Five Manis I've Done on my Grandma!

Hey everyone! Today I have some manis I've done on my grandma to share!

I am in the middle of a few big midterms and lab write-ups so I thought I'd get up a quick post on some nail looks I've done on my grandma for you guys! I love all things nails (obviously) so I really love doing my family or friends' nails while we're having a visit!

Anyways, onto the nails!

In this first look she's wearing two coats of Emily de Molly Turbulence and a coat of top coat (link to the post on my plaid nails shown here).

Here I believe she's wearing two NYX Girls polishes in Pimp My Ride (lime green) and True Navy (navy)!

Here she's wearing a MrCandiipants floral design with Essie Play Date as the base, and Quo by Orly Lilac Lust, Zoya Kristen, Orly Mind's Eye and OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls for the details.

For these nails, I think I used NYX Girls Mermaid Green for the base and I definitely used OPI Solitaire for the zig zags (also inspired by MrCandiipants)!

Lastly, we have some American Apparel Coney Island with Black Sheep Lacquer Forbidden Fruit on top!

What do you guys think of round up posts like these? I'm sure I could put some together with my mom and sister's nails as well! Happy Monday lovelies! :)

Plaid Nails Inspired by MrCandiipants!

Hey guys! Today I have some plaid nails inspired by MrCandiipants' flannel tutorial (here)!

After doing this mani I was feeling flannel and plaid so hard that I actually ran to my favourite thrift store and picked a few shirts up! One of them had a rip in the armpit, but my grandma came over and fixed it after I painted her nails! She definitely did a better job than I could have done haha! I'm going to go ahead and insert a picture because we took a cute one of my hand, my mom's and my grandma's last night (she's wearing Emily de Molly Turbulence by the way)!

It was just a lovely evening to top off a lovely day! I even found an American Apparel skirt for only four dollars! Score!

Anyways, let me tell you about the nails! I watched Mrcandiipants' tutorial on Youtube (linked above) a week or more ago and I've wanted to do plaid nails ever since! I know mine aren't that similar to hers, but I like them nonetheless! I do wish that I had done the yellow (Color Club Almost Famous) stripes before (under) the black (Orly Liquid Vinyl… duh!) and blue (Essie Mesmerized) ones, but it had already taken a while so I decided to keep them like this! Also, the red base isn't just one colour like it looks in the picture, the middle square is NYX Girls Bloody Mary, the four corners outside of the black lines are Sally Hansen Nail Growth Miracle Stunning Scarlet, and the colour that makes a huge plus sign under the middle square is American Apparel Poppy! I'm so sad that the plus sign and the square on top look like the same colour in these pictures, I made the overlapping part darker like most plaid looks and you can tell in real life! :P

Anyways, onto the pictures!

Here's my right hand! I think it looks pretty similar to my left hand and for that I'm pretty proud!

Thank you so much for reading everyone! What do you guys think of plaid or flannel nails? Or more specifically, what do you think of these? Talk to you soon! :)

Emily de Molly Swatches and Review: Turbulence and Oceanic Forces!

Hey everybody! Today I have swatches of the two Emily de Molly polishes I picked up in Nail Polish Canada's most recent restock!

Both of these polishes had perfect formulas, slightly thick due to the glitter which again, is just the way I like my polishes! Opacity also wasn't an issue here, all of these pictures show two coats of colour and one coat of top coat (Essie Good to Go).

Please excuse my cuticles in these pictures, I tend to neglect them when I have a midterm to study for! I'm taking a break from swatching right now to write this post and let some cuticle oil sink in :).

Onto the swatches and descriptions of the polishes!

Turbulence (love the name) is a deep and dark blue jelly packed with many colours, sizes and shapes of glitter! Some of these glitters are even holographic, including my favourites, the diamond-shaped ones. They really make the polish and set it apart from other glitter-containing jelly polishes!

Oceanic Forces is a deep and dark teal jelly polish filled with different shapes and sizes of turquoise glitters! Many of the glitters in this beauty are also holographic, and you can never go wrong with holographic glitters! I had a hard time getting the circle glitters onto the brush (despite the fact that I reversed the bottle for at least ten minutes before both coats), so I placed most of the circle glitters you see here by fishing and searching through the bottle. Honestly, having to fish for glitters doesn't bother me at all, it can be challenging at times but that makes what makes it fun! And as you can see it's well worth the effort!

Thank you so much for reading everyone, let me know which one is your favourite in the comments! I hope you're all having a good start to your weekend! :)