RANDOM NAIL ARTS

Hi everyone I just like to share some of my previous nail designs..
thanks for looking... happy polishing.. everyone.. xoxo

"Pooh Birtday Manicure"

I made this nail art for my friend BLESS she's a Pooh lover 

& since it was her birthday Last June 11 I made this for her..

here are the sample swatches of FAB UR NAILS stamping polish

"Tuxedo weddings Nails"

"Fab Gold"

I used zoya kamila & fab ur nails stamping polish Gold

"zoya valerie & My new A series plates"

"Orly Gumdrop & A series plates"

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Zoya Gemma & Nail Art Attempt

New top 5 favorite!! Gorgeous muted army green with floating, hidden blue micro shimmer. Unique color and a great formula. This is 2 coats. You must get this if you're a green lover!!

I got the idea for this manicure from the amazing Collette of My Simple Little Pleasures. Her posts are always incredible! I wasn't confident with the technique yet, so I just went for an accent nail with Zoya Stacy. Mine didn't turn out quite the way I wanted, but I'll try again someday. Thanks for the idea Collete!

You can see my thoughts on the Zoya Intimate Collection in this post.

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Nails of the Day - Yellow & Blue Cheetah Print

What a creative title for this mani, hey?

I was planning on doing an entirely different design tonight but it was really late when I finally sat down to do my nails so I just decided to do something quick and simple. Basically, any type of animal print is always my fall back when I'm not feeling very creative or when I don't have a lot of time so of course, that's what I ended up doing tonight.




Products:
Seche Clear Base Coat
Color Club - Almost Famous (base)
Zoya - Robyn (spots)
OPI - Black Onyx (outline of spots)
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Zoya Jules and A Half Moon Manicure

This is 2 coats of Zoya Jules. It's a lovely taupe shimmer with one of the nicest formulas I've ever used! Another winner from the excellent Zoya Intimate Collection.

The next night I did a quick half moon with Zoya Dannii.

You can see my thoughts on the Zoya Intimate Collection in this post.

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Zoya Dannii

This is two coats of Zoya Dannii. Just two coats and a very nice formula! Zoya describes this one perfectly, "medium orchid purple with pink and champagne highlights and flecks of silver metallic shimmer." Another lovely and unique shade from the Intimate Collection.

You can see my thoughts on the Zoya Intimate Collection in this post.

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Zoya Caitlin & A Water Marble

This is 2 coats of Zoya Caitlin. Easy application and an unexpected new favorite! It's a much lighter version of Zoya Kelly, which I'm wearing on my pinkie. Caitlin is a purplish grey creme that works great a s a neutral for me. I could wear it with a brown outfit since there is so much purple which I wouldn't normally do with a grey. Believe people when they say you need this one. It's unique and doesn't have any dupes that I can find.

The next night a did a quick water marble with the 2 colors. I love water marbling!

You can see my thoughts on the Zoya Intimate Collection in this post.

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Zoya Marley

This is 3 coats of Zoya Marley from their Intimate Collection. It's a pale lavender with just a slight hint of frosty silver. I have other pale lavenders, but none with this finish. Very pretty & a nice formula!

Wally says hello!

You can see my thoughts on the Zoya Intimate Collection in this post.

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My Overall Thoughts On Zoya Intimate Collection

Zoya surprised me with this collection in the mail! I try to keep my collection on the small side and avoid dupes, but that wasn't a problem with this perfect collection. I kept them all! I'll be posting all of the colors individually over the next week or so.

Pictured above we have Marley, Dove, Caitlin, Dannii, Jules & Gemma. All of the polishes had a nice formula. Jules & Gemma have some of the nicest applications I've ever used. All required 2-3 coats. Gemma is now in my top 5 favorites and Caitlin made it into my favorites as well! The rest are all very pretty and perfect for late winter and spring.

I've never been tempted to buy a whole collection before for many reasons, including dupes and my lack of enthusiasm about most reds and pinks. The Zoya Intimate collection is the only one I would ever purchase for myself. No pinks and reds and full of colors that are either completely original or in a color range that I love.

The Zoya Intimate Collection gets a perfect rating from me and I highly recommend it to any of you still on the fence about purchasing it. If you love green, you must get Gemma!!

