My Favourite Nail Polishes for Summer

Hi everyone!

Now that summer is here I wanted to introduce you to my favourite nail polishes of the season. I created a video showing you each colour and each colour range that I like to wear during the summer months. Don’t forget to let me know what some of your favourite summer polishes are too.

My favourite summer nail polishes

Polishes Mentioned:

Medium Purples:
Zoya Malia
OPI A Grape Fit
China Glaze Spontaneous

Pastel Purples:
Zoya Marley
Zoya Heather
Zoya Miley
OPI Done Out in Deco
China Glaze Light as Air
China Glaze IDK (holographic)

Yellows and Oranges:
China Glaze Lemon Fizz
China Glaze V
China Glaze Peachy Keen
Zoya Lianne

Corals:
Zoya Rica
Zoya Soho Punch
China Glaze Bad Landing
Zoya Maya
Essie California Coral

Bright Pinks:
OPI La Paz-itively Hot
OPI The Lifeguard Makes Me Blush
China Glaze Strawberry Fields
Orly Basket Case
OPI Shorts Story
Orly Lola
Zoya Eva

Lighter Pinks:
China Glaze Pink Underground
Essie Castaway
Zoya Cassi

Pastel Pinks and Peaches:
China Glaze Something Sweet
Essie Neo Whimsical
Essie Van D'Go
Orly Cotton Candy

Mint Greens:
China Glaze For Audrey
MAC Peppermint Patti
Essie Mint Candy Apple

Bluish Purples:
China Glaze Secret Peri-winkle
Essie Huckle Buckle
Zoya Jo

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My Nail Art

I have put together a video featuring all the nail looks that I have created since I started filming videos for YouTube over a year ago. Hope you enjoy and don’t forget to check out my channel for more nail tutorials and other beauty, fashion, and food videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/fictionwriter04

My Nail Art

Which design is your favourite?

Morning guys!!! I'm BACK!!!!

Alright, well let me just start by saying, thank you all so much for your sweet comments, and emails that I received. I don't want you guys to worry, everyone in my family is doing good. I just had some issues that I needed to deal with. You all really are so amazing and sweet, thank you guys again!! As much as it killed me to be away, it was something that I needed to do. I'm back though, and I hope I never have to go away again, lol. I missed you guys!! If you emailed me, pelase just give me some time to get back to you. I am starting to now, but I have just a tad over 100 emails, lol, so it might be a few days :)  Oh and I have tried to go back and respond to your comments, but blogger for some reason, won't let me. Each time I write something, and click 'Submit' it just keeps asking me to sign in again :(

Okay, lets just get back to normal now, and pretend that little time away never happened....deal??
Here is a funky french I did. I had a mostly black outfit on, and just wanted something fun on my tips :)

I started with 2 thick coats of China Glaze He's Going In Circles and then added China Glaze Jolly Holly for the tips.

Hello Kitty Nail Look

For this tutorial, I decided to stray from the flower designs that usually appear in my nail videos and do something youthful and fun!

Check out my video to see how I created this look and the products that I used.

Hello Kitty Nail Tutorial

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China Glaze Nail Polish Swatches

Here are my China Glaze Polish Swatches!

I purchased the clear nail wheels from BF-Beauty: 

http://www.bf-beauty.com/en/product/item/347/product_detail.html

A package of 10 wheels was only $4.99. I bought the clear wheels so that I could see the true opacity of each polish.

On the wheels below, I applied 3 coats of each polish. I did not apply a base coat or top coat to any of the nails.

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1. Lemon Fizz 2. Temptation Carnation 3. Peachy Keen 4. V 5. TTYL 6. Bad Landing 7. Strawberry Fields 8. Fifth Avenue 9. Pink Underground 1o. Free Fall 11. Something Sweet 12. Light As Air 13. IDK 14. Spontaneous 15. Flying Dragon (Neon) 16. Grape Juice 17. C-C-Courage 18. Avalanche 19. LOL 20. VIII 21. 2NITE 22. Secret Peri-Winkle 23. For Audrey 24. OMG

Greige Cherry Blossom Manicure

I created this look by starting off with a grey-beige (or greige) colour as a base. I then used a black nail art pen, a dotting tool, a light pink polish, a white polish, and a dark pink polish to create the cherry blossom design.

Check out my video to see how I created this look and the products that I used.

