Converse Nails

For today’s guest nails I have this cute Converse inspired design.  We used a different color for each nail and 2-3 coats of nail polish each.  From left to right the colors used are:

Sinful Colors Purple Diamond

Pure Ice Splash

Sinful Colors Rise and Shine

Sinful Colors Ciao Bella!

Pure Ice Strapless

Essence Nail Art Twins Bella

Rimmel Green with Envy

Sinful Colors Savage

Sinful Colors Mint Apple

and Avon Matte Violetta.  

We added a white french tip to look like the toe part of the shoe.  When that was dry we added curved black lines using N.Y.C. Black Lace Crème and a dotting tool.  I tried using a striping brush, but for some reason my brushes were frayed.  The dotting tool worked great.  We also used it to make the holes the laces go through and the white laces.   

I love the way these nails came out.  The colors looked great together.  This was an easy and fun look to create. 

Satya Jewelry Mani

When I reviewed my Satya Jewelry Turquoise Arm Yourself Bracelet (you can see my review here) I knew I wanted to match my manicure with the bracelet.  I pulled out all of my turquoise looking polishes to find the one that matched the turquoise of the bracelet best.  The winner was Sinful Colors’ Mint Apple.  Not only was Mint Apple a similar color, but it also had a slight simmer to it that matched that of the Satya bracelet. 

I also wanted to stamp a gold snake onto my nails to match the serpent on the bracelet.  To do this, I used Maybelline Bold Gold and Mash-50 image plate.  I finished off with a top coat to prolong my manicure.  

 

 

This manicure came out just the way I envisioned it.  I am so happy with it and thankful to Satya Jewelry for allowing me to review one of their bracelets (which I love).  This was a nice look to wear and both my manicure and my bracelet stood out. 

Satya Jewelry Turquoise Arm Yourself Bracelet

(Satya Arm Yourself Bracelet was provided for review)

Today I have a bracelet from Satya Jewelry to review.  It is the Turquoise Arm Yourself Bracelet.  This bracelet features a gold snake wrapped around a turquoise silk band.  The serpent represents energy, eternity, and immortality.  The bracelet is gold plated over brass with silk.  

This is such a pretty bracelet.  It is very dainty.  I love the colors and enjoy wearing it.  It is very Cleopatra-esque.  I wore it with a nice business suit and it really dressed it up.  I also wore this bracelet with jeans and that looked great as well.  This bracelet is very versatile. 

It is suggested that the best way to take care of this bracelet is to store it in an air tight bag when not wearing it.  In addition to the beauty of this bracelet, I really love that 10% of the proceeds go to Home of Hope in Africa—which helps create opportunities for continual physical, educational, and holistic well being for exploited South African girls.  The Arm Yourself Bracelet comes in six different colors that you can find here.  Each one sells for $48.

(Satya Arm Yourself Bracelet was provided for review)

Checkered Hallucinations

For today’s Pink Wednesday I have guest nails.  We have a cute pink and black manicure with a twist.  We used Wet N Wild’s Black Crème polish on all of the fingers expect the ring fingers.  We followed that with Wet N Wild’s Hallucinate.  

For the ring fingers, we used Sinful Colors’ Fusion Neon then stamped on a checkered design using Pure Ice Silver Mercedes and an Essence Stampy Designs plate.   

I like the way these nails came out.  Hallucinate added nice sparkles to the black.  I think the neon pink accent nail really stands out. 

Inspire Me Monday: Angry Birds- Green Pig

Today’s inspiration is another one from the Angry Birds game—the green pig.   

Image from Google

I started off with L.A. Colors base coat-top coat.  I then applied two coats of Sinful Colors’ Happy Ending.   

I stamped the pig using image plate KD4 and Wet N Wild’s Black Crème polish.  

I finished off with N.Y.C.’s Grand Central Station.  

I like this shade of green for the pig.  I thought about filling in his hat with yellow, but decided I might get the yellow all over.  I think this is a cute stamp.  I really like the details on this pig. 

For more Inspire Me Monday manicures check out Kelly from DevilishPolish and Veronica from The Gorgeois.  

St. Patrick’s Day Mani Ft. Green Ocean and Four Leaf Clovers

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  I picked up Sinful Colors’ Green Ocean knowing this is what I would wear on my nails for St. Patrick’s Day.  This is a lovely green flakey polish with flashes of blue in it.  I applied three coats.  

When this was dry I used Wet N Wild’s French White Crème and MASH Plate m22 to stamp on cute little four leaf clovers.   

I topped it all off with N.Y.C.’s Grand Central Station.  

I love that Green Ocean has different shades of green and flashes of blue in it.  This polish definitely caught my eye.  The four leaf clovers with the little hearts are perfect for St. Patrick’s Day!  

Dream On Kitty

I decided to try Sinful Colors Dream On.  This polish looks neon purple in the bottle.  It also goes on that way.  The polish dries quickly.  You can actually see this polish drying because as it dries, the polish turns darker and matte.  This was a nice surprise.  I used two coats of Dream On over L.A. Colors base coat-top coat.   

Bottle Shot from my little photographer

More of the neon look

I then decided to stamp on Hello Kitty from a plate I got free from the Born Pretty Store.  I used Wet N Wild’s French White Crème for the stamping.   

I did not add a top coat because I really love the finish Dream On has on its own.  I was not planning on buying this polish, but I am very happy that I did.  I am also very pleased with the Born Pretty Store stamping plate.