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PASTEL GRADIENT <:
EDIT: You can find my tutorial here.
Colors Used:
Essie French Affair
Kleancolor Pastel Blue
Meanwhile, don’t forget to enter my giveaway featuring Revlon’s Whimsical amongst other fun polishes!
Jamberry Nail Shields - Spring Flower
So Jamberry is kind like Avon with how they have representatives that sell the products, and we have a representative in my town who worked with my school to give out samples to people who bought post prom tickets, and these were the ones that I chose!
I love birds and florals and both are things that I’m scared of even attempting on my nails so I chose the Spring Flower design, which has both! To put these on you warm them up with a hair dryer for 15 seconds then apply to your nail. Then you file off the excess and use the hair dryer again to seal them. It was pretty easy, although I had some problems getting the tips to stay completely smooth on my index fingers. It’s nothing too horrible though, and these feel very secure on my nails instead of feeling like foreign objects.
Also shown is three coats of Sinful Colors Dream On.
One of my few girly addictions (: Before you ask, no, I didn’t do them ahaha i can barely paint a plain coat on my nails ahaha
Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure: Choco Latte
This shade will be perfect for you IF:
a) You are tan.
or
b) You are going to do some sick nail art.
DO NOT use this color if it matches the shade of your skin.
You will wind up with weird Barbie hands. Like me. But seriously, it is a really nice formula that goes on evenly and has a pretty shine. It’s just the Barbie hand thing that’s the problem.
How to put temporary tattoos on your nails- totes cute.
(Source: pursuitoftruthanbeauty)
China Glaze Stone Cold.
Top picture was its original matte finish, but I decided to just put regular top coat over it.
I just did these today! I used China Glaze’s “Lighthouse” with another China Glaze, “Ultamate Holiday” (I have no idea why “ultimate” is spelled that way). I stamped on a pink rose and hand-painted the stem.
(Pictures were taken with and without flash. Click on individual pictures to see enlarged version!)
Let me start by saying that I am not a nail polish/varnish mania and I’m probably not as interested in nails as other beauty geeks out there. However, I have to admit there are times when I get the urge to splurge a little bit and allow myself the pleasure of painting my nails.
I recently bought a few Essie nail polishes. I’ve found that ordering them online through Amazon is just so much of a better deal than buying it at a local drugstore. That being said, let me tell you what colors I got (recently) in order of the fourth picture:
- Navigate Her
- She’s Picture Perfect
- Lapis of Luxury
- Tart Deco
- Neo Whimsical
I absolutely love these colors. I’ve swatched them on my nails for you to see, and basically the colors I got are on the more pastely side except Tart Deco which is a hot orange/coral.
I’m currently loving “Neo Whimsical” and “Navigate Her”. Neo Whimsical is basically a really pretty baby pink and someone described the color as “truly feminine, fit for a wedding.” It definitely gives you a clean finish to your nails, adding a very soft feminine look.
As for “Navigate Her”, I’ve been hearing so many compliments about it every time I go out with that color. I’ve written a post about it, which you can read it here. Basically, you can’t go too wrong with that!
“She’s Picture Perfect” is a really pretty lavender color, which turns out bluer than excepted on nails. It also has this shimmery content in it, which I had hoped would come out as such on the nails- but it wasn’t as shimmery as expected.
“Lapis of Luxury” is a matte soft blue that is pretty pigmented, not so sheer.
And lastly, I wrote about “Tart Deco” here if you’d like to read it.
Essie nail wasn’t my favorite nail brand. I really enjoy Butter nails the most as I love their color and pigment, and how they are true to color on the nails as inside the case. However, Butter nails are quite pricey ($14) compared to Essie nails ($8). I feel though that Essie nails are coming out with better more trendy colors and I’m really enjoying them! xx
