I picked up OPI Casino Royale from the James Bond Skyfall Collection back in the middle of the summer and I have been patiently waiting to bust it out! I LOVE vampy colors and Daniel Craig and the move Skyfall so this is a pretty awesome polish! It’s such a gorgeous cremey vampy red toned plum. I wanted to keep things simple for this mani so I just went with one lonely sparkly accent nail.
Pics now :)
Whoah baby! Look at this polish perfection that is Casino Royale. It applied beautifully and nice and opaque at 2 coats.
On the ring accent nail I layered 2 coats of Julep Betty. It has small fuchsia and cranberry colored glitter, I think it has a black jelly base but hard to tell? Anyways, I love it. Applied great no issues with this glitter. I think these 2 make a pretty great combo.
I've never tried a "tie-dye" nail look before so I was really excited to give these a go! I had these planned to go with my outfit I wore to a 60s themed charity event, I went as a Flower Child BUT you know how life is... It gets in the way of all your fun! So I just did them after the event and kept the mood going.
Here is my full length tutorial for how I got this look.
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Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, get out your green shirts and nail polish lol I actually posted this mani on instagram and youtube a week and a half ago but decided to wait to put it on my blog. Why? Who knows! Ok let's get to it!
Do you guys like how super original I am? lol Green and rainbows and gold for St. Patrick's Day haha! If it ain't broke don't fix it....I guess.
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Ok. I'm just gonna say it. I'm totally addicted to Sharpie manis lol If it were up to me, I'd do a Sharpie mani every ding dong DAY lol! But I've been stopping myself because seriously, I need to switch it up. I was feeling like I was in a Spring mood, so I went with some Spring colors and I was so happy with how this came out. Check out my full length tutorial on YouTube!
This is one of my fav manis that I've ever done! I'm such a purple fan so combined with the sharpies and vinyls... head = blown haha!
And totally random, but this mani was completed when my nails were at my fav length. They only stay my "perfect" length for a couple of days and I'm too lazy to file them a couple times per week haha I think my nails grow fast but no that fast. It's so weird how such a minuscule amount of growth can make such a big difference in nail appearance. Or maybe I'm just crazy, totally possible!
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After much planning and sleepless nights of editing, I finally got my very first full length YouTube tutorial up! I wanted my first tutorial to represent me and the things I love so I went with a Walking Dead theme because it's my fav show, neons, and nail stamping. All things I love!
I've been doing instagram tutorials for about a year and a half and for the past 6 months or so I've been debating starting an accompaning YouTube channel. I knew it would be a lot of work and the idea of putting my "voice" out there kind of terrified me, but then the annoyance at only having 15 seconds to show what I filmed kind of trumped my fear lol So I jumped in! And so far it has been very rewarding... and A LOT of work! This first tutorial probably took me about 20 hrs total to film and edit. OH. MY. That included a lot of learning on the fly though, editing a full length tutorial and doing voiceover is a completely different beast. I have since completed 2 other full length tutorials (I will post them sometime soon on my blog lol) and I've gotten faster each time.
Anyways! Here is a still shot of my mani!
Also, I think I want to make the size of my pics smaller like the one above. I've previously posted them very large but I dunno, it's been annoying me lately. Let me know how you feel! LOL
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Surprise surprise, another China Glaze Desert Escape collection look lol I loved the way ‘Meet Me In The Mirage’ and ‘Rain Dance The Night Away’ looked in the mani I did last week, see it here. So I just copied myself and put them together again! I think it kind of looks like a copper penny when it gets tarnished, you know, like when they’ve been sitting in the cup holder of your car for too long and one too many Dairy Queen blizzards have sweat all over them…… No? Just me? Ok, let’s just get on with it.
This lovely rose gold is ‘Meet Me In The Mirage,’ I originally reviewed it here. I’m still in love with it. It’s not unique but I dunno, it just speaks to my polish soul. Really nice and easy formula to work with, this is 2 coats.
I’m just getting back into the rhythm of posting as I was on vacation last week and part of this week. I went to Atlanta to visit my best friend (my best friend Kristie was the co-author of this blog for 5 years before I switched it over to a nail blog) that was moving back home, we sadly had to make her move early and suddenly as she received terrible news that her nephew who has been ill was having more complications. 6 year old Ethan lost his battle and went to Heaven this week. I will be posting more about his story and a mani inspired by this beautiful soul most likely on Monday after I have attended his Memorial Service. Ethan smiled through all of his health issues and lived his life as if he was not sick so in his honor his family along with myself are determined to never take life for granted and live every day to its fullest potential. So, I will continue doing the things I love and that includes creating beautiful art that makes me happy because he was happy! Fly high Ethan!
