neon tiger stripes

Hi!
Today I have a mani inspired by MacBarbie07's video! She's a great youtuber, if you haven't seen her beauty videos, you should go check them out! So I tried to do it how she did it, with the hand drawn stripes, but I'm really not good with that so I decided to do some konading! This is konad plate m67 and China Glaze Heli-Yum, Flip Flop Fantasy, and Pink Voltage with Sally Hansen Insta Dri Top Coat (all pictured below)





What do you think? I will put a better picture up tomorrow with sun!
Thanks for reading :)
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dot crazy

Okay so I finally decided to use the dotting tool I had sitting around (I actually have 5 because that's how they were selling them on eBay for like $1!) so I used one and this is what I came up with - multicolored dots!!!!

For this mani I used Sally Hansen Insta- Dri Whirlwind White as a base (after I used OPI natural base coat) and dotted with Joe Fresh Fuchsia, Powder Blue, Coral, China Glaze For Audrey, Four Leaf Clover, OPI Mod About You, and American Apparel Peacock. Topped off with one coat of Seche Vite.

Here is a picture of everything I used:

I'm pretty sure you can figure out which bottle is which!

I love using Sally Hansen Insta-Dri White as my base for things because it dries so fast and it's just a base so I don't have to worry about it being perfect! As for the rest of the colors, they all applied really well, and it was a lot easier than I thought it would be! I just put a dab of polish on a piece of paper and then used the dotting tool!

I got a lot of compliments while wearing this people were like "WOW DID YOU DO THAT YOURSELF?!" they loved the left hand, good thing they didn't see the mess that was my right hand! Man I wish I was ambidextrous!!!

Today we packed up all my winter clothes, and then we will do everything else next week! Hope you guys stick along to experience my journey living in residence!

Have a great day, thanks for reading!!!!!!

MAJOR haulage + bad luck

OKAY! so today my transdesign order came in + I did some shopping in the morning and bought some goodies (which starting now I'm on a NO POLISH BUY until I move and then of course I will have to hit up Sally's so until September 2nd I'm not allowed to buy any polish, which I'm totally okay with since my containers are filling up)
Today I bought some Milani polishes from Loblaws they don't have limited edition so I only got simple ones! I also got 3 polishes from my friend who went to Isreal (however only two survived - story later). And I bought my first (and probably last) Deborah Lippman polish Bad Romance! (How much of a follower am I!) They did have Chanel's Paradoxal in the store I went to, but the Deborah Lippman polish did enough damage to my bank account so I decided to pass! I can survive without it!
Here are all the pics:

Orly (L to R) Royal Navy, Out Of This World, It's Not Rocket Science, Lunar Eclipse, Charged Up, Purple Pleather

Milani (L to R) Pool Party, Totally Cool, Bolting Blue

Unnamed Isreali Polishes (anyone know what brand this is?) The pink one fell RIGHT after I took this picture! NO MORE PINK :(

OPI Lucerne-taily Look Marvelous, CG Heli-Yum, Deborah Lippman Bad Romance

The bad luck was that when I went to pick up my Joe Fresh polishes for my swap and the Milani polishes, my car battery decided to die! Thank god our car fixer people were right across the street! I called my mom and I was like "MOM I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO" major freak out there, but everything got fixed up! That was the first time anything like that happened to me! But I think I handled my self well! :)

Thanks for reading!

-Smita

China Glaze Flying Dragon

Okay, so I got this polish in my first swap, it was huge lemming (so thank you Karen!)
Flying Dragon is a purple neon polish with blue, pink, and purple micro glitter! This gives a bumpy effect and since it's a neon it's a dries matte! I didn't put a top coat on because I like the matte effect! You could put a matte top coat on for a longer wear.

Here is a bottle picture (click!):


A big thank you to all of you who have entered my giveaway! There are already over 40 entries, and I have about 20 new followers and it's only been one day! I might end the giveaway earlier than Sept 15, I just am not sure when I am going to be settled in at my new home!

Today I got a manicure to celebrate being done work! (yesterday was my last day!) I got Orly Grape Crush, pictures to come another day!!

transdesign haul!!!

Alright so the package arrived MUCH faster than I had anticipated, so a big thanks to transdesign! I ordered 8 polishes sometime last week, and they decided to arrive today! I couldn't have been more excited, so I started ripping open the box (which I must add took me about 10 minutes to open because of the wonderfully tight packaging!)

