Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Nail Art Collection

Hi again! I went crazy today on the pictures for my nail polish collection, but I rounded it down to 25 :) I know, still a lot. I took a picture of all my nail polishes from each brand...
NAIL RX BASE COAT and SALLY HANSEN NO CHIP ACRYLIC TOP COAT
These are the only base coats and top coats that I have, but I like them a lot.
REVLON
Only two. Revlon has a few different kinds of nail polishes, I have the regular (green) and the sheer (pink). They also have scented nail polishes - I don't know about those :/ kind of strange. The names are "Minted" (the green) and "Sheer Pink" (the pink). These don't chip too easily. About 3.5/5 stars from the nail polishes I've tried. ***1/5
PURE ICE
Pure Ice is a pretty good nail polish. My favorite colors are the green and yellow. The gold is too sheer. The colors are (from left to right) "Wild Thing", "Gold Mist", and "Excuse Me". ***
NICOLE
I only have two Nicole nail polishes (they are pretty expensive). One has hearts in it and the other has stars in it. Good nail polish, I guess, but these are sheer, so I can't tell haw much they chip. (from left to right) "Love Your Life", "Let's Get Star-ted"
SINFUL COLORS
Eight of these! That's because they're so cheap (about a dollar). These chip pretty easily, but what do you expect for a dollar? They have a lot of nice colors. I like all of the colors, but I guess my favorites are the bright orange, dark green, and the rose ("Dancing Nails"). (from left to right) "Dancing Nails", "Glass Pink" (this one's a little sparkly), "Courtney Orange", "Love Nails", "San Francisco", "Ruby Ruby", "Easy Going", "Beautiful Girl". ***
MONSTER HIGH
These nail polishes came in a package. These are definitely one of my favorite nail polishes. They wear for quite a while. Nothing too special about the colors, just basic colors, but the middle one is kind of pretty. (from left to right) "Pink (or Draclaura)", "Blue (or Frankie Stein)" "Aqua (or Lagoona Blue)", "Purple (or Clawdeen Wolf)", "Gold (or Cleo De Nile)". ****
WET N' WILD
I have the Wild Shine nail polishes (left) and the regular (right) from Wet n' Wild. The Wild Shine nail polishes chip easily. I really like the other nail polish. It's really opaque and has very pretty packaging. Wild Shine (from left to right) "Black Creme", "French White Creme", "Metallica". ** Wet n' Wild "Glitz" ****
CQ
This is a very nice nail polish. This color is opaque and pretty. "Crimson Pearl" ****
NYC
I'm not happy with these nail polishes. The middle two are very sheer and the purple one is like a puke purple color. The glittery one is all right, it could be a glittery topper over another nail polish. I'm not sure how long these wear as I've not used them for a while. (from left to right) "Starry Silver Glitter", "Classic Coral Creme", "Love Letters", "Purple Pizazz Frost". *
SALLY HANSEN
I love all of these except the blue one. The blue one's sheer and doesn't wear very long. The pink one's a nice pearly color. I love the glittery one to top over another color because the glitter are long strips. The purple one goes on really nicely because it has a great brush, I took a picture of the brush. (from left to right) Hard As Nails "Frozen Solid", Diamond Strength "Champagne Toast", Xtreme Wear "In the Spotlight", Insta-dri "Lively Lilac". ****
BON-BONS
Look how small and cute they are! These are good if you want to sample each color. However, these are not very good nail polishes. The pink is sheer and very strange looking. The green is also sheer, but it turns into the most beautiful green if you put 3 or 4 coats on. I'm sorry, but I can't find the name or number of these nail color. **
And, finally, my whole nail polish collection...
I just store everything in a long, open shoe box. I haven't tried Essie nail polish yet, which is supposed to be a really good nail polish, but I will try it as soon as I can. I hope you liked my collection and reviews! Please feel free to leave comments about your thoughts on these (or other) nail polishes. See you next time! :)

Spring Nail Polish Trends 2012

Hey, everyone! This post isn't going to be about my latest design, (although I'm probably going to do one soon) it's going to be about spring nail polish trends for this year! I was wondering what color I should paint my nails, and I thought I would look online to see what's popular this spring. Corals, pastels, and nudes are the favorites. You'll probably be seeing one of those colors on my next nail design. Also, I might be doing a post on my nail polish collection pretty soon, so keep an eye out for that!

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! To celebrate Easter, I did an Easter nail art design...
Each one of my nails are Easter egg designs! All totally unique! Which one is your favorite? I like all of them, but I guess if I were to choose my favorites it would be the green one and pink polka dot one. A nice way to try out all my nail polishes, too. So far Monster High, Revlon, and Pure Ice are the ones not chipping. I also used Sinful Colors, and some Sally Hansen nail colors. I won't go into detail about how I did this design, as it would take forever to explain each nail, but basically all I did was put a base coat on, paint my nails all different colors, and use nail art pens (or brushes) to paint dots or lines on my nails.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Pretty Princess Nails

Hey, everyone! I just did one of my best nail art designs yet!...
I named them "Pretty Princess" nails. They are pink nails with a sparkly gold french tip. I used Total Nail RX surface smoothing base coat, then I painted all of my fingernails two coats of Sally Hansen, Diamond Strength nail color (Champagne Toast), then I did my french tip with Milani Nail Art with a precision brush (Art of Gold), finally I put on Sally Hansen No Chip Acrylic Top Coat. It turned out to be a really easy design. I thought that drawing the french tip would be hard, but it was really easy! Defiantly my favorite design yet!