Happy St.Paddy's Day with Bin Chic's St.Paddy's Shillelagh !

Hey there everybun, and Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Hopefully you wore SOME type of green today so as to avoid the dreaded pinch. I was pinched quite a few times, but was able to get some pinch back revenge since I was in fact wearing green on my nails!

THIS green in fact! :

This is St.Paddy's Shillelagh sponged over my own Rock-y Hard Abs with Julep Shoshanna as the holo glitter.

St. Paddy's Shillelagh is a beautiful green perfect for St.Paddy's day! It has tons of beautiful green shimmer that makes this an absolutely must have green polish.

I hope you all have a fun and safe St.Paddy's Day! Cheers to all!

Nail Art - Blue Glitter Gradient

Hey everybun!

Sometimes it seems that my most simple and easy ideas of nail art turn out the best. This is one of those times.

Sinful Colors - Hottie

Wet n Wild - Kaleidoscope

I am so so so so so much in love with these nails! I never ever want to take this polish off I love it sooo much!

It was so simple to do and it took less than 5 minutes for everything. I even did both hands!

Yay for simple yet stunning designs!

Hmm, there's not much more to say about this nail art other than it's clearly one of my favoritests. So how has your week been?

Happy hump day!

Spring Mani (for a contest!)

Hey everyone!

I've had a flu/cold kicking my butt since Sunday, and I've finally felt well enough to get out of bed which means I've also felt well enough to do my nails! I've had this 2 Girls 20 Nails Spring Nail Art Competition in the back of my mind for the past week and got straight to a spring-ish mani today. Here's what I came up with:

I did a little gradient with some spring-y bright colors, then some one stroke flowers and wellah!

Here is my entry for the competition:

Happy Spring everybun!

Thanksgiving Gradient

First of all, I hope all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving if you're celebrating it and if you're not, have a Super Okay Thursday !

I did some pretty cool turkey nail art last year, but this year I got lazy and decided to just do a gradient because it's easiest. So here it is! It doesn't even bare a slight resemblance to anything thanksgiving related (unless you count cooking over a fire?), but it's all my lazy butt churned out!

In real life, the gradient looks much more smoothly transitioned, but here you can't even see the light orange that leads from the yellow to the darker orange.

Hopefully you all have a much prettier and more successful Thanksgiving mani and most of all, I hope you all pig out for me!

I will sadly be going to the early Black Friday sales that begin at 6, so imma have to stuff myself early.

Have a lovely Thanksgiving, ya'll!

Still feelin' summer!

Hello everybun!

I'm back with teh nets and teh postings!

Despite all of this happy there is still some sad BECAUSE ITS SO FREAKIN HOT! It was in the 90's on Monday and it's still in the upper 80's today. Isn't it supposed to be feelin' like fall?!

Since I'm still feeling so summery I decided to make a bright mani to reflect all of these summer vibes!

Lefty

Righty

I was actually just sort of experimenting designs over my right hand but I liked the way they looked so much that I decided to do the same on my left!
I am NOT with my polishes right now so I'm still not sure of color specifics. 

The black and white designs were done with black and white migi nail art pens.

I have some more fall-esque nail designs coming up to try to get me in the fall mood!

Guest Post - Polish Freshie

Hey everyone!

So It was brought to my attention that I had a guest post lined up that DID NOT GET POSTED! Actually, not just one but 2!

BLAGHHHH! This makes me sooooo angry! 

Luckily I was wondering what I was to do because every one of my acrylics broke off and I've been running around like crazy, too busy to fix them. I hope you enjoy this post and thank you very much to Polish Freshie for doing this for me!

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When I was approached to do a guest post as Leesha was going to be on vacation I thought what could be more appropriate than palm  trees? For me, the two go hand in hand (even if you're not going somewhere tropical :) ). I have all these great neons waiting to be  dragged out of the stash but I wasn't sure I wanted to use them for this mani. I then saw OPI Oy - Another Polish Joke! glinting at me  from the back of the helmer. This is absolutely one of my favorite polishes, the gold sparkles for days and has a nice, smooth finish. I  used three coats - there's still a bit of visible nail line on the longer nails with a lot of white tip.

For the accent nails I used a base of China Glaze Sunset Sail (another of my faves) and then sponged on Oy APJ!, Sunset Sail and  China Glaze Secret Peri-winkle. I went over the colors twice with the sponge. lastly, I stamped the palm trees from Bundle Monster plate  315 with Zoya Ibiza. Thanks for reading and if you are iclined to follow me, you can do so at http://PolishFreshie.Blogspot.com.

Thanks! 

Freshie

polishfreshie@aol.com

Hugs & Polish

Sally Hansen - Anemone of Mine and Zoya - Trixie Gradient

Hello lovelies!

I am back! Back with a beautiful, gorgeous gradient. Okay actually it isn't my best...the photos came out all blurry and the gradient didn't sponge that well but it's all I got at the moment. Hopefully you will think it's much prettier than I do!

The Purple is Sally Hansen - Anemone of Mine

The Silver is Zoya - Trixie

These new Sally Hansen bottles are soo pretty but the brushes are kind of wide which made for weird application. And as usual Zoya worked beautifully, even with my crappy sponging. 

Sometimes I don't know what to say at the end of blog posts so I leave you with this terrible, awful joke.

This morning I tried to catch some fog, I mist.

*Badum TSH*

Pow Wow Pow!

Hello everybun!
Ugh, I missed Sunday Bunday (make up pictures will be at the end of this post!) but again, I have a very good reason for it and I'll show you why!

That's right! My first Polish from the Native American Collection. Well, this is actually the second in the line but I really wanted to show you guys this one first!

