OPI Data Peach, Spring 2023

 pr samples

Data Peach is the sweetest bright peach pearl.  I used two coats for this swatch.

Zoya Agnes Rose Gold Foil Mani

Happy Mother's Day!

Zoya Agnes is one of my favorite dusty pink polishes to wear.  I've been wanting to use my rose gold flakes that I picked up from Micheals so I decided to pair it with Zoya Agnes for my Mother's Day mani.

I love how this simple mani turned out.  I'm planning to use this foil more often to add a bit more interest to just a regular cream polish.

Have a wonderful day loves!

Anne xo

Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Decadence Collection 2018

PR SAMPLES

Hiya Lovelies!

I get to share the gorgeous new limited edition Sally Hansen Decadence Collection by Miracle Gel with you today!  This beautiful Holiday collection has 3 beautiful shimmers, 1 cream, 1 metallic foil and 1 holo topper.

For all my swatches, I used the Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Top Coat.

Garnish Attention has a deep purple/blue base and the most beautiful green shimmer that flashes to gold/pink.  Great formula, two very pigmented coats.

Frosted Berries is a delicious berry red shimmer. 2 coats.

I Tiramis-you is a sweet, soft white with pink undertones.  Formula was easy to work with, 2 coats.

Sprinkled with Love is a beautiful metallic with green and silver and gold flecks.  Formula is fantastic, almost a one coater.  I wore this beauty for 5 days!

Make it N-ice is a gorgeous holo fleck topper.  I did 4 coats of Make it N-ice to see if I could build it up enough to wear on its own.  I love how it looks!

We were sent these gorgeous chocolates in the PR packages, they were just as delicious as they were beautiful!

Good Cheer-y is a frabulous, true Christmas red shimmer.  2 coats.

The Sally Hansen Decadence Collection by Miracle Gel is available now at Canadian mass and drug retailers.  They retail for $11.95 each.

Have a great day lovelies, hope you are enjoying the Holiday Season!

Anne xo

Essie Winter 2014 Collection

Hey Dolls

I picked up three of the six polishes from the Essie Winter 2014 Collection.  I think this is a really fun collection with some very unexpected colors!

First up is Double Breasted Jacket.  This is a gorgeous raspberry red with a cream finish.  Super opaque, I could have gotten away with one coat (but I always do two).

Bump Up The Pumps is the one that really surprised me.  This coral is absolutely lovely, and a beautiful addition to this Winter Collection.  I also have the gorgeous Jiggle Hi, Jiggle Low as an accent on my ring finger.  This is not just your average silver foil, it definitely has some gold in the mix, making it really unique.

Did you pick up polishes from Essie's Winter 2014 Collection?  Which one is your fave?

Ciate Foil Mani

Hiya Dolls!

 

I broke out my Ciate Foils again!  I used OPI My Very First Knock-Wurst as my base. This time I used all the colors that came in the foil kit., and went a little heavy on the gold.  I am obsessed with all things gold this year!

 

 

Have you guys tried the foil look?  Love it or hate it?

 

Don't forget to enter our Twinsie Tuesday Holiday Giveaway.  You can enter for a chance to win a $60.00 gift card to the beauty retailer of your choice!

 

 



Ciate Very ColorFoil Mani

Hey Dolls!

 

I have been wanting to try a foil mani for a while now, so I was super excited to find  Ciate Very ColorFoil Manicure set at Winners.  I chose the kit with golds, silvers, pink and green foils.  For my look today I used Fling, Flirt and Feisty foils.  I love how it turned out and can't wait to try it on all my nails!

 

The grey base coat came with the foil kit and I couldn't see a name for it.

 





Twinsie Tuesday Something New

Hey Dolls

 

For Twinsie Tuesday this week the theme is 'Something New'.  I knew right away that I wanted to try the Water Fall Nail Art from The Nailasaurus.  It's new and fresh and I loooove the design.

 

This was my first try and I did it on my 7 day old mani.  Yes you read that right!  This is the longest I've ever worn a polish for and I only had a bit of tip wear and growth, not even one chip!  I liked the first try so much I decided to just use this for my mani this week.  I will for sure be doing more of these!

 

My base is Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine in Prickly Pear.  For my stripes I used China Glaze For Audrey and Peachy Keen, and Clinique Strappy Sandals.  I used a thin brush for the stripes, next time I will do them thinner so I can add more lines.

 

Check out the other Twinsie's mani's

 

Amanda at Amandalandish

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Anna at Going to the Showing

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Cordia at Seriously Swatched

Elizabeth at Did My Nails

Heather at Peace, Love, & Polish

Kelly at Tuxarina
Lakeisha at Refined and Polished

Maribeth at Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Meredith at Polish and Charms

Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails

Rachel at Top Coat It

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les
Sarah at See Sarah Swatch

Traci at DrinkCitra

 



Clinique Enamel, Limited Edition Summer 2013, Swatches and Review

Press Sample

 

Clinique A Different Nail Enamel for Sensitive Skins has just made it's debut in Canada.  I have totally fallen for Clinque polishes, the application is a breeze, they dry soooo quickly and wear super well!  You can see my swatches of the permanent collection here.  Today I have four out of the nine limited edition colors for Summer 2013.

