Good morning polished world!!!  How are you all doing today?  It's Monday which means it's the beginning of another fun filled week.  It's supposed to be warm here today, then plummet into true winter weather by Friday.  I believe we even have a snowflake in the forecast on Saturday.  Hopefully all the leaves will fall off the trees before the snow comes, otherwise it will be a true mess.

Today I'm sharing with you a Fall kind of vampy mish mosh manicure I came up with.  I have owned chevron nail vinyls for quite some time, but never really use them as much as I should.  Probably because whenever I do use them, my base rips right off no matter how long I wait for the polish to dry.  After getting the vinyls to work a month or so ago, I thought I would give them another go.  Who would have thought that I would have two manicures in a row work out using my vinyls.

Let's take a look!

• Jessica Cosmetics - Mysterious Echoes
• FingerPaints - Golden Glaze

I love Mysterious Echoes.  Two coats for this beautiful beauty.  I really love how it looks against the wonderful FingerPaints Golden Glaze.  Notice how perfect my chevrons are.  I think that has to do with the fact that Golden Glaze is one of the FingerPaints Fast Dry polishes which dry so super fast.  Also, it's one coat, so that helps too when you don't have two to three coats waiting to dry.

What do you think?  Like this look?  Something you would try?

Until next time, <3.

Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing today?  It's Tuesday, and that means, at least for this week, it is time for Twinsie Tuesday!  This week we are doing a special holiday themed post! This is open to interpretation for each Twinsie, so I can't wait to see what everyone does!

Since Christmas is Friday, I decided to do a Christmas themed manicure.  I saw a very cute candy stripe manicure by Sensationails4U on Instagram.  I fell in love with the fun mish mosh manicure and really wanted to try it some time this year.  I sat down to do it and had two cream polishes, and then I looked and saw my new Nine Zero Lacquer Christmas polishes and knew they had to be used.  I'm so happy I saw them, because this manicure is amazing thanks to them!

Let's take a look!

• Nine Zero Lacquer - Cat in the Christmas Tree
• Nine Zero Lacquer - Santa Suit
• Orly - White Tips

I used my Twinkled T nail vinyls to get the stripes.  I'm so happy I purchased the assorted striped pack, because for awhile there I sat and debated on if I would actually use them.  Part of me prefers nail art tape because I can get more control with it, but part of me likes the vinyl because you can get the different sizes.  Maybe I need more practice with my vinyls to like them more than tape??  Who knows.  Regardless, I love how clean and even this manicure turned out using the vinyls.

What do you think?  Do you have any of these polishes?  Aren't they GORGEOUS!?

Don't forget to check out the other Twinsie's posts!

Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing today?  It's Wednesday, smack dab middle of the week Wednesday.  I was going to hold off and post this tomorrow, but I have a surplus of manicures to post, plus I'm planning on having a Nail Artist of the Month post, so I figured let's get some out of the way.  I'll regret this come the weekend and I don't have any photos edited to write up another post.  Seriously I have 5 drafts, and I think one might have the photos all ready to go in it.  Gosh, I'm a slacker.

I better stop slacking though because I want to start sharing holiday manicures!  I have only painted one that I can consider holiday....maybe, so really I'm not too far behind.  Maybe this weekend I'll start painting some Christmas designs.  Oh and then there is Bestie Twin Nails coming up!  I think December is going to be quite busy over here on the blog.

I'm getting off topic.  Today I'm sharing with you a manicure which is a recreation of one I saw by Nicole over at Young Wild and Polished.  Some of her kitchen sink manicures are to die for and super eye catching.   This pink polka dot/chevron combo was just that and I had to re-create it.  Of course, using one of my brightest neons.

Let's take a look!

• Orly - Oh Cabana Boy
• Orly - White
• Orly - Liquid Vinyl

Oh Cabana Boy! is my favorite neon pink polish.  Back when I first started blogging, my first neon pink polish was China Glaze Hang Ten Toes.  It was my favorite polish because it wasn't just a neon pink, but it had this weird blue shimmer undertone.  I used that polish right down to the bottom, got super happy when I found some bottles at a supply store.  Sadly, I found that the polish was unworkable as China Glaze changed the formula and you could barely get two coats because it was so streaky and chalky.

So I my sad little self returned my defected bottles of China Glaze and went on to Sally Hansen where I stumbled upon Oh Cabana Boy, an identical dupe in my opinion.  It is the same bright pink with that blue weird shimmeryness to it.  Formula is pure perfection.  Two coats, solid coverage.  It dries matte like most neons, but when you add a top coat it becomes so shiny and it really makes the neon pop.  As I said, by far my favorite neon pink polish.  I actually love all my Orly neons.  I should do an Orly neon week soon.

What do you think?  Fan of this manicure?  Something you would try?  Do you love Orly neons as well?

This turned into a love post for Orly, which wasn't my direction when I started writing this post.  I do want to say before I sign off, the Twinkled T Chevron Nail Vinyls deserve a lot of love here.  They're beyond awesome!  I love how Nicole did the chevrons up and down.  I'm not that creative to think of putting the vinyl on my nail in a different direction.  I just love everything about this manicure.  All products, the look, everything.

Okay, I'm going to stop talking now.  This post is becoming the longest in the history of this blog!  Have a good day!

Until next time, <3.

Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing today?  It's Friday which means the weekend is almost here!  It's been a long week so I cannot wait to sleep in tomorrow.  I was too exhausted to edit up a perfect Fall manicure to show you all today, so I decided to go into The Little Canvas vault for today's post!

