Nicole OPI nail polish!

So, I've changed my review of Nicole OPIs! They seem to chip easily on natural nails, but so does everything. These last really long on the KISS nails I bought! I wore it for a week, and there were no chips, and the edge wear was almost impossible to detect. I bought this one last night, it's called.....Actually, I don't know. I'll look later and comment it. It looks like silver under certain lights, and you can see the blue under some lights. These photos look really blue. I like the color, I tried to Konad them, but I am terrible at those. I'm looking to make some epic nail art soon, something really amazing, so stay tuned!

Fake nails! Kiss Active Length Oval 100 piece review!

Woo hoo! Finally no nails down to the skin. These are Kiss Active Length nails, I got them on sale for a dollar off with coupon. It was about $5, and they've survived my breakdance class, so the glue's pretty good. I've chopped them down a bit, since they get in my way if they're too long. You're actually supposed to file them down to size, but I used a nail clipper, which worked well. They're about the same color as real nails, so if your polish is a little sheer, it looks the same. I wonder if I could do nail art on them before I apply them? I think it'd be easier, but I need to be careful when applying the glue, so none spoils the art. Also, little tip, if you like pressssssing down on the nails while the glue's setting, apply a little Vaseline to the skin of your fingers. Just a little, so you don't glue your finger to your nail. That glue. Is. Strong. You won't have fingers glued together forever, but you will probably ruin your nails. Make sure not to get any on the nails that haven't been glued yet, since they won't stick if the Vaseline gets on them.

Been a while, but...

So, another Picture of Katy Perry's Last Friday Night. It's been a while since I did my nails, because my nails have been chipping like CRAZY. As you can see in the picture, they are down to the skin. I'm looking into fake nails first thing I finish this paper for class and my Physics exam. (Wish me luck! I will need it.)

Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night" over white

I liked this shade since I first saw it. At first I bought the "Hottie" from Sinful Colors, but decided to get the original. It's definitely a lot lighter than it appears in the bottle, but in this picture looks more grey than blue. I'd describe it as a periwinkle, with glitter. I want to try this on a blue or black base and see the difference, the white lightens it a lot. I got this for $7.70, because I bought two bottles at a store in town. (Usually $7.85)

OPI Turquoise Shatter over OPI Need Sunglasses?

Quite pleased with how this shattered! It's the first time I've tried Shatter over another OPI lacquer....mostly because I never bought one before.

Review of OPI's "Need Sunglasses?"

Bought some OPI nail laquers a few days ago, so instead of doing homework, I'm blogging about it. This shade was really nice, only downside was that my blue hair started to rub off on it, and it took a lot of coats to get a nice shade. I put Turquoise Shatter over this, I'll be sure to post soon!

You're S-Teal the One Review

So I bought my first Nicole OPI or OPI nail polish...and I don't think I'll buy one again. It chipped today very visibly, and I bought it on the 26th. I think I put it on that day, so it chipped in 4 days....not too impressive for a seven dollar nail polish. The shade is lovely, though. I also used the top coat plus (from Nicole), but it still didn't last.

Silver and Black Marble

So, today I decided to enter O.P.I.'s contest to win Nicole O.P.I. polishes. How awesome would it be to be able to use those instead of my $2 nail polish? So far, my entry hasn't apoeared, but in the event that it does, I'll post a link so I can hopefully get enough votes to win. Wish me luck! This is the art I entered.

Barcode on silver

So, today's art is a barcode design on Sally Hansen's "Celeb City" polish. I tried something different, I used tissue paper to transfer the image, and used acetone, instead of the usual ethyl alcohol, and this seems to have worked much better! I didn't even need to cut the paper in the shape of my nails! Let me know what you all think!
(This was supposed to be posted yesterday, but I made a mistake and it didn't post! Knew i should have checked on it...)

Turquoise Shatter

So, reviews for Turquoise Shatter! Altogether, I am pretty pleased with the look, the shade is lovely, like the water of Hawaii a few miles out...this picture doesn't do the shade justice. I saw it in the salon and wanted to buy it, but they only had the salon one they use, but found it when travelling.
Anyway, I used Sally Hansen's silver, with a clear coat. I discovered that unlike the Black Shatter, the Turquoise didn't shatter well over glittered surfaces. This led me to want to experiment...I got some plastic strips to use as paint swatches, and will post the results later, since some colors definitely work better with certain Shatters.

Seche Restore

I bought this the other week for my Shatter polish. It's a common problem that Shatter polishes clump after use, my black was so clumped, making a brush stroke was difficult. Adding this thinned it, for about the cost of a new bottle of Shatter, but you can use it way more times on different bottles. I'll post a picture of my turquoise Shatter I'm wearing now tomorrow.

New bag!

While on vacation, I found this adorable fanny pack! It's really convenient, it has lots of pockets and is really comfortable.  It's just enough to carry my phone, iPod, DS, and my money and planner as well as a few other random things.  It came in pink, blue, lime green, black and beige, but I chose blue, as you can see.  This is from the Lanai Transit line, I believe designed by Elise Tran, or her company...

