Floral Brocade Nail Art Created Using MrCandiipants' Tutorial!

Hey everyone! Today I have a quick post of some floral brocade nail art to share!

This design is directly copied from Candace of MrCandiipants by following her tutorial here! It's such a lovely design and she's so darn creative for coming up with it!

I started off this mani with two coats of the lovely Black Sheep Lacquer Jump In The Fire, a thermal polish with gorgeous shimmer! You can see it in it's warmer/normal state in a few of these pictures where it turns a medium pink colour.

Earlier today I mentioned on my Instagram that I was going to do some New Year's nail art today, but I just couldn't shake the idea of using this thermal polish and I decided I didn't care about being festive :P. It's quite impressive how much and how quickly this polish changes in colour, so I'll insert a little Instagram video of it here!

For some reason my hands were very cold for most of these pictures, which is fine by me because I love this polish in it's cold state! 

Here is my right hand! I think it came out approximately as good as my left, which is super exciting! It was also warmer than my left hand ever was while I was taking pictures for some odd reason :P.

Thanks so much for reading everyone! Are you guys doing anything for New Year's Eve? We're having a little party and I'm excited to dress up! :)

Rainbow Honey The Kraken over Butter London Slapper!

Hey everyone! Today I have another lovely Rainbow Honey polish to share!

I'm sorry I haven't been posting quite as often as usual guys, I've been feeling a bit off and though I've been excited to blog I've been having trouble coming up with anything to say. Usually I talk about my day or my yesterday but recently I've been finding all of my writing and transitions especially awkward :P. I also haven't posted my last three or more manis anywhere but here and Instagram, so I need to get caught up on that too! So hopefully today I'll be able to write like normal and catch up on posting everything everywhere! :)

Another thing I have to do soon is try and fit all of my nail polish on my nail polish racks! I'm pretty sure it has gotten to the point where they won't all fit, maybe that's why I've been putting off trying to put them all back :P. I will definitely post an updated collection post when the polishes on their way to me get here!

Now, onto the nails! I started off with one coat of Butter London Slapper, a neonish teal polish that is a little more green than it looks in these pictures (the bottle-holding picture is close to accurate, still too blue though). I didn't add a top coat for the pictures so what you see is just one coat of Slapper over two coats of base coat because this baby stains!

Next I added a coat of Rainbow Honey The Kraken and a coat of top coat. I really love this polish! It has a perfect formula and the glitters are perfectly suspended in the base so there's no need to reverse the bottle before polishing!

The large gold hexes in this beauty are holographic which is always a bonus! I'm really falling in love with Rainbow Honey polishes and I would definitely recommend ordering from them if you're thinking about it!

I should note this polish is quite opaque on its own and it would probably be a two-coater, so there's no need for undies! I just decided to use them because even though I use the foil method to remove glitter, the glitter tends to make my nails peel so I always have little bumps on my nails :(. You can see what I'm talking about on my middle finger in the pictures of Slapper and other swatches I've posted recently for that matter :P. I did get a really nice buffer in a nail set from my cousin for Christmas so I'll definitely try that after I take these off! I get scared about buffing my nails too much because I don't want to reverse all of the work that OPI Nail Envy has done in thickening and strengthening my nails! :P

Thank you so much for reading guys :), what do you think of The Kraken? And how are you guys doing? Is anyone else a little glad to relax at home after all of the Christmas dinner and Boxing Day madness? Let me know in the comments! =)

OPI Christmas Sweater Nails!

Hi everyone! Today I have some Christmas/winter sweater nail art to share!

I accidentally planned the painting of these perfectly; I get to wear them from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day. Considering they're the most festive nails I've done recently I'm glad I decided to paint these today!

For these nails I started off with two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, a very, very light grey polish that you can see several pictures down!

I then went in with a lovely brick red creme, OPI Lost On Lombard and a small nail art brush! These nails are inspired by all of the Christmas sweater nail art I've seen recently, namely Lindsey's from Wondrously Polished and Margee's from Nailuminium!

Silly little reindeer shot!

I'm really getting into snowflake nail art so I'm super glad winter isn't over when December is! I watched MrCandiipants' tutorial for snowflakes before I did them last time, and though it's exactly how I would have done them myself I thought I should mention it! She's so hilarious, you guys should really check her out if you haven't already! I feel like I talk about her a lot but her lovely personality and original designs really inspire me!

Here are two pictures of my right hand, my four fingers and my thumb! I thought the execution of these was quite good (for my non-dominant hand) but the weird wrinkling and bubbles afterwards made them look a lot less nice. Oh well, live and learn!

What do you guys think of these nails? Thanks so much for taking a look everyone, I hope you're all having a lovely week! :)

Rainbow Honey I Miss You over OPI Lost On Lombard!

Hey everyone! Today I have a swatch of OPI Lost On Lombard and Rainbow Honey I Miss You to share!

I went on a small shopping spree yesterday and (finally) spent some of the money I got for my birthday! I picked up some leggings, a cardigan, a polish (Lost On Lombard) and an Avojuice lotion! I've since spent the rest of my birthday money online on another cardigan and some comfy pants and I can't wait until they get here! I have a sweater and cardigan obsession in case you didn't know! :P

I'm really loving the Avojuice lotion by the way guys, I've heard really good things about it and they're all true! It soaks in incredibly fast and they have super festive holiday scents such as Holly Berry, the one I picked up yesterday!

