Dandy Nails Look Around & Come Out and Play Explosion!

I know I said I was going to post this in the morning but I was too excited for it, I just couldn't wait! I have already posted both of these polishes and they happen to be my two favorite Dandy Nails - Look Around and Come Out and Play. I used this tutorial from Nailside (whom I LOVE) and it was fairly easy. I messed up on two of the nails and had to fix them but it wasn't a big deal.

I absolutely LOVE this mani!!!

Dandy Nails Explosion Mani

Dandy Nails Explosion Mani

Dandy Nails Explosion Mani

Dandy Nails Explosion Mani

Dandy Nails Explosion Mani

What do you think of my Dandy Nails expolsion?

Dandy Nails will be releasing four BRAND NEW shades tomorrow and you can see them in two different posts from two of my favorite bloggers - Pointless Cafe and I'm Feeling Nail-Venturous. They are amazing, you don't want to miss them!

You can also check out my previous posts below for all of my Dandy Nails swatches:

You Set My Soul Alight

Colorblind

Through Glass

Come Out and Play

Look Around

Like Disco Lemonade

Wonderwall

Colorblind²

Like Disco Lemonade Gradient

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Dandy Nails Like Disco Lemonade Gradient!

Dandy Nails is restocking tomorrow (August 1st) and to celebrate I have TWO Dandy Nails posts. One tonight and one in the morning! The one for tomorrow is my favorite but I love them both.

Dandy Nails Like Disco Lemonade over Catrice Forget-Me-Not

For this mani I used Like Disco Lemonade over Catrice Forget-Me-Not (I will have a post on that soon) which is a warm-toned deep purple foil. I applied it as a gradient on all fingers except for my ring finger, where I did a full nail accent.

Dandy Nails Like Disco Lemonade over Catrice Forget-Me-Not

Dandy Nails Like Disco Lemonade over Catrice Forget-Me-Not

Dandy Nails Like Disco Lemonade over Catrice Forget-Me-Not

Dandy Nails Like Disco Lemonade over Catrice Forget-Me-Not

I hope you enjoyed this mani! Make sure to follow Dandy Nails on Facebook for info on the restock time and stock! You can go directly to her Etsy shop here.

She will be releasing four BRAND NEW shades tomorrow and you can see them in two different posts from two of my favorite bloggers - Pointless Cafe and I'm Feeling Nail-Venturous. They are amazing, you don't want to miss them!

You can also check out my previous posts below for all of my Dandy Nails swatches:

You Set My Soul Alight

Colorblind

Through Glass

Come Out and Play

Look Around

Like Disco Lemonade

Wonderwall

Colorblind²

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Nail-Venturous Floam Gradient!

I am sure you all know about Nail-Venturous Floam. I am sure most of you own it by now. I am WAY LATE to the Floam game. And I am happy to say it was MOST DEFINITELY worth the wait!!

Nail-Venturous Floam Gradient over Sinful Colors Innocent and 24/7

I decided I wanted to do a gradient with Floam instead of covering the entire nail (for this time anyway) and was planning on using Floam over Sinful Colors Innocent. Then I FINALLY found Sinful Colors 24/7 after looking for it all last week. 24/7 is a dupe (confirmed by a friend who has both colors) of Sinful Colors Fusion Neon (which can be seen here from Pointless Cafe) and I was searching and searching (and had friends across the country searching) for either color all last week during the 99¢ sale. No luck. I had to run into Walgreens on Sunday (the day after the sale was over) for something and guess what was magically there? Yep - one lone 24/7. Go figure. LOL

After finally getting 24/7 I thought that it might make an amazing base for Floam. I was right, I absolutely love it over the neon pink! The formula on all 3 polishes - Floam, SC 24/7 and SC Innocent - were all very nice. I had no issues whatsoever. 24/7 actually has an exceptional formula for a neon, quite smooth and only 2-3 coats.

Nail-Venturous Floam Gradient over Sinful Colors Innocent and 24/7

Nail-Venturous Floam Gradient over Sinful Colors Innocent and 24/7

Nail-Venturous Floam Gradient over Sinful Colors Innocent and 24/7

What do you think of this mani? I think it is super fun and Summer-appropriate! My mom said it looked like I should be 5. LOL What do you think? Fun or juvenile?

Floam is available exclusively at Ninja Polish - an amazing shop with amazing customer service. I would suggest following them on Facebook to stay up-to-date!

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Bright and Summery Swirl Explosion!

I have a quickie for you today! I was in the mood to do some nail art this past Friday night. As per usual, most of my attempts turned into fails. I tried and removed several different looks and just couldn't find one that was working for me. The only thing I knew for sure was that I wanted to use these four bright colors together, this is what I wound up with...

