Beauty Tips for Women: Roses Manicure using Venique

Posted on April 28, 2013 by admin

I was lucky enough to be one of the winners of the Nail It! Magazine’s contest; my prize was 4 polishes from Venique. Venique sent me a top coat, bast coat, I’m A Sucker For Wedges, and Wingtip White. I love Venique polishes and own a few already so this was an awesome prize to win.

It seems that with spring in the air there has been inspiration in the online nail art world to do manicures with roses, mostly freehand. I suck at freehand which is why I am hooked on stamping. I thought these colors from Venique would make for a nice rose manicure.

I stared off with Venique base coat, which is sticky and anchors the polish. Love this base coat. Then applied two coats of Wingtip White on my thumb and ring finger. This is a lovely white cream polish. The formula was perfect. I had no issues at all with it. I applied two coats of I’m A Sucker For Wedges on the rest of my nails. It is a vibrant deep hot pink, which just screams summer to me. No issues at all with the formula, just a delight to put on.

The formula of each polish was just right for stamping. So I decided I would use them to stamp the images from the plates I selected. For the ring finger I isolated a rose off Bundle Monster’s BM323. For the thumb I used Checky CH6. I stamped these with I’m A Sucker For Wedges. As you can see it stamped perfectly. I used Cheeky CH6 again for the dots and Cheeky CH10 for the stripes. On my pinky I used Cheeky CH14. These were all stamped with Wingtip White. As you can see it also stamped wonderfully. I used two different green strippers to create the little leaves. Finished if off with Venique top coat. Just love how it turned out and just the vibrancy of the colors both as polish and stamping polish.

My 3 year old loved how my rose manicure turned out and wanted me to do her nails too. She wanted purple and pink. So I opted to keep going with Venique. I used Jamin’ in Jellies. One thin coat did the trick for her little nails and stamped the roses using I’m A Sucker For Wedges. I used the roses from Cheeky CH14. The same one I used on my pinky. I used my stripper in green to make small petals. She was so happy with how it came out. I think I have a little diva polish princess on my hands.

I can’t say enough good things about Venique. You can find them on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VeniqueNails and their web page: http://www.veniquenails.com for further information about where to purchase.

I give Wingtip White and I’m A Sucker For Wedges 5 brains!

Beauty Tips for Women: Earth Day Manicure

Posted on April 21, 2013 by admin

I wanted to try my hand at doing an Earth Day manicure but I wanted to steer clear from using green. I was inspired by two things, my daughters Earth Day celebration flyer that had a rainbow recycling theme and to continue with the blue theme for Autism Awareness month.

I used Jordana – Sapphire. Sapphire is a bright blue shimmer polish. I used only two coats. The formula was easy to apply; I had no problems, just love it. I used Wet ‘n’ Wild – French White Crème for the accent finger. I used two coats of French White Crème. I have a bit of a love hate relationship with French White Crème. It is a beautiful white and is a good stamping polish but I find this formula very streaky. I really liked how this looked, very simple and clean.

Winstonia came out with a great series of plates. They have images for holidays that are unique like plate W104 with the Earth Day stamp. I used that image for my thumb. For the rest of my nails I used Cheeky CH33 recycling image.

For the stamping I used Konad white and on the accent finger I used red, blue, green, yellow and orange to stamp the recycling images. In my mind this manicure looked good but when I but it together I disliked it. I don’t have long nails so fitting the recycling images in different colors was a real pain. I ended up overlapping some of the colors and it just looked bad.

In theory this manicure should have worked but I couldn’t pull it off. Perhaps if my nails had been longer it would have looked better. But also I think my choice of blue wasn’t right either for this manicure. This whole manicure was an utter fail for me. It truly is tough to have short nails and pull off nail art; you just simply need the room. I don’t mind sharing a failed manicure; it is all a learning curve.

Beauty Tips for Women: Essie – In The Cab-ana

Posted on April 13, 2013 by admin

Today I’m sharing a review/manicure of Essie In The Cab-ana. In The Cab-ana is part of the Essie Resort 2013 collection.

Essie In The Cab-ana is an amazing bright blue/teal-ish color; it is a perfect summertime polish. The formula was wonderful and only took two coats to reach opacity. This color is one of those happy colors that put a smile on my face. I decided to do an accent finger using Smitten Polish – Confection. I loved how to combination looked.

I decided I wanted to add something more to this manicure. I opted to add some mustaches. I had picked up these nail art mustache stickers at Claire’s. It came out very whimsical.

Overall, I’m totally in love with In The Cab-ana. Everything about this polish was right. Plus my four mustachio friends never looked better sitting on this perfect blue. I give Essie In The Cab-ana, 5 brains.