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!

Daisy Nail On Mint

I have a really old post today that I just totally forgot about posting...oops. Sorry guys. Stuff just sometimes gets lost in my drafts. 
Also German vs Portugal? Anyone? INTENSE STUFF MAN! I mean that red card?? Damn dude! I'm writing this during halftime, so it'll be quick before the game starts again.
Keep on reading guys!

Navy & Gold Swirl Nail Art

Hey everyone happy Friday finally! I feel like this week has been sooo long, is it just me? Anyway is anyone doing anything fun. I mean, I'm writing this sitting in bed watching Futurama, so this seems to be shaping up to be a fun weekend! I haven't done real nail art in a while, so it'll be fun to finally have enough time this weekend to do something. 

So the nail art today is this blue and gold swirl nail art. You all know I love navy and gold together! Keep reading to see more!

Nail Art Feb Challenge- Pastel

Hello happy Tuesday! Short week this week yay (for me at least :P) Today's challenge was a fun one, Pastel. Honestly, I don't own many pastel polishes, I'm not a pastel person, but I think I managed for this manicure!

Revlon Nail Art Expressionist Polishes

Hello happy almost New Year everybody! Today I've got swatches of 2 Revlon Nail Art Expressionist polishes. Each polish is double ended, so technically I have 4 swatches for you guys. 

Xmas Tree Mani

Hello everyone! Less than 2 weeks till Christmas! Who's excited?? I know I am. I've only got one week left of school then it's winter break! YAYY! and I did some serious shopping today for all my friends, and I am just so ready for it to be Christmas already. 
So today I've got my first holiday mani to show you all. I decided to do Christmas trees! 

Waterfall Lines Nail Art

Hi all! Whew it's been a while without a post, hasn't it? Well I'm back! And I've got some cool nail art to share with you guys! It's a waterfall mani! 
So this was my first time trying one of these, I think it came out quite nicely. 

Glitter Spam-Monocolors

Hey girls! (and maybe guys...?:-/) Got a fun post for y'all today, GLITTER SPAM!! Has there ever been a better combination of two words in the english language? I guess...Firefly's back...Buffy marathon...snow day...band camp...so yeah jk there are a lot :P
Anyway so I've been working on swatching all my glitters (just sayin...there's a lot) and I thought I would post them in "category" posts. So today's category are my monocolor glitters!
*Disclaimer-Not all polishes in this post are available for purchase in the US.
First up is Milani-584 Red. It's large red hex glitter in a clear base. I picked this up really recently, like 2 days ago recently. I was surprised when I saw it and realized I didn't have ANY red glitter polishes in my collection! Not one! And I always thought red glitter was really vampy and sexy, especially over darker colors, so I was like yay.
The glitter was a little hard to get onto the brush, maybe cuz the brush is like freaking tiny or maybe the bottle just needs a good shake. Anywho, as long as you swirl the brush around in the bottle a bit first you should be good. Other than that the formula was nice. It had good coverage and only needed a little bit of dabbing.
This is Milani-584 Red over Zoya-Evvie a nice dark color :)

And just for fun, here's 584 Red over Revlon Top Speed-Grape. Grape is a dark purple with a pretty shimmer, and I thought it would look REALLY good with red glitter. I was right :D

Sorry the pics are a little blurry/out of focus. My camera fails at sparkles.
Next is Color Club-Platinum Record. This is large silver hex glitter mixed with dark silver micro glitter. I considered putting this in the micro/fine glitter category, but due to the abundance of large glitter I decided to put it here. I always have issues with categorizing stuff :-/
The formula on this was very smooth and even, and the glitter applied in one nice coat. Another reason I considered putting it in the fine glitter category. But it's here now. So whatever. This is Platinum Record over Essie-Butler Please.

Do you see those random flashes of red? weird...

