Captain America: The Winter Soldier Manicure

Hey there! Today I've got a look the celebrates the new Captain America movie, which Sean and I saw on Thursday night at the first showing. I won't give away any spoilers, but let's just say it was awesome and makes me wonder about the future landscape of the Avengers and Captain America's future. Anywhos... on the nails!

Taken near dusk in natural light... check out all that reflection! :D

We've got the S.H.I.E.L.D. logo, Cap's shield, the Winter Soldier's arm, and Hydra's logo. Not gonna lie... my thumb is completely naked because I couldn't decided what deserved the final spot as a fair representation of the movie (I was leaning toward a heart, because woe is my shipper's heart). Still, this was super fun to do and let me try out the make-your-own "nail sticker" technique. It's a cool concept but a bit difficult to execute. But it does give me something to do with my horrible (maybe fake) Essie topcoat! Woo!

Polishes Used

LynBDesigns Sacré Blurple

Zoya Dakota

OPI Your Royal Shineness

Sinful Colors Bleeding Heart

Sinful Colors Black on Black

Sinful Colors Snow Me White

It's that time of the year- NEONS!

Happy first day of summer everyone!

I've got a special set of swatches today... these are (80% at least) colors I won from Possibly Polished's giveaway! I won a set of Color Club minis from the Poptastic collection as well as green apple ChapStick and some great product samples. I seriously love the nail blogger community... there's always a giveaway somewhere that you might win! Anywhos- on to the polish!

Ugh. I clearly forgot to moisturize before snapping this pic. Ick. Before I go and label each of these shades, I would like to note that I can't find the polish names that were included in the 4-pack of polish. The bottles are unlabeled and from what I can tell, the packages contained a random sampling of 4 shades. That being said, I've made my best guess based off of other swatches floating around the internet. From pink to blue, we have:

Color Club Jackie Oh!
Color Club Koo Koo Cachoo
Funky Fingers Highlighter
Color Club Feelin' Groovy
Color Club Chelsea Girl

These were swatched without a white base and, with the exception of Highlighter, took about 3 coats to even out (Highlighter took at least 6!). Like most neons they were streaky for the first 2 coats and dried to that strange almost-matte-but-not-quite finish. Picture is with topcoat in the sun.

Pokémon Nails!

Happy Friday! YAY! For a really fun, almost weekend look, I'll share with you my Pokémon nails!

Shade 

Natural Light

These are painted with acrylics over white nail polish, then finished with top coat. As you can see, we have a Poké Ball, Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, and Pikachu. Given that this was my first time painting with acrylics on my nails, I think it turned out pretty well! :) 

Flip/Flop February 28 Day Challenge: Intro and Day 1

Hello there! 

I decided way back in December that I would be participating in Jilltastic's 28 Day Flip/Flop February Challenge. FFF is a nail design challenge where you are given a choice of two nail designs to post for the day. I've decided to attempt some new techniques and will also be posting some of my older manicures (because changing nail polish every day is not something I have time for).

Here are the challenges for each day (click to make the image bigger):

So without further ado, here is my first day!

Skittle! This is a very old manicure of mine... probably 2 years old now. I wanted to get this challenge off to a better start, but oops. I only had so many weeks to get the other challenges completed and they took first priority, so this'll have to do. ^_^;

Colors used include:
Funky Fingers Pop Artist
Funky Fingers Riot
Assorted glitters and tape purchased from eBay