Zoya - Julie

Hello lovelys!

Last week I recieved my Zoya haul and finally this week I've began to re-organize my stash. So since my nail polish stash is in a turmoil, I decided to grab what was closest to me at the moment, Zoya - Julie!

Julie is a lovely lavender from the Lovely collection. She has loads of beautiful shimmer, and took 3 coats for full coverage.

Now I know I don't know crap about which colors suit which skin tone, but I'm pretty sure this color looks lovely against my skin!

The shot above was taken in the sun, love, love love!

And here is the picture of my haul from Zoya + 1 random hot topic polish that I got in a separate package at the same time so I decided to throw it in!

Love from Leesha's Lacquer

Leesha's Lacquer, Lacquer

Wonderful, Bunderful news!

I'm sure you all recall that a little over a month ago I started to dabble into the nail polish creating world. Well, I've decided to start selling my polishes!

I'll be announcing everything right here on my blog regarding my shop opening. The weeks leading up to the grand opening of my Etsy store I'll be hosting giveaways and my favorite, a competition to not only win some of my creations, but there will be other goody, goody prizes as well!

I've got a pretty fun line of glitters in my mind and some really cool holos I'd like to try out. There's so many things that you don't think matter when it comes to making nail polish but they do! Oh the stickers I must order and the little mixxy balls I need to keep in stock! It's a lot of work but I'm super excited to start sharing with you all my nail polish babies!

So just look forward to announcements in the coming weeks, I hope you're all as excited as I am!

Love from Leesha's Lacquer

Using Elmer's Glue as a Base Coat - The easiest way to remove glitter!

Do you, like many other unfortunate souls, love glitter but HATE the removal or just plain hate removing nail polish in general?

Well I know that Essence has their own Peel Off Base Coat, but I'm sure many of you have the cheaper alternatives sitting right in your own home!

The answer to all of your glitter removal disasters IS...Elmer's Glue! Or any other brand of runny glue that has approximately the same ingredients as Elmer's (which is pretty much every glue!).

Here are the things that you need for your very own DIY Peel Off Base Coat  :

Elmer's Glue, A Toothpick and A Brush to apply the glue to your nails!

Simple right?

What I did was I took one of the random brushes I had laying around, any one will do, the one I happened to find was a paint brush. I used that brush to paint a nice thick coat of elmers glue on each of my nails. I waited until the glue turned from white to clear and then painted my nails with the closest polish I had on hand!

Here is what my nails looked like directly after, there were a few bumps from the glue but I'm sure top coat would fix it. Isn't it ironic that I didn't use glitter for this tutorial?! 

Sick of your manicure? Time for removal!

Break out that toothpick and start picking away!

The polish should just start chipping away and you can easily peel it off once you get it started. As you can see on my ring finger the places where there wasn't glue didn't peel up, but it's nothing a little nail polish remover can't fix right up!

I wore this mani for 2 days before I started to get some tip wear, as seen on my pinky and middle finger. And as yuck as it may seem, here is what has become of the sad little polish strips. I'll save you the eyesore and allow the image to be at its smallest!                                                          

And that's it! That is how you remove any type of nail polish with a dash of elmer's glue as your base!

Next week I'll show you another way to remove nail polish with more house hold items that you probably have laying around.

Love from Leesha's Lacquer

Butterfly Bunday

Hello and Happy Cinco de Mayo as well as Sunday Bunday!

Regarding this mani. Have you ever had those days where you polish your nails and nothing is turning out right? This mani was the result of 3, yes 3, failed mani's and finally I was just like EFF IT *ANGRY SLATHERING OF NAIL POLISH* *ANGRY CREATION OF THE FIRST THING THAT POPS INTO MY HEAD* *ANGRY REMOVAL OF THE STUPID SWIRLY DESIGN* *ANGRY REPOLISH AND DESIGN OF THE NEXT THING THAT POPS INTO MY HEAD*

I'm not proud of it but it was all I could pull off in such angry circumstances!

Even as I put my blog watermark on it I thought to myself, Why bother, no one would wish to steal these anyway!

In a happier occasion, we shall all now view the wonderful, the furry, the I-tear-up-mommies-carpet-because-I'm-bored-even-though-I-have-at-least-twenty-toys, the one and only HARVEY!

Not to mention he enjoys tearing up his bed too! Exhibit A in the picture above.

BTW, he's licking his piggy in the bottom picture, he loves licking soft things like piggy and ducky and his bed!

Happy Cinco de Bunday!

Love from Leesha's Lacquer

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!

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

Spring Flower Fun - Nails Inc. - Holland Park and Color Club - Twiggie

Spring times here and I'm really feeling it!

I was part of a spring postcard exchange between me and 18 other bunnies from BunSpace (I know! A website, much like MySpace for Bunnies!) and I just got my postcards out today. So far I've gotten cards from Australia, Finland, Australia and Alabama! 

Anyway, on to the nails! First off I received 14 super cool nail polishes from a haul on eBay and as soon as I got them the other day I had to do nail art with a few of the colors I got! 

First I chose a base color which was Color Club - Twiggie (at least what I suspect it is, what's up with the lack of labels on most of the Color Clubs I buy?! Are all of them like this?!) and then I chose an accent nail color which was Nails Inc. - Holland Park (My first Nails Inc.!)

Then I was stumped for inspiration! The colors reminded me of dinosaurs so I wanted to do that, but I couldn't find a way to translate the awesomeness that was floating around in my mind! So then I thought dots, but yet again, I couldn't translate that either!

Finally, I got frustrated and decided to go with the flowers I created from my floral skirt inspired post, but in different colors!

Wellah! The Epitome of spring! 

Have a Bunderful - Ahem - Wonderful Wednesday!

Love from Leesha's Lacquer