Making Up for Lost Time

First and foremost, I need to apologize to my blog and my readers - I am SO immensely sorry that I have neglected you so much for the past 2 months. :( Please find it in your hearts to forgive me. Hopefully after you finish reading my post you will look past my neglection and will forgive me.

While I have been MIA from my blog, I have not stopped doing my nails or taking pictures of the manicures I've been doing. So today I want to share with you just a few different looks I did as well as quite a few new nail polishes I've picked up in the mean time.

For this first mani I wanted to add a little sparkle (of course, who doesn't like sparkle?!). For my middle and ring finger I used Essie's Set in Stones, I've had my eye on this polish for quite some time now and finally decided to get it and I'm sure glad I did. It is gorgeous!! For my remaining fingers I used Essie's Turquoise & Caicos, which is a gorgeous turquoise blue and goes on amazing! Here's the finally result:



  My next mani was a polish that I have been on the hunt for everywhere!! I've been wanting a really gorgeous emerald green and the other day Alex and I were at Target when I spotted it. I about screamed with excitement! When I found out it was on sale for only $3 I screamed some more :) Anyways since it's such a gorgeous color I wanted to just leave it alone and not add any nail art or anything to it. Its by Revlon and called Posh, so fitting!

Now the remaining pictures are just some poloshes that I've picked up in the last couple weeks:

Left to Right - Essie Set in Stones, Nicole by OPI Luke of the Draw, Sally Hansen Golden Rule

Essie Set in Stones

Nicole by OPI Luke of the Draw

Sally Hansen Golden Rule

 

Julep - Freedom Top Coat, Leila, Joy

 

Julep Freedom Top Coat

 

Julep Leila

Julep Joy

China Glaze Electric Pineapple, Water You Waiting For

China Glaze Water You Waiting For

China Glaze Electric Pineapple

Spoiled Let's Get Sushi, Revlon Posh

Spoiled Let's Get Sushi

 

Since this post was so pic heavy I'm going to end on that note. I am hoping sometime this week to post another makeup tutorial, this one is going to be about contouring your face, which is my new obsession!

 

 

XoXo

Brit

Let's Go Niners!

Yesterday in honor of the San Francisco 49ers playing in the championship game I did my nails to show my loyalty. For the pinky, pointer and thumb I used Wet n Wild's Red Red and sponged the tips with Ebony Hates Chris. For the middle and ring fingers I used Nicole by OPI's Disco Dolls. For the ring finger I used my Kiss finger paint nail polish to paint on the SF and for the middle finger I used my Sally Hansen nail art pen in white. For my other three fingers I used the nail art pen as well to write with.

 

 

 

 

 

I absolutely love these nails and I love the Niners! Did anyone else see that game yesterday?? Such a nail bitter. Here's a little fun fact about myself - I went to high school with Colin Kaepernick, the Niners QB, he's a year older than me and hung out in my group of friends. Pretty cool, huh?

 

Back to polish, I haven't bought any polish lately, and by lately I mean like a week or two :) I was at the store getting medicine the other day, when I noticed that the Nicole by OPI was still 50% off so I bought two more bottles. On the left is a texture polish in black and the right is My Empire... My Rules.

 

Here's a swatch of My Empire... My Rules, unfortunately this is the only polish that I've gotten to swatch.

 

 I also picked up a polish from Revlon's new line of Moon Candy, this one is called Galactic and I can't wait to try it.

 



 

Here are three more polishes I swooped up at TJ Maxx, the brand is called Material Girl, which I've never heard of, but the bottle was pretty cute as were the colors. A review of the polishes and the brand will be coming some time this week (I hope).

 

 

 

 

 

Last ones I swear... for this post :) and I didn't get these all in the same day. These are two different shades of green by Sinful Colors, the left one is called Beau Khaki and the right is San Francisco. Now I must admit that I wouldn't have bought San Francisco if it wasn't for Alex, he forced me to buy it because he loved the name so much. We will see how it looks on..

 

 

Hope everyone had a great start to their work week!

