Alcatraz...rocks!

Hey! So I've been reading that this is the textured nail polish that you need to own! And I got to say its pretty nice. I don't usually like these textured polishes but this one reminds me of jeans! I'd love to try this with top coat!! So this polish is called Alcatraz...rocks! It's so sparkly!!! Check it out!!  Two photos have no flash and two do. 

Navy and white polka dots!

I think I must be on a polka dot kick. Today I have for you tiny white polka dots on top of eurso euro by OPI. 

Flashy Toes!

Sorry everyone that I haven't posted in a while, I do my nails, take my pictures and then just realize its time for bed and I start that all over again the next day!!!
So I do have a few posts to do today. The first one is a funky Toe Nail design I recently tried. I received some nail glue when I ordered from Bornprettystore.com and I thought that I would glue some jewels to my toes.

The base color that I chose for my toes was Ogre the top blue from OPI. With a name like that you know for sure its from the Shrek line! 
The Rhinestones that I placed on top were dark blue, light blue, pale yellow, pale green and a few silver ones. I dumped out way too many for my toes so I will have to get back to those and separate them. 

Anyway, its great to be back! have a great evening! 

P.S. Sorry for my funny looking toes! I don't usually like to show them! haha

15 Days of Valentines!! Day 2

Hey guys! Sarah here with the second day of my valentines 15 days of love nails! I bring you polka-dots today! I just love everything about a polka-dot manicure. Maybe its the contrast that I love so much! 

So for these nails I used Miss Conduct from Orly, A Rose at Dawn by OPI, Quarter of a Century by OPI (I really don't know why it come out maroon in the pictures) and last but not least French Affair by Essie. 

With all my manicures for valentines day I have tried to incorporate reds, pinks and whites into my works. I wonder what tomorrow's is going to look like? Check back tomorrow for day 3! Plus don't forget to check out my partner in crime Amanda for her 15 days of Valentines also! Nighty night!

The Living Daylights

Well everyone, I've finally used my James Bond sparkles The Living Daylights! For some reason these got put into my nail box and I slightly forgot about them... But I love the turquoise, copper, and silver colored sparkles that are in this polish! These hexagon sparkles are in a clear polish base which I painted on top of Eiffel for this color by OPI, which is a deep purple. 

I think that these were a great idea for the new year and a great first choice also for 2013! Happy new year everyone!!!

Pink Candy Nails (Inspired by Robin Moses)

These nails were Inspired by Robin Moses nail tutorial which you can see here :  http://robinmosesnailart.blogspot.ca/2012/12/weeping-angels-weeping-angel-nail-art.html. 

I absolutely love her nail art tutorials and I wanted to give one a shot. For my base I used Teenage Dream by Katy Perry OPI.  I thought it was the only similar base color I had that would match Robins. next I used my Orly nail art in Pink Pastel and added the candy lines. Topped it all off with some Glosser from Orly and voila! My Candy nails inspired by Robin Moses! 

Teenage Dream

Good afternoon on this beautiful sunny Sunday. With New Years tomorrow I thought that Teenage Dream from the Katy Perry OPI Collection would be very fun. I love sparkles while celebrating the ball drop. After all, you need to look your best when 12am rolls around...

Christmas Eve Snowflakes!

Hello everyone! so Christmas eve is tomorrow and I just had to get one more manicure in there before the festivities start. With work tomorrow as well as a drive to Ottawa I didn't see where I would be able to do my nails! so these are my holiday nails! 

I had recently asked a fellow nail blogger Anastasia Park to do a tutorial on snowflakes. You can check out her tutorial at http://mymakeupmania.blogspot.ca/2012/12/my-christmas-pedicure-freehand.html.
I tried to mimic what she has showed us to do, but unfortunately I do not have a super fine detail brush. so I was limited to my small lines. So I tried out my own version of the snowflakes. I will be trying these out again in the new year after I go for a run to the art store for a small brush! 

I would like to thank again Anastasia Park for taking her time to do her tutorial especially for me!

My addiction to Polka-dots!

Hello dear readers! Today I have for you a multi-colored polka-dot theme I did last night for you guys. I was inspired by Issy's nails from our nail party that we had last Tuesday night. Almost using the same colors, I decided that it would be a little bit more interesting to incorporate a dark color into it. I used China Glaze- Electric Beat which is the blue one, OPI- I eat mainly lobster and OPI- Miami Beat.

I've been wanting to revise some of my old posts that I added in a hurry when I first started blogging. So with a title as my addiction to polka-dots I figured i would put them all together in this blog as well. 

This pink polka-dot manicure is done with Essie- Lights and OPI- Funky Dunky.

