Pink Wednesday is here again!!  I admit I've skipped a few of these, mostly due to the striking lack of pink in my polish collection.  Over the past month I've picked up a few new ones so hopefully I'll be able to get some better pink Wednesday mani's in the future!!  I love the idea of 'moon' mani's or reverse french mani's, whatever you call them they look super cool and are ridiculously easy to do.  I've never actually done one, only admired from afar and I think the issue I'm having with it is that it's not entirely perfect.  The moons are different sizes and some of them are a bit off kilter.  That said...I actually kind of like the way this turned out!  I couldn't stop looking at my nails all day!! And I have a new bottle of Seche Vite (which was MUCH needed)  so my nails are back to their glossy, chip free selves! The bright color of this, mixed with the Seche, topped with the fact that my nails were recently shaped gives off the impression of false nails a bit! I've had people asking me all day!  But as always, these are mine! 

Enjoy and thanks for following!! :)

Moon: Ulta Snow White

Reverse tip: Models Own Pastel Pink

Glitter coat: Barry M Iridescent Pink

This is kind of a lazy day nail for me.  I wanted to use my new China Glaze metallic crackle again, since the last time I tried it out it wasn't the best experience.  I'm glad I reserved judgement because this color is AMAZING.  This is the copper crackle and it's really the only one I was even excited about when I first saw the collection online.  I used it over a minty green color because it reminded me of a copper and jade ring I have that I LOVE :)  (pics eventually :P)  I took a close up for you guys (I'm experimenting with new camera tricks!) so you can see the glittery goodness of the crackle.  It has gold, yellow, orange, and copper flakes throughout it and it looks amazing on your nails!  I left these on for nearly a week and that's a record for me!!

Enjoy and thanks for following!! :)

Base is: Barry M Mint Green

Crackle: China Glaze Cracked Medallion

My most recent...and tiny...polish haul.  Most of these were a result of the buy one get one free butterLONDON sale at Ulta today and then some are also the product of a swap I did recently. :)  The top row left to right is Catrice Dirty Berry and Hip Queens Wear Blue Jeans, GOSH Metallic Green, Catrice Sold Out Forever and Hard Candy Black.  Bottom row left to right is Catrice Absolutely Chinchilly, butterLONDON Cheeky Chops and Chuffed, Nicole by OPI Justin Beiber mini set, butterLONDON Teddy Girl, Toff, and Queen Vic.  And just for fun...I'm showing off my entire butterLONDON collection today becuase I LOVE LOVE LOVE butterLONDON!!

Rainbow-y, no?  Starting at the top and working left to right I have: Cheeky Chops, Jaffa, Chuffed, Saucy Jack, Primrose Hill Picnic, Queen Vic, Toff, (second row) Blagger, Henley Regatta, Teddy Girl, Rosie Lee, Scoundrel, No More Waity Katie, Muggins, (third row) Lady Muck, Victoriana, Bluey, Dosh, British Racing Green, Wallis, West End Wonderland, (bottom row) The Old Bill, All Hail the Queen, and Tea With The Queen!  

Thanks for following! (you can read more about my love of butterLONDON here!)

I keep seeing everyone doing these Japanese cherry blossom manicures and I think it looks so pretty on the nail!  It seemed easy enough so I thought I'd try it out for myself! It turns out it's ridiculously easy and it's pretty difficult to get a bad effect, even if you screw up.  I wish I had made the branches a little smaller but other than that I really ended up liking this art. :)  I used a matte topcoat to mix it up a little bit and it surprisingly lasted about four days with no chips! Bonus! :) Enjoy and thanks for following!