I'm super excited to share this collection with you! Today I'm sharing the Wet N Wild California Dreaming Collection. Ever since I reviewed the Wet N Wild Silver Lake Collection, I just can't get enough of the MegaLast line! I adore their formula and colors and most especially their price, they range from $1.99 - $2.99 and you can often get them on sale. My only dislike is the extra large brush, but not that big of a deal. For all of my swatches I also used the new top coat from Wet N wild, Clear The Air. I believe this top coat is supposed to be like the gel hybrids top coats out there. It dries very fast but sort of leaves micro-cracks in the surface of the polish. I'll point it out in the photos below. Ok, let's get onto swatches!
Here's a little collage of the 5 colors in the collection, all dreamy cremes - my fav!
Margaritas for everyone! How else am I supposed to celebrate? Lol I’m in the middle of swatching the Wet N Wild California Dreaming collection and one of the colors ‘Sun Settle Down’ seemed like the perfect base for some Cinco de Mayo themed nails! I also attempted another mini Instagram tutorial for this mani and I kind of just messed up the whole thing haha I didn’t realize my camera would be in the way of stamping, whoops. Shortly after I purchased a new tripod so that I have more room, it’s never ending what I feel like I NEED in order to complete my manis lol Ok, onto my mani!
You can see how I mis-stamped the nail with what is supposed to say Cinco de Mayo but instead it says “inco de nayo” hahaha! I half-ass painted on a C but didn’t have any room to fix the M so nayo it is!
I've always loved markers, like really really loved markers. Back about a billion years ago when I was in college, I did a ton of marker rendering and had quite the collection. Those days are long gone but I still get excited to use markers so combing then with nail polish is probably the greatest thing ever. And let's talk about Floss Gloss Lean, such a pretty orchid purple!
Today I am sharing another mani using the OPI Infinite Shine polishes that I received from the Preen.Me VIP Program. This gorgeous Spring Green is To The Finish Lime! At first I didn't know what to do with this color, don't get me wrong I love green polish but I was feeling very uninspired. So without a plan I laid down the base color and dug through my decal stash... and then magic happened haha, check it out!
This came out better than if I planned it lol
The green is OPI Infinite Shine To The Finish Lime! This one had a very nice formula and covered completely opaque in 2 coats. After I added the Infinite Shine Gloss top coat and let dry, I applied these blue rose water decals. The decals are from ebay, they are sold by about a million sellers so you could find them by searching for blue flower waer decals. They are on a clear base so the green polish kind of shows through and blends them together, I love the effect! I also added a 2mm blue round jewel that I got from ebay.
Whose in the mood for some cyclone vinyl action? How great are these cyclone swirls from Twinkled T, gaaahhhhh I love them! They're hypnotizing and give such a unique look. This was my first time using these and I'm already imaging fun ways to use these again.
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Guess what? I got even more swatches of the Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neons! As if I didn't post enough lol, you can see my first set of "plain" swatches without nail art and read my review here Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neon Collection Swatch Review - Spring 2015. For these swatches I wanted to focus on stamping since I just got a shit-load of new stamping plates from HeHe and Qgirl. Keep in mind, for all of these swatches I used 1 coat of white (Rica Polish Whiteout) and 2 layers of color topped with HK Girl Top Coat from Glisten & Glow. Ok onto swatches!
Don't you just love a good collage! These colors in this collection just make my eyeballs so happy! Loving the whole collection, I can't pick a fav.
I'll start with my fav stamping I did for this collection! This is 'Diggin' The Dancing Queen.' When I posted this on instagram so many people thought it was really watermarble! Haha! I haven't even tried to watermarble yet so this stamping plate, HeHe 040, is a good substitute. I used Rica Polish Blackout and a couple of 2mm black studs to finish it off.
Today I am sharing another mani using the OPI Infinite Shine
polishes that I received from the Preen.Me
VIP Program.This blue OPI Indignantly
Indigo is so pretty!It’s one of those
bright/dark blues, which makes absolutely no sense hahaI didn’t want to take away from how blue it
is so I paired it with OPI Lapis which is from the OPI Designer Series.Shall we check out my mani?
Today I have swatches of the Wet N Wild Silver Lake
Collection for Spring 2015.I was so
excited when I saw pics of these and knew I had to buy the entire 6 polish
set.I found them at Rite-aid for 40%
off so I got all of them for less than $8 after tax!What a bargain!The collection consists of 5 cremes and 1
sheer shimmer.Let’s get into swatches!
