Wet 'n' Wild: On a Trip.

Hey guys happy Friday!! I hope you all are well!

Sorry about the break in post. School crept up on me  and it was a mad dash to get myself organized and ready for this past Tuesday!

However school has started and it seems like the course work will be heavy but I will have lots of free time to do it and blog so hopefully I will get myself on a schedule of Monday-Wednseday-Friday thing. There are so many things I want to blog about!!

Today's post is a really pretty nail polish that is from Wet 'n' Wild's Meglast Line, I got it in that gift set my mom got me for Christmas.

Its called On a Trip and its a pretty purple creme polish. When I first started getting into nail polishes purple was the one color I loved the most and most of my collection was purple. However I branched out to other colors but purple never gets old.

This polish is vibrant and definitely a purple I didn't have in my collection. It only takes two coats to be opaque. The formula is about average, not to thin where it gets everywhere and not thick. But if this is like any of the other Wet 'n' Wild polish I have, the longer this sits it will get thicker. But in the end though it will make a good stamping polish.

This polish will be one to wear as the weather gets warmer!

One thing I love about these Megalast Polishes is that with top coat they just get so shiny and pretty.

Wet 'n' Wild is available at most Drugstores accross the U.S.! I always get mine from either Rite Aid or Walgreens!

Free For All Beauty Friday: Nail Art Tips!

Hello!!! 

Happy Friday! Who's ready for the weekend???? 

Did you know that this is also my 200th post??? That's crazy!!!  

So lets get this post started! 

Today's post is going to be nail art tips that I'm sure you've heard before, from other nail bloggers to nail YouTubers. But these are tips that are worth repeating because they are the ones that work! 

Tip # 1

No dotting tools? Easiest fix in the world! Do you own toothpicks? If you don't I suggest the next time your in the supermarket that you pick some up! They are the next best thing to having a real dotting tool. 

All you have to do is snip the tip of the toothpick off which I have mentioned several times in my posts and file down the end with a cheap nail file and you get the perfect surface to make perfect dots! 

Tip # 2 

Don't have the money to buy a fancy brush set? 

Even though on most days you can find a pretty decent brush set for not a lot of money on Amazon or eBay but  some of us still can't really afford to buy one especially with shipping now a days. My suggestion and one I have used is go to your local craft store like Michael's or  even Walmart or any of those big box retail stores and go to the craft section and get the doll detail paint brushes. They are pretty much the same as if you bought a professional set but cheaper. I got a set if five brushes for about $6 bucks! 

Tip #3 

Is your stamper not picking up the image from your image plate? 

I have had this happen on more than one occasions and it is super fustrating and probaby one of the most annoying things as well! Well here's what I do and I learned this tip from another blogger so it's not my own. Like I said above these tips work. 

Using a cheap nail file, even like the cardboard ones or evening the one you used to file down the toothpick just gently rub it across the silicone stamping pad on your stamper. It will roughen up the stamper and the image will stick better. 

Staying in the stamping corner of this blog post, do you ever have a polish that is too thin to use stamping? You may want to do this to a less expensive polish but if you leave the cap slightly open for a little while the polish will thicken and be better for stamping. Older polishes in your stash that have thickened overtime are also good to use for stamping if you done have the money  to buy the special polishes. 

Tip # 4

Removing glitter polish... It can be a nightmare. I'm sure you heard bloggers and YouTubers talk about this removal method but I'm just going to reiterate it. The tinfoil method. 

First you take a a cotton ball and put some polish remover on it , then place it on your finger and then wrap a peice of tinfoil over it and wait about five to ten minutes. Once the time has passed you can pull the tinfoil and cotton off and the glitter should come right off! 

Now once you have done this apply a cuticle oil or cream to rehydrate your cuticle, nail and surrounding skin, sadly polish remover sucks the moisture out if the skin. 

Tip # 5

Doing color block manicures with scotch tape. I have only done a few manicures like this but I've learned the only tape that works is scotch tape. This is an alternative if you don't have striping tape which is super affordable online but if your wary of ordering online this might be for you. 

When deciding to do a tape manicure be sure to get the good scotch tape using masking tape won't work because I found you can't wear the stickiness down like you can on scotch tape (and still get scotch tape to stick). Even using dollar store scotch tape can be sketchy. I like to take the tape I am going to use and press it against my hand a couple of times and then place it over the already dried polish. If you want to do smaller lines like striping tape does use cuticles sicssors and cut small stripes. 

Also make sure to leave a enough overlay on the skin so you can take the tape off easier! 

So I hoped those five tips helped you out in any way shape or form! I know we have all heard these tips before but they are so worth repeating! 

Take care and ill talk to you on Monday! 

<3 Nicole. 

