Essie- French affairs with Teenage dream

 Hey Ladies, this will be a quick post because I will redoing my nails today!  I still have the cupcake nails on for several days now which is a long time! But anyway.. this swatch I had today was originally suppose to be the base colors for my cupcake to be display on but then  I was impatience of the dry time. This was 2 coats of french affairs and 1 coat of Teenage dream... Man imagine me putting cupcake designs on it which will be a lot more layers and my mani would be really thick which I'm not a big fan of.
I hope you guys like this mani a lone because it reminds me of a princess nails because of the pink and micro glitters on top =D.

The formulation of french affairs was not bad at all.. it only took 2 coats to get the same color as the bottle. Teenage dream glitter nail polish runs a little thicker.. im thinking because it has a lot of micro and some big glitter in them so it will coat your nails really well.  Im not a fan of this color on its own but its great when its paired up with another color.

Essie Nice is Nice with teenage dream

Cupcake nails

 Hey Ladies! I wanted to break away from the animal print series for a little bit because I dont know what print to do next but today I got a fun happy mani for you =]

 As I was browsing on nail blogs, I came across this cupcake cake nail and I thought it was the cutest thing ever.  Even though my cupcake did not come out nicely, I think it will get better the more practice I get.  Each nail, I wanted to do different colors.. This nail looks busy but it is really fun to wear during summer because its bright and colorful... and who doesn't like cupcakes? Why not put it on your nails.  I was intentionally going to do a step my step tutorial but I failed at taking pictures HAHAHAH =p

Anyway ,this was a very easy nail art.. it took me 30 minutes because each layer needed to be dry before you can add more layers to it. I think everyone can do this look because the only tool I used was bobby pin or dotting tools.  What else do you need? well a bunch of cute colored nail polish .. one for each of your fingers.

What to do:

1.  First pick a base color .. make sure you pick the base colors that will be contrasting colors as your frosting of your cupcake or it will not stand out. I picked OPI-teenage dream but it was not vibrant enough so next time I think i might pick another color. (First Photo)
2. Paint the tips of check of your nail almost half way down the middle of your nails.  Wait for that to completely dry or dry enough to add some stripes to the colored tips.
3. Stripes for the colored tips.. I picked contrasting colors and used a dotting tool to paint it on. When using the dotting tools, it gives it more of a raggy line which looks more realistic.
4. When the tips are dry, start adding the frosting to the nails. What I did with the frosting was made small hills on the nails if you know what  I mean.
5. Then after that is dry I added sprinkles and a heart glitter I got from my jordana
6. Add a nice amount of topcoat then your finished!

I hope you guys enjoy this kiddy look!

XoXo
Amanda N

Animal Print series: Tiger nails

Hey ladies! So my last post was Giraffe nails and I wanted to stick to the Animal Print theme for a little while before I'm tired of it.
At first my next animal print was going to be snow leopard but it did not turn out good.. The silver I used for the leopard print did not show up very well against the white base and.. yeah it was not pretty.

I never done tiger nails before but I think this turned out pretty cool. Some of the stamping messed up on the tiger stripes but its okay.. I did not want to take it off to start over.



 So what I did was a gradient background color so it would look like a true tiger body and then I added the stripe to it.

Steps:

1. I first applied China glaze- Breakin as an over base coat 
2.  I then sponge on the tips to the middle of my nail with China glaze-Solar power
3. Lastly I use Wet and Wild- sunny side up to blend in the two colors by sponging it in the middle up to the china glaze- breakin
4. Then I use my Stamp from konad and stamped on the tiger stripes
5. Out the door top coat
   

I hope you guys enjoy this look!


XoXo,

Amanda N

Animal Print series: Giraffe nails

Hey guys! This is what I have on my nails for the last couple of days.  Originally I wanted to do Giraffe nails because of the image plate print but the more I look at it it looks like a sick cow nails LOL!  Oh well... I know giraffe spots are more defined but my hand is not steady enough to do that. Maybe next time. Next time I think I will use the same image plate to do Cows nails or something because I think this is the spots for cow nails but I cant say its My cow nails because of the color combination I used. I really want to do marbling next  so stay tune for that =]


So what I used :

• Nail tek as my base coat because this helps me with chipping and peeling nails
• China glaze lemon fizz - this is a pastel yellow. I use this color because of the giraffe body color
• for the spots I used milani teddy bare as the spots.  Milani - Teddy Bare is a good dupe for Chanel- Particuliere
• Out the door top coat.

