Sally Hansen - Quick Brick

Hi y'all! Sally Hansen recently sent me their newest Insta-Dri shades for the summer to review! I have this red, a blue and a white. First up I'm posting these red nails using Quick Brick and I just had to do a little something to spice up the swatch! 

The formula on this polish was great! It was pretty well covered with just one coat, the second coat was mostly needed to smooth everything out and make sure the color was even! This isn't a true "Red" polish though. It looks almost like one in the bottle in certain lights, but on the nails it dries a little darker than a true red, and it's just a shade or two off. I don't know how to explain it? Red to me, is red. It looks horrible on me so I hate it, haha. But I don't know, this color had a more blue undertone maybe? Or something? It reminds me of the 'Strawberry Red' Crayola crayon. Looks red when you grab it... til you draw with it and realize is the wrong red. It's a great color though and easy to apply if you like the color! 

As for the strawberry accent, it was all done using acrylic paints and my newest nail art brush from bornprettystore. So much fun! 

Thanks for reading! Let me know what you thought in the comments below! 

31 day challenge: green nails

Hi y'all! Ignore that my top coat wrinkled -_- I swear it was dry and then I touched it wrong and nope. It was most definitely NOT dry. Huge fail. Today is the green nails theme for the 31 day challenge, and I some kiwi nail art for it! I've never done kiwi nails before but I've been wanting to for a long time, so the perfect excuse to do it, right?! Right!  Anyways. 

For this look I used Sally Hansen Green With Envy for the green polish base, then the rest is acrylic paint. I used a slightly darker green, then white over that, and black for the small seeds. All of it was done with a detail brush. 

Thanks for reading! Let me know in the comments below what you thought!

31 day challenge: orange nails

Hi y'all! I'm continuing the 31 day challenge today with the theme of orange nails! I decided to do orange slice nails just because I thought they would be fun and I've done them before so wanted to see how I could change them up and see the improvement since the last time which was back in 2012! I think there was a bit of improvement, and there is DEFINITELY a difference in the pictures! I've learn a lot in the last two years since those were posted! Anyways. 

I started these off with LA Colors Orange Crush making half circle shapes on the tips of my nails and two coats over the whole nail for the accent nails. I used white acrylic paint to paint the orange slice design (all freehanded) and then I used some Fimo Can slices that look like oranges to add a bit extra to the look. (Just like the first time around ;) )

Thanks for reading! Let me know what you thought in the comments below and keep an eye out for the yellow nails for the next part of the challenge! 

Marbles for Polish Sweet Tooth Collection!

 Hi y'all! I have some super cute polishes to share with you all today! I got these Marbles for Polish polishes sent to me to review! I was so excited to get this, they're neon AND Holo, I love all that bright and sparkly-ness in them. Perfect for summer! Unfortunetly it took me a few days to get around to playing with them due to Mister Sun hiding his head in the clouds. I am getting so tired of rain and storms. But anyways, lets get on to the review! 

Lemon and Orange Slice Nails!

 Hi y'all! More nail art to share wit you all and I finally used those Broadway Nails nail polished I bought a little bit ago. They were sort of perfect for this! Super bright and summery, and yes, the green looks almost like it glows in real life too. It's just so pretty and bright and I love it. These are part of my fruit nails, orange and lemon slices and I was just so happy with them! Click through the jump to see more! 

Whoooo live in a pineapple under the sea?

Spongebob Squarepants! Hi y'all! Sorry couldn't help myself! It's all I could think about while I was doing these super cute pineapple nails. These were super fun and simple to do. They just might be perfect for a fun tropical themed summer party as well ;) 

I really didn't want to take these off at all once I did them but you know, the life of a nail blogger, right? Anyways, click through the jump to see how I did these fun summer fruit nails! 

Watermelon nail art

 Hi ya'll! I have some more cute fruit nail art for you all right now! This time I did some watermelon nail art! I loved how these came out so much and they were just so so cute! 

Something else I wanted to share with these as well. I recently went to Dollar General hoping to get some new LA Colors polishes. Sadly, those were gone, (Or possibly moved? I'll have to look through the store better next time) and they were replaced with a new brand. Broadway Nails High Shine Nail Polish. They were also only $1 each so I thought, why not try a few? WELP! while, I haven't tried the colors I got yet, I have tried the base coat I grabbed (Who can resist a $1 basecoat that might actually possibly work?) and I LOVE it. When I did this Mani on a Monday, I left my right hand with just the base color, Basecoat under it, and NO top coat. Normally, even with my wet n wild base coat of choice, this means it chips quickly, but not this time! The broadway nails basecoat kept it in place with one very minor tip wear until I took it off that same Friday. Awesome right? RIGHT! Now, we'll get to the actual nail art, aha. 

Strawberry nail art!

Hi y'all! I have some more nail art to share with you all. Some Strawberry nails! Now that I'm done with the summer insect series, I've moved on to fruits. I was sooo happy with the way these turned out and I love the color combination so much! I just couldn't stop staring at them while I was wearing them. 

Funny story though. We have ants bad in the house, and while I was doing these, an ant got stuck in my clean up brush, (They like acetone. Do not ask me why, but they do.) and it got stuck on my nail. Luckily, it was my non-swatch hand and I just left it there because I wasn't about to redo my entire Mani for just one nail. (Yes, that's what it would turn into) so noo way was I redoing it. I thought it was pretty amusing, and my dad told me I should leave and it and start a new trend, then charge people way too much money to put real ants on their nails as art. haha. Anyways, click through the jump to see more and I apologize ahead of time for the heavily blurred and edited cuticles. Usually I don't, but they were just not being cooperative when I was taking pictures apparently.