NOTD: Easter Nails!♥

Hello Everyone!

I hope everyone is having a great Easter so far.
I've been dying to post this all day but once again i've been kind of busy, I was busy with Easter celebration, and also doing some yard work :p. Someone had to get rid of the 200 thousand pounds of leaves that completely cover the back yard making it look ugly. My puppy seemed to be amazed by the piles of leaves though. I thought I'd add a picture so I could introduce you guys to Rhea, my 14 mo pitbull.

I promise she was posing for this picture, haha she loves the camera as much as mommy loves taking pictures of her. haha she thought I was cleaning the yard just so she could have fun running and hoping around the leaves.

Okay enough rambling about my baby and getting on to the nails!!! I saw multiple cute nail art designs and I just couldn't wait to bring my idea to life.

Shade.

I was shopping for some Easter stuff and bought these cute purple marshmallow bunnies & chicks, they inspired me to do this look!! It was quite easy even though i'm sure these aren't that great.
Bear with me I am a beginner and this is my first year doing Easter nails!

Flash On.

All I used for this look was A nail art brush, A double ended dotting tool & a few polishes.
On my pointing finger I used Cinderella by Sinful Colors & added some white clouds with White on White by China Glaze.

For my middle finger I used Cotton Candy by Sinful Colors as well. For the eggs I used Polish Addict's Jellyfish 1 & Hard Candy's Gummy Green. The Scattered glitter on the background is Polish Addict's Dr. Franken.

On my ring finger I used Essie's First Date as a base & White on white by China Glaze. For the bunnies ears & nose I used Essie's Muchi Muchi.

Last but not least my pinky finger. I used Mellow Yellow by Sally Hansen & White on white for the rest. Orange acrylic paint was used to create the beak.

I really liked this look and thought it was pretty easy for noobz like me! hehe.

Hope you guys liked it & would love to see some feedback!

Keep coming back for more designs and IMPORTANT:
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Thanks for reading once again. Love Always, Polish Junkie♥

Color Club - Halo Hues Collection 2013

Welcome back  :)

The way I usually like reviewing my polishes is with a bottle shot, nails shot, and macro shot.
This time around i'll work things out a little differently.
For each color I will have two pictures, one with flash, one without.
I never really use flash for any of my pictures, since my white light is more than enough for me, but you can see the total beauty of these polishes with flash.

mkay, lets get started.

Beyond...

Beyond is a charcoal grey color with a soft holo to it. I was really excited about this polish since i've never seen a black holographic polish, perhaps my expectations were too high about this one. Beyond's holo is actually pretty weak even with flash, and its definitely the weakest of the whole collection.

Application was easy and smooth.
I thought this color without the holo showing looks really similiar to "secret Admirer" by Sinful Colors.

Kismet...

 Kismet is a light lime green holo. I don't really like the color green when it comes to nail polish, this is the only green polish i own aside mint greens.  This polish ended up making me fall in love with it, the color looks way prettier on the nail than it does in the bottle, I thought it looked almost yellowish.

This color's holo was surprisingly pretty strong and really beautiful! I wish i would've taken a sun shot of this because it's just breath-taking.

Cosmic Fate...

Cosmic Fate is an orangey - tan color that carries a really pretty holo with it.
It was really hard for me to actually capture this color because it kinda changes a lot depending on the light.

I actually didn't really want to buy this color and I was planning on just purchasing some of the colors, but i'm glad I did end up getting the whole collection, I ended up liking this color a lot.

Eternal Beauty...

Eternal Beauty is definitely my favorite color from this collection.
Even without the flash the holographic effect is so intense. It's breath taking.

You can see how bright and beautiful this polish is. I will be adding a under sun shot so check back with this post.
I absolutely love this color i've used it three times already (which is a lot for me,believe me) Most of my polishes get swatched once and that's it, not because I don't like them, just because there's too many others to try xD. *\^.^/*

Miss Bliss...

Miss Bliss is a beautiful barbie holo pink! it's a medium toned pink and it's holo it's gorgeous!
As you can see it's holo it's pretty strong but still softer than Eternal Beauty.
I love this color, I think it's really girly and fun ;)

As you can see even without the flash the holo is still pretty bright.
I applied this color on my toes as soon as I got the package and it lasted me for a good two weeks!!

Over the moon...

Over the moon is a light blue holographic polish. This polish' color is bright itself the holo isn't that strong but the color is adorable!

As you can see this color can turn to look a little teal but IRL its going to be more blue than this, my camera just wasn't picking up the color perfectly.


Now, I didn't talk about all these polishes formulas individually because they all share the same formula. My thoughts about the formula is that it's honestly perfect!
It's not too thick or too runny the application for all of these swatches was super easy and smooth.
They are easy to remove and can last a while on your nails depending on your every day activities.

I super recommend you guys to check out the site that I got these from and it was enospring.com
The whole collection cost me $40 USD with free shipping.
I'm not sure if they ship worldwide but i'm sure you could find out on the website.
Shipping was fast and all my polishes got here safe!

So thanks for reading this post I hope you guys enjoyed and keep coming back for more post :)

I'll be doing some nail art posts soon.

.xo.

Ombré mani tutorial

Hello there my polish addicts ;) hope you all are having a great day so far!

Today I'm gonna be doing a really simple and cute mani, called ombré or gradient mani, Enjoy :)

All you will need is a make up sponge and some polishes! Ill be using Essie's Play Date, NOPI all Kendall-ed up, and OPI's Can't find my czechbook.

I like to cut the sponge down to my fingernail's size just so I don't get much of the polish on my skin.

Paint your nail white as a base so the colors show up better when you sponge them on.

                                                   

Then brush a generous amount of polish onto the sponge, if you want both the colors to combine so it ends up looking like 3 colors on your nail brush one of the colors over the other one in the middle.
I just like the colors to be separated by a tiny line of in my case purple so I put the two colors really close together but barely touching. After you do this spongey our fingernail with it! Make sure your white base coat is completely dry before sponging and don't take too long to sponge the nail because the polishes will dry kinda fast. Use your finger to pull on the side of your nails so the sponge gets the polish really in there.

This is how it'll look like after the first coat. I usually do two coats, let the first coat dry completely before sponging for the second time, if the polish is still wet you will just sponge it right off.

In the picture I have already sponged for a second time and put a top coat on, putting the top coat on quick enough will help blend all the colors in and make it look shiny and marble-y!
Then just proceed to clean up with a q-tip.

This is the final product :) this is a really easy mani that anyone can recreate, but ombré can get really tricky some times if you don't get it first try, keep trying practice makes perfect and we all have to start somewhere :) I hope you guys understood and enjoyed the tutorial.

Here's a picture of what I ended up doing with the ombré :) I'm currently working on some other cupcake nails that I'm going to be writing about so keep in touch with the blog for more cute and easy nail ideas!

xo.