Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Twinsie Tuesday - TT Revisted Post

Good Morning! This week's challenge was basically up to us - we had to revisit a previous Twinsie Tuesday challenge. I went all the way back and chose from the first three choices, a polish from our favorite brand. I figured I would take it a step farther and show a favorite polish from that brand. For this theme I chose Essie Where's My Chauffeur. My best friend bought this for me for Christmas and I have already worn in a total of four times. I'm already worried about running out and contemplating a back up bottle. The swatch below shows two coats of Essie Where's My Chauffeur topped with Seche Vite. I apologize ahead of time for the extra dry fingers, nothing is cutting it lately (even pure lanolin...)

 
Don't forget to check out all my Twinsies to see what they decided to recreate today  (I can guarantee that they were more creative than me lol)
 
Amanda at Amandalandish
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Katherine at Haul of Fame
Kelly at Tuxarina
Marisa at Polish Obsession
Meredith at Polish and Charms
Rachel at Top Coat It
Traci at DrinkCitra

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Twinsie Tuesday - Oldest Untried

Good Morning! The theme for today's post was a difficult one for me - our oldest untried. I have SO many untrieds that I can't even begin to figure out which is the oldest. When I first found out that 8ty8 Beauty was located on Long Island I went on a major haul. Within a few weeks of finding them I had purchased around 75-100 bottles of polish, mostly China Glaze. Today I decided to go with China Glaze Fly, which I don't ever recall wearing. I was a bit disappointed in Fly, to be honest. In the bottle there is some purple shimmer but once on the nail it disappears. It does have an amazing glow to it though....

Two coats of Fly...


What's your oldest untried?
Don't forget to check out my Twinsie Tuesday ladies and their oldest untrieds:

Amanda at Amandalandish
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Katherine at Haul of Fame
Kelly at Tuxarina
Marisa at Polish Obsession
Meredith at Polish and Charms
Rachel at Top Coat It
Traci at DrinkCitra

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Twinsie Tuesday - Fishtail Manicure

Good Morning! Before we even get to today's post, I would like to welcome our three new Twinsies - Kelly from Tuxarina, Lakeisha from Refined and Polished and Traci from DrinkCitra! Welcome, ladies! We're super excited to have you on board with us. I want to make sure everyone shows them some love and checks out their blogs, which are linked below.

For today's post we had to do a fishtail mani. A quick Google Image search brought me two options - the option that I chose and a a fishtail mani that resembled a braid. Since my nail art is a bit meh, I chose the easier of the two options. For my base I used Zoya Rocky. The green is China Glaze Four Leaf Clover and the darker blue is China Glaze First Mate. I wanted to keep this ocean themed, so I went with all blue and green colors but I think I would have liked a bit more contrast. Please excuse my nubbins and extra dry cuticles....




Check out all of the other fishtail manicures through the links below. Also, remember to give our new girls a nice big welcome!
Amanda at Amandalandish
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Jamie at Polish, Please!
Katherine at Haul of Fame
Kelly at Tuxarina
Marisa at Polish Obsession
Meredith at Polish and Charms
Rachel at Top Coat It
Traci at DrinkCitra

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Twinsie Tuesday - Polish Picked By Someone Else (Essie Avenue Maintain)

Morning! This week we had to let someone else pick our polishes, so I let my BF pick out the one I would be sporting for today's post. In the end, even though it wasn't my choice that day I fell in LOVE. Essie Avenue Maintain is an amazing bright blue creme with an amazing formula. I wore this for about 4-5 days once I had it on my tips. Below is two coats of Avenue Maintain...


Love love love! This is going to make an awesome pedicure color in the summer.

I'm interested to see what everyone else had to wear. Check them out here:

Amanda at Amandalandish
Ashley at Art Evolve
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Jamie at Polish, Please!

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Twinsie Tuesday - Fictional Animal Print Mani

Good Morning! The theme for this week really made me think long and hard. What kind of fictional animal could I possibly come up with? After having all of these crazy thoughts, I decided on a rainbow tiger. Sure, tigers aren't rainbow (or fictional)....but why not add a bit of color to their stripe pattern. What I pictured in my mind was much, much better than how my mani turned out. Errrr, these are my rainbow tiger stripes....



I don't love these in the least. If I showed this to someone on the streets and asked them what pattern it was I could bet $100 that nobody would say tiger LOL.  I'm sure my Twinsies did a way better job than I did....

Amanda at Amandalandish
Ashley at Art Evolve
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Jamie at Polish, Please!

