Easter

The One With the Good Old Fashioned Skittle Manicure

9:00:00 AM

Nothing to Disclose


Good morning Polished World! Welcome to yet another Monday.  Not only is it the beginning of a new week, it's also the start of Holy Week which means Easter is right around the corner.  And I have been seriously slacking when it comes to Easter nail art.  I can't say it's all 100% my fault.  I had so many cute ideas, and then on the day before St. Patrick's Day, I had a major break and spent all last week with plain swatches on my nails.

Then it hit me, I could still do an Easter design utilizing a swatch.  Remember those pastel skittle manicures using the black and white glitter that looked like those robin egg candies?  You know, something that was popular when I started blogging an eternity ago?  Well that idea popped in my head randomly and I went searching for my black and white glitter.  Luckily for me, they hadn't dried up yet.

Let's take a look!


Colors Used:
  • ORLY - Cool in California (peachy pink)
  • ORLY - Big City Dreams (mint not pictured)
  • ORLY - As Seen on TV (Purple)
  • ORLY - Forget Me Not (blue)
  • Color Club - Disco's Not Dead
  • FingerPaints - Th-Ink Outside the Box
Look at me remembering the name of the polishes I used!!!  I actually wrote them when I painted the design.  Let's see how long this lasts. I'm betting the next post I'll forget the colors.  

Regardless, can we take a minute and look at how awesome this manicure is??  All those pastels just went flawlessly together.  I'm kind of disappointed that I couldn't find a pastel yellow by ORLY in my collection.  My polish drawers need some serious reorganization so I'm sure I'll find one when I get around to that.


This manicure gave me all the retro vibes.  You know, retro like 2013.  I seriously cannot believe I've been blogging for that long.  FingerPaints Th-Ink Outside the Box is an amazing black and white glitter polish, which now that I remember I have it, I will be using more often.  The wonderful thing about this glitter is that it removes super easily.

What do you think? Fan of this manicure?  Think it's Easter-y enough?

Until next time, <3.

Dot Mani

Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Skittle Manicure

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Hey polished world!  How are you all this Saturday?  I'm sorry I didn't post much this week!  If you follow me on Twitter, you know that on Wednesday there was an awful storm which knocked my power out.  I spent Thursday helping out around the house cleaning up and resting.  I swear, the whole thing was quite anxiety producing.  Hail the size of my palm, wind that was just crazy....ugh the storm was awful.  Hopefully that's the worst of the season.

Today I am sharing with you a bright, fun, skittle manicure I did using 5 Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Polishes.  I was unsure of these polishes when I received them due to some mixed reviews online, but I have quickly fallen in love.

Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • Sally Hansen - B-Girl, Pink Cadillaquer, Morning Sunshine, Dive Bar, and Pink-A-Colada

I honestly cannot pick my favorite out of the five of these.  If I had to though, it would be a tie between Dive Bar and B-Girl, and that's only because I gravitate towards those colors.  All five of these polishes had perfect application.  Pink-A-Colada and Morning Sunshine needed 3 coats for full coverage, while all the others only required two.  This mainly was due to the fact that they both are light colors.  They are worth the three coats though because they're so vibrant!


This time I was a good girl and used the Miracle Gel top coat instead of my INM Out the Door.  This time the polish didn't shrink and wear time was awesome.  I took them off after four days because I was bored of them, but I could have gotten a few more days out of them.  Nothing more than a little tip wear.  I'm going to try these polishes out as pedicure polishes to see how long they truly do last.

What do you think?  Fan of the skittle manicure?  Do you like the Miracle Gels?

Until next time, <3