I thought this boxes were amazing! I am going to keep them and reuse them!

from L to R: Orly Viridian Vinyl, OPI Ski Teal We Drop, Diva of Geneva, William Tell Me About OPI, China Glaze Four Leaf Clover, Flip Flop Fantasy, Pool Party, Lemon Fizz

+ Viridian Vinyl which I am going to show you tomorrow! I am so excited to finally have one of the Orly Plastix and this is my 2nd ever Orly polish!

Hope you enjoyed the nail polish, now on to a little bit of non-nail related stuff!

Do any of you get bad allergies in the summer? I am allergic to ragweed, it's awful :( It started this week, and today has been the worst day. So much sneezing and watery eyes and runny nose. My throat is also very sore, perhaps unrelated to the allergies but I read somewhere that it may be a symptom. What do you find works best to treat allergies? I just took some Reactine (non drowsy of course) so let's hope that works!

Thanks for reading :) I'm almost at 80 followers, which means I'm almost at 100! The giveaway will probably be sometime in September once I'm all settled in :)

Almost the weekend!

ps: so you think you can dance finale this week!

ANYONE WANNA FILL MY BIGGEST LEMMING AND BUY SALLY HANSEN HIDDEN TREASURE FOR ME? I'LL SEND YOU SOMETHING!!!

neon skittles mani + rihanna + new joe fresh

HEY!
okay, so 3 concerts in a week! crazy girl I know! But so much fun! So for the Rihanna + Ke$ha concert, I sported this rocking bright skittles mani!

CG Pink Voltage, Color Club Orange Revenge, CG Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, CG In The Limelight, CG Towel Boy Toy, One coat of Seche Vite Top Coat

Also for those of you interested, here are the fall 2010 Joe Fresh polishes! Kinda hard to see but hopefully they are released soon! Which ones are you liking? Swap anyone?

ps: over 1000 hits! (mostly from me probably) and 69 followers (bahahah) not too far from 100! get ready for a fun giveaway!

sorry for the quick post, I have to go to work!

Thanks for reading :)

China Glaze Grape Pop has been a lemming (did you know a lemming is a small rodent?) of mine ever since I saw it. When I heard it was the same as funkey dunkey, I decided to choose China Glaze over OPI (It was cheaper!). As many of you have said, Grape Pop is your favourite purple, I must agree!
One of the great things about this polish, besides the application, is the fact that it looks so different in different lights. I tried to capture the different shades, hopefully you see it! Last night I was at a friends house, and it was thundering, and my polish looked almost black like OPI Siberian Nights.

Today I did a konad with m64 and GOSH Gold, it is a very subtle konadicure, but I love it! (On the thumb I used OPI Do You Liliac It? But it was too light for my liking so I switched to the gold). Konading GOSH was actually a lot easier than I was expecting! I'll be using the gold to konad a lot more!


ps: I WON THE MAD AS A HATTER AUCTION! pictures to come later, it's quite a bundle! The seller just needs to figure out how much shipping to Canada will be, and then I will make an official post :)

uh oh.. another blue polish??

Yesterday, I received a long awaited gift (well I ordered it last Monday!)
China Glaze Grape Pop, Towel Boy Toy, and Matte Magic! No one told me Matte Magic was so tiny, but that's okay I love matte polish!


So as we all know, I'm a sucker for blues! So I had to try it out! I know it's not new and everyone owns it but I LOVE IT! I'm sure I have similar blues, but this is so nice! it looks great matte and shiny! It's about 3-4 coats for complete opaqueness but totally worth it! Here are my pics




Here it looks kinda matte to give you an idea (this was with top coat seche vite!)


Today I took off towel boy toy and put on Grape Pop! I also got a pedicure, I get bad in-growns and I have had surgery twice, but nothing seems to work! It was CND China Rose, with a coat of this sparkly stuff she had (unnamed) Hope you don't think my feet are gross! I think I have pretty nice feet compared to some people! I see a lot of feet at the pool hahaha


I hope everyone had a great day !
I'm bidding on ebay for OPI Mad As A Hatter, wish me luck!!

ps: giveaway at 100 followers (unless I'm moving that time) !! FOLLOW ME!

my new favourite polish!

