Polished Lifting

Hey guys! I'm back with a beautiful shade from Ever After Polish's September 2016 box. This was a Nightmare Before Christmas themed box featuring two polishes. I only have half of the box, so today's post features Ever After Polish Sally.

Ever After Polish Sally

Hey guys! I hope you are having a great Monday so far. Before you get confused, I did not go back to square nails. I have a MASSIVE backlog of personal (non press sample) swatches and nail art to share with you guys. When I say massive, I mean I have swatches from all the way back in January... like five months ago if you are counting.

Today's post features Colors By Llarowe Mona Lisa. My mother gave me a CBL gift card for my birthday, and this was one of several shades I picked up.

Colors By Llarowe Mona Lisa

I had a bit of a hard time teasing out the holo flare under the daylight bulbs, but you can see it in the bottle shot above.

Oh man. You guys can probably see that I fell behind on this nail art challenge. If you didn't notice the lack of posts just pretend that these are totally on time. May turned out to be an unexpectedly busy month all around. Work picked up, my training has been taking up more time, and I've attended more social gatherings than normal. I *think* things are settling down now, so there will be an uptick in posts soon! I have at least 24 manicures that need to be retouched and posted, some of which date all the way back to February.

Today's post features my take on the #clairestelle8may challenge prompt "cities". At first I was entirely stumped on what to do, but then I remembered I had an adorable image plate from MoYou London that I had yet to use.


How cute are these houses?! I just want to move right in.

You may notice that some of these shades don't quite look like the polishes under the product list. I was feeling particularly... picky? that day and decided to create custom blends using a few different shades. I'm not entirely sure what I mixed together for some of the colors, but all of the polishes used are listed below.

Products used

Morgan Taylor Selfie Collection | Summer 2017 - Press sample

I absolutely love this time of year because neons and bright polish are making a resurgence. Today's post features Morgan Taylor's Selfie Collection and it's packed with everything bright and fun.

L-r: Morgan Taylor All About The Pout, Me My-selfie and I, Pretty As A Pink-ture, Woke Up This Way, No Filter Needed, Best Face Forward

All About The Pout

Me, Myself-ie, and I

Pretty As a Pink-ture

Woke Up This Way

No Filter Needed

Best Face Forward

Summery Coral & Teal Polka Dots - Press sample

It's feeling like summer here in the Pacific Northwest, so I thought it would be a great time for a summer inspired dotticure. I can't think of two colors that make me think of summer more than a bright teal and coral.


Dotticures aren't normally my thing because I struggle with freehand nail art, but I felt the urge to give it another try.


 
I found that using a smaller dotting tool and using less polish on the tool gives me more control over the shape and size of the dots. I'm quite happy with the improvement.

Products used