Beauty Tips for Women: Valentine Manicure using Jior Couture – Drumline

Posted on January 9, 2014 by admin

It may only be January but Valentine manicures have already started to pop up on the web. I couldn’t resist doing one myself.

I decided to use Jior Couture Drumline for this Valentine theme manicure. Drumline is a red jelly polish with red and silver glitter. Once I started applying the polish it seemed like a pinkish-red on my skin tone. The formula was fine but I had difficulty getting the glitters out. It was frustrating to see all that gorgeous glitter sticking to the side of the bottle and not be able to get at it. It also didn’t help that I was dealing with a mini bottle, which just added to the difficult of fishing out the glitter.

For the stamping part of this manicure I used Pueen plate 43.

I started off with two coats of Drumline. Once dried, I stamped my ring finger with Sally Hansen Rapid Red and the rest of my fingers with Konad White. I made sure to let the image dry before moving on. I added two more coats of Drumline and topped it with Color Club Speedy top coat.

I liked the over all effect although I’m not sure what it is called; I guess you can say it’s a jelly stamp sandwich manicure … lol …

I give Drumline three brains. I found the color lovely but couldn’t get over the issues with the glitter.

If you are interested in picking up your own set of polishes, check out their page www.jiorcouture.com and on facebook https://www.facebook.com/JiorCouture.

Beauty Tips for Women: New Year’s Eve Manicure

Posted on January 4, 2014 by admin

I was pressed for time for New Year’s Eve but I still wanted to do a manicure. Here is what I came up with:

I did two coats of Wet ‘n Wild Black Crème. I topped it with two coats of Sephora by OPI in It’s Real 18k Gold top coat. For my ring finger I did one coat of Maybelline Bold Gold. I stamped a Happy New Year image from Cheeky jumbo plate 6 using Konad Black. Topped it off with Color Club Speedy top coat.

I wanted something simple to pull off but yet had some bling. I was very happy how it turned out and got some compliments at the party.

I have entered this manicure into a Adventures in Polishland 2nd Annual New Year’s Eve Manicure Contest on her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=551728878250783&set=a.551728681584136.1073741839.303841569706183&type=3&theater
Please give my manicure a like and like Adventures in Polishland’s page. She has a cool page and blog.

The holidays have been crazy. I did several Christmas manicures and simple didn’t have the time to post up anything. I did place pictures on my instagram and twitter accounts. I haven’t decided yet if I will do a blog about them since Christmas is over. We shall see.

Beauty Tips for Women: Starrily – Candy Shop Halloween Manicure

Posted on October 24, 2013 by admin

I wanted to share a Halloween manicure I did using Starrily Candy Shop. I let the name and colors influence how this Halloween manicure would turn out.

Candy Shop is a clear base glitter polish loaded with hearts, stripes, dots, hexagons, and neons. I’m sure I missed a shape since it is super packed with a variety of glitter shapes. As you can see the glitter colors pop and it’s just a super fun polish.
I started off by painting my nails with some of the colors found in Candy Shop. I used Sally Hansen Just In Lime! on my thumb, Sally Hansen Fast Fuchsia on my index finger, Sally Hansen Brisk Blue on my middle finger, Wet n Wild Ebony Hates Chris on my ring finger, and Sally Hansen Rapid Red on my pinky. I did two coats of each and totally forgot to take a picture of this step. The stamping plates I used are from Bundle Monster BM-305 and BM-H07. To stamp the images I used Konad black polish.
My ringer finger got the full coverage of Candy Shop and it only took one coat. It applied like a dream and since the polish is so packed with glitter you don’t have to fish around to get any of the large pieces. I simply love how Candy Shop looks over black. After stamping everything I applied Poshe top coat.