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.

NOTD: Berry Princess

Hello there! Today I've got a girly look to share... a beautiful array of berry-colored glitters in a milky white base, with a tri-colored V half moon, finished with a heart rhinestone! Whew!

Basically, I started with a coat of white polish to make the Burrrberry pop then waited for it to dry. Then I did a basic tape manicure to mark off the V on my nail, painted it blue, waited for it to dry, then outlined in pink and purple. Finally I added some topcoat, a rhinestone, then more topcoat to finish the design.

See now? This is what happens when I have a lot of free time to do a manicure. We get more complex designs that take some time to do (waiting around for the polish to dry takes For. Ev. Er!) Looking at my pictures, it looks like my flash brought out the larger glitter in Burrrberry underneath the Vs... but they weren't noticeable in person. Weird!

Polishes Used
Sinful Colors Snow Me White (as a base coat)
Jindie Nails Burrrberry
Funky Fingers Guitar Solo
Milani Draw in Pink
Milani Purple Outline
And heart rhinestones from Born Pretty Store!

NOTD: Rich and Royal Split

There's just something that speaks to me about these two colors... a rich fuchsia and a beautiful royal blue. I split my nail with both colors then finished off the look with a purple glitter line.

This look is a probably better suited for Fall, but too late! I wore it in spring. Muahaha!

Polishes Used
LynBDesigns Sacré Blurple
Funky Fingers Power Play
And loose glitter bought off of eBay

Swatch: Glitterfied Nails Diamond Ring

So I recently bought a few minis from Glitterfied Nails and decided to swatch them for you here! This is the first of the polishes, Diamond Ring. It's a gorgeous combo of iridescent glitters that shine all sorts of colors in a clear base. Below is one coat of Diamond Ring over Zoya's Natty.

Formula wise, this was super easy to work with and required no dabbing. The base is rather thin and manageable (especially for a glitter polish!). You can really see the shift of colors in the 2nd picture; there's green, blue, orange, and gold from what I can mostly see. I plan on wearing this over pink for a delicate, girly look... but I can't wait to wear it over some black too!

Manicure Monday: Stephen's Request!

At the (probably not serious) request of Stephen, who left a wonderful comment on my Pokémon nails, I present this look!

Just because Stevie Q is rad. :)

Things Used:
Sinful Colors Bleeding Heart
Sinful Colors Snow Me White
Color Club White Striper
Color Club Black Striper
Warpaint Beauty Mattify
Lush Lacquer Midnight Affair
A good ol' black Sharpie

NOTD: My First Attempt at Sugar-Spun

... and I'm not sure I like the technique. :/

What I learned while attempting this:

• Getting nail polish to dry quickly when you actually want it to is impossible.
• Once goopy enough, the polish then dries WAY too quickly.
• Some polishes don't work for this technique... I wanted to do a nice purple and green, but my purple just wouldn't "spin."
• It's impossible to get nice, thin strands.
• It was hard to get strands to cover the entire nail instead of just half of it.

Anywhos... here's what I ended up with!

Colors Used:

Fresh Paint High Voltage

Funky Fingers Green (no polish label!)

Hot Topic Holographic Star Polish (no polish label!)

Manicure Monday: Rainbow Gradient

I know it's been a popular look around the Web lately, so here's my take on a rainbow gradient look.

Staring with a white base, I used the wet makeup sponge technique for this look, then topped it off with some glitter! Please ignore my weird cuticle area there... I had a slip with my acetone. ^_^;

Colors used:
Sinful Colors Snow Me White

Sinful Colors Bleeding Heart

CoverGirl #245

NYC Midtown Mimosa

Funky Fingers (Green) No Label... sorry! :(

Sinful Colors Love Nails

Funky Fingers Riot

OPI Save Me

Manicure Monday: Neon Geometry

Hey there! Long time no post... I've been lacking motivation recently. Anywhos, here's a bright and cheery look featuring my first attempt at playing with Jamberry shields. I received them as a free sample and placed them on my rings fingers-- I believe this design is called Black & White Flower.

I started off with a white base for these, then  free-handed some geometric orange shapes. I added some orange dots to the nail shields and some topcoat just to be safe. Finally, I outlined my shapes with a black striper then BAM! A bold neon look! A more color accurate picture of the polish:

Obviously, my camera stinks at picking up colors, so I had to Photoshop this. Hence the gross skin color! Haha... 

Colors Used:

Sinful Colors Snow Me White

Funky Fingers Like Clockwork

Color Club Black

Springtime look!

Hello! This is my contest entry for Nails by Kayla Shevonne's Indie Nail Art Contest. This look uses a polish from Jindie Nails and just screams springtime, right?

I started off with a white base coat, then dabbed on Candy Land. From there I free-handed some pink tips and outlined them in purple. Beautiful!

Polishes Used:

Jindie Nails Candy Land

Sinful Colors Snow Me White
Milani Draw In Pink

Milani Purple Outline

Manicure Monday: GO INDIANS!

I am a HUGE baseball fan, and my team of choice is the Cleveland Indians! Today marks their home opener against the *glare* New York Yankees. In celebration of another year of baseball I went with an Indians manicure.... water marble and dots, with Chief Wahoo and glequin accent nails.

Polishes Used:

Sinful Colors Bleeding Heart

Sinful Colors Snow Me White

Pure Ice All Night Long

Chief Wahoo temporary tattoos [x]