And here's a bonus Wally picture since so many of you like him.

Thanks for reading!
April

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Zoya Happi

Zoya Happi, 2 coats

Happi is a Barbie pink loaded with duochrome shimmer that changes from greenish yellow to soft orange. It's a wee bit brushstrokey and may even appear frosty to some. Application was okay but cleanup was harder than usual and I had to go over the mistakes several times with my trusty corrector pen.

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Christmas Nail Art Series - Christmas Lights

Hey everyone!

Today I have another Christmas manicure for you. I'm trying to get as many more Christmas designs in as possible so I'm doing as many as I can! This design has been done a hundred times before but I have always liked it so I wanted to give it a try myself.




Products:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
China Glaze - Midnight Kiss (base)
L.A. Colors Art Deco - Forest Green (cord)
China Glaze - Grape Juice (purple bulbs)
China Glaze - Dorothy Who? (blue bulbs)
Orly - Star Spangled (red bulbs)
Nicole by OPI - Fresh Squeezed (orange bulbs)
Zoya - Ivanka (green bulbs)
Color Club - Sex Symbol (glitter highlight on bulbs)
Seche Vite Top Coat

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Nina Ultra Pro Salsa & A Layered Look

Nina Ultra Pro Salsa doesn't get nearly enough attention! It's a gorgeous green creme that glides on in two easily applied coats. I had no issues with the formula and it's readily available for those in the U.S. at Sally Beauty Supply at about $4.


I layered one coat of Zoya Bailey over my manicure the next day and I love the results. It reminds me a bit of Zoya Edyta with a pinkish glow as opposed to Edyta's golden one.


Thanks for reading!
April

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Halloween Nail Art Series - The Nightmare Before Christmas

This is the second instalment of my Halloween Nail Art Series and this design was inspired by a particular photo I found of The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Here's the inspiration photo:



And here's my design:





Products (Spiderwebs):
• China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
• Zoya - Julianne (base)
• L.A. Colors Art Deco - Lavender (webs)
• L.A. Colors Art Deco - Silver Glitter (on top of webs)
• Seche Vite Top Coat

Products (Spiders):
• China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
• China Glaze - Liquid Leather
• Nicole by OPI - Nicole...Spotted!
• Seche Vite Top Coat

Products (Jack Skellington):
• China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
• Color Club - Almost Famous (base)
• OPI - The "It" Color (detail on top of base)
• L.A. Colors Art Deco - Black (eyes, mouth, nose, suit)
• L.A. Colors Art Deco - White (face, neck, suit)
• Seche Vite Top Coat Read Full...

Nails of the Day - Birthday Cake

Hey guys!

My birthday is Tuesday and since I'm working tomorrow evening, I did my birthday manicure today:



One of my favourite things about this design is that there are 23 candles altogether which is how old I'll be. :D

Products:
• China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
• OPI - Do You Lilac It? (base)
• China Glaze - White On White (icing)
• China Glaze - Sugar High (pink sprinkles)
• OPI - What's With the Cattitude? (blue sprikles)
• China Glaze - Lemon Fizz (yellow sprinkles/yellow candles)
• Color Club - Twiggie (green candles)
• Color Club - Warhol (pink candles)
• China Glaze - Bahamian Escape (light blue candles)
• China Glaze - Shower Together
• Zoya - Jancyn (orange part of flames)
• Color Club - Almost Famous (yellow part of flames)
• Seche Vite Top Coat Read Full...

Nails of the Day - Classy and Girly

So today's mani is based on the theme "Girly Nails" which is the theme of a Nail Art Competition on another board I'm a member of. I think the end result is pretty it's just not really "me".
This is also a very simple design so even nail art beginners can give this one a try if they would like.


(Left hand)


(Right hand)

Products:
• China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
• GOSH - Silk (base)
• China Glaze - Rainbow (on top of base)
• Zoya - Nova (pink glitter tip)
• L.A. Colors Art Deco - Silver Glitter (line under pink glitter tip and on top of black design)
• L.A. Colors Art Deco - Black Sparkle (black design)
• Seche Vite Top Coat

In certain lights the opalescence of China Glaze - Rainbow adds a beautiful pink sheen to the base colour but unfortunately, my camera couldn't pick it up very well. Ah well, hope you like it anyways! Read Full...

