Beauty Tips for Women: Retro Cat Manicure

For this manicure I was inspired by Jior Couture Cat’s Corn-er polish from their Halloween 2013 collection.  Warning this post is picture intensive. Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 333

Cat’s Corn-er polish is a holographic thermal chocolate brown polish that is also candy corn scented. Application was smooth and the smell made me crave candy.  I tried my best to capture the shift in thermal and the holorraphic effect in pictures. Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 334 Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 335 Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 336 Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 337 Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 339 Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 339 Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 340

I decided to stamp a cat to play on the title Cat’s Corn-er.  I choose a lovely retro cat from Pueen Cosmetics plate Pueen40.  I stamped with Maybelline Bold Gold. Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 341

The cat came across better when Cat’s Corn-er is dark brown rather than the light caramel color.

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This polish packs a punch. I love how it changes colors and the different looks you can get. I’m glad that I just did a simple stamp cause I didn’t want to cover up the color. Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 349

I give Cat’s Corn-er 5 brains.

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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: Valentine Manicure using Jior Couture – Drumline

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.  Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 302

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.

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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 …

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

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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 – Hawaiian Christmas Manicure

Bundle Monster came out with a special edition Hawaiian Christmas plate BM-SE1.  I love all things Hawaiian, Tiki, Polynesian in theme.  I needed to get my hands on it. Bundle Monster BM-SE1

The Hawaiian Christmas plate has 7 images on it.  I immediately feel in love with the Santa Tiki.  But all the images are super cute.  I did a test stamp on paper using Konad black and all the images transferred over and were clear.  I had absolutely no issues whatsoever.

I wanted to do nontraditional colors for my Christmas manicure and try to give it an island feel. I came up with the idea of putting the Santa Tiki on the beach with palm trees. Once I decided that it was time to pick the nail polish colors.

Here is a list of what I used:
LA Colors – Sassy Sparkly
China Glaze – For Audrey
Konad – Black & White
Rimmel – Hot Coca
Color Club – Earthly Angel
Ulta – Envy
Sally Hansen – Rapid Red
Maybelline – Bold Gold
Sally Hansen – Lighening
Pure Ice – Silver Mercedes

Santa TikiI started off with doing a base coat of For Audrey.  I sponged Earthly Angel on the tip of my nail to make a little beach area.  Using Envy I painted the palm trees free hand.  I then stamped the Santa Tiki in Hot Coca but only the Tiki not the hat.  I then filled in the image completely with Hot Coca waited for it to dry and added top coat.  The reason for doing this is if I messed up placing the black image over the brown I could take acetone and gently wipe it away without taking off the rest of the polish; basically erasing the mistake.  Next used Black for the Tiki, White for the trim and Rapid Red for the hat; I lined it up as best I can and rolled.  I practiced doing this method on nail art wheel a couple of times before tying it on my nails.  So I was able to get on the first try.  Topped it off with Seche Vite.

For the middle finger I used the Christmas tree.  I stamped the tree with Eny and the flower with Konad white.  With a dotting tool I placed red and yellow dots and used a gold striper to fill in the lines.  Topped it off with Seche Vite.  Index and pinky finger I added a coat of Sassy Sparkly.  It was my intention to do it on my middle finger but totally forgot and once I but the on the Seche Vite I didn’t want to go back and mess with it.  Using Konad White I stamped Mele Kalikimaka.  For the presents on the pinky I used Silver Mercedes and Bold Gold to stamp the presents.  Topped it off with Seche Vite.

I shared my manicure with Bundle Monster via Instagram and was blown away when they shared my manicure on their facebook page.  I love their stamping plates so it truly was an honor to make it onto their timeline.

I hope you enjoyed, Mele Kalikimaka everyone!