OPI Mariah Carey Collection Swatches

Hi my pretties! Today I have OPI's Mariah Carey collection to show you. There are 4 Studio Shades and 4 Stage Shades. The Stage Shades are the "Liquid Sand" polishes and are meant to be worn without topcoat for a textured look and feel. Onto the photos!

Studio Shades:

A Butterfly Moment

Sprung

Anti-Bleak

Pink Yet Lavender (one coat over Anti-Bleak)--this combination looks so beautiful in person! <3

Stage Shades:

The Impossible--no topcoat

The Impossible--with topcoat. I was only able to get one star onto my index finger, but you can't see it under the 2nd coat =[

Can't Let Go--no topcoat

Can't Let Go--with topcoat

Get Your Number--no topcoat

Get Your Number--with topcoat

Stay the Night--no topcoat

Stay the Night--with topcoat

I love the 4 Studio shades. For the Stage Shades (Liquid Sand) I like The Impossible (pink) and Get Your Number (blue). The liquid sand polishes dry matte and are only minimally gritty, but just aren't for me like that. I'm partial to smooth and shiny nails and I will be wearing these with topcoat. The colors really are more vibrant with topcoat and I love how sparkly they look! I almost passed up this collection, but I'm so glad I didn't.

OPI Black Onyx & China Glaze Beauty Within

Happy New Year! Today I have my New Year's Eve mani that I wore last night. I used OPI Black Onyx with gold hex glitter and China Glaze Beauty Within. I wanted to use more hex glitter, but I was having a slightly difficult time making my lines straight so I re-did it with less glitter. Hope everyone had a fun evening last night and had a great start to the new year!

Guest Post for Blog Nailed It

Happy Friday! I did a guest post for the lovely Katy over at Blog Nailed It. To see what I used for this Koi fish nail art check out the post here.

Pink & Black Tape Mani

Hi beauties! I'm trying to use different methods to do nail art other than stamping so today I have a tape manicure to show you. I used OPI Mod About You, China Glaze Dance Baby, and OPI Black Onyx. I could use a bit more practice at this, but I'm happy with how it turned out. I want to try this again already with different colors! Also, don't forget to enter my current giveaway here.

OPI Suzi & the 7 Dusseldorfs and Konad M77

Happy Friday! I've had naked nails for 2 weeks and I'm kinda dying over here without polish on my nails. My final is in 11 days and when it's over, I'm going to go nuts and paint my nails like a madwoman. Anyways, here's my much needed paint job. I used OPI Suzi & the 7 Dusseldorfs and stamped using Konad M77 in Essie No Place Like Chrome. My accent nail is OPI Crown Me Already. I feel so fancy with these!

My Golden Birthday

Happy Saturday. I hope everyone is having a lovely Thanksgiving weekend. I sure am. Today I turn 24 so it's my golden birthday! I got OPI The Man with the Golden Gun last month and wanted to save it for a special occasion and I decided to use it for today's mani. I used OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons, OPI Black Onyx, and OPI The Man with the Golden Gun. I added some gold studs from Born Pretty Store. I love how these turned out, I feel so glamorous!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Turkey Day loves! I did a quick Thanksgiving mani that I'm not even wearing today. I only have a few days off from school so I'm gonna try to do my nails a few times while I can lol. I used OPI Call Me Gwen-ever, Color Club Almost Famous, China Glaze Adventure Red-y, and China Glaze Mahogany Magic. Hope everyone has a lovely Thanksgiving with their families. I'm so thankful for all of my followers and for my husband who buys me all the nail polish I want <3

OPI DS Classic and Bundle Monster 318

Hi loves. I'm so sorry I haven't been posting much lately. This month has definitely been the toughest month of the nursing program so far and it's still not over. I promise lots of posts when finals are over mid December. Until then, here is a mani I had to find time to squeeze in. I used OPI DS Classic and stamped using BM 318 in Konad Black. My birthday is in a week on the 24th so at least I will make time for some birthday nails!

 

Here's a swatch of OPI DS Classic on its own. Such a beautiful tan holo! 

Zoya Maisie and Bundle Monster 301

Happy Friday! I finally did my nails today after having them naked for an entire 2 weeks. I'm going through withdrawals over here! It feels so wonderful right now to have polish on my nails lol. For this mani I used a base of OPI Black Onyx and added a coat of Zoya Maisie on top. I stamped using BM 301 in Konad Princess Apple Green.

