Pretty and Polished Swatches The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway and Girl Next Door

Hello there! Today I have two shades from Pretty & Polished to show you.

First up is The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway from the Winter 2014 collection. This is a blue jelly with tons of silver bling. I used three coats plus top coat. I did have to let the bottle rest upside down for a bit, as the larger glitter had begun to settle.

Up next is a glitter topper, Girl Next Door from the Country Girl collection. Mix of gold, minty blue, and royal blue. I have this layered over Cult Nails Lamestain. I thought it was a great combo except for the fact that the clean up of Lamestain was a major pain that didn't go well. Photos are one coat of Girl Next Door. Really good coverage for a glitter topper.

Both polishes are currently in stock and can be purchased from the Pretty & Polished shop. I hope you enjoyed. Happy Monday everyone.

*polish provided for review - all opinions are my own*

Canada Day Nail Art

Back with one more Canada Day manicure for you. What can I say, I love my country!

The white base is Cult Nails Tempest. The glitter is KBShimmer Candy Cane Crush and the red is OPI Coca-Cola Red. The maple leafs are vinyl decals from Eat.Sleep.Polish.

The chevron nails are guides bought from NailVinyls. (link below) You may have noticed that the glitter nail has a bit of a brownish tint to it. This is from the scent used in it. If you layer it over anything but white, you won't have this problem.

So there you have it! I hope you enjoyed them. See you again, soon.

Nail Polish Canada | Eat.Sleep.Polish | NailVinyls | Harlow&Co | KBShimmer

*all products purchased by me and all opinions are my own*

Canada Day Nail Stamping

My first Canada Day manicure for you.

My base colours are Cult Nails Nevermore and Tempest and OPI Coca-Cola Red. Index finger is stamped with Sally Hansen Silver Sweep using MoYou Mother Nature 07. Middle and ring fingers are plate BM-H11 using Rica Whiteout and Mundo de Unas Black. Pinky is plate BM-004 with Silver Sweep again.

Thanks for the visit. I hope to be back soon with more patriotic nail art for you!  

Sally Hansen Color Foils Leaden Lilac

Hi everyone.
I was very excited to finally find the new Sally Hansen Color Foils in store. I picked up three to try. So, today I will be sharing Leaden Lilac with you. I really wanted to try these because I heard that they stamped well. Generally I'm not a fan of foil finishes. I did combine stamping with the swatches.

Leaden Lilac is by itself on the ring and index fingers. I started with a ridge filler base coat and used two coats of Leaden Lilac. It isn't horribly streaky, but still streaky. This is really a fault with most foils, in my opinion. A lot of polish stays on the brush. I recommend trying to get most of it off first. It covers well, so you don't need much. I almost got away with one coat, but was trying to see if I could hide some of the flaws.

The stamping is done using plate MoYou pro 08. Stamped over Cult Nails Nevermore and Tempest. Stamps very well over black, which is a huge plus in my books. Excuse the bad stamping over the white. It is my super curvy nail, but for some reason I couldn't get my squishy stamper to pick up the polish. I had to use my Konad stamper and it doesn't like the curve. So yes, this polish does stamp. And it stamps very well!

For me, I prefer this for stamping and not a straight up polish. It was too streaky for my liking. This is just not a finish for me. How do you feel about these polishes? I purchased this at Shoppers Drug Mart for $8.99 cdn.

*all products purchased by me and all opinions are my own*

Easter bunny nail art

Hello all! Here is my better late then never Easter notd. For those that don't celebrate, we'll call it cute bunny nails! This was my first attempt at hand done bunnies. They were mostly recognizable!

Polishes used were Dollish Polish You're A Real Sweet Tart, Pure Ice Super Star and Black Out, Sinful Colors Mauve.
Hope you all enjoyed your long weekend!

Divergent theme nail stamping

Happy Friday. Today my daughter and I are going to see the Divergent movie. Of course, this called for a mani to go with it! Very excited. I hope the movie doesn't disappoint.

Polish used on nails. OPI Skull & Glossbones, Give Me The Moon, I Saw U Saw We Saw Warsaw, Cult Nails Nevermore. Stamping done with Maybelline Bold Gold, Vernis Classique Copper, Mundo De Unas # 2 black and # 34 dark grey. Plates used BM H-08, JR 13 and 29 and MJ XV.

I hope you enjoyed my interpretation! I had to improvise a bit with stamps. The zombie hands weren't really the best choice, but that was what I had.
Have a great weekend everyone!

Oh Canada nail art

Today is a better late then never post. These are the nails I was sporting for last weekends gold medal hockey game at the Olympics. Can you guess who I was cheering for? Go Canada !!!


