Go Pink Wednesday October 17

Happy Hump Day Polishers!! :D  I hope everyone is having a wonderful week!  Me.. I'm glad tomorrow is Thursday, my last day of work for the week, and I get to spend the weekend with Tyler and Owen, and Tyler's mom is having an in-home Miche Bag party, so I will likely be purse shopping Saturday night :D  (Just a quick explanation -- Miche Bag is a purse company that sells purses that you can swap the outside of it and keep the inside the same so you don't have to move all your stuff to a new purse every time you want a new look!  Check out their websites for more information -- American and Canadian.  I have the Classic Bag with 14 different shells, you can see them all on my Pinterest Board!)

Today is another edition of Go Pink Wednesday hosted by Finger Painting Fingers and I decided to go with one of my favourite indie brands and polishes from her shop.

Here we ave a simple combination of 3 coats of Elixir Lacquers Tease, a stunning pink shimmer that shifts from pink to purple to blue (sorry for the low quality.. the sun sets at about 7 here in Ontario so by the time I get home and polished it's dark out!), and Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen in white to create the dots.  Tease is a seriously distracting polish, so do not wear while operating heavy machinery ;)

This manicure is so super easy, and can be accomplished even if you don't have a nail art pen (they are a little pricey at $8.99/ea, I only have one) -- use a toothpick dipped in polish to create dots in any polish colour!  I usually grab a piece of tin foil (I have one stashed for nail art so I don't waste foil every time), put a blob of polish on it, dip my toothpick in and dot away! :D  Easy, and anyone can do it!

If you want to check out Elixir Lacquers polish, go to her shop and see what she has to offer!  Every polish I have bought from her has been amazing!

NOTD: L'Oréal Mango-Get-Em

Hey everybody!  Wow, I have to get my blogs done earlier, lol!

So I had an awesome nail art planned for today, but when I took off Julep Emilie tonight, this is what my nails looked like :'(

The glitter came off great wih the tinfoil method (see Ms. Lizard's tutorial), but I was left with a mess of a stain on my nails, even though I put a base coat on :(  This happened the last time I wore Emilie too.  Guess I will have to try to put a couple coats under the colour to try to prevent the staining...

Anyways, so because I figured I should put an opaque polish on to cover the staining rather than the nail art I was going to do, I put on L'Oréal Mango-Get-Em.  Then, to dress it up without going too overboard, I did a couple polka-dot flowers on my thumb and ring finger as accent nails.

L'Oréal Mango-Get-Em is a really pretty pinky-coral colour.  I had to put on 3 coats, but that was mostly because you could still see the green stain underneath.  I got this colour a few years ago because I thought it would match a coral dress I was going to wear to my cousin's wedding.  Turns out the dress was more orange-coral and the polish more pink-coral, so they didn't match, and the dress didn't fit anymore :(

What do you do when your nail polish has stained your nails?  Ms. Lizard also has a nail whitening tutorial but I didn't have time to do it tonight and do a blog post.  I did soak my nails in a bowl with warm water and lemon juice to try to make the stain a little lighter.  It helped a little bit, but they are still fairly green under my new polish colour.  I hope it comes off with the next polish change.

TOTD: Avon Aqua Fantasy

Ahhh... painting your toenails while it's pouring rain and thunderstorming outside.  Haven't had much opportunity to do that yet this summer as it's been SO dry!  Finally everything is getting a long over-due drink of water.

So, I left my Julep Reveal Nail Growth Revitalizing Serum in London last weekend, so I have to postpone my updates to the post about my toenails while using it.  I probably won't be going down there again for another month at least, so I will do a new post, starting over with the treatment.  I was so mad at myself for forgetting it there :(

I made myself feel better by painting my toenails this very summery teal shade from Avon.  I love this colour, it's perfect for summer toes :D

Then I decided to bling it up a little bit and used my Nail Art Pen in White to create dots around the whole perimeter of my big toes and just the free edge of my other toes.



Please excuse the "piggy toes", I am working on getting them straightened out, maybe I will do a blog about how I'm trying to achieve this later on :)

P.S. - my big toenails look so much painted over, don't they?!  :D

NOTD: Tie Dye & Peace Nail Art

Happy Friday the 13th!  I'm not superstitious, but I had a bad experience on a Friday the 13th a couple of years ago that made me hate this day and I don't go anywhere unless absolutely necessary!  What about you, are you superstitious of Friday the 13th?

Tyler and I are helping my friend and her husband move to their new house tomorrow and she's a hippie at heart.  When I saw this type of nail design on Lacquered Love's Facebook page I knew I had to try it out for when I help them move :D

I looked up a lot of ways to create tie dye nails, and found a video on YouTube using seran wrap to create the tie dye effect.  So I painted my nails white and tried it out - this is the result. 

I was never into the tie dyed clothing fad, and I have never made anything tie dyed,  but I think this turned out pretty awesome :D  I'm pretty darn proud of myself on this one. It turned out excellent for a first attempt :D

So then, following my inspiration photo, I added peace signs to each nail with a white nail art pen.

I think these nails are pretty sweet!  I'm so happy with the way they turned out, and will definitely be creating tie dye nails again :D

The colours I used are:
L'Oreal I Will white base, Jessica Red Delight, Julep Courteney, Avon Blue Shock, and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow.  The peace signs were done with Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen in White.

What do you guys think?