Fake Holo Nail Art

Hello, hello!

Recently, one of my favorite cheap cosmetic brands brought out a new line of nail polish as part of their holographic cosmetics. Despite the name, from what I have seen, these products are actually iridescent and not at all holo. Of course this is disappointing, however, these polishes are so amazing that I forgive them for their lack of knowledge. I did jump on them and purchased three of the seven colours from this collection. I do intend to grab a couple more before they go, but they are a little more expensive than their regular polish.

So of course I had to do some sort of nail art with them. This is the first of most likely several nail art designs with these polishes. The art is pretty simple, but it looks so mesmerizing.
I'll list the polishes I used for this basic beauty below.

Fake Holo Nail Art

Nail Polish used:

Big Primer Base Coat by Sally Hansen

Lady In Black by OPI

Unicorn Magic by BYS

Kwik Dry Top Coat by Sally Hansen

Fake Holo Nail Art with Unicorn Magic

After applying Big Primer base coat, I used two coats of Lady In Black. Once dry, I painted two coats of Unicorn Magic on my ring finger. Using the polish brush and a moderately steady hand, I painted the lower half of my pinky and the tip of my index finger. I used two coats for these also, and finished with a Kwik Dry Top Coat. 

Fake Holo Nail Art

I know this was a quick one, but I just had to share this mani. Unicorn Magic in the bottle is a beautiful pastel purple iridescent colour with blue and pink shifting tones. Applying it to a black base really brings out the blue. I love the way it looks!

What are your thoughts?
Have you tried these 'holographic' colours? 

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Neon Stone Marble Nail Art

Hey everyone. 

It's starting to look a lot like spring around here. We've had two sunny days in a row! Which seems to be some sort of magic at the moment. So, to celebrate this, here's my first attempt at a stone marble design using neon colours. 

Neon Stone Marble Nail Art Design

For this design, I used these items:
Hidden Treasure - BYS
Citrus - ulta3
Atomic Oj - ulta3
Fruit Tingle - ulta3
Tahiti - ulta3
Large Stamper
Camo Coat - Celestial

Neon Stone Marble with Hidden Treasure - BYS 

I started with Hidden Treasure for the base coat, three coats to get a decent opacity. After allowing them to dry, I grabbed a plastic sandwich bag. Taking each polish, Citrus, Tahiti, Atomic Oj and Fruit Tingle, I dropped each colour on top of the next to create a bulls eye. I made two of these close to each other. Then I picked up the bag and started rotating to swirl the polish around and create a stone-like pattern. Once I was happy and before the polish dried, I used a stamper to pick up the pattern and transfer it to my ring finger. Then I finished off with a quick dry top coat.
 

Neon Stone Marble Nail Art with Citrus - ulta3

That's all for this one. This one was really fun. I tried this out so many times beforehand to figure out the best way to get the look I wanted. I was going to turn this into a decal and put it on after drying but they take a long time to dry and I'm a little impatient. Haha. Eventually I would like to try doing it that way because using a stamper de-saturated it, which kind of sucked, but I wasn't too mad about it.

Neon Stone Marble Nail Art Close Up

I'm pretty happy with the end result, especially since I wasn't sure it would work.
What are your thoughts?
Have you tried this?
If so, I'd love to see it!
Leave me a comment below and I'll check it out. 

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Mermaid Smoosh Nail Art with Chi Chi

Howdy everyone & welcome back!

I feel like this week has just flown by! 

Yesterday was my birthday, so these nails are inspired by my star sign (Pisces) & my personality. 

I am so in love with these nails, I honestly wish they were permanent. I think these are the best nails I have done so far. Of course, I am a little biased.

So here they are!

Mermaid Smoosh Nail Art

As you can see, these nails are totally full on! I used a variety of polishes & other nail art items, which I have laid out in a list below.

Booty-Licious - Chi Chi, a beautiful pastel creme green.

Good Vibrations - Chi Chi, a purple creme with pink undertones. Also used here.

Boys, Boys, Boys - Chi Chi, a middle tone blue creme. Also used here.

Barbie Boy - Chi Chi, a soft pink creme.

