Essie Swatch

Left: Essie Turquoise & Caicos (cute minty color)
Right: Essie Trophy Wife (dark metallic teal) this one reminds me of a mermaid for some reason...

Swatches

 Left to Right: 

The Black Knight

La Moss

Tea with the Queen

 Left to Right:

Tea with the Queen

La Moss

The Black Knight

 OPI Dulce de Leche

IDK.. Samples?? Practice round

Matte Galaxy Nails

Purple/Pink on Black

Essie Matte About You

What I Used:

OPI Do You Lilac It?

Color Club Orna-Minted ***This smells like mint!!!

Essie Matte About You Top Coat

With Essie Matte About You Top Coat
(Sorry it's a bit blurry)

Without Essie Matte About You

I love Essie Matte About You because you can use something that is super flashy and use the matte top coat to tone it down so that it is still cute and something different and not plain.

Purple Ombré

What I Used:

(Left to Right in bottle colors. Right to Left on nails.)

OPI Significant Other Color

OPI Do You Lilac It?

OPI Purple with a Purpose

OPI Funky Dunkey

OPI Lincoln Park At Midnight

With Flash

Without Flash

Smith's Rosebud Salve

Recently I've bought the Rosebud Salve in both the tin and the tube and here's my piece of opinion of these products.

The tubes I bought in Canada for 7 Canadian Dollars at Sephora and I bought the Original and the Strawberry. The Original smells like rose and the Strawberry smells like strawberry, in conclusion both smell really nice. However the formula in the tube is waxy and thick but it comes off really easy, I feel like I have to keep reapplying...

The tin I bought in the US at Sephora for $7 US Dollars. It smells the same as the Original tube. Goes on thin, it stays on longer. The downside is that it can get messy during application.

Miss Ladyfinger

This is a thanks to Miss Ladyfinger on tumblr. She does these awesome nail designs based on hot runways clothing prints which is an awesome inspiration:) visit her site at http://www.missladyfinger.com/

What I Used:

OPI Meet Me on the Starferry

OPI Black Onyx

Scotch Tape

Striping Brush

Matte Nails Cheetah Print

What I Used:

NYX Matte Navy

OPI Top Coat

Half Moon :)

What I Used:

Essie Loophole

Essie Luxeffects Shine of the Times

OPI Black Onyx

Another Matte & Shiny

What I Used:

OPI Suzi Skis in the Pyrenees Suede

OPI Black Onyx

Matte nails, Shiny tips

Looking for a new thing to do I came across this cool and easy nail design from Kim Kardashian's blog and I thought I'd give it a shot so here it is:)

 I'm not sure why but the two photos are two different colors the one on top^ is blue but the one on the bottom\/ is purple.... the one on top^^^ is more accurate to reality, OPI Ink is like a navy blue/dark wash jeans color no purple what so ever.

What I Used: 

OPI Ink Suede

Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Scotch Tape

I recently broke a nail bowling then I broke another nail, I'm not sure how it happened, so I was going crazy and I finally gave in and got acrylics. I had a nice design on it but it started to lift near the cuticle so I decided to cover it so I wouldn't pick at it. Out of sight, out of mind. :)

So for this design I used OPI Ink Suede from OPI's Suede Collection Fall 2009. All the suede colors are matte when dried but unlike a usual matte it is metallic when shiny and has an interesting quality to it when matte. I've had it for a while now and I love this color but I always have a hard time deciding whether or not to apply a top coat, so here's the solution!

1. Unless you are paint over acrylics always use a base coat.
2. Paint 1-2 coats of a matte color of your choice. Let it dry completely.
3. Apply a small strip of scotch tape for the tip. (You can skip this step and free hand it or you can use a french tip sticker guide.) **With scotch tape I like to stick it on my skin first so it won't be too strong and lift the polish**
4. Use the top coat on the tip only.

And you're done! Easy as that!

Now here's the thing about this design, you can totally reverse this and use a matte top coat and any color you want so you aren't restricted to only matte colors. Have fun! :)

PURPLE!!!! ^_^

What I used:

(From Left to Right)

OPI Significant Other Color

OPI Do You Lilac It?

OPI Meet Me On The Star Ferry

OPI Glitzerland

China Glaze For Audrey

Orly Liquid Vinyl

Dotting Tool

Long Nails + Bowling = :(

Sorry, no new nail blogs!! I'm on vacation! :) but I do have an advice for the day! DO NOT go bowling if you have long nails!!! If you have long nails your nails don't have a high chance of surviving a date with a bowling ball! They are evil to long nails! Now I like to go bowling but just a warning long nails + bowling ball = cry over a broken nail :( my nail ripped off like approx. 2 cm on the thumb :(