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.

I could not resist Halloween Shrunken Head Shots.

I guess color wise it is not your traditional Halloween colors but it works.

Beauty Tips for Women: Starrily – Razzle Dazzle Manicure

Posted on October 15, 2013 by admin

I had the recent luck to have won a contest hosted by the awesome beauty blogger Love for Lacquer and sponsored by Starrily. I received two lovely polishes, one of which I’ll be showing you today. Razzle Dazzle is a multi-colored glitter packed polish in a clear base.

I started off with two coats of China Glaze Re-Fresh Mint. Starrily recommends to “shake or roll bottle before using” and suggests to get those larger glitter pieces to “apply using a dab motion to pick out the glitters”; great advice, which I used in applying Razzle Dazzle. I only did one coat and that was sufficient to get coverage. Then applied Poshe top coat to finish this simple and eye catching manicure.

This is a beautiful glitter polish that applies like a dream. I would highly recommend it. It adds a beautiful pop of color to any manicure. I give Razzle Dazzle 5 brains.

If you are interested in picking up some Starrily polish head over to:
http://starrily.com/
Also an awesome beauty blogger to follow is Love for Lacquer and you can find her at:
http://www.loveforlacquer.com/

Beauty Tips for Women: A-England Saint George

Posted on May 11, 2013 by admin

I wanted to share a beauty product review of the lovely A-England Saint George nail polish. Let me warn you that this will be a photo intensive post. Saint George has been on my lemming list for some time. In fact all the collections of A-England are on my lemming list but that is a whole other issue.

In case you don’t know what “lemming” refers to, here is the definition according to Urban Dictionary: A lemming refers to a purchase/wished-for-item, which results from reading an enthusiastic post about a new fabulous product. Overcome by compulsion, readers follow like lemmings diving off a cliff. May be used as a noun or verb. May apply to the buyer but more commonly to the item of desire.

I can’t tell you how excited I was to receive my white little envelope with the Royal Mail stamp. I couldn’t help but take a picture.

Saint George is a scattered holographic dark teal. It is just a stunning color. The formula was amazing. I had no issues whatsoever. I used only one coat and got perfect opacity. These pictures are with no topcoat.

I wanted to do some stamping but I didn’t want to cover up the holographic effect not to mention the teal color is just amazing, so I didn’t want to loose that. I decided to use Cheeky Jumbo Plate 8 – Princess Charming, which has a royal crown image that resembles the A-England crown logo.

I used Pure Ice – Silver Mercedes to stamp the crown images. I toped it all off with Seche Vite. Pardon the awkward hand poses but I was trying to capture the stamping next to the logo of A-England as best I could. I also took some pictures outdoors trying my best to capture just how beautiful this polish is.