Zoya Pippa

  Hello dear readers!  Today I have a real summer color for you, Zoya Pippa.  Pippa is an orange toned yellow creme.  I have used it before, in water marbles and such (too lazy to link ya), and have even used it for a full manicure.  And I kinda liked it.  But now... Not so much.

It is never this neon

Shade

Somewhat color accurate

  So, yeah.  Part of the reason is that yellow doesn't look good on my skin tone.  Like I don't own more than like two yellow shirts and I never wear yellow dresses or anything.  I have a yellow bathing suit but in my opinion, if one isn't tan, one can not properly pull off yellow.  And even right now, I ain't tan :P.  But I guess I'd rather wear an orange toned yellow rather than a green toned yellow (blech).

Happy summer,

Em

Fourth of July Manicure!

  Happy late American Independence Day!   Here is my manicure in all it's gore.  I used the plastic bag method to do this which I am way too lazy to explain.  I did it for the stripes.

  The base color is OPI Swimsuit... Nailed It! and I used Wet n Wild French White and China Glaze Hey Sailor for the stripes.

  I am very very lazy today so thats just about it!  And just FYI, I hate hate hate how this turned out...

Happy celebrating,

Em

Revlon Facets of Fuchsia

  I was lazy and unable to take pictures...

  This is Revlon Facets of Fuchsia.  I have finally learned how to properly spell the name.  I saw this a whillllllee ago and picked it up and wore it once late last year.  And I hated it.  Well, not hated it, but I certainly didn't love it.  I can honestly say that I dont really love it now either.  It was (in my opinion) too much hype for what it was...

  Facets of Fuchsia is a black jelly (well, kinda) with purple shimmer and glitter suspended in it.  It sounds good in theory, I just really did NOT like the formula.

  I belieeeeeeeve this is two coats.  Might be three, I really don't no nor care.  Hey, the good news is that my nails aren't nubbins anymore!!

Happy jellying,

Em

Sephora by OPI Slushied and Sally Hansen HD Spectrum

  So just to warn you, this is the mani that caused this fail.  This shimmer that WON'T GET OFF OF MY FLOOR!  Grr, lol.

Err, after shimmer?  Probably, even though I can't see it here.

There's that purple!

It works well with Slushied.

Just Slushied.

Just Slushied.

SEE IT?  SEE THE CULPRIT OF THE CRIME??? (I'm jk)

I <3 duochrome shimmers!

With and without Spectrum

:)

  I love love loved this manicure!  I got a lot of compliments on it too!  It was so pretty, purple and blue in some lights, pure teal in others.  It's a chameleon!

  Just so you know, I am not blaming the polish for my floor.  It was my own stupidity :P.

Happy shimmering,

Em

Funky Fingers Riot and Teal Scales (fail...)

  Okay, before you say: "Em, what were you thinking?  These colors SUCK together!"  I had something I was aiming for.  I was aiming for this awesome combo.  My purple was too dark and I now know that.  I need to experiment with Teal Scales though...

Without top coat, kinda hard to see it...

Without top coat

With, extremely hard to see!

You see that awesomeness???

Not how I planned, purple was too dark...

SO DARK!

  I will find a way to make this polish look gorgeous!  It has a helluva lot of potential!

Happy shattering,

Em

R U RAH RAH?

  Back in February (I think) my family went to a Rutgers men's basketball game (I thiiiiiink they lost, don't quote me on that).  All I can really remember was criticizing Josh with Dan and singing stand tunes with Josh.  Being a band geek, you know every stand tune out there ;).
  But this is the manicure I wore to the game.  One freaking fail of a manicure.

China Glaze Hey Sailor with Funky Fingers White Scales on all but my ring fingers.

Wet n Wild French White on the accent finger.

Like, freaking look at it!  The red was like "heh heh heh it would be funny if I smudged.  ALL OVER THE WHITE!"

  Grr.  I was notttt happy with the final result of this.  But all in all, GO RUTGERS!  (I know they are out of March Madness already :-/)

Happy cheering,

Em

Nail Mail and a Fail

  So back in March, my brother came home for spring break with my long awaited package from Stephanie from Short n Chic from her Miss Universe Giveaway from October.  I already had one of the polishes from the four-piece collection and Stephanie sent an extra two (THANK YOU!) along with the package.  So onto the pictures!

OPI Swimsuit... Nailed It!

Butter London Prince's Plums (and why is it upside down?)

OPI It's My Year

OPI Pink Shatter

OPI Congeniality Is My Middle Name

OPI Crown My Already!

  Now onto my fail.  On my Slushied/Spectrum Manicure (which I am not sure when I will get up because of the backlog), I must have accidently left Spectrum open.  And I do my nails while sitting on my bedroom floor.  Either the next morning, or two mornings later, I found this:

After some nail polish remover, it still looked like this.
P.S. DO NOT USE NAIL POLISH REMOVER ON A WOOD FLOOR.  I TOOK A RISK. DO NOT TAKE MY RISK.

After some heavy duty scrubbing with Oops!, I ended up with this.  This is even what it looks like now, several weeks later.
The tealish sparkley part is where I used Oops! and scraped.  The whiteish purple part is where I used nail polish remover.
I repeat: DO NOT USE NAIL POLISH REMOVER.

  Yeah so nail mail and a fail.  Greeeeeeeat.

Happy mailing/failing,
Em

HAPPY (late) THANKSGIVING!

  I know this is late but mainly I am thankful for my friends and family.  They are my shining stars in every day and I don't know what I would do without them.
  Without further ado, failed turkey mani!

All with Pure Ice Oh Baby! over it.
Red- Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby
Orange- Wet N Wild Shine Sunny Side
Blue- $OPI Slushied
Purple- Funky Fingers Cheshire

Brown is Pure Ice Magic, gold is China Glaze Mega Bite.
Fail of a turkey face...

Happy turkeying,

Em