Leaf Nail Art Guest Post At Polish Those Nails!

Hey everyone!

I was asked to do a guest post by the lovely Marisa of Polish Those Nails and a few days ago it went live! Check out the post here for more information and pictures of this look!

Happy Sunday guys! :)

Elevation Polish Yeti's Healing Vibes Swatch & Review!

Hello everyone! Today I have a gorgeous charity polish for Nepal to share!

I chopped off my nails yesterday like I do, but since I'm still a bit behind you won't be seeing them for a while! I really should pick the length I like the most and maintain it but I never seem to do that. What do you guys think of my nails always changing lengths? Would you prefer if my nail length was consistent or does it not bother you?

Anyways, onto the nails!

What you see here is just one coat of Elevation Polish Yeti's Healing Vibes and a coat of top coat! That in itself tells you that this polish had a great formula! I'm loving these multichrome flakie cremes lately, I picked up another one called Cloud Peak in the same order that you will be seeing at some point!

I seemed to have trouble getting these pictures in focus and I guess I didn't clean up the top coat near my cuticles. I feel like I didn't do this polish justice so maybe I'll wear it again and take better pictures soon!

What do you guys think of Elevation Polish or this polish specifically? I really love this brand. I feel like all of the colours come in the exact shades that I love the most!

Thanks so much for taking a look guys! I'll be back tomorrow with some sunset nail art! Happy Monday! =)

ILNP Phoenix (H) Over Essie Carry On!

Hey everyone! Today I have another of the ILNP holographic ultra chrome flakie polishes to share!

Today's post will be a quick one because it's ten o' clock and I need my sleep! I'm really going to try and post once a day like I said in my last post. If I don't, I'll never get caught up on here!

Onto the nails!

I tried out a new nail shape here as you may have noticed. I immediately took this off and cut my nails back to round nubs after taking these pictures :P. The claws suit many people but not me!

I started off with two coats of Essie Carry On. After that had dried, I went in with ILNP Phoenix (H) followed by a coat of top coat!

What do you guys think of these gorgeous toppers? I'm loving them!

Thanks so much for having a look everyone! I'll be back with a post a day for the foreseeable future! Happy Thursday! :)

ILNP Paradox (H) Over Essie Go Overboard!

Hey everyone! Today I have a gorgeous ILNP (I Love Nail Polish) holographic ultra chrome flakie polish to share!

This post is going to be a pretty quick one because I have so many posts to get up in the next little while! Anna (my best friend who's from Switzerland) got here yesterday!!! So I'll be volunteering a lot less and shopping, eating, hanging out, etc. with Anna instead! That also means I'll have time to be more active on here which I'm excited about!

Anyways, onto the nails!

To start I applied one easy coat of Essie Go Overboard, a dark teal polish.

After that had dried I went in with a coat of the star of the show; ILNP Paradox (H). A coat of top coat and I was finished!

This polish was super easy to apply and remove! The shift in this one is really amazing. I found myself staring at my nails constantly while wearing this!

What do you guys think of ILNP or their ultra chrome flakies? I picked up four of these ones with the holographic microglitter thrown in (and none of the holo-less ones). The holographic effect is so strong that these look completely different in the Sun, which I think is really cool! I have videos of these in the Sun and the shade on my Instagram if you scroll back to about three weeks ago!

Thanks so much for taking a look everyone! I have about six more posts to get up before I'm caught up so hopefully I'll be posting on here a lot from now on! Happy Thursday guys! =)

Wedding Nails Roundup Number One Featuring a Green Floral Double Gradient!

Hey everyone! Today I have five manis that four other people and I wore to a wedding last weekend!

I'm getting really scared about school starting soon guys! I'm transferring to university from college and it's so much bigger and it's stressing me out. I went in today to get my student card/bus pass and I really don't know my way around at all :P. I might bus there before school starts to know where I get off my bus and where the buildings I have classes in are in relation to the bus stop. Maybe that will make me less nervous about going there, here's hoping! Anyways, onto the nails!

These are the bride's mother's nails that kind of look like opals! The base is OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and the fancy top coat is Essie Shine of the Times as you may have guessed!

Next up we have the bride herself's nails! The base is Revlon Jaded and the glitter polish is OPI In True Stefani Fashion.

Here we have my mom's nails wearing just two easy coats of OPI Chocolate Moose!