Okay, so I know that this polish is not super new anymore, and that so many people have already written about it, but hey now it's my turn!

When someone would ask what my favourite polish was I would always say OPI No Room For The Blues. Then I decided to order this from Amazon, and BAM! new favourite polish!!!!!!

OGRE-THE-TOP BLUE!!

It's pretty much the same colour as my Blackberry cover thingy, so I had to take a picture!!
The actual colour of Ogre-The-Top Blue is very hard to capture!! I googled it, and it seemed like everybody has a different shade of blue in their pictures. But I love it SO much, I wore it and could not stop staring at my nails!

So of course I couldn't live with just plain blue nails! So.... BAM! China Glaze Fairy Dust!

Indoors

Intentionally blurry! So sparkly!

Outside! (check out my moms flowers in the background!)

I LOVE this polish SO freaking much!! I just took it off this morning, and I actually wore it to the concert (which was amazing btw, picture to follow).

What is your ALL time favourite polish? Just pick one!!!!!!

We should make like a list of MUST-HAVE polishes! This one is on that list FOR SURE (for all you blue lovers out there)

Where is the LOVE?
Black Eyed Peas July 31, 2010, Bell Center, Montreal

houndstooth konadicure

check this out!
this is China Glaze Pink Voltage + Konad plate m63 with konad special polish black

Image from www.konadnail.com

This is probably my favourite pattern from the plates! I love the look!
The colour was a lot brighter in real life and I'm sad that I had to take it off, I couldn't stop looking at it!!!!

I'm stuck at 29 followers, if you post new nail blogs on your blog, be sure to add mine so I can increase my followers!!!

Have a great day!!

ps: I'm going to see Black Eyed Peas on Saturday, any nail art ideas???

for audrey konad

I've been wanting to use this Konad plate for a while now, but I wasn't sure how it would look since it is such a delicate pattern. I was quite pleased with how this turned out! It's very elegant and would work perfectly for a wedding!
So I used the rose design from this plate:

Image from www.konadusa.com

This is Konad plate M65 stamped with Konad special polish (white) + China Glaze For Audrey

Excuse the lack of clean up.
This was topped off with my new favourite thing in the whole world - SECHE VITE!!!!!!! :)

Thanks for reading!!

It's almost the weekend! yay

ps: did anyone catch the new episode of So You Think You Can Dance? Lauren has always been my favourite! Good luck to her!!!!

i'm back! + polish haul

I'm still alive and back with LOTS of new polish! My trip to Toronto was great, my mom and I helped my aunt fix up her apartment and reorganize and buy new stuff! I also went shopping and got some awesome stuff! Mostly nail related too :)
So here are pictures of everything I got and swatches and konads to come :)
I also had ordered 4 things which all were waiting for me when I arrived! 4 polishes from amazon - three Essie, one OPI, Konad special polishes black, white, and blue, orange sticks, and finally a China Glaze polish.
I now own NINE China Glaze polishes - finally!! (there are more that I want so I want to order them today!)
So here is a list of everything I got, as well as pictures!
Essie Lapis of Luxury, Essie Mint Candy Apple, Essie Splash of Grenadine, Konad special polishes blue, white, black, OPI In My Back Pocket, OPI Gargantuan Green Grape, OPI Blue My Mind, OPI Ogre-The-Top Blue, China Glaze Shower Together, China Glaze White On White, China Glaze, Custom Kicks, China Glaze For Audrey, China Glaze Rose Among Thorns (neon), China Glaze Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, China Glaze In The Limelight (neon), China Glaze Pink Voltage (neon), China Glaze Fairy Dust, and Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Here is everything!!!

From L to R: Custom Kicks, For Audrey, White On White, Shower Together, Yellow Polka Dot Bikini (reduced price!), Pink Voltage, Rose Among Thorns, In The Limelight, Fairy Dust

From L to R: Lapis of Luxury, Splash of Grenadine, Mint Candy Apple

From L to R: Ogre-The-Top Blue, Gargantuan Green Grape (from Winners!), In My Back Pocket, Blue My Mind
Konad Special polishes white, blue, black

So I got A LOT of good stuff, I was hoping to buy the entire China Glaze Poolside Collection, but only ended up with ONE! :( so sad!! I think I might order the Blue from that collection, Towel Boy Toy, as well as Matte Magic and Grape Pop!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

More tomorrow! :)