Zoya Faye+BM214

Hi everyone! Quick post today(:

I am loving this image. It's so pretty.

Anyway, I am off to town and then later tonight is Friday Youth Night. Afterwards I have a sleepover and on Saturday I am shooting a short film with my friends... just for fun, haha.

Have a great weekend! :)

• Base Color: Zoya Faye
• Stamp Color: Konad Black Pearl
• Plate: BM214

I did a guest post over at The Manicured Monkey!

Hi! Just wanted to let everyone know that I did a guest post for Kristen over at The Manicured Monkey. If you haven't checked out that blog yet, definitely do! Kristen has awesome stamping skills and takes great swatch photos(: Click the picture to be redirected to the blog post.

Thanks for reading!

Halloween Nail Art Series: Pumpkin Nails

Hi!! Today is the very first day of my Halloween Nail Art Series, or HNAS, haha. I decided to start things off with something really simple and something that screams Halloween. Pumpkins.

I think these turned out super cute(: I started off with 2 coats of Bettina Orange (darn it! My Bettina's are supposed to be on vacation! Oh well :P ), then sponged a little bit of Tanzy to the tips just to add a little sparkle... that and I am kind of obsessed with sponging. I then stamped this super cute little pumpkin with vines (?) on top afterwards. To add some shine I topped everything off with one coat of Pro-FX Top Coat.

So, what do you think?? :)

• Base Color: Bettina Orange
• Sponge Color/Shimmery Orange: Zoya Tanzy
• Stamp Color: Konad Black Pearl
• Plate: BM224

(**Bettina products sent for review**)

Poll Results: Halloween Nail Art Series

Hi everyone! So here are the results for my latest poll. As you can see, "yes" was the winner and I can't wait to get this series started! I am not sure how many entries I will have in this series, but I will try and fit in as many as possible before Halloween(: As for the two people that said "no", I'll try and make this series as awesome as possible so you too can enjoy it :) I'll try and get my first post in sometime this week.

Thanks everyone for taking the time to participate in my poll and be sure to be on the lookout for my next one! :D

Zoya Ivanka

So the past week has been filled with Bettina posts. I don't know why but whenever I sit down to do my nails, my hands always reach for those first. I just love them so much, haha. Anyway, this week I plan to let my Bettina's take a break, and use some of my other brands. Today I decided to feature Ivanka! A color I have been dying to try!

 Ivanka is a medium green leaning towards lime with some blue undertones, packed with green glass flecks. The formula on this was nice. It was a little sheer but definitely build-able. It would have been ok with 2 coats but just to add more depth I added a third. Try time was average. So pretty... it looks like some kind of mermaid tail.

Anyway, thanks so much for reading and just FYI, I have a poll up asking if you would like to see a Halloween nail art series, so be sure to vote! Thanks:)

New Poll!

Hi everyone(: I was wondering if you would be interesting in seeing a Halloween nail art series. Be sure to get your vote in before 10/3/11. You can find the poll box to the right of this post or below my tab bar on the right.

Thanks so much for voting!

Bettina #197

Behold! My attempt at the ruffian manicure! 

Haha, I have no idea what happened to my ring finger... it.... got destroyed. Anyway, I was really excited to try this idea. I painted two coats of the grey on first and then with my nail art brush I drew a little semi circle, and then filled the circle in with Bettina Aqua. Now, most of you know that I have no free hand nail artistic ability so even the stupid circle turned out bad. Then I went back and tried to fix it with the grey... let's just say I have a lot of layers of polish on my nails right now, lol.

Besides that (and my ugly ring finger) I think think this turned out ok for my first try... I guess next time I should skip the tiny drawing of a little circle and just use the regular brush :P

Bettina #197 is surprisingly hard to describe. At first it looks like a regular grey, but it's actually a very blue/periwinkle toned grey so in some lighting, it looks kind of like a grey-ed out version of Zoya Caitlin. Very pretty. #197 is so opaque! I literally only needed one coat! Except one coat, in pictures, usually show every single nail imperfection I have so I did two. Formula was awesome. Dry time was average. 

Despite my awful semi circles and my ring finger, I think this turned out rather cute. What about you??

• Base Color: Bettina #197
• Blue: Bettina Aqua
• Stamp Color: Konad Black Pearl
• Plate: BM201

(**Products sent for review**)