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!

Leesha's Lacquer - 2/3 Polishes from the Valentines Day Trio

Hey everybunny!

So, my Birthday was this past Saturday, and I knew my nails had to be special for my special day. 

What a better way to celebrate than with 2 out of 3 of my new polishes from my Valentines Day Trio!

Here is a first look at Sweet Passion and Cupid's Arrow.

Cupid's Arrow is a fiery red holo with tons of sparkle. 

Cupid's Arrow is a Sparkly crelly with red, gold and pink glitters with a dash of holo.

I reached full opacity for both polishes in only two coats!

I don't mean to toot my own horn, but this crelly is absolutely to DIE for. It has the perfect amount of glitter, reaches full opacity in only two coats and has the perfect amount of depth.

I can't wait for these polishes to be released, Pre-Orders for the full trio are open now and you can find the listing HERE!

See you all soon with a something special!

Leesha's Lacquer - Welcome to the Freakshow

Hello there, everybun and Happy Monday!

I sort of copped out and took the lazy route today, since all I have for you is a swatch of one of my polishes from The American Horror Story Inspired Collection.

I figured, hey, I need a swatch pic for my shop AND something for my Monday post, so why not kill two polishes with one glitter? I totally made that up, and IT MAKES SENSE...

On to the swatches, shall we?

This is two coats over OPI - Cement the Deal

 There are so many different types of glitter in this polish. If I were to have to guess, I would say there are over 50 types of glitters in various shapes and sizes. This polish was inspired by the latest season of American Horror Story, Freakshow and is thus called Welcome to the Freakshow.

You can find this polish right HERE in my shop, in full size or in mini!

Thanks for stopping by, everybun!

Glinda the Good Witch! Nail Art Part II

Hey everybun!

One of my most popular post seems to be this one, from over a year ago with some Wizard of Oz nail art. I did some Glinda the Good Witch nails, and looking back, I feel that my nail art skills have improved vastly, and so has my photography. 

For the funs of it, I decided to recreate this look to compare the two!

Leesha's Lacquer - Sweater Weather

Hullo, everybun!

These potatoe quality photos are from the craft show a couple of Friday's ago. 

I managed to sell out of all the Sweater Weather's that I had in stock with these nails, so that's a plus!

Essie - Leading Lady

Hey there everybun!

Happy, Monday.. even if it hasn't been a happy Monday for you, there's always Tuesday, right?

This past Thursday, I went to a Paloma Faith concert and I could think of no other polish to wear than Leading Lady by Essie!

Rainbow Skye Lacquer - Swatch and Review

Hey everybun!
I debated hard, whether or not to post these swatches today, because I'm sure none of you have ever heard of Rainbow Skye Lacquer and there's a very good reason for that!

Let me explain..

I'm a part of an awesome Indie Nail Polish making group on Facebook and with that, I'm also a part of their Indie polish exchange. Well, the group isn't JUST for indie polish makers, it's also for indie hobby makers who either only make polishes for themselves or for their family and friends. 

I received 4 polishes from one of these types of makers, therefore NONE of these polishes are on the market and NONE have been released to the public.

Well then why post this polish you ask? BECAUSE THEY'RE AMAZING!

The owner of Rainbow Skye has said that she's been thinking of starting to offer her polishes to the public and hopefully this blog post will push her to do so!

So, let's begin with one of the polishes I received, which is very halloween-y!

Zoya Ombre

Hey everybun!

College, the State Fair, my sister's art show AND some major cleaning have all rendered me useless in the nail art world. I wanted to have some super boss nails for school, but I was only able to crank this out the night before class (when I should have been sleeping!).

I used all Zoya's with my thumb and ring being textured "accent" nails.

Leesha's Lacquer Repin Rewind French Studs

Hey everybun!

It's been a crazy week dealing with preps for college (which starts on Monday D: ) and doing everything I can (like staying up late with my friends) before I have to get back in the groove of things.

For now, my posts may be a little less often but I vow that I've not forgotten about all of you's.

The nails I'm going to show you today are the beauties that I wore to the pow wow. Ready for awesomeness?!

Bam! These are super shiny sparklers. I used pink as my base on my thumb and ring and Repin Rewind on its own on the rest of my fingers.

These were a huge hit with my family up north, and I hope you all will love them just as much! 

I'm writing this on mobile blogger, so I'll come back later to patch up the odd formatting. 

I'll see you all soon!

- Love from, Leesha's Lacquer

Born Pretty Store Review - Holo Rainbow Glitter!

*product sent to me to review in exchange for my honest opinion

Hey everybun!
Happy Friday!
I have the promised Born Pretty review and oh lawdy, is it a girl's glittery dream! It's holo heaven, in fact.
Ready to see eyeball popping glitter? Prepare yourself!

