RAINBOW LEOPARD

Who doesn't like leopard prints?  I love them but I don't have that bold personality to  pull it off, you have to have a little attitude to go with it right!  So I don't usually do those much in my mani, but every now and then I hear the animal in my calling so I have to let it out, and do it in style too.

I think gradient is the best way to spice up your nails.  

Anywho, Jessie from @jessiedoesnails recently had a birthday and again a bunch of us nail crazies wanted to show her some love by recreating some of her amazing manis.  I picked the rainbow leopard prints that Jessie did a while ago.  

How amazing looking is this! Isn't it eye catching?  

Boii Cosmetics came out with a new neons line and they are fabulous.  You can check out her store here

I have used a lot of Monique's products and they are just as good as OPI, Essie, or Chinaglaze from any drug stores.  She also has latex glue (a barrier that you put on your skin to protect it from the mess of doing gradients or watermarbling) fro a reasonable price.  

Here is a closer look.  

Sadly I accidently deleted the video from my camera so no video to show how I did this.  Yes I kicked myself for it.  

As always thanks for stopping by.

Eng

GLAM POLISH

Hi guys, I have some reviews to share with you today.  Glam Polished contacted me and wanted me to swatch a few polishes for them.  I've seen their polishes around on IG and it looks great, but I have never tried it out or ordered any.  One of the main reason I have ordered from them or any other Indie polishes is that we're saving every penny to take out family to Hawaii this Summer.  So I was super excited to try out their polishes.  Well, I wasn't disappointed.  The polishes are great and the formulas are perfection!

The King Collection is a tribute to the King of Rock and Roll...Elvis Presley himself

There are nine polishes in all but I got to try out four.

Can’t Help Falling In Love - Royal Blue scattered holo with holographic microfalkies and shimmering glass flecks. 

A very shallow depth of field so show the sparkles from this baby.

  

Viva Las Vegas - Blingy Rainbow Holographic hex and microglitter mix in a holographic base

 A party in a polish

If I Can Dream - Off White Crelly Holographic with ultra holo glitter.

 A good top coat really brings out the spakles

Always On My Mind - Cadillac Pink Crelly Holographic with ultra holo glitter.

 This is my absolute favorite.  I'm wearing this right now, in fact I've been wearing it the last couple of days.  That is unusual for me since I change polishes everyday. 

See more from this collection here

As always thank you for stopping by.

Eng

PETAL WATERMARBLING

I've guess I'm your typical girl, who likes girly things.  Pink and White have to be my favorite colors, I love clothes, and I love to paint my nails.  I didn't do it as much until about over a year ago when I got into nailart and discovered a whole community of ladies who love everything nails like I do.  My main thing was freehand, but then I discovered this thing called watermarbling.  My first time seeing it was this petal pattern, and I knew I wanted to learn to do that.  I tried, tried, and tried some more, and I think I even did some crying over it.  I just could not get it for the life of me.  I tried using Spring water, bottle water, and tap water.  NOTHING worked.  The frustration, frustration everywhere.  I even texted my friend about using my own pee :)

In time I learned how and what makes the polish spread and behave the way I want it.  

This is the design that I always wanted to do.  Now that I've mastered this one I hardly ever do it much anymore.  I guess lots of people love this one too and it is used way too many times.  But when they come out this good I kick myself for not doing it more.

A closer look and you can see the shimmers in the polishes.

These polishes are a must if you are like me who want to watermarble. 

I'll share my tips and tricks from my many trials and errors in a future post.

If you want to see how this was done check IG for a really short version

for you can watch it on YouTube on the whole process.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great one.

DIRTY NEONS COLLECTION

I don't usually like dirty things but these Dirty Neons from Nativewarpaints makes getting dirty fun.  

These polishes were made for watermarbing and if you watermarble you know that finding polishes that spreads in the water can be a challenge.  I was sent these bad babies to try out and I'm in love.  I've played around with them so much last week that I've used 1/8 of the bottle.  That doesn't sound like much but I have polishes that I've haven't use that much in the drawers.  

Here they are

 There are 6 polishes in the collection.  You can preorder them midnight on April 22nd.  Preorder will end at 11:59pm April 30th.

 This is Plutonium a mute neon teal with pink shimmer

This one is purple leaning, muted, neon pink, with turquoise shimmer. 

 Radioactive is a muted red neon with orange/gold shimmer.

Nuclear a muted neon orange with green shimmer.

 Fallout a muted yellow neon with blue shimmer

Uranium a muted neon green with orange shimmer. 

If you love polishes and love to watermarble or even want to try it out give these babies a try.  

Thanks for reading.  Have a great day!

TEXAS BLUEBONNET

If you live in TX you know what a beautiful sight it is right now.  The freeway and highways are filled with bluebonnet and other wild flowers, the sight is just breath taking.  I seriously will drive myself off the road because I keep looking at the flowers and not the road. 

FLORAL/PETAL WATERMARBLING

Petal/Floral Watermarble

Watermarbling a technique that  every nail artist wants to master.  It is a tricky little creature that has to be tamed every time.  Your water and polishes have to be the room temperature and you can be in any drafty places (learned that first hand).  My nail station is under a vent so when the AC or Heater kicks in my WM goes south.  So basically when I'm WM I'm either extremely hot or extremely cold.  In TX we never know what kind of weather we are getting.

There are so many techniques to WM and this happens to be the most liked and most desired to accomplished.

 It is a little time consuming but the results are so rewarding.  It's like you accomplished something that not many people can do.  

Closer look

See video here

or 

Watch it on YouTube here

HAWAIIAN PARADISE COLLECTION

Hello again!  Today I have swatches from Shannon's Nail Candy

These are amazingly stunning colors, a few were very hard to capture the true colors.  I did the best I could.  If you're thinking of vacationing in the Aloha state soon you can do it in style. 

 This is Hibiscus, I didn't capture the true color of this.  I tried it in very light still could not get it right.  

 This purple has a shimmer to it and it's called Hula Hula

 Look at all the holoness, seriouly I can never get enough holo.  This beauty is called Pacificus

 This goddess gold is called Sun Kissed.  

 Another one that I couldn't get the color to come out and it also has a shimmer to it.  This one is called Mauna Loa

And the very last is Coral Reef.  Doesn't it look simply amazing?  I can wear these at any occasion, but a must if you're going to visit the paradise state.  I'm so taking these when our family heads that way this Summer.