52 Week Challenge Week 11: St Patrick's Day

For my St. Patrick's Day mani I used Sinful San Francisco on all my nails and OPI Fresh Frog of Bel-Air on my ring as an accent. I love the shimmer in Sinful Colors San Francisco, it's green and blue and subtle. Enjoy!

NOPI Wear Something Spar-Kylie

You'll be seeing lots of pink manis from me soon, I'm trying to find a wedding worthy yet fun combo. You see, I'm getting married April 30th.
This is Nicole by OPI Wear Something Spar-Kylie, another Kardashian polish. It's similar to Kendall on the Katwalk in that it's an opaque glitter, two coats on this. However it's all one color pink, a nice rosy pink, not too bright. I like this one! I should mention that Kendall peeled right off in a couple of days. Just sheets of polish all over the place. I expect this will do the same.

52 week challenge week 10: polka dots

This is terrible. Removed it right after taking pictures.

Nicole by OPI Kendall on the Katwalk

I have to admit, I'm not a fan of the Kardashians. They're famous for being famous. I don't see that they use that for anyone's gain but their own. But I also LOVE this collection by NOPI, which came out in the fall. There are more colors in a new release that is out now at CVS but I haven't seen them yet. This is Kendall on the Katwalk, a pretty glitter with mainly blue but also green and purple glitter. This is two coats and two coats of topcoat (ProFX quick dry topcoat). This glitter dried a little matte and is a topcoat eater, there's still texture after two coats of topcoat. I was reminded of an afghan I have been working on for a while.

Sally Hansen Salon Effects: Cut It Out

I love these strips for when I need a quick and fun mani. This pattern is super fun and I think in the future I might like to color in the flowers. For the first time using these I had trouble with chipping almost immediately. I also had one strip that completely refused to stick, it was dried out. But still, fancy nails minimal work!

These were provided for review from the company. Please note I have purchased this product before.

Nabi Magnetics

I found this at Walgreens when I was looking for Aquaphor for my tattoo and came across a rack of magnetic polish by Nabi. I literally squeed and the makeup counter girl looked at me like I was nuts. I have been looking at magnetic polishes for months but they were so expensive I never felt the need to actually buy one. But now they were right in my face and I could TOUCH THEM! I looked them over and decided on a teal blue and silver. It wasn't until later I noticed there are three different magnets. Fortunately my two have different magnets. There's a chevron I don't have and I haven't seen them at a Wags near my house. If you're not familiar with magnetic polish you paint your nail and while it's wet hold a magnet over the top to make a design in the polish. Pretty easy way to do nail art! I was pleased with the magnets and application of both polishes, although I've only worn the silver one as a full mani. It has pretty blue and pink micro glitter or sparkle in it. I spent a lot of time looking at my nails when I was wearing this. At 2/$5 they were a great deal. One thing I noted was these smelled differently than other polishes, probably because of whatever is in them to make them magnetic. Also, the mister was not thrilled with the idea, saying it didn't seem healthy that I had metal on my nails. I pointed out I usually use a base coat that contains formaldehyde, metal is not that big of a deal. I should also note I had a rough time with cleanup on these which is why there's paint all over my cuticles.

52 week challenge week 9: vintage mani

Apparently this manicure was a way to save nail polish back in the day. Two things I learned about my nails from this one: you can only see a tiny bit of the moon on my ring and pinky fingers and my nails are yellow! Painting sideways was a very strange experience too as I didn't use French tape guidelines, I just free-handed this shiz. I actually like this style but in the future I'll either make sure I've buffed the yellow out of my nails or use a neutral base coat. This is two coats of Essie After Sex (which I bought solely for the name)