Sally Hansen Purple Alloy

I'm sure by now you've all heard about and maybe even seen the new displays of Sally Hansen Color Foils.  If you haven't picked any up yet, you nee to!  I was pretty sure they would be awesome but just in case they weren't I only bought one to start.  I absolutely LOVE it and need to go back and get a couple of other colors.  But just to start, here is a gorgeous purple foil.

Sally Hansen Purple Alloy is a pink-toned purple with a foil or chrome finish that applied like a dream.  It only took one coat (yes I said one coat) to get perfect coverage.  It's really difficult to capture the exact color on camera but the second photo is definitely the closest.  It's almost spot on.  The others are showing it a little darker but think of it more of a lavender foil.  Bottom line...it's gorgeous!  The photos above are shown using a layer of OPI Lay Down That Base and then Purple Alloy over and that only made it better than when I first tried it, but if you don't have the OPI base coat, don't fret.  It still looks amazing without it and you will hardly see any brushstrokes.  Just be sure to buff your nails smooth before application so that you don't see any ridges or snags.  I didn't use a top coat so I don't know how they react or how it might change the effect, if at all.  And because I didn't use a TC, the polish already started to wear on the tips and all I did was go out to eat.  If I actually wore this polish to work (which I will anyway), it would be completely chipped off in a hour, but I still love the effect and the ease of application and the color is to die for.  I can't wait to go back to Target tomorrow and pick up the green and teal ones and maybe a pink and the darker purple.  I don't know which yet, but I do know that I will be getting more for sure.  Have a great night/day (depending on if you slept yet).  I'm gonna hit the hay!

Zoya Stevie Skittlette

Hey Everyone!  How is your morning going?  I hope you all didn't forget to turn your clocks forward one hour?  I have all mine set to do it automatically so I hope they did or else I'll be in trouble tomorrow when I show up to work an hour late.  lol

Anyway I am so proud of myself because I was able to get so much done yesterday around my apartment and I still had time to go out and run and do a fun skittlette mani for you all.  In case you are all wondering what a skittlette manicure is exactly, I found this definition from So Nailicious.

skit·tle·tte: Not quite a full skittles look, a skittlette manicure is one with at least two different accent nails.  Pick any formation you wish, but for a true skittlette at least two nails need to be the same (the others can all be different) OR two pairs of identical nails and a different nail.

I even had to ask some friends of mine if this mani was a true skittlette.  lol

The base color I chose is two coats of Zoya Stevie.  I just received it in a swap and I love it.  I was going to post just the swatch for you today but I couldn't wait to show you the nail art so I'll save it for another day.  For the nail art I just used Sinful Color Black and Black and Zoya Purity.  For the feather and stripes I just used a striping brush and dipped it straight into the bottles and for the dots, obviously, a dotting too.  This was a super fun and easy mani.  The hard part was really just letting it dry.

I hope you all enjoyed this.  It seems like my friends really love it so get to commenting and tell me what you think!  (:

Zoya Malia

OMG I have had the craziest week.  I had corporate visits, blog drama, tummy aches.  Ugh.  All is well now and I have some new goodies to show you this week but until then let me explain.  I know I said I was going to blog all of my untrieds (or unblogged polishes) before I bought more, but I didn't buy these.  ha!  I received a really sweet ROAK from Jin of Superficially Colorful so I will have that post up on Monday.

Today though, I have Zoya Malia.  Isn't she gorgeous!  I always say that Zoya makes the best purple polish and this just confirms that statment.  I've never used a purple Zoya that I didn't like.  This is two super easy coats and it's just a basic lavender creme polish.  Nothing much else to say about it except that if you don't own it, you're missing out.  (:

Fun With a Pastel Gradient

I wasn't really sure what else to title this post since I have a few things going on with this mani, but it is super cute nonetheless.  Check it out!

Yeah so like I said, there is a lot going on here.  lol I wanted to do something fun and different (for me anyway) and I think is not like anything I've ever done.  I started with a white base to make the pastel colors stand out.  Then I started with the chevron nails.  I taped off the pattern using striping tape.  I could have bought some zig-zag craft scissors but that seems too easy.  I like a challenge.  (:  Then I used four different pastel cremes to gradient over the tape.  The lavender is Sinful Colors Sweet Tooth, the blue is Orly Snowcone, the yellow (which is kinda tough to see) is Sinful Colors Unicorn, and the pink is Sinful Colors Soul Mate.  I only needed two layers of sponging to get the colors almost opaque.