Bright and Summery Swirls

Overall I am happy with it. I used Orly Green Apple (which I LOVE) as my base and then used Green Apple, Orly Charged Up, Zoya Shelby and Zoya Arizona in a "quadrant" pattern and sponged them together. I then stamped over it with Milani Black Swift using BM19.

Bright and Summery Swirls

Bright and Summery Swirls

Bright and Summery Swirls

What do you thing of my bright swirls? I hope you enjoyed them!

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Dior Jamaican Pepper - Swatch and Review (and an amazingly sweet nail mail surprise!)

Happy Saturday everyone! I had quite the surprise this morning, a nail mail package from my dear friend Sheila at Pointless Cafe. I am shocked and I can't thank her enough. LOL

Amazing nail mail 

Of course after receiving this I just had to get one of my new pretties on my nails ASAP. And what better to start with than the AMAZING Dior Jamaican Pepper!? I had been wanting this one for awhile but hadn't been able to get it, it was so sweet of her to think of me.

The formula on Jamaican Pepper was nothing short of perfection. And it has all of the normal Dior goodness - the amazing brush...the secret shimmer...*sigh* I did top it with the Dior Top Coat, which was also amazing. I did wait quite awhile before applying it because I didn't want to turn the top coat pink. Been there, done that.

It was partly cloudy today (yay!) so I had an interesting time taking pictures. I'm sure my neighbors think I am nuts by now, but that's nothing new. LOL So some of these are sun pics and some are "shade" pics.

Dior Jamaican Pepper

Dior Jamaican Pepper

Dior Jamaican Pepper

Dior Jamaican Pepper

Dior Jamaican Pepper

Dior Jamaican Pepper

Dior Jamaican Pepper

Dior Jamaican Pepper

Isn't it stunning? I could stare at it all day. (And probably will. LOL)

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Divas CAN Get Along! - If they're Zoya Divas!

Happy Friday everyone!! This is my last installment of Zoya Week with the Designers, Divas and Gloss Collections. All of the polishes I have today are from the Divas Collection.

I have a gradient/accent nail combo with Ray topped with FeiFei that I think looks amazing. Ray and FeiFei look great together. But I think FeiFei would look amazing over just about anything, it is one of my favorites from the collection and I have nothing even remotely close to it in my 550+ polish collection.

Zoya Ray with FeiFei

Zoya Ray with FeiFei

Zoya Ray with FeiFei

Zoya Ray with FeiFei

I have one more combo to show you. I was wearing Elisa the other day and decided to see how FeiFei and Daul would look over it. Here are the results....

Zoya Elisa with Daul on the index and ring fingers and FeiFei on the middle finger and pinky

Zoya Elisa with Daul on the index and ring fingers and FeiFei on the middle finger and pinky

Zoya Elisa with Daul on the index and ring fingers and FeiFei on the middle finger and pinky

I can't wait to try more combos with FeiFei and Daul, they are very unique and so stunning. If you would like to see more combos with FeiFei and Daul check out this post from Sheila at Pointless Cafe. She shows several amazing combos with these colors, as well as combos with the colors from the Gloss Collection.

I hope you have enjoyed Zoya Week!! I know I have!

The Designers, Divas and Gloss Collections are available for purchase now at zoya.com for $8 each. Zoya is an amazing company that runs sales and promotions very often. Make sure to catch those by following them on Facebook and Twitter. Zoya is 5-Free and Cruelty-Free AND makes amazing polish! What more could you ask for?

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Zoya Designers Collection "Fishtail" Mani!

I am back for the second time today. I was going to save this post for tomorrow but I had some extra time on my hands and was excited to share so here it is.

Zoya Fishtail Mani with Evvie, Natty and Monica

I wanted to try the fishtail design again (if you missed my original post you can see it here - it includes links to the original post and tutorial) because I love the look of it so much. I still didn't manage to pull off the amazing original design so you may be seeing more of these attempts as I work on trying to perfect it. LOL

All of the colors I used are from the Zoya Designers Collection. I was really craving the cremes BUT I think it might have looked a little better if I had included a shimmer in the design. I think I should have used Suri from the Divas Collection instead of Monica for the purple. Oh well, hindsight is 20/20, right?

Zoya Fishtail Mani with Evvie, Natty and Monica

Zoya Fishtail Mani with Evvie, Natty and Monica

Zoya Fishtail Mani with Evvie, Natty and Monica

What do you think of this design? I think it's okay but could use improvement. I hope I can eventually perfect this design, I really like it.

