Showing posts with label Nicole. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nicole. Show all posts

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Selena Gomez for NOPI....and a milestone!

I posted a few days ago from my phone not realizing that it was my 100th post!  That crappy little post I did doesn't deserve to be my big 100th so we are going to pretend it never happened and celebrate today.  (No comments from the peanut gallery)

I will be posting twice today, first with some of the new Selena Gomez for NOPI Collection and later with some favorites and resolutions!

Today we will take a look at 4 pretty little ladies....

Hit the Lights:


 
 

 
 

 
 
 
Ahhh, a bright saturated yellow, sign me up!  Of course this one was a little finicky, it's yellow after all.  But overall it was pretty darn good.  There was a little pulling and streaking but that is to be expected.  3 careful coats and we were all good!  I love this color with my skin tone!  I have to be careful of yellow with my olive complexion but this is definitely one I will be grabbing come summer time!  This little beauty also will be great for nail art!  I can easily say I don't have another color like this in my enormous collection, and that is saying something!
 
Above pics are 3 coats, no topcoat. 
 
 

Pretty in Plum:

 
 

 
 

 
 
Ok, before I say anything, let me just get this out in the open....this gorgeous sexy mama is a 1 coater, yes a 1 coater.  I used 2 but I really didn't need to and now I wish I wouldn't have.  I was just so enamored with this color, and the formula was so perfect that I wanted to keep playing with it.
 
I'm a sucker for a deep sexy plum color like this.  I love the way it looks with my skin tone and I love how easily this polish applied.  Definitely a favorite of this collection!
 
2 thin coats no topcoat.  As I said, you could easily get away with 1 coat.
 
 

Love Song:


 
 

 
 
 
Love song is a creamy easy purple that went on like buttah baby!  I was disappointed at the lack of shimmer once the polish is on the nail.  What is seen in the bottle definitely does not translate to the nail.  This one reminded me of a mix between Essie Play Date and Sation Tardy Tart. 
 
I'm not jumping for joy over this one, just your basic pretty purple polish.  Above pics are 2 coats, no topcoat.
 
 

Selena:

 
 


 
 

 
 

 
Finally, we have a mama slapper.  After I slapped my mammy into next week, I did a backflip and stuck the mother lovin landing!  I LOVE THIS COLOR!!  The formula on this one was really good, there was a tiny bit of pulling but nothing that I couldn't fix with a 3rd coat.  Creamy, saturated, bright, yes, yes, where do I sign up for more of these babies??
 
 
Easily my favorite of the bunch.  3 coats, no topcoat.
 
 
I was so thrilled with Selena that I couldn't bear to take her off without first doing a little nail art.  After all this swatching, I was dying to pull out some tape, a dotter, anything, please just let me do some nail art!!!
 


 
 

 
 

 
 
Isn't this just adorable?  I was pleasantly surprised how well this turned out. 
 
After topcoating Selena with Seche Vite, I added a little striping tape.  Love Song was my choice for 2nd polish and she served me well.  I was a little worried how well she would cover, but I had absolutely no issues.
 
And yes, I did slap a mama after this one....my mother was already laid up from the Selena incident so I just picked a random to abuse.  I feel much better now!
 
 
There you have it kids, the beginning and probably my favorites of this collection.  I will have the rest for you in the coming days, along with the new Modern Family Collection and the Mariah Carey for OPI Line.  Wow, the polish Gods have been busy lately!
 
I'm pretty darn proud of myself for making it to 100 posts!  In my extremely busy life, finding the time to blog shows me just how much I love doing it and just how much it means to me.  It may just be nail polish to some, but this whole experience has been so much more for me.  I have said it before but I am in such an elite class of women and I am so happy to be sharing this ride with them all!
 
Watch for my Top 20 polishes of 2012 coming up later!
 
 


Sunday, August 5, 2012

Flower Nail Art

Hi loves, how is everyone today? I am looking forward to another day of swatching and hopefully some new nail art.

So when I was shopping the other day I told you guys I got some new backgrounds for my photographs. As soon as I saw this one I said to myself, "I could do that on my nails". And indeed I did, and it turned out pretty sweet. So first... here is my inspiration...



How cute is that, right? I love brown and blue together. So here's the finished product....


The good ol' upside down hand.


I'm working on some new poses for my hand, I'm getting tired of the same old same old. This one looks a little freaky but work with me people. For this baby I used Essie Mink Muffs, Nicole My Lifesaver, China Glaze White on White, and Essie Sand Tropez. 

For the flowers I just used a small dotter and made 5 dots in almost a circle form. They were a little more "jaggy" (my word of the day) to make the petals. This was so easy to do.  Here's one more pic that shows off how cute they look together. I just love when a design turns out better than you thought it would. Hope you guys like it as much as I do. Enjoy your (hopefully) lazy Sunday.



Saturday, August 4, 2012

Nicole My Lifesaver and Zoya Shelby

I know I said I was going to show you guys the new China Glaze Boho Collection but my swatches the other night were not the greatest so I'm going to try again today in the sunshine. (My photography skills are quite suspect, if I do say so myself).  So today I have a fun little mani to show you all.  I was shopping yesterday and picked up a few new colors so I thought I'd try one of them out. Here's a look at the newest additions....


I'll list my purchases at the end of this post





So for this one I decided to try Nicole My Lifesaver and I threw in a little Zoya Shelby  just for kicks and giggles. I mean, c'mon, when is Zoya Shelby not welcome at the party?  







My cuticles have seen better days, I know but I'm working on it. I'm using my Burt's Bees Lemon Butter like its going out of style. If anyone has a magic trick, please share with me! 

Yesterday in my travels, I picked up some new background papers to use in my photo's. You can see the one here in this last pic. Isn't it just so sweet?



Enjoy your weekend kids.....I'm settling in for some swatching, my cuticles should love me for this one!


Polishes shown above (In Order)

Orly Preamp
OPI Do you Lilac It
Essie Miss Fancy Pants
Essie Chubby Cheeks
Pixi Luminous Lilac
Butte London The Black Knight
Nicole 2 pack- Hint of Mint
                     My Lifesaver