My 1st Nail Polish Haul

Shout out to my first ever nail polish haul! Yeah!!
AND shout out to my little sister who let me borrow her nails for this too and my AMAZING boyfriend who got me my Muppet polishes :)! Lol.

(If you don't feel like reading all of this, feel free to just click the pictures and look thru the swatches, OR here is the video on this haul!)



Ok, so first, let me start out with my usual disclaimer. I paid for four of these products with my own money. Two of them were paid for and given to me as gifts by my amazing boyfriend who got lost in Ulta just for me :). BUT either way, they were paid for with our own money and not sent to me for free. These products were ones that I have been wanting to purchase because I love the colors (or Kolors haha) in these collections and am not sponsored by these companies and did not receive them for free (well, from the companies anyway lol).

Allsrighty then, here are all of the polishes


Close up on the Kardashian Kolors Collection by Nicole by O.P.I.



Close up on the Muppets Collection polishes by O.P.I.


So, now for some swatches of them. I'll start with the Kardashian Kolors.


First off, this is "Sealed With A Kris". Keep in mind, these are all two coats (unless otherwise specified) no base, no top coat.




This polish is a really pretty matte deep red color no shimmers at all. Perfect for the holidays coming up or any other special occasions.

Next, "Kourt Is Red-y for A Pedi"




This one is also a matte polish and is a brighter red. I would almost go as far as to call it a ketchup red. Not in the gaudy way but in the bright and noticeable enough way. I would use it the way you would use a coral type color.

I also bought "Kendall On the Catwalk" and "Khloe had A Little Lam-Lam".
"Kendall On the Catwalk" is a really pretty blue glitter with silver, purple and a tiny bit of green glitters in it as well. "Khloe had A Little Lam-Lam" is a dark blue that's also matte. Not quite a navy blue but just shy of a midnight blue. These two colors also work gorgeously together. One thin coat of "Khloe had A Little Lam-Lam" with a thin coat of "Kendall On the Catwalk" and you have a perfectly blinged out nail look.

"Khloe Had A Little Lam-Lam"





"Kendall On the Catwalk"




Both of them together



Next, are the Muppet polishes. I have "Meep Meep Meep" (Professor Beaker's color) and "Designer DeBetter" (the fabulous Ms. Piggy of course).

"Designer DeBetter" is a silver with a few copper and pink shimmers in it. Its very pretty and light catching.





"Meep Meep Meep" is almost a pointsetta red with red and pink shimmers in it. Another polish that is great for the holidays!





Well, thats all for now my lovelies. Sorry for the long post today, but it was my first haul post. I'll eventually work out the kinks and get into my groove on how to do these better and hopefully shorter for you guys :)

Black n' Red

This is definitely one of the most simple nail looks that I have ever done. Literally the only thing more simple would be if I just painted my nails one solid color, which I was going to do, but you guys know me, I couldn't leave it just like that! So, I'm here to tell you about this simple nail look that turned out better than I planned for it to.



So, here is the story behind why my nails are so short. (If you don't feel like reading this part and my rant, feel free to skip down to the next paragraph, OR where you see the pic of the products used and go from there, I won't mind.) A very rude man decided to snatch his credit card from me at work because we no longer carry something that he really liked and was mad. Because of this, my middle finger nail on my right hand was clipped on the weak side and broke almost straight across. So, I had to cut my nails and find a quick fix for them polish wise until I had a chance to get my claws on some on the new Muppet nail polish from the new collection at Ulta, WHICH I will have a post on later. I also will have a post on the nail design that I had before the mean man broke my nail. And just for the record, I am not one of those girls that's like "OMFG i like broke an effing nail" I definitely wouldn't have cared as much if I hadn't just done them the night BEFORE lol. I was actually trying to decide whether to cut them or not and I guess I got my answer!

Ok, so I wanted something simple just to hold me over until I got my Muppet polish and I had painted them black and decided to put a thin coat of red glitter over them. When I did this, I didn't think that they looked that great and i didn't think that I was going to upload a post about them because they were so simple that I thought it was pointless. But people were actually asking me what kind of polish it was and how I did it so, here goes!

Here are my products used.



***DISCLAIMER***
I paid for all the products used with my own money. I use these products because I like them and I feel like they fit this nail look the best. I am not sponsored by these companies in any way.

base coat- Salon Sciences Fiberglass Networks
BLACK- Revlon Black Lingerie
GLITTER- Sephora by O.P.I. What's Your Poison
top coat- Salon Sciences Instant Artificials

What I did first was to put one coat of my base coat on my nails. Since they were short and I didn't have a free edge I only put one kind of thin coat on. When you have short nails, and you don't have a free edge, you don't have a way to seal your polish and your design in which ends up just making your polish pile up on your nails. If you have ever put too many layers of nail polish on your nails and ended up peeling off the polish because it was too much and too thick, you know what I mean.


