Thanksgiving Leaves

Ellagee - Chase the Clouds Away // White Acrylic Paint // China Glaze - Ingrid
NYC - High Line Green // Zoya - Hunter // Wet n' Wild - Sunny Side Up
Sally Hansen - Crushed / Mellow Yellow // Essie - Licorice

31 Day Nail Art Challenge 2014 Day 31: Honour Nails You Love

China Glaze - Lemon Fizz // Zoya - Hunter / Bevin

Sally Hansen - Fuchsia Flare / Sonic Bloom

31 Day Nail Art Challenge 2014 Day 24: Inspired by a Book

Joe Fresh - Cloud / Iris / Faded Violet

L'Oreal - a la Meringue // American Apparel - 7th and Alameda

O.P.I - Matte Topcoat

31 Day Nail Art Challenge 2014 Day 14: Flowers

Micheal Kors - Limelight // Sally Hansen - Brisk Blue
Essie - Blanc + Licorice

31 Day Nail Art Challenge 2014 Day 13: Animal Print

Essie - Cocktail Bling // Sephora X - Fierce //A England - Briarwood
Revlon - Plum Seduction // China Glaze - Lemon Fizz // Zoya - Blu
Joe Fresh - Lagoon // Models Own - Banana Split

Sally Hansen - Raspberry Race + Pacific Blue + Fuchsia Flare

31 Day Nail Art Challenge 2014 Day 11: Polka Dots

L'Oreal - A La Meringue // China Glaze - Lemon Fizz

American Apparel - 7th and Alameda // MoYou London - Suki Plate 08

31 Day Nail Art Challenge 2014 Day 3: Yellow

Sally Hansen - Mellow Yellow // Zoya - Solange // Born Pretty Store Accessories

Ellagee - Chase The Clouds Away

With birthdays come great gifts and this polish that I am about to show you is 

one of the most mind blowingly awesome sauce holographic polishes I have ever gotten.

ellagee - Chase the Clouds Away

B&A: Model City - PB & J

Hey all!

Remember a few posts ago when I said I'd share the other half of my recent Model City purchase?

Well here she is - PB & J

Model City - Sugar Cookie

Hey all! 

So when Nina from Model City announced a few weeks ago that there was going to be a sale I just knew I had to get something.

My intent had been to get up early and order some of the bottles I've been lusting for.

As luck would have it I overslept. Woke up, turned off my alarm, laid back for what I thought would be a few seconds,
and then I woke up 2 hours later  >.<

Thankfully I did manage to get two new beauties, and the first one I have to share is Sugar Cookie.

Model City - Sugar Cookie

Orange Blossoms

Hello again!

Today I have a nature inspired look that popped into my head while I was browsing through my stash.

There's nothing like a fun floral mani to get me in the mood for summer.

Green Tea

Hey there!

So last week I had the most desperate desire for high tea.

I knew that there was only one person who would truly understand so

I hit up Gee from In Jeeb We Trust, and we decided to try out a

new spot rather than our usual hideout on Main Street.

And how was it? Well it was quite possibly the girliest place I've ever been to.

Pink everything. Soft music. The most precious tea set with all the right accessories.

And the food was seriously outstanding. Best cucumber sandwich I've ever had in my life!

If you live in Vancity and love a unique tea experience definitely try out Patisserie Fur Elise.

Then take photos and share them and make me insanely jealous.

Now onto the manicure I wore!

Fuchsia Floras

Hello friends! Quick post today.
Just wanted to share a new polish that I’ve slightly fallen in love with.




Say hello to Back to the Fuchsia by Pretty & Polished. Bright, fun, and oh so summer.  Personally I would have named this colour something like “Malibu Barbie Does Drag” or maybe “Barbie Vomit” but regardless I still love it. This polish was reaallly neon. The pictures don’t do it justice in the aspect but I’ve found that all of my neon polishes are rather hard to capture.



The decals are from Born Pretty Store and they were super cheap. These little flowers are sooo cute!
I can’t wait to try out the rest of them. Too many ideas spinning in my head!



BUT perhaps the most amazing thing about this polish is that IT CHANGES COLOUR. Yes, that’s right. The colour changes depending on the temperature. This baby went from bright neon pink to a vibrant purple. It was really hard to take a photo of the purple colour because I’m always warm, but I still managed to capture it before it disappeared.

So what do you think? Love it?
Next up I have some fun birthday mani’s!

Much love, D

Mother’s Day Mani 2013

Hey friends!
So yesterday was Mother’s Day and of course I have some themed nails to show you.
But I actually wanted to do something a little different for this post.
Instead of making it all about me I’m making it (mostly) about my mama.