Next we have my grandma's nails! I do her nails really often and for any special occasion she has coming up and it's always so fun! Here she's wearing American Apparel Coney Island with Black Sheep Lacquer Forbidden Fruit on top!

My grandma came by later that day to get her nails done so she didn't make it into this cute picture and I didn't even think to put my hand in!

Lastly, we have my own nails as I'm sure you can tell! As usual, these are inspired by the lovely MrCandiipants!

I started off with two coats of OPI Stranger Tides and allowed that to dry. Next I sponged Revlon Spanish Moss on the tips of my nail (not that and Stranger Tides as I wasn't really going for a smooth gradient look). I then went in with OPI OPI... Eurso Euro and a small nail art brush for the petals, followed by OPI Fiercely Fiona and a dotting tool for the flower centres.

After that had dried I gave my nails a spray of hairspray and let that dry before applying my top coat (Essie Good to Go)! The more I looked at these when I wore them and the more I look at them now the more I like them; I wasn't totally sure about them at first.

What do you guys think of these five nail looks? Do you like the look of the almost double gradient, with the sponging and the flower concentration? I really do and I want to play around with this idea some more!

Thanks so much for having a look everyone! We're on a little road trip on our way to another wedding which should be fun! I brought polish so I might do another wedding post like this with my mom's, sister's and my nails very soon! Happy Friday! =)

Friday Swatch Spam: NOPI, OPI, Essie & Yume Lacquer!

Hello everyone! Today I have swatches of five lovely polishes to share!

I'm going to make this post short and sweet because I'm about to paint some nails and I've been accumulating swatch photos that I really need to post! I'm thinking I'll continue to post swatches of the bases of my nail art with the posts about the nail art like I was doing before. So I guess this'll be the first and last swatch spam post for at least a while! All of these swatches are of two coats of polish and some are with top coat, all had lovely formulas (though I Just Can't Cope-cabana was a little streaky and would have done better at three coats)! Let's get right to it!

OPI I Just Can't Cope-acabana- two coats and a coat of top coat

NOPI Rock the Look- two coats, no top coat

OPI OPI... Eurso Euro- two coats, no top coat (check out my peely nails :()

Essie The Girls Are Out- two coats and a coat of top coat

Yume Lacquer Galactic Punt- two coats and a coat of top coat

Thanks so much for taking a look everyone! I'll have some more half moon heart nail art to share very soon because I'm obsessed! Happy Friday! =)

Rainbow Honey Swatch and Review: Sweet Talk and Xoxo!

Hey everyone! Today I'm here with two Valentine's Day polishes that I received in a surprise swatch package from Rainbow Honey!

I was really shocked and excited when I saw the package in the mail, and they included a lovely note with a coupon code I'm allowed to share with you awesome people! From now until March 31st you can enter the code ILOVENAILBLOGS to get five dollars off of your orders!

Onto the nails! Get ready for a lot of pictures!

First up we have Sweet Talk, a white crelly polish with medium-sized light blue, purple and pink glitters, as well as smaller pink glitters and even pink shimmer! The base almost looks pink on the nail because of all the awesome shimmer!

Formula-wise this polish was perfect; it was super easy to apply and it dried very quickly! It wasn't even very bumpy without top coat despite all of the glitter, and I'm just wearing a thin layer of top coat over two coats of it here!

I always love a good white crelly and this one is that and more!

Next we have Xoxo over two coats of Essie Bikini so Teeny! The pink/red glitters really make Bikini so Teeny look purple instead of blue, which I'm actually happy about because I think purple looks really awesome with this polish! This baby has pink or red hexes in varying sizes (to me they look red but I've heard other people call them pink and I know I see some colours that most people consider pink as other colours), silver holographic microglitters, and even gold flakies that look different over different bases!

The formula on this polish was a dream just like Sweet Talk, easy to apply and quick-drying! What you see here is one coat of Xoxo over my undies and a coat of top coat on top!

I couldn't really tell how this polish would look on the nail by looking at the bottle, and I love it even more than I thought I would! I think it would look fantastic over any base colour!

Finally, we have Xoxo again but over a different base! The base is two or three coats (on some nails two, on others three) of the famous OPI My Vampire is Buff!

You can see the gold shimmer actually looking gold here, as opposed to pinky or orangey like it does over Bikini so Teeny! I seriously love this polish and how different and awesome it looks over different bases!

Thank you so much for reading everyone! What do you think of these polishes? And which base do you like better for Xoxo? I'd love to hear in the comments! Happy Thursday!