The Designers Collection is available for purchase now at zoya.com for $8 each. Zoya is an amazing company that runs sales and promotions very often. Make sure to catch those by following them on Facebook and Twitter. Zoya is 5-Free and Cruelty-Free AND makes amazing polish! What more could you ask for?

Disclosure: The product(s) in this post were provided to me by the manufacturer or their PR company for consideration. 

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Zoya Designers and Divas Doticure!

I hope you all are enjoying Zoya Week! I have my first "nail art" post of the week and I think it turned out pretty cute! It reminds me a little of raindrops, which I happen to love and don't get to see nearly often enough.

For this mani I used polishes from the Zoya Divas Collection for my base colors and polishes from the Zoya Designers Collection for my dots or "raindrops." After applying the base colors I topped them with a matte top coat (which Zoya REALLY needs to make) and then applied the dots with dotting tools.

The colors I used are as follows:
Base colors - Suri (index), Ray (middle), Elisa (ring), Song (pinky)
Dot colors - Monica (index), Evvie (middle), Rehka (ring), Natty (pinky)

Zoya Doticure

Zoya Doticure

Zoya Doticure

What do you think of my "Raindrop Doticure?" I think it's pretty fun and it was super simple!

The Designers and Divas Collections are available for purchase now at zoya.com for $8 each. Zoya is an amazing company that runs sales and promotions very often. Make sure to catch those by following them on Facebook and Twitter. Zoya is 5-Free and Cruelty-Free AND makes amazing polish! What more could you ask for?

Disclosure: The product(s) in this post were provided to me by the manufacturer or their PR company for consideration. 

For more information, please visit my Disclosure Tab.

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Zoya Divas Collection for NYFW 2012 - Swatches and Review

Are you ready for the last of my Zoya swatches? The rest of the week will be dedicated to nail art and combos with these polishes. I am excited for that!

Zoya Designers, Divas and Gloss Collections

But up first are swatches of the Divas Collection. This is the shimmery, in-your-face part of the collection and each and every one of them is gorgeous. 

Zoya FeiFei, Daul, Song, Elisa, Suri, Ray

Okay, now to get the formalities out of the way. Song, Elisa, Suri and Ray all have similar finishes and formula. They are shimmers that had easy application in 2 coats (some could have even *possibly* been one) and no issues with formula.

FeiFei and Daul are different than the other four. They are sparkly goodness in a bottle. I chose to show you these on their own for now but they are on the sheer side and because of this make AMAZING toppers. I used 3 coats of Daul in the pics. You will see VNL in the sun (as in the pics) but I could not see it inside under artificial light. FeiFei is more opaque than Daul. I used 3 coats on my index and ring fingers and 2 coats on my ring finger and pinky.

All photos were taken in direct sunlight and without top coat.

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Elisa is a gorgeous metallic red with what appears to be small metallic red flakes. This polish glows from within! 

Zoya Elisa

Zoya Elisa

Zoya Elisa

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Now we have Song, a royal blue with the same small flakes as Elisa, just in blue. Another stunner!

Zoya Song

Zoya Song

Zoya Song

Zoya Song

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Next up is Ray. Ray is a metallic/frosty forest green. This one had a few brush strokes because of the finish but nothing major. It also has a lovely shimmer of gold or silver and green as well.

Zoya Ray

Zoya Ray

Zoya Ray

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Now for Suri, a gorgeous purple that is fit for royalty. This one has flakes of purple, blue and pink and shimmers so beautifully.

Zoya Suri

Zoya Suri

Zoya Suri

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Now for Daul, a gorgeous lilac with gold shimmer. 

Zoya Daul

Zoya Daul

Zoya Daul

Zoya Daul

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And last, but certainly not least, is FeiFei. As I stated earlier, this one is more opaque than Daul. A gorgeous light blue with silver and gold flakes that seem to change color in the sun. Simply AMAZING! I can't wait to put it over everything! LOL

Zoya FeiFei

Zoya FeiFei

Zoya FeiFei

Zoya FeiFei

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There you have it. What are your thoughts on the Diva Collection? I love all of them although I must say the Designers Collection is my personal favorite.

The Divas Collection is available for purchase now at zoya.com for $8 each. Zoya is an amazing company that runs sales and promotions very often. Make sure to catch those by following them on Facebook and Twitter. Zoya is 5-Free and Cruelty-Free AND makes amazing polish! What more could you ask for?

Disclosure: The product(s) in this post were provided to me by the manufacturer or their PR company for consideration. 

For more information, please visit my Disclosure Tab.

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