Pumpkin Tarts

China Glaze - Highlight of my Summer // Essie - Tart Deco

piCture pOlish - Aphrodisiac // BM - 305

The Great Polish Giveaway of 2014

Feeling a bit down today friends?

Would winning 200 polishes help cheer you up?

Well let me tell you about a mind blowing giveaway that Nail Polish Canada is hosting.

Dorothy Does Canada Day

Happy Fourth of July American friends!

Hope you're having beautiful weather where ever you are so you can go out and celebrate.

And you know, if it's not so nice, just stay inside and watch Independence Day.

Over-rated? Perhaps. But I love it. Just try this: 

take a shot (drink responsibly kids) every time someone does something patriotic or every time
you see an American flag. Even if you can't spot anything at first just wait until the President's speech.
You might need to be double fisting at that point.
Oh, and take one for me when the alien has his monologue. That's my favourite part.

Now onto the mani!

In the spirit of patriotism let me show you what I wore for Canada day a few days ago.

1 Year Blogiversary

Hey friends!
So sorry to have been away so long. I needed a bit of a blogging break.
When I blog I always strive to blog consistently and to
produce interesting posts, and I just wasn’t in the right mind frame to do either.
But! I’m back and all too quickly I’ve hit another milestone: my 1 year blogiversary!!!
Technically I hit it on the 11th of October but I got swept up in Thanksgiving
madness and didn’t get to posting until today – 9 days later.
But since this is my blog and I can do what I want we’re just going to ignore that fact.

Now onto the festivities. To celebrate this occasion I wanted to provide
you with multiple mani’s just like I did for my 100th post.
I’ve been gone so long, you deserve more than one look, so this time around you’re getting 4.
Let me know which look is your favourite! 

& here's a band I'm a little obsessed with at the moment to get things started.



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Aphrodisiac Deco Tips






For this look I used Sally Hansen Lustre Shine in Lava as my base
and then I taped off the tips and used piCture pOlish in Aphrodisiac.
I loved the electric pink/glittering gold on plum contrast. 
Total glam.




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Hunter in London





This is a look I wore while going out with some friends for tea and pastries.
I wanted something that embraced fall and all it’s deep rich colours.
I used Zoya – Hunter for my base and then on top of that I used Zoya  - London.
To complete the look I mattified the whole thing with OPI’s matte top coat.



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Jane Eyre Meets King Arthur






Next up, another dark and sultry manicure.
I used A England – Jane Eyre as my base and then I stamped using A England – King Arthur.
The plate I used was Sailor Collection – 06 by MoYou. You can find all their amazing plates here.
Seriously. If you love to stamp you need some of their plates.
Not only are the designs fantastic but the groves are etched deeply and the images transfer really well.



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Fruity Fan-tastic

Last up, another MoYou mani. I wore this manicure for Thanksgiving long weekend
and I was lucky enough to have it last all 3 days of my fatty feast.
Nothing like family and great food to remind me of what I’m thankful for.

For my base I used Barry M – Lychee and then I stamped using A England – Briarwood.
The MoYou plate I used was plate 5 from the Suki Collection.

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So that’s it! Hope you enjoyed my one year blogiversary post.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read my little blog.
Now let’s get this next year rollin’!

xo, D.

100th Post: Vacation Mani’s

Hey friends!
Today marks one of my first blogger milestones:
100 posts.
I have to admit I’m really quite shocked. I didn’t even realize I was this
close until this past week. Thankfully everything worked out nicely and I have
a perfect 100th post to share: my vacation manis! It’s a bit long but hey, it’s
only fitting given the occasion. So let’s get started!

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Look 1 – I am Enchanted



For the journey I decided to use I Am The Walrus by Enchanted Polish.
It’s one of those polishes that needs nothing. It just sparkles and makes your life
a little less bleak.  I loved the coppery shimmer and the golden flecks. It also had this
flash of green or pink sometimes. I honestly can’t say enough about this polish.






Just look at that holo. Sparkle fantastic.
Application was flawless. Bit sheer on the first coat but it built up nicely.



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Look 2 – Electric Fishies

Yes that’s right, another EP. This beauty is Electric Feel by Enchanted Polish.
Most of the time this would go light green or silver and it was sooo beautiful in the sunlight.
Then I paired it with these decals from Nail Polish Canada.

& the sun shots….