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Twinsie Tuesday - Sweet Sixteen.... (Polish Picks from Back in the Day)

Good morning! Today's Twinsie Tuesday challenge is an interesting one - a polish that we would have worn at 16. From about 14-18 years old I had acrylics. I had longish, thick, slightly curved acrylics. I had them painted in all types of crazy airbrush designs and sometimes with freehand nail art. They were pretty popular back in my high school, so like most of the other girls I forked over $40 every other week for some stylish nails. Did anyone else have these? Does anyone remember these?

Circa 2000ish...

Sorry for the cruddy quality - it's one of those super cheesy cruise shots with part of my cousin's head and shoulder, but I think you get the idea here....

Fast forward a few years and I started to polish my own nails to save money. I would only wear "safe" colors. Blue, green and red were NOT options. Blue, green and red didn't come into my stash until about 3-4 years ago. Red was the very last color to make it into my "safe" and "comfortable" zone. I wore a ton of pinks, light purples and corals. For today's pic I decided to go with OPI I'm India Mood For Love, which would have been more than safe back in the day...


 
I'm really interested to see what everyone else picked for their go to polish shade/style in our teen years. Not only have my nails changes from acrylics to nubbins, but now I will also wear any color on my nails without giving it a second thought. As for everyone's picks from back in the day, I have a feeling we're going to see a lot of girly shades  :)
 
Check everyone else out here:
 
Amanda at Amandalandish
Ashley at Art Evolve
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Jamie at Polish, Please!

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Twinsie Tuesday - Fruit Mani

Good Morning everyone! I have to apologize, but I'm missing a post for today's Twinsie Tuesday topic. I've been having a lot of trouble with the my fingers and hands, to the point where I haven't been able to paint my nails at all in about 2 weeks. Without painting my nails regularly, I wouldn't even attempt to do nail art. I'm sorry!

In the meantime, don't forget to check out the awsome ladies who are bringing you your servings of fruit today:

Amanda at Amandalandish
Ashley at Art Evolve
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Jamie at Polish, Please!

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Twinsie Tuesday - Favorite Color (China Glaze Skyscraper)

Good Morning! TGIT....because Tuesday is better than Monday, lol. Our theme for today was our favorite color. I have two favorites, magenta and blue. Since I've done magenta before for a twinsie post (the color of our rooms) I decided to go with blue. I chose China Glaze Skyscraper. I used two coats for the photos below and topped it with Seche Vite. As much as I love glitter polish, they've been getting pushed towards the back of my Helmers more and more. No matter what I do, I have chips within 24-48 hours. Womp womp...



Be sure to check out my Twinsies. I'm excited to see which of us have the same favorite colors...

Check out my Twinsie sisters here:
Amanda at Amandalandish
Ashley at Art Evolve
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Jamie at Polish, Please!

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Twinsie Tuesday - Polish Roulette (China Glaze Bare it All and Mango Madness)

Good Morning! It's Tuesday, so we know what that means  :)  The theme for today was polish roulette, where we picked two random polishes from our stash and make them work together. I headed over to my Helmer and decided to dive into my China Glaze drawer since I haven't shown them much love lately. I picked out Bare it All. When I went back in for a second dip, I may have looked just ever so quickly before reaching down and grabbed Mango Madness. I don't consider it cheating, my eyes were closed when I reached down lol. I attempted to do a gradient, which turned out to be a little more uneven than expected. I used three coats of Bare it All and a coat of Mango Madness. Sorry for the cruddy photo. I dropped my camera when the zoom was open last week and now it's broken  :*(


Check out my Twinsie sisters here:
Amanda at Amandalandish
Ashley at Art Evolve
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Jamie at Polish, Please!

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Twinsie Tuesday - Nails Painted by Someone Else (OPI Every Month is Oktoberfest)

Good Morning! Errr, before we get started I have to come clean about not being prepared for the Twinsie Tuesday theme for this week. The theme was to have someone else paint our nails. I've been running super behind with blogging, and I've been doing my TT manis last minute lately. It's 11:30pm on Monday evening and I just realized that I don't have anyone available to paint my nails.....
Sorry for the fail on my part! I didn't want to not write anything, so in lieu of what I was supposed to post today I'm just going to leave you with a recent NOTD which was 2 coats of OPI Every Month is Oktoberfest.



Be sure to check out the other Twinsie Tuesday ladies, who I'm sure did much better than me this week.
Sorry ladies! :(

Amanda at Amandalandish
Ashley at Art Evolve
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Jamie at Polish, Please!