The nest thing that I did was to put two thin coats of the black polish on. Revlon polishes tend to be thin (in my personal experience of course) and as I mentioned in my previous paragraph (see nail polish peeling), you want to avoid thick coats of polish. Be careful if you do have a thinner polish. They have a tendency to run like water off of the brush and off of your nail and onto your cuticle/skin.


***(TIP! If you do get polish on your skin, you can use a Q-tip soaked in acetone/nail polish remover or a paintbrush dipped in acetone/nail polish remover and take the polish off of the sides or wherever it is you don't want it. Just make sure that your careful to not get it on your design! You don't want to mess up all your hard work or even worse, have to start over!)***

I was originally going to leave my nails like this just plain regular solid black, but I couldn't leave it like that so I decided to add a thin coat of red glitter polish on top. Just one thin coat though (see previous paragraph on peeling). Every things better when you add glitter!


Last step, after the polish was completely dry, add one thin coat of top coat!


This polish look is very simple but the effect in the light is so pretty. Especially when its darker and you cant really see the black you just get some of the red shimmer catching the light. I hope you guys liked my simple nail look and give it a shot! Its good for fall because of the darker colors and you could even do a brown instead of black if you wanted. Let your creativity loose!

ZOMBIES!!! And Other Stuff

So last night, as I was searching for Halloween stuff online, I randomly got the idea to do some zombie themed nails in the spirit of Halloween (which just so happens to be my favorite holiday!)

I had recently (recently being like...3 weeks ago haha) been to Walgreen's and bought a green Sinful Colors polish from their Halloween display that they had up and I have been trying to think of a way to use it and yesterday it hit me, zombie nails!

***DISCLAIMER***
The products I am about to list are ones that I have purchased with MY OWN money. I am in no way shape or form sponsored by these companies, nor did I receive them for free.

Products Used:
RED - China Glaze - Rose Among Thorns (Neon)
GREEN - Sinful Colors Professional - Irish Green
RED GLITTER - Sephora by OPI - What's Your Poison?
BLUE - Kiss Nail Art Paint - Pearl Blue
TOP COAT - Salon Sciences Instant Artificials Protect



So, here is how I did them.

1. USUALLY I do use a base coat but its a fiberglass one that I only use when my nails start getting long as an added form of strength. I know that base coats are important and protect your natural nails, provide a "base" or "foundation" for your nail polish (kind of like eyeshadow primer for you make up girls out there) and help avoid stains/discoloration and what not, but I dont really put too much into them personally.

2. I first decided to do a reverse french manicure with the red and green. When I first purchased the green, I tried it out and found out that it is EXTREMELY sheer so I knew going into this that I would need to think of a way to work around that. Since they are zombie nails, I decided to put the red (Rose Among Thorns China Glaze) first and just painted a small half moon on the bottom of my nails for the reverse french part. since they were zombie themed, I didn't put too much emphasis on perfection. i only did one coat of the red.

3. On top of the red, I put two coats of green (Sinful Colors Irish Green). This over the red made it look like a weird warped red color, perfect for the zombie virus theme I had going :).

4. Since I am ALL ABOUT the bling and the glamor, I decided to put a thin coat of the red glitter (Sephora by OPI What's Your Poison?) over the red that was showing through the green. It still let a bit of the original red show through, but added a bit of sparkle at the same time. Who said zombies can't be glamorous? hahaha...(ew)

5. After that, I decided to put like...stitches I guess you would call it too because it looked a bit strange with just the red and green and besides, were trying to go for Halloween, NOT Christmas, thats a whole different blog and nail design right there. For this I just used the blue nail art polish and the brush that comes with it (Kiss Nail Art Paint Pearl Blue). I know that this can make it more Frankenstein-ish...but I decided on zombies so whatever I ended up doing to them, no matter what, they were going to be zombies.

6. I had to go to work so I had to wait until I got home to top coat. which can be a very dangerous move. I always use the same one, my Instant Artificials by Salon Sciences. I am in LOVE with this product. I used to use it as a base coat actually but now I use it as a top coat. It adds a nice shine to my nails and adds the strength of acrylic to them as well. love love love it.

So, my finished product looked something like this...


I hopefully, will be able to upload a video on this and how I did it so that I'm not just attempting to talk you through it. Because if your anything like me, you learn better by watching.