 

First up is Hula Skirt, the prettiest grass green cream.  Formula was fantastic, two smooth coats for perfect coverage.

 

 

Pinkini is a flirty bubble gum pink cream.  Pinks are always a hit in my books, so it's no wonder that this one is my favorite.  Again this is two coats for perfect coverage.

 



Hot Date is a squishy purple jelly.  I used three coats to cover up my nail line and this jelly built up wonderfully.  My camera showed Hot Date more red than it is in person.  I see some fun jelly sandwiches in the future with this one!

 

 



Strappy Sandals is a shiny silver foil.  I was surprised that a silver foil was in a Summer collection, but as soon as I read the name Strappy Sandals, it made perfect sense!  I think that it's a fabulous idea and I am super excited to wear this in the Summer.  Application was great, two thin coats were all I needed.

 



 

Which ones catch your fancy?

 

*Products in this post were provided for my honest opinion.



Twinsie Tuesday, Red

Hello friendo's

Today is Twinsie Tuesday and it is also my 200th post!  We are showing off a red mani today.  I chose Berry and Bright by Color Club.  This is just such a fabulous red.  It has tiny foil peices that give it such a cool layered foil look.  I spy some purple flecks in there too.  This was highly pigmented and I could have gotten away with one coat.

Be sure to have a look at the other Twinsie's red mani's today!

Amanda at Amandalandish

Anna at Going to the Showing

Ashley at Art Evolve

Brandi at The Collegiate Nail

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Cordia at Seriously Swatched

Elizabeth at Did My Nails

Jamie at Polish, Please!

Jenn at All That is Gorgeous...

Katherine at Haul of Fame

Maribeth at Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite

Marisa at Polish Obession

Meredith at Polish and Charms

Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails

Rachel at Top Coat It

Sarah at See Sarah Swatch

Tara at Polishy of Truth

Color Club Holiday 2012 Winter Affair

Well I guess the holidays are almost over but techinically I missed it all!  My hubs and I woke up Christmas morning with food poisoning.  Our poor girlies (ages 8 and 9) had to open presents by themselves.  Such a sad day!

 

I would have shown you these over the holidays, but it really took it out of me, so you get it now!  This is such a fun holiday collection, I loved every single polish!

First up is Ho-Ho-Holly.  I am so in love with this green foil.  Application was a breeze, two thin coats was all I needed.  The gold really surprised me in here!

 

 

Winter Affair is a rich, deep maroon with fabulous shimmer.  This was my favorite in the collection.  I love dark colors, especially with dark almost flakie shimmer! Mmmmm.

 

 

Glitter Wonderland is a fun shimmery jeweled purple.  It is made up of micro glitter in red, blue and purple in a purple base.  I loved wearing this, it was like jewels on my finger tips.

 

 

Berry And Bright is an amazing red foil.  Two thin coats gave the most beautiful layered foil effect.  This one really glows from within.

 

 

Gift of Sparkle is a fabulous red and purple glitter with some fun holo glitter mixed in, all in a purple base.  I used two coats and the coverage was great.  I needed a very generous layer of top coat to make it glassy smooth.  The holo glitter in there really sparkled!

 

 

And then just to be a little crazy, I added Snow-Flakes on top of Gift of Sparkle.  That's a whole lot of fun going on there!  Snow-Flakes is a flakie top coat that shifts orange to green.

 



 

 

 

Galaxy nails

Oh my goodness I had sooo much fun doing this galaxy mani!  I've wanted to try it for a while now, but was a little intimidated by all the amazing ones out there.  But I love how it turned out and it was so super easy.  Just random sponging everywhere!

Hello to all the new followers too!  It's nice to meet you ladies : )

Have any of you done a galaxy mani?  I'd love to have a look!

My giveaway is open til Friday!




Very Cherry

I came across Very Cherry today by Sally Hansen and had to pick it up.  It was on sale :)

Under my lamp it looks a lot more red than it actually is.  It's mostly pink, with lots of lovely silver shimmer.  It's sort of a mix between a glitter and a foil. 

In the the beautiful sunlight we're having in BC right now!

And this one shows the sparkly silver shimmer!



Celeb City

A festive silver foil for Christmas.  I think this is my first foil polish, I didn't really like them before, but they are definately growing on me.

This is Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Celeb City.  The formula was great, a perfect one coat.  A few streaks, but nothing major.



And this is my little Loralai's matching fingies with mine (she's 8)!  She just had her first mani-pedi at a birthday party she went to.  Can't wait to go with her next time!