August nails!

 These are using OPI's black Shatter, over Sally Hansen grey with a glitter over it.  I think these came out pretty nicely, and I got a proper silver base coat after these to try under the black Shatter later.

 I love how these came out! This uses OPI's silver Shatter, which I got at $8.50 at Trade Secret.  This is over Sally Hansen's...Blue It, I believe.  The shattering came out nicely, it is what I am currently wearing, but I can't wait to try the turquoise Shatter! I will either try it tonight or tomorrow sometime, this one is wearing at the edges a little.

I am finally all caught up! I'll start posting these as I wear them now, so please stay tuned!

July nails

There was no shortage of nail art this month! Most of it was marbled, a new thing I was into!  

This was the first marble I'd done, using nail polish I happened to have in the office.  It didn't come out well, just showing the worth of instructions.

 These came out muuch better.  I use Sally Hansens for marbling.  One of the past posts have all the colors I used for these.  There's a close up of one of the nails below:

 This one I made to match my yukata I was going to wear.  The last two fingers came out blurry, I tried to save time and polish by doing two at once, but it doesn't come out as nicely that way. Close up below:

 I bought these awesome Nike Dunks 6.0, and I was so happy, I made my nails match them:

 These were probably my best results at marbling so far.

 And, close up: (these came out pretty well, I think!)

 So, I must have really wanted to marble stuff, because I ran out of nails, so my contacts case:

 This was another yukata-matching color scheme above.

 These are the China Glaze's Crackle in purple, over a Sally Hansen pink and California colors glitter.  I also put a gem on it for fun.  I need to do more experimenting with Shatter/Crackle, some base coats seem to get a nicer pattern.

June nails

So, I took a break for finals and whatnot, not to mention our dance performance, so colorful nails probably wouldn't have been a good idea anyway.  So, June nails! 

 These used the same transfer method, but first I made a splatter pattern on some paper and photocopied it. The design was pretty cool, but I left a lot of paper on my nails, which made it not so great.

These I used a random pattern I found on the internet.  It came out pretty cool, I guess.

April nails

I guess I only took pictures of one this month, but it's a good one, in my opinion! I printed out an argyle pattern and transferred it to my nails.  This one came out the best, and I'm pretty proud of this one.

Nail polish!

 Some of the beginning nail polishes I had...I don't recall where from.  I know the blue was from Walmart.  Colors from left to right are: "Blue It", "Lacey Lilac", "Green With Envy", "Mellow Yellow",  "Wet Cement", "Gunmetal", and "Black Out".

 Soo, my phone flipped these pictures...So the bottles look upside down.  Like it matters, though.  Same color, right? Left to right: "Hot Magenta", "Deep Purple", "The Real Teal", and "Blue Me Away!".  Lots of puns in this batch. I got these at Walgreens on the 2 for $4 special. I believe some from the other batch were from this too.

 I got the three on the left at Target, I'd never seen the white and the sparkle pink anywhere else, so I picked those up there.  Left to right: "Sun Kissed", "White On", "Rockstar Pink", and "Crushed". The orange on the right I got from CVS.

 These are my newest.  The two on the right I got traveling last week, the silver is "Celeb City", the purple (a purple with glitter in it) is "Purple Pizzazz", and the tealish blue I got tonight at Target, called "Marine Science".
I love Sally Hansen polishes.  All of these are the Xtreme wear from Hard as Nails.  They all run about 2-3 dollars, and they last about 5 days or so, so it usually outlives the time it takes for me to get tired of my current design.

And finally, the Shatter/Crackle!  At first, I wasn't a fan.   But, I've been won over! The black, silver, and turquoise are all from OPI's line.  The purple is from China Glaze's line.  I got the black when they were hard to find in stores, and I wanted to get it to take to my friend's house the next day so bad, I paid $15 dollars for it!  The purple I got for $9.50 at a local salon, the silver at $8.50 at Trade Secret (along with a thinner to use on my clumping black Shatter!) and the turquoise the next day while I was traveling also at $8.50.  I couldn't find the turquoise in town, and I bought it right away when I saw it.  It was the first place I happened to go after I left the airport! I wanted to go home and try it right away, and stilllll haven't! It's next on the list, for sure!

March nails!

So, March was the beginning of my nails work.  It all started with the new Shatter polish by O.P.I.! I had a bottle of Sally Hansen, but it was too dark to show up against the Shatter polish.  I tried it with Konad polish, which isn't meant to use for actual nail polish...it's a stamp type of polish.  As you can tell by my nail polish, I wan't so good at painting my nails at the time...

 These were made using California Colors polish. It was on sale at 69 cents, but chipped off really easily.  I made these using phone book pages!

 Similarly to the phonebook one! This one is from a Japanese magazine, "Sweet".  I photocopied it, then transferred onto my nails.  The polish is another random brand, and chipped off really quickly.

 Another piece of Shatter.  I used a light green as the base.  It was slightly pearly, so it had an interesting look.

 Just one nail using the Konad stampers and the gems shown below, all picked up at the local drugstore.