Leopard Print & Half Moon Shoespiration!

Good evening, lovies!

I've been working a nonstop since school ended Thursday so this post is going to be very short for I am exhausted. xP I just wanted to show you guys another shoe inspired mani I did. 

I was inspired by a pair of shoes that one of my friends posted on Instagram, so I don't have a photo of the shoes for comparison. :( They were white and leopard print flats, though. Sadly, these were ruined at work just a day or two after I did them. :c 

What do you think! Be sure to stay on the lookout for some awesome reviews soon. ;)

Thanks for reading, y'all!

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Mystery Polish + Fairy Dust!

Hey, folks!

I just wanted to say thanks to those who tried to help me figure out what this polish was. I called upon the famous Traci from The TraceFace Philes to see if she knew what it could be since she's got over 1,600 polishes in her collection (drool). Turns out she couldn't recognize it and came to the conclusion that it's likely to be a fake. o_O I shall not shun this baby, though, for it's still a really pretty polish and I like it a lot regardless. Thank you, Traci, for all your help! :D

With that said, I wasn't quite ready to take it off so of course I added something to it, and my god was I glad that I did. While in Knoxville with my boyfriend last week, he bought me China Glaze Fairy Dust. I've been wanting this little gem for quite a while and was so happy he offered to buy it for me. :) 

Fairy Dust is composed of tiny holographic glitter in a clear base. I think it's best used as a topcoat but I don't see why you couldn't use it by itself. :P I got mine from Sally Beauty Supply for $6.

SO LOVELY.

Here it is over my mysterious OPI polish! 

*Artificial light, with flash. One coat. :L

*Artificial light, with flash; blurred to show holo parts. One coat.

I am in looove, dude. I really think it looks amazing over the darker polish.

What do you ladies think?!

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Mummy Mani!

HEY, FOLKS.

So I'm really excited about today's post. :e My good friend's 21st birthday party is tonight so 10 of us are taking a limo to downtown Nashville to celebrate, aaand I am super excited! 

ANYWAY. 

I'm a huge fan of Jane from Nailside and I've always wanted to try her Mummy Tape Mani. Since I constantly think in nail designs/polishes (as I'm sure the rest of you do) you can only guess where my mind went when I chose this dress from Charlotte Russe to wear to the party: 

If you guessed Jane's Mummy Tape Mani, you are correct! :party

The purples in the polish and dress aren't quite the same shade, but I'm okay with that because I love this so. freaking. much. :L The polishes I used were China Glaze Flying Dragon and Zoya Raven. Is it just me, or is Flying Dragon the weirdest polish ever? I was like "wtf..." the first time I used it because I thought it was so pretty in the swatches I'd seen. It's one of those polishes that, in my opinion, completely transforms from something matte and ugly to something really awesome when you add a topcoat to it. :)

I believe that this design is something I'll be doing again. What do you think?

Thanks for reading! <3

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Belated "Official" Valentine's Day Mani

Heyyyy!

I hope everyone has been having a good week thus far! Personally, I'm ready for the weekend but that's no surprise. xP

Tonight I'm just going to show you the Valentine's look I sported yesterday!

*Excuse the tip wear. :)

So, the plan was to have heart shaped tips on my ring fingers, but it turned out a lot better looking on my right hand, of course. :P I like it anyway, though. I've also been itching to use a pink crackle over red so I did that, as well. For this I used a red creme by Goldie (from Bath & Body Works, I believe), China Glaze Broken Hearted crackle, and the pink of the ring finger is Color Club Space Case. 

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's day, whether you spent it with a 'special someone' or not. I'm a firm believer in showing love all the time so this holiday doesn't mean much to me. It's a good excuse to break out my pink and red polishes, though! ;)

Thanks for reading, ladies!

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A Little Shoe-spiration.

HELLO!

Just a quick post this afternoon; I've got to start getting ready for tonight's events and I'm doing a friend's nails beforehand, also! :e

So, this past Christmas my brother gave me these:

Are these not the most ballin' shoez or what? :P

Literally every time I look at them I think, "that would make for a really awesome mani." WELL, I finally did it last night and this it how it turned out:

I am pretty darn pleased. ;) I used China Glaze Towel Boy Toy, stamped using BM-221 and Konad Special Polish in Black, and filled in some of the leopard spots with PureICE Flirt Alert. What do y'all think?! I loves them. ^_^

Thank you for reading! I hope you all have a good weekend! :party

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Glitter Badge!

Hey girl heyyy!

So my bestie over at Simply Beauty. gave me this awesome badge the other day, and I believe now is a good time to make a post about it! 

Yay! I've been a glitter polish fan for a looong time; I'm pretty sure my first polish ever was a glitter. :P Now loose glitter that gets all over the place and doesn't come off for anything... not so much, lol. Now, to be worthy of this badge I believe I must post a picture of my favorite glitter, but I could only narrow it down to five and I made sure that they're polishes I've worn before. Otherwise I'd have like 15 to show. o_O So here we go!

I chose to wear China Glaze Love Marilyn for this post. This is a new favorite, for sure.

*Artificial Light, no flash

*Natural light, no flash

The other four that I couldn't let go unmentioned.

