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



A Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree!

It's finally here! My first challenge and I couldn't be more excited!

Today's theme is Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree and I really had a hard time trying to figure out what to do, besides the obvious - a Christmas Tree... So here's what I came up with:

For my middle finger I used NYC's Broadway Burgundy Frost its a gorgeous red with small flecks of red glitter. For all my other fingers I used Wet n Wild's SaGreena the Teenage Witch, then on my ring finger I used Julep's Vivien to add some glitter and sparkle. I then took my green rhinestones I ordered on MASH Nails and used them to make a Christmas Tree and took a black stone and used that as the stump. On my pinky and pointer fingers I used Spoiled's Shuffle the Deck and took red flecks of glitter and placed them to make musical notes. I thought my nails turned out pretty cute and can't wait for next Monday's challenge, here is the schedule:

 



Nail Mail

So I swear I am not that addicted to shopping online, it just so happens that everything is arriving at once! I SWEAR! Or at least that's what I tell Alex :)

For today's nail mail I received December's Maven box. In it I received Harper, Vivien, and Ivy. Here's how they look:

From Left to Right - Ivy, Harper, Vivien

I have to say I am in LOVE with these three polishes I was sent! Harper reminds me of a mermaids tail and I think it will be gorgeous on. However, the one I am most looking forward to trying though is Ivy. It is simply gorgeous in the bottle, its small glitters of blue with hints of purple in it. When you tilt it certain ways it looks bright blue, then if you turn it some more it looks like a gorgeous purple/pink. Then of course we have Vivien, which is a gorgeous gold hexagonal glitter.

I was at CVS today picking up a prescription when of course I happened to end up in the nail polish section, don't ask me how that happened, but anyways I picked up four more nail polishes since they were having a buy one get on free sale.

Left to Right - Cha-Ching! and Glitz Gal

Left to Right - Blazed and Eggplant Frost

 

I have been wanting the GEM Crush line for some time now and just for some reason haven't bought them, so today I finally did and again cannot wait to try them out! As for the Wet n Wild's Blazed looked like a great coral to have in my arsenal so I couldn't pass it up. As for Eggplant Frost is just looked pretty in the bottle!

 

Unfortunately, I was not able to swatch any of them as we were getting Alex's grandpa's medicine and such for when he got home from the hospital. After being home for about 4 hours or so we had to bring him back to the emergency room. They are running test now and will be admitting him soon. Please keep him and Alex's family in your prayers as we try to get him better. On a whole other note my imPRESS nails are still in place and look great, which I am pleasantly suprised by. I think I'll be taking them off tomorrow if time allows as I really want to try out my new polishes!

 

I hope that everyone has a great weekend and I cannot wait for my first challenge on Monday, stay tuned!!!

 

Brittany



 

Happy (LATE) Thanksgiving!

I apologize that I am soooo late on this post, I feel awful and really have been meaning to post something, but unfortunately on Thanksgiving Alex's grandfather got really sick and is in the hospital. Luckily we were able to enjoy some of Thanksgiving with my family down in Turlock, but had to leave around 3ish to head back up to Chico and see his grandpa in the hospital. Since Thursday we have pretty much been there with him. His grandfather is 94 years old and is in amazing health and is an incredible man. About 8 or 9 years ago he had to have heart surgery and they put a pig valve in and its pretty much on its last leg as they (the pig valve) only last about 8 years. They also told us that he is in CHF (chronic heart failure). On a much happier note, he seems to be doing fine and is in high spirits and ready to get home, hopefully tomorrow or Tuesday.

Today I had some time at home and just decided to swatch some green polishes I had recently bought and haven't had a chance to play with. So without further ado onto the nail polish:

From pinky to ring finger - Wet n Wild SaGreena the Teenage Witch, Sally Hansen Olive Branch, Wet n Wild Poison Ivy, China Glaze Winter Holly.
(Picture Taken Outside)

Inside shot

I loved all of these greens especially China Glaze's Winter Holly, it was a complete glitter bomb and didn't need any sort of dark green polish underneath. At first when I was outside taken the pictures it looked like Olive Branch and Poison Ivy were very similar, but then when I got inside and took the picture you could totally see how much it varied. Also the pictures didn't pick up the metallic tones in poison ivy. Maybe if I had put a coat of SV on it would have brought the colors in the polishes out more.

My next mani I did today was something a little more Christmas-y. I did 2 coats of NYC Broadway Burgundy Frost. Once that was dry I took my Kiss striping kit in white and silver glitter and striped all my nails. Here's how it turned out:

The first picture I shot before I put the stripes on as I thought it was such a pretty red with nice little red glitters inside it. By the time I added the stripes I was really tired from a long day at the hospital today that they didn't turn out as well as I had originally planned. I will have to re-do this manicure when I'm not so out of it.

I hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving filled with family, friends, and laughter!

Brit

Champagne Kisses

Hey All! Sorry I've been MIA the past few days. My friend from back home came up this weekend to stay with me and I didn't have any time to post. We had a great time though catching up on everything and shopping! I found some amazing items at our downtown stores, I'll be posting those tomorrow!

For tonight's mani I did 2-3 coats of China Glaze's Champagne Kisses and then did the tips with Wet N Wild's Ebony Hates Chris, then of course a coat of Seche Vite. Here's how it turned out:

I have to say I loved Champagne Kisses, it went on amazingly and totally covered my nail within 2 coats.  Also the glitter in it is just crazy, a total glitter bomb!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!! Thanksgiving is this week, anyone have any big plans?


XoXo
Brittany

Polka Dot, Polka Dot, Polka Dot

Hey everyone, I've been down with the flu hence my absence the past couple days.

For today's post my inspiration was mainly just the fact that I wanted to play around with my MASH dotting tools. I did a black and white mani and added polka dots on top of it. I really wanted to add a pink bow to my ring finger, but pooped out. Hopefully I can do it tomorrow and add some pictures.

 

 




For this mani I used two coats of Essie's marshmallow for the white and two coats of Wet N Wild's Ebony Hates Chris. I then added a coat of Seche Vite and let my nails dry, after they were dry I did black dots on the white nails and white dots on the black nots. As I said I used my MASH dotting tools for the dots. It was my first time using them on a full mani and I loved them, it made it so much easier.

The finished product

 

I still have yet to figure out how to upload my make up tutorial from my iPad so I think I'm going to have to redo it. If I'm filling up to it tomorrow I promise to post a make up and hair tutorial.

Hope everyone has a wonderful and relaxing weekend! :)


XoXo
Brittany



Halloween Pedicure

 

Happy Halloween Everyone!

 

For today's pedicure I did something festive for Halloween. For this pedicure I used Wet N Wild's Club Havana and Kiss's Nail Art Paint in Black.

 

First I painted all my toes in Club Havana and let them dry. Next I painted a diagonal stripe on all my toes with Kiss's Nail Art Paint black and painted the top section in. After that I wasn't too impressed so I wanted to add a little something extra. On both my big toes I added rhinestones along the diagonal and then all on all my other toes I grabbed Kiss's Nail Art Paint in silver and painted along the diagonal as well.

 

Here is my finished result:



 

 

 

What does your Halloween mani or pedi look like?? Feel free to send pictures at bkoch134@gmail.com

I'd like to introduce everyone to my pride and joy - Kali. Kali loves long walks outside, playing fetch, and dressing up!

Here is Kali in her Halloween costume:

Isn't she precious!? Does anyone else dress up their dogs for Halloween?

Anyways hope everyone has a Happy and Safe Halloween!


XoXo
Brittany