This polka-dot manicure I did for my boyfriends Ring ceremony when he was awarded his engineering ring. I had a black and white dress on with black heals and I wanted my nails to match as well. Everyone was quite fond of the contrasting index finger ;)

Christmas Party Leopard Print

For our work party my coworker came over to get her nails done to match her dress. Guess what the pattern was? You guessed it! LEOPARD! 
We started off with a base of Alpine Snow from OPI and waited until they were dry. In the meantime we enjoyed a lovely cup of wild-berry tea. :)

When her nails were dry we used my Konad image plate number M57. The only thing that I have to find is a topcoat that doesn't streak the special Konad nail polish. Any suggestions?

My Complete Color Collection

I've always wanted to post all my nail polish and I found a perfect way to do so! With my nail swatches! I've listed them all by number corresponding to the photo above the list. Now if my clients wish to get their nails done by me they have an easy way to see what I've got! 

1.Essie- Pale green
2.Orly- Prelude to a kiss
3.Essie- Sew psyched
4.Essie- Fiji
5.Essie- Merino cool
6.Essie- Luxedo
7.Essie- Nice is nice
8.OPI- Miami beat
9.Essie- In stiches
10.OPI- Houston we have a purple
11.OPI- Pompeii purple
12.Essie- Velvet voyeur
13.Essie- Bahama mama
14.Essie- Topless and Barefoot
15.OPI- It's all Greek to me
16.OPI- Diva of Geneva
17.Essie- Tomboy no more
18.Orly- Mirror mirror

1.OPI- The color to watch
2.OPI- Dating a royal
3.OPI- I'm India-mood for love
4.OPI- Lucky lucky lavender
5.OPI- Funky Dunky
6.OPI- Brisbane Bronze
7.OPI- Get in the espresso lane
8.OPI- Suzi loves cowboys
9.OPI- California Raspberry
10.Orly- Luxe
11.OPI- I want to be a lone star
12.OPI- I pink I love you
13.OPI- Kyoto pearl
14.OPI- All Abordeaux
15.OPI- Let me entertain you
16.OPI- Color to diner for
17.OPI- Hot & Spicy
18.OPI- Jade is the new black

1.Orly- Prim and Proper
2.Essie- Silken Cord
3.Essie- Chastity
4.Orly- Purple crush
5.Essie- French Affair
6.Essie-Pretty Edgy
7.Orly- Glowstick
8.Orly- (can't find name)
9.Essie- Coat Azure
10.Orly- Gumdrop
11.Orly- Pixy  stick
12.Orly- Lemonade
13.Orly- Snowcone
14.OPI- Shorts Story
15.Essie- Going Incognito
16.Orly- Fresh
17.Essie- Escapades
18.Orly- Green with envy

1.OPI- Red my fortune cookie
2.OPI- Señorita rosalita
3.OPI- Ya'll come back now
4.OPI- Purple with a purpose
5.OPI- Guy meets Galveston
6.OPI- Last Friday Night (Katy Perry)
7.OPI- Charged up Cherry
8.OPI- Too hot pink to hold them
9.OPI- Gargantuan Green Grape
10.OPI- Las Paz-itively hot
11.Essie- Exotic Liras
12.OPI- Just Groovy
13.OPI- Louvre me, louvre me not
14.OPI- Need Sunglasses
15.China Glaze- In the lime light
16.OPI- Strawberry margarita
17.OPI- A Grape Fit18.OPI- Teal the cows come home 

1.OPI- Cha Ching Cherry
2.Essie- Lights
3.OPI- Do you think I'm texy?
4.OPI- The show must go on
5.OPI- Take the stage
6.OPI- Are we there yet?
7.OPI- Congeniality is my middle name
8.OPI- O'hare & nails look great!
9.OPI- Blue my mind
10.OPI- Cuckoo for this color
11.OPI-lucerne-tainly look marvelous
12.OPI- Yodel me on my cell
13.Orly- Wild Wisteria
14.OPI- French  1/4 for your thoughts 
15.OPI- The one that got away
16.OPI- plugged in plum
17.OPI- In my back pocket18.OPI- Rising Star 

1.Orly- Here comes trouble
2.Orly-Meet me Under the mistletoe
3.Orly- Androgynie
4.China Glaze- Riveting
5.OPI- Fresh frog from Belair
6.OPI- Save me
7.China Glaze- Luxe & lush
8.Forever 21- Silver sparkles
9.OPI- The living Daylights (007)
10.OPI- Roulette my whistle
11.China Glaze- Electrify
12.OPI- Teenage dream (Katy Perry)
13.Sephora- Only gold for me
14.Sephora- Indi-go with the flow
15.China Glaze- Glitter all the way
16.china glaze- winter holly
17.China Glaze- Electric Beat18.China Glaze- Cha Cha Cha

