Valentine Hearts

Hello, Hello!

I have a Valentine's Day mani to show you all today! I wasn't quite sure where I was going with this, or how it was going to turn out, but I'm pretty happy with it! I'm sure I will have a few more lovey dovey manis before Valentine's Day, so be on the look out!

For this mani I started out wanting to do a skittle mani. I think I ended up about half way there. I used Zoya- Purity, a basic white, and Julep- Penelope, a light baby pink with a jellyish finish. Purity is on my middle and ring fingers, while Penelope is on my pointer and pinky. Three coats of each. I wanted to add a bit of sparkle so I used a JessiGeeWhiz glitter in Gift Wrap, which is from her Holiday 2012 Collection. Jessi makes loose, solvent resistant, nail art glitters that are so darn gorgeous. I find it's easiest to apply them if you just use a basic clear polish, and dip the brush right into the glitter. I cut out hearts from painters tape, applied it to the dry nail, then just applied the glitter and pulled it off. The other nails each have one coat of glitter. The sparkle doesn't show up as good as it does it real life. I really like how this turned out!

Three coats of Zoya- Purity

Three coats of Julep- Penelope

One coat of JessiGeeWhiz- Gft Wrap

One coat of Gelous

One coat of Poshe

Christmas Party Nails!

Hi Everyone!

I have some super fun Christmas nails to show you today! These are actually the first Christmas nails I've done all season. I work in retail and holiday hours are consuming my life at the moment. I haven't had much time to do anything to my nails but slap some polish on! I'm showing you the first of three JessiGeeWhiz glitters that I purchased a little while ago. The one I have for you today is called Christmas PJ's!

All of the JessiGeeWhiz glitters come in a little jar that contains 3.5g of glitter for $2.95. They are all solvent resistent, and are so absolutely gorgeous! There are a few different ways you can apply the loose glitter. I prefer to take a cheap, clear polish, I used Color Club, and just dap the brush into the glitter. Then apply it to the nail adding more clear polish as you go along to smooth it out. For me, it's the easiest, and least messy way to apply it. When I'm all done, I just wipe the brush off. Any glitter that got into the bottle just sinks, so it's easy to use the same clear polish over and over again! It also makes clean up WAY easier because you don't have glitter all over the place.

Christmas PJ's is made up of just red and green glitter. For such a simple combo, it sure it gorgeous! I used Zoya- Shawn as a base, and did two coats of Christmas PJ's. It seriously has amazing coverage for a loose glitter, and I think that also has to do with how I apply it. I don't find it to be any thicker then a regular glitter polish. On my ring finger I taped off a little tree and added a silver star. I'm excited to have such festive nails! 

Two coats of Zoya- Shawn

Two coats of JessiGeeWhiz- Christmas PJ's

Two coats of Poshe

I'm hoping to have a few more Holiday manicures up soon! 

Nail Mail!!!

Yay! It's nail mail time! This haul is find of all over the place. It includes my Butter London order from their Friends & Family sale, two indie brands I haven't tried before and some nail art glitter! I'm sure there's more polishes I could have added to this post, but these were the ones I was most excited for. Are you ready to see what I got?!

First up is my Butter London order! Now I had quite a few on my wish list, and I knew there was a reason I hadn't ordered them. I had a feeling a sale was coming. I patiently, more like impatiently, waited, and finally they had their 30% off Friends & Family sale! Then I saw that it was free shipping when you spent over $75. It all went out the window from there. I can never pass up free shipping. Basically I got six polishes, originally $84 total, for $58! That's practically $9 a bottle! Compared to $14, that's a major steal. So let's see what I picked up!

Scuppered and Jack The Lad, both from the 2012 Holiday Collection. Posh Bird and Fishwife, I believe were released for fashion week, and then The Black Knight and Dosh. All are in order of the picture, and I included swatch photos. Look at that holo on Fishwife, ermahgerd!

Next up is my order from a new Esty seller, My Ten Friends! Now, I have to be honest. Most of the time when I find a new seller on Etsy, I wait a bit just to see if more swatch photos pop up. In this case, I just couldn't control myself! I ordered these as soon as I laid eyes on them. I'm so excited I did because I'm totally in love. The pictures do NOT do these polishes justice. They are so sparkly and gorgeous in real life. The price is pretty decent at $8.88 a bottle. I some how managed to get two blues and two greens, but who cares because they are stunning! The greens aren't as simular as they look in the pictures.

Once again these are in order: 42, Spacebound, Goldilocks Planet and Clusterfrak. I am SO excited to wear these! You can actually get 10% off your order right now with the code, Anniversary10!

And finally I have a few random bits. I purchased my first Nail'd It polish off of Llarowe. I've eyed quite a few, but never got around to buying them. I picked up Candy Wrapper because it was on sale for $9, and I've wanted it for awhile. Then I have some nail art glitter from JessiGeeWhiz over on Esty. These are solvent resistent loose glitter. You can use them loose or mix them into base polish. I'm super excited to do a review post on these because they are just amazing. 

Nail'd It- Candy Wrapper, JessiGeeWhiz glitters in Winter Solstice, Gift Wrap and Christmas PJ's. Jessi is having a 50% of sale from Black Friday to Cyber Monday, so be sure to pick up some of these gorgeous glitters! I know I will be. The coupon code is GEEWHIZ50OFF.

If you could decide what to see posts on first, what would you choose: Butter London, My Ten Friends, or the JessiGeeWhiz glitters?