L-R: OPI Teenage Dream, Servin' Up Sparkle, Rainbow Connection, Milani Purple Gleam 

L-R: Purple Gleam, Rainbow Connection, Servin' Up Sparkle, Teenage Dream

 And there you have it! These are my top five favorite glitters (in no particular order) thus far. I'd like to thank Taylor for passing this along to me, soo... THANKS! :P She has an awesome beauty blog and if you haven't checked it out yet, go do it now! :i 

Thanks for reading, y'all!

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CHRISTMAS HAUL: Part One

You guys don't even know how excited I have been to post my Christmas/December/NYC haul. :e However, I'm only going to be showing you the polish part of my haul tonight so I don't wear everybody out with a million pictures. This will be the more exciting part, I think. :P Anyway, let's get to it!

So this is eeeverything.

L-R: Zoya Lolly, Mitzi, & Phoebe

L-R: Nails Inc. Houses of Parliament, Layla Magneffect Gunmental, Nails Inc. Whitehall Teal

L-R: H&M I'm Not a Kiwi & Wawawoom, butter LONDON HRH & Victoriana

L-R: China Glaze Love Marilyn & Tinsel Town, OPI Warm & Fozzie

L-R: Konad Special Polish in White, Gold Black, & Black

L-R: Glitter Gal 10 to Midnight, HITS Ares, Hera, & Zeus (SO MUCH AMAZINGNESS)

L-R: NOPI Me + Blue, Sally Hansen Cha-Ching!, NOPI One Less Lonely Glitter (I am not a Bieber fan, btw. :P)

L-R: Layla Tuscany Grapes (I think...), Bella Oggi no named purple, Bella Oggi no named blue, Illamasqua Viridian

L-R: Essie Ridge Filling Base Coat and Sally Hansen  Strengthening Top Coat

Eeeeek! Juicy Couture's Deborah Lippmann 2011 Holiday Set!

L-R: Believe, Here Comes the Queen, Jewel in the Crown

They even have little diamond things on the caps. How sweet. :P

PHEW, that was a lot. So what do y'all think?! I'm so happy with all of my new lovelies. ^_^ I'm really hoping to snag three more polishes from the HITS No Olimpo Collection (Apolo, Atena, Dionisio) and then I'm taking a hiatus from buying polishes; my bank account needs to rest a bit. :P Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed the first half of my Christmas haul! I'll be posting the non-polish beauty products tomorrow. :) Thanks for reading! 

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31 Day Challenge! Day 20 - Water Marble Nails

Hey, ya'll!

I'm really tired from working a 12 hour day so this post is going to be pretty short. Day 20 was water marbling and this was my first everrr attempt at it. Here's the final result:

Excuse the haggardness of these; this photo was taken after working three shifts (working in a restaurant is terrible on my nails :\). I have to say that this definitely got the most compliments out of any mani I've ever done, and this won't be the last water marble I do. ;) The polishes I used were China Glaze White on White, Barielle Thrilling, and Orly Lucky Duck; they worked really well for this technique. Any difficulty I had was my own fault, heheh. 

How do you ladies feel about water marbling? Thanks for reading! ^_^

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31 Day Challenge! Day 10 - (A Very Late) Gradient Nails

Over the past week or so I've learned that finding time to blog is very difficult when one has tonz of exams to study for, a Thanksgiving to celebrate, and a paper to write. Not to mention, since the sun goes down at like 4pm it's tough to try to get pictures when the it's out. Humph. Tonight's task is to come up with some kind rough draft for one of my Geology classes, and it's probably going to take all night, but I figured if I don't post my gradient nails now then it could be another week before I'm able to post them again. :( So, without further ado, my gradient nails!

*Natural Light, no flash

*Natural Light, with flash. (<3 my eos, btw)

These didn't really turn out the way I expected... They look more tie-dyeish, I think, but I still really loved them and got sooo many compliments! The polishes I used: 

An unnamed red by Goldie

OPI Dutch Tulips

Sally Hansen Flashy Fuschia

Milani Tip Toe Pink

China Glaze White on White

The glitter I used on the accent nail was Orly Tiara. 

I can't believe I'm already a third of the way through with this challenge. :o I have a feeling the next two-thirds will be the real challenge for me, heheh. Next up: polka dots! :D

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31 Day Challenge! Day 5 - Blue Nails

Good evening! I just got home from Alabama for my best friend's wedding and I am tiiiired. I never knew being a part of a wedding was so exhausting! Thus, this post shall be on the short side, as well. For my blue nails I used China Glaze Towel Boy Toy. 

This is a fairly new purchase and I was pleased with it. I'm a sucker for a good blue polish. :D Thanks for reading!

<3Courtney

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31 Day Challenge! Day 2 - Orange Nails

"Good Morning, Starshine. The Earth Says Hello!"

 Does anyone out there love Johnny Depp in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as much as moi? A lot of people think he's creepy in it, but I still think he's gorge, as always. ANYWAY, today is Orange Nails and I'm pretty excited about it. 

For these I used Color Club You Got Soul-ar from the Starry Temptress Collection. Puh-lease do not ask me why I attempted to photograph the nails on my RIGHT hand as opposed to my left. I guess I was feeling experimental? They didn't turn out that bad, but I'll definitely be sticking with the left hands nails from now on. :P Naturally, I got bored with having solid color nails after like 12 hours and threw some China Gaze Black Mesh over them. This was around Halloween, so these are what I considered my Halloween nails, hahah. I reeeally like the Starry Temptress Collection. I was glad I chose this color for day two. :) Thanks for reading!

<3Courtney

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