Nail art with Zoya Rica!

I still consider myself fairly new to the polish world. I've been doing nail artsy type things for about a year and a half now, but I've only been collecting (hoarding? lol) polish for a few months. As such, I didn't own any Zoya polishes until their last buy three get three free. I would definitely own more, as they are such excellent quality and big 3 free, but I just don't have the money most of the time. One of the ones I picked up was Rica, and I am SO GLAD I did. I'm not a fan of orange-y polishes, but this tangerine-toned coral is to die for. Here it is on it's own, three coats, under artificial lighting.

GORGEOUS.

 I wanted to do something kind of funky and geometric, so I looked at this photo of some Keith Haring work for loose inspiration.

Here's how it turned out! I used Sinful Colors Black on Black and Snow Me White. I personally really like the thumb, index, and middle finger best. What do you think?

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Franken/springtime skittle!

So as we all know, indie brands and frankens have been huuuuge in the polish world. I think it's so cool, and would love to be able to make some of my own. However, as a poor college student :P , I can't do as much as I'd like. This is one I made from mixing together probably about eight or nine different polishes. I wanted to see what it looked like over a few colors, so I did a springy skittle.

Two coats each, thumb to pinky:

China Glaze Happy Go Lucky, OPI Planks a Lot, Sally Hansen Mint Sorbet,

China Glaze Fuschia Fanatic, China Glaze Aquadelic

Then I added one coat of my franken. I clearly had to shake it up a lot, and as a result got a bunch of air bubbles that are really visible on my ring finger. :/ Oh well. Anyway, I just used about a trillion different glitters and some white and added them to what I had left of an old Revlon Extra Life No Chip Top Coat. The bottle for this top coat is matte, so it's fairly difficult to see what the franken actually looks like.
Let me know what you think!

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"Do You Believe In Magic?" Neverland Nail Blog nail art contest!

When I saw this nail art contest, I knew I had to enter and do a unicorn inspired mani! I have a unicorn pillow pet and might even get a unicorn tattoo someday... We'll see though. :P Anyway, I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out. This is the first nail art contest I've entered, so I hope I did okay! Here are the pictures:

I used a load of colors, so I'll just list them all by finger.
Base on all: Cult Nails Let Me Fly
Ring and pinky: Cult Nails Clairvoyant (what unicorn mani would be complete without a good dose of Unicorn Puke?!)
Middle and thumb: Sally Hansen Mint Sorbet, Essie Pansy, OPI Planks a Lot, Makeup Store Greta (for some silver lining, hahaha)
Ring: Sinful Colors Snow Me White, Sally Hansen Mint Sorbet, Essie Pansy, OPI Planks a Lot, Sinful Colors Pull Over, Wet n Wild Teal of Fortune, Sally Hansen Black Out, Makeup Store Greta


I had a lot of fun doing this contest, and I hoped you all enjoyed it too! :3

Cloud Mani à la Nailside

So I'm procrastinating writing this paper and in such a lame mood that I decided to post about this sunshine-y bright mani I sported a while back. I had just gotten the China Glaze mini-haul I did in the mail so I decided to use a few all at once and try out the cloud style that Nailside does so well. After a base of OPi Nail Envy, I used two coats China Glaze Aquadelic. The cloud/scalloped part is OPI Skull and Glossbones and China Glaze Happy Go Lucky, and then one coat of China Glaze Techno (which was so hard to photograph the right way in order to get the holo... of course.)

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Nail art with Spoiled Jewelry Heist

Hello everyone! Here's a mani with another Spoiled by Wet n Wild polish I picked up when it was two for $3, Jewelry Heist. I'm a sucker for glitter, and this one was DIVINE. I paired it with two colors that I thought went with the rosy pink hex glitters and the iridescent minty green square glitters, Sinful Colors Easy Going (two coats) and Sally Hansen Mint Sorbet (applied with a striping brush). I thought bringing a geometric pattern, pastel colors, and glitter all together was kind of funky. :3

Jewelry Heist applied like a dream. This is two coats over two coats of Sally Hansen Grey Area. See how glossy and shiny!? Not at alllll a hungry glitter. 

The only thing about it is I somehow managed to get a smush on my ring finger in between finishing top coating everything and taking pictures... Geeeeeez, Kalen. :P

Hope you enjoyed this mani as much as I did!

Spoiled Paying with Platinum

A while back, there was a two for $3 Spoiled by Wet n Wild sale at CVS. One of the one's I got was Paying With Platinum, which I'm sure is just Wet n Wild's Gray's Anatomy but just for the Spoiled line. I don't have it so I can't be sure, but I really don't find the point in buying GA since it's all really just Wet n Wild anyway. I love me some WNW, but not that much. :P

This is one coat Sinful Colors Black on Black with two coats Paying with Platinum to make the duochrome really pop. I was pleasantly surprised to find some pink shimmer peeking out from the purple at certain angles, but overall I wasn't really too excited about this polish. The color shift is striking, but for me, the colors were just not saturated enough and my hands almost reminded me of  zombie hands because the colors were so dull. :X I got bored with it quickly and added a coat of China Glaze Black Mesh on my index and pinky but even that didn't satiate my need for a new mani. I think I wore this about two days, when I had it on.

That yellow in the bottle is just a reflection of a light in my room. It's not a part of the polish, as much as I wish it was!

taken with flash

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Blue Wants to Be a Millionaire

There are a lot of holo polishes out there, and I want to get my hands on all of them. Needless to say, this is quite impossible on a college student's budget. :P However, Wet n Wild never breaks the bank so I picked up Blue Wants to Be a Millionaire. It was a little sheer, so I layered it over Sinful Colors Savage to brighten it up. I wanted to see what some added holo would look like too, so I added some to my ring finger and thumb.

Sinful Colors Savage, Wet n Wild Blue Wants to Be a Millionaire, Warpaint Beauty White Noise

OPI Nail Envy, two coats Savage, two coats WWTBAM, one coat White noise ring/thumb

And of course, blurry holo is excellent. :3

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Pure Ice Rio and Sally Hansen Multi-Faceted

When I was home for spring break a couple weeks ago, I went to Walgreen's since there isn't one where I go to school and I saw this little Sally Hansen display of polishes I didn't recognize! Usually I see the previews or press releases online (since I'm always on here looking at polish, lol) but I hadn't seen any of the polishes anywhere online. I must have missed it somehow! Since my hands were already full with a small Sinful Colors haul, I only had room in my budget for one, Multi-Faceted. I decided to pair it with an untried I got a while ago, Pure Ice Rio.

The following pictures are three coats Rio and one coat Multi-Faceted.

Rio is a squishy hot pink jelly with blue shimmer. Loved how bright it was! Multi-Faceted has medium sized silver, black, and iridescent glitter.

Since I didn't layer it over a darker color, my camera was having difficulty picking up the iridescent bits on the nail. Sooo here's a bottle shot for fun!

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