Cherry Blossoms With Revlon-Whimsical

Hey hey everyone! So this is very last post before China, as I'm leaving tomorrow morning and can't post while I'm there. But at least for today I have these nice simple cherry blossom nails! I used Revlon-Whimsical  as the base here. It's a really old polish that I got for Christmas a couple years ago. I've always been too lazy to use it really, until today! My friend saw it in the bottle and told me it looked ugly like garbage, so I told her I could turn it into something beautiful. This is what happened! Keep reading to see more!

Flower Nails On Essie- Ruffles & Feathers

Hey guys how is everyone? I'm actually typing this up on my phone right now, never done that before. It's kinda cool. I'm horrible at typing though so please excuse any typos. Today I'm sharing these cute large floral nails. I recently Vought Essie- Ruffles & Feathers which is this really pretty green creme polish that I'm using as the base here. Keep reading! 

Dot Manicure With Zoya-Feifei

Hi everyone hope you've all had a good Saturday! I went out driving for the first time in a while today, ever since I took out my parent's passenger side mirror the other day. oops. But it was fun, I like driving with my learner's permit and stuff. Anyway I have a fun little dotticure to show you all today! Yay! 

Essie-Maximillian Strasse Her

Hello readers how is everyone on this lovely Tuesday morning? The weather over in NH is just sooo nice! It's breezy and cool and the fresh air is just so..fresh...does that make sense? Lol it's just really refreshing here. I'm going hiking later in the afternoon so that should be fun. I haven't been hiking in a really long time. I used to love it. 

To match the intense love of nature that I am feeling right now, today's color is green! Essie-Maximillian Strasse Her is a beautiful dusty muted greyed out green. Which of course means my camera is really not capturing this color accurately because, well, it fails at those dusty tones. In real life this shade is darker with more grey in it. 

And please ignore the dry as a desert state of my cuticles in these pictures. Ugh I shudder just looking at them.

The formula on this was quite nice. It was a little streaky on the first coat but it was nice and opaque by the second. It had a very smooth and even application and flowed onto the nail very well. That sounds weird...but you know what I mean!

Essie polishes are available at CVS, Target, and other drug stores for about $8 a piece.
That's all I've really got for today guys. I'm off to my date with Netflix and reruns of Doctor Who. Thanks for reading and I'll see you all next time!
~Nova

Butter London-Bossy Boots

Hey fellow nail obsessors! Wow I didn't know that was actually a word...obsessors...hm. Happy Monday! Doesn't feel like a Monday really because I'm still in New Hampshire and I'm not going to camp or anything. My mom has conferences in the morning and evening so I basically just hang around watching movies and Netflix-ing on her computer. And blogging. That too.
Today's color is suuuuuuper purdy. I got it a while back around Christmas time, it's Butter London-Bossy Boots. I have to say I reeeeaaaallllly love this color! This is probably one of my favorite greens in my collection! It's a very spring color to me, I probably should have used it more in the spring. These photos are a little too yellow toned, it's a little bit greener in real life. It's really more of a pistachio green. It's actually an exact pistachio green. Like, this is exactly the color I think of when someone says pistachio green. Also can we take a minute to get over what an amazing word pistachio is. Pistachio. Pistachio. Ok I'm done.

The formula on this was very nice, all my Butter London's have really nice formulas. The application was smooth and creamy and beautiful. It was a little streaky on the first coat but perfect by the second coat, which is what I'm wearing.

I have to say I'm really in love with Butter London polishes. The formulas are just so nice! The only thing I don't like is that the brushes are freaking tiny and they don't spread out very well. Like they're kinda stiff. Which I guess is good for some people, but for me those super skinny/stiff brushes make it hard to get a nice round cuticle, which you can probably see in the pictures. I dunno, maybe that's just my problem.

Butter London polishes cost $14, so yeah, they're quite a pretty penny, and you can find them in department stores like Nordstrom and Macy's or beauty retailers like Sephora or Ulta.
Ok I lied I'm totally not done:

Now I'm done. Promise. 
Teehee
K guys thanks for reading and bearing through my pistachio fetish.
Byee
~Nova

Ciate-Apples and Custard

Hello everyone! How is everyone's week going? I've been lounging around the house, enjoying my free time...watching Firefly till my head explodes from the sexiness of Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion). So sad there are only 14 episodes :( I'm going to have to keep watching these episodes over and over again until I get enough...
So today's color is Ciate-Apples and Custard. I picked this up when I was in London several months ago. It's a UK brand, so shipping to the US is MONSTROUS! I got lucky when I saw them in this department store my mom and I were in. They had quite a few colors there, but I was kind of on a budget and only got one, the only that really called out to me. Of course, it was green (I am such a sucker for green. I have more green polishes in my collection than any other color).

Apples and Custard is a lovely spring green, but not the same as Illamasqua-Nomad, which is a bit lighter and brighter. Apples and Custard is a little grey toned, though less so in real life than in these pictures. These pictures are showing it a little darker than they really are.

And I just love those bottles! That's one of the main reasons I wanted a Ciate polish so bad, just look at that awesome bottle shape! And the little bow... *dies* it's so cute!

Unfortunately the formula on this was a little less than ideal. It was REALLY streaky and kind of lumpy, which is weird because I've worn this polish before and don't remember it being so lumpy. Maybe I just applied it bad this time around, but I'm wearing 4 (!) coats in these pictures, and it needed all 4 coats to be even and smooth. But I think some of that was my fault, I was kind of rushing :-/, and if I applied it more carefully I could probably get away with 3 or 2 coats. It would be a pity of the formula on this was really that bad, because in the US these retail for about $15. It's a high end brand man! 

You can buy Ciate polishes in certain Sephora stores, and on their website.

Well that's all for today guys! I have to go board the Serenity and fly around space now...yay!

Teehee Malcolm Reynolds

Oh and uh...my new catchphrase

Illamasqua Nomad

Hi happy Friday! Any weekend plans? I'm just hangin with some friends tonight, then really doing nothing over the weekend. Today's post is of one my favorite colors Illamasqua-Nomad. I got this, along with another Illamasqua, from Sephora around Christmas with a coupon, I basically got it for free. I haven't tried it really since then, and I don't know why, because the color is gorgeous! 

These pics are in sunlight. I bumped my index finger so it's just not in these pics. The formula on this was perfect:nice and creamy,(which is expected of a polish that costs $15!) I'm wearing two coats in these pictures. They also dried to sort of a matte/satiny finish, so these pics have one coat of Seche Vite on top.

 I have lot's of photos of this, it's just so pretty! It's a perfect spring green, in my opinion. 

Ack my hands look really red in these picture :/

These are in the shade. I think the shade pictures are a little more color accurate.

I can't wait to do some nail art or water marble or something with this color it's BEAUTIFUL! I think it might be my favorite green in my collection!

Illamasqua polishes cost I think $15 at Sephora, so not cheap!

Thanks for reading all, have a good weekend!