Black Sheep Lacquer Swatches and Review: Lateralus, Aliens Exist, and Strawberry! :)

This is a picture heavy post, so be warned! The lovely Erin (owner of Black Sheep Lacquer) has a few awesome sales running on her Etsy shop currently (here), so I couldn't resist picking up a few pretties!

First up is Lateralus, a linear holographic top coat. It has a wonderful formula, and it levels and spreads fantastically. The pictures show the polish in varying degrees of sunlight, from indirect sunlight to close to full sunlight (the holo effect gets even stronger than in these pictures, the Sun decided to get a little brighter after I took these). This is one coat of Lateralus on top of two coats (from thumb to pinky) of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, American Apparel Office, Essie Mojito Madness, Essie Going Incognito, and Orly Liquid Vinyl. I didn't use a top coat for theses swatches, because Lateralus is so smooth when dry that you don't need to! I love this top coat so much that I prefer it over black than the black Color Club Halo Hue, Beyond!

Next up is Aliens Exist, a neon lime green jelly with tiny gold circle glitters and large matte black diamond glitters. The colour is less pale and more yellow than pictured here, but like most neons, it's difficult to capture accurately on camera unfortunately! I used three coats for the opacity you see here and no top coat. As you can see, this polish dries to an awesome satiny finish! The formula of this polish is amazing, in addition to not having to fish for glitters, it: dries quickly, isn't streaky, and it levels well!

Lastly we have Strawberry, my personal favourite if I had to choose! This beautiful polish is a red/pink jelly with green bar glitters, red bar glitters, and matte black hexagon and square glitters! I used two coats for the opacity you see here and one coat of top coat. Since this polish is absolutely packed with glitter, I'd suggest two coats of top coat for a totally smooth finish (though I prefer the textured look at one coat). Like the other two gorgeous polishes featured in this post, this polish was very easy to apply, and it levels itself out nicely! Like Aliens Exist, there was no need to fish the glitter out of the bottle!

Thank you so much for reading! Check out Black Sheep Lacquer on Etsy here and pick up some of Erin's awesome polishes!

Hidden Gradient Nails Part Two!

So I was without a doubt the laziest Bailey nail-art-wise in history last night. I think this is the first time I've ever gone to bed with one hand finished and the other hand not! I decided to post my left hand by itself yesterday, thinking I'd do my right hand the same so there would be no point in waiting. Much to my surprise, my nail art laziness stayed with me and I couldn't be bothered doing my right hand the same as my left this morning (because it requires a bunch of cleanup). I decided to do the reverse of my left hand design on my right hand. You can check out the colours I used in my previous post here!

Onto the pictures!

Thanks for reading! I apologize for not making it one post!

Hidden Gradient Nails!

I'm quite in love with the nails I have to show you all today! The only reason they ended up looking like this (and not like a gradient with a cool black and white glitter topper) is because I really wasn't feeling the gradient (shown in the third photo of this post). I have a bit of a picture tutorial for this look because I decided to take pictures along the way for once, let me know if I should do that from now on!

Anyways, onto the photos and polishes used! :)

I started with two coats of my favourite white, OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls.

I then sponged on a gradient of China Glaze Oh How Street It Is (orange), OPI Needs  Sunglasses? (yellow), and Sally Hansen Pacific Blue (blue :P)!

I finished off this look with a nail art brush and some more My Boyfriend Scales Walls!

Thanks for reading! :)

Saran Wrap Marble Nails!

I'm not sure if I like these nails, and that's why I'm not waiting until tomorrow when I have the camera I always use to take these pictures! Sorry if these pictures are a lot worse quality than usual!

My boyfriend taught me how to make chai tea mostly from scratch the way he does, so I took the pictures of my nails with my tea!

For these nails I used: China Glaze Secret Periwinkle, China Glaze For Audrey, OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, and saran wrap of course!

Thanks for reading! Have a nice cup of tea with me :)!

Star Candy Polish Orion Swatches and Review!

A week or so ago I got the following two Star Candy Polish lovelies in the mail! They were having a sale so I couldn't resist!

From left to right: Yay, and Orion :)

Slightly out of focus (sorry!) bottle shots to show the holographic glitter in Orion!

I decided to put one coat of Orion over one coat of OPI's Don't Mess With OPI for the swatches below! Orion has a wonderful formula, and even with such a small brush (due to the mini bottle) I was able to easily apply all of the glitters! Like with any glitter I own, I moved the brush around in many directions to spread out the glitters and get them where I wanted them. I should mention I did have to search a little for the holographic gold star glitters, but since there aren't tons in the bottle, that was expected and not irritating in the least! How beautiful is this polish?! Love the name also! =)

Inside shot with flash to show off the holographic star, square, and circle glitter!

Expect a swatch and review of Yay! within the next few weeks, LOVE the butterfly glitters in it! I am extremely impressed with Star Candy Polish and would love to own, swatch and review many more in the future! Thanks for reading!

Red Gradient Dot Mani =)

I did these last night for a happy, quick and fun mani :). This is just one coat of American Apparel's Poppy with the dots on top, I really do love their polishes!

From left to right: American Apparel Poppy, Sally Hansen Pacific Blue, OPI Mod About You, Nyx Girls Mermaid Green, Revlon Lemon Meringue, and American Apparel Neon Green =)

Thanks for reading!

Boyfriend Did my Toes Again :)!

These were inspired by pwincessbuhuhcwuhp on Reddit from her post here!

From left to right: Sally Hansen Stunning Scarlet, Sally Hansen Madame X, China Glaze Oh How Street It Is, Sinful Colors Hazard, OPI Who Needs Sunglasses?, OPI Fiercely Fiona, Essie Mojito Madness, China Glaze For Audrey, China Glaze Secret Periwinkle, and Essie Play Date :)

Galaxy Nails Take Two? :)

I know I've done galaxy nails more than twice, but I think this is only my second galaxy manicure post on this blog! I was gonna go in and add cool triangles with other pastel colours but I didn't end up having time. The base is Essie's Devil's Advocate which is SUCH an awesome colour! It's a very dark purple jelly that looks only looks purple in the sun (and black everywhere else)! :)

From left to right: Essie Devil's Advocate, OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, American Apparel Coney Island, Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau, and a homemade holographic topcoat made of a clear coat and a few drops of a silver holographic polish :)

I'm really trying to make my blog nicer and nicer lately and any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! :) Thanks for reading!

Water Marble and Heart Rhinestones on my Mom!

The nude is Sand Tropez, and the other colours I used in the water marble were: OPI's Chocolate Mousse, Orly's Mind's Eye, OPI's You Don't Know Jacques, and Essie's No More Film!