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Sunday, May 12, 2013

NAIL/WINE NIGHT: My Friends' Nails

Every week I invite my closest girl friends over to enjoy a few glasses of wine, catch up on things and I paint up everyone's nails. I enjoy this night of the week very much. 

Here are this week's manis: 

Samantha's Nails




Sarah's Nails





Jen's Nails





Erin's Nails




Lacie's Nails





Andrea's Nails



China Glaze "No Plain Jane"

Deja's Nails




Kim's Nails




Amber's Nails





Robyn's Nails





WOW! I did work son! That's a lot of painted nails!!! As some of you can see, two ladies ended up having me use the same tropical gradient mani I was wearing at the time. How flattering!!! 

So which mani is your favorite? Do you have wine/nail nights?




Saturday, May 11, 2013

SWATCH AND REVIEW: Covergirl Outlast Polishes

I have some beautiful Covergirl polishes to show you all today. They are from a line that is currently available in most stores. My boyfriend got me several of them.

Now onto the swatches. All are 2 coats except the red "Forever Festive". This beautiful polish only needed a single coat for smooth buttery full coverage perfection. Mmmmm.....



Covergirl "Golden Opportunity"




Covergirl "Constant Caribbean" 




Covergirl "Forever Festive"

Ooops! BUMPED POLISH!!! 



Here are the plates and polishes I used for stamping:


So what do you think of these polishes? I love this new Covergirl line. The formulas are nice and they are all super shiny. The red one you see here "Forever Festive" was a one coater. That's always awesome. Do you own any of these? 

Monday, April 8, 2013

Cover Girl "Toasted Almond" + Stamping=

Check out this understated but fun mani I put together. 

I started with a base of Cover Girl "Toasted Almond". This is a light brown creme and is opaque in two coats. I have to say, while I realize I'm not the biggest creme fan in the first place, this polish looks just "blah". I guess I'm too much of a bright color and glitter gal to really enjoy neutral creme polishes. But the formula was awesome and it has a super glossy finish. I have quite a few of this particular line, because they were given to me as a gift from my man. The formula on all of them is awesome. 




Then I added a simple stamping pattern using Essie "Good as Gold" and a Bundlemonster stamping plate from the third set. It's a simple stamp, but one I find myself using over and over. I wish my stamping was a little cleaner. But the nice thing about the pattern stamps, is even if you mess up, they still look pretty good. 

This Essie foil gold is one of my go to stamping polishes. It works perfectly!!!
Like I tell friends, stamping is 3% technique and 97% using the right polish. Most polishes don't work well at all for stamping. It can be a chore to find ones that do. I have a nice collection of go to colors that work well for me, but if I'm on the market for new ones, I always look around online to see what works for other people. No one brand has the best stamping polish and special stamping polishes aren't always the best to use. Konad black and white are great, but I don't use their other colors because other brands have ones that look better. 


So what do you think of this mani?