Base color: China Glaze For Audrey

Accents: Barry M Mushroom, Ulta Snow White, OPI Sparrow Me the Drama

Topcoat: Essie Matte About You

This is another mani from my week of movies.  It doesn't have a whole lot to do with the movie I was watching, other than that the pattern is from a place mat and Julie and Julia happens to be about food.  Actually, the movie wasn't too bad.  I thought it was going to be awful and as it turns out it was pretty cute...I'd watch it again, but I wouldn't buy it.  Then again, I've seen over 3,000 movies and it's becoming increasingly harder to impress me on that front!!  Anyway...the nails.  The pattern is from a vintage fabric swatch which had wheels of white with blue spokes and dots around the egdes.  I thought the shinyness of the Seche Vite made it look too busy so I top coated again with Essie Matte About You (not shown in the picture).  I liked the results  but I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to designs and the fact that the spokes are kind of all over drove me crazy!  I need to work on patience with my manicures!  I have a week of anime still to come and all the freehand is going to make me crazy! :)  Enjoy them anyway and thanks for following!

Base color: butterLONDON Dosh

Accents: Ulta Snow White, Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream, butterLONDON Blagger

I've had a hard time this week getting motivated to do my nails.  I have a TON of unused colors that I want to do something with but I just can't seem to get organized enough to use them.  I'm in the process of getting together a week of anime nails which I think will be really cool but it's going to be a lot of work so that's keeping me from doing anything too over the top as well.  I had some really great art that I loved on the other night and then it got chipped :(  So I decided to go ahead and take part in the Monday Nail Art Challenge that a group I'm a part of (called Polish Aholics Anonymous) runs every week.  The theme of this week was candy.  It's probably a really great theme but the problem for me is that I don't eat candy.  Ever.  Well...rarely.  So I scoured the web looking for some fun candy to do.  I decided to do something based on those little licorice snaps with bright colors.  It came out kind of mod and the colors are great but I did it in a hurry and the quality is not the best.  Anyway...I hope you enjoy them the same! :)

Base coat: Ulta Snow White

Pink: Zoya Mod Matte Lolly

Green: Zoya Mod Matte Mitzi

Orange: Orly Orange

Blue/Purple: China Glaze Secret Per-i-winkle

Black: LA Nail Art Pen in  Black

So I bought this color awhile  back when I was first getting into Models Own colors. I had heard that they had a great formula and didn't chip forever so I picked up a few to test them out.  At £5 each they're not too expensive, but they're not exactly top of the line either.  I was pleasantly surprised with the formula of them though.  It was indeed SUPER easy on application. Smooth, two coats for most colors, and it really does last days without chipping.  And that's really saying something on my nails because even with Seche Vite and top of the line polish I still manage to chip my nails after at least the third day.  This particular color, Juicy Jules, is a medium holographic glitter.  The best thing about it (besides the ridiculous length it stayed on my nails--nearly 9 days NO chips) is that it dried almost completely smooth which is something I've not experienced with a glitter polish yet.  No topcoat needed.  Still I layered on one quick coat of Seche Vite (mostly to speed dry time!) I wish it had been more sunny when I took these pictures because this stuff REALLY lights up in the sunlight. But it looks great indoors as well!  :)

Base is: Barry M Berry Ice Cream

Sponged: butterLONDON Scoundrel on top and topped that with China Glaze Fairy Dust

So awhile back I bought butterLONDON's No More Waity Katie, and it's not exactly a secret that I wasn't impressed with it.  It's kind of murky and greyish purple but the glitter is somehow not glittery and it takes a million coats for any kind of effect and the effect you get for your effort isn't great.  I REALLY wanted to love this color as much as I love Duchess Catherine...but alas, I did not.  So it's been sitting in my drawer forever just waiting to be used.  I got some Martha Stewart glass beads at Michael's for next to nothing the other day so I decided to test them out on my nail  And I gave No More Waity, Katie a second chance.  I still don't love it...but I'm coming around!  

(Side note: I HATED the glass beads on my middle finger but I got a ton of compliments...so maybe it's not as bad as I thought!)

Base: Ulta Smoke Screen

Topped with: butterLONDON No More Waity, Katie

Accent nail: Martha Stewart glass micro beads