Pretty Serious The Dragon's Curse

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As I was selecting my green polishes for Green Month, I noticed that I had several Pretty Serious green untried polishes so this is the first of those to come.

The Dragon's Curse is a seafoam green with a strong gold shimmer. This has a great formula, as per usual, opaque in 2 coats.

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Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Inspired by the Weather

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We've been having some seriously gorgeous weather lately and I saw the most beautiful sunset last week and was inspired to do a gradient for this prompt. And it just so happened that I had three Pretty Serious polishes sitting in my acrylic rack that were perfect for this sunset!

I started with a white base and then sponged Pookie (blue), Honey Puff (yellow), and Peachie Poo (peach) onto my nails until I reached the desired opacity and then topped it off with topcoat. I thought about trying to draw some trees but you know how awful I am drawing trees so I decided to leave it as is, lol!

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Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Inspired By A City

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For inspired by a city, I chose to attempt to recreate one of the gorgeous Michigan sunsets that are often photographed by the Mackinac Bridge and Mackinac Island (and if you are curious as to how to pronounce that, it's pronounced "mack-in-aw"). Mackinac Island is a Michigan treasure for several reasons, but one of the things that I love most about Mackinac Island is that there are no cars allowed on the island! The only vehicle is an ambulance. Everyone else uses horses and bicycles. Even the mail and UPS carriers! So be careful where you step, lol. The Island is beautiful and easy to walk or bike and let's not forget all of the delicious fudge shops. Seriously, there are probably about 30 and the island is only 9 miles in circumference! Anyway... this was the city that first came to mind for this prompt!

I googled Mackinac Bridge and this picture caught my eye. Immediately I knew this would be difficult for me to recreate for lots of reasons, primarily because this requires lots of small detail work but I couldn't stop thinking about this so I had to try!

I grabbed some Pretty Serious Cosmetics polishes for this manicure! The polishes used were:

• Forbidden Fruit
• Generally Hazardous
• Cuddle Bunny
• Gloomy Kitty
• Yuletide of the Machines
• Morning Java

I started with Forbidden Fruit as my base color but you obviously can't see it since the gradient covered it up, lol. Then I used Forbidden Fruit, Generally Hazardous, Gloomy Kitty, and Cuddle Bunny for my gradient on a cosmetic sponge. One coat of topcoat and waiting... waiting.... Then I used Morning Java to draw the Mighty Mac and the suspension lines and then highlighted the golden parts of the bridge that represent the sun shining with Yuletide of the Machines.

And don't ask my why I decided to switch bottles in between pictures, lol!!

These are by no means perfect but I guess they aren't terrible? I am always on the look for the tiniest detail brush possible and I thought I was using one small enough but the lines still aren't small enough for me, lol. 

What is your favorite city??

Alaina at The Little Canvas

  Alice at Nail Art in Wonderland

    Amanda at Amandalandish

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Claire at Kerruticles

​Lisa at The Polish Playground

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Marisa at Polish Those Nails

Megan at A Beauty in the Business

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Sara at The Call of Beauty

Sarah at Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Lacquer

Savannah at Addicted to Polish

Sharon at Behind Green Eyes 

Steph at Lovestruck Lacquer

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Amanda

Pretty Serious Stop Collaborate And Listen Collection

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Pretty Serious recently released a trio of collaboration polishes with 3 bloggers and that's what we're looking at tah-day.

Kashmir is dark purple jelly with gold and copper microflakies. This was 3 thin coats and it had a nice formula, no pooling. This was created by Christine of Serenity Nails.

Iktsuarpok was created by Hannah of Polly Polish. This is medium gray with silver flakies. This is quite different and unique and I love it. This was 3 thin coats. And since I had no clue how to pronounce this work, I googled it and thought you would like that info too, lol.

Herald of the Skeleton War was created by Scrangie. This looks like a black based polish but it's a green jelly with purple and green glitter and blue flakies. So so pretty and really different. I used three coats and it was a bit chunky on the 3rd coat due to the flakie glitters. I also used a top coat.

Uhmm yeah. I love Herald of the Skeleton War so much. It's so different, at least from anything I've seen. I love love love itttttt!!

Check out Pretty Serious nail polish. I love all of the PS Cosmetics polishes that I've used <3
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Amanda

Pretty Serious Cosmetics One Year Birthday! Daphne's Birthday Party

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Today is Pretty Serious Cosmetics one year birthday! If you aren't familiar with this brand, go here to check out their website.

In celebration of PSCosmetics birthday, everyone who has the new Daphne's Birthday Party polish is encouraged to post their swatch of it today, so I'm sure that if you haven't already, you will be seeing a lot of Daphne's Birthday Party today :-)

So today, here is my manicure/swatch (and current NOTD) of Pretty Serious Daphne's Birthday Party!

Daphne's Birthday Party is a multicolored glitter explosion of red, gold, pink, blue, and green. I used 2 coats of Zoya Rocky.

So there you have it! I've been wearing this for 3 days and there is almost no tip wear, except where I tore a bit of my nail at work.

Isn't this a perfectly festive polish? Definitely the perfect birthday glitter!

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Amanda

Pretty Serious Emma Louise

Hey guys! Happy Weekend! Any fun plans?? I'm going to a birthday party today and it's supposed to be about 56 degrees outside. This is heavenly news for me. I am so cold! LOL

Pretty Serious Emma Louise is a Limited Edition polish that is now sold out. Sorry. I didn't get to post this in time for anyone to buy, if they wanted. Wah wah.

This was 3 coats of Emma Louise, a purple polish with green glitter. I thought I would love this a lot more... I guess I was hoping the green would be a lot more visible. Oh well, it's still really pretty.

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Amanda

Pretty Serious BSOD

Hey guys! Happy Wednesday. Wednesday? I think? I'm not sure :-p

This is my first Pretty Serious polish and holy moly is it beautiful! If you haven't noticed by now, I love blue. Blue glitter, blue polish, blue holos, blue blue blue blue. I love blue!

I resisted ordering this for a long time because I'm trying to be good and shipping was a little more than I cared to spend, since it was coming from Australia. Finally, I caved during some promo Kaz was running. Ummm yeah. Amazing.

This is 3 coats of BSOD. I could kick myself but I think this is with topcoat. I know I wore this and I always top coat the mani's I wear.

This was totally worth the little bit extra shipping. I lurve this!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda