St. Patrick's Day Chevron Nails

Hi everyone!

One of my favorite holidays is this week: St. Patrick's Day! I decided to do some fun nails for it, using some of my favorite nail art styles :)

Keep reading for more details about how I created this mani!

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Zoya "Merida" Swatch & Review | #SwatchSunday

Hello everyone!

I apologize for my short little break! I start my first year in college in just a week, and have been tied up with last minute shopping and other preparations.

Today I have #SwatchSunday post for you all; one that I have really been looking forward to! I recently got a bottle of Zoya "Merida" from their new Urban Grunges Collection. I absolutely knew that I had to have this polish (not just because it is a sparkly deep green) but because Merida is my favorite princess. I have long, curly, red hair just like her, so I always say that she's my twin :)

Ok, enough back story! Here's my review.

My Prom Nails! :)

Hello everyone,

So a few weeks ago, I had my Senior Prom! And if you noticed that I haven't posted in a week and a half, it's because I've been so busy with prom, going for a weekend away, and finishing up my Senior Year! Only a week and a half until I graduate from high school :)

For my Senior Prom, I really wanted a dress that was different. I always tend to gravitate towards blues, white, and nude colors. Never anything really out there. But since I have red hair, green is always a great color for me. I decided that I wanted my Senior Prom dress to be emerald green! After searching through tons of stores, I found this Jovani one in the perfect color. I really love it!

To match my dress, I painted my nails with Salon Perfect "Escape to Neverland" with a Starrily "Ultima" glitter gradient on the tips of my nails to tie in the sparkly beading on the bodice. The green polish looks lighter than the dress in this lighting, but in person the color was almost a perfect match!

I thought that it might be fun to share my prom nails with you all, and I hope you enjoyed this quick little post! :)

Love,

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Donut Nails | Living Royal Review

Hello everyone!

Today I have some really cute donut patterned nails inspired by my socks from Living Royal!

Chevron Floral Nails

 Hello everyone!

Today I have this really girly and fun chevron floral design to share with you all!

I've really been wanting to do a freehand floral pattern, and I recently fell in love with a chevron and floral pattern of a phone case that I found online. I did this nail design inspired by that pattern! I've also seen @nailstorming on Instagram do a lot of these kind of manis lately and I have been obsessed with them! I would say that this design is a combination of the two of those things :)

Daisy and Watermarble Nails

Hello everyone!

You might remember from my last blog post that I tried to do a watermarble design, and failed. But I haven't given up yet! I recently received this 3D daisy stud from Born Pretty Store and the first nail idea that came to my mind was a green watermarble under it to resemble the pattern of a leaf.

I was really determined to do this look, so even though the idea of watermarbling was sickening, I tried my hand at the technique... And I finally had some success!!!

Live Love Polish & Colores de Carol Exclusives

Hello everyone!

Today I have some super gorgeous SPARKLY nail polishes to share with you. These are exclusives by Colores de Carol and are only available on LiveLovePolish.com! 

These are all super sparkly, so if you are a glitter lover then these are a must-have! My camera seriously had a hard time focusing on these glitters with all of the holo action happening.

St. Patrick's Day Glitter Gradient with Salon Perfect "Luck of the Irish"

Hello everyone!

I've had a total nail blogger fail, not to mention a total Irish-girl fail... I had absolutely no nail art for St. Patrick's Day! My nails weren't even painted green yesterday!

Luckily, I came home from school yesterday afternoon to some St. Patrick's nail mail from Salon Perfect. I wish I could have gotten it sooner, so I could have had time to swatch them all and write a full blog post for you, but I just couldn't get a whole collection review up in a few hours!

I think I will still be reviewing the collection, but it will be up later. Sorry again for not having these polishes for a St. Patrick's Day swatch spam!

This is a glitter topper from the collection, appropriately named "Luck of the Irish"! It's a fun, glittery polish (gold hex glitter with gold but mostly green micro-glitter) in a clear base.

Aqua Floral Phone Case Inspired Nails

Hello everyone!

I didn't have a lot of time for nails this week, but I really wanted to try out a freehand floral pattern. I really miss doing freehand designs! I used to only do designs like this but I guess my style has changed since then.

Anyway, I got the inspiration for this floral pattern from my sister's phone case. It has such a pretty floral pattern and I really wanted to recreate it on my nails! The design didn't turn out quite how I wanted it to, but I decided to post this anyway.

 

Pretty & Polished Exclusives from Live Love Polish!

Hello everyone!

Valentine's Day is right around the corner, and I think we all can agree that festive nail polish is a must! Today I am so excited to share with you these gorgeous Valentine's Day polishes by Pretty & Polished, which you can only get from LiveLovePolish.com!

*Check back later this week to see three beautiful Colores de Carol polishes (one of them being exclusive, from Live Love Polish only)!

First up is Pretty & Polished "He Makes Me Blush"; a light pink crelly polish with pink, red, and silver hex glitter, as well as pink and white heart glitters! Shown is three coats with a top coat.

Rainbow Swirl Nails

Hello everyone! 

As you probably know, I received a bunch of awesome nail vinyls from Twinkled T a little while ago. One of the first set of vinyls that caught my eye was the cyclone vinyls! These look sooo awesome, and I decided to use them to do this rainbow swirl design.

Mint Gradient Butterfly Water Decal Nails | Born Pretty Store Review

Hello everyone!

Today I have a part two for sharing these products from Born Pretty Store. I also received these beautiful butterfly water decals!

By the way, don't forget to use my code NSBW10 for 10% off your order on www.bornprettystore.com!

I didn't want to just layer these over white, or just have it as an accent on one finger, so I decided to create a white to mint gradient underneath! I used Salon Perfect "Sugar Cube" and LVX "Mynt". I am very happy with how it turned out!

Christmas Tree Nails

Now that Thanksgiving is over, it is officially the Christmas season, and I could not be more excited!

Someone on my Instagram account asked me to do Christmas tree nails, and I really loved the idea. So here they are!

I used this adorable red bow from Simply Spoiled Beauty to add a festive bit of red into the design. These bows are so cute for any manicure, and they come in so many colors and designs.

Salon Perfect *Exclusive* Holiday Collection!

Hello everyone!

Today I have some swatch spam from Salon Perfect! These beauties are from their Holiday Collection. *This is a photo-heavy post... You have been warned!!!*

**Salon Perfect is available at Walmart, but you can only find "Glam Glitter", "Christmas Cookie", and "Snowed In" in the giveaway that Salon Perfect is currently holding with Nail It Magazine! There are 250 winners and they will win all of the polishes that I am showing to you in this post, and also their white polish "Sugar Cube", which you have all seen me use a lot before. The best part of the giveaway is that it includes the exclusive ones. (Which, by the way, are must-haves!!!) 

Click HERE to find out how to enter the giveaway! It ends on November 30th!

Salon Perfect "Wicked" Swatch and Review

Hello everyone!

Sorry for not posting for a few weeks; October has been a little busier for me and I have had less time to do my nails. I still have been doing some Halloween art, though! :) I actually painted 10 pumpkins for my local Harvest Festival, and they took up a lot of my free time.

Anyway, last week I received some nail mail from Salon Perfect with some Halloween polishes! One of them was "Wicked" and it really caught my interest.

"Wicked" is a spook-tacular glitter polish with very fine green, black and white glitters in a very slightly green jelly base. If you put this over white, I think the jelly would add a faint green tinge to the white, so that is why I don't consider it a clear base.