XoXo
Amanda N

Purple ombre nails

Hey Ladies! So today I have a Purple Ombre Nail for you!  I think this is a very soft way to wear the ombre trend but yet still noticeable. I hope you like the swatch and mini review of each nail polish.

From Thumb to pinky:

• China glaze- Agent Lavender- This is a pale purple creme polish with a blue undertone. I had this nail polish for a while and I do really like this polish.  I believe this is medium to thick consistency and it only needed one coat for it to be opaque, but in this photo I did two just in case

• Essie- Nice is Nice- This is from the essie french collection. This is a very pretty shade of Lilac but it was a pinker undertone then others lilac colors I own.  The formula was nice but the first coat was a little streaky but not much at all, by the second coat it was opaque.

•  Essie Lilacism- This is a very bright lilac color! I really truly believe this is a true lilac color! Fromula was the same as nice is nice so it was not bad. The consistency was medium, not to thick not to thin

• OPI- Do you lilac it?- This was the first  " lilac" nail polish I got and I really thought this was a good pastel purple but next to the other ones I think this is not a lilac color.. its too dark. The bottle it looks light but its a tad darker but overall this is still a good polish.

• OPI- parlez- vous OPI-  This is a darkest shade of the " lilac" color... not even close to lilac but closer than most dark purples I have.  This color is very gorgeous for fall time.. a tad dark for me.. The formula of this was not bad at all.

Overall, all the colors I picked made a really nice ombre effects because of the light fading into the dark was very well planned out =] I hope you guys enjoy this look!

XoXo

Amanda N

Zoya- Shawn with Nubar

Hey Ladies! As you read in my last nail post I will be giving my nail a break from painting for at least 5 days. So I have a few nail swatches stored up for the next couple of days for you guys. I hope you guys enjoy this
What I have one is from the Promotion Trio zoya was having and I got 3 nail polish from zoya for 5 bucks!! Anyway I finally swatched this color and this is such a beautiful color! This is a creme color base, creme is my Favorite finish in a nail polish. I would describe this as a mossy green. This did not streak it was very opaque.. It almost only needed one coat.. crazy right.. not really because from experience. I got about 8-10 zoya creme nail polish and most of them only needed 1 coat 2 would better but one if you are in a rush. The polish dries fast but I did use a fast dry topcoat.
Next I decided to spice it up some more and whipped out my Nubar 2010 nail polish and add it on top. I think this two paired up really nice! I tried to take a bunch of photos for you guys so you can see the beauty of this combination.
By the way while im typing this people still shooting fireworks... I guess they are not ready for the forth of july to be over LOL
Enjoy this swatch.. I will post another one tomorrow..
It feels weird not changing my nail polish color like every day LOL... I still have Essie cute as a button on and still loving the color.
Photo is mine.

I hope you guys enjoy this swatch!

XoXo
Amanda N

Essie- Cute as a button swatch

Hey Ladies!  Well two days ago I recieved my package from Amy Leung On luuux and in it was some great products.  I've been wanting this color for a while but never got it because I always forgot to or can never find it when I do end up remembering, have this happen to you?




I really enjoy this color on my nails.  I keep staring at it because it is such a gorgeous color don't you think?  I would say this is a coraly pink color. Sometimes I see a bit of hot pink but other lighting I see coral.  I do own a few coral colors but this one is super pretty and unique.  It has more of a red undertone than orange which I enjoy a lot.

The formula of this polish was not bad at all. It was medium to thick.  it was a tad streaky on first coat but second coat cleared that right now.. I also added an flower sticker I got from Amy to my ring finger and a little yellow jewl. I think this combination is so cuteee!!!

Lately I have been getting a lot of air bubbles when I paint my nails. Could you guys help me out. I dont know why this all started.. Could it be the fan that I have on blowing at me while I paint my nails?  Ive been painting my nails the same way but now theres tones of air bubbles and no I dont shake my polish before had.

I hope you guys enjoy this swatch!

XoXo

Amanda N

Zoya-Demi with OPI Serving up sparkles

 Hey Ladies! As you know I took of my other mani from the previous post because I was not really in the mood for St patties day nail .
The color I got on today is called Zoya Demi from their Dare collection. I actually got their whole Dare collection because every single color on their is very pretty, perfect for fall and pigment.  If you guys havent checked out their Dare collection please do! This is my favorite collection from them until this day.