Click below to read on for more pictures and my review!

What Inspires You? Leesha's Lacquer - New Collection coming soon!

:O What could it mean?

How Ominous!

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!

China Glaze - Put a Bow on it Swatch and Review

Happy Monday, everybun!

I am, once again, so freakin' happy to be here. It's like a whole new world has been opened up to me once again!

Are you all as excited as I am to feast your eyes on this pretty little swatchy of China Glaze, that has been staring me in the eye, sitting and waiting on the shelf behind my toilet day in and day out. Finally, just the other day as I was taking a bath and doing my acrylics (yeah, okay, it might not be a good idea to do that with the water and acrylic powder and all. But I'm very Pro..sort of..Okay, I'm smart enough to not flail around and get chemicals everywhere!), I look up and realize, hot damn, I forgot to grab some polish! Guess who was staring me straight in the eye? This little pretty! :

I actually wasn't even sure if she was a full coverage glitter, I just put her on, prayed, and 3 coats later we were golden! In the picture is 3 days of wear, which you can see a bit on the tips but other than that I had no issues with formula etc. She was a bit gritty and matte-ish but all was fixed with a nice helping of Seche Vite.

Put a Bow on it is one of those in your face glitters than caused me to have PLS (Polish Looking Syndrome). You know when you have a color on, and it's so pretty, you keep sneaking glances at it in different lights whenever you can? PLS! As in PLS get me some more of this polish..*generic laugh track*

Really folks, I'm here ALL NIGHT!

Terrible jokes aside, I have found a true winner in this glittery glory, 5/5 would recommend to a friend!

Leesha's Lacquer - Desert Mirage Swatch and YAY NEW LAPTOP!

It wasn't long that I had to go without a laptop. The screen was mysteriously broken in the corner Thursday, Completely shattered and unusable Friday and I had a new one by Sunday! I'm happy I have my new one and only missed 1 day of posting. 

Friday was a super eventful day. I met up with some old girlfriends that I haven't spoken to since High School and got "the gang" back together. They all lurved that I make polish now, and of course I gave them freebies! My friend Angela was kind enough to supply me with a swatch of one of my new polishes, Desert Mirage and since I was busy with them all weekend and wasn't able to properly fit in mani time.

This is Desert Mirage courtesy of Angela :

I gotta hardcore thank Angela for letting me post her swatches! 

Leesha's Lacquer will be going through some expansion soon, I'll have an offishal announcement about it as soon as the ball gets rolling. 

See you all on humpday and wish me luck on my drivers test! It's on Wednesday!

Love 4 JLK

Hello everyone, and Happy Valentines day! 

Today we'll be taking a bit of a different turn here on my blog for Valentines day. I've been following THIS blog for a while and every post has broken my heart. This beautiful little girl, JLK, was diagnosed back in October of 2013 with DIPG. The blog has been written by JLK's mother and chronicles her heartbreak through this difficult time in both her and her families lives. I encourage you to send your love and prayers to the family of JLK, as she has just gained her angel wings as of 2/12/14.

"The Glitter Squad", as the followers of JLK's story are called, inspired me to get my glitter loving butt into gear and DO something in honor of JLK and all of the other children who suffer such awful things.

Since it's Valentine's Day, I thought I'd start by sharing the love in a different way..

This is Love 4 JLK :

I made this glittery goody which features gold and pink holo hexes, holo "fairy dust" and silver glitter. 

This nail polish is available HERE . 

The best part about it? ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO A GOOD CAUSE! 50% will go to the Family of JLK, and you can find her donation website HERE. And 50% will go to St. Jude Children's Hospital, website found HERE.

The only thing that will not go to charity will, of course, be the shipping costs.

The nail polish is available in a Full Size for $7.00 and Mini Size for $3.50

This is a special nail polish that will be available for 1 month, starting today, 2/14/14 to 3/14/14.

All money earned from the sales of these nail polishes will go to the JLK donation site and St.Jude's website. 

Thank you so much for reading and if you don't wish to buy a polish, at least keep the family of JLK in your thoughts and prayers!

Sally Hansen Ooh La La Ombre Gold- Happy Birthday to ME!

Hello everyone!

It's my birthday today, woo woo!

I had some birthday nails planned out yesterday, but they didn't work out so here is birthday mani #2!

From Left to Right : Golden I, Coin Flip and Spark in the Dark

As the title says, This is a pack of three polishes called Ooh La La Ombre Glittery Gold. It comes with all the polishes you see above. I was actually pretty sad, I really did sponge Coin Flip onto Golden I but you can't see it at all in these pictures, much less real life. The colors are too dupe-ish, so the effect doesn't really work. 

Oh well, Woe is me I guess, I still really like the way this looks on the nails, even though the effect wasn't achieved. 

Have a happy Friday ya'll!

