Shine on!

Hello Lovelies it has been a busy week for me and I'm super sorry I haven't put up a real polish post all week but I'll make up for it with one of my favorite polishes! O.P.I. DS Sapphire a HOLO! So going out a couple of Saturdays ago I slapped this on...I usually wear holo's on the weekend besides being so freakin' beautiful they have such a little dry time that it's a win win for me...so I slapped this on 3 thin coats with a quick dry top coat and I was out the door. Here it is simply a perfect light blue holo that will bring a smile to your face!

Super sweet right?! I simply love my o.p.i. ds' that I have. I try to use them sparingly because they cost an arm n' a leg now on evilbay v_v and I just can't see $30 for a polish (even though I would love to have another bottle of both my ds') That's it for today I hope you have a wonderful weekend ^_^

Do you have a favorite polish that you use sparingly because it's htf (hard to find) or maybe a polish that is special because a loved one gave it to you?

Deborah Lippmann has new colors coming!

WARM UP WITH DEBORAH LIPPMANN’S FALL 2011 SHADES

I have worked directly with some of the world’s top fashion designers on
everything from ad campaigns to fashion shows. When I set out to select nail looks for
the fall 2011 collections, I noticed a common theme among all of my collaborators:
warmth. The clothes featured vivid, lush earth tones—think lush greens, rich reds and
intense golds.

I wanted to capture a similar heat and earthiness in the accompanying polishes,
but with an added punch. BILLIONAIRE, a moody hunter green, BRICK HOUSE,
a shimmering rust, and SINGLE LADIES, a flirtatious red, all have warm undertones,
which give them a beautiful intensity, but also have a jewel-like quality so they really
make nails pop.

SHADE DESCRIPTIONS
Billionaire: moody hunter green (creme)
Brick House: shimmering rust (shimmer)
Single Ladies: flirtatious red (creme)

XOXO,
Deborah

WHERE TO FIND IT: Barneys New York, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, and online at
www.deborahlippmann.com

Just in time for the holiday season,

Deborah Lippmann Gets the Party started

Nothing says ‘Party’ like the magnetic sparkle of glitter. So for the biggest party season

of the year, I’ve created shades that truly dazzle. Get This Party Started, a set of three

glitters, was inspired by the overwhelming demand for my best selling Happy Birthday,

a glittery party in a bottle. The set includes Happy Birthday, along with two new

variations of the sparkling shade: Forget You and Candy Shop. They’re both packed with

the same unique hexagon-shaped glitter that gives Happy Birthday its magnificent glint,

only Forget You has a sheer black base and Candy Shop a bubblegum pink.

I love how festive all three look and feel, whether wrapped a round a champagne glass or

peeping out of a glamorous pump. But what I truly love the most: how a few coats of any

shade instantly transform you into the life of the party.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: a party in a bottle (glitter)

FORGET YOU: party all night (glitter)

CANDY SHOP: bubblegum pink (glitter)

XOXO,

Deborah

SHOW WORTHY

Deborah Lippmann’s new shade, STORMY WEATHER, is a collaboration with fashion

designer Narciso Rodriguez.

Usually Narciso requests a nude nail to complement his minimalist designs, but for fall

2011 around he wanted something bolder—a color with strength and edge to offset both

his collection and the softness of the hair and makeup. For the perfect custom finish,

I mixed (and mixed) a new shade by hand in just 24 hours. The final product: an edgy

granite that emanated power and intensity. The models who walked the show (and who

rarely, if ever, comment on the nail color) gushed over the shade. And so STORMY

WEATHER was born an edgy granite (crème) for a strong fall statement.

WHERE TO FIND IT: Barneys New York, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, and online at

www.deborahlippmann.com

Zoya Fall Collection "Smoke & Mirrors"

fall 2011 nail color

smoke and mirrors

...beautiful illusions

Zoya Nail Polish presents 12 enticing and mysterious new colors for fall 2011.

Zoya Smoke Collection

Jana (ZP564) - smoky mauve quartz cream

Petra (ZP565) - smoky eggplant mauve cream

Codie (ZP566) - smoky brown taupe cream

Anja (ZP567) - smoky palatinate purple cream

Cynthia (ZP568) - smoky Prussian blue cream

Dree (ZP569) - smoky camouflage green cream

Zoya Mirrors Collection

Nimue (ZP570) - smoky rich thistle metallic

Marina (ZP571) - smoky steel blue metallic

Tao (ZP572) - smoky slate gray metallic

Yara (ZP573) - sparkly olive green metallic

Neeka (ZP574) - sparkly amethyst purple  metallic

Jem (ZP575) - sparkly fandango pink metallic

Zoya is the new color of fashion... The new Zoya smoke & mirrors colors were designed and inspired by top fashion designers and beauty icons.

Ultra long-wearing, glossy nail lacquers  by Zoya are free of harmful industrial chemicals like toluene, camphor, formaldehyde, resin, dibutyl phthalate (DBP) that are known to cause cancer and birth defects.

Find Zoya smoke & mirrors as well as over 300 other high-fashion Zoya shades at www.zoya.com. As always, each and every Zoya color is made for beautiful women so we name them after beautiful women.

smoke & mirrors by Zoya - available July 15, 2011 (USA)

Sug. Retail $8.00 per 0.5 fl. oz. bottle (US)

Hello!!

Good afternoon everyone just a quick post from me right now...I want to show you my entry for Bundle Monster contest that is going on right now! I wanted to show off the bundle monster plates since they said something would be happening and I put this together before they announced the contest! Since we had rain most of the week I needed a few rainbows to make me smile. So I got out my bundle monster plate bm12 ..Here is my entry!

So What do you think?

I hope you check out the other entries and if you entered let me know I'd love to see it! I also wanted to let you know that my sister and I will be posting something special tomorrow ^_^ enjoy the rest of your days Ladies!