1.OPI- Ski till we drop
2.OPI- Don't Socra-tease me
3.OPI- On her majesty's secret service (007)
4.OPI- 1/4 of a century
5.OPI- Deutsch you want me baby
6.OPI- Big hair, Big nails
7.OPI- Chicago Champagne
8.China Glaze- Fuchsia Fantastic
9.OPI- What's with the catitude (shrek)
10.China Glaze- Oh how street it is
11.OPI- Ogre the top blue (shrek)
12.Orly- Liquid Vinyl
13.OPI- Honk if you love OPI
14.OPI- Give me the moon
15.OPI- Alpine snow
16.OPI- Just spotted the lizard (Spider-Man)
17.OPI- Aragon
18.OPI- Malaga Wine

1.China glaze- Optical Illusion
2.China glaze- Liquid Crystal
3.China glaze- Smoke & ashes (hunger games) 
4.China glaze- Splish Splah
5.China Glaze- Aquadelic
6.Sephora- I found a pot of gold
7.China Glaze- Make some noise
8.Essie- Play Date
9.China Glaze- Wicked style
10.China glaze- Sexy Silouette
11.Orly-Miss Conduct
12.Orly- Devil may care 
13.OPI- Opus in amber
14.China Glaze- Sunshine pop
15.OPI- Glow up already 
16.China Glaze- polarized
17.China glaze- Prism
18.China glaze- Radiant

1.Orly- Cant be tamed

2.OPI- My private jet

3.OPI- Don't mess with OPI

4.OPI- Not like the movies (Katy Perry)

5.OPI- Comet loves Cupid 

6.OPI- Ali's big break

7.OPI- I eat mainly lobster

8.OPI- Peru-b-ruby

9.OPI- Over the taupe

10.OPI- Tease-y does it

11.Essie- Masquerade belle

12.Essie- Vermillionaire

13.OPI- A rose at dawn

14.OPI- Road House blues

15.OPI- Deer valley spice

16.OPI- Russian navy

17.OPI- Bastille my heart

18.Essie- Limited Addiction  

1.OPI- My address is Hollywood

2.OPI- Significant other color

3.OPI- In the spotlight pink

4.Essie- Barbados Blue

5.Essie- Little brown dress

6.Essie- Good as gold

7.Essie- Steady as she rose

8.OPI- Uh oh roll down the window

9.OPI- It's totally Fort Worth it

10.OPI- manicurist of Seville

11.Essie- Haute as hello

12.OPI- Eiffel for this color

13.China Glaze- Stone cold (Hunger Games)

14.OPI- I break for manicures 

15.Essie- St.lucia lilac

16.Essie- Brazilliant

17.Essie- Sand Tropez

18.OPI- Suzi takes the wheel

RED- horizontal stripes

Hello my dear readers! Well this time around I did a beautiful red base called Malaga Wine. This has been in my collection since the beginning. I just love the deepness of it! I was actually just going to go with the red nails and then I saw my old post (Triangle tips). It made me want to do something similar with my red nails. I went with horizontal half stripes on the side of my nails.  It doesn’t take too long to do these kinds of nails, but its just time consuming. And another thing I see with using tape… when I tend to tape up all my nails and then paint my nails, I get this tape residue when I remove it. So I guess I have to do this look nail by nail. I am still new to tape manicures, I used to everything free hand and it wasn’t always the straightest haha. Practice makes perfect! I drew up a little picture to show you how i placed the tape and where i painted! Have fun!!

Its Totally Fort Worth It ( I Don't Think So!!!)

Well you know when you try a new color and you think it’s going to look great and you can’t wait? Well this was one and I was soooo disappointed. I had bought the tour America line from OPI a long time ago and I just never got around to trying out this color (It’s totally fort worth it) . But when I got it on I hated the coverage and all that I saw when I looked down at my nails were the whites of my nails showing through. Personally that drives me nuts! Plus with my profession ( hairdresser ) I sometimes get dye on my nails and there a mess, so I hate seeing through my color.  I will give it another try though. I think on top of a plain grey it would give it a nice shine. I’d have to play around with that idea though!

I don’t usually dislike a color but when you buy a whole line there’s bound to be at least one that doesn’t go with your skin tone. The only ironic thing I find is that it actually doesn’t look too bad in the pictures I took. But I didn’t get one compliment from anyone about this color. Boo.

Anyway until next time!

Miami Beat!

Tonight’s manicure was inspired by the beautiful Miami beaches! Never been there, but I envision the beaches with blue and white towels laying on them. Ah a beautiful sight considering winter is coming here! The weather got so ugly today I wish that I could catch a plane and go lie down on one of my striped towels!