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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Friday, July 13, 2012

Nails Inc Sprinkles- Topping Lane

YUMMMMMMMMM! I have such a gorgeous polish for you today! I'm sure by now most of you have seen the Nail Inc Sprinkles collection!? I posted a photo on my Facebook about a week ago showing you guys the three I decided to get from the collection (*cough* I may or may not have later ordered the final polish as well). You all seemed super excited to see them, as was I, so I wanted to put one on right away! Might I say that I did not have an easy time picking which of the three to wear first. I'm embarrassed to admit it came down to my first grade tactics of eenie, meenie, miny, moe. Because that's the logical way to choose, right? Well Topping Lane happened to win! God this polish yum worthy!

Topping Lane is, what I would consider, a pepto pink based polish jam packed full of glitters. From what I can tell it's silver, pink and purple glitter. Don't let the name fool you! This baby isn't a topping polish! It needs to be worn on its' own with all of its' undieless glory! Below is three coats, though two gave pretty much perfect opacity. For the sake of my camera, I did three. The glitter didn't apply too patchy on the first coat but you definitely need at least two coats to clear up any bald spots.

Three coats of Nail Inc- Topping Lane
One coat of Gelous
One coat of Poshe




Can't...stop...staring...at...my...nails!!!!! UGH, it's just so pretty! For those of you wondering, the Sprinkle Collection is back in stock on Sephora. As far as I know, there's no word on when these will hit stores. If anyone knows, please inform us!

Again, sorry for the delay on this weeks Reader's Choice Wednesday! It will be up and at 'em next week though! I have extended the poll till next week so be sure to vote if you haven't!
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Sunday, July 8, 2012

Two Birds, One Store- Pocket Full of Posies

Hi everyone! I hope you all are having a great weekend! I have an indie brand to show you today that might be new to you, Two Birds, One Store! I found these wonderful ladies through a group I'm in on Facebook. As you can probably tell, I'm a huge supporter of indie brands. These ladies have a TON of potential! They stole my heart at the sight of matte glitter. You know I can't resist it!

The polish I have to show you today is called Pocket Full of Posies. How cute is the name!? Every time I say/type the name I think of the Ring Around the Rosie song. Just my opinion, but I think they should totally make a Ring Around the Rosie and Ashes, Ashes polish as well! PFoP is a clear based polish made up of teeny tiny pink and blue matte glitter as well as two sizes of purple hexes. I chose to layer it over OPI- Pedal Faster Suzi. I did try to wear PFoP on it's own but it wasn't quite opaque enough. The polish applied evenly but the purple hexes did need some maneuvering. Especially the largest ones. You know I love pretty much any matter glitter I put on my fingers! I have a few other polishes by Two Birds, One Store that I will show you soon. If you like Pocket Full of Posies, you will love them!

Three coats of OPI- Pedal Faster Suzi
Two coats of Two Birds, One Store- Pocket Full of Posies
One coat of Gelous
One coat of Poshe



What do you guys think? I personally love it! Don't forget to put your vote in for Reader's Choice Wednesday!

*The polish shown in this post was provided for review.*
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Reader's Choice Wednesday Featuring KBShimmer

Happy 4th everyone! Yay for the second week of Reader's Choice Wednesday! Well there was no tie this week! KBShimmer- Watercolor definitely won! I was hoping this would be the one because it has been sitting on my nail table waiting to be used. This was one was my favorite from her Neon Collection. I placed an order a little while ago that included some bath products. I'm thinking about doing a review, what do you guys think? All of the KBShimmer products can now be purchased directly from her website. KBShimmer and F4 Polish are probably my favorite inde sellers at the moment.

Watercolor is stunning! It's a medium jellish blue base with purple, blue, pink and holographic glitters in all different sizes. It definitely reminds me of a watercolor painting of a garden pond. Once again, I didn't layer it over any other polish. You guys should know by now that I don't like wearing undies LOL. I did three coats. The glitter, for the most part, was pretty easy to work with. I would get clumps every once in a while but over all it applied evenly. It's just so pretty! I will say that the larger blue hexes do curl slightly. Nothing unworkable though.

Two coats of KBShimmer- Watercolor
One coat of Gelous
Two coats of Poshe



I hope everyone is liking the Reader's Choice Wednesday posts! Don't forget to vote for next week!

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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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