My first Tutorial (picture heavy!)

Good Morning Everyone today I have for you my very first tutorial. I was asked a few times how to do the Fade look. So I wanted to let y'all know how I do it! So this is the stuff I use when doing a fade manicure...I pick out the color I want-- I wanted a blue...So I got my lightest blue out to start for my base *KleanColor Pastel Blue, then an in between blue I choose *Color Club Pure Energy, my Darkest color is *Color Club Trippie Hippie and to make the colors blend a bit more I used KleanColor Holo Blue on top of everything. Here is my set up...

My base coat is O.P.I. Natural Base Coat...I have an old plastic container top that I use to put polish on, an old pair of Tweezers, a toothpick to mix the colors together with, my cut up sponges, and my top coat.

Now I know this is a pretty horrible picture of the base color (best I have...I'm sorry I did redo parts of it after and forgot to take new pictures) but this shows you the steps I take when I'm Sponging...

I start with my base color *above #1* (**all over the nail or sometimes just half way) (Pastel Blue)

Between #1 and 2 would be the mixture of my first color and my middle color (pastel blue and pure energy).

Between #2 and 3 would be my in between color (pure energy).

Between #3 and 4 would be a mixture of middle color and darkest color (pure energy and trippie hippie.

At #5 I would finish with my Darkest Color ( Trippie Hippie)

**Do you see my boo-boo?! It will be covered up/ blended down so you can't notice it so if you happen to make a mistake with your polish like this remember with the patting you are going to be doing with the sponge it will blend the polish back together. ** So you see here I mixed my middle color and my base color and made this then I took my sponge with my tweezers dabbed it into the color then started sponging now don't try for a straight line trust me it will look better as a wonky line ~ I promise!

In this picture I know you can barely the second step but everything blended nicely by the end and I could see the difference of the fade when I looked down at my nails.

After finishing with all my steps I added the KleanColor Holo Blue to blend the colors..I found no matter what sparkle I use (China Glaze fairy dust or kleancolor holo's) they blend the colors really well if I put it on about a minute or less after I'm done with the color nearest the tip of my nails. * If you want to skip this you can and just add your top coat it will do the same blending that the holo does*


*SNAP* Here it is after I have cleaned it up! Now the colors REALLY pop in person and I think you can really see the fade in these pictures.

So what do you think? Have you tried the fade look?

Until next time I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! Have a wonderful day everyone!

OPI: Miss Universe Collection

Unleash Your Inner Beauty Queen!

OPI Launches Limited Edition

Miss Universe Lacquers

 

 

Pageant-pretty nail lacquers in the new Miss Universe by OPIpromotion give fingers and toes added glitz and glamour.  Featuring four shades packed with shimmer and sparkle, these limited edition colors capture the energy of the 2011 MISS UNIVERSE^® competition, to be held September 12, 2011, in São Paulo, Brazil.

“Miss Universe is the most popular and publicized beauty pageant in the world,” said Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, OPI Executive VP & Artistic Director.  “We are excited to partner with the Miss Universe Organization, whose contestants provided so much inspiration for rich, high-fashion color.”

With shades ranging from berry and golden pink to electric blue and glittery silver, Miss Universe by OPI provides high-shine lacquers, including:

Congeniality is My Middle Name

And berry-wine shimmer is what I do best!

It’s MY Year

It’s about time for this champagne-rose to shine!

Swimsuit…Nailed It!

An itsy bitsy teenie weenie vibrant shiny-blue bikini.

Crown Me Already!

A sassy silver sparkle that knows what it’s worth.

             

The Miss Universe Organization named OPI its official nail care sponsor this June.  Additionally, Weiss-Fischmann will be a judge for the 2011 Miss USA^® pageant, a precursor to the Miss Universe competition.

Miss Universe by OPI Nail Lacquers contain no DBP, Toluene, or Formaldehyde, and feature OPI’s exclusive ProWide^™ Brush for the ultimate in application.  This limited-edition promotion will be available beginning August 2011 at Professional Salons, including Beauty Brands, Beauty First, Chatters, Dillard’s, JCPenney, Pure Beauty, Regis, Trade Secret, and ULTA, for  $8.50 ($10.95 CAN) suggested retail for each Nail Lacquer.

For more information, please call 800-341-9999 or visit www.opi.com. Follow OPI on Twitter @OPI_PRODUCTS and become a Facebook fan!

 

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ABOUT MISS UNIVERSE:

The Miss Universe Organization, a Donald J. Trump and NBC Universal joint venture, is a global community empowering role models of beauty, health and leadership for young women of today. The organization is dedicated to partnering with charities around the world, and to increasing HIV/AIDS awareness by focusing on women's health and reproductive issues. For more information, visit: www.missuniverse.com or follow Miss Universe on Facebook or Twitter @TheRealMissU.

Can You See Me Now?!

Hello everyone! Today's manicure was inspired by the lovely Trailer Hood Chic she did this awesome manicure in April and I kept saying to myself that I needed to get on it and do something similar. So the other day I did. I took Finger Paints Peaceful Purple and decided to get started. Peaceful Purple is a nice purple glitter that took 3 thin coats to get the full bottle color on my nails...I then topped it with a top coat and was on my way! I took the new Bundle Monster plates BM222 and my konad sp in purple and stamped the print on. Then I took my KleanColor Pastel Purple turned my stamp a different way and stamped it..well let's take a look at the mani!

Look at that sparkle I love Purple it is one of my favorite colors!!
I do like the look of all 3 together but maybe next time will try to maybe just to blend less or use different colors...

Tell me what's your favorite color right now? I have China Glaze Blue Iguana on my toes right now and I'm loving it so much I will be using this color again and again!! Until next time Ladies have a great week ^_^