Born Pretty Review - Pink/Green Shift Rhinestones

*Products in this post have been given to me in exchange for my honest review

Hey everybun, and happy Friday!

I have another Born Pretty Review that I've been meaning to make for quite some time but I've been too busy to do so. These beautiful rhinestones that I've been sent have stumped me for quite some time. Should I do something extravagant? Simple? Fun?
Well, upon much debate, I've decided to go with....simple! Simple yet blingy, that is!

Now click on, for more pretty!

MTK Design - New Indie Review!

*Products were provided to me in exchange for my honest review

Hullo everybun!

Today I have the honor of swatching and introducing you to a new indie called MTK Design. I'm a part of a couple of Indie groups on facebook and when the lovely Mary was calling for swatches of her pretty new polishes, I jumped at the chance.

Meet #11

And click on for more shots of this beauty!

Jessica - Tangerine Dreamz

Hey everybun!

I've been a crazy woman lately, running around making last minute preparations and all that jazz for my craft show on Saturday. I'm amazed I was able to post anything this week and I'm continuing on being a good blogger by settling down for a minute to write this blog post!

By the way, if any of you lovely people are in Minnesota, specifically close to the Andover area, I'll post the info to the craft show at the end of this post so MAYBE I can meet some of you lovely ladies.

On to the post!

This is a new to me polish brand that I received in what I believe was a Nail Art Society package and I'm now just getting around to poking around with what was in the bag.

Click below to see what I thought of these. (And more pictures!)

Sally Hansen Lustre Shine - Lava Swatch

Happy Monday everybun!

I've been a bad (and busy!) blogger and had no 4th of July mani for you all. I'm sure you've all seen dozens by now though, so since you're all 4th of July'd out, here is some nice easy going beautiful duochrome goodiness from Sally Hansen's Lustre Shine line.

Say hello to Lava! (Click below for more pics!)

Rainbow French Tips

Hey everybunny!

Happy Friday!

I, for whatever reason on Wednesday, decided it was an opportune time to do all of my nails. Now I usually don't do all of my nails because I usually only get to wear them all for a day or so before I have to take them off and do them again. I generally have mismatched nails because I hate to go bare so it's nail art and designs for the blog on the left, and whatever color I'm feeling on the right. But for these past few days? My nails have been a match made in nail polish heaven!

I just grabbed for cremes and I'm not certain what the colors were. I was hoping to finish the rainbow with purple but not all of my nails cooperated in line even-ness. 

These were soooo fun to make and to look at! I got so many compliments and basked in the glory when I told whoever complimented me that YES, I MADE THESE!

I'm so proud!

See you all Monday for some more polish fun!

Fun with Floral

Happy, Happy Friday everyone! 

It's been nice being around the blog this week, and I have more nail art for you today!

I've been having fun with floral this week and when stumped for an idea of nail art, I thought why not keep on with the trend?

My favorite nails are my pointer and ring. I love the way the branchy things look!

As you can see I used Maybelline - Audacious Asphalt as my base, and acrylic paint for the rest.

Have a flowery and fun Friday!

Superbowl Nail Art Before and After

Hey everyone!

I'm sure by now you're either all enjoying the super bowl OR completely ignoring all of the sporty references to this ball and foot game that you're completely indifferent too.

I am currently with family though, and of course I'm watching the game. If you recall one of my first posts was about the super bowl and I did some super bowl nails. I decided for this years SB I'd recreate the look I did last year, and oh dear have my nail art skills improved!

As you can see in this little comparison pic, I've learned tons about nail art in this past year.

I don't much care who wins and who loses, it was just fun to see how far I've come in the nail art world.

I'll have a bloggiversary post for you all tomorrow, but for now, Happy Superbowl!

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

Floral Frenchies

Hello everybun! Tomorrow I have a very exciting Black Friday Giveaway that I'm super excited for WOO! But I'm also really excited because I just got a new desk and desk lamp and so now my lighting looks FABULOUS. I barely even had to adjust the lighting for this!
The colors are almost exactly what they look like in real life now!

Wooo , have a floral frenchie as a celebration!

Sinful Colors - Slate
Sinful Colors - Black on Black
Sinful Colors - Unicorn
Sinful Colors - Island Coral

I'm excited, are you all as excited as I am? :D

Light em' up, up, up. I'm On FIIAH!

Man I LOVE that song, it was an inspiration for these babies..

Yes, that is right! I'm throwin' some fire nail art your way!

I've been LOVING my migi nail art pens that I just bought at the state fair this year, so of course I was just messing around and used them for these nails. My nails look SO PINK in these pictures and I have no idea why..I just added a fresh coat of acrylic so that may be the culprit..

Anywho, I've done a crap ton of nail art this past week so prepare yourselves for some nail art over load!

Halloween Nail Art

Hello everybun!

Time for my first Halloween Nail Art of the season!

Wet n Wild : Ebony Hates Chris, Sunny Side Up and Club Havana

I decided to do a silhouette type of dealy of a haunted house, some bats and a kitty cat. My bats look more like spiders though :(

Have a happy happy Friday!

Feelin' Floral

Hello lovelies!

I'm back! I finally found inspiration the other day and was able to successfully redo my acrylic nails

I also found inspiration in doing something floral, and this was the result..

This is one of my favorite manis that I've done as of recent times! The base color is Zoya - Kelly and then I just grabbed for a buttload of other colors. 