OPI Goldeneye and OPI You Only Live Twice

Hey readers! This mani is from a week and a half ago and believe it or not, my nails have been naked ever since =[ This is the busiest month of school this semester so I'll try to post when I can. Anyways, here's OPI Goldeneye and OPI You Only Live Twice. Forget about YOLO lol! 

Pirate Hello Kitty, Argh!

Hey loves! Halloween is less than a week away and I'm finally getting around to doing some Halloween nails. I hoped to get around to doing some sooner, but now will have to do. Here's a Hello Kitty Pirate themed mani. She's cute as a pirate, or probably anything for that matter! Here's what I used:

Base colors: OPI Black Onyx, Zoya Arizona
Stamping Colors: Konad Black, Konad White
Image plates: FUN 2, BM 317, CH 49, CH 36

Born Pretty Store 12 Color Hex Glitter Review

Hi readers! Today I have something sparkly to show you from Born Pretty Store. I did a frame mani using a set of multi-colored hex glitter over OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls.

You get a set of 12 different colors and they come in small plastic containers. The best part--you get all 12 for only $6.45.

There's such a good variety of colors that come in this set. The only thing that I didn't like was that 2 of the lids weren't screwed on right and you can see in the bottom photo, a bunch of the yellow gold and blue glitter are all over the place. Luckily they didn't come off completely and most of the glitter stayed inside the containers. I really enjoyed using these glitters. They're very easy to use and you don't have to go through the trouble of fishing out glitter from glitter polishes. I have searched for glitters like these before, but I have never been able to find as much of a variety of colors or for this cheap. You can purchase them here from Born Pretty Store and use my code "NV7X31" for 10% off your purchase.

***Product provided for review***

Tan, Teal, and Brown Gradient Dotticure

Happy Friday! Today I have my first dotticure to show you. I used this tutorial from Sarah at Chalkboard Nails. I usually avoid using a dotting tool because I'm so anal and I love everything to be perfect and symmetrical, but I got out of my comfort zone, tried this out, and ended up loving it! I used OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons for the base and then added dots using Color Club Age of Aquarius and China Glaze Mahogany Magic.

OPI Die Another Day and Cheeky CH33

Hey my polished pretties! I'm sorry I've been so busy lately. This is just a really busy semester. I promise I'm doing my nails as much as I can for you all. Today I have one of the polishes I got from the OPI Skyfall Collection. I actually got all 12 plus the 18k gold flake top coat. I'm a sucker for holiday collections buying every collection I can get my hands on! Here's OPI Die Another Day stamped using Cheeky CH33 in China Glaze Passion. I was going for a fall look, but this actually looks a lot more festive than I expected.

Here's a swatch of OPI Die Another Day. 2 coats no topcoat. 

Breast Cancer Awareness Nails

Happy Friday! I haven't stamped my nails in almost 2 weeks and I feel so incomplete. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and I decided to do some stamping to honor it. I used OPI Pink Friday and stamped using BM 321 in Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Presto Pink. Have you ladies had a breast exam lately or at least performed a breast self-examination? Don't forget!

OPI Germany Collection Swatches

Hey readers! Today I have swatches of OPI's Fall 2012 Germany Collection to show you. It consists of 6 shimmers and 6 cremes. I typically do nail art, but I got this collex back in August and I've been dying to play with them. Sometimes if I don't do swatches of polishes, they'll be in my untrieds forever lol. Hella polish hoarder over here. My stash is at about 486 not counting top coat, base coats, or Konad/stamping polishes. Yikes! What's your "number?"

Danke-Shiny Red

Deutsch You Want Me Baby?

Suzi & the 7 Dusseldorfs

Unfor-greta-bly Blue

Every Month is Oktoberfest

German-icure by OPI

Don't Pretzel My Buttons. My new favorite nude!!

My Very First Knockwurst

Berlin There Done That

Nein! Nein! Nein! OK Fine!

Don't Talk Bach to Me

Schnapps Out of It

I really LOVE all 6 of the shimmers. Out of the cremes, I love Dont' Pretzel My Buttons and My Very First Knockwurst. I'm not partial to grey at all and the 2 weird colors, well they're just that. The formula was great on all of them. All swatches are 2 coats, except Suzi & the 7 Dusseldorfs and Berlin There Done That, they're 3. These are all shown without topcoat. Which ones have you ladies picked up?