Is it flip flop weather yet?

Today's post is going to be a stamping manicure that I did a while back when the weather was cold and miserable and spring was off in the far distance.

Since spring is here the weather is slowly warming up! I actually wore flats the other day, I need to get used to wearing them again, they hurt the back of my heels :( hopefully by the really warm weather comes they won't hurt. But by then I can turn to my all time favorite summer accessories is flip flops!

That's what today's manicure has in store. While I had on Julie G's Bikini I stamped flips over it with my Wet 'n' Wild black creme. It seriously is the best black drugstore polish to stamp with. if you leave the lid slightly open and let it thicken up it won't dissapoint you!

So heres to hoping that the warm weather gets here soon! According to the app on my phone its supposed to be in the 60's next week!

I apolgize for the short post but things are still kind of crazy around my house, we are supposed to be getting new furniture from my grandfathers condo and we are trying to clean the apartment to make room for it all.

I hope you enjoyed this post and stay tuned for more!

Hello!!! How 'bout some stampin'?

Good evening! It has been a week since my last post! How naughty of me! I've been desperately trying to keep on a every other day schedule and god life keeps getting in the way!

Anyway how was your Valentines? Mine was ok no flowers or candy but I  did my taxes, and  getting a decent refund so life is good! I just wish the money would get here!

In other news I am going to Florida in June! I am so pumped to get out of New York for almost two weeks! I will have pre published post for the time that I'm away and I plan on upping my Internet plan on my phone so I can stay in contact on Twitter and such.

Today I bring you the manicure I wore on Valentines Day. Or we'll a variation of it. On valentines day I actually wore China Glaze Cranberry Splash and Bundle Monster Plate 311. For the  base color in the photos below I used one of Julie G's new polishes that are available at Rite Aid right now!

The name of this beauty is called YOU-niverse ! When I saw it I wanted it immediately due to the amazing duo chrome in the bottle! The duo chrome does show up on the nail but it is super hard to photograph. It's more muffled on the nail then when concentrated in the bottle but still pretty none the less. I don't tend to gravitate towards bronze-y polishes like this one but it suits my skin tone nicely.

Two to three coats of YOUniverse is all you need to get the polish opaque. I got quite a few compliments on this color so you should too!

I figure this was a manicure that if your not a fan of all the fancy pinks and reds and whites on Valentines day this was a way to be that little something different.

For the stamp itself I used my Wet 'n' Wild, Black crème,  I bought back ups of this polish only to see that they are thinner then I thought, but I guess I'll have to let them sit out to get a little thicker.

So on to the photos:

These are taken with three coats of YOUniverse, and top coat in natural light.

All in all I think this is a nice departure from all the other stamping manicures I've tried out. I never thought that it would look this cool! I hope you guys go out and grab a bottle of YOUniverse at Rite Aid and maybe if you want to get into stamping some Bundle Monster Plates!

Have a great night!
<3 Nicole!

Red Cheetah Nails. Rawr!

Hello! Happy Thursday!

Today's post is inspired by the concept of the Jelly Sandwich. I've explained what a Jelly Sandwich many times here on the blog, take a look at this post here if your not sure!

Taking the concept of the jelly sandwich I decided to try encapsulating a stamp instead! Same general idea just using a stamp in place of what would be glitter. It also makes me think of the amazing nail polish jewelry out there in the world!

Starting off I used one coat of Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby, a brilliant red jelly polish that is readily available in drugstores and now even Walmart, that's where I got mine from! Of course you do need to start off with a base coat before your polish so you can protect your nails. I recently purchased Orly Bonder about a month ago and have been using it in every manicure I do and it is wonderful! The coolest thing though is I've even gotten my mom to start using it, and now that she is retired (what a lucky duck) she is testing the waters on different color polishes too!

Bonder is a rubberizing base coat, at least that's what its described as being on the bottle, it dries super quick and definitely makes the polish smooth and stay on longer ( not that I keep my manicures on for longer than 3 days anyway).

OK so back to the manicure. Once the first coat of Ruby Ruby is dry, I took Wet 'n' Wild Black creme, my holy grail black polish for stamping, and stamped the cheetah/leopard print from the Salon Express Kit. Normally at this stage you would be done, add a top coat and bam, but no I went and added another thin layer of Ruby Ruby once the stamp was dry. It does dull the stamped design just a little but that's okay its what we want, the black creme is still very much see-able but it looks like its encased in the nail!

I tried this with a few other color stamps and white actually would of looked really cool, it gave a very subtle effect but not what I wanted. Once your top layer is dry add you top coat and you are done!

Take a look at the pictures if my long winded response confuses you!

Okay so I hope you liked this post! Stay tuned for more soon!

Nicole