's a-May-zing and pink heart glitters, middle: OPI's And This Little Piggy, ring: Wet n' Wild's White Cream stamped with an unnamed pink stamping polish and filled in with a hot pink nail art pen, pinky: OPI's I Eat Mainely Lobster and dotted with Wet n' Wild's Pink Cream. 

Breast Cancer Awareness Month Week #3

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For this manicure, I couldn't choose which pink polish to use, so I decided to create a pink gradient with 3 different polishes: OPI's Italian Love Affair, Sinful Colors' Soul Mate, and OPI's I Eat Mainely Lobster. After creating the gradient, I stamped the butterfly wing design from Nailz Craze plate NC 01 using Konad's Black Pearl polish and added white dots using Wet n Wild's White Cream polish.

I love how this manicure turned out!

I have gotten lots of questions about this manicure, so it has been easy to spread the word as to why I am wearing these pink manicures.

Don't forget to wear pink!

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month Week #2

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Keeping with the pink manicures for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this is my creation for week 2 which I'm calling a "Frosty" manicure. I was inspired by The Polish Aholic's Ombre Waterfall nails design.

For this manicure, I painted my nails two coats of OPI's Italian Love Affair and then painted lines coming from my cuticles to the middle of my nails using my silver glitter striper from Kiss. I let this dry and then added a coat of top coat for some extra shine :). 

I really like the idea of showing support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month and helping raise awareness through pink manicures. What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by!