May #30DaysofColourChallenge - PURPLE/DRY BRUSH

This is a month long swatch challenge for May, a total of eleven manicures!

Today's manicure is purple and or dry brush.  I decided to do both, using a base of OPI's Lost My Bikini in Molokini, then dry brushing with Essie's Under Where and OPI's Push and Pur-Pull.  It kind of looks like marble.

May #30daysofcolourchallenge purple/dry brush

May #30daysofcolourchallenge purple/dry brush

May #30daysofcolourchallenge purple/dry brush

 If you are interested in participating in the challenge, here is the schedule!

May #30DaysofColourChallenge - GOLD/DOTTICURE

This is a month long swatch challenge for May, a total of eleven manicures!

While I love gold, I love dotticures more!  I used OPI's Who the Shrek are You, Essie's Blanc and OPI's Who Are You Calling Bossy.

#30daysofColourChallenge Dotticure

#30daysofColourChallenge Dotticure

#30daysofColourChallenge Dotticure

 If you are interested in participating in the challenge, here is the list!

 

#30DaysofColourChallenge - SWATCHER'S CHOICE

This is a month long swatch challenge for April.  A different manicure every day!

The Final of the #30DaysofColourChallenge is day 30 and it is swatcher's choice.  I selected Essie's Garden Variety.  It is part of the Spring 2015 Flowerista collection.  I love this gorgeous teal polish!

Essie's Garden Variety

Essie's Garden Variety

Essie's Garden Variety

If you are interested in participating in the challenge, here is the list!

 

#30DaysofColourChallenge - NEWEST

This is a month long swatch challenge for April.  A different manicure every day!

Day 23 is your newest polish and this is Essie's Flowerista from the Spring 2015 Flowerista collection.  It has an easy to use formula and is opaque with only 2 coats.

I know...another purple, LOL!

Essie's Flowerista

Essie's Flowerista

Essie's Flowerista

If you are interested in participating in the challenge, here is the list!

#30DaysofColourChallenge - PASTEL

This is a month long swatch challenge for April.  A different manicure every day!

Day 22 is a pastel polish.  This is Blossom Dandy a new polish from the 2015 Spring Flowerista collection.  It is a pretty pale blue/green...so beautiful!

Essie's Blossom Dandy

Essie's Blossom Dandy

If you are interested in participating in the challenge, here is the list!

#30DaysofColourChallenge - BROWN

This is a month long swatch challenge for April.  A different manicure every day!

Day 9 is brown.  This is Essie's Mink Muffs, a beautiful milk chocolate colour. It is part of the 2009 Fall collection, an oldie but a goodie!

Essie's Mink Muffs

Essie's Mink Muffs

Essie's Mink Muffs

If you are interested in participating in the challenge, here is the list!

#30DaysofColourChallenge - GREEN

This is a month long swatch challenge for April.  A different manicure every day!

Day 5 is green and I picked another favourite Mint Candy Apple from Essie.  This is part of the Essie Sweet Time of the Year 2009.  Mint Candy Apple is a pale green with a hint of blue.  It is opaque with 2 coats and it has a pretty good staying power, it usually stays chip-free for 4 days or more.

If you don't have this in your collection, I would highly recommend it!

Essie's Mint Candy Apple

Essie's Mint Candy Apple

If you are interested in participating in the challenge, here is the list!

Glitter Lamb's Mickey & Minnie

Mickey & Minnie is such an adorable polish.  It is described as 'a clear base filled with bubblegum pink minnie heads, black mickey heads, large chunky silver shreds, tiny gold hex mix, white dots and very tiny gold glitter.'  I have loved Micky & Minnie fovever so this is such a fun polish for me.  I paired it with Essie's Bachelorette Bash.  Check out the sparkly goodness.

 

What a great glitter polish...check out Glitter Lambs Etsy store here!

#springnorules - SPRING DOTTICURE !!

Spring Dotticure is the second manicure of the Spring Thaw Nail Art Challenge!  I love my dotting tools, you can do so much with a simple dot!  I used OPI's Just Can't Cope-acabana and Essie's Mod Square & Bikini so Teeny.

 

 

 

Up next is Pastel ;)  Here is the schedule for the challenge, if you are interested...remember no rules!

Green

Pretty Polish Tag

I was trolling checking out You Tube and came across the Pretty Polish Tag on Evebelievebeauty & Lindsay Does Nails (check them out).  I thought I would give it a shot 'blog style' :)

1. When it comes to colors, are you conservative or hot mama?

I love all colours, nail art and of course glitter, so I guess I am a hot mama B-)

2. Are you a drug store junkie or high end diva?

I love a 'good' polish regardless of price and if I can find a deal, all the better.  But, sometimes you get what you pay for...you know what I mean?

3. What's your All time favorite polish to date?

This is next to impossible for me, but because I am thinking summer please I love Mint Candy Apple by Essie and for my toes China Glaze's Flop Flop Fantasy.

Right now my favourite is Payton by Zoya!

4. What's the most you've ever paid for a polish? Least?

Kozmic Colour from Dollarama for $1.00.

Deborah Lippman's Let's Go Crazy $20.00.

5. Would you consider yourself a pro painter or just an amateur?

I don't think I am a pro, but I'm not really an amateur...I don't know :|

6. What's your biggest polish pet peeve?

Nasty looking cuticles!!  Lately I have been obsessed with cuticle products.  My current favourite is Lush's Lemony Flutter.

7. What's more important...top coat or base coat?

Base coat...without a good base you won't have a good mani, IMO  But I always wear top coat :) These are the current base coats I am using.

8. Nail art- love it or leave it?

LOVE IT...I may not be an expert, but I try and always have fun with it!

9. If you could design a polish, what would you name it and what would it look like?

I would name it Halley's Comet - my daughter's name is Hailey :x  Strangely enough it would look very similar to Zoya's Payton, but lighter purple.

10. Share your best tip for the perfect manicure.

Cleaning up your cuticles.  I use acetone and an stiff eyeliner brush!

I tag everyone :)

Essie's Cashmere Bathrobe

Cashmere Bathrobe is part of the Fall 2013 For The Twill Of It collection.  It is a beautiful gray creme with with shimmer, which makes it interestingly different.  The formula was great, it was opaque with 2 coats.

What a great grey creme to have on hand.

My Favourite Polish of 2013 !!

Happy New Year!! <:-P

Here are some of my favourite nail polishes of 2013, in no particular order.  Sorry there are a crap ton (32), but I am not good at picking just a few I love them all.

Zoya's Dream

 Zoya's NYX

OPI's Alcatraz

 Avon's Starburst

Avon's Saturn

 OPI's Your Such a Budapest

OPI's Vant to Bite my Neck?

OPI's My Vampire is Buff

OPI Eurso Euro

OPI's Can't Find my Czechbook

Avon's Moonbeam

Avon's Eclipse

 Avon's Celestial

 China Glaze's Highlight of my Summer

China Glaze's Bottoms Up

China Glaze's Sun of a Peach

 China Glaze's Too Yacht to Handle

China Glaze's Unrefined

Zoya's Chita

Zoya Chyna

 Indie Polish in Kaboom

OPI's Kiss me at Midnight

OPI's Muri Muir on The Wall

 OPI's Solitaire

Orly's Purple Velvet

Zoya's Payton

China Glaze's Put a Bow on It

 Essie's Sable Collar

Orly's Sparkling Garbage

Zoya's Stevie

China Glaze's This is Tree-mendous

Zoya's Carter

What a great year it has been...I can't wait to explore new polishes and create nail art with my friends in 2014.