My Glowing Camo Nails - Soooo Easy

Where do I begin with this color!  I absolutely love this color!  I think this color is so freaking unique and different just like me (NOT TO SOUND VAIN BUT HA!).  I don't even know where to begin trying to describe this color but what I do know is that I got alot of compliments on it.

I wore the color alone for a couple of days - I think a total of two before I got bored and waned to jazz it up.  I had been wanting to play with my nail foils for quite a while now; for some reason I keep feeding myself excuses but yet I find time to paint my nails every two days or so.  The thought of experimenting with them always haunted me - for some reason I thought they wouldn't come out right but I'm tripping because I watched a thousand tutorials on how to apply them.

The real reason is that if I made a mistake or the foil didn't stick I would totally get disgusted and remove the polish from all my nails and start over or with just a base color or would totally leave them alone for the night and I have too much damn polish to have naked nails.

I went into my foil container which holds approximately 15 various colors and patterns and chose something that would compliment the base color.  I chose this camouflage pattern which complimented the base color.

I applied them to three fingers on each hand after applying a thin coat of of foil glue and letting the glue dry for approx. three minutes.  Once the glue was transparent in color I applied the foil and rubbed my dotting tool all over the foil making sure it adhered to o the nail properly.  I was totally amazed that they all came out right but I wasn't quite done there.  I wanted to glow a little so I applied a iridescent halo polish to them and I was freaking happy.

I will definitely be playing with my foils a little bit more now especially since I have overcome my fear of ruining my manicure. I don't know why I'm so hard on myself it just freaking damn nail polish (I really wanted to use the other "F" word but I'll be a lady tonight).

Anyway here's the colors and brands I used:

Base Color:  SinfulColors- Leap Frog $.99
Halo Top Coat:  Essie Luxe Effect- Shine of the Times $8.00
Base Coat:  Pro-FX Fiberized Ridge Filler $5.97
Top Coat: Seche Vite - Fast Drying Top Coat $6.00












































The picture on the left was taken about four days after applying foil.  The picture on the right was taken the day I applied the nail foils after where the base color a couple of days.  So this manicure lasted about a week and a day.  I honestly got bored after wearing it two days but I stuck it out.

SinfulColors Precious Metals

I thought I would try some of my nail polish I haven't touched which would be about 75% of them; I tend to have my favorites.  I fell in love with this color - not only did it compliment my skin color but it also got me out of my comfort zone.

This particular color is hard to describe...it's like a navy blue with a hint of gray with a foil like finish but not quite.

I don't know you tell me how you would describe it.I will definitely be trying a water marble with this color - i'm just not sure what i'm going to pair it with.

I'm trying to get back in the my zone of blogging again but today I'm totally drained and the little one wants all of my attention.

Bare with me - it will get better

This polish was purchased at Walgreens for .99

SinfulColors - Crystal Clear

Well I think its' truly time for me to commit myself into rehab.  I have searched and reviewed nail blogs, YouTube tutorials and reviews,  and Instagram to the point of no return yesterday - all just to see whats the fuss about in regards to the new SinFulColors Shine Gel Tech Collection.  I fell in love with a blue hue (don't know the name) and work up to stalk Walgreen's at 6am in the local area of my job. I didn't find it but I found this beauty which I'm crazy about.

This color is called Crystal Clear (#1254) - it's loaded with lots of glitter and holographic foil pieces in a clear base which was thicker than their regular polishes. I swatched two nails in my car after my purchase ($2.99) and I am in awe.  These pictures do no justice with the shine and holographic chunks of foil that illuminates from my nails - but I'm quite sure I'll be following up this polish with a nice manicure.

SinfulColors Lippies - Winter '2012 Collection

I feel like I just won the freaking lottery!  I have been searching all over for these babies and I finally found them 13 trips later @ my local Walgreens.

I fell in love with the first collection my favorite being Pucker Up Baby which was the perfect shade of pink for my skin tone click here to view post.

