Winstonia Store Dotting Tool review and leopard nail art!

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Hi Guys!

Hopefully this week is treating you well, the weather by me has been so crappy. It’s been raining for about a week straight and it’s not letting up anytime soon. Come on! It’s Summer! I’m supposed to be sitting in my driveway every day after work with a frozen drink and yelling at all the neighborhood kids for leaving their garbage all over my lawn. This is a true story, I’ve actually become this lady lol Hey, just don’t act like an ass outside of my house and leave your trash and we can all exist peacefully. Haha!



Well onto my mani that I’m so in love with. I was sent a new dotting tool from Winstonia Store for review, I was like dotting tool? Why do I need a new dotting tool? But now that I’ve used it I’ve seen the light! It’s actually pretty great and I think they’ve improved the whole dotting experience. It’s a metal double-ended barrel and the tips unscrew from the ends and then can be stored inside of the barrel. It comes with 8 interchangeable tips, so instead of having 4 double-ended dotting tools you can now have one! It’s very well made and has a good weight to it. It feels pretty fancy actually haha The only downside that I could think of, would be if you were in the middle of doing a mani and wanted to switch out a tip you’d have to unscrew one and potentially mess up your in-process mani. But for this mani I only needed to 2 size tips so I just screwed them in before I started. I don’t think I’ve ever needed more than 2 sizes for one design so I don’t see myself running into this problem but I thought it was worth noting.

Winstonia Store sent me a 10% discount code, use code TWISTAR. Pretty clever code right? HA! Love it.



This purple! I reviewed the Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neons HERE and then I also did a bunch of stamping manis with this collection HERE. I’ve been wanting to use ‘Diggin’ The Dancing Queen’ again and leopard seemed purrfect! Like my review said, these polishes got mostly bad reviews BUT I find using 2 coats over 1 coat white undies and they are sooooo pretty! They’re a little thick but sheer but the white undie cancels it all out and they’re worth it to me.

Aqua and White Leopard nails - Bestie Twin Nails!

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Today’s mani is no ordinary mani, it’s my first Bestie Twin Nails!  Aka #BTN.  Dvi, that I “met” lol on Instagram, follow her here @naiildazzlee, found the cutest pic of a white and aqua leopard print dress that we used as our inspiration.  Pic credit goes to @a_southerndrawl.  We spent hourrrrrrrssssss contemplating our design…… ok, maybe an exaggeration but we had fun messaging back and forth our ideas.  Check out our work!

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Polish My Life Eye Sea, Commando, and Different Dimension Big Bang

Happy Hump Day!

Every time I see the Geico commercial with the camels at the zoo and the people yelling "Hummmpppp Dayyyyy!" at them, I can't help but crack up. Because you know it's true lol So for hump day, I decided to recreate a mani from @thenailboss on Instagram that I fell in love with a while back. Check out what I did!





This blue is so pretty! This is Eye Sea from Polish My Life, very nice formula.



Big Bang from Different Dimension is my fave polish from 2014! It's an all glitter polish opaque in 2 coats, love it.



For the sheer pink base I used Bliss Kiss Simply Smooth base coat and applied straight nail vinyls from Vinyl It Up to tape off the tips. The black is Commando from Polish My Life. I love how the bright colors look against the sheer pink!



This mani could be my fave of the month so far! Thanks for checking out my mani!

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Lucky Lacquer - Dahlia leopard nail art

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It’s Thursday so that means Vampire Diaries is on and that just makes me happy. You know what else makes me happy? Leopard manis, the best right? And I have a new gorgeous polish from Lucky Lacquer to share. I bought a few LL polishes but I’m thinking this is my fav, it’s insanely gorgeous and a super great formula.

Check it out!





This is Dahlia from Lucky Lacquer, I just love it so much. I’d call it radiant orchid ya know the pantone color of the year. All the Lucky Lacquer polishes I have have a decent formula but this one was really decent, like wonderful actually. Almost a 1 coater! But really, I never do 1 coat haha But if you apply carefully you could get away with 1 coat with Dahlia.



For the leopard print I used a base of Lucky Lacquer Alpine Phlox, Dahlia for the inner dots, and then Julep Brandt for the outer ring. I’m gonna need another bottle of Brandt soon, I use it probably 3x per week for detailing. Alpine Phlox and Dahlia are a perfect match.



The glitterbomb is my fav glitter from DIFFERENT dimension, Big Bang. This is 2 coats of perfection, so glitter dense and opaque and you only need 2 coats so it doesn’t build up! Perfect.



Basically you all need Lucky Lacquer Dahlia in your life, it’s one of my fav polishes I’ve bought in a while! AND you can use my code STAR for 10% off your entire purchase at Lucky Lacquer. Thanks for stopping by!

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Different Dimension Big Bang and Julep Ginger holo neutrals

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I noticed my last few manis have been pretty dark so I wanted to go nice and neutral. As per usual I couldn’t avoid glitter haha! I’ve been gaga over Different Dimension Big Bang. Oh. My. It’s a full coverage silver holo glitter, it’s intense and absolutely perfect. Big Bang makes me very happy lol

Check out what I paired it with.





I mean really. Just look at Big Bang. It’s like a glitter lovers dream, and she makes me swoon. This is 2 coats, not thick coats either just normal. It applies so perfectly for a glitter and dries nice and fast.



For my neutral I chose Julep Ginger, a very subtle beige holo. I like subtle holo’s but I could see crazy holo lovers not liking this one. It does throw a little rainbow action just enough to add some drama but no spectraflair action here. This is 2 coats, the formula was really great and smooth.







I used 2mm silver square studs that I got from ebay.



This combo was exactly what I was in the mood for! And I just want to wear Big Bang every day of my life for forever. Ok, maybe an exaggeration but I think it would take me a long time to get sick of haha Thanks for visiting!

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Wizard of Oz Mani - Julep Glinda The Good Witch, Kate, and Different Dimensions Big Bang

Hey Internet People!

Today I have a Wizard of Oz themed mani. Juleps Glinda The a good Witch is super pretty in the bottle but was a bitch to apply, so I'm renaming it Glinda The Bad Bitch! On the other hand Different Dimensions Big Bang was amazing! OMG what an insanely awesome glitter, it's silver holo glitter in a bunch if different sizes and manages to be opaque in 2 easy to apply coats.

I'm praying for a gold version of this polish. PLEASE!!!

Enough begging, onto the mani.


Glinda the bitch is a nice soft warm pink with subtle silver shimmer. I used 3 coats here and it was still streaky looking. Too bad because the color is nice. Sigh.


Different Dimensions Big Bang on the ring. Look. At. It. It applied so smoothly and really did give perfect opaque coverage in 2 coats. I have BIG plans for this one lol



On the pinky is Julep Kate. A nice soft white with some silvery shimmer/pearl. 2 coats here and applied perfectly. I used a heart jewel from eBay.

Even with my disappointment in Glinda I loved how this came out and I think it represents The Good Witch pretty well :)

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