White is Cult Nails Tempest. Black is Cult Nails Nevermore. Red is Sally Hansen xtreme wear in Pucker Up. I made the maple leaf decal and then applied it to the nail. Crooked ;) Oh well. This was my first attempt at a braided nail, or fishtail nail. Not sure which is the correct term? Think it turned out all right.

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope to see you back soon !!

Happy Halloween nail art

Happy Halloween! Hope you all have a great day.

I couldn't decide what to do on my nails, so I did a little bit of everything! I'll give the rundown of all the colours used after the photos. I have to mention that I find it a lot harder to do nail art on nubbies. It's going to take me awhile to get used to.

Okay, polishes used are Seche Versatile and Silly But Sensible. Cult Nails Tempest and Nevermore, Zoya Mira. L.A. Colors art deco in Magenta and Mint Green. Top Coat is KBShimmer Clearly On Top.

I'm quite happy with these! The Frankenstein is my favourite. Thanks for stopping in. Wish you all a happy and safe Halloween.

Cult Nails with a breast cancer awareness spin

I'm sure you are all aware that October is breast cancer awareness month. I thought I would do a pink manicure but a little differently! Basically just went with a brighter pink then most and did some swirls instead of ribbons. Nothing earth shattering!

All products used in this are from Cult Nails except for the base coat. I have Morning Glory, which is a magenta with a wax finish, Nevermore is a super shiny, opaque black, and Tempest in white. Top coats used were Wax That and Wicked Fast.

Cult Nails can be purchased HERE. They also have a list of other retailers at the bottom of the page.

Thanks for visiting today!

*polish purchased by me and all opinions are my own*

Cult Nails Nakizzle's Shizzle

Today I have a nice blue creme from Cult Nails Dance All Night collection. The entire collection consists of 3 cremes and 3 glitters. For ordering information please visit the Cult Nails website. Recently, Nail Polish Canada began carrying Cult Nails polish as well. You can find the site here.

NAKIZZLE'S SHIZZLE is a bright baby blue creme. Please note that I had a hard time capturing the colour accurately. In person it appears to be just a tad darker then what the pictures show. My only fault with the formula is that it didn't self level all the way. Top coat is needed to help with this. Two coats for full coverage.

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Do you have a blue like this in your collection? I'll admit, I usually don't lean towards the blues, but thought I should have this one. I've already used it in some nail art, and I know I will again! Thanks for stopping by today. As always, I love to read your feedback.

*Polish purchased by me and all opinions are my own*

Saran wrap watercolour manicure

Today's post is a watercolour mani using saran wrap.  This was very easy to do. If you haven't seen it before, I suggest going on You Tube and doing a search. There are a lot of easy to follow videos. Plus, there are a few different variations. This is the video I found. It's not mine, so thanks to the poster of it!

This was the manicure I wore to my 20 year high school reunion on the weekend. It went perfectly with my dress! You'll have to excuse the tip wear in the pics. I forgot that I hadn't taken photos, so by the time I got around to it, I had already been wearing this mani for four days. Oops!

Colours used were OPI Skull & Glossbones, I Saw U Saw We Saw Warsaw, Vant To Bite My Neck? and Cult Nails Nakizzle's Shizzle.

This was a really easy technique and something I'll be trying again. So many colour combos that could be used! Not bad for my first try at this. Have you tried this?
Thanks for stopping by!

The White Post

I was recently watching a discussion about the best white polish. This inspired me to dig out all the whites I could find in my collection. Turns out I have TEN. Oops.

Wasn't sure the best way to go about this, so I've split it into two. Five polishes for each set. Just seemed to be the easiest way and eliminated a VERY pic heavy post.

Each nail has two coats of polish and no top coat. Since most of us use white as a base or for nail art I wanted to show it the way we want to use it. (No one wants to use four coats of white under something and then keep going with their manicure.)

First set:
Thumb - Julep Kate, Index - China Glaze White On White, Middle - Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On, Ring - Cult Nails Tempest, Pinky - OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls.

Yes, opi my boyfriend scales walls is very slightly tinted grey. I thought I would include it because a lot of people use it. And it does look more white then grey. You'll see in the pics.

Second Set:
Thumb - OPI Alpine Snow Matte, Index - Essie Blanc, Middle - Sinful Colors Snow Me, Ring - Barielle Enduring, Pinky - Quo By Orly French White.

Enduring and French White seem to have a bit of a dirty white look to them.

I'm not going to critique all of them. We'd be here all day. I'll just go with my top three!

1. Cult Nails Tempest. It's almost a one coater. Would be if you have shorter nails. It's also a little thicker and great for nail art.
2. Sally Hansen White On. Again very close to a one coater. Cheap too!
3. OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls. It's just very versatile.

What are your thoughts on white?  Do you have a favourite that wasn't included?

Thanks for looking and I hope some of you find this helpful!