Bestie Twin Nails

The One With Round 31 of Bestie Twin Nails With FashionFooting

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Good morning polished world!!  Happy New Years Eve!  Can you believe that today is the 31st and tomorrow is the beginning of 2017?  It's still weird to me to think that this year is over.  Part of me wonders where the time went, and the other part of me is thinking it's time for the New Year.

Today I'm posting alongside Fashion Footing for Round 31 of Bestie Twin Nails.  Another thing I cannot believe, that we've been doing this feature for close to 3 years.  I swear we just started this last year.

Obviously since it is New Years Eve, we decided to do a NYE manicure.  We went with a simple dotticure using the classic New Years colors; black, gold, and silver.

Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • Serendipity Polish - Building My Empire
  • Serendipity Polish - Midnight Kisses
  • Serendipity Polish - Glitzy Gold Champagne
  • Zoya - Tomoko
Love how this turned out.  I was a bit unsure that I wanted to accent this manicure with Zoya Tomoko, but I'm glad I did.  It added a little more glitz to the manicure.  And it matched Glitzy Gold Champagne by Serendipity Polish super well!



Building My Empire is one of my new favorite black polishes.  One coat, you read that right, one coat for this beauty.  Like my other Serendipity's, this polish dries super fast.  Midnight Kisses and Glitzy Gold Champagne worked well for the dots.  I was a bit iffy that I would get Glitzy Gold Champagne to show up on the black because it's a bit more sheer than Midnight Kisses, but as you can tell there was no problem at all.  Absolutely love them.

What do you think?  Fan of this look?  Ready for 2017??

Don't forget to check out Amanda's manicure.

Have a Happy and Safe New Year!!!

Until next time, <3.

Year in Review - Favorite Manicures of 2016

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Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing today?  Can you believe that in a few days 2017 will be here?  Where did the year go?  Since it is the end of the year, it's only fitting that I have a Year in Review post.


This year I decided to go through my lovely little blog and pick out my favorite manicure from each month and share them again here with you.  While picking out my manicures for today's posts, I stumbled across so many that I didn't even remember I created.

Head on into the post to see what my favorites were!!!

Christmas

The One With the Poinsettia Nail Art

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Merry Christmas polished world!  Cannot believe that it is actually Christmas Day!  I'm kind of upset with myself that I didn't get more Christmas designs up on the blog.  I think it's because I had a late start this year. Oh well, there's always next year!

Today I am bringing you an all new Christmas design that I have never done before!  For years I have seen other bloggers paint poinsettia's on their nails.  After seeing janet_m1's manicure on Instagram, I finally had the confidence to try the look on my own nails!

Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • ORLY - Sunset Blvd
  • ORLY - Invite Only
  • Serendipity Polish - Glitzy Gold Champagne
  • Salon Perfect - Glam Glitter

I think this is my all time favorite Christmas manicure!  All the polishes work wonderfully together.  Serendipity Polish Glitzy Gold Champagne is a gorgeous light gold metallic polish with gold sparkles in it.  Two coats and perfect coverage.  Was not shocked because it is a Serendipity Polish.  Dried super fast so I was able to add the art and the glitter gradient.

I did the glitter gradient using Salon Perfect Glam Glitter.  This is the perfect Christmas glitter wiht gold and green microglitter and large red hexed glitter.  I thought I was going to have a trouble doing the gradient because of the density of the red glitter, but it actually worked really well.


Now to talk about the gorgeous ORLY polishes.  I purchased the whole ORLY Sunset Strip Holiday 2016 collection because I've been really missing my ORLY limited edition collections.  I won't have that problem next year though since I signed up for the ORLY Color Pass.

Anyways, Sunset Blvd is a gorgeous red shimmer polish which had complete coverage in two coats.  I used three because I wanted the red shimmer to really stand out.  Invite Only is a gorgeous green crelly which is perfect for Christmas.  I applied the second coat before the first was completely dried, so there was a little bit of bubbling, so I added a top coat of INM Northern Lights, which honestly was a great decision.  Look how gorgeous the holo sparkle is on top of that green!

What do you think?  Like the poinsettia?  Like the combination?

Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate!!!!

Until next time, <3.

Christmas

The One With the Christmas Dots

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Morning polished world! How are you all doing today??  Christmas is Sunday - are you ready?  I posted my nail art wheel on Instagram for those of you who need some last minute ideas!  Now this means I need to start figuring out a few ideas for New Years Eve.  I can't believe 2016 is almost over.

Today's Christmas manicure is just a simple dotticure.  In the Fall, I purchased the Call Me Boss Lady collection by Serendipity Polish.  Even though it was a fall collection, two of the colors were perfect for the Christmas season.  Then when I purchased the RSVP For NYE Collection, I knew I had to combine the polishes for this dotticure.

Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • Serendipity Polish - Midnight Kisses
  • Serendipity Polish - Cash Flow Queen
  • Serendipity Polish - Less Whine, More Wine
Love the combo.  Just like my other dotticure manicures, I start off with a base coat of clear polish, and then take the darkest color and add the dots.  For this manicure, I started with Cash Flow Queen.  Once those dots were dry, I added dots of Less Whine, More Wine.  Then finally added Midnight Kisses.



I am in love with the new Serendipity Polish collection.  The metallics all are awesome for nail art.  I was a little iffy that they would because other metallic polishes I own just refuse to dot or gradient, but as you can see, this clearly made opaque, perfect dots.

What do you think?  Fan of this look?  Love Serendipity Polish as much as I do?

Until next time, <3.