Minnie Mouse

When I saw the OPI Minnie Mouse collection, I knew that I needed a couple. Who doesn't love Minnie?? Once again, I wanted a few of the colors and not wanting to spend a fortune, decided to go with the mini collection. I have only used this one color, but love the colors, since I am a huge pink fan. The mini set did not come with the cute heart glitter polish, but came with the colors, The Color of Minnie, If you Moust, You Moust, and I'm All Ears.

The color I used was called If You Moust, You Moust. Looking at the bottle, I thought it was going to be a light pink, however once I got it on my nail, it was a lot darker than I had anticipated. Don't get me wrong, it was gorgeous, but just the color from the bottle is deceiving.

All in all, I really like this manicure, it's so pink and girly. I loved this stamp and was going to wait until Valentine's Day to bust it out, but just couldn't wait that long.

The Details:

Nail Color: OPI If You Moust, You Moust

Stamping Color: Konad Light Pink

Stamp: Bundle Monster 317

Pretty and Polished Haul

I had seen lots of hype around Pretty and Polished nail polish and I wanted so badly to get my hands on some. I had been checking pretty frequently her etsy shop and was always disappointed when they were out of stock of everything. I liked their page on Facebook and was able to get updates on their restocks and I was able to score some polish.

I have only tried a couple of these, but so far have been pleasantly surprised with the colors and formula. I can't wait to try the rest. I love the fact that she offers mini bottles of colors, it allows me to try more colors without having to spend so much money on the large bottles.

The colors that I was able to get were: Hello Dolly, Freedom Calling, Bayou Blitz, and Tuesday Taurus.

I used the Freedom Calling polish for my Olympic manicure and loved it. I am really excited to try the Bayou Blitz. Its lime green with all sorts of fantastic glitter in it. It kind of reminds me of the Floam color that is so popular. I hope to be doing some manicures soon using these colors.

Olympic Nails

I have seen all sorts of fun Olympic nails on different blogs that I check out. I wanted to do something to show my U.S.A support, so I decided to use my new Cheeky nail plates that I recently got in the mail.

I love watching the Olympics, it is amazing to watch what these athletes can accomplish. It really makes you proud to be an American, as cheesy as that sounds.

I have also loved to see all the Olympians and their fun manicures that they are sporting. But, back to the manicure at hand. I noticed after I did the star stamping that some of the stars didn't go on perfectly, but I think it still looked pretty cute. These are the first Cheeky stamps I have used and I have seen some of the sneak peeks of their new stamps and I am quite excited for those to come out and will definitely be purchasing them.

Stars and stripes forever.

The Details:

Red Polish: Sephora by OPI And a Cherry on Top

Blue Polish: Butter London Royal Navy

Stamping Polish: Konad Special White

White on Thumb: China Glaze White on White

Glitter Polish: Pretty and Polished Freedom Calling

After I got done, I wish I had done something different on my thumb, the royal blue and the bright blue on the glitter just didn't go together very well.

Pink Friday

I do love me some Nikki Minaj, maybe it is from the two adorable girls on Ellen, Sophia Grace and Rosie that sing Super Bass, but I'm not gonna lie, I dig her tunes and style. So when I saw that OPI came out with a Nicki Minaj line, I knew that I wanted to try them out. I knew I couldn't splurge on all of them and after reading reviews online, I decided that Pink Friday was my favorite.

Everyone who knows me, knows about my obsession with TJ Maxx, I find the best deals. If you are patient, you really can find some gems. I have found that it is a great resource to find nail polish. I have found all different brands, OPI, Essie, Bebe, Jessica, Deborah Lippmann etc. I would love to go in and find a shelf of China Glaze one of these days, but I won't complain with what I have been finding. Anywho......the other day in my trip to the Maxx, I spotted one lonely OPI Nikki Minaj mini set. I was pumped as they are generally $12.50 at Ulta and I scored the beauty for $6.99. Score 1 for the good guys!!

I really have started wanting to limit myself to 1-2 polishes per pay check, but that is easier said than done. Every time I go into a beauty supply store, I find new gorgeous polishes.

This manicure, I used OPI Pink Friday and then of course I needed to add a little blingy bling and for the accent nail used China Glaze Full Spectrum. I believe I used 2 coats to completely cover the polish and as you can see in the photos, I didn't get all of the pink covered, but nothing we can do about it now.

X-Marks the Spot

I meant to post something last night but of course I have been addicted to watching the Olympics. It is keeping me up late at night watching. Here in the U.S., we are watching it many hours after the actual events take place. Of course the news sources are wanting to ruin it for the rest of us viewers, so I have been trying to avoid spoilers on the news, facebook, and my husband (he gets ESPN alerts and can't keep a secret).

I did this manicure quite a while ago. It isn't my favorite, it's just "eh". It looked pretty cool and I really liked the green color. It is kind of an army green/gray color, very pretty. The color is part of the Pirates of the Caribbean collection.

The Details:

Nail Color: OPI Stranger Tides

Stamp Color: Konad Special Black

Stamp: Bundle Monster 203

My First Indie Manicure

I am new to this whole nail scene and when I first starting looking at websites and Pinterest, I had no idea of the magnitude of the Indie scene, nor how hard it was to get your hands on certain brands of these. Pretty and Polished was one of my favorite score some of them. I was able to get my hands on some from Llarowe.

This polish is Pretty and POlished Jawbreaker. Its a white polish with all sorts of color glitter. Once it was on, it kinda reminded me of melted chocolate chip ice cream. It was fairly opaque after 2 coats. I was able to get a couple of other polishes when they were in stock, so I hope to get those swatched soon. Overall, its a fun, pretty polish.

And I guess that's why they call it the Blues......

This manicure was last minute and not originally what I had wanted to do. I was planning on copying a manicure I saw on Pinterest, but it turned into an epic fail. The original manicure was a white nail with a gold tribal design. The gold stamping polish I have was not bright enough to show up on the white background. Oh well, I will continue searching for the perfect gold stamping polish.

So I changed it up and decided on the same design, different color. I screwed up my pointer finger and had to go meet my family for dinner and didn't have time to re-do it, so I turned it into a glitter accent nail.

The details:

Nail Color: Essie Marshmallow

Stamping Color: Konad Sky Pearl

Glitter Accent Nail: Barry M Blue Glitter

Stamp: Bundle Monster 315

Top Coat: Seche Vite