Onto the nails! All I did was two easy coats of OPI Lost On Lombard and a coat and some dabs of Rainbow Honey I Miss You!

How cute is I Miss You? I think it would look even cooler over a black because there would be even more of a contrast of pastel and dark!

Also, what do you guys think of me putting a square version of the picture I'm going to Instagram instead of the original pictures in my posts? I kind of love the whole square picture thing because they show up bigger than normal-sized pictures! I might like to try using all square pictures so they're bigger and all Instagram friendly!

What have you guys been up to lately, done any shopping for yourselves or just for others? Thanks so much for reading guys! :)

Rainbow Honey Haul and Snowflake Nail Art featuring Mint Flavor!

Hey everyone, today I have some snowflake nail art, a swatch of Rainbow Honey Mint Flavor, and a Rainbow Honey haul to share!

I recently ordered a huge package of Rainbow Honey polishes and now that I'm off school I have so much time to play with them! As you can see below, I picked up the entire Summer of 199X collection, part three of the Final Battle collection, Tera Flare, Cranberry Sangria (I picked this one out but it was included for free for spending forty dollars or more), and Persephone which was thrown in as a surprise! I can't tell you guys how excited I am to use them! Be sure to let me know if you'd like to see any of these swatched before other ones, I'd be more than happy to oblige!

Aren't the boxes amazing? Everything about this brand is incredibly professional!

Here they all are for you guys to see! I think it'll be easy enough to describe which ones you'd like to see from this picture, so I won't bother listing all of the names here!

And here we have Mint Flavor, the only one of the eighteen I've tried so far! I have to say that the formula was perfect, not too thick or thin and quick-drying! Also, this beauty was almost a one-coater so what you see here is two easy coats and a coat of top coat!

I wore this on it's own for a day and I fell in love! It has the most gorgeous white or green shimmer (not sure, it looks more green in the bottle and more white on the nail) that makes it perfect for summer, winter or anywhere in between in my opinion!

Also, I fell in love with this new hand position for bottle-holding pictures! It's even perfect for Instagram! What do you guys think of it? :)

I then went in with a polish I just swatched a couple of days ago, Candy Nail Polish Egg Nog! I used a small paintbrush that I cut some bristles off of for the snowflakes, and a dotting tool for the dots!

I followed MrCandiipants' tutorial for these snowflakes (mostly because she's hilarious), but since my paintbrush was a lot thicker these look quite a bit different!

I don't really like the addition of the dots, but I'm really happy that I've finally managed to master consistent dotting!

Thanks so much for reading everyone, how are you guys doing? I'm so sorry that I haven't replied to comments in a while, I seriously love when you guys comment on my posts! I'll get onto that right now! :)

Candy Nail Polish Freshmint, Egg Nog, Fruit Cake and Sugarplum!

Hey everyone, today I have four Candy Nail Polish polishes to share!*

Sorry about not posting for four days, I now have three weeks off between semesters so I'll definitely be able to post more! Maybe I'll even try to change my nails everyday and post everyday! :)

Onto the polishes! Three of these polishes are from Candy Nail Polish's Holiday Collection (link here if you'd like to see the other three polishes in this collection) and the fourth is an unreleased new polish! All four of these polishes had flawless formulas, not too thin so that cuticle flooding was an issue and just thick enough that the glitters were perfectly suspended and distributed throughout them. I let a few of them sit upside down briefly but I really don't think they needed it! They all had really smooth finishes on their own, even Sugarplum and Freshmint despite all of the glitter in them, and that really surprised me! I did layer one coat of the top coat I always use, Essie Good To Go, over each polish for an extra smooth and shiny finish. I was even more impressed with their formulas considering they're from such a new indie brand!

This is a very picture-heavy post because these polishes are so pretty, so let's get to it!

First up is Freshmint, a light green crelly polish with a slightly frosty finish and white matte hexes and shards, pink matte squares, lime green matte squares, blue metallic squares and hexes, and gold metallic hexes! What you see here is three easy coats and a coat of top coat, though it was just about a two-coater! The glitters in this remind me of candy, it's such an adorable polish!

Next is Egg Nog, an off-white/creme crelly with gold shimmer sprinkled throughout! I'm seriously in love with this polish guys, it's so delicate and beautiful and the name is so cute! I'm definitely going to wear this again soon with some nail art on top! Shown here is three coats and a coat of top coat but again, this was almost a two-coater!

Next up is Fruit Cake, a copper shimmer/frost polish with little rainbow glitters! The base looks too orange here, I really need to figure out how to colour-correct pictures! Shown here is two coats and a coat of top coat, and I also mattified it which you can see below!

Here's Fruit Cake with a coat of Julep's Matte Top Coat on top!

Lastly we have Sugarplum, a deep purple jelly stuffed with gold and possibly silver holographic glitters in various shapes and sizes! Show here is two coats and a coat of top coat. I posted a video to show the holographic glitters in action on my Instagram last night, here it is!

Thanks so much for reading everyone! Which of these are your favourites? Let me know in the comments! :)

*These polishes were sent for swatches and an honest review.