Hey everyone! Today's manicure is meant to be inspired by me. I thought about a few different designs for today's challenge. but when it came down to it I settled on a manicure using a polish only I could own!

Lighting: Sunlight

Lighting: Flash

Lighting: Shade

Lighting: Sunlight

Lighting: Flash

Thanks for reading, and be sure to check out the gorgeous nails of the wonderful ladies participating in this challenge along with me!

Hey everyone! I'm a bit late on the New 31 Day Challenge, but I've got a few reviews I've been meaning to show you all.  Today I've got a couple of polishes to show you from Amanda over at Designer Nail Accents. These are both lovely opaque holos! 
Tropical Waters. Three coats. This is a lovely almost mint green holographic polish. It's a bit on the sheer side, but it builds up quite nicely! I absolutely love this color.
Glittering Grapefruit. Two coats. This is a warm pink holo with a lighter pink duochrome. The formula on this one was perfect. It was quite nearly a one coater, which is pretty uncommon amongst lighter holographic shades.

Amanda did an absolutely wonderful job with these polishes! I highly recommend both of them and am so happy to have these as part of my collection. For those of you who are also interested in adding these to your collection, you can find them on the Designer Nail Accent Etsy Shop for $8. Thanks for reading!

*These were sent for review. To see my disclosure policy, please click here.

Hey everyone! Today's in season polish comes from China Glaze's most recent collection. I wasn't originally planning on getting any from this collection, but it was on sale and I just couldn't say no to a green jelly...
China Glaze Keepin' it Teal.  Numerous coats. Seriously. I have no idea how many coats this was, I lost track by the end. I can tell you it's in the double digits, that's for sure. You can see just how much of this polish I used in the picture (see how the polish is already like 1/8 down the bottle?) Super pretty color, but it's just way to sheer for someone who likes to wear jelly polishes by themselves.

Hey everyone! Sorry for the late post today! I was trying to come up with something really pretty but none of it panned out. :( So since I'm super behind I'll just show you what I have now. These nails are inspired by my home country of Russia. This style is called Khokhloma, and typically consists of black, gold and red. 
Sorry fot the awful photos. It just wasn't my day. :( This is A England Camelot with Konad Special Polish in Red and Gold and the PUEEN22 stamping plate.

Thanks for reading, and be sure to check out the gorgeous nails of the wonderful ladies participating in this challenge along with me!

Hey everyone! Somehow I managed to mix my days up and posted by prettiest instead of ugliest untried polish yesterday. Oops! After this, I'm finally all caught up with my challenge posts! For my ugliest polish, I was torn between a purple FX Orly polish and this glitter bomb from China Glaze. As many of you probably noticed, I'm not a huge fan of glitter polish. There are some that I like, but for the most part I don't reach for my glitters too often.
China Glaze Glitter Goblin. Four coats. I believe you're supposed to layer with this one, but I didn't want to diminish the ugly with pretty undies or something! The first picture was taken in sunlight and the second was taken in the shade. As you can see, it's quite sheer on its own. Formula wise though, it was really good! In fact, I actually thought the holographic glitters looked very pretty in the sun. The shade color though...I can only describe as Halloween Confetti puke.

Hey everyone! For today's challenge I'm supposed to show you my prettiest untried. I have a lot of pretty untrieds, but I'm a sucker for greyish-blue polishes, so I chose Cirque Cape Liz.
This is three coats of Cape Liz. Cape Liz has a grey-blue base with pink, silver, and blue shimmer. I wish I could capture all the pretty shimmer, but the light for my light box isn't as bright as it needs to be! Hopefully you can still see some. It really doesn't do the polish justice though. 

Hey everyone! For today's challenge, I was supposed to do a manicure inspired by my childhood. Since this is a polish blog, I decided to use a polish that reminds me of the kind of colors I wore when I was younger. As a child, I exclusively wore medium-pink polishes. This Essie reminded me of the my childhood manicures!
Essie Marathin. Two coats. The formula was great, and I like the color but I think it's something I'd rather wear on my toes. I prefer blue-gray polishes for my nails now, but this isn't so bad either!

Thanks for reading, and be sure to check out the gorgeous nails of the wonderful ladies participating in this challenge along with me!

Hey everyone! I just received these beauties in the mail yesterday, and they just so happened to be the most expensive untrieds I had...lucky for me, because I couldn't wait to put them on. For those of you who aren't familiar with Illamsqua Rain Drops, the polish was discontinued by Illamasqua a while ago. It's a grey-blue jelly filled with silver flakies. Ever since I saw swatches of it a few months ago, I've been lemming it. Finally, they re-released it, along with a limited edition pink version. The collector in me felt it was necessary to purchase both.
This is three coats of Rain Drops and two coats of Illamasqua Pink Rain Drops. The formula was fantastic on both of these, though the formula on Pink Raindrops is more opaque. In addition, the pink version has a slight darker pink duochrome effect, but it's more visible in the bottle than on the nail. Overall, super happy with this purchase! If you're interested, you can get these at Sephora for $17 a bottle.