Also sorry for the stupid dent in my ring finger

Now these next two are Chinese brands, and not really available anywhere in the US or online or whatever. Sorry! The brand of these polishes is Lucidarling, and they don't really have names.
Also the brush on both these polishes is like microscopically small. and kinda stiff. Both the polishes needed a lot of dabbing to get the glitter on the nail. They also dried sorta matte, so these pictures all have one coat of top coat.
This first one is just large gold hex glitter in a clear base. The shade of gold is rather interesting...it's not light enough to be champagne gold, but it's not as yellow tones as most gold/yellow glitters. It's a little muted. Muted glitter? This is the gold over Essie-Maximillian Strasse Her.

See? It's a weird shade of gold.
The next one is a rosy pink color. Also not a the typical pink color I see in glitter polishes. Like the gold one, it's a little dusty/muted. Very pretty. This is the pink glitter over China Glaze-Light As Air.

God that shade of purple just makes my fingers look REALLY red! Meh...
The Milani polishes retail for about $6-7 and in places like CVS, which is where I got mine, and Color Club usually costs about $7 in stores like CVS and Walgreens or beauty retailers like Harmons.
Those were all my monocolor glitters! Thanks for reading everybody, I'll have more glitter spam posts up every week so stay tuned! K bye!
~Nova 

Some Impromptu Nail Art

Hello everybody! Today I just have some really quick nail art that I did yesterday. I had some colors out for swatching and they all looked really cool together, so I thought I would put them in a simple design. These were really quick and easy, but look really nice!

I was just going for something relatively simple, just so my nails wouldn't have to be all bare and boring. I don't do nail designs with tips too often, but I think these look cool!

The base is OPI-Did You 'Ear About Van Gogh? I love that name so much it cracks me up! The accent nails with the gold glitter are China Glaze-Blonde Bombshell. Another giggly name :P The blue tips are done in Essie-Butler Please, and the green ones are Revlon-Minted.

These nails were super quick, I just used the brush to get the V design! While simple, i still think these look nice and classy :)

I think this is a great nail design that anyone could try. It's so easy! 

Anyway that's all for today. All the polishes I used are ones that I had out for swatching, so you'll be seeing all of these at a later date. Thanks for reading, and I'll see you next time!

Sunday Nail Art (On Tuesday) Gold X's

Hey guys happy Tuesday! Lot's of freshmen in my school took a standardized bio exam this morning, but I took bio last year so I was basically the only one in all my morning classes haha. I had a lot of free time it was fun. I kind of wish I could just bring my nail polish and swatch, so I wouldn't be wasting so much time! Anyway... I did these nails on Sunday but then I didn't have enough sunlight to take the pictures until Monday, and then I was having uploading issues. I'm still working on all this uploading pictures thing, I've never really done it before! But I think I'm getting the hang of it.

So I did these on Sunday, while watching reruns of Psych on Netflix :P They were pretty easy, but to anyone whose not a nail artist I guess they look pretty hard. I love that.  

I used Revlon Gold Coin, a lovely gold foil, as the base. Then I applied striping tape in the X's pattern and painted over it. The accent nails are Butter London Royal Navy(my favorite blue ever!) and the other nails are Zoya Wednesday. You can also see some shrinkage on like my index finger and thumb because I didn't apply my Seche Vite carefully enough. Usually when I'm careful and wrap the tips of my nail well I can get away without shrinkage. I also use a coat of Essie Good To Go top coat on top, which prevents shrinkage. I know, it's wasteful. But it makes my manicures last nice and long without chipping and stay shiny.

Afterwards I got to play around with loose glitter. This was my FIRST ever time using loose glitter, and I have to say I really like it! It wasn't nearly as hard or painstaking as I thought it would be. But maybe that's just because my design is pretty simple. I'll have to play around with glitter some more. I applied some clear polish then immediately after licked a toothpick and used it to pick up the glitter and place it on the intersections of the gold X's. Easy!

I did this manicure on both my hands. It really annoys me when people have like different manicures on both hands because they can't paint their non dominant hands. When I do a nail design I make sure to choose one that I can do on BOTH my hands! I just think it looks better and more uniform that way.

I don't know if you can tell but my middle finger is different from the rest of the nails. It's sort of squashed in flat and less curved than the rest of my nails because I got it jammed in a door a while back and it's still messed up. Bugs the hell out of me.

That's it for my Sunday nail art. Tell me what you think!