China Glaze

The One With the Dot and Rose Manicure

9:00:00 AM


Happy Wednesday polished world!  How are you all doing today?  I realized that I have seven posts to still share with you, but I have not gotten around to editting the photos.  I believe I'm going to have to do that over the next few days.  This slacking is becoming awful.  I keep forgetting to update my poor Instagram.  At least I finally got around to updating my Facebook.

A few months ago, I stumbled across a cute dot manicure with roses created by Sensationails4U on Instagram.  I pinned it and forgot about it until I received the Beauty and the Beast polishes from Morgan Taylor.  The pink, Be Our Guest, was beyond perfect for it so I finally re-created the design.

Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • Morgan Taylor - Be Our Guest
  • China Glaze - Boho Blues
  • Various Acrylics
Isn't it cute?  I absolutely loved this manicure.  The color combination, the polka dots, the roses.  All of it was just so perfect.  I do think that if I ever create this manicure again, I would have three nails with the rose design, and two with the plain pink and polka dots.  Mainly because I love roses.  When I did this manicure, I thought about doing it that way, but I was kind of on the lazy side of things and didn't feel like over-arting.



Boho Blues is one of my favorite China Glaze polishes.  Gorgeous periwinkle cream polish which covers completely in two coats.  It's one of my favorite colors for a summer pedicure with a top coat of INM Northern Lights.  Might have to try a holo topper over it this year....


Morgan Taylor Be Our Guest is a gorgeous pink.  Two coats for full coverage.  Not a color I would typically gravitate towards, but am beyond happy that I own it.  I always say I don't gravitate towards pink, yet my nail polish collection is heavy with pinks.  I don't know how that happens....

What do you think?  Fan of this floral?  Like the color combo??

 Until next time, <3.

Animal Print

The One With ORLY Vintage and a Leopard Print

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing today?  It's Sunday, and it's May 7th, and it's freezing.  Seriously, we went from 80 degree weather right back to 40 degree weather.  It's been raining non stop, so it feels horribly damp outside.  And tomorrow, we are supposed to get snow.  Oh summer, where art thou?

Today I'm bringing you a semi bright manicure to help cheer me up in this awful weather.  I saw a post on Facebook with this manicure, but I honestly cannot remember who originally posted it.  You know how Facebook is now filled with tens of millions of videos shared by everyone with little to no credit.  I need to start saving the videos so I can attempt to give credit.

Okay, let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • ORLY - Vintage
  • ORLY - White Tips
  • ORLY - Liquid Vinyl
  • ILNP - Mega X
I love the bright mint mixed with the black and silver.  You know how much I love ILNP Mega X.  I honestly think I've used it in the last three manicures that I've posted on the blog.  I really need to re-order a bottle the next time that ILNP has a promo coupon.  I know, I should just purchase them at full price and not wait, but I have enough for a bit.



I am so beyond happy that I have finally gotten my hands on ORLY Vintage.  This polish came out a few years ago but since Sally Beauty stopped selling the Limited Edition collections, I was unable to find it anywhere.  I debated a few times about ordering it from HBBeauty Bar, but I always talked myself out of it.  A few months back, I was at Sally Beauty stocking up on some of my favorites during a BOGO sale, and the girls told me that there were some new ORLY's added to the main line.  I was beyond thrilled to see Vintage among some others that I was dying to get.  It's such a gorgeous polish which covers completely in two coats.  I just LOVE the color.

What do you think?  Like this leopard print?  Own ORLY Vintage and love it as much as I do?

Until next time, <3.

China Glaze

The One With the Neon Pink Flowers

9:00:00 AM


Happy Thursday everyone!!!  I have a headache right now as I type this post so I'm going to make it short and sweet.  It already kind of is because I only took one photo for the post.  You'll probably be seeing me converting more of my posts to just bottle shots.  Especially if I don't have my thumb all fancy, there really is no point to do all the others, right?  I don't know, I'm trying to justify my lazy blogger skills.

Today's manicure is a bright neon pink manicure with a fun dot floral accent.  I liked the concept of this design, but on the nail I feel like something was lost.  Maybe I should have done a plain silver accent instead of a holo, but oh well.  It still is pretty.

Let's take a look!


Colors Used:
  • China Glaze - Lip Smackin Good
  • ILNP - Mega X
  • ORLY - Liquid Vinyl
I really love Lip Smackin Good.  Such a gorgeous pink neon which covers completely in two coats.  It has such a gorgeous shimmer to it as well.  I hope that China Glaze makes this part of their core collection, as well as a lot of others from last year's summer collection.

What do you think?  Fan of this manicure?  Something you'd try?

Okay, I"m going to go rest my headache.  Until next time, <3.



Monthly Mani Favs

The One With April's #MonthlyManiFavs

9:00:00 AM

Good morning polished world, and Happy May.  I apologize for not getting this post up yesterday, but it's been a crazy busy weekend.  Actually, I feel like this whole month has been crazy busy.  I do hope that May slows down a tad for me.  I'm also going to turn my focus back to this blog and all my social networks.  I haven't updated Facebook in about a month, Instagram is severely lacking, and I rarely am ever on Twitter.  Sigh.

When creating this post, I also realized how much I've neglected this blog.  I'm ashamed with how little I've posted.  I literally have 7 drafts, but never got around to actually writing the posts or editing the photos.  This slacking must stop!

Well, anyways, I looked at all 9 posts from April and selected my favorite four.  Let's take a look!


  1. The One with Round 35 of Bestie Twin Nails with Fashion Footing - Yup, as usual my Bestie Twin Nails with Amanda have made the list.  This has to be one of my favorites mainly because of the color combination and that perfect splatter.  I need to start using my taupe polishes more often.  For years, I never owned any, now I do and I neglect them.  Always happens that way.
  2. The One With Yet Another Floral Manicure - I absolutely loved this floral design.  If you follow my Instagram, then you know one of my resident's loved the design as well and wanted to have the exact same design on her nails.  I'm sad, I missed painting their nails two weeks ago so I need to make time and do them again this week.  The base of this manicure is one of the lovely polishes from the Morgan Taylor Beauty and the Beast collection.  Head on over to the post to see why I love it so much.
  3. Sally Hansen - #ColorOfTheMoment - Sally Hansen has this new campaign called the Color of the Moment where they are sharing exactly that....the color of the moment!  This month's colors were pink, which honestly I'm never too fond of, but I really did enjoy these shades.  I created a fun negative space floral design with a matching gradient.  I love how it all blended together.
  4. The One With the Lime Green Zebra Print Manicure - I was feeling summery in April and decided to paint my nails with the brightest, neonest green that I own.  That's right, neonest.  I made up a word.  Love the combination and that holo accent of ILNP Mega X.  You know me and my silver holos.....love.
What do you think??  Any of these your favorite?  I kind of wish I picked one of my Easter designs because they were cute.....oh well.

Okay, I promise May is going to be better.  Promise!!!

Until next time, <3.