Purple Paisley Subtle Stamping

It's definitely starting to feel like fall now, and I'm totally ready to bust out the fall polish colours!  One of my favourite polishes for fall (we're actually on our second bottle) is Essie Merino Cool, a warm purple-toned dark gray.  I wanted to jazz it up a bit, so I stamped the paisley print from BM-315 using Sally Hansen Chrome Moonstone.  

This is two coats of Merino Cool, stamping, and two coats of Seche Vite.  

I'm so thrilled with how this turned out; I wasn't expecting for it to be so beautiful!  The colour combination works perfectly and has got me excited for fall!  Are you ready to swap out your summer neons for fall colours?

I'll be starting grade 12 on Tuesday, and I can't believe that it'll be my last first day of high school!  I'm really excited though and looking forward to the changes that this year and the next will bring, and I'm so glad that I'll get to share a bit of it with you here over in my little corner of the internet! :)

Candeo Colors Orchid

I was all ready to write a huge long post declaring my undying love for what has just become my all-time favourite indie polish, but my mom just turned on the TV and Grease is playing... sorry guys, but I love me some Grease.  

This is two coats of Candeo Colors Orchid over one coat of Orly Plum Noir.  I just got back from London Drugs where I got a Revlon to use for undies that's closer to the base of Orchid than Plum Noir, so I'll be using that next time.  

The first picture is after one day of wear when I stamped on an image from BM-317, and is more colour-accurate than the others.  I'll let the pictures do the talking :)

Also, you may have noticed that I revamped my blog!  I was itching for a change and I'm pretty happy with it.  There's a couple things I'm still fiddling with, but hopefully it'll be all fixed up soon!  :)

Flakie Explosion

Dual post day!  You may have read my earlier post on Butter London Knackered, but if you missed it, go check it out now!

This post is something I've had in the vault for quite a while now; I just found it and figured it should be posted!  Over Sally Hansen Black Out, I've layered two coats of Daring Digits Ice, followed by one coat of Finger Paints Motley.  

This is my first (and so far, only) Finger Paints polish, but I found it on clearance at Sally's and since it was a flakie I immediately snatched it up!

I'm really impressed with these polishes, and love the layered combination of the two together.  Topped with Seche Vite, can't remember how many coats. 

I LOVE matte flakies, but unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of this one matte.  I've got a couple more posts lined up for over the long weekend, so be on the lookout for those!  :)

Butter London Knackered

I have a quick swatch post today of Butter London Knackered.  For these pictures I layered 3 coats of Knackered over 3 coats of China Glaze Inner Beauty.  I think next time I'll layer it over a black creme so that the duochrome is more visible, but I did these on Monday night after my photo shoot so I was already wearing Inner Beauty.  It was pretty late when I did these, so my manicure job is annoyingly sub-standard for me.  I had some shrinkage, took some photos that don't do this polish any justice, and I even managed to badly dent two nails!  Anyways, I'll just leave you with the pictures. 

With flash to show the holo. 

New Bundle Monster Plates & My Sister's Birthday!

It was my sister's birthday yesterday, so I did her nails for her before we went out for dinner.  My 2012 Bundle Monster plates also arrived the other day, and like many others the design I was most excited for was the houndstooth print on BM-322.  There's pictures of my sister's nails as well as a picture of us together at the end of the post, so be sure to stick around to check those out! 

I did my own nails with a base of Picture Polish Tiffany, and stamped from BM-322 in Konad special black polish.  I haven't stamped in quite a while, so ignore all the little imperfections.  They looked great from arm's-length ;)

I did my sister's nails with a base of Sally Hansen Mint Sorbet and stamped in Konad special black polish with images from BM-304. 

Her thumbs are my favourite ;) 

Here's a picture of us before we went out for dinner!  My sister in on the left and she just turned 15 (she's a whole new level of hipster) and I'll be 17 in November! :) 

Do you have any favourite images from the new Bundle Monster plates?  Thanks for reading! :)

Stripey Water Marble

In my last post I said that I was bummed because I spent nearly 3 hours doing an awesome manicure, only to have to take it off that night because of a dance photo shoot where extravagant nails would have looked out of place.

So, today I present to you my second successful water marble!  You can see my first one here.  I wanted the marbling to look different from last time, so I followed this tutorial.  Mine didn't turn out nearly as perfect as hers, but I'm really happy with them!

I started with one coat of Sally Hansen White On, and did the marbling with OPI Don't Touch My Tutu and Sally Hansen Pacific Blue.  Topped with one coat of Seche Vite.

I'm super excited because my Bundle Monster 2012 plates arrived in the mail today!  I've only ever owned Konad plates and because of the price I only had 7 of them and had been feeling pretty uninspired to do any stamping.  When I got an email the Nail Polish Canada had the BM 2012 plates in stock, I went on a whim and ordered them! Since you get free Canadian shipping for orders over $25, I went ahead and stocked up on some stamping polishes too.  I LOVE ordering from Nail Polish Canada because they're located in the same city as me, so my orders consistently arrive the day after they've been shipped!  Anyways, that was more of a warning that you'll probably be seeing lots of stamping manicures around here soon :)

I also wanted to ask you all if you'd like me to write a post about my experience at ballet school over the summer and being away from home.  If you'd be interested to read a post about that, let me know and leave a comment! :)

China Glaze Inner Beauty

Just a super-quick swatch of China Glaze Inner Beauty today.  I'm kind of bummed because yesterday I spent almost 3 hours doing a super awesome manicure, but then I got a confirmation for a dance photo shoot  today .  Let's just say that my nails would have been a little distracting in the otherwise balletic photos. 

Anyways, I had to take it off (I did remember to get pictures first though, those to come soon!) and put back on the colour I wore for the entirety of last month at the "godforsaken place where they don't allow nail polish" (thanks for that one Kat)  :)

This is three coats of China Glaze Inner Beauty topped with one coat of Seche Vite.  (I have a tea bag fix-up on my middle finger if you're wondering...)

That's all I have time for right now.  I have to go to ballet class this morning and then the photo shoot this afternoon.  Have a great day!