Greige Cherry Blossom Nail Tutorial

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Nail Polish Haul

A while ago I posted pictures of my most recent nail polish haul. Since then I have filmed a video that explains everything that I got and also includes comparisons of similar colours. Hope you enjoy!

Nail Polish Haul

When it's sunny, I wear holos!

Morning guys. Sorry I haven't gotten to your comments, but I will this afternoon. My weekend was just packed full of fun.

Oh, and update on Junior, the baby bunny, he has been set free. He was eating on his own no problem, and when my friend went to put food in his cage, he went to bite. So in her eyes, he was ready to start defending himself. So her and her husband took him to a field by our neighborhood, and set him free. YAY, I'm just thrilled she was able to save him, now it's up to him.

My little girl gave me the sweetest note/poem for Mothers Day, I'll def try and share it with you guys tomorrow. Hope you all had a great weekend too.

Now for my mani, I did this Friday night since it was going to be so nice on Saturday, and that's when I love to wear my holos.

I started with 2 coats of China Glaze OMG

Then using tape, I taped off the triangles and used China Glaze DV8. Eeek, so me uh-oh on my ring finger. I was rushing just a tad too much, and didn't realize the tape wasn't down 100% oh well.

Cadillac Nails....says Jack

Happy Mothers Day to all you mothers out there!!!!

Let me just start off saying, that this mani is all Jacks idea. When he saw my new Urban Decay polishes, he grabbed this one, and said "oooohhh, you can do Cadillac nails, because it's just like the paint job you see on them."  Haha, he is too cute. So, I figured I would try it out.

I started with 2 coats of China Glaze White on White. Oh and as you probably noticed, I nubbinized my nails. They were just getting so long, and I was terrified I would do serious harm to them, and well me. I had already scratched myself and others numerous times, eeek. I'm also going camping at the end of the month, so I figured I will try and keep them semi short for the trip.

I then did just 1 coat of  Urban Decay Fluorescent. It really is pretty. Just the slightest pearlized color to it.

Hope you guys are all having a great weekend!!

Nail Polish Haul!

Over the last six months I have purchased a few nail polishes that I wanted to show all of you. All polishes are from either Orly, Essie, China Glaze, or Zoya, and many were purchased at discounted, sale, or promotional prices.

Hope you enjoy!

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Orly

Orly Cotton Candy (Sweet Collection, Spring 2010)

*swatches of Cotton Candy can be found here: http://putbeautytowords.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-got-manicure-orlys-cotton-candy.html

Essie

Essie Jackie Oh My and Shop Till I Drop

Essie Topless and Barefoot (Spring 2011) and Sand Tropez (Spring 2011)

China Glaze

Peachy Keen (Up & Away, Spring 2010), Lemon Fizz (Up & Away, Spring 2010), Light as Air (Up & Away, Spring 2010), and Something Sweet (Up & Away, Spring 2010)

Zoya

Zoya Areej (Summertime Collection, Summer 2011) and Rica (Sunshine Collection, Summer 2011)

Zoya Dove (Intimate Collection, Spring 2011), Jules (Intimate Collection, Spring 2011), Marley (Intimate Collection, Spring 2011), and Caitlin (Intimate Collection, Spring 2011)

*swatches of these four polishes can be found here: http://putbeautytowords.blogspot.com/2011/02/zoya-polish.html

*a nail art look using Jules can be found here: http://putbeautytowords.blogspot.com/2011/03/easy-dot-nail-look.html

Zoya Harley (Twist Collection, Spring 2009), Kelly (Wonderful Collection, Fall 2010), and Laney (Reverie Collection, Spring 2010)

Zoya Marilyn (Serendipity Collection, Spring 2007), Heather (Bouquet Collection), and Stephanie (Spa Essentials Collection)

*More information about Marilyn can be found here: http://putbeautytowords.blogspot.com/2011/03/light-pink-polish-for-spring-zoya.html

Zoya Felicity (Blissful Collection, Spring 2008) and Zanna (Blissful Collection, Spring 2008)

Let me know which ones are your favourites!

Easter / Spring Inspired Nail Look

As you have probably already noticed, I like to celebrate holidays by creating nail looks inspired by the festivities. Today I have created a look inspired by Easter as well as spring. The nail design is easy to achieve and adds a pop of spring colours to your holiday look.

In addition to the photos below, I have created a tutorial video to demonstrate how I created this look as well as the products that I used.

Easter / Spring Nail Tutorial

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