I purchased some of the polishes from the Orly In The Mix Collection in September and of course used them right away.  Of course time got away from me and other manicures took precedent so it got lost in the vault.  It's rather sad because it is such a cute manicure

Let's take a look!

• Orly - Indie
• Orly - Electropop
• Orly - MirrorBall
• Orly - French Tip White
• Twinkled T Chevron Vinyl

I'm actually happy that this manicure fell into the vault and I'm revisiting it now because I'm remembering that I own these polishes.  I need to break them out and use them again.  Maybe for something floral?

What do you think?  Did you purchase any polishes from this collection?  I still need to use the matte glitter I bought along with these!

Sorry for the short post, but exhaustion is getting the best of me!

Until next time, <3.

• Orly - Liquid Vinyl
• China Glaze - Lady and the Vamp

I used my Twinkled T chevron vinyls for the ring finger.  Now instead of painting over them like I would when using tape, I decided to sponge on the black polish.  It worked, but I don't recommend doing it.  I think it would have been a zillion times easier and less messy to just paint normally over the top of the chevrons.  Plus, when sponging, I found that some of the polish ended up sneaking under the vinyl.  I'm not angry with how it turned out, but I was kind of annoyed.  Maybe I didn't push the vinyl down enough...who knows.

What do you think?  Fan of this orange and black manicure?  I think Bad Girl Nails' was a lot better than mine.

Well I am off...maybe to plan some more Halloween nails!  Until next time, <3.

Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing today?  I'm trying to get over this upper respiratory infection.  You know I'm sick when I have no want to paint my nails and have kept the same manicure on for more than 3 days.  Thankfully it has barely chipped since I did it this weekend!  This manicure that has barely chipped is what I am showing you all today!

Amanda from Fashion Footing and I are back for another round of Bestie Twin Nails!  As you may or may not know, September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.  I was on Facebook the other day and one of my friends shared a video from Baby Mason's page.  This page is ran by Baby Mason's mother where she shares the story of her son Mason who passed away from AML Leukemia.  I watched the video of this mother holding up flash cards describing her son's story.  It truly touched my heart.

As I watched the video, I was texting Amanda.  I think at the same time the two of us decided we should both paint our nails gold to join in and raise awareness.  It pains me to see children fighting such awful diseases such as cancer.  I could never imagine going through what this woman did, and what millions of other mothers do.  I'm sure with the power of the Lord I would be able to get through it.  I'm 100% positive that people like Baby Mason's mom are able to share her and her son's story with such strength because of the Lord being by their side.

So, gold nails.  I don't use gold polish much so I went to Pinterest and started searching for ideas.  Amanda and I decided to re-create this manicure by nails_by_erin on Instagram.

Let's take a look!

• Orly - White
• China Glaze - Lotus Begin, UV Meant to Be, DJ Blue My Mind
• OPI - Love Angel Music Baby
• FingerPaints - Wrapped in Ribbon
• Salon Perfect - Champagne Toast
• Twinkled T - Chevron

Lookie at me using nail vinyls!!  I finally caved a few weeks ago and purchased some Twinkled T nail vinyls.  For my nautical manicure a week ago, I used the striped ones and wasn't overly thrilled by them.  Mainly because my polish was goopy and it didn't work....that's a whole different blog post though.  I was a little nervous to use the chevrons.  I removed them off the paper and they were a little sticky.  Amber from Nails Like Lace told me that before she uses hers she applies it to the back of her hand first.  I did that and didn't have a problem with them peeling off my base or anything.

Over the top of the vinyls, I added a quick coat of Love Angel Music Baby, let that dry for a second, then some of the Wrapped in Ribbon.  I then used some tweezers and removed the vinyls and had perfect chevrons!!

What do you think?  Fan of this manicure?  Something you would try?  Do you like nail vinyls??

So I hope that this post has raised some awareness about Childhood Cancer.  There are many charities out there which could use all of our help.  Baby Mason's page links to this St. Baldrick's Foundation Fight With Baby Mason which is collecting donations.  You could also donate to St. Jude's Hospital.

Until next time, <3.

Hey all!  How are you all doing on this fine Tuesday?  I'm am pleased to say that this Tuesday the Twinsies are back and posting!  In the month of August we took a little break to re-group and enjoy the rest of the summer.  I"m not going to lie, this post creeped up on me and I kind of wasn't ready for the break to be over.  Plus it's a super busy week at work and I most likely would have skipped today if it weren't for the group.

Regardless, I'm happy to be back.  Today we are sharing manicures inspired by flags.  Since I keep my manicures on for a few days, I didn't want to have an American flag themed manicure because I would have had to explain myself over and over again.  So I found inspiration elsewhere.  I looked up the New York State flag and in the middle of the flag there are little boats.  Which got me thinking of something nautical.  So I went searching for nautical themed flags and found dozens upon dozens of blue striped flags, ones with anchors, and ones with gold.

And I ended up with a nautical themed manicure.  Let's take a look!  I was inspired by kadnails for the look.

• Sinful Colors - Rain Storm
• OPI - Love, Angel, Music, Baby
• Sally Hansen - Goldi-Flecks
• Orly - French White

Overall, I like the manicure.  It's not my favorite...honestly I think nautical nails look better on other people.  Plus my nails were rather long this weekend when I did the manicure and I feel that made them weird too.

What do you think?  Fan of the look?

Don't forget to check out the other Twinsie's posts!