I think this color is a very unique redish purple almost like a mauvey  creme color. I dont own anything like this. This color paint like a dream. It could pass for one coat but I usually do two just incase it will have bald spots in the sunlight.  This is a great fall color but I usually dont follow the rules because I wear this all season. It reminds me of BARNEY but a little darker. =].  Anyway I got a few photos with this polish a lone and others with OPI- serving it up sparkles.  I think these two paired up nicely.  The serving up Sparkles has a lot of sparkles in it so I only used one coat.  Wish it was a little more sparks but thats alright!

                                             Sunlight                                                   

 I hope you guys enjoy this swatch!



XoXo

Amanda N

Lucky potted gold nails

 Hey Ladies! Originally I was trying to do peacock nails but the more I looked at it the more it looks like St Patrick Days mani.  Now I know what to do when March rolls around LOL. I looked online to see what colors peacocks where and it was Green, Blue Gold and some purple but I tried the purple on my fake nail tester it did not turn out nice.  I didnt keep this mani on long maybe 20 minutes but I already wanted to try something esle. I think I would be more in the mood to wear this nail if it was st. patricks day. Doesn't look like potted golds ?


Anyway here is what I used:

• Sally Hansen Insta Dri- Emerald express as a base coat! I love the Insta Dri polish from sally hansen...All I used was one coat and it was opaque enough. 
• Zoya Ivanka to sponge on the tips of the nails to get that gradient effects with the green gold ( Click to enlarge photos)
• Sally hansen set the stage- This  polish was okay.. it needed more glitter in it. If I was lucky I maybe get 1or 2 flecks.  So I just painted this on the tips so I can get the small flecks for better fading
• used sally hansen gold glitter.. or milani jewl fx with those hexagon glitters would work well too .

I hope you guys enjoy this look and maybe bookmark it for St. patricks day!

XoXo

Amanda N

On cloud 9 nails

Hey Ladies!  I just finish this mani like 20 minutes ago and I seriously couldn't wait to post it!  This in my opinion is the cutest and best mani I've done this month.   It is so fun and happy!  For the last 20 minutes, every time I look down at my hand I keep admiring it hahaha.

I saw this on a tumblr and I knew I had to do that design on my nails.  Heres the link to the photo. http://awesome-nails.tumblr.com/post/7579574158



So what I used:

Left Hand:

• Sally hansen Barracuda for the base coat
• then on 3 of my fingers I used the stamp that has cloud prints on them but this can easily be drawn on.
• On my index and middle finger I did a rainbow and a cloud at the end of one of the rainbow.
• After this was all dry, I added wet and wild Hallucinate Glitter on the rainbow part to give it a little sparkles. Then I added a little face on my cloud on my index finger.

Right Hand:

  I was too lazy to do the same to my right hand so I just added clouds to all my nails and finish it with a top coat.

AHHH I love this Mani so much!! Im so glad I have the cloud image plates because now I can do Up nails from pixar! WOOO!   Anyway I hope you enjoy the photos! Sorry I went crazyy with them

 

 

XoXo
Amanda N

Ombre nails - Nude

 

Hey guys! I took a full afternoon to do a bunch of swatches.  At first, my initial idea was to swatch different shades of colors on my nails to so I can show you guys the comparison between nudes, blues, pinks, greens and so on but then the more I look at it, it reminded me of an ombre nails that's been in this summer.

Basically this will be a two in one post kind of thing.  I the order of the polish and the color on my nails a opposite..sorry.

Here are the colors I used starting from the thumb.

1. Essie- Jackie Oh My -it is a very white nude shade. Very sheer.. this took me three coats and I can still see some bald spots. I think this color needs to thicken up a bit for the 2-3 coats to work.
2. Essie- Topless and barefoot- one of my favorite nudes. The consistency is medium to thick.  This only took 2 coats to get this opaque.  This has a pink undertone.
3. OPI- Get me to the Taj on time- I cant wait for this color to become thicker because I heard it will be easier to polish and will take less coats.  I really do like this color but it is too sheer, this took me 3 coats.  This color looks really close to essie topless and barefoot but more sheer.
4. Essie Jazz- I really like this color. This is a brown undertone nude very pretty and opaque. Only took 2 coats to get the color of the bottle.
5. Mark- Stay neutral ( I got this from a giveaway from Liliana Lopez)  This color is different from all the other nude. it has more of an orange undertone and with pink  shimmer. The shimmer is very fine so it makes it hard to see. This took 2 coats.

I hope you guys enjoy the swatch and review!  Stay tune for a purple ombre nails next !