Tag Archives: glitter

24 Aug

ORLY Witch’s Blue

If you follow me on my Facebook page on on Instagram then you have already seen a sneak peek of this stunning blue from ORLY. Witch’s Blue has great formula and was so easy to apply and clean up. I have done my share of mumbling under my breath trying to clean up around the cuticles after using a dark color but there was no mumbling with this baby!

Here, I’m wearing it with a gold glitter I purchased from Blooming Nail Cebu. 

Isn’t it just lovely? I can’t really decide if I like it more with or without the glitter as they are both so pretty.

I’ve got to tell you that I’m considering starting a “Fail at this Friday” feature where I can showcase how hard I fail at certain things… like one stroke flowers! I want to do stunning one stroke flowers so badly but, although I have worked with paint brushes and acrylic paints a lot, the one stroke technique is just not working for me. I had dreamed up how gorgeous white and yellow flowers would look against this blue. But no matter how I tried, I failed at it. Is there any nail art technique that you could submit for a “Fail at this Friday” feature?

30 Jul

Captain America

Some products used were provided to me for honest review. 
All opinions are my own. 

Before I get to the nails I’d like to let you know that I joined Instagram a couple of weeks ago and, while I am still getting the hang of hash tagging and all that crazy stuff, I have been posting some pictures there. I will post my nail art and some other pictures that won’t be on my blog so if you are on Instagram, I’d love to hear from you. Look for @thenailinator  

These are my entry for the Comic Book or Character theme for the Rather Awesome 31 Day Challenge Giveaway.

When I was talking to Mr. Nailinator about what I could possibly do for this theme I had no idea what to do. I’m a bookie for sure but not comic books. Luckily Marvel has several movies out my hubby reminded me that the characters are from comic books. So my son said I should do Captain America nails. And this is what I came up with. I actually wore these a few weeks ago for July 4th. 😉 See how I thought ahead?

As I hope you can see, the pinky is supposed to be the A on his head piece, the ring finger is the red and white on the midsection of his costume and the middle finger is the round shield. The pointer is just going along with the color motif and the thumb has 3 stars like the top of the old school comic book shield. 🙂

Colors used for this look:
San San Blue Sapphire
Oh My golly Salsa (red)
Jocarste White
Jocarste Silver 26
Klik Super Star (glitter topcoat and stars)

19 Jul

Montana Glitter

Day 19 of the Rather Awesome 31 Day Nail Challenge Giveaway is here! Glitter! I love glitter so much. I’ve got a very simple but pretty look which has some sparkle. I started with two coats of Chic Montana from their Grainy collection and then Jocarste holographic glitter using the bottle brush to add glitter to the base of my nails. (and forgot to add topcoat before taking pics :O) I had a hard time photographing these and they looked much prettier IRL. I’ve got a fuzzy pic so you can get an idea of the sparkle.

I got word from The Shutterbug that she has started on my wishlist of polishes to buy for me while she is in the US. She found Sally Hansen Golden-I and Sinful Colors Easy Going. 🙂 I’m excited. Does anyone know where she can pick up a couple of LA Girl 3d Effects in a store in Texas? I know I can get them online if she can’t get them but I only wanted Sparkle Ruby and Brilliant Blue.

I hope y’all have a great day!

02 Jul

Pinkadots!

Good day folks!
I’m participating in a nail art challenge during the month of July which is hosted by the very talented ladies at Craftynail, Brijits Digits and Eeeek Nail Polish. I will most likely not be able to do a mani for each day of the challenge, I for sure wanted to do something for the first day which is PINK day! Click here for more info on the challenge and to see the links to all the great manicures for the month. I know you will find lots of creative ladies participating. If you are just finding out about it, please consider joining. These ladies are about as sweet as they come! This challenge even has giveaways at the end!!! Woohoo!

Here I started with 3 coats of Klik Lazy Pink. I really love the color in the bottle but I do not like any VNL and was kind of sad to have to use 3 coats for opacity. As a mom I ain’t got time for that! Ha! Still a very pretty color. I believe it is what one would call a crelly. I topped it with two coats of a black and white polka dot glitter (with a splash of white bar glitter) topper I purchased at Blooming Nail Cebu for 30php which is about $0.70. It comes in a 9ml bottle labeled number 52. It’s label is not in English so I can’t tell you much about it except that it’s pretty!

What do you think?

18 May

Whimsical Gift

I have had Revlon’s Whimsical on my lemming list for over a year and The Shutterbug surprised me with it as my birthday gift. Needless to say I was excited! I may have done a happy dance. 🙂
I thought about how I wanted to wear it and decided to go with Sansan Sea Green as the base color and layer Whimsical over that. I love it! What do you think? I included swatches of Sea Green by itself too.

Have a great weekend y’all!
San San Green Tea Swatch
Sansan Sea Green in natural light
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