 

 

Xo Brit



ABC Challenge - Sally Hansen's Air

So I'm a little late for my ABC Challenge, but Alex and I did have an AMAZING time in San Francisco! The Lion King was such a fantastic show and the costumes were just insane! We loved every minute of it and it was such a great first experience for Alex! I will have some pictures to share with you all tomorrow, so stay tuned. :)

 

On to the ABC Challenge... In case you haven't heard of or seen an ABC Challenge before it pretty much consists of using a nail polish color or brand that coordinates with the letter for the day we are on. We are going to be posting every Wednesday, which will make it a lot less stressful. For my first post I chose to do a nail polish name, this one is Sally Hansen's Smooth & Perfect Air. The application was great and the formula went on well. The color itself was pretty opaque so this was three coats with a coat of SV.

 

 

Take a look at the other lovely ladies participating in this challenge:

Kimber @ Kimber'sLacquerKorner
Gini @ Sassy Paints
Kat @ Hooked On Polish
Lisa @ Lozlosa
Diana @ Nails By Diana
Nicole @ Nicole Gets Nailed
Nailista
Lariesa @ Me, Myself, and Polish
Patty @ Patty And Goldie's Day Off
Meredith@ Perfectly Polished
Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
Sammi @ GlitzNGlammer
Polishaholic
Dionne @ Glittery Fingers
Aly @ Wonderland Beauty
Kate @ Painted Pony Nails
Sarah @ Faithfully Polished
Small Budget Beauty
Alaina @ Dont Spill The Acetone
Simona @ Light Your Nails
Elle @ Miss Nail Polish
Holly @ Facebook (blog link coming soon!)
Sonya (link needed)

 

I hope that everyone had a great weekend.

 

Xo Brit

 



Chevron Mani

This is going to be a quick post as I need to get to bed! For Christmas Alex's mom got us tickets to see the Lion King in San Francisco and we are leaving early tomorrow morning! I am sooooo excited to see a Broadway play, it's my first ever! I'm even more excited that Alex and I get to experience our first Broadway plays together! So awesome!

 

Anyways back to the mani.... I'm completely obsessed with with the chevron pattern and last night I picked up a pair of pinking shears. To start I painted my ring and middle fingers with Essie's Marshmallow. Next I painted my remaining fingers with Sally Hansen's Mint Sorbet. Once my middle and ring fingers dried I used painters tape and cut strips of it with the pinking shears. Here's how they turned out:

 

Here they are before the chevron stripes

Final result





 









Another shot

Like I said this is going to be a short post, so good night everyone and I hope you have a great Wednesday.

Xo Brit

PS - The ABC Challenge starts tomorrow! Yay!!

New Years Eve Nails

So yesterday I finally got my last item of my order from Amazon. It was ten spools of nail ribbon all of which were different colors. This was the item that I was the most excited for and of course it was the last to arrive! I can't wait to use them though! Here's a picture of them:

For today's nails I decided to use a color I have never used before, WHITE! Crazy to think that I've never used it, but I've always steered away from it because I thought that it showed too many imperfections. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised with the result, the polish went on smooth and didn't show any bubbles or bumps like I thought it would. For my white I used Sally Hansen's White On.

Once White On had dried completely I used Elf's Gold Star, which has large hexagonal glitters as well as some small glitter mixed in. I was going to sponge it on, but then just decided against it and dabbed it on all the tips of my nails. I absolutely love how they turned out! They're fun and perfect for a New Years party.

I also was in need of some nail necessities, such as acetone and cuticle oil, so I went to the beauty supply store and came back with quite the lot.

Acting is Living, Twinkling Glitter, Studded Holiday Surprise, Down the Chimney

DS Reserve, My Boyfriend Scales Walls

Angel Wings, Peace on Earth, Elephant Walk, Glitter All the Way

OPI Cuticle Oil & OPI Nail Envy

 

I just want to say that I am so excited for the new year to come! This past year has been a very tough one, not only for me, but for so many others in the world. I cannot wait to put it behind me and to see what 2013 has to offer. I hope everyone has a good and safe New Year!

 

 

Xo Brit