Bean Juice: Time Collection

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't been posting as much lately, I always forget:) 
Today I swatched a few polishes from Bean Juice! It's a rather new indie brand, that hasn't been entirely discovered yet. These can all be purchased at www.etsy.com/shop/TheCraftHouseOfBeans.

First, we have "5 O'Clock Somewhere," an absolutely beautiful shimmery white base with tiny blue, pink, orange, and yellow glitters that aren't really obvious until it's on your nails. It's the perfect polish for spring! This swatch is one very thin coat over white. Amazing formula and application, and the glitter spreads perfectly. 

Glow In The Dark Nails

I'm so excited about these! It was almost painful taking my rose mani off, but I'm so glad I did!
Today I received two glow in the dark polishes from Polish Me To Go! A neon pink called "Pretty Girls" and a blue one called "I'm So Blue." 

I couldn't decide which I wanted to swatch first, so I just went for it and did a mani with both! I knew the blue one would glow a little brighter, so I used that as the base. The design was just aimless doodling. :) I did my best to show the true colors, but unfortunately the pink looks rather orange in the photos. It's very pink in real life though!

These glow both under black light and when charged by any other sort of like and viewed in darkness. Since I didn't happen to have a black light on hand, I opted for the other method. Here's the result of charging the polish under an incandescent bulb for a few seconds, then taking a photo in pitch black. I apologize for the low photo quality, I had to use my phone since my camera couldn't handle it with a higher shutter speed and I couldn't stop shaking. haha <3 span="">

Rose Nails

Hi everyone!

I love my nails today, even though it was sad taking off my last mani:(

For this, I started with Essie "Guchi Muchi Puchi," then used OPI "Pirouette My Whistle" and Essie "Sugar Daddy" to make a jelly sandwich. The main part of the rose is Julep "Joan," and the accents are Orly "Decades Of Dysfunction" and a Chifure polish that I don't know the name of haha. And the leaves are China Glaze "Running In Circles."

Hope you like! :)

Bestie Twin Nails!

Hey everyone! 
My current mani is a collaboration between one of my good friends Jessie over at Nails Of Jessie K and I based on a theme that's going around Instagram! It was started by the lovely Vanessa (aka @mrslochness) and her best friend Vee (@veebutterfly). There isn't really a specific way to do this, you can make them as similar or original as you like, but Jessie and I decided to go for a general theme of chevron, dots, glitter, and gradient (of course) and the colors teal and deep purple, then surprise each other with the final result!

Here's what we came up with:)

Mine: I did a glitter gradient on my index finger using Julep "Marion" and OPI "Pirouette My Whistle," a vertical gradient on my middle finger using Julep "Marion" and "Morgan," freehand chevron on my ring finger with "Morgan" and Essie "No Place Like Chrome," and some simple dots on my pinky.

 

Jessie's: I'm not sure of all the details for this one, but I know the pretty teal glitter is Happy Hands Nail Polish "For British Eyes Only" and the purple is also Julep "Morgan." And she's the queen of chevron with her fancy scissors and tape;) 

And here's a "collage" of our nails together! :)

Random Nail Art

Here's just a bunch of random nail art that I have done over the past month (5 to be exact), there's not really much to say about these, but I'll write a short description before each photo:)

1. Here's my most popular mani ever, so far! These were inspired the the absolutely amazing Selena over at pinkurock.com, or @selenadee_nails on Instagram. I used the entire China Glaze Summer Neons Collection for this, plus Fairy Dust on top:)

2. These are pretty recent, for this simple gradient I used Julep "Joan" and OPI "I Don't Give A Rotterdam." I chose these together just because they both have an underlying gold shimmer. :)

3. This is some sort of "half-swatch" of Wicked Polish Hematoma, I was so lucky to catch this one at the last restock! I also picked up "Pox" but that one gets its own post. ;) For the gradient I used China Glaze "Creative Fantasy" and "Hanging In The Balance" 

 

Happy Hands Nail Polish - "For British Eyes Only"

Next is "For British Eyes Only" also by Happy Hands Nail Polish. :)
This is the PERFECT teal. It's a sheer teal jelly packed with holo (and some regular) teal glitter. It would probably be opaque in three coats simply because of all the glitter in it, but I put two over OPI "Fly." It's much more beautiful in real life of course, I couldn't stop staring at my nails when I had this on. Such an amazing color.