Showing posts with label tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tips. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

My Polish Addict by Laura Sanchez collection **part 2**

Haha, okay I didn't want to make just a huge long post but i'll do this review the same way as part two, so lets get started :)

First we'll have "Unicorn Love".

This beautiful polish is a pastel blue, it looks greyish as well and its packed with microglitters.
This is the only Polish Addict mini I have and I totally regret not buying a full size, i adore this polish!


 This is two coats of unicorn love, no top coat in this picture.
The formula is just as great as the other polishes. Obviously no fishing required to get the glitters, you will get tons every time!





We have neon green,yellow and blue micro glitters and also red ones.
This polish looks gorgeous in the sun light, maybe i'll post a picture of it later on because I couldnt get a good one when this pictures were taken.


"Laffy Taffy"






Laffy Taffy is a Light pink jelly base with tons of glitters and micro glitters. Laffy taffy is my favorite kind of candy so I kinda had to get this for the awesome name!


My nails were a little shorter in this picture so i apologize about that. lol
The application was a little tricky for me but once again i'm not pro. lol
I tried dabbing all the glitters then smoothing it out with another coat.
This is three coats of laffy taffy in the picture and top coat to smooth it all out.







You can see that there's tons of yellow,blue,teal,purple,pink,red and orange glitters and then we have micro holo silver glitter
I like this polish a lot but like all Glitter Bombs it is a hassle to take off. so I've only worn this two times, which is not bad considering I have tons of polish sitting there that haven't been tried but that's kind of the point of my starting my blog, I will have something to push to use all my colors ( and an excuse to keep buying new polish ;) ).

And last but definitely not least....Drunken Elephant! 





 First of all  how awesome is this name? haha I love it. This polish is a white cream polish with lots of different crazy glitters. This is one of my coolest polishes ;) I don't know why I relate the big black dots to elephant feet? LOL im always trying to fish for the elephants feet in the bottle.


You have to kind of dab the polish on so you don't brush off the other glitters but I promise that you will get crazy combos of glitter on each nail!

I would also recommend to leave the bottle upside down for a little while before you paint your nails to make sure the glitter isn't sunk at the bottom :]

I can't really describe the shapes of these glitters because they are just so unique and crazy! but the only ones you can obviously spot are the "elephant feet" i was talking about earlier. The big black dots are just awesome!


Okay that completes my collection for now, I will definitely be purchasing lots of her polishes and I recommend you guys to check all her pages out and purchase some of her polishes!
I believe Her new collection will be released on March 1st, but there's lots of polishes you can purchase now at her store.

 the link to her shop is http://www.shoppolishaddict.bigcartel.com/
 you can also follow her on Instagram @polish_addict_34

Hope you guys keep in touch i will be reviewing and swatching more polishes in the future so stay tunes ;)


.xo.




Tuesday, February 26, 2013

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.