Pow Wow Pow is a super packed rainbow explosion of color. There's literally almost every color of glitter I own in here. There's black, silver, ROYGBIV, it's all here! It's called pow wow pow because at Pow Wow's there is always so much color going on, sometimes it's overwhelming!

I used the dab method above to create this gradient and I used Sinful Colors - Secret Admirer as a base. Even though I created this, I was surprised with how much I got with each pulling up of the brush! So it is jam packed with glitter! On my swatch stick it took 2 coats for a decent opacity where the undercolor popped through (I used yellow) but the glitter didn't overpower it.

 I spent all of yesterday mixing glitters and filling the bottles with glitter. There are 5 polishes in this collection of 5 bottles each. 

Since there is a lot to write about the blogger sample sets that I'm going to be mixin and makin soon, I'll just make a separate blog post about that! 

So yeah, I was super busy yesterday making sure all the labels were cool and making sure all the glitter was correctly proportioned and MAN is my back sore from moving around all day!

So, Sunday Bunday on a Monday, here we go!

So this is how they're set up in the living room!

Paprika

Harvey (In his box!)

Have a Bunderful Monday!

Love from Leesha's Lacquer

P.S Look forward to a review of a product I received from KKCenterhk on Wednesday! 

Julep - Madeline and I Love Nail Polish - All Gold Everything

Hi guys!

I was super lazy and decided to just do a gradient on the hand that didn't have the bunnies. I put Julep - Madeline on, which is a part of their Sea Salt collection and then used the brush of I Love Nail Polish - All Gold Everything to make the gradient.

Yay gold and pink! I was surprised how Madeline wasn't as annoying as I thought it would be. I have issues with the gritty feeling of liquid sand and this didn't feel gritty at all!

Happy Monday!

Love from Leesha's Lacquer

Black Glitter Gradient - Sparkly, Sparkly!

Hello lovelys! Happy Monday!

It's true.. Once you start the gradient you just don't stop!

The following glitter gradient truly was never meant to be. I was totally going for an edgy punk rock look and somehow transformed it into WOO LET'S GO TO THE CLUB * obnoxious house music*

The black is Nina Ultra pro

The glitters are Wet n Wild - Kaleidoscope

and

Sally Hansen - Twinkle, Twinkle

Despite this mani not turning out the way I wanted it too, I'm happy with the final product!

Oh gradients..my new love!

Love from Leesha's Lacquer

Extra Relaxed 31 Day Challenge - Day 10, Gradient Nails

Hello Dearest Readers!

When I saw that today in the ER31DC was Gradient nails I both inwardly cringed and outwardly sighed. I've never done gradient nails before! 

I was terrified, I wasn't sure that they would turn out , but alas , I conquered my fear and went in for the kill!

Tada! 

I used a sponge that I found at my local dollar tree 

The darkest color is Tailored Creme - Sally Hansen 

and 

the lightest is Confetti -Lonesome Dove

Then I used a dotting tool to put some clouds on this gloomy gradient with Julie G- Blueberry Fizz

How did I go from one day being sunny and flowery and the next gloomy and cloudy?! The difference a day makes I guess!

Check out the other ladies Gradient nails below, as always!

Love from Leesha's Lacquer

Spoiled - Distant Memory and Spoiled - Use Protection

Hello dearest readers!

No, my nail polish is NOT spoiled, that's very much the name brand of the nail polish for those of you who aren't familiar with it. I won a huge lot of about 30 spoiled nail polishes on eBay a few months ago and besides swatching them on my nail sticks, I haven't used a lot of them. I think I'll need to start using more because I really love them!

Woo! I loved the way these turned out! I also found the studs on eBay a while back. You can kind of see how they lifted a little on my pointer and pinky but that's because I didn't take as much time holding them down like I did with my middle finger. Also they're pretty big and nails are curved and all so I suppose it's a bit expected.

Use Protection is that pretty glitter gradient. It has a slightly blue base with various blue and silver particles that shimmer green and yellow in certain lights.

And here's a little swatch of Distant Memory.

I'm not sure if this is blue or green because in darker lights such as the swatch above it looks green but in brighter lights like in the picture with the studs and glitter gradient, it looks blue as well as looking Turquoise in the bottle. :/

The little shimmer particles are lovely but it does dry matte so I added a coat of Seche to bring out more of the depth that Distant Memory holds.

Spoiled is such a wonderful brand with funny names that depict, well, someone who is spoiled!

More swatches and nail art of spoiled is soon come!

Love from Leesha's Lacquer

Extra Relaxed 31 Day Challenge - Day 5

The first thing I thought to myself when I blindly grabbed for 3 random yet closely related blues was, Oh no, This is going to be a DISASTER!

Yet as I finished my last nail, I'm proud to say my crazy willy nilly attitude produced some quality nail art!

The orange/coral is the same I used Wednesday. I know it's odd to pair orange with blue  I think its odd to pair orange with blue and I sort of just grabbed at blues that looked pretty in my drawer! From lightest to darkest they are :

China Glaze - Turned up Turquoise

Spoiled - Distant Memory

Wet n Wild -Bijou Blue

I'm really happy with my blues! 

In unrelated blue news I decided I'd like to try my hand at making my own indie polish (not to be confused with frankening, which is taking already made polish and mixing them together,  for those who don't know ((I'm talking to you mom!)) I'm talking about the whole 9 yards.. hell.. I'm talking the whole 10 yards! I bought a starter kit on etsy and a few micas and glitters I saw on my search for supplies and for now I'm going to see if I'm actually good at it. I don't want to go all out on something I'm not even sure that I'm good at.

I'll give you all more details in the future when I actually get to the mix'n!

Check out the rest of the girls Blue nails down below and have a happy Friday!

Love from Leesha's Lacquer