Glitter Gradient

Hey guys! Sorry for not posting in awhile, college is keeping me busy and I haven't gotten around to editing/cropping mostly any pictures until now- even though I should be doing my homework. Yesterday was crazy, I planned on posting but after school I had to go to the doctor for my wrist- turns out I have tendonitis, and my mom made me get a flu shot, which stung like crazy, no other flu shot I've gotten has hurt that bad! And then we went out to try to find an outfit for our Fall Band Concert on the 30th, my first concert at Capital and I get to spend it being in the Symphonic Winds at Capital University- I'm so excited! And I got a 95% on my auditation test- which I was freaking out about because I thought I did poorly on it. woo! And then I got to spend from 7:30-11 helping my brother with his chemistry homework- not exactly how I planned on spending my night.

Now. Onto the nails!

Pictured is two coats of Zoya Caitlin (I think, possibly 3 coats) sponged with China Glaze Skyscraper. 

I really love glitter gradients. They're gorgeous, and just so simple to do. They're now my default way to wear glitter! haha

Pink Glittered Framed Nails

I'm really digging the framed nails trend...and the fact that you can do it with glitter makes it so much more awesome! Especially since I tried it with just regular polish before.I could not get good lines around my nails, it was pathetic.

Pictured is two coats of Zoya Ali and gold glitter from bornprettystore.com 

OPI Jade Is The New Black

OPI Jade is the New Black topped with China Glaze Fairy Dust

Most of you can probably tell, my pictures do Fairy Dust absolutely NO justice. It's so much more gorgeous in real life! 

Black and White Polka Dots

My camera really refused to get a good picture of this! I don't think it liked the GORGEOUS shimmer in Zoya Ginessa!

Base Color- Zoya Ginessa
Dots- OPI My Private Jet (non holo version, sadly.)

I apologize for the blurry pictures, none of them weren't blurry and I really loved the way this looked..oddly the best one was on my phone, see!

Zoya Feifei Studded Accent Nail

I'm going to be putting a couple things in my queue for the next couple days right now, so be prepared for short posts for the next few days! Besides, no one reads all my mumbling, right? hahaha :)

Today's nails are the same as yesterdays....except with a strip of Zoya Feifei down the side of one nail with some round studs on it to hide the line! I was going to do all of them this way, but it was late, and I was tired, so accent nail it was! 

Zoya Meg Swatches

Hey guys1 I'm so sorry for my lack of posts the past few days! Being a music major really is much more demanding than I thought! I just added clarinet quartet to my schedule on friday so now I'm up to 18 credit hours..fun, right?

Today I have a little beauty I got from the recent Zoya promotion they had a couple weeks ago, I got 8 which I'll show you all of them later once I get pictures of them all together, but today I have Zoya Meg to show you! Meg is from the Surf Collection and is described as a mermaid green foil metallic. I would probably describe Meg as a green apple foil, but I guess I could see it as a mermaid green also. Very pretty either way!

Pictured is 3 coats of Zoya Meg (I think!) 

China Glaze Rare & Radiant

Hi guys! How's everyone's days so far? I'm trying to build up my queue so that I won't (hopefully) be scrambling to post after a couple days of not posting- a week into college and I'm already SUPER busy.

Today I wanted to show you one of my newer polishes- China Glaze Rare & Radiant! I usually NEVER pay full price for China Glaze since I buy it online from head2toebeauty instead, and save a ton of money on it. But a few weeks ago when I went to Ulta I was so excited to see this that I didn't even pay attention to the fact that it was a China Glaze until a couple hours after I got home! I was hoping to find OPI's version of this, Just Spotted The Lizard, but there were no bottles left, oh well!

As you all probably know by now, Rare & Radiant is a dupe for Chanel Peridot. I love love love Peridot, I stopped using my bottle of Peridot as much because I didn't want to use it all up, so boy am I glad people have finally started making easy to find dupes! I was going to do a comparison post between the two, but there's so many out there already I decided not to- however if anyone wants to see a comparison post just let me know! 

Formula wise, it was great in 2 coats, but I'm a habitual three coater so I did three anyway. On a couple of my nails it did get a little bubble, but I'm not sure if it's because of the polish or me. Other than that, I give this an A++

What are your guy's thoughts? Are you excited to see Peridot dupes everywhere now or are you getting bored with seeing so many?

Studded Neon Half Moons

Good morning everyone! I hope everyone is having a fantastic Monday morning so far, I know I am! Sadly once I finish queing a few posts I'll have to start on my pile of homework, which I should have started already. Yay procrastination! And then once that's done, it'll be practice time! Yippe practice time! My first solo piece I get to work on in college with my AWESOME professor is the Weber Concertino . I am beyond excited about this! Now enough yapping, on to the polish!

I know this is blurry, but I feel like it portrays the true color of Pool Party the best, so I'm showing you all anyway. :) Actually, if I tilt my laptop screen more the top looks accurate too. So you know what, judge for yourselves, I guess it depends on your screen haha

For today's mani I started off with my new basecoat, Essie First Base Basecoat (watch out for an upcoming review!), two coats of Sally Hansen White On, and then a coat of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Topcoat. Once that dried I placed reinforcement labels (those little circular ones to reinforce holes in paper) in the spots I wanted, and painted on three coats of China Glaze Pool Party, and attached some circular studs from bornprettystore.com to hide any imperfections in my half moons, and finished with another coat of topcoat. 

I really love neon with studs. It's summery, it's fun, but the studs just made it badass..in a girly neon kind of way. 

A little note about the studs: I used nail glue to apply them here. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS. The only reason I used nail glue was because of my previous experience with the little steel balls. However I used the studs on my nails a couple days ago for a different mani and used regular clear polish, and 2.5 days later, I've only lost one, and that was because I picked it off myself. Unless you do a lot with your hands, I think clear polish would work just fine. The nail glue was just a pain for me to remove since I only wore this a couple days.

NOTD: Floral Stamping

Good morning!! Guess what! My Zoya package came in the mail yesterday, finally!! 8 new beautiful Zoya's, I'm so excited! I'll show you guys them in a couple days, I have i think 4 more nail posted piled up that I haven't gotten around to posting yet, then I'll do that. :)

Anyway, I broke out my stamping plates again the other day, and of course I had to try two of my new polishes I picked up at Ulta the other day.

Colors Used

OPI French Quarter For Your Thoughts

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Purple Haste

BM-221