How about some Beetlejuice inspired nail art?I was inspired by a mani by Anny Polish and Paint
did about a month ago.I must say, this
is loosely inspired by Beetlejuice lol The only resemblance is the black and
white stripes that I did using striping nail stencils.On Instagram I labeled this as Beetlejuice
joins the circus.Onto pics!
Today I will be reviewing my first OPI Infinite Shine Gel
Effects Lacquer System!I was sent for
review, a box of the Infinite Shine colors and the base and top coat from
Preen.me as part of their VIP program.This will really be my first time trying one these new pseudo-gel
lacquer type systems.Shall we just get
past all the formalities and onto the polish?!Let’s go!
To use these polishes you will need to buy into the 1-2-3
Gel Effects Lacquer System with the primer base and gloss top coat (that cures
in natural light).The primer base
applied fine and dried pretty quick!Always nice.For my base color I chose
Set in Stone.A dark taupe that has
hints of purple to it, it reminds me a lot of OPI I Sao Paulo Over There.I held them next to each other and Set in
Stone may be just a little darker but very close.This was a very pigmented polish, almost
covered completely in 1 coat.It wasn’t
thin or thick, just kind of that perfect consistency that makes it very easy to
coat the nail and not flood the cuticles.I would say the formula is slightly thicker than regular OPI polish and
it has a stronger smell.Nothing I couldn’t
handle just wanted to note it.I used 2
coats here, it dried pretty shiny and pretty fast!Defintely faster than regular OPI
polish.I left my base to dry without
top coat so that I could add some stamping.
A few weeks back I went to Sally's Beauty Supply because they were having an extra 50% off clearance sale! I snagged a ton of polishes, one being OPI 50 Is The New Fabulous which is a pink creme exclusive to Sally's celebrating their 50th anniversary. Wow, I had no idea Sally's has been around that long, pretty cool. Check out what I came up with.
50 Is The New Fabulous is a lovely medium neutral pink. Well, I think it's neutral? I couldn't really tell if it was warm or cool so that makes me feel like it's neutral haha. With OPI pinks and reds I typically have to do 3 coats to cover my visible nail line and this one was no exception. Most people only have to do 2 but something about OPI pink and red cremes I ALWAYS need 3 coats, crazy right? But it had a very nice formula and applied easily so I didn't mind!
In these macro shots you can see how smooth this color is, this color would look good on just about all of us! The Little Mermaid water decals are from Born Pretty Store Pretty Mermaid Nail Art Decals item # 17033. I've used these decals a few times, you can check them out HERE!
And use my code ASWW10 for 10% off full price items from Born Pretty Store!
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Hey Everyone!
How about some crazy neon taxi cab nails? Ok, that wasn’t exactly my inspiration but that’s what these remind me of! A couple weeks ago Sally’s Beauty had extra 50% off clearance and BOGO China Glaze polishes. I was on it. I bought a bunch of polishes but I kept picking up and putting back China Glaze Sun Worshipper, it was so bright and unique it kept calling to me and then I’d put it back thinking it was just too crazy… even for me! Last minute I decided I wanted it, I mean come on, and it ended up being about a $1. Well, that was the best decision ever! I’m in love with this color, even though it’s a weird yellow orange I find it oddly flattering. This could be my Summer color, ok onto the mani!
Are you ready for
Easter?How about we get in the mood for
bunnies and chocolate with some stamping!Today I am sharing a tutorial that I created for Bundle
Monster using a couple of their Easter and Spring stamping plates BUT the
best part is that Bundle Monster provided me doubles of all products used that
I am giving away to all my followers!Yaaaaaayyyyy!The giveaway is at
the end of this post, you will be able to enter here many different ways and
you can also enter over on Instagram, check out my page: @twi_star and @bundlemonster for details.
For this mani I used a
technique called reverse stamping.Reverse stamping is when you leave the image stamped on your stamper and
paint it in before applying to your nail.Sounds complicated right?Well
guess what?!If you have stamping
experience, it’s not!And I’ve laid out
all the steps so you can recreate this mani with links to all the Bundle
Monster polishes, stampers, and plates used.Shall we get started?
Here are all the
products you will need to complete the look, if you enter the giveaway at the
end of this post you can win them all!All products used (except for base and top coat, and dotting tool or
toothpick) are from Bundle
Monster.