Normally I paint my mom’s nails whenever she asks me to, but it’s usually kept to just a couple coats of whichever one of my polishes she’s been eyeing (aka no nail art). This year I decided that part of my gift to her was to not only paint her nails but to make it a little more special. I asked her to choose colours – she asked for purple and yellow. Then she specifically asked for flowers before I could even mention options. So I obliged but I kicked it up a couple notches just to give it that extra your-daughter-is-obviously-awesome-and-loves-you-very-much glow.

So here they are (& many thanks to my lovely model):

I used Sally Hansen Insta Dri – Raspberry Race (why don’t we pronounce the “p” in that?) as my base. For the yellow/orange flowers I used Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear – Mellow Yellow & Wet n’ Wild Wild Shine – Sunny Side Up. For the pink flowers I used Sally Hansen Insta Dri – Fuchsia Flare & OPI – Kiss Me On My Tulips. At the center of each flower I dabbed Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure – Golden Rule. (Can you tell I love Sally Hansen polishes?)

So what do you think? Let me know below.

Of course the most important person in all this is my mama.
Thankfully she was really happy with them. While I painted we drank tea and watched 1952’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro staring Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, & Ava Gardner.
I love watching old movies with my mum. I get swept up in the music and the dramatic acting.
I wish people still swooned in movies.
(I also wish I was always surrounded by soft lighting and that my lipstick was always impeccable. A girl can dream.)

Well that’s all for now everyone! Next up will likely be my attempt at a tutorial as I have to do one for the 7 Deadly Sins Challenge. We’ll see how that one goes…

D

7 Deadly Sins Challenge: Day 2

Hello, hello!
Hope you all are doing well. Welcome to day 2 of the 7 Deadly Sins Challenge.
Today’s prompt was to, “let your body talk and feel free to do whatever you want”.
So I decided to do what I wanted – which was to keep it simple.

For my main colour I used OPI – Kiss Me On My Tulips. 
& then I used Color Club – Miss Bliss on my ring finger to add a bit of shine.
I stamped using plate BM 323 with Kiss Me On My Tulips onto Miss Bliss.



I’m quite pleased with these. They don’t scream out LUST but I feel like the colours and the addition of the flowers gives it some punch. It’s like the girly side of lust.
Like that girl that wears her hair in pigtails but she’s also wearing a push up bra.

Let me know what you think!
& make sure to check out the other lovely ladies participating!
Next up: gluttony. I feel like a pig already.

D

P.S. I’m finding it very hard not to mention the name of the OPI polish.
So I’m going to sort of avoid it but all I wanted to say was…wait! Now you’re thinking about it!
Geezzz !  I feel like this whole plan backfired..I shouldn’t have even added this end note.
On the flip side, at least you look worse than I do.
Get your mind out of the gutter! I’m very disappointed.
(But also slightly happy because it’s not just me. So basically that makes us friends.)

7 Deadly Sins Challenge: Day 1

Hello again!
So I’ve been itching to do a nail challenge that lots of different bloggers are doing and I stumbled upon the 7 Deadly Sins Challenge that was created by One Nail to Rule Them All and Nail Wish.

Here’s the poster for the challenge:



So I figured I’d give it a shot and join in.
For day one the prompt is to “be a bad girl & make something you have wanted to do soo badly”. I’ve really been wanting to do more freehand so I found this tutorial by Robin Moses Nail Art and I decided to go for it.
Here’s my interpretation:







I used quite a variety of polishes for this one so I won’t list them all but if there’s any colour you see & would like to know what it is just comment below.

  



So what do you think?
Personally I really like them.They remind me of a giant vase my mom has and when I asked her opinion she was really impressed with what I did and even mentioned the exact same vase. That’s when I knew I’d done an amiable job. I still have work to do with my freehand but I’m just satisfied that people can actually tell the design is made up of flowers and not just random splotches and green slashes.

Make sure you check out the other bloggers to see how they interpreted the theme.
See you in a couple days!

D

Orchid Manicure

Hey all!

So I'm glad to say I finished that monster of a paper.
Normally I can crank it out pretty quick but for some reason this one took me a while.
Of course now that that's done I have to study for two huge finals. Hurrah! -.-
C'est la vie.

Anyway, here's today's post.
I was inspired by my mom's beautiful orchid that's sitting on our piano.

For this mani I used
Maybelline Color Show – Porcelain Party
Essie – Angora Cardi
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear – Mellow Yellow
Nfu-Oh – NFU 51 

Originally I just had the white and purple but I felt like it lacked some depth
so I added NFU 51 and a bit of yellow.
In the photos the yellow came out really bright but it’s much more subtle in person.

So what do you think?
Did I do a good job interpreting my inspiration?

Have a great day friends!
D