KBshimmer Proud Peacock

Hello everyone!

As my first post back, I thought I'd share with you my new favorite indie polish and my favorite polish from them (so far). This is KBshimmer Proud Peacock. I've been lemming this polish for a while and finally got it in an awesome swap. It is just as awesome as I thought it would be, if not more!

KBshimmer describes this polish as "[a] dusty teal green base is accented by tons of glitter. We started with a large blue hex, and added both a black hexes for some depth. We then went micro with purple, black and white diamond glitters. Fuschia, teal, and navy small glitters accent several holographic glitters, including a silver bar, teal, and two sizes of silver." I normally hate bar glitters but I had no trouble with these at all!

First I have some bottle shots:

 

So pretty! I'm a sucker for anything blue or teal and lately anything with 'peacock' in the name, so this was the perfect polish for me. Now for some swatches after the jump!

I'm back!

Hello lovelies!

I'm so sorry I've been gone for months. It has been getting very hectic in my house with my father being sick, the holidays, going on vacation, and going back to school soon. I PROMISE I will start being more active from now on.

I would like to thank my two followers for still being here, so if you could please message me your name, address, and favorite polish type (color, creme, glitter, shimmer, etc.) I'd like to send each of you a little something. :)
Also, if you could tell me some things you like to see on other blogs that would be great! I'm going to start swatching more of my polish as I NEED to go on a no buy soon after spending too much on holiday sales. Eesh! I'll try to do some stamping and designs and stuff, but is there something else you'd like to see? Comment to let me know. :) I'll be posting something this weekend that's polish related.

Until next time,
Nicole

My first Butter London!

Hello ladies!

I finally got my BL in the mail, darn storm. Speaking of the storm, I hope everyone is safe and no one was hurt. It was such a crazy storm. :( Things can be replaced, but people can't. Just remember that. ;)

So I picked Knackered as my first BL because it looked super pretty on the screen, and I'm pretty glad I picked it! It's a light purple duochrome base with micro holo glitter. I LOVE the application! It's really, really thin so it went on easily and dried super quick. The only problem with it is that it's super sheer. I used four coats and could still see the tips of my nails. :(

Both of these pictures are four coats of Knackered without a top coat.

 And these two are with a top coat (first picture with flash).

It's so pretty, but it's way too sheer for me. :( I'm going to try to find a good blue to wear under it, so maybe I'll update this post with that as an accent nail. Anyways, let me know about your favorite BL or if you liked Knackered.

And I hope you had a great Halloween!

Nicole  

Quick post ...Again!

I have been having such a hard time with my nails this week! I tried two different brands and colors of purple so I could do a purple/gold manicure, but the polish would NOT cooperate! No matter what I did, how many top coats I added, both of them chipped. BAD. Seriously, half of my nail polish peeled off on one of my nails. So after that I took a few days with my nails naked (felt so weird!) and finally got something to stick! So here it is:

 Wow, my cuticles are terrible! But anyways, I saw this dark blue (WAY darker than it looks in the picture) from my stash and thought I would do this! This lasted two days. Haha. I just finished doing my first Halloween manicure, so I'll be posting that hopefully tomorrow!

Have a great night!
Nicole

Influenster Beauty Blogger VoxBox 2012

Hello all,

I just finished reviewing my VoxBox on youtube, so I thought I'd post it here in case any of you wanted to see it. Ignore my voice, I have a terrible runny nose from my stupid allergies. And I'm sorry about the quality of the video, my webcam isn't that high tech. Haha.

I wasn't too happy with the candle because it smells like men's cologne, but luckily my Dad loved it so he'll use it. As for the fake lashes and the eye palette, I don't know what I'm going to do with those yet. I'm not the biggest fan of fake eye lashes but I've never used them, so we'll see. The NYC eye palette is too dark for my eyes and skin so we'll see about that as well. I'm excited to try the frizz control stuff, though. :)

Let me know if you got this VoxBox and if you like the products you receieved!

Nicole

My new favorite top coat!

Hello lovelies,

Today I have a quick post about Makeup Your Face's awesome holographic top coat, Interference. Yes, holographic top coat! I was so excited when I saw this polish and I ordered it as soon as I could!

Here it is over Essie's Da Bush:

This is with flash so you can see the holographic goodness! As for application, it went on great! It was a little thick but it was necessary as it covered the entire nail with one layer. It dried pretty quickly and I used a clear top coat to hold in the awesomeness. This manicure only lasted a few days because it happened to be cleaning week at work (yuck!) but I'm sure it lasts longer normally, especially depending on what you have under it.

This is my favorite new top coat and I'm going to be experimenting with it soon. Check Makeup Your Face's facebook and etsy pages to see more of their awesome nail polish and makeup!

Have a great weekend!
Nicole

Crazy Busy Week

If anyone reads this blog at all, you've noticed that I haven't posted in 8 days. I'm so sorry! I finally got the hours I needed at work but more hours = less nail and blog time. I got some sloppy pictures of a great mani I did before I got super busy, so here goes nothing!

So I started off wanting to do a lacy type manicure, but I do not have the skill set for that. So this is what happened. I got both of the polishes (Essie Turquoise & Cacaios and Penny Talk) in the mail and they looked so great I had to do a mani. As always, excuse my horrible cuticles and clean up job.

So I started off with two coats of Turquoise & Cacaios on all of my nails, but some of them still had bald spots and my slight OCD wouldn't let me keep them that way so some of them had three coats. For the tips and the lines on the bottom of the design I used tape. Then I used my second smallest dotting tool to make the lines between them. Voila! You have a weird Aztec type manicure. This is one of my personal favorites. :)

I'm sorry I've been so busy this past week and that I wasn't able to post the Wednesday Breast Cancer Awareness manicure. I swear I'll try to post more this week! Thanks for keeping up with my blog, if anyone is.


Nicole