30 Day Challenge: Day 5 OPI Excuse Moi!

Hey Guys, today I have a new OPI Muppets glitter for you, it’s the only one that’s not chunky in a clear base.  This is Excuse Moi! It’s a light pink jelly base with small multi coloured glitter. It is way nicer than I expected. I actually didn’t think I would like this because I’m not a big pink person, but I really liked it. I suspect it’s because of the glitter, lol!

 I especially love the green and blue glitter, it makes this different from the normal pink glitter polishes you see.

What do you think? Have you picked up any of the Muppets colours yet? which are your favourites?

Don't forget to check out the other bloggers doing the challenge!
Alexandria at Je T'aime Lacquer
Amber at The Polished Momma
Andrea at Addicted to the Allure of Beauty
Ashley at Follow the Yellow Polish Road
Caitlin at Something Creative
Carly at Lacquered Lover
Caroline at Good Lack, Nail!
Caroline at Shadow's Nail Art
Chelsea at Pretty and Polished
Gwen at Pudgy Nails
Ingie at Limited Addiction Nails
Jacki at Adventures in Acetone
Jamie at Nails Adored
Lindsey at Nailtopia
Natalie at Gems in a Bottle
Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails
Rachel at Cherry Glam Girl
Sarah at Lucky Lacquers
Shaina at Haute Lacquer
Taylor at Nailed to the T
Thalie at Glazed Talons 

30 days of Untrieds Challenge: Day 1 Natural Law

Hey Guys, My friend Taylor from Nailed to the T made up a 30 day challenge and asked some of our other friends if we wanted to do it with her, and I said yes because it's a challenge to use a new untried polish every day for 30 days. Since I have a ton of untrieds I thought that this would be a perfect challenge for me to do. So for the next 30 days you will see a post every day of a polish I've never tried before. 

If you want to participate, send a message to Taylor and get added to the list!

So for day 1, I chose a polish that is a franken of a very hard to find polish that you may know. It's Essie Starry Starry Night. My friend Laurie found a way to dupe it and called it Natural Law. It's a gorgeous dark blue jelly with small silver glitter throughout. It covered beautifully in 2 coats.

 Isn't it gorgeous?

 Extreme close up!

Here's a list of the other bloggers paticipating, so you can check out their untrieds too!

Alexandria at Je T'aime Lacquer
Amber at The Polished Momma
Andrea at Addicted to the Allure of Beauty
Ashley at Follow the Yellow Polish Road
Caitlin at Something Creative
Carly at Lacquered Lover
Caroline at Good Lack, Nail!
Caroline at Shadow's Nail Art
Chelsea at Pretty and Polished
Ingie at Limited Addiction Nails
Jacki at Adventures in Acetone
Jamie at Nails Adored
Lindsey at Nailtopia
Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails
Rachel at Cherry Glam Girl
Sarah at Lucky Lacquers
Shaina at Haute Lacquer

Taylor at Nailed to the T
Thalie at Glazed Talons

See you all tomorrow for day 2!

Happy Halloween!

Hey Guys! I know Halloween is pretty much over but I've been busy doing Halloween stuff with my kids so didn't get a chance to do a post today, sorry!

Anyways, you're going to see 2 manis today so I think that makes up for it!

The first mani is just a basic spiderweb. I used Kleancolor Metallic Purple and just a basic silver foil polish for the web. I used a paintbrush and painted the web on. Something interesting to note: the Kleancolor polish completely changed color once I put topcoat on!

Kleancolor Metallic Purple

Without topcoat

With topcoat, see how it doesn't look metallic anymore? I personally like it better this way, it turned into a rich glowy deep violet, totally gorgeous!

I played with the white balance to try to show you the true color of the polish. this is pretty close, but it's really rich in real life.

Now for my next mani, I used Kayla Shevonne again as my inspiration. I can't help it, she's awesome!

These are the polishes I used: WnW Black Creme, unnamed pumpkin polish with holographic glitter and crescent moons in a clear base, China Glaze Ghoulish Glow, Essence Lime Up. I also used a bit of yellow mixed with white but I didn't show that.

I used the pumpkin glitter polish on my thumb, index and pinky fingers to simulate the night, and the middle and ring fingers have cat's eyes. I followed Kayla's tutorial, and it was actually very easy.

I'm super pleased with how this turned out

And it glows! ahhh I love it so much!

What do you think? did you do anything special on your nails for Halloween?

China Glaze It's Alive

Hey Guys, I'm trying to get as much Halloween stuff posted before Monday as possible, so here's a quicky of China Glaze It's Alive. It's from this year's Halloween collection. This is easily my favorite from the collection. I just love this polish so much! it's insanely sparkly, and yes it looks like a swamp or something equally gross, but that's the point, It's a Halloween colour! Though I could easily see myself wearing this all year round, it's seriously gorgeous!

It's Alive covered perfectly in 2 coats and was a normal glitter in that it was bumpy and a pain to remove. It's not bad if you use the foil method, but it still left glitter all over my hands after removal.  All this is worth it though, cause look how gorgeous!

To help with the bumpiness I used one coat of Gelous base coat over the glitter, then one coat of seche vite. It's a trick I learned from my friend Traci. Coincidentally I also got this polish from her cause she's awesome like that and will go out of her way to help people out when they can't find something!

If you can still find this, snap it up before It's gone, you won't be disappointed!

Creepy Pumpkin and a Cuticle Tip

Hey Guys,

Sorry it's been a while, I had a bunch of posts all lined up for a challenge I was doing, then ended up not doing the challenge, so I had nothing to post!

Anyways, on a FB group I am in, a friend of mine posted that her friend had a trick for nasty dry cuticles, and since mine were less than stellar, I decided to try it and document it for you, and I'm happy to say it worked! so thanks Casandra for the tip! (PS check out her blog, she mentions the tip there too!) 

The tip is to use Olive Oil (yes just regular olive oil from your kitchen) and put it all over your cuticles, then wrap your fingers in bandaids and leave it on for an hour or so. I would suggest opening the bandaids before putting the oil on. 

These are my cuticles before, I know you just gasped!

 

 

After the Olive Oil and Band-Aids are on

After the band-aids came off

Quite a difference huh? I left the band-aids on for about an hour and a half, then took them off, washed my hands and applied OPI AvoJuice lotion. Thanks so much for the tip Casandra, that is definitely gonna be a regular treatment here!

Now for my nails! For this mani I used this tutorial from the lovely Asami at Nails by Asami. check her out, she is amazing with the nail art! To do this mani you need nail strips to make the pumpkin face. I used Incoco since that's what is used in the tutorial and I found some on clearance for $2.99.

The polish I used

the completed mani

I love this mani so much it's been on for 5 days! I'm going to take it off today and do it on my toes using an orange glow in the dark polish!

Orly Fowl Play

Hey Guys! Today I have a quick NOTD featuring Orly Fowl Play. Fowl Play is from the Birds of a Feather collection . I am in love with this polish! one of my online nail buddies was nice enough to pick this up for me, since I couldn't find it here in Canada.

Fowl Play is a dark reddish purple jelly with red/green duochrome flakies, small blue glitter, and silver micro glitter. You can really see the duochrome of the flakies in the bottle pic, but it's a little harder to see on the nail.

The wear time on this polish is excellent! I put this on Thursday night, It is now Monday night, and I took the pictures tonight! not one chip or peel and minimal tip wear in four days, I am impressed!

Applied in order: one coat OPI Nail Envy Matte, three coats Fowl Play, one coat Seche Vite. It needed 3 coats for full opacity. You could also wear a similar coloured underwear to conserve it, but I wanted to wear it on it's own this time.

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