China Glaze Sea Spray & 2030

Finally decided to stamp my nails. Haven't done this in awhile! I used China Glaze Sea Spray as the base and stamped using Konad plate m83 with China Glaze 2030, which is one of my favorite stamping polishes. I like how it turned out! But please ignore my broken pinkie nail...it's slowly growing back.

Thank you!

Hi everyone! I just wanted to drop by and say thank you and welcome to my new followers! My nails have been in quite a state lately, hence no new posts. I actually just cut them all down, and I'm starting over. And honestly I've been so busy lately that my nail polish often stays on all week and gets all chipped and ugly before I get around to changing it. Sad, I know. Also, the nail on my index finger has developed this mysterious ridge in it that wasn't there before. I assume it will grow out but it's kind of weird.

Anyway! Thank you all and welcome and I will be posting soon!

Addicted to Crackle

I know, more crackle. You can't turn around without seeing it somewhere lately. I really love these, though. They usually turn out pretty cool looking and it's so easy! This one is China Glaze Broken Hearted, the pink crackle, over Orly Shine. I got this idea for the pink over the silver from xsparkage on youtube, and I love how it turned out.

Konad with Holographic Polish

I have two designs today. The first one is from last month using Essence Just Rock It! and China Glaze DV8 with a design from Konad plate m63. I really like this design and find myself using it often.

The next one, which I'm wearing now, started with a base of L.A. Girl Vinyl Record from the Disco Brights collection. I decided it looked perfect for stamping, so I used plate m57 with China Glaze LOL.

I love this leopard print design for some reason. This one and the one above are designs I just keep coming back too. Blue is my favorite polish color if you couldn't tell, and holographic polishes are great for stamping; they work beautifully. I also love how bright this is. I'm tired of winter and snow - I'm ready for spring!

ELF Konad & Nail Stickers

Hope everyone had a great new year! I have been pretty lazy about polishing my nails lately, but with all the new spring collections coming out I think I'll have to get back on it. I can't wait for the new China Glaze collections and the Zoya spring collection looks awesome, too.

A couple of new Konad plates came out this month. I ordered them from wowsocool.com earlier this week and they showed up today (so fast!). I also got the Konad stamping polish in yellow. So I decided to use it with plate m82 over ELF Royal Purple. This is actually my first time using an ELF polish. I got this one in a set of three at Big Lots of $2.50 and it's pretty nice. Then I used a couple of small gems to accent the flowers.

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Lately I've been seeing nail sticker wraps everywhere from all sorts of brands and I wanted to try them out.

I found the Broadway Nails and the Art Club Glam Nails at Meijer. I think the Art Club ones were under $5 and the Broadway ones maybe $5 or $6. Both had a fairly good selection. I found the Sally Hansen ones at CVS and there was a huge selection of really cool designs, however, these were $10! I had some CVS extra care bucks which made these only $5, but I don't think I would have paid $10. We'll see how they work out; I will post when I use them! The bottle is something I also found at CVS and decided to try - Sally Hansen Vita Surge Cuticle Gel. My cuticles are so dry lately and this stuff looks promising. I really like that the applicator isn't a brush but more of a felt tip like a lip gloss applicator that makes it easier to massage the oil into the cuticles. I just got it today so I'll update when I have a verdict on how well it works.

Zoya Nova

I have been so busy lately with the holidays, work, and classes that I have barely been changing my polish! I've been wearing OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender since Saturday (and it's holding up really well). But this post is about a polish I wore last week, Zoya Nova. It's a glitter polish, pink, and very pretty but it's not my favorite. This is three coats, dried really quickly as glitter polishes usually do. I only had to use one coat of Seche Vite over this polish. It wasn't very gritty at all. Nice.

Milani Gold Glitz

I'm back! I think my broken nail has finally gotten to the point where I can start posting again. In the time since my last post, I went through almost two packages of band-aids keeping that nail covered up. It looked awful and it was pretty painful, too.

Anyway! In my last post I showed two of the new Milani glitters. Since then, I went back and bought all of the rest of the line except for the red one...and I will probably pick that one up the next time I'm at the drugstore because I love these so much. They claim to be "one coat" glitters, and let me tell you - they are! The one I'm wearing today is called Gold Glitz. I have two coats on, but I could have easily gotten away with one. The only thing I don't like about these is that they are gritty. I used two coats of Seche Vite over this to smooth it out, and it seemed to do the trick.

So pretty and sparkly. If you can find these (I found the display at CVS), and you like glitter, you have to take a look at these. I'm dreading removing this...but I think it's worth it!