Classy Animal Print nails

Good morning all :) So I don't typically do "animal print" although I do really like it when I see pictures of manicures featuring it. Last night however  I had a request to do a manicure featuring animal print so I delivered, I hope you enjoy the results as much as I do! Colors used are listed after the images

Colors used : OPI - Keeping Suzi at Bay
                      Essie - Mochaccino
                      Essie - Sand Tropez
                      Quo by Orly instant nail artist in black.

Over all I am pleased with this mani as I don't typically delve into animal prints as I said at the beginning of the post. I think it looks classy however and I would definitely do it again, so thanks for the suggestion!
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China Glaze Halloween Ghoulish Glow mani !

Hey all :) So I promised I would incorporate China Glaze Ghoulish Glow into a Mani and show you how well it glows in the dark and here I am fulfilling that promise :) I painted my nails with a gaming theme and used four coats of Ghoulish Glow as a top coat.  You do not need to use that many coats in any regard, however I wanted to make sure the glow would photograph well so I gave it an extra coat or two. Here are the pics :)

As you can see in the photos on the right hand side I used more Ghoulish Glow than I necessarily needed to -which caused my design to not be very visible in the glow photograph, but that's ok because what I wanted to illustrate was the glow effect of this awesome polish. Now you might be wondering if you need to do anything special to make it glow in every day life and the answer would be not really. I don't stand around with my hands under a lamp all day but whenever I enter a low lit or dark area my nails glow like Fire Flies and its wonderful :) Personally I purchased my bottle of Ghoulish Glow from Nail Polish Canada but you can purchase it wherever China Glaze Nail Laquer is sold. My only advice for using this polish would be to shake the bottle really well between the application of coats to make sure the glow particles are well distributed for an even glowing effect :)

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Excited for the new season :D

Just gearing up for the new season of my personal favorite zombie apocalypse show (and a likely string of Halloween themed nails)  with this zombified Mani. I am loving this manicure personally and I hope you will enjoy it to :) Here are the pictures!

And a little closer up.. 

Hope you liked it guys. I certainly had a great time doing them.  if you enjoy my posts and want to keep up with them as they happen then don't forget to subscribe :)

Breast Cancer Awareness support nails

Hey guys.  So it is Breast Cancer Awareness month and although I haven't done a manicure for a cause before it was mentioned on the Internet that it would be a good way to  creatively show support to all the people who are effected by Breast Cancer. I know it's just a Mani and in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really "do" anything for someone effected by a terrible and scary disease but I think that beauty, support,  and good spirits are also important which is what I tried to achieve with this. I hope you enjoy.

Don't forget to educate yourself and support those effected by Breast Cancer in any way you can.

China Glaze Apocalypse of Color Halloween collection - Swatches and review

Morning all :) So I am super excited  to have the China Glaze Apocalypse of Color Halloween collection up and swatched for you today. The China Glaze  Halloween collections are always very near and dear to my heart as for the past four years I have made somewhat of a tradition of purchasing them and I have yet to be disappointed. Let's start the swatching shall we? Enjoy :)

A photo of the collection as it arrived in its Halloween packaging :) 

 

 

I love your guts is a textured polish that is largely pinish red shade flecked throughout with tons of tiny black speckles which create texture and give the appearance of dried guts on your nails. As a Halloween/ Zombie apocalypse Movie/ TV show kind of girl I love this, it's awesome and eerie and dries to a super matte textured finish.

 

Don't let the dead bite is a creamy nude/ flesh toned polish packed full of red and pinkish glitters of all sorts. I have used two coats here for optimal coverage but one coat looks really cool as well. This polish dries smooth, applies well and reminds me of blood trickles and trails as if one were to be bitten by a zombie! Muahaha!

 

But of corpse is essentially the same as I Love Your Guts, except it's this awesome shade of green and instead of looking like, well..dried guts..it looks like the color of a rotten zombie teetering around looking for brains and the like. As with I Love Your Guts this polish dries Matte with a textured feel and is awesome. 

Getting to Gnaw You is another textured polish in the collection which is a black polish with a ton of little orange glitters throughout. Unlike But of Corpse, and I Love Your Guts, this polish does not dry matte and is instead rather shiny because of all the glitter. Very monstrous and beautiful. 

The last two swatches I have are both of Rest in Pieces which as you can see is a clear base with orange and black glitter pieces in an array of shapes and sizes. The photo above is Rest is Pieces swatched alone on the nail, and the photo below is Rest in Pieces swatched over But of Corpse for an example of how it looks on top of another color. It would really have gone excellently with most of the colors in the collection. I just wanted to wear But of Corpse :P

I did also throw in a picture of the bottle of Ghoulish Glow so that you can see how much it does glow. This is the third bottle of Ghoulish Glow that I own and I absolutely love it. I was going to try to swatch it, but I decided against it in favor of incorporating it into a mani and taking a short video to show you how it glows. I will have that video up as soon as possible. Hopefully in the next few days.

All in all I was not disappointed in the least with this collection. China Glaze always does such an amazing job on their Halloween collections that I look forward to them every year. The formulas for these polishes go on amazingly- although as with some textured polishes the coats have to be very dry before you apply another coat so you don't drag any of the previous coat off the nail. The coverage and pigmentation of the overall collection was great as well - two thin coats was the max I needed for complete nail coverage with any of the polishes in the collection. 

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Downton Abbey inspired nails

Evening all.  So Downton Abbey  is back and I am always so inspired by movies and shows that take place in different time periods and Downton Abbey is of course no exception.  Here I have  used China Glaze Rare and Radiant and Essie Mojito Madnes. Mojito Madness is stamped over Rare and Radiant to create a tapestry / brocade feel. Enjoy :)

I really enjoy this combo for fall and since Rare and Radiant is a China Glaze duo chrome the tone of the base color changes slightly with light and movement. I hope you enjoyed this post. If you like my content don't forget to subscribe and stay in the loop.

Time for some Star Trek TNG Science Officer nails!

So I wanted to do this Mani primarily because I love me some Star Trek , but also because this amazing blue called Chelsea Girl by Color Club Nail lacquer just screamed Beverley Crusher at me so here are the results :)

  I am very pleased with the way these turned out. I hope you enjoy them to. If you like my content please subscribe to make sure you never miss a post :)