Party Popper - BYS, confetti top coat with purple glitters & white flakes.

Black Stamping Polish - Born Pretty.

Stamping Plate 109 - Born Pretty. 

Varying sized pearl nail studs.

Camo Coat - Celestial, liquid latex. 

I really enjoyed doing these nails. The smoosh nails are so easy and they never turn out the same, try as you might. Plus, these pearls are so cute! Really glad I bought them.

Mermaid Smoosh Nail Art with Booty-Licious - Chi Chi

I used two coats of Barbie Boy for a base. Once the base was dry, I used Camo Coat to protect my cuticle area and avoid messy fingers. Then, I randomly dropped Barbie Boy, Good Vibrations, Boys, Boys, Boys and Booty-Licious on to a stamper, and dabbed it around the nail. I removed the Camo Coat and applied a coat of Party Popper. Once that was dry I reapplied the Camo Coat. Using the 109 stamping plate & stamping polish, I stamped the scale pattern over all but one nail and removed the Camo Coat. Using a layer of top coat as adhesive, I arranged pearls around the cuticle area of my ring finger to create an accent nail, then finished it all off with a top coat. 

Mermaid Smoosh Nails with Booty-Licious - Chi Chi

I could not stop looking at these nails. They looked like something from an actual salon. I am so happy with how they turned out. Needless to say, I will be doing more of these glorious styled nails, so stay tuned! 

I have done other nail designs using this stamping plate, you can check it out here.

Leave a comment and tell me which one you like better.

Mermaid Smoosh Nail Art up close.

Here's a close up of the pearls. This photo does them no real justice. They're so shiny and beautiful. They do have a slight pink-ish/purple-ish tint to them that looks amazing when they catch the light. 

Mermaid Smoosh Nail Art

What are your thoughts? Would you try these? Let me know, I'd love to see them! I hope you all enjoy them as much as I do.

Also, I'd like to get your thoughts on something. I am thinking about doing some product reviews and possibly doing an additional weekly post for them. If you'd like to see/read that, or if there is anything you'd like to see here, leave me a comment and let me know.

Thanks for stopping by!

Essie Garden Varity Spring 2015 with Accent Nail + Review.

G'day people!

Today's design is very simple and a little bit boring, but still looks good! Basically it's a fancy swatch. Haha.

Here we have Garden Variety from Essie's 2015 spring collection. It's a stunning colour and I absolutely love it!  This was gifted to me by a dear friend of mine, along with a bunch of other awesome nail supplies (she knows me so well). This, along with Blossom Dandy (also from the 2015 spring collection), was one of my first Essie colours.

I wasn't sure what to do with it because it's a very unique colour, and on its own it is just gorgeous. So, after painting all my nails in this majestic colour, I opted for something simple. I did a thick horizontal strip pattern on my accent nail. At this point I only had striping tape and I didn't want the lines to be so thin, so instead, I did two coats of OPI Alpine Snow and then I used Essie Garden Variety to do two straight(ish) lines horizontally across the nail. I had to use a decent amount because the white underneath made it a little less opaque, and since I was free handing I didn't think I'd be able to get a second coat quite as neatly.
And there you have it!
A super cute, super easy, accent nail!

 Indoor natural lighting with top coat.

Outdoor natural lighting with top coat.

Indoor natural lighting with top coat & the bottle.

I wanted to do a bit of a review on this one, so if you're interested, keep reading!

As I said before, I love this colour. Surprisingly, I managed to get a photo that's true to colour. I've looked at this polish online before and found that most pictures don't do it justice. I'd call this a deep green creme with undertones of blue. I feel that it's true to its name, it definitely reminds me of a garden!

It has a wide brush which I love! Always makes everything easier. The application is flawless and if I recall correctly, it was mostly opaque in just one coat (except over the white). I still did two coats for this one, though.
I honestly think that this is a year-round colour. You could use it in any season and it'd just be so fitting. 

I'm still not sure what other colours would go with this one, but I'd love to find out. I think a really nice deep purple would look stunning.

Got any ideas? Let me know, I'd love to hear them.

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