OPI's Honey Ryder and Flower Stamping!

Hey all! Today I have swatches of OPI Honey Ryder and some stamping nail art on top to show you! What you see here is two easy coats of Honey Ryder! The only complaint I have about this polish is that it seems to wear off the tips much quicker than other polishes (but I think all other textured polishes I've tried do too).

Onto the pictures!

The stamping plate I used for this was Bundle Monster's BM-224 and the polish I used to stamp with was Essie Bobbing for Baubles!

Thanks for stopping by everyone! I love to see your comments, so feel totally free to comment about anything you like! I'll be posting another Black Sheep Lacquer swatch post including the swatches I Instagrammed and tweeted yesterday, just as soon as they've been named!

Black Sheep Lacquer Swatches: Badass, Major Tom and A Letter to the New York Post!

Hello my lovelies! Today I got bored and decided to start swatching my new Black Sheep Lacquer polishes! I keep buying and getting sent them for swatching and they're all so awesome!

They all had lovely formulas as I've come to expect, so onto the swatches!

This amazing polish is called Badass and it's definitely that! I actually think this one is my favourite of the twenty-one Black Sheep Lacquer polishes I own. Badass is a green to purple duo-chrome polish with a pinch of scattered holographic glitter thrown in. It also looks like a charcoal colour at certain angles... basically it's just incredibly stunning. This polish was so generously sent to me for swatches! This is two coats!

Undies for the next polish! Two coats of American Apparel Coney Island.

This is Major Tom (a reference to David Bowie's Space Oddity, love him!), a pink jelly base with tiny silver glitter, small silver holographic bar glitter, small matte light pink hexes, medium-sized matte light pink circles and large hot pink matte hearts! As if all that wasn't cool enough, this polish also glows greenish yellow in the dark! This is just one coat over my undies!

As you can see, the glow effect isn't super strong, but that makes it easier to sleep while wearing!

Undies for the last polish of this post! Two coats of Essie Play Date (purple) and one coat of Essie Mojito Madness (green).

Finally, we have A Letter to the New York Post, a whole bunch of matte black and white glitters of all shapes and sizes in a clear base! This is just one coat over my undies!

Thanks for reading everybody! Stay tuned for swatches of three more Black Sheep Lacquer polishes tomorrow!

Facebook Page and Twitter Account Announcement!

Hey everybody! I recently made a Facebook page and much more recently made a Twitter account for all my nail stuff.

On my Facebook page I post pictures of each different polish I swatch or of each bit of nail art I do and then a link to my blog post about it! I update my cover photo on Facebook as my collection changes, so feel free to comment/email me/tweet me/message my Facebook page any requests for swatches you have. I'd be happy to swatch any of my polishes for you!

On my Twitter account I'll be posting sneak peeks such as pictures of the item that inspired me to do some nail art (before I post the nail art) or pictures of polishes I'll be swatching soon! I'll also be posting pictures of nail art done on my family/friends because I'm thinking of only posting my own nails on my blog (in an effort to be more professional). I think I'll also tweet about what I think of upcoming collections, what I'm lemming at the moment, pictures of new polishes I've bought, and pleas to talk me out of buying new polish! :P I'll also post Vines of my nails if they're sparkly! :)

I added buttons in the right sidebar of this blog so you can find me on Facebook and Twitter easily and hopefully follow me there too! I'd be so happy if you did! Let me know if there's any other social media sites you like to browse and I should join!

If you check out my Twitter you can see the six Black Sheep Lacquer lovelies I'll start swatching for you tomorrow! Feel free to comment on this post or tweet me which three you're dying to see sooner because I'll swatch three tomorrow and three the next day! Also feel free to comment/email me/tweet me/etc. any requests you ever have for nail art or tutorials or both! I'll be posting some lovely paisley nail art I did on my mom on my Twitter within the hour, so check that out too! :)

Thanks so much for reading!!

Bird Nail Art To Match My Scarf! :)

Hello my wonderful readers! Today I have what might be my favourite nail art I've ever done to show you! I got two lovely circle scarves on my four day beach vacation and I decided I'd do nail art inspired by each of them!

As you'll probably notice, I filed my nails down a considerable amount after my last post! One of my nails broke a week or two ago and it had gotten worse so I decided to shorten them. I'm not sure if I like them yet haha, but they'll grow back!

So here we go, onto a bunch of pictures of my bird-scarf-inspired mani! Stay tuned for some nail art inspired by my other scarf and some more Black Sheep Lacquer swatches in a few days!

For the base of this design I used two coats of American Apparel Trenchcoat and a coat of top coat. Then I went in with OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls to do the branches and the little birdies!

Thank you for reading! I hope you all like this much as I do! :)

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! :)