Belated Valentine's Day Mani: Drag Marble

This is my first attempted drag marble attempt that I copied from Colette. She is so talented!

I used OPI Make Love as the base and I painted one coat on all fingers (after my basecoat) then did each nail one at a time. I used China Glaze White on White, Maybelline Berry Charming, and the dotting tools I received from the Born Pretty Store. It was very simple to do and probably took me 15 minutes for both hands. Some of these turned out really cool and I think I will be doing these again.

Have you tried a drag marble mani yet?

Don't forget to use the code CONTESTS23 to get 10% off at  the Born Pretty Store!

Thanks for looking!

NOTD OPI Black Label Chapel of Love

I got this a WHILE back and even though V-day is over I wanted to wear this pink. (Will post my V-day mani later)

I forgot how sheer this was. (I bought this for the name :)  )

Here's four coats:

Reminds me of summer! A nice pinky/coral but that golden shimmer doesn't show up too well on the nail. 

Thanks for looking!

Confetti Pink Paradise + wnw Cupid

I picked up Confetti Pink Paradise b/c I read here that is a good dupe for OPI Bubble Bath. I wanted BB b/c I watch Giada de Laurentiis all the time and love her soft pink nail color.

I also picked up wnw Cupid that was release when the Holiday palletes were out.

I did three coats of PP and 2 coats of Cupid w/ChG Fast Forward.

I did this before I filed my nails down. I can keep them this length but I am so afraid that they'll break stupidly like getting them stuck in a hanger. Almost happened the other day at Kohl's.
Did you get any of the wnw holiday colors?

Another Mood Polish!

I went back to Meijer on Friday and picked up 2 more mood polishes. Screw the no-buy, these are awesome!

I got the pale yellow to light pink one.

 Right after applying

Cold water

Warm water

Turning to normal temperature

This is what it normally looks like.

This is three coats then a topcoat then one more coat b/c it was starting to look pretty bad the second day. The application was a bit patchy and there was some cracking the next day, but these are still cool!

Thanks for looking!

A Beautiful Life Review

A while back I was sent 2 nail polishes and a soy nail polish remover from A Beautiful Life to review.

The first I tried was Frosh, a medium pink with a purple flash. This one went on a bit thick and I tried to use drying drops with a topcoat and this is what happened:

The tips shrunk a lot and the polish pulled inwards. That gouge on my thumb is from my little 7 month old brother-in-law about an hour after I applied the drying drops. So I started again...

This is how my nails look after I use the remover. I do like how it left them very moisturized and almost like I had just used cuticle oil. It did take a bit more of rubbing than regular acetone remover, but I can deal with that. A good handwashing is needed before applying your basecoat.

Here is my second attempt. 3 coats with drying time in between coats, no topcoat.

A lovely color.

This took forever to dry and I got many many dents and smudges from waiting. I miss my drying drops! :(

This is about 4 days of wear. Not horrible but I can't look past all the dents and smudges.

Next up is Envy..A vampy green with gold shimmer. At first glance this reminded me of Diamond Cosmetics Not So Ever-Green. I do not own this polish so I can't do a comparison, this is just speculation. I also can't comment on DC formula as I have not used any of their polishes either.

This is 3 coats and this went on a lot better than Frosh. Definitely not as thick.

This is after 3 days of wear. I try to test the wear of np's b/c there are a lot of us girls out there that don't/can't polish our nails every other day.

This hand had a regular drying topcoat on it.

This hand did not.

Mind you I washed three dogs about 2 days prior to this. So this polish held up pretty well.

The polishes are available for $12 each and the remover is $20 here.

Thanks for looking!

*This was sent to me from the company in exchange for an honest review.

New Mood Polishes @ Meijer!

I stopped by Meijer yesterday to see if they had anything that I NEEDED to have since I am trying to go on a no-buy to pay for my wedding--yes, I am engaged, but more on that later!

I found a display of np's called Mood Struck. Sorry for the next 2 pics, camera phone + shakey hands from excitement= really blurrry pics!

Look at all that mood-changing-goodness! Although a lot of them were repeating colors.

Some of them looked like they were very watery and sheer, which I thought meant that they wouldn't work too well. So I picked one that looked like it would be the most drastic change. I went with this one:

This was all that was on each of them.

And they were each $3.99.

Unfortuately when I got home I realized that this really looks like the Calm/Wild from Claire's. So I pulled out that bottle to do a comparison.

Pretty f-ing close, eh?

Mood Struck looks a little bit of a truer purple(?) than Calm/Wild.

Let's see if we can tell the difference...

Can you?

I can't.

This is 2 coats of each. Index and ring are Calm/Wild; Middle and Pinky are Mood Struck. I think :)

It was apparant with the first stroke that Mood Struck was definitely a mood polish! I have to go back for more! Screw the no-buy, these are cheap, beautiful, awesome, what else can I say to justify this purchase?...Everything! Anything!

I'd say that the formula is a little better than Calm/Wild since mine was a little thick.

There was a lovely light pink to pale yellow with shimmer that I really want!

Just for good measure, here's some hot/cold water pics.

Cold water

Hot water

For those Mid-westerners, head over to your local Meijer to check these beauties out! They were on a side display at mine.

Has anyone else seen these?

Thanks for looking!

Some Recent NOTDs

I wanted to do some glitter a little while back so I finally decided to bust out ChG Luna that I received from Tuli and her glitter giveaway.

This is 3 coats I believe...

Removal was a PITA of course, but worth it I think for this one. Next time I wear this I might try layering it with a sheer color on top like I have seen some ladies do lately.

And here is a horribly blurry pic of ChG Strawberry Fields with a couple of hearts that survived the first night of this mani. I picked the hearts up at a Dollar Store for $1.49, go figure.