Happy Birthday (Nails) To Me!

Sundays usually aren't my day to post, but I couldn't wait to get these up! My birthday is tomorrow, and I wanted to do something special and fun for it on my nails. So, I decided to do cupcakes and a Happy Birthday polish dupe! I know cupcakes aren't too original as they're done a lot...but gosh darnit, they're so cute (I think so at least). I started off with FingerPaints Watermelon Watercolor on all my nails except my pointer and ring fingers. I used Petites Periwinkle as the purple background on those fingers, and painted WmWc on the bottom as the base for the cupcakes. The white frosting is your basic acrylic paint and the sprinkles are made with China Glaze Solar Power, China Glaze Caribbean Blue, and Zoya Sooki. I topped the other nails with Ulta's Pinata-Yada-Yada which is pretty much an exact dupe for Lippmann's Happy Birthday (see The PolishAholic's comparison here).

I think these are so stinkin' cute. What do you think? Tomorrow I turn 22.. AHH! I'm a big girl now :(

Ulta Little Black Dress and Piñata Yada Yada

Today's post is a Happy Birthday to Amanda post! :)

I started with two coats of a base coat to try to protect my nails from the staining from the black polish. I was only somewhat successful. This is Ulta's Little Black Dress. It's a black creme with teeny tiny silver and light blue (?) microglitter to give it just a little bit of shimmer. Went on effortlessly and covered well in just one coat. I was really pleasantly surprised by the quality of this polish. Dry time was average.

Over the top of that I applied Piñata Yada Yada. This is a Deborah Lippman Happy Birthday dupe and I thought it especially appropriate for today. You can see a comparison of them on The PolishAholic's blog here. I waited approximately 5-10 minutes between coats to give the glitter time to adhere before applying a 2nd and 3rd coat so they didn't move around on my fingernails.

I just love this polish. It makes me so happy to look at it. It's like a party on my fingers. It's too bad glitter is so hard to remove. To quote my daughter's boyfriend - glitter is the herpes of the craft world. You can never quite get rid of it. hehe. Anyway, hope you enjoy today's post and Happy Birthday Amanda!

Wet 'n' Wild - Rustic

I'm still playing with all my fun colors that I got from Mama in Boston. This one is old news, but here is Wet 'n' Wild's Rustic polish from the Craze line. Is that what it's called...? It's a really pretty metallic-y brown color. This would be PERFECT for autumn. I don't know why I can never wear colors that go with the season...I guess I don't care and wear what I want :)

I was kinda worried about the application on this one seeing as the bottles are SO tiny. The brush was really short and I thought it would be hard to apply, but it was surprisingly easy. Maybe because the brush is short I feel like I have more control over where it goes. I'm not sure. I did have issues with little gunks in the polish that would get stuck on my nail though...not sure what was up with that. But I do like this... a lot. I wanted to add some sort of art to it because I can never leave anything alone...but alas, it was 9:30 at night and I was feeling very uncreative. But don't fret! I have epic birthday nails coming up on Monday. At least I think they're epic...

Here's two coats of Wet 'n' Wild Rustic. All pictures are taken indoors under fluorescent light... curse my night-time mani sessions...

Color Club Untamed Luxury

Color Club has always been one of my favorite polish brands. I've never been disappointed with their formula. Good coverage, smooth consistency, rich color. I used this one in a previous polish just as a french tip, but liked it so much I wanted to actually do a full mani with it. So here I have for you, Untamed Luxury.

Jesse's Girl Half Moons!

Hello! Today I have a manicure using Jesse's Girl - Glee. I know this is old news, but I just got a bunch of new polishes from when Mama went to Boston! (thanks Mama!) They don't have a Rite-Aid here, so we're limited in our Jesse's Girl polishes. I'm sure you all know this is a dupe for Catch Me In Your Net and Zoya Charla.

I've tried half moon manis time and time again using the little paper binder reinforcement circles, and they've NEVER worked for me. Even when I think I get it sealed air tight, I still get polish under the reinforcements and ruin the manicure. Mom got these plastic reinforcements that I tried instead...and they worked wonders! No more seeping through!

I then just went over the half moons with a silver striper because I thought it looked funny with the nude moon and the blunt line to the polish.

I really love this... I think it's so pretty and glamorous yet so simple! It didn't take me very long to do at all. What do you think?