Lefty

Righty

I am having such a busy week this week. Monday I went to the MOA and seen Monster's University (awesome movie btw, it was very nostalgic!), Today I have a Fall Out Boy concert to go to (SQUEE!), Friday is our cities carnival/parade thingy, and Saturday is Fireworks!

I hope to get some nail work done with some lovely polishes that I was sent to review but don't expect to see too much nail art this week! 

Fare thee well! Hope to be back to the swing of things next week!

P.S DON'T FORGET ABOUT MY NAIL ART COMPETITION FOUND HERE

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

Fishtail/Braided Tips

Hi there!

I've had this idea in my mind for quite sometime now. On top of that I've been wishing to do a fishtail/braided  mani for a long time! I noticed a lack of fishtail/braided nail art on tips, french-mani style, so here is my try at it!

Woohoo this was so exciting to do I love, love, loved it! Admittedly , the purple and blue turned out better than the orange and green imo, but you can't blame me for my first try!

There was a plethora of polishes used on these. Don't make me get up and dig them all out again, I beg you! 

I also adore how the nude works with the bam, bam brights! 

I'm excited, can you tell? Next week I'll have to try something fun like this again!

Love from Leesha's Lacquer

Barielle - Orange Parfait

Hi all!

I have for you a swatch of Barielle - Orange Parfait that I got in my last nail haul from Holly over at Holly and Polish. 

This was my first Barielle polish and I have to say I really really liked it! 

Now on to the swatch!

*UPDATE: haha just kidding on to the swatch after this update! I just discovered its Animal Cruelty Prevention month and I love my fur baby Harvey who was rescued from a hoarders home. I adopted him from the humane society and he's adapted to living the good cage free life he lives today. The color for Animal Cruelty Prevention is orange so I dedicate this post to that. Carry on now!

This is a beautiful orange creme that reached full opacity in 3 coats, the 2nd looked fine but I have a habit of adding an extra coat with cremes. I added one coat of seche vite in the pictures above.

The formula was excellent, not to thick and not to runny.

I also must admit, I'm AWFUL when it comes to saying "This color is NOT for my skin tone" because in my opinion there's no polish that I find that I think looks bad on me!

I don't understand why some people say their skin tone doesn't match with a color! So you'll never hear me say that a colors not for me because I embrace all the colors!

Overall, I really loved this polish the formula was great, application was great and I'll definitely be getting more Barielle polishes in the future

Love from Leesha's Lacquer

Polka Spots

Hi everyone!

I'm racing the clock because I completely blanked on an idea for today's mani!

Then I remembered Sophie was having a competition that involved polka spots and the randomness began!

I also went on a huge China Glaze haul today because Sally's is having a buy 2 get 1 free through the month of April.

So here it is!

The colors I used in rainbow order were :

China Glaze - Passion for Petals

China Glaze - Celtic Sun

China Glaze - For Audrey

China Glaze - Fancy Pants

I also had a random easter egg laying around that sort of matched and this happened :

I love my little polka spots!

Love from Leesha's Lacquer

Extra Relaxed 31 Day Challenge - Day 2

I know I said I'd do this post later in the evening but I stayed up all night and now I have little to do, so why not post this now?

I'm officially on track now and the girls are already rolling out the orange's, so here's mine! :

The base Orange is Wet n Wild - Sunny Side Up

The sparkly orange is Sally Hansen - Moonlit Dance

and the dark orange is Bonita , which doesn't have a name and when that happens I become namer of the polishes. Usually I'm pretty boring with polish naming and I decided to boringly call this one Orange. So Bonita - Orange it is!

I love me a nice tape design to make things look snazzy. (Oh how I've wished to throw that word into a post for such a long time!)

Be sure to check out the others below!

Love from Leesha's Lacquer

March Julep Maven box - Teri , Shenae and Simone

Hello Everyone!

Despite the MASSIVE amount of snow we recieved (which it figures the first year I'm out of High School, My school district closes for the first time in AT LEAST 13 years, Pshh), I'm still feeling Springy.

The new March Julep box I found in the mail made me feel even Springier!

The colors I received were in the It Girl box, which were : 

Julep - Teri 

Julep - Shenae and Julep - Simone.

I used tape to mark off the Blue, which is Shenae, then freehanded the Purple which is Simone and the Orange which is Teri.

The sort of shimmer/nude nail is actually Avon - Pearl Shine which gives off such a pretty subtle shimmer.

Here it is on its own :

Spring has sprung, if only in my mind!

Love from Leesha's Lacquer

Wet n Wild n Sharpie

Hello everyone. Today I believe I've made a great discovery. I don't see this too often, but why not?

Sharpie nail art. 

That's right, those smelly sharpie markers? They're AMAZING at creating small intricate details.

Exhibit A: 

I was just sort of doodling, but this is Wet n Wild - Heatwave and Wet n Wild - On A Trip (swatch below) under my Sharpie doodles. I used a coat of Seche Vite and I was surprised that there was absolutely no smearage. This is something I can definitely see myself playing with this some more (you know how cool it would be to draw Hello Kitty without her face looking like someone stuck her in a furnace?) . 

This is Heatwave and On a Trip, sans Sharpie. I LOVE Wet n Wild, especially the megalast. The formula is smooth, the brush is perfect and application is only 2 coats. I love their cremes, they're always so bright! 

I'm excited to try out Sharpie art again, maybe I'll even pick up a few more colors to see how that turns out. 

Have a happy, happy weekend everyone.

Love from Leesha's Lacquer