Nails of the Day - Chomp

I had so many different ideas floating around in my head when I sat down to do my nails last night and this design wasn't even one of them.
The first idea I had was a Pac-Man inspired mani so I started a google image search to see what I would base my design off of. I don't know how but I managed to come across an image of Chomp from the Mario games and that gave me an entirely new idea. So, I went with the new idea and this is what I ended up with:



I like it a lot and I'm thinking about starting a new series based on this design (Mario Enemies, maybe?). I don't know, we'll see.

Oh and I was thinking about giving the design a little dimension by doing some shading on the grass and trees and stuff but I actually liked the two dimensional effect so I think I'll wait until a day or so before I plan to remove this and then play around with shading.

Products:
• China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
• Zoya - Robyn (sky)
• China Glaze - Entourage (grass)
• Orly - Green Apple (tree things)
• OPI - Suzi Skis in the Pyrenees (chain chomp body)
• China Glaze - White On White (clouds, chain chomp's eye and teeth)
• China Glaze - Solar Power (block)
• China Glaze - Ingrid (shading/outline of block)
• China Glaze - Platinum (chain)
• OPI - Red My Fortune Cookie (chain chomp's mouth)
• China Glaze - Liquid Leather (eyes of clouds and trees)
• Seche Vite Top Coat

And by the way, I still plan on doing a Pac-Man inspired mani so keep an eye out for that. Read Full...

Zoya - Edyta with Revlon - Belle

Hey guys.

So you might remember my manicure from my last post with Zoya - Edyta. Well, last night I was itching for something new (oh and just to clarify, I actually did the original manicure on Monday evening, I just didn't post it until Thursday, I can keep one colour on for a few days without needing something new right away :P) but I really didn't want to take this off so I decided to try adding a glitter top coat over it and see how it worked out.

I added Revlon - Belle which is a new colour released with the Just Add Sparkle Collection. This is how it turned out:

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Zoya - Edyta

Edyta is a smokey green with gold and green shimmer and it was released with the Wicked and Wonderful Collection not too long ago.



I wish I could have captured a better picture to show off the shimmer of this but it's so rainy and murky out today that it's just not happening. It really is a beautiful colour though and the application was excellent. Read Full...

Nails of the Day - Colourful Camo

Hey guys, I'm here with another NOTD post. This week it's a fun and colourful camo print.


This design is super easy, even for nail art beginners since it's really just blobs of polish. :P And the best thing is that even if you're not comfortable working on your non-dominant hand, this design is perfect for that since you really can't mess up with blobs!
Hope you like it.

Products:
• China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
• OPI - The "It" Colour
• Zoya - Jolene
• Zoya - Robyn
• OPI - Funky Dunkey
• Seche Vite Top Coat Read Full...

Haul Saturdays - Volume 8

Welcome to Volume 8 of Haul Saturdays - a weekly post chronicling whatever beauty related purchases I made throughout that week.

eBay:
• Zoya - Kelly, Karina, Edyta, Savita, and Nidhi polishes

Chatter's Salon: (they had a 25% off sale this weekend!)
• OPI - DS Extravagance, Moon Over Mumbai, You Rock-Apulco Red, Bright Lights - Big Colour, The Colour to Watch, Diva of Geneva, Yodel Me On My Cell, Tickle My France-y, and Lunch at the Delhi polishes
• China Glaze - Thunderbird, Short & Sassy, Rainstorm, Pure Elegance, and Fushcia polishes

That's it! Sorry that it's all nail polish this week, guys. Next week will be a big one with the release of the MAC Fabulous Felines and F/W Nail Trend collections. I can't wait!

Also, if anyone wants to see any swatches of any of the above items, let me know and I'll make it a point to get it done.
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Nails of the Day - Colourful Cheetah Print

It seems that I'm on a bit of an animal print kick right now and I've got to say, I'm totally diggin' it.



Products:
• China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
• China Glaze "White on White"
• Zoya "Robyn"
• Orly "Green With Envy"
• Zoya "Jolene"
• OPI "Do You Lilac It?"
• China Glaze "Lemon Fizz"
• L.A. Colors Art Deco "Black" Read Full...