Peacock Nails for Hannah and OPI's You're Such a Budapest Swatch and Review!

Hello my lovely readers! Today I have a swatch and review of OPI's You're Such a Budapest and some peacock nail art to share!

This lovely lady posted in Reddit Laqueristas about her sick little sister recently, and it touched so many of us who frequent the subreddit. She painted a beautiful peacock on her sister's heart monitor because her sister, Hannah, loves peacocks. Here is her original post. If you're reading this, you should do some peacock nails too and post them to Reddit Laqueristas :). My heart goes out to Hannah and her family, I hope when she sees this it makes her smile!

I feel strange putting a review in this post so I'll keep it brief. This is just two coats of You're Such a Budapest because it had a perfect formula! It has some silver and possibly pink shimmer that's only visible in the Sun (you can see it in the sunny pictures coming up).

I know I'm not very good at painting anything realistic, but I really wanted to do the best peacock nails I could for Hannah! The green seen here is Essie Mojito Madness, the orange is Essie Tart Deco, and the blue is Sally Hansen Pacific Blue.

A picture of my dominant hand that's bad at posing :P.

Thank you for reading everyone! Go get your peacock nails on! :)

Black Sheep Lacquer Swatches UPDATED: Grab Your Toque, Tequila Sunrise and Space Cowboy!

Hello everyone! I'm vacationing a few hours from home at a cool beach for a few days, so naturally, I brought around thirty polishes with me! I have the remaining three Black Sheep Lacquer polishes I own so far all swatched for you lovelies! The two glitter toppers were generously sent to me for swatches, but I bought the other one myself! All had awesome formulas as I've come to expect with Black Sheep Lacquer polishes, so this post is not an in-depth review but a bit of a swatch fest!

Onto the polishes!

Undies for the first polish I have to show you guys! Left to right (or pinky to thumb) excluding repeats: OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, Orly Liquid Vinyl, and American Apparel Poppy! I managed to only use one coat of each of these undies by using a thick coat!

UPDATE: This glitter topper is called Grab Your Toque and it's filled with small red and matte white hexes, even smaller matte white squares and silver shimmer! This is just one coat over my undies!

Undies for the second polish! Left to right (or pinky to thumb) excluding repeats: Color Club Almost Famous, OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, and Essie Mod Square! Again, this is just one thick coat of each undie!

UPDATE: This glitter topper is called Tequila Sunrise and it has tiny neon yellow glitters, tiny gold holographic glitters, and large and small neon pink matte square glitters! SECOND UPDATE: Black Sheep Lacquer has recently put out another polish called Tequila Sunrise, and the new one (not this one) is the only one available for purchase at this time. So I'm pretty sure this glitter topper one has been discontinued!

Lastly, I have Space Cowboy to show you guys! As with many neons, this polish's true colour won't translate to pictures. I actually checked to see if this polish glowed in the dark because it's so neon and bright! Imagine a glowing neon Creamsicle, that's what this polish actually looks like! Space Cowboy is a neon orange jelly with medium-sized matte yellow and blue hexes, large matte blue hexes, and a few tiny neon orange particles/glitters! This swatch shows just two coats!

Thanks for reading everyone! I'll be doing some real nail art for the first time in a while today or tomorrow and I'll be posting it tomorrow! :)

Black Sheep Lacquer Swatches: Orange Blossom, Aquabat without glitter, and Aquabat with glitter!

I have three more lovelies to show you by Black Sheep Lacquer today! These were so generously sent to me for swatches from Erin, the shop owner!

All had lovely formulas, so onto the pictures!

Two coats of Orange Blossom without top coat :)

Two coats of each version of Aquabat, plus a coat of top coat on the glitter-containing one :)

These were swatched so Erin could decide which version of Aquabat she liked better and would rather sell!

Thanks for reading! My Swiss best friend is going to put some awesome makeup, studs and glitter on my face to match my nails tonight, and we're gonna have a photo shoot. I'll be posting the pictures of my nails and my cool make up tomorrow! I'm mainly doing this to give myself a cooler profile picture for my Partial to Polish page on Facebook! Have a lovely evening or morning or whatever's coming up for you! :)

Zoya Destiny Swatches and Review! :)

Today I have one of the lovely Summer Pixie Dust polishes by Zoya to show you lovelies! This beauty is called Destiny, a coral/orange textured matte polish with a whole bunch of gold and coral shimmer! This is just the juiciest and coolest orange polish I've ever seen, as many bloggers have said, it looks like candy!

Formula-wise this polish was a dream! What you see here is two easy coats of non-streaky, quick drying and non-balding goodness! What you also see here is no cleanup, as I didn't bring any nail polish or nail supplies other than cuticle butter and hand lotion on this trip! The only thing that worried me when I applied this polish was the fact that some of the textured bits were on the tips or free edges of my nails (I thought they'd make my nails get caught on things). Those wore off quite quickly which actually caused slight tip wear which was a little disappointing. I think only a practiced lacquerista would notice the tiny amount of tip wear and honestly, I love this polish so much that I don't care! :)

Sorry about the quality of these pictures, I thought not as nice pictures were better than a blogging hiatus!

Onto the pictures!

The background for most of these pictures is one of the two lovely dresses I bought while I was away!

A Sun picture to show off the shimmer even more!

As always, thanks so much for reading everybody! I hope everyone's having an awesome start to their summer or whatever season their country's in! :)

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! :)

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 :)

Essie Dry Brush Mani :)

This is just Essie's Tart Deco and Essie's Mesmerized! I dried Mesmerized's brush and brushed it randomly all over my middle and ring fingers. I've been painting my nails at my boyfriend's houses lately so I've been leaving my nails and not cleaning them up with acetone and a brush! :P