"Preppy Peach" Manicure/Nail Art

I recently received an email from Julep with some "preppy" nail art photos in it.  I saw one similar to this and thought, " I've got some colors like that and this should be pretty simple".  And, it was!

Products Used:
Sinful Colors Base Coat
Sinful Colors - Hazard (coral/peach)
Sinful Colors - Unicorn (yellow stripe)
Zoya - Pandora (on ring finger)
Kiss Jet Dry Top Coat

Super Easy Nail Art

So I've been having more fun with my new polishes.  I watched some easy nail art tutorials that MissJenFaboulous did on youtube and had to give a couple of them a try.  Here are the manicures I tried out this week:

Products Used:

Sinful Colors Base Coat

Sinful Colors - Unicorn (yellow)

Sinful Colors - Hazard (coral)

Sinful Colors - Skinny Dipping (blue)

Kiss Jet Dry top coat

Products Used:
Sinful Colors Base Coat

Sinful Colors - Tempest

Sally Hansen XTreme Wear - Deap Purple

Sally Hansen XTreme Wear - White On

Kiss Jet Dry Top Coat

"Summer Picnic" Nail Art

I think I had a little too much fun with the new Sinful Colors polishes I picked up!  I was in a spring/pastel mood but didn't really have any polishes in my collection in the pastel range.  So I headed to Walgreens and picked up a few and then couldn't decided which one I wanted to use first, so I used them all!! hahahahaha

Products Used:

Sinful Colors Basecoat

Sinful Colors Starfish (pink)

Sinful Colors Skinny Dipping (blue)

Sinful Colors Hazard (coral)

Sinful Colors Tempest (lavendar)

Sinful Colors Unicorn (yellow)

Sally Hansen White On for Stamping

Bundle Monster Stamping Plate - BM19

Pure Ice - Don't You Wish (for a little sparkle)

Kiss Jet Dry top coat

"You're Dotting Me Crazy" Nail Art

I did another manicure inspired by MissJenFabulous on Youtube from her series of Easy/Beginner Nail Art.  I've kinda been stuck on polka dots or my dotting tool in general lately.

Products Used:

Sinful Colors Base Coat

Sinful Colors - Starfish (pink)
Dots:

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Black Out

Wet N Wild - Burgundy Frost

Zoya - Dove

Color Club - Clambake Coral

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - White On

Kiss Jet Dry Top Coat

Sinful Colors Dupes

Quite by accident today I realized I had a dupe in my nail polish collection.  I recently purchased Sinful Colors in Hazard, a rich coral color, and was looking for some other polishes when I came across a mini Color Club Polish that I got in one of my beauty subscription boxes in the color Clambake Coral.  I had completely forgotten that I had it!  With the two bottles now sitting next to each other, I realized that they are exactly the same.  I swatched them on white paper to see just how close they were in texture, opacity, color and sheen.  Guess what, they are almost dead on dupes!  Clambake Coral has a touch more red to it, but not much. 

Knowing that Sinful Colors had a very wide range of colors, it made me wonder, just how many high end polishes could be duped with a Sinful Colors polish?  I'd love some feed back from you all, what Sinful Colors polishes do you have that are exact or very close dupes of other polishes?  Just an FYI for you, Color Club polishes range in price from $6.00 to $10.00, depending on if it is a special edition.  I've seen them for around $5.00 on Amazon.  Sinful Colors polishes are $1.99 each at Walgreens and Wal Mart.  That's a pretty good savings.  I'd love to know if you've found some dupes for OPI, China Glaze, Butter London or other high end brands.

"Christmas Party" Manicure

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! This is the last installment in my Christmas themed manicures.  Its pretty simple but really stunning.  Everything Christmas nails should be, red and full of sparkle!  I wished the pictures captured how truly sparkly they are.  Thanks for reading and I hope you have a very Merry Christmas!!
Products Used:
Sally Hansen Miracle Cure as base coat
Sinful Colors - Sugar Sugar
Revlon - Stunning
Sally Hansen Dries Instantly Top Coat

"Tiny Bubbles" Manicure/Tutorial

Teal has become a new modern holiday color.  I've been seeing it pop up more and more in holiday decorations, makeup and nail art.  It took me a while to figure out how to incorporate it in a manicure that it would be the feature color but still have a holiday feel to it.  I paired it with silver, because everything looks festive with silver, sparkle and shine!! LOL  I called this "tiny bubbles" because it made me think of a festive holiday cocktail.  Hope you enjoy!

I started with a base coat of Sally Hansen Miracle Cure and followed that with one coat of Celeb City also by Sally Hansen in the Xtreme Wear line.

Next I applied one coat of Stunning by Revlon for added sparkle.

With a medium sized dotting tool I applied random dots of Rise and Shine by Sinful Colors and White On by Sally Hansen to each nail.

On my thumb and ring finger I applied a smaller dot in the middle of each dot in the opposite color for a little added interest.  I finished with one coat of Sally Hansen Dries Instantly and cleaned excess polish from my cuticles.  Super easy and oh so cute!!

Holiday Glitz Manicure

It's holiday time again!!  Has everyone done their shopping yet.  I am delighted to say that I am nearly done and almost everything is wrapped.  All of the holiday decorations and cheer put me in the mood to start my series of Holiday Manicures.  I just recently purchased a new glitter polish and couldn't wait to incorporate it in this series.  It's The Family Jewels by Pure Ice.  Very affordable polish I picked up at Wal Mart.  It is a clear polish LOADED with finely milled gold glitter and diamond shaped gold holographic glitter.  Stunning!!  It would only take two coats of this to have a very opaque coverage of glitter.  One coat of it over a colored polish would create a gorgeous effect.  My only complaint would be that the polish is thick, but this is fairly normal with heavily glittered polish.  For this manicure I paired it with Rich in Heart by Sinful Colors.  I applied it heavily at the tips and more thinly going toward the cuticles.  The final look was more than I had hoped for, so pretty.  Hope you enjoy!  I apologize that the pictures are not a better quality.  I snapped them with my phone and just couldn't get them clear and non blurry.  But overall you still get a good look at how well the colors worked together.

Fishtail Manicure/Tutorial

 

I saw this manicure on ChalkboardNails blog and thought it looked fantastic but simple to do and thought I'd give it a try using colors I had on hand.  She used a different pink on each finger but I chose to go with the same pink on all fingers.  I thought it turned out pretty good!  Here is the link to her blog post - Pink Fishtail Ombre.  Keep reading for my version of it.

 

Paint nails with one to two coats of a neutral polish.  I used Zoya in Pandora .

 

Next, paint a curved diagonal across your nail from about 2/3 of the way up your nail toward the tip in a dark pink color.  I used Elf in Hot Pink.

 

Do the same thing on the other side of the nail to create the fishtail shape.

 

Repeat the process with your darkest color.  I used Sinful Colors in Rich in Heart.

 

Finish with your favorite topcoat, I used Sally Hansen Dries Instantly Top Coat , and you're all done!!

 

 

 

 

"Birds of a Feather" Manicure/Tutorial

Products Used:
Sally Hansen XTreme Wear - Black Out
ELF Nail Polish - Punk Purple
Sinful Colors - San Francisco
Wet N Wild Nail Polish - Caribbean Frost
Revlon Top Speed Nail Polish - Golden
Makeup Sponge cut into small pieces
Bundle Monster Plate - BM15
Konad Stamper
Sally Hansen Dries Instantly Top Coat