The colors I purchased this time around were:

• Peach Me 
• Pixie Dust
• Sugar Cookie
• Flirt Alert

Some may disagree but these have been compared to MAC's Dazzle Glass Collection and I believe some can be considered dupes.  I like all the colors I purchased my favorite of them all I think is Sugar Cookie.  This collection seem to consist of sheers each of them containing shimmer and are buildable  and non-sticky (which I love by the way). The formula is consistent to the first collection and I must say that I am a happy consumer for the second time around.

These babies were purchase @ $2.99/ea at a Walgreens quite a ways from me and I snatched every color they had left which were sitting in a small container on the counter.  Now if I can only find Pucker Up Baby again I would purchase at least eight of them *I'M DEAD SERIOUS*  Well anyway this made my weekend and I must say i'm a happy girl!

I wanted to give a description of the colors but my little one had too much banana pudding and is jumping off the wall right now so I just included this photo of swatches on my inner arm and included some photos of each color as well.  Ok! I have to sum this up now before child protective services show up at my door.  I want to give him some water to flush his system of the sugar but then we'll have a pissy mess on our hands later.

Well go and grab these lippies if you can find them - you will not be disappointed trust me!  I just hope it doesn't take you as many trips and it did for me to find them!

*Two Fingers*

Break out the Stobe Light - It's Vacation Time!!!!

Subtle with a little bling!  I love nudes they really come in handy when you don't want any color or your nails and want them all to be uniformed with jut a hint of color...hope I didn't confuse you; LOL!

I am soo tired right now and I should be resting while my son is out at Hooters scoping the scene for his prom date...LOL!

Ok its obvious I got the sillies so I am about to get ready and lay it down so before I do here is what we have today:

Two coats of SinfulColors Vacation Day and three coats of Sally Hansen Strobe Light.  Both products can be purchase at Walgreens.

Until next time...my eyeballs are falling!

Counting sheep now an I'm out!

Stress Nail aka Brush Stroke Nails

I so love these nails and they were sooo easy to do and no tools were needed besides a toothpick to do the cleanup.

I got the inspiration for these from Sarah of Chalkboard Nails - her blog is off the chain so make sure you click on the link and check her out.

Well let's get right to it - all colors used were by SinfulColors continuing my neon theme.  For my base coat I used two coats of TimbleBerry which is a orange creme with a tint of pink more so on the coral side.

After I applied my base color I used the following colors to apply the brush strokes:

• Innocent - Neon Lime
• Dream On - Matte Magenta
• Rise and Shine - Blue with a hint of Green
• Ice Ice Baby - Clear base chrome blue glitter

After your base coat is dry or tacky you can began your random brush strokes as I did here:

I was sooo stressed out while I was doing my nails but overall I think they turned out ok....next time I try them I will make sure I get more coverage of the base along the edges.

LifePleazures Photos - Do Not Copy!!!

Island Coral and Rally Pretty Pink

Two pretty complimentary colors...OPI- Rally Pretty Pink and Sinful Colors- Island Coral.  I sooo love the color combinations with these two.  I don't know why it make me want sushi but it does.  Rally Pretty Pink sort of set the tone...its such a lovely duo chrome interchanging between gold purple and sort of a mauve pink.

Island Coral reminds me of salmon and lobster or is it that I'm just hungry.  Well I gotta go and get my food out of the microwave now and prepare for tomorrows work day and also do my nails tonight because they look absolutely horrid and neglected.

Toodles!!!!!

Two Coats (2) plus Top Coat (TC)

I LOVE GARRETTS!!!!!

Cheese and Caramel  - Caramel and Cheese...buy me some Garrett's please, please, please!!!!!


So apparently i'm really late because I had no idea until recently that we had a Garrett's Popcorn Shop on the south side of Chicago located at 87th Cottage Grove so to celebrate my popcorn fetish - The Chicago Mix I polished my daughters nails orange and gold.  I didn't like the color combination to much at first but it grew on me.


The colors I used were as follow:

• SinfulColors - All About You #921
• Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Sun Kissed #150