The I took the same colors and then Color Club Blue-ming to create gradient polka dots on my pinky and pointer fingers.  Then I topped it all off with my top coat which for some reason wanted to give me lots of bubbles today.  I really love this print and color combo but I just really hope it doesn't look like clown pants or something.  lol  I wanted it to be a little funky and a little whimsical but not ridiculous. 

So how do you all feel about this mani?  You can tell me the truth if you think it looks like clown pants.  lol I asked the boyfriend if it looked like unicorn tears and he said, "No babe!  You know unicorns cry jelly beans."  OMG I laughed to hard.  I thought you all would enjoy that.  (:

Sinful Colors Sweet Tooth and Unicorn

Good Evening!

I thought tonight's post would be fun if I showed you my two picks from the Sugar Rush display that was up at Walgreens.  One is new - Sweet Tooth, and one is old - Unicorn.

First up is Sweet Tooth.  This is one of my favorites of the collection because it looks like a basic creme lavender polish but it actually has a lot of shimmer packed in it.  If you enlarge the photos you should be able to see it clearly...I hope.  (:

For this swatch I used 2 coats.  The formula was wonderful and wasn't patchy at all which is what I notice with most cremes I own.  They are just not my favorite type of polish.

This is 3 coats of Unicorn.  This is actually an older bottle and I noticed that the newer bottles placed on the display were a bit lighter.  I liked the shade of the older bottle.  The formula was a bit runny and thick at the same time (it was weird) and patchy on the first coat but it evened out with more coats.

Both of these polishes dried super glossy.  These photos had no top coat.  I really love both of these polishes and for $1.99 each, it can't get any better.  

Leopard Drip Mani

Happy Sunday Everyone!

I hope your weekend was great and you are prepared for a new week.  Monday's are always blah but I try to make the best of them eventhough I have to be at work an hour earlier than usual tomorrow.  Wah!  Anyway, whatever.  There's not much I can do about it, but I can show you my awesome drip mani.

I always see the drips coming from the tip of the nail, but I really like to do things reverse-style.  I like my gradients reversed as well.  I don't know why.  I guess I like to mix it up a bit.

So I started with 2 coats of a pretty lavender polish and then added the black and silver leopard spots from the middle to the free edge of my nails.  Then for the hardest part, I used a berry colored polish and a nail art brush to create the drips.  Then I just added the white accents to give some dimension to them and there you have it!  My leopard drip mani!  At first glance it looked like my cuticles were bleeding, but then I decided to say it looked like I stuck my nails in raspberry jam.  lol

WHAT I USED:
Sinful Colors Sweet Tooth - lavender base color
Zoya Trixie/BB Couture Dark Knight - leopard spots
Sinful Colors Truth of Dare - berry colored drips

This was originally supposed to be a guest post for a friend, but since my cuticles were so stained from swatching reds and smearing Truth or Dare, I couldn't bear to let her show it.  I'm such a good friend right? (:

NYC Lincoln Square Lavender

Hope you all had a good and productive Monday.  I know that's usually far-fetched, but I did.  I was very sleepy, but I got a lot accomplished at work today, AND I didn't break or chip any nails like I usually do.  Since I'm super sleepy, I'm actually laying bed typing this so it's going to be really short.  I'll just show you the photos and you all can come up with your own opinion.  Leave your "review" below in the comments.  I'd love to read them.  (:

Have a good night.

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butterLONDON No More Waity, Katie

Hey Everyone!

Happy Sunday!  I hope it's been good to you all so far.  I'm trying to catch up on my shows today, and so I'm watching Grey's Anatomy right now.  I've cried about 6 times already.  It gets me everytime.  But besides me being a whiny butt, I also have butterLONDON No More Waity, Katie.

I have had this forever it seems.  It was my first butterLONDON polish ever.  I think it was a pretty good choice.  I wonder if anyone wore this while they watched the Royal Wedding?  NMWK is a grayed out lavender/lilac with lavender glitter.  I really hate how it feels when it dries, but I LOVE the color and the glitter, so I guess I have to sacrifice something. 

Today is gonna be a lazy day.
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