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Beauty Tips for Women: Autism Awareness Manicure

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The month of April is Autism Awareness month and the color for this cause is blue.  This is my first time doing blue nails for autism awareness, so I kept it simple.

I started off with two coats of Orly Boho Bonnet on my index and thumb.  I reviewed Boho Bonnet in a previous manicure, you can check it out here: http://bluebrainreviews.com/beauty-tips-for-women-orlys-boho-bonnetpeaceful-opposition-manicure-review/.  On the rest I used two coats of Orly High On Hope.  High On Hope is a navy blue crème with multi-chrome shimmer.  Application was easy.  I tried my best to capture how lovely the shimmer is in this polish.

I was pleased with the color combination but wanted to add a little something more.  I decided to stamp my thumb with Bundle Monster BM-321 ribbon image.  I used Cheeky CH-13 on my ring finger to stamp a puzzle design. Pardon the quality of the stamping plate pictures. I was having trouble with my camera.


I used High On Hope to stamp these images.  I was pleasantly surprised at how well High On Hope stamped.

 

Overall I was pleased with how this manicure came out.

Beauty Tips for Women: Orly – Melodious Utopia Manicure

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I wanted to share a manicure I did using Orly’s Spring 2013 Hope and Freedom Collection – Melodious Utopia.  I’m still working my way through all polishes in this lovely collection.

I have a bit of a love hate relationship with yellow polishes.  I like them but never like how they look on me.  Plus formulas tend to be kind of wacky.  So I was bit skeptical about how this yellow would fare on me.

Melodious Utopia is a creamy yellow shimmer polish.  It was hard to capture a good picture that showed off the gold/orange/pink shimmers it has throughout.  I used two coats.  I had no issues with the formula at all.

I was pleasantly surprised by how Melodious Utopia looked on me.  I was inspired to do some stamping and what came to mind was honeybees.  To achieve this look I used Winstonia plate W113, which has a cool honeycomb like pattern.  For the honeybee, I used Shany plate SH05.  I stamped with Konad special black polish.  

I give Melodious Utopia 5 brains.

Beauty Tips for Women: Orly – Miss Conduct

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If by chance you still haven’t laid eyes upon Orly’s Holiday 2012 Naughty Or Nice Collection, you should and pronto before they disappear. They are all lovely, but the one that knocked my socks off is Miss Conduct.

Miss Conduct is unlike any holographic polish I’ve seen or own; it truly is unique.  It is a magenta/pink/raspberry color with scattered holo effect.    The formula was great, very easy to apply. I had no issues at all.  I did two coats but with one coat it would have been fine. I tried my best to capture just how wonderful this shade-shifter is, but pictures don’t do it justice. I tried to capture a picture with and without flash.  I couldn’t stop starring at my nails and showing off the holographic effect to anyone who came my way.  

I give Miss Conduct 5 brains.