Round 25: Bestie Twin Nails With The Little Canvas!

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Hey hey hey, it's time for another BTN with my buddy Alaina from The Little Canvas!

For this BTN, we chose a simple dotticure and striping tape mani, inspired by Nicole from Young Wild & Polished.

We went with mint and purple versus the brighter green and purple. I used three colors from Virtuous Polish (which is no longer open for business, unfortunately): Purity, Queen Ester, and Rahab. 

This is a pretty straightforward  manicure so I won't really go into too much detail: I used a dotting tool and some striping tape, lol. The polishes I used are matte polishes so a glossy topcoat was required. 

Be sure to check out Alaina's nails!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Mix & Match

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 Today is Mix and Match day for Twinsie Tuesday and I didn't really know what I wanted to accomplish with this manicure so I just sort of started playing and this is what happened, lol.

I started with one coat (ONE COAT) of OPI Push & Shove, which I had somehow never used until tonight. Crazy silver chrome polish but I should have used a ridge filling base coat. Oh well, that's where OPI's Black Cherry Chutney came in. I used some various nail vinyls on my index and ring fingers and did a random dotticure on my middle finger. Then I painted one coat of Black Cherry Chutney on my pinky and went in with Push & Shove for a dry brush nail, another technique that I have never done but is so easy and cool and why am I wasting my time NOT doing this technique?!

Be sure to check out the other Twinsies Mix & Match manis!

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

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Essie Dots, Stripes and Flowers!

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I am sharing another guest post today! I fail at sharing these on my own blog, lol. Whoops.

I found 5 Essie's that I wanted to use to recreate this manicure from Bad Girl Nails.

I started with Essie Pret-A-Surfer on my pinky and pointer finger, which amazingly covered in one coat. Then I painted 3 coats of Ballet Slippers on my middle finger, and then 2 coats of Coat Couture on my ring finger. After those dried, I dotted Blanc on the index and pinky fingers. THEN I free hand/crookedly drew some lines on the middle finger with Mint Candy Apple and filled in the stripes. Finally.... the flowers with Blanc on the ring finger. Annnnnnd topcoat.

Phew. Catch all that? Let's look at the final product, lol.

I quite liked these! I know they aren't at all seasonally appropriate but I don't even mind because I love this so much! LOL

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Dotticure

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We're back for Twinsie Tuesday! The break flew by, to be honest, lol. But we're back and easing into it with a simple prompt: dotticure. I knew immediately which manicure I would do, because I JUST saw Sammy from The Nailasaurus do this beautiful and simple dotticure and had to recreate it.

I used Nails Inc Mayfair Lane as my base color, which was not as ideal as I was hoping, to be honest. It was a bit patchy and uneven so I had to do three coats. Then I dotted Hyde Park Place on the tips and randomly up the nail. Topcoat and boom. Done.

Sammy's manicure is infinitely better because her nails are perfect but I actually like the pink and gray combination and goodness knows this is not a typical color scheme for me, so I call it a success! :)

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

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Native War Paints

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I have a cute little dotticure using 3 of the Native War Paints Cozy Sweater polishes. I used Cozy Sweater, Sweater Weather, and Sweater Dress. Pretty simple, I just used my dotting tool. Cozy Sweater was one coat!
 

It looks like a turtle, I think, lol. But I like it! Whatchu think?

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Mattify!

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For today's prompt, we are mattifying a manicure. I decided to recreate this manicure using my new Orly Color Blast Belle themed polishes.

OPI MBSW was my base color and then I dotted Positively Primeval Gaston and then added a white dot to the center. Then dotted Nose In A Book and Crazy Old Maurice around the flowers, topped it off with Essie's Matte About You topcoat. Dasss cuteeeee, right? (By the way, that's how my 2 year old says "that's cute" lol. I need to get out more o.O)

Go check out the other twinsiessssss!

Tiffany at Polished To Precision

Savannah at Addicted to Polish

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Lisa at The Polish Playground

Lakeisha at Refined and Polished

Kristine at Pink and Polished Nails

Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

Bridget at A Painted Nail

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Amanda at Amandalandish

Alaina at The Little Canvas

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Orly Sugar High: My Picks + Nail Art!

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Today I have the polishes I picked from the Spring 2015 Orly Sugar High collection.

