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I'm not sure if you all know this but I am completely obsessed with owls. So I have another owl mani to share with you!

Here's what I did:
1 coat Nail Magic
1 coat Gelous
2 coats Orly Buried Alive
BM-309 with Essie Good as Gold for the stamping
1 coat Seche Vite

I am usually not a huge fan of brown polishes, but this one is GORGEOUS!

Hope you all enjoy this mani as much as I did!

Until next time...

Christina


PS: I am updating my stash if you all are interested in what I have! :D

Free Form Stripes

Good morning! I have a fun manicure to show you today! (I promise, I am almost caught up to my Instagram..and will be posting blog posts as I go...)

As I told you all before, I bought a ton of new Orly mini bottles, so naturally, I had to keep using them! So here we go!

I must admit, I do not think these are my best work. My lines could be much better, and the dots, which I wanted to look more like lace than regular dots, did not turn out to my liking. But failed or successful manicure will be featured on my blog. I'm human. So I have bad days too.

Here's what I did:
1 coat Nail Magic
1 coat Gelous
2 coats Orly It's Not Me, It's You
I used Pure Ice Black Rage for the black french tip.
Kiss White Striper for the stripes.

I found Orly's It's Not Me, It's You to be wonderful! I absolutely love the shade, the application, and how girly this polish is. This is for sure going on my full bottle wish list!! I love it!

Clearly, I need to do a little more practice on my stripes, but I found the Kiss White Striper polish to be perfect as well. It is my unsteady hands that are the problem. Lol.

Well, until next time....

Christina



Disclosure *I was not paid for this review. I was not given the polish for this review. I paid for the polish with my own money. This is purely my own opinion, thoughts, and suggestions about this polish.*

Fiiiiiesta!

Good morning fellow nail polish lovers! I have a few things to tell you all!

So, someone on Instagram had posted a little while back that Haute Look was doing a sale on Orly mini nail polishes. Well, of course, I had to jump on that as quick as I could, and I am so glad that I did so! (You can find Haute Look HERE!) For $35.95, I received the following:

Winter Wonderland
Teeny Bikini
Royal Velvet
Rockin' Rockette
Retro Red
Pure Porcelain
Pixy Stix
Ole
It's Not Me, It's You
Fiesta
Fabulous Flamingo
Cosmic Kiss

These are all in Orly's mini size which is .18 Fl Oz. They are small, but I really enjoy small bottles. Gives me a chance to try out the polish without spending $8+ a polish all at once. (And now I know which bottles I want in full size!) Without shipping (Which was $5.95) these bottles were sold at $2.50 a piece. WHAT A STEAL! They would only let me buy the twelve at a time. I tried to buy more...but no success. Next time I will be prepared with an additional Haute Look account....although I don't know if that goes against their rules....must research!

Any who, the manicure I am showing you today is done using Orly's Fiesta! So here we go!

Here's what I did:
1 coat Nail Magic
1 coat Gelous
2 coats Orly Fiesta
Stamping with Konda Special Black and BM-313.
1 coat Seche Vite

How fun is this manicure?? I love love love Fiesta! It is such a beautiful pink with a little bit of shimmer! Gorgeous!! The application was cake, and so was the clean up! I think I need to buy this polish in the big bottle!!

I really love my new stamping plates from Bundle Monster! (I mentioned these my last post, remember?) This particular stamp is from the 2012 collection. I think the black pattern makes the pink really pop!

Have any of you tried Orly's Fiesta? Do you own Bundle Monster plates? Would you try this manicure?

Until next time...

Christina


Disclosure *I was not paid for this review. I was not given the polish for this review. I paid for the polish with my own money. This is purely my own opinion, thoughts, and suggestions about this polish.*

Painting the roses REEEED

Good evening! I have a pretty cool manicure to share with you. I went onto Youtube and found a rose tutorial. You can find the video I used as a reference HERE! This gal on Youtube has some AWESOME tutorials, go check her out!

So here's my version:

Here's what I did:
1 coat Nail Magic
1 coat Gelous
2 coats Orly's Decades of Dysfunction

Then I followed the tutorial by taking a large dotting tool with Wet n Wild's Candy-licious and placing the dots for the roses. Then, using a small detail paint brush, I tool Wet n Wild's I Red A Good Book and painted the "leaves" or detail of the roses. Using the same brush, I used China Glaze's Agro for the leaves.

I topped it all off with a thick coat of Seche Vite.

I am really proud of myself, to be honest. I don't do a lot of hand painted nail art, and I'd like to say with this being my first try, I did a pretty darn good job!

Orly's Decades of Dysfunction will be one of my new favorite polishes of all time. It is AWESOME. Application was a breeze, the soft pinkish/white/off whiteish color is gorgeous. I picked this bottle up at Sally's Beauty Supply on the clearance rack! What an awesome find!!!

What do you all think of this manicure? Have you done this? Have you done any other Youtube tutorial manicures?

I hope you all have a wonderful evening!

Until next time....

Christina


Disclosure *I was not paid for this review. I was not given the polish for this review. I paid for the polish with my own money. This is purely my own opinion, thoughts, and suggestions about this polish.*

Ringer

Gooood morning!!! This morning I have an indie polish to share with you.

