The greatest part of online shopping...

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

I have a confession to make... I love, love to online shop. Not only is it the greatest place to find fab deals but I get all sorts of happiness running through me when I see a package in my mailbox. Or even better, when the mailman has to give me a special key to one of the overflow boxes. Now that makes this lady tick. 

Well... yesterday would be one of those days where I had to sit down while opening all of my fun mail because I was that excited. 

All of this fun was waiting in an overflow box for me when I got home from work.

I spy a Coco signature on one of my boxesssss! If you're a nail nerd, like myself, you already know why this is exciting. If you are asking "who the eff is Coco and why did she write on your package?!"... Well, she is the daughter of the genius behind Cult Nails and her mom just released a collection that Coco created all on her own. Currently the collection is only on sale as a whole collection, I needed the whole collection (yes, needed), and the rest is history.

This is Cult Nails' Coco Untamed collection! I can't wait to try out 'I Got Distracted' (the 2nd from the left)... It's so beautiful in the bottle, I can't imagine what this polish is going to look like on my nails.

Moving on let's open the big box, shall we?

Hello there, China Glaze neon collection! Well, not all of the collection, but the colors I needed from the collection. (aside from Hang-Ten Toes... because I already own that one.) I have no idea which one of these I'll choose to wear first. They're all ah-ma-zinggggg! 

This is a pretty indie polish by Candy Lacquer called White Wedding and I'm in loveeee. It's white glitter in a clear base, so you can really put this over most any color polish. I also loveeee that there are hearts scattered throughout it, too.

So, yeah. That was way too fun and I didn't even get into my July Birchbox. I'm going to save that one for tomorrow, I think. There's something in it called "roasted nut roll"... Need I say more?






Speaking of nail polish, have you signed up for the nail polish swap I'm co-hosting with Jenn at Perfectly Imperfect?! Tomorrow is the last day to sign up and I promise you that you don't want to miss out on this fun!! What are you waiting for? Go sign up!!

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How I Did It - Nail Stamping Tutorial

Friday, 13 July 2012

I posted my latest manicure on Instagram yesterday and got a lot of feedback, mostly wondering how I did it! I am a polish lover who thinks everyone should be too, so I figured I'd do a little tutorial so those of you who are interested can try it out.

Tools needed: 

Nail plates (I used plate 322 from Bundle Monster's newest plate set) 

Polish fit for stamping. I used Konad Special White 

Note: not all polishes will stamp correctly. 

Stamper & scraper. Mine are Konad brand.

Nail polish for base coat. I used 2 coats of China Glaze 'Turned Up Turquoise'.

Brush & polish remover for clean up.

Top coat. I used Seche Vite.

How to:

1. Paint all of your nails with your desired base color polish. Let this coat dry very well. You can even put a fast drying top coat over it if you are impatient. 

2. Paint a thin layer of your stamping polish over the image you've selected to stamp with.

3. Scrape off excess polish from plate and gently roll (think one-way rocking motion... only one way, don't actually rock it) your stamper over it. You will see the design on your stamper. If it didn't transfer how you were hoping, clean it off with remover and start over. It will stamp nearly identical to what you see on your rubber stamper.

If you are having trouble with too much polish scraping out of your image try scraping it from a different direction.

4. Just as you rolled your stamper on the plate roll it over your nail. It will get a little messy on your skin, don't worry!

5. Clean up! Use some remover or acetone and a brush or Q-tip to clean up the extra polish you stamped on your skin.

6. Finish with a top coat and enjoy your gorgeous new manicure!

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America!

Friday, 6 July 2012

Happy Friday, even if it doesn't feel like Friday and more like MonWedSun$%*)#day!!

Having 4th of July in the middle of the week screwed with me and, from the looks of my (8,000) different social media feeds, everyone else too. It also messed with planning anything too exciting because, well, good ol' work isn't really keen on giving 3 days in a row off during peak season. Go figure. So, a day of le boyfriend and myself keeping ourselves entertained on a cloudy Wednesday it was. Don't be fooled by the nonchalant explanation, I was in mucho amounts of pain at work yesterday. I'm no young 19, uhem I mean, 21 year old anymore, you feel me?

Anyways, I ended up doing two different festive manicures for the occasion, mostly because I wasn't in love with the first mani I put together.

The first mani I'm sharing with you is the one I actually wore on Wednesday to celebrate the birth of my beloved country. Aside from my love for Julep getting creative and thinking out of the box with America, I got to try out my new Nails Inc. polish, Baker Street - which I immediately fell in LOVE with. Such a beautiful, VIBRANT polish. A blue every polish collector must have.

And here, low and behold, is the not-so-love, mani I did. I need to get better at stripes. and patience, probably. Seche Vite has me way too spoiled to properly wait the allotted time I should to removed tape from my manis. Oops. Oh well! 

One last one of my 4th of July crew.

I hope all of my fellow Americans had a lovely holiday! 

Enjoy your weekend. :)

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