Cake Pop is a pale pale pale pale pale pale pinky white. It is basically a white pink, if that makes sense. This was 3 coats and it was still a bit streaky after 3 coats.

Key Lime Twist is a bright pale lime green. This was 3 coats, as well.

Plum Sugar is a dark royal purple. This was 2 coats.

Since I loved the bright green with the dark purple, I did a quick dotticure using all three polishes.

Did you purchase any of the Orly Sugar High collection? What were your favorites??

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Seasonal Opposite

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For Seasonal Opposite, I immediately thought "brown" because that's more of a fall color to me for polish. So I busted out Zoya Emilia, Chanelle, and Sunny for a simple dotticure.

Simple, but definitely seasonal opposite, right?!


Go look at the other twinsies posts! :-)

Alaina at The Little Canvas

Amanda at Amandalandish

Amanda at Fashion Footing

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Bridget at A Painted Nail

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer

Kristine at Pink and Polished Nails

Lakeisha at Refined and Polished

​Lisa at The Polish Playground

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Savannah at Addicted to Polish

Tiffany at Polished To Precision

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas!

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Last week, Alaina from The Little Canvas sent out a call for someone to do a manicure swap or bestie twin nails and I thought this would be a great opportunity for me to post more than once a month! Haha!  So here we are!

We drew inspiration from this picture from Pinterest. I think the flowers are perfect colors for spring/summer!

I used OPI's My Vampire Is Buff (3 coats) and then dotted Essie's Butler Please, Bettina's Resort Starfish, and Sation Abbacadazzle. I finished with a coat of my trusty China Glaze Fairy Dust and topped it with Glisten and Glow HK Girl Top Coat.

I didn't love the colors together once I had them on the nails but I stuck with them :-)

Go check out Alaina's post, I'm sure it's fantastic!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Operation: Helmer - January's Results!

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For January, I was going to be focusing on using my first China Glaze drawer. I managed to do about 5  manicures this month, which is so sad when you think that I used to do my nails almost every day! Life as a mom, I tell ya :-p

Here are the manicures that I did in January:

China Glaze High Def

OPI MBSW with OPI In True Stefani Fashion and China Glaze Aquadelic

China Glaze Pink Ombre:

Thumb to Pinky - 

Snap My Dragon, Love's A Beach, Make Some Noise, Pink Plumeria, and Mimosa's Before Mani's

Covered in Fairy Dust

China Glaze Green Ombre:

Thumb to Pinky - 

Westside Warrior, Holly Jolly, Cha Cha Cha, Gaga for Green, Re-Fresh Mint

with Snow Globe on index finger

Sunset Sail, Lemon Fizz, Papaya Punch, Velvet Bow, and Electric Beat dots

China Glaze Make Some Noise

So in total, I used 18 China Glaze polishes this month. Maybe it's cheating to do ombre's but I'm thinking that how a lot of my manicures are going to be, as I just don't have as much time to do my nails as I used to. Oh well. I think this was pretty successful, don't you?

Tomorrow, I will be posting the contest of February's drawer and asking for suggestions as to what polishes you most want to see for February!


What do you think? Did you use any of your untrieds or not as loved polishes this month?

Talk to you soon!
Amanda!

Milani Dotticure Featuring Mint Chip, Blue Jay, and Lavender FX

Hey guys! Happy Friday! Any fun plans this weekend? Hopefully my baby will make her grand entrance into the world this weekend... today is my due date! Ack! Where did the last 9 months go???

Today I have some fun new Milani colors to show you in the form of a cute dotticure!

First, I used Mint Chip from the Retro Glam Limited Edition collection. This beautiful green was just about perfect in two coats.

Then, I added some dots using Blue Jay from the Fantastical Plumage Limited Edition collection. Who doesn't love dots?!

Finally, I picked out some purple glitters from the Lavender FX glitter and placed them on a good amount of my dots.

 Macro with top coat!

What do you think? The Retro Glam and Fantastical Plumage collections are limited edition so be sure to check your Meijer and CVS stores for these collections!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Zoya Dotticure

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Here's a quick dotticure I did using Zoya Darcy, Yana, Rocky, and Neely! So fun! Both hands have a coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top! 

I alternated the base color on the right hand, using Neely as the base color.

Dots dots dots dots dots dots! Do you love dots? 

Talk to you soon!

Amanda