Catching up in 2016

Hello Lovelies,


It has been a couple months and I haven't given up on nursing school yay!!!!!! One year down and another to go!!!! Every now and then I have been able to do a mani, I have to sneak them because Im not aloud to wear polish in the program.. But you know what! I'm a freaking rebel, Here are some manicure shots since my last post from the summer.

My attempted Galaxy nails using Bliss Polishes

Fell in love with Sealore Adoryble

 

Got addicted to Delush Polish~

Stay tuned for part II

Byyyyeeeeee

The whole bean

Hello lovelies

Did a quick manicure inspired by serena from copy cat claws. I was in love with this coffee inspired manicure she did using an uberchic plate. So what did I do, bought the same plate because the image was sooooo java!! I also mixed in some images from a moyou london plate from the cookbook collection "high tea", because coffee & donuts = love~

Below is a picture of her beautiful mani

Image from www.copycatclaws.blogspot.com

Go visit her, if you haven't already~

And below is mine :)

I know doesnt even compare to hers lol, but my stamping skills are improving yay!!!!

 

The polishes add to the inspiration

Delush "a whole latte love"

 and 

HoneyBunny  Lacquer "Cafe Mocha"

 Oh yeah mocha!!! Delicious 

Im definitely gonna try another coffee manicure. Have a great week!!!!

Olive you!

So I joined a new facebook group called the Olive Polish, why?! Because I'm a greenie... I really love the color and all of the beautiful ugly shades it comes in. The first group collaboration was easy, use a pretty ugly and go with it!! So after spending two days playing with my DIY mat, I decided a gradient was Green Light.

Used my very first green's to ever grace the current collection, they happened to be from Julep! Mavens Unite. I honestly believe starting out trying to build a polish collection of 5 free's , investing into julep was the best way to go. I loved getting the special boxes and shopping the clearance sales, however after almost a year I stopped the boxes. It is pricey~ plus I was introduced to Indies.

Had to add the Pun.
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And now the Mani business!!!

Roc sold ( the deep olive) and then Kendra (the sparkly olive). As a way to not leave the nail completely naked I used Chaos and Crocodiles in An alpaca with a plan ( honestly one of my fave formula's of the moment). Oh yeah I used sally hansen's instadry in black to black ( # 360) for the tips.

 under a ottlight

 Ottlight

 Day light

And phone camera flash ( I like this pose, dub invisible cup)

Thanks for visiting
Keeks~

Lets Go Crazy

 So I know I'm all late on the Prince Ride ( what a beautiful ride it is) ummm gosh that man was gorgeous sole to soul~

 This was my "Lets go Crazy" lets get nuts manicure in honor of the "Beautiful One".

Forever my favorite song!!!  Don't ask me which polish I broke out for each finger, cause honestly I went crazy and grabbed all my purple polish's and just started painting away~

oh wait I recognize one polish "lovely assistant" on the ring finger by Love,Angeline.
ooooh and Tanzanite Staccato on the middle finger. I think the MDJ is on the pointer finger ( one of the polishes from her anniversary duo idk which one) and the thumb I believe is space cadet by mango bunnies... that last one I really have no idea...

Gosh I really did go crazy!!!

So to add to the bucket list , I'm traveling to Paisley Park in the near future because I was summoned by the purple one.

And here are two more shots, I didn't get alot of great photos.. but you know his birthday is coming soon... #gemini so I will be doing another mani in his royal purple honor!!!

and I love my mickey bottle to boot~

Mintal Vacation

Hello Lovelies,

It has been a whole month and I have not had the time to blog blog blog, or to even get in a decent mani since starting nursing school. All I can say is I have tried and I'am so thankful I have a four day weekend woohoo!!! But I also have four test when I return on tuesday Yikes..

 Anyhow on with the DUO~

Starting with the Mintal vacation duo: Consisted of a beautiful baby blue by Bliss Polish in "enrich-mint". A white with gold flakies polish by Painted Polish called "enlighten-mint". You can judge for yourself I think the color combo was cute, but Im playing favorites when it comes to formula. I enjoyed the bliss polish, it was easy to put on in room temperature and I used maybe 2 to 3 coats. However I disliked the painted polish formula, Im not sure if it was the temperature, but I rolled that bottle a few times and turned it upside down to get those flakies out. Which they did come out, but it just got really chunky when I applied it, only one coat in the picture. I had to reapply this polish a few times because it was messy, and I didnt particularly like the texture of it. It's not my cup of tea, more than likely this will go in my destash pile.

