China Glaze Agro

This manicure started out as the lovely golden olive Agro from China Glaze's Capital Colors line. The formula on Agro is smooth and extremely well pigmented and dries fast- what else did you expect from China Glaze?  It's a very similar color to Butter London Wallis I think.  Wallis might be just a tad more goldish.

I wore it alone for a day then stamped over it on day 2 with a design from Bundlemonster plate M73 with my Sally Hansen Color Quick pen in Gold chrome.

Have you seen The Hunger Games yet?  I was able to catch it Saturday afternoon and thought it was awesome!

Pretty Woman taupe magnetix

My nails are back to nubs.  I had a little bit of splitting and broke the corner off a nail so I decided to just shorten all of them.  One good thing about having shorter nails is stamping plates and magnetic poilshes work better on this length.

I bought this polish a couple months ago and wasn't sure if I liked the color.  It's not really something I'd normally wear but after I got it on I decided I liked it a little more than I expected.

The polish is a creamy taupe in the bottle, but after its magnetized it takes on a chocolate color for the stripes.  I applied 2 coats and the formula was good.  I didn't really care for the brush - it's way too short and quite uncomfortable to hold.  It comes with 2 separate magnets (one wavy and one straight) embedded in a silicone holder with finger cut outs.  I didn't really like the magnets either, so I ended up using the magnet from my Icing magnetic polishes.  Wear is average, I had some tiny chips and tip wear on day 2.

Really late Girl On Fire nails

Are you guys tired of seeing Hunger Games nails yet? I'm sure you are, but I decided to share mine with you guys anyway. Especially since it's been like 6 years between each of my posts... I figured I might as well get SOMETHING up for you :)

This was done by sponging orange and yellow all over then freehanding the black with acrylic paint. Pretty simple, but my flames look a little more ... abstract? than everyone else's. Haha.

Are you guys going to see the movie? I will be seeing it twice! My work is taking my department to go see it tomorrow (yes, really... I get PAID to see this movie...) and I'm also going with the BF on Sunday, as we made plans earlier to see it and he's looking forward to it too :)

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Nail Art: Polka Dot Birdies

What's this?! Amanda's actually posting something?! I'm just as surprised as you are! Still trying to find the time to keep up with the blog in my new schedule, but I think I'm getting better at it. And I'm learning some neat things at work that I can incorporate into the blog too!

I don't know what it is about me and bird nail art, because this is the second or third time I've done something with birds. I just think the images that I look off of are so cute and they translate really well into nail art. But oh well, because I think it came out pretty well. I only wish I'd used acrylic paints instead of polishes. I didn't want to take the time to mix out the colors in acrylic paint. You'd think after whipping my butt in to shape for a 40 hour week my laziness would be gone....but nope! ^_^

The base of this is Orly Pure Porcelain. It's a good off white color, but the color is a little streaky so I find myself having to use pretty thick coats. Then I just freehanded the birdies and polka dots on with polish :)

Hope you all had a great weekend. The bf and I went to the Black Keys concert in downtown Indy on Friday night, and it was AWESOME. They throw a really great show, so I'd definitely recommend any of you guys that like them to go in the future. :)

St. Patrick's Day mani

I have been having trouble getting motivated to do my nails lately and have been busy trying to get prepared to start my new job and Amanda has found herself so busy with work that she comes home exhausted every night.  We hope you will bear with us as we struggle to keep the blog going during this busy time in our lives.

I knew I wanted to do a green St. Patrick's Day mani but wasn't up for nail art or a complicated design.  As I was looking over my collection of green polishes I couldn't decide between my 2 favorite green shades.   Both happen to be Zoya - Ivanka and Verushka.  So I decided to use both!

The lovely Verushka is featured here with Ivanka as a highlight nail.  I used 2 coats of Verushka just for full coverage but it really covers pretty well in one coat.  Ivanka is a bit more sheer, requiring 3 thick coats to achieve this level of opacity.  Both are fabulous formulas, go on smooth, dry fast and just look stunning.  Hope you enjoy today's mani.