Monday, April 30, 2012

PRO-FX


Well this post is just a boring post about PRO-FX Quick Dry High Gloss Top Coat lol. I've been looking at this bottle at my local Walmart and have been debating whether to buy it or not. It's just a big bottle (2.5 FL. Oz.- 75ml) of top coat for around $5. My thinking was that I already have a bunch of different top coats so what do I need another one for? I broke down and bought it and boy am I happy :) This top coat is great. It's not too thick that it never dries right, it's not too thick that it is stringy, and on the flip side it's not too thin that it takes 4 coats. I love the consistency of it. It also dries fast and it's nice and shiny. So to sum it up if you have been thinking about buying this my opinion is GO FOR IT, it's a great buy :) Thanks for reading.

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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Fancy French


I wanted a french, my favorite nail style, but I wanted to add some bling to it so this is what I came up with. Again easy to do.

Nail Polish Used:
Sally Hansen Hard As Nails: 110 Hard to Get
Wet n Wild megalast: Private Viewing
Kiss Nail Art Paint: silver glitter

How To:
First I applied my base coat and then I used Private Viewing. Once that has COMPLETELY dried I used plain old/normal/not anything fancy scotch tape and taped up my nails only leaving only the tips exposed. This is my little cheat to getting great french tips ;-) *You really have to make sure that your nude polish is dry though or the tape will mess it up pretty bad* When you get all 10 nails taped up you can apply the white polish. I applied two coats of white and then I carefully removed the tape. I didn't wait for the white to dry this time and went right to my glitter nail art pen. Once I applied the glitter line to all the nails I let them dry a little and then started to apply my rhinestones with clear top coat and my dotting tool. I bought my rhinestones and dotting tools off of ebay. You can usually find all your nail art supplies on there for really cheap. My only issue with it is that its getting shipped from Hong Kong so it takes at least 3 weeks for me to get it. But anyway I got off track there. To apply the rhinestones you just simply use your dotting tool *or if you don't have one you can use a bobby pin* and apply a small dot of clear polish where you want the rhinestone and then with the other end of the tool I picked up the gem and pushed it into the dot. It's just as simple as that. Once you get all the rhinestones on just apply at least 2 layers of top coat.

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Friday, April 27, 2012

Cookie Monster

Cookie Monster Nails! I painted these on my niece and she loved them :)

Polish used:
Salley Hansen Insta-Dri : 430 Brisk Blue
Wet n Wild megalast: Private Viewing
Essie: Mink Muffs
(2) Art Decos: White and Black

The how to is super easy and pretty self explanatory.. I simply painted the thumb with the Brisk Blue and the other four fingers with the Private Viewing. Once they are completely dry I used my dotting tool to apply the "chocolate chips" which I chose Mink Muffs. Cookie monsters eyes were applied with dotting tools as well. I tried making the black dots in the center of his eyes even but I thought they looked better when they were crooked and googly eyed. Once that has all dried you had at least one layer of top coat. Make sure the eyes have dried or the black will run into the white and mess it up :-/   Viola there's your Cookie Monster nails :)

Happy Painting

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Orly- Oh Cabana Boy

Just wanted to share one of my colors which is Orly's Oh Cabana Boy. I just love this color! It's a great shade of pink. It's bright and very girly. I keep calling my nails my Barbie nails :) It took two coats to get the color to match whats in the bottle. I've only had the color on a day but I have no complaints yet. I'm getting lots of compliments on it, so that always makes my day :)

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

First Post!

Well today I'm starting my blog. I hope I can get some followers and hope I have enough interesting things to post :) I'll start out with some info: My name is Amanda. I'm 24. I'm a waitress at my mom's small family restaurant. I'm currently in a 6 year relationship with my boyfriend. I love the colors PINK, BLACK, WHITE, and PURPLE. I use :) <- these way too much. I love nail polish and nail art and I want to share my love with the world. I have a nail polish collection which constantly changes, I'm always adding to it or getting rid of polish but my current count as of this very moment is 230 bottles but that's including 11 nail art/ stripper bottles. The picture above is my collection. It is missing the 20 or so bottles I bought today though. I made the shelves myself using a video from YouTube. I'll make a post on them later and include the link. My hopes for this post is to show you some of my favorite colors are and some of the nail are I've done and that I like. Thanks for stopping by and hopefully you'll like my blog :)