On another note, take me back to last month when my bestie came to visit and we got to paint pretty mermaids~ I'm determined to make a summer mani in this glittery shade~

Song Snippet by Common Kings "Wade in your water"

Our Bff Shirts

Making faces @ Mermaid Factory

Bottle Shots of Pure Gold

Hey lovelies,

This month has gone by so quick, it seems like I cant get life to slow down. So being able to take a semi breather, and making sure I had me time finally happened yesterday. Phew!!  I was undecided on a color ended up swatching a gold family.

Thought of this song "Mimosa" From Empire on Fox.

Bottle Shots Bottle Shots go and get them bottle shots lol

Bottle shots 

Swatched on my DIY mat~

First color: Love, Angeline "Cheeky Tiki"

Sea Escapes collection. Matte Rose Gold

Top Color: Bliss Polish, "Beloved". Warm coppery tone.

Bottom Color: Love, Angeline "In the Flesh" from the PDTLIB April 2016 Box. Nude Tone, with gold undertones.

Fourth color: Bliss Polish, "Raise the Stakes" Warm Rose Gold.

Fifth color: Bliss Polish,"Top Down" from the Pipe Down This Love is Bliss April 2016 box.
The maker had described it as being a "Dark Rose Gold", but with one layer it looks fairly light.

Vacation in charleston

Spring break weekend decided to take my handsome son to explore charleston SC. We have never been to charleston nor do we know anyone, but heard of many things to do there. It is a charming city  with beautiful parks and tons of. Greenery!!! For the life of me I didnt take any pictures and regret everything. Looks like we shall have to go back down again soon.  Anywho I was captivated by a prototype polish I swatched last week by Love Angeline, decided to pair it with a bliss crelly "cherished"

Decided to dub the polish "fine as wine"

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Right

Right

Hoping I can do another mani this weekend as this lasted only four days :(

Beautiful colors though the love angeline prototype reminded me of another bliss pilish called "darling". I actually mixed up these two on a bliss out babes post with another member. But no one could tell the difference from photos, they are definitely dupes for eachother. But FYI love angeline has not released this prototype forsale, nor has she named it. As far as Bliss "Darling" that is no longer stocked, if you are lucky enough to find it on a resale snag it right away. Happy weekend lovelies~

Surprise!!! No easter bunny

Hello Lovelies,

If you saw the last post , I mentioned something about stamping bunnies on my nails for easter...
Well Surprise!!! No bunnies lol... I've actually been studying all week ( finals) and finishing writing up some research papers for school yay. In between session's to calm down I've been practicing free hand mandala's as well as hitting up pinterest for mandala inspiration!!! I thought as a spring theme I would try to make decals for my nails. I used my DIY nail art mat to swatch and draw what I wanted. What I wanted didn't quite come to fruition, what I had envision is not what I painted. So I cheated ladies!!! No I didn't stamp the mandala's, but if I had plates fosho' I sure would have lol. Instead I used some of my fine art pens to fill in the details of a mandala rather than the polish. The end result I'am partly happy with, you will see why in a few photo's lol. I wish I was a true ambidextrous and could draw with the left hand.

The first one just got crazy!! and not at all symmetrical

 After looking through Pinterest and google I was inspired~

 These are the fine art pens I used, you can pick them up at hobby lobby listed at $9.99, but got lucky with a coupon so they were $6.00. So ladies always use the coupons!!

Here are the polish shot's: Used Love, Angeline's Summer Sorbet as the base. and finally used Topped with love top coat. Which I'am now an absolute convert!!! It has been 4 days and I have absolutely no chips!!!! Sorry Kiara sky and sally Hansen I'm never coming back!!!

First we shall start with the right hand ,the half that I 'am not in love with.

Here is a thumb shot of Love Angeline's Royal Romance used for another accent nail.

Finally my better half!!! Tada!!! Used Love, Angeline's Dot my heart as an accent.

 Shot of Love, Angeline's Summer Sorbet

I need to purchase the rest of her macaroon collection before it is all gone, thank goodness it is on sale as I'am typing!!!

Ciao'