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Look 3 – Lychee Deco Accent



During one of our evenings we decided to watch Gone With The Wind.
I love that movie. All the drama and the intense acting makes me swoon.
So it only felt fitting to use my O’Hara by piCture pOlish.
Then… I had a nail art melt down when what I wanted to do wasn’t working out.
Thankfully Gee was kind enough to do some accent fingers for me using stripping tape & Lychee by Barry M.
I think it turned out really perfect. Except for the I forgot-my-nails-were-painted smudge. Oh well.



I love the tiny little pink flecks in O’Hara. So subtle (unlike Scarlet) but so so perfect.

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Look 4 – Fruity Stripes

For the last few days of our trip I wanted to use some more of my Barry M’s.
First I did a base of Strawberry by The Nail Junkie.
Then I added Dragonfruit & Papaya by Barry M.






Don’t mind the indent on my thumb nail. This time I thought they were dry already. Apparently not.
I didn’t really care though because the overall effect was still great.





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So that’s it! Do you have a favourite look out of the 4? Let me know!
Thank you to everyone who’s stuck around long enough to see me hit 100.
I’m excited to see where else my blog will go.

Enjoy your Wednesday!

Much love, D.

7 Deadly Sins Challenge: Day 5

Hello!
Welcome to day 5 of the Deadly Sins Challenge. We’ve moved on from gluttony and now we’re onto greed. Today’s prompt was “Go wild and use your most expensive and precious polish”. I’ve had an idea about what I was going to do for this one for a little while now. Here it is:

For this look I used Deborah Lippmann – Amazing Grace
& piCture pOlish – O`Hara

I was so happy when I ordered Amazing Grace because it was the first DL polish I have ever purchased. But I`m so sad. It was streaky, watery, and really hard to work with. Thankfully I bought it on sale so I didn't pay retail price because I would have felt even more ripped off. I don`t understand how you can make twenty dollar polish and not have it be amazing (and then choose to call it amazing grace).

That`s all for now friends. Let me know what you think of these and make sure
to check out the other ladies greedy manicures.
I will see you again in a few days.

D

Sparkly Valentine

Hello everyone!

Hope you had a good week and a great Valentine's Day.
If you didn't celebrate well then I hope you had an awesome Thursday!

As mentioned before, this mani was the one I would wear for 

my anniversary so I definitely wanted to make it a little more glitzy.
Boyfriend made me dinner last night since I had a midterm 

at the end of the day so I didn't want to go out.
Tonight though we're going out to make up for it 

& I've decided to post the outfit I wore in my next post.

Anyways! Back to the nails...
To set the mood once again,a little bit of MJ:

I used Maybelline Color Show - Bold Gold, 

piCture pOlish - O'Hara, 

& then I used gold glitter to do the design.

 O'Hara is super gorgeous. It definitely differs from 

piCture pOlish's other fabulous red Dorothy.
This one is a lot brighter, more of a bright cherry red. 

And the glitter is a bit more subtle.

 

Right hand.....

Left hand (the gold on my index finger looks waayyy better in reality.) ....

Bottle Comparison.

These were a lot of fun to do and I would definitely recommend 

you try using glitter if you have the patience for it. 

I can't wait to see how far I can push myself by using them.
Sound off in the comments and let me know what you think!
Next post will be on Monday!

xo, D

piCture pOlish Aphrodisiac

Hello lovelies!

So i realized that I forgot to ask you what you thought of the new layout. 

Do you like the font? Is it hard to read? 

Personally I like it because I have a weakness for cursive and it just 

looks like I wrote a letter in perfect form. 

But the audience has a voice too so please let me know what you think!

Let's bring the focus back to the nail art.
I choose to use Aphrodisiac by piCture pOlish 

because I had just ordered it not too long ago and I was dying to see what it looked like. 

This colour is really fun. It changes, depending on the lighting, from a 

deep rich purpley plum to a deep dark navy. 

I was surprised at how little shimmer there was once I applied it since the 

bottle has tiny little shimmers but I didn't care because the final colour was great. 

Then, because I really wanted to use my stamper, I put one 

large white kiss on each of my ring fingers. 

It is called aphrodisiac after all.

Feel free to comment & follow!

-D

I don't if you've ever noticed but on my left hand I have a 'reptile nail' (or so I choose to call it) that's all ridged and bumpy because I got it caught in something.
The other day I did the same thing to my other middle finger and now it seems to be transforming as well.
If you know of any good ridge filling base coats let me know!!