Showing posts with label Maybelline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maybelline. Show all posts

Friday, October 26, 2012

Candy Corn Splatter!

Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't posted much this week. I had a ton of school work that snuck up on me! I have another platter mani for you all today! Who doesn't love candy corn? I'm working on a tutorial post for this as well. I haven't done a tutorial post yet so it's taking me awhile to figure out how to photograph the steps. It's coming soon though! I think I have two or three more Halloween manis to accomplish. I hope you all like them! On to the candy corn!

So, just like any splatter mani you need your basic tools: a straw (cut into multiple pieces if you have multiple colors), a paper towel, tape or vaseline to protect around your fingers, your polish of choice, and q-tips for clean up. For this mani, I knew I wanted my base to be white so the yellow and orange would really pop! I used two coats of OPI- My Boyfriend Scales Wales. I love this white, it's amazing. For the yellow I used Maybelline- Fierce N Tangy, and the orange is Sinful Colors- Courtney Orange. I love that Courtney Orange has shimmer because it adds something extra to the mani. To create the splatter, literally all you do is dip the straw into the polish and blow it on to the nail. If you don't get as much splatter as you want, do it again. It's really simple, just messy! Make sure to wait about 10 minutes before you put your topcoat on or it will smear your splatter.

Two coats of OPI- My Boyfriend Scales Walls
Splattered with Maybelline- Fierce N Tangy, and Sinful Colors- Courtney Orange
One coat of Gelous
One coat of Poshe



I always love the way splatter manis look in the end. It might be a bit time consuming and messy, but totally worth it!
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Saturday, August 4, 2012

Lazy Days of Summer- Pool Party

I hope everyone is having a great start to the weekend! I have the sixth LDoS challenge for you today! It's the Pool Party Challenge! I honestly had no idea what I wanted to do. I kinda just went for it. I knew I wanted to do a beach ball, that's about it. So this is what I ended up with! All of the colors I used will be listed above the picture.

For the beach ball nail I used striping tape and marked off an X with a line through the middle. I then painted each triangle so that the colors were diagonal from each other. I did a beach towel inspired nail as well. The remaining nails are Maybelline- Porcelain Party with China Glaze- Ride The Waves on top. Last time I used Ride The Waves it appeared opaque but in pictures you could see VNL so I put it over white. I love how squishy it looks! I think it's a pretty cute mani!

Maybelline- Porcelain Party and Fierce N Tangy
China Glaze- Ride The Waves 
OPI- Color So Hot It Berns




Be sure to check out all the other pool party nails from the wonderful laides below! Up next is a dotting tool mani!


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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Lazy Days of Summer- Favorite Beach Towel

Hi everyone! Sorry for posting two LDoS challenges in a row! I was just to excited for this one because I LOVE how it turned out! Todays challenge is ment to be inspired by your favorite beach towel. The towel I chose has zebra stripes accented with multicolored stripes. I was hesitant because I've never free handed stripes and at the moment my nails are quite short. I didn't want it to turn into a jumbled mess. I seriously love the way this turned out though! I didn't even want to take it off. This might be a favorite mani I've done in quite awhile.

The base color is Maybelline- Porcelain Party. Definitely not the best white. Don't wast your money on it. I think I did about four coats. I used a random black striper polish along with Essie- Van D'Go and Play Date with Zoya- Shelby and Wednesday. I just used a thin striper brush for the colors. I wish I had taken a picture with my towel but alas, I did not. Totally my favorite challenge so far! I'm very proud of myself because it turned out so pretty! This is one of those mani's where you need to let everything dry before you top coat it or it will be smudge central.

Four coats of Maybelline- Porcelain Party
Black striper polish
Essie- Van D'Go and Play Date
Zoya- Shelby and Wednesday
One coat of Poshe



Don't forget to check out everyone else's towel mani's! Now what should I go put on my nails...hmm....

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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Lazy Days of Summer- Flag Day

Who's a slacker? Jessica's a slacker! Sorry for taking so long to do the next LDoS challenge! It's what, like ten days past the 4th of July? Sounds like some serious slacking to me! I originally planned to have a 4th of July mani as my flag day mani, but alas, it did not happen... obviously. So for the sake of not cheating on the challenge, here is my flag day mani!

I actually really like the way this turned out. I know it's simple but it's still super pretty.  Considering it's so far past the 4th, I just wanted to keep it simple. I decided to use my favorite red, OPI- Color So Hot It Berns. I really do love this red. It so vibrant yet still a true red. As always, I did an accent nail. Accent nails are my go to when I'm to lazy to do any nail art but I want something other then a plain mani. I used a base of Maybelline- Porcelain Party and topped it with F4 Polish- Cali's Creation. Oh F4, you steal my heart with every polish of yours I put on. The base glitter in Cali's Creation is kinda weird. In the light it just looks red but in the shade it looks sort of purple. Who knows, I'm going to pretend it's red! Besides the red/purple base glitter it has tiny blue squares, so cute! You can find F4 Polish on Etsy. Those ladies are seriously amazing and their polishes are even more stunning in person!

Two coats of OPI- Color So Hot It Berns
Two coats of Maybelline- Porcelain Party
One coat of F4 Polish- Cali's Creating
One coat of Poshe



What do you guys think? I'm not to much of a slacker, right :D Hopefully the rest of my LDoS challenges will be relatively on time from now on! Flip Flops are up next! Be sure to check out the other flag day manis!

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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Lazy Days of Summer- Summer Ombre

Finally, a new post! My power is on and running!  Today I have the second challenge in the LDoS nail challenge. It's summer ombre nails! This is actually my second mani for this challenge but my pictures somehow got deleted when the power went out. I was actually resizing them when the power went out so that's probably why. Oh well, I like how this turned out better! Now this was kinda hard for me because I tend to not purchase that many multiple colors in one color family. Blue seemed to be the only color family that I had a decent amount of creme polishes in. I really wanted to stay with the same finish for all the polishes. I'm not sure how summery is it thought. I mean blue is the color or water, right :P

Five fingers, five colors. The polishes I picked were Maybelline- Sapphire Siren (thumb), China Glaze- Ride The Waves (pointer), Julep- Jaime (middle), OPI- No Room For The Blues (ring) and Hello Kitty- Blueberry (pinky). Three coats of everything except Ride The Waves, which was four. I know in the pictures there is VNL but it's not there in real life. I think it's a pretty successful ombre, don't you? There's an extra picture including my thumb so you can see the whole effect!

Maybelline- Sapphire Siren
China Glaze- Ride The Waves
Julep- Jaime
 OPI- No Room For The Blues
Hello Kitty- Blueberry
One coat of Poshe




I hope you guys like it! I've been antsy to put a new post up! Don't forget to check out everyone else's summer ombres!




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