Formula X Polish | THRILLING

 

Hi loves!! I have a quick post today. I didn't want to neglect the blog this week. This time of year is super busy for me but I still want to commit to my blog. I don't have a lot of subscribers but I really enjoy sharing my nails and nail art via a blog. Yes Instagram is instant but sometimes I just feel like posting.

A few weeks ago I went to Sephora just to get the Formula X polish remover in the huge jar and picked up a few polishes. Well $138 dollars later I have 6 polishes and the remover jar!

Thrilling stood out to me because of its nudish pink shade. I'm not sure why I keep gravitating to nudes but I just love them. Here I'm wearing two coats and I used a cheap white polish for the accent nails.

These polishes are super opaque. Honestly one coat is great especially for designs and having that one coat as a base.

If you haven't already check out the pretty polishes from Formula X!

 

Bonita Colors | RIDE THE WAVES

 

As promised more swatches from the brand Bonita. This is Ride the Waves.

Sinful Colors | ORANGE CREAM | SWATCHES

 

I've had this polish for a while now as most polishes in my collection. But I'm in the process of trying to organize this nail hoarding I got going on and in the process came across this beauty.

OPI | PUSH AND SHOVE

 

I have a quick review today of OPI's Push and Shove.

Glisten & Glow H K Girl Top Coat Review

 

For several weeks I've been meaning to do this post on my new favorite Top coat.

Nail Foils

 

As you can see I had to do a major chop on my nails. I had two breaks on my left hand and one on my right. I had patched all three up but somehow my patch had failed me on my right which is my hand I like to photograph.

Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow

 

Today I have a swatch of Sally Hansen's Xtreme wear nail lacquer in Mellow Yellow.

Nail Vinyls

 

Let me start by saying that I'm not being paid to review this product. I'm not endorsed by this company and I've always purchased these products with my own money. Now that's out the way....on to my review!

Femme Fatale | Burning Blossom

Earlier in the week I did a post on some nail mail I received from Color4Nails. I decided to do an individual swatch of this color by Femme Fatale in the color Burning Blossom.

NCLA Nail Wraps

Happy Saturday! This is a quick post. I wanted to share my mani for the weekend. I ordered some nail wraps from www.shopncla.com this week.

Finger Paints | Brown and Gold Chevron nails

I was going to start by saying how much I love Brown nail polish. Then I realized...I love nail polish period!! Yes green is my favorite color, atleast the top of my list of color that I like but there are certain colors that I love as a polish against my skin tone.

KBShimmer | Pigment of My Imagination

Happy Presidents Day! I hope you had a great extended weekend! With snow and the holiday here in Maryland/DC some people had a five day weekend. I only worked a half a day Wednesday , was off Thursday and worked Friday and Saturday . But the day off on Thursday was much needed.

Camouflage Valentines Day Mani

 

It's Monday manicure time! Today I decided I wanted to use a polish that I hauled yesterday from the nail supply.

Valentines Day Nail Art

 

My right hand

It seems as though I've been looking at nails, nail art and polish non stop here lately. Any of my free time I've dedicated to looking at nails. I've always been into nails but here lately I've become somewhat obsessed with nails.

So many ideas and designs have run through my mind. I have become inspired by so many nail artist and bloggers. I like the inspiration but at the same time I like to sort of make things my own. Pretty much be unique sort of speak. It's really hard to come up with original designs because with so many nail bloggers and nail artist some things I think of have already been done. For example, I'm a chocolate lover. So the other day I said hmmm I should do candy bar nails or a Twix or Mr. Goodbar inspiration nail. Well in my cruise through nail designs via google wouldn't you know I saw these already done. I didn't see Mr. Goodbar but pretty much the idea I had was already done.

Last night before going to bed I looked at a few nail videos on YouTube and had the idea of doing a bouquet of hearts(middle finger) . But my vision was to have the bouquet just to the side of the nail. Being I don't have the length for that nor a steady hand it covered the whole nail.

So this morning I decided to play around with different designs using my acrylic paints and maybe come up with a concept or two. I figured why not post to Instagram and blog what I've done. I'm still a work in progress and I'm anxious to get better at my hobby.

Here is another pic of my left hand.

Left hand

Also I failed to mention I did this over an old mani of nude polish. Here is a pic of the previous mani that I blogged about the other day.

If you enjoy nail art, what inspires you to create? I'd love to know!

 

Nude manicure | Ulta's SET THE NUDE

 

2 coats

I decided to do a nude manicure today. I love nude polishes! But some nudes don't always go well with my complexion.

I love this nude color by ULTA called " Set The Nude". It is very opaque! I will say it's a little streaky on the first coat but still opaque. The second coat is not as streaky.

Also today I tried to do a tape method. Ughh ! It ended up in a diamond shape which is fine but I'm still a work in progress. The color for the diamond shape is Color Show's "Gold's Night Out".

I have so many polishes that I've never used, just may have swatched so look forward to some different combos coming soon.

Thanks for reading and let me know what you think of this nude mani!

 

Color Show Polka Dot Collection | Dotty.

 

I decided to start the week off with swatches of "Dotty" by Color Show . I was in CVS on Saturday and happen to come across this polish. I have another by them from the polka dot collection(can't think of the name of it) and loved the way it swatched so I was really excited to find others in this collection. I also picked up a pink from this collection on Saturday as well.

The formula appears to be a jelly. Yay! As you know I've been on the hunt for these. In the jelly formula there are black and white specks of hex and small black and white dots as well.

I used 3 coats for opaque-ness(featured pic). Here is a pic as I apply 1-3 coats of this jelly goodness!

1 coat

3 coats

Pastel orange and neon orange base coats

Have you tried any of these polishes from the Polka Dot collection ? If so I'd love to hear your thoughts!