I have heard a lot of hype around Max Factor's Fantasy Fire and Darling Diva Polish's Ringer. So I bought Ringer, the cheaper of the two. (Fantasy Fire comes in a tiny bottle, and I was not about to pay $16.00 for a mini bottle of polish!) You can find Darling Diva Polish's Etsy shop HERE!

So here's what I did:
1 coat Orly's Tough Cookie base coat
2 coats Orly's Fowl Play
1 coat DDP Ringer
1 coat Seche Vite

Now, I am not going to lie, I was not in love with Ringer at first. I had placed it over a blue, and I didn't see what all the hype was about. Yeah, the glitter is really glittery and the duo chrome red to greenish gold is really pretty. But I didn't know why it was so coveted.

So I decided to place it over a darker color. And Fowl Play was in my untried pile, so I said, why not?

Fowl Play by itself is gorgeous. It has redish glitter in with the purple yummy creme. I absolutely love this polish. The formula was amazing. It was completely opaque in two coats. I love the color, I loved the brush, I love everything. I am SO glad I purchased Fowl Play.

When I placed Ringer over Fowl Play, it really brought Fowl Play to life!! I know what you all are saying "But Christina! Fowl Play by itself has so much to it, and is SOOOO beautiful on it's own!!" I agree. But something about adding Ringer to the mix made it come ALIVE.

It sparkled so much in the sun. And I honestly don't know if I can ever wear Fowl Play without my trusty Ringer.

Now, the application of Ringer was one of the best I've seen since Hungry Asian's Sneeze Breeze and Sea Creature! It was sooo easy to apply. And one coat gave enough glitter goodness that I didn't feel the need to do two. I will for sure be using this polish sparingly, since DDP is currently out of stock!

All in all, another great manicure, another great purchase, and a happy momma on this end! I couldn't stop staring at my nails, and I didn't want to take it off! It is so gorgeous!! I think I will be trying Ringer by itself soon. It'll take about 4 coats to build it up, since it is so sheer. It is really like a jelly...a yummy, sparkly, glittery, duochrome jelly. YUM.

I also have a little bit of news to report. I am currently doing a NO BUY challenge. I have been spending WAY too much on nail polish, and I have gone from only a few (maybe 10 polishes) to almost 160 since I started this blog a month ago. That is BAD. So I have promised myself that I will not be making any more polish purchases until July 17th 2012. It is going to be SO hard. But I know I can do it.

But I can accept gifts. ;)

Until next time....

Christina

PS:
Buying a few polishes for a giveaway doesn't count, right?? ;)


Disclosure *I was not paid for this review. I was not given the polish for this review. I paid for the polish with my own money. This is purely my own opinion, thoughts, and suggestions about this polish.*

Club Havana

GOOOOOOOOD afternoon!!!! My awesome neighbor/awesome friend gave me a set of Wet n Wild polishes last night at our spaghetti dinner. I am sooo excited to share one of these polishes with you! (Thanks Jessi!! I love them all SO much!! <3)

In the Sassy set, the polishes included are:
Club Havana
Haze of Love
Red Tape
Hush Hush
Tropicalia

These all appear to be creme polishes, but sometimes polishes can surprise you, so I won't know until I swatch them all!

Today I have Club Havana to share with you.

Here it is in its orange glory without flash. It is a creamy orange sorbet creme polish that glides on like butter, and looks good enough to eat. Oranges usually do not look good on my nails, but this one looks amazing. It makes me look so much more tan than I am, which is my goal when it comes to polish. Lol.

Flash flash flash! Makes it look a tad bit brighter than it actually is. But isn't the color GORGEOUS??!! The brush was a bit of a pain, but not as bad as their crazy salon flat brush crappity crap. It was so easy to apply. It was a bit streaky, but I could see this polish being completely streak free in three thin coats.

Here's what I did:
1 coat Sally Hansen's Double Duty base coat
1 coat Orly's Bonder base coat
2 coats Wet n Wild Club Havana
No top coat.

I only did 2 coats because I knew I would be layering other polishes on top. Wanna see what I layered??

BAM!

Here I added 1 thin coat of my Spectraflair top coat. (I purchased Spectraflair powder HERE! And added it to some top coat I never use.)
Then I added 1 coat of Essie's Shine of the Times and 1 coat of Orly's No Chip top coat.

Look at that rainbow goodness!!! <3

I love that Shine of the Times is the main star in the shade, but once that sun hits my nails, the holo goes rainbow crazy! I am in love with this combo!!

Look at those flakies! YUM!

Here's another sun shot.

What do you all think of this manicure? The orange? Have you tried any of these Wet n Wild polishes? Would you rock this mani??? Have you tried Spectraflair??

I just want to say a huge and special thank you to all of you who read my blog, comment, and inspire me to continue with this blog! I love all of my readers, and I try hard to read all of your blogs! Sometimes I can't get to them every day, but I promise..I am reading!!!

Until next time....

Christina



Disclosure *I was not paid for this review. I was not given the polish for this review. I paid for the polish with my own money. This is purely my own opinion, thoughts, and suggestions about this polish.*