Ruffian Manicure featuring Sally Hansen Insta-Dri

Hi!
Today I used 3 different insta-dri polishes to create this look. I used loose leaf reinforcements, or hole protecters to create this affect. If you want a step-by-step guide, I can show you next time, because I will definitely be doing more manis like this! :)

Excuse the blurriness! :)

What I used: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Polishes in Sea Breeze as a base, followed by Night Flight, and then the clear top coat! :)

What do you think? What is your favourite colour combination for these types of manicures?

Thanks for reading! :)

Essie Lapis of Luxury

I'm sure have all seen this colour before! But I hadn't worn it for a while and decided to put it on after my vacation (where I had bare nails!!!) This is Essie's Lapis of Luxury, about 3 coats, no top coat!


What do you think? Do you like this colour?
I NEED YOU'RE HELP! I have to take this off today for a more 'work appropriate manicure' ANY IDEAS?! :D

Thanks for reading! Happy Sunday!

Milani Bolting Blue

Hi! Today I have Milani Bolting Blue! I'm sure this is not a unique colour, and that there are many dupes! I actually gave this one away to one of my friends!

Do you like milani polishes? What's your favourite blue polish?

Pastel Water Marble

Hi lovely readers, today I have a water marble for you!

I used Sally Hansen Instra Dri White as a base, and then marbled OPI No Room for the Blues, OPI Do You Lilac it? and China Glaze White on White

What I used:

Thanks for reading!

What do you think about water marbling? What are your favourite colours to water marble with?

ps: possible giveaway at 300 subs! After I get back from DC though!

blue konad

UPDATED!
Wow, I'm posting again today! Shows you how much I keep procrastinating..
Here is a I Vant To Be A-Lone Star from the OPI Texas Collection, with blue konad m72




In real life the blue stamping brings out the blue in the OPI polish, but without the stamping it looks more gray!

Sorry for the bad lighting but you get the idea!
I added some new pictures, because today it's sunny so I stuck my hand outside my window!

What do you think?

What are some new collections to look forward to?

Mood Struck

I HAVE 200 followers!! thank you guys so much, and keep joining my giveaway you have 15 more days!

Okay, so this is the second last day before I leave so probably my 2nd last post until I am settled in, so please stick with me! Today I have 2 polishes from my my first swap, these are Mood Struck polishes. They are similar to the Claire's mood polishes (I think, I don't own those) and they change color with heat and coldness. I have 2 out of the 4 polishes that I got, the blue and the pink. I loved both and it was fun watching them change color!!

No top coat, because I like the matte finish as we all know!


I couldn't get a good picture of the pink one changing color, but it just goes darker and outside it looks so bright! I love both of these they are so much fun!

They don't have names but they are available at Meijer in the United States.

Do you like mood changing polishes?

ps: for my post tomorrow I have something very, very, VERY special and SUPER awesome :D (I broke my no buy, but for a great reason)

STILL LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO DO A EUROPEAN SWAP WITH ME! GOSH HOLOGRAPHIC, CATRICE, H&M, AND MODELS OWN

Maybelline Matte Blue

Okay, so I decided to wear this polish for when my family and I went to dinner on Friday night. It looks really nice, and I LOVE the finish, so I wore it for about 30 minutes. What's the problem you may ask? Here look at the pictures first, then I will tell you the problem!

Maybelline Matte Blue:
Okay, so what was wrong? THIS POLISH SMELLED LIKE NO OTHER! Man, I can't even like explain what it smelled like because I've never smelt anything like that before! Everytime I would bring my hand close to my face I could smell it!

Oh well no harm done, not all polish is perfect - I still love the color though! So I took it off and put on Nfu-Oh 65 blue holoness for dinner :)

Hope you guys had a great weekend!
Thanks for reading :)

Do you have any polishes that smell really bad when you wear them??

ps: yesterday we bought LOST Season 6 on DVD - it's so pretty!!!!!!!!

nfu-oh 65 - what a beaut!

Beaut = beauty, for those of you who didn't get that! Here is my first Blue Holographic polish and I only have one word for you (besides beaut) AMAZING! what is this! nfu-oh you out did yourself! how did they create such an amazingly perfect holographic nail polish? this is a MUST HAVE for sure if you love blue and you love holos!

Application was amazing, you can tell that this polish is pretty high quality! Drying time was quick and holographicness was SICK!

here is a picture with no Holoness, it is a nice sky blue!

Clearly, I was mesmerized and couldn't stop taking pictures!

Hope you like this as much as I do!
Almost the weekend!

Today my friend and I made coconut macaroons - DELISH!

Thanks for reading!

Joe Fresh Fuchsia and Powder Blue

So here are swatches from my previous haul, Joe Fresh Fuchsia and Powder Blue, pretty self explanatory! The colors are nice (I love powder blue, and Fuchsia is not super unique but nice). The application was great just as all Joe Fresh polishes are!
These pictures have no top coat




Unfortunately I am not sure how the wear on these are since I have only done swatches but I think I will put on Powder Blue today cuz I love it so much!

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

Essie Resort Collection

HEY!
so the first polishes I tested from my haul were the Essie polishes, they are 3 lovely shades of purple, blue and green, and I am in LOVE with them all!!! I'm not really a fan of doing swatches, probably because I am not super good at them yet!

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

This applied very nicely, in about 3-4 coats, it was pretty thin, as you can see on the pinky, I got a bit lazy and did not do enough coats!

The purple is such a nice colour, I can't think of any polishes that I have that could be compared (although my collection is quite limited compared to some of yours!) so if you know any polish that is similar let me know! This one had the best application out of the 3 for me! Excuse the blue polish on the ring finger! :)

This one was my FAVOURITE, that is until I put it on! I wanted to show you how gloppy it was, that is why I didn't fix the first two fingers, I feel like polish shouldn't do that! It should be easy application! Love the colour though! I'm gonna work on fixing this one, I probably should do thinner coats!!

Hope you liked them! Do you have any from this collection? "The Resort Collection"? Which ones are your favourite?

Hope you had a great Tuesday!

Thanks for reading !!!!! :)