Rambles of a Polish Addict Guest Post #2

 

Hi y'all! I'm Katherine from over at Rambles of a Polish Addict and Leesha asked me recently if I could do a guest post for her while she was away on vacation, and I came up with this fun dream catch nail art for you. Leesha reached out to me recently when my bunny passed away (sad face) and sent me a custom polish in Foofy's honor, which I've included in this mani as well.

 

For this look I used Sinful Colors Hazard as the base color. And two coats of the polish Leesha sent me on the ring finger for an accent. Just two coats and the glitter was nearly fully overing the base color, it's a total glitter bomb! Packed sooo full with all that glitter and it all looks so pretty on the nail, I love it.

 

 

For the rest of the details I did them all with acrylic paints in various colors and a tiny little detail nail art brush. It took me a while to think of something when Leesha asked if I'd like to do a guest post, of course I said yes right away, but then thinking of what to do.. that was harder. But then I thought of something I've been wanting to do for a while and never could find a reason to. And I also wanted to be sure it would be something different than what's been on my own blog lately, and since I've never done dream catchers and have been wanting to, it was perfect!

 

So I hope you all enjoy themeven if they were more bright and summery than necessary for these winter months.

If you'd like to see more of Katherines beautiful nail arts be sure to check out her blog
Rambles of a Polish Addict

Creations By Lynda - Black Friday Haul

Now I know Black Friday was a while ago. But I felt that in order to give my honest opinion on these lovelies I got from Lynda over at Creations by Lynda I had to thoroughly test them out. I bought all of these beauties with my own money and of course the following opinion is my own.

Here are the beauties that I got :

I've been needing a good cuticle oil with this harsh winter weather and all I had was some Sally's stuff that I bought a long time ago so I felt that I had to properly treat myself with some nice cuticle oil! 

Now, I've heard many lovely things about Lynda's cuticle oil and had to try some when she had a deal going on for Black Friday. One of the deals included the lovely polish above.

First, let's start with the cuticle oil. I LOVE cucumber so Cucumber Melon was the first one I tried. The scent is absolutely delightful, not to overpowering but still leaves a cucumber-melon-y smell for a bit after you put it on. Compared to my Sally's stuff, this soaked in very fast and made my cuticles go from YUCK to PICTURE PERFECT in only one use! This is obviously my first indie cuticle oil but I will absolutely be going back when I run out of these two. I smelled the Green Tea and Lemongrass cuticle oil, but have yet to use it as I'm saving it as my back up. 

Over all, the cuticle oil was an A+ in my book!

Now for the Polish!

2 Coats of Winter has Come over 2 Coats of Revlon-Charming

This glitter topper was absolutely gorgeous (p.s, my cuticles look lovely in this pictures thanks to only 2 days of cuticle oil use!)

My only complaint that I had was when I first opened the bottle, is that there was a bunch of glitter that was gooped up toward the opening of the bottle. I just took a napkin and tried my best to swipe up as much goopy glitter as I could and all was well again. The polish formula itself was easy to work with and reached this opacity in 2 coats. The white glitter mixed with the irredescent glitter make this look like a winter wonder land and despite the goopy top problem, this polish was gorgeous!

I'm so happy I purchased this and would definitely recommend Lynda for her cuticle oil and unique blend of polishes!

Fall - Blue and Gold!

Empty promises, I know! I said last week I'd be posting but BOOP. I had my craft sale Saturday so WORK WAS DONE! All week last week I did last minute things.

Here's a shot from the craft show in case any one's wondering/think I'm lyin'

Me on the left and Tiana on the Right!

Fun was had and money was made! I felt bad for the people beside us that were selling bath fizzes/ plates. They only made one sale :(

But anyways, here are some much needed nail arts. I have so much new nail polish since I've last blogged it's not even funny! This is one of them..

This would be American Apparel - Passport Blue with an unnamed Elf polish and a glitter that I made.

 This blue is SUCH A BEAUTIFUL BLUE. I bought a lot of American Apparel polishes a while ago and just got around to swatching them now and OH MY GOODNESS ARE THEY SOOOO SMOOTH! Smooth and gorgeous. 

I'll be back with more nail arts, and this time I double, triple promise!

Leesha's Lacquer Polishes!

Hey, everybun! I've taken some time today to do a few swatches of some polishes I've recently made.

Pink Cashmere

DaBaDeDaBaDi

Raspberry Beret

Red, Red Wine

I took some crap pictures of them before this and felt that they all deserved to be swatch on the nail. On the nail you can truly see the things that make them unique, like in DaBaDeDaBaDi, it was sooo hard to photograph that little bit of holo on the nail wheel.

So, what's the verdict on these babies? They're all opaque in 2 -3 coats. 

Are they winners?

Find these beauties here!