Born Pretty Store Review - Peacock Party!

*Products provided to me in exchange for my honest review

Hello, everybun! 

Happy Holidays! 

There's only a few more days until Christmas and I can't wait until you guys see the wonderful guest posts I have for you! Until then, I have this review for your eyeball enjoyment.

Here is what I received and I do have to say that I was surprised to receive a GIANT water decal. I looked at it and had to take a pause, since I had no idea how I was going to go about doing this! 

OPI - Alcatraz Rocks and NEW CAMERA!

Hey everyone!

If you've checked my Facebook recently you would have seen the adorable picture of the buns. You also would have heard that I got a brand new Nikon D3200. These are some of the first nail shots I've gotten with them and I feel that this polish was a perfect first test shot. All of that texture really helped me work out the settings and I am in LOVE with the quality of the pictures!

I'm not sure how ya'll feel about the bigger picture size but with all of the details that the camera captured , I might have to go back to the bigger size!

Anyways, enough about the camera, let's get to the polish! This is OPI - Alcatraz Rocks, a textured Blurple that was a part of OPI's San Francisco Collection. I love the rainbowy multi-faceted look that this polish gives off. The texture is wonderful as well, it's not too rough and I noticed with 3 days of wear the texture actually wears down quite a bit.

Over all, This polish is on key for every day or even special occasions. I'm also super happy with the current quality of my pictures... now, to redo the blog to a quality that I'd like!

P.S, Have the cutie bun pic that I was talking about at the top of this post!

Unboxing of The Nail Stash - May 2013

Hello everybun, I'm doing something a little bit different today because I just received my first month of the nail polish subscription service, The Nail Stash. The Nail Stash has subscription services offered for 1 Month ($14.00), 3 Months ($39.00), 6 Months ($79.00) and 12 Months for ($150.00).
As a trial I decided to buy myself a 3 Month subscription to see how it goes.
Well their was a delay for this past months box so this is really an unboxing of the May 2013 box in June!

No matter for the delay, so here we go!

It was so hard for me to refrain myself from ripping this box to shreds and getting to the nail goodies, but I managed just for the sake of these pictures!

I really like the appearance of the boxes, the bright red theme is sure to catch your attention and its nice to look forward to getting that bright red box in the mail! I appreciate myself some nice packagin's!

It was nice to get this card (even if it didn't include every polish) that shows what you might get because look at it all! Can you REALLY get that many polishes/goodies?!

Tada!

These are the polishes and the goody that I received. I WAS however nervous to see that all of the polishes had sunk to the bottom of these little red crinkly worms and were just freely roaming around the box. Granted their is a layer of bubble wrap on the bottom but I had to dig to get these babies out. The caviar beads, in fact, were tangled in the little red crinkly worms!

From left to right the polishes are OPI - Happy Anniversary
 The second one, after much research, I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is! It doesn't look like anything in the OPI I pronounce you... or the OPI Disney Oz Great & Powerful. Of course since it is a mini it doesn't have a name on it...,
Color Club - Endless Summer (which was not written on the card)
Nubar - Sparkle Me Up
 and Nubar -Forbidden Fruit

The last little guy, of course, is a caviar bead pot. If I don't use this, I think I'll save it for a future give away!

Overall I am happy with this month. I've never tried Nubar polishes and I always love me some Color Club! The OPI minis are meh for me because out of all the minis, OPI seems to have then miniest of minis. I wish I knew the second colors name though. 

I'll do the unboxing for next months Nail Stash as well so look forward to that!

Polyvore - Nail Art Inspiration

Nail Art inspiration by lalaleesha featuring opi nail lacquer

I made this set to showcase my nail art on Polyvore! I couldn't find the nail polishes I used though, so I just chose the equivalent in OPI.

So the cat's out of the bag! Yes, I'm a frequent user of polyvore as you see, I'm not sure why or how I started but now I'm addicted!

Ikat Nail Art

I know I said I'd post this Friday but then I accidentally forgot. OOPS!

So you get it today! I said I would use Sinful Colors - Cinderella as a base for some nail art. Well here it is!

Yes, this is the newest trend in nail art : The ikat trend. You've probably seen it everywhere and if not, well, you're seeing it here!

This is with no top coat because I liked the odd texture...

 I used :

Dark Blue - OPI - Blue My Mind! 

Medium blue - Black Poppy (unnamed) from pacsun

and the base was Sinful Colors - Cinderella 

...and this is with top coat because I was curious to see what it would look like with top coat after about an hour.

Really all the topcoat did was take away the texture. It looks well either way!

This was my first ikat and I really liked how it turned out! You don't need to be precise so it's like, who couldn't do this? I'll definitely play around with this some more because it was so easy!

Love from Leesha's Lacquer

Liquid Sand by OPI

Usually I wait when it comes to nail trends until the polishes are on sale, but I couldn't help myself when I saw the latest trend, Liquid Sand. After my $80 Ulta shopping spree I picked up this beauty right here,

 Get Your Number by Opi.

Below is the difference between one and two coats. On the left is two and the right is one. And no, I did not take the picture with my mouth! I had a little help! I'm sure I would have accomplished an amazing feat if I had! 

What worried me the most about this was not being able to use top coat. I am NOTHING without my Seche Vite top coat! Due to not having my precious top coat, I'm on my third day with this polish and I do see wear on the tips. It goes without saying that it's a but rough on the top, but again, after a few days it begins to smooth out a little bit. Overall I really like it, I know some people can't stand the roughness of it, but I welcome it because anyone with acrylic nails knows how difficult it is to itch a scratch with acrylics!

And, of course I had to try out a little nail art to see how it would go over the rough texture.

I was surprised to see that the black, which was Wet n Wild - Ebony Hates Chris turned out to be matte when it dried. It also was obviously texturized. That picture was taken 3 days after I first applied Get Your Number and you can sort of see a bit of wear on the tips.

In conclusion : I love me some liquid sand!

Love from Leesha's Lacquer