Hey everyone! Sorry again for the late posts. I'll start posting about two a day from now on so I can get back on track. Today's nails are inspired by games. I've done a lot of manicures related to games I love, which is why I felt fresh out of ideas when it came to this challenge. So, I revisited a game I already did nails for called X-Note. You can check out a description of the game and the nail art at that link.
The grey is China Glaze Recycle, the white is OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, and the black is Cirque Alter Ego. I used painted the index finger with recycle and then used striping tape to make the three stripes. The middle and pinky nail were done using the make-up sponge gradient method. The ring finger nail is Alter Ego with Cirque Potosi layered on top. If you like Potosi at all, I suggest you head over to Cirque's website, as the color is being discontinued! Plus you can get 40% using promo code "CIRQUE40".

And here's the character that the nails are based on! His name is Oure. :D

Thanks for reading, and be sure to check out the gorgeous nails of the wonderful ladies participating in this challenge along with me!

Hey everyone, today I've got another giveaway for you here on the blog! Rite Aid was kind enough to send me some nail care products to give away to my lovely readers. This is all part of Rite Aid's Nail Extravaganza, which includes a nail art contest and several coupon deals! Be sure to enter the contest if you get a chance, here's my entry! The contest closes May 24th!
It's sort of all over the place, but the main uniting factor is the velvet. For the velvet effects on the index, ring and pinky nails I used the Pretty Woman Tealtini Velvet kit. For the off-white base on each nail, I used Zoya Jacqueline. In addition to flocking power, the index and middle finger have Essie Mint Candy Apple on them. The plate used for the middle finger design is PUEEN09. I've never used flocking powder on my nails before, so this was a fun experiment!
I'll post a link to the entry when it's up if you want to check it out and vote for it or some others, but in the meantime I'll get to the giveaway! There are the two prize packs that are being given away.
Prize Pack A: Kiss Gradiation Polishes in Freeze Frame, Pretty Women Velvet Tealtini Kit, Maybelline Color Show in Coral Crush, Revlon  Brilliant Strength in Allure, Cover Girl Outlast in Forever Festive, and Wet N Wild Fergie in Hollywood Walk of Fame. 
Prize Pack B: Kiss Gradiation Polishes in Freeze Frame, NutraNail Gel Perfect in Torenia, Julie G in Sugar Rush, Loreal in Not a Cloud in Sight, Cover Girl Outlast in Forever Festive, and Revlon File 'N Peel 6-in-1 nail file.

Note: This giveaway is for blog subscribers ONLY. Any e-mail only entries will be disregarded. 

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Thanks for reading, and good luck!

Hey everyone! I wish there were enough hours in the day to paint my nails and show you everything, but alas I must budget my time. Today I've got a catch-up manicure for the new 31 day challenge that is inspired by the beach. It's kind of simple and silly, but hey, when you're trying to get back on track you're generally not too picky.
I started off with a base of Wet N Wild Blue Wants To Be A Billionaire. Then I created a gradient using OPI DS Classic and a make up sponge. To make it really apparent that I was going for a beach theme, I added a squid with BM-307 and Konad Special Polish in Red. For the palm tree, I used Konad Special Polish in Green, China Glaze Mahogany Magic and a grocery store brand stamping plate (I believe it's SE-18).

Thanks for reading, and be sure to check out the gorgeous nails of the wonderful ladies participating in this challenge along with me!

Hello again! Today I've got some 3D flower decals to show you from Born Pretty Store. I was really excited to try these because they look so pretty and I haven't really done any 3D nail art before!
The flowers come in 12 different shapes/colors. They're a bit larger than I expected, so they make quite a statement. They're super pretty though!
You can also use my coupon code ( BMSJ61) to get 10% off on your entire purchase at Born Pretty Store! Best of all, they offer free international shipping on all orders! Thanks for reading!

*These were sent for review. To see my disclosure policy, please click here.

Hey everyone! Sorry for being late again, I haven't been feeling super good lately. I've got another post coming out today though, so maybe I'll be able to catch up with the challenges soon! Day 9 of the Untried Polish Challenge calls for use of my cheapest untried polish. So for today, I used Wet N Wild Fast Dry Blue Wants To Be A Millionaire.
This scattered holographic polish put me back 49 cents! This is four coats of the polish, it's quite sheer but pretty easy to build up. Surely worth its cost, though!

Hey everyone! I'll still struggling to catch up with the two challenges...hopefully I'll be back on track soon. Today's challenge called for a manicure inspired by a fabric, and I'm not sure if my comforter set counts as a fabric or not but that's what I'm basing this manicure off of!
I used a base of  China Glaze Cosmic Dust and stamped on a design from RA-115 using both Zoya Blu and Butter London Marrow. I wish I had used a more burgundy shade instead of purple, but I consider it a success nonetheless!


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Hey everyone! Sorry for getting behind on posts. This weekend I attended a video game convention and participated in some tournaments. The first one was a Pokemon video game tournament that I placed 4th in. More exciting though, me and a team of four others participated in a League of Legends tournament and placed 2nd! This was so much better than I was expecting to do, and it was a lot of fun! The only downside is that every round we participated in took about 2 hours and this was all over the course of just two days. Needless to say, I'm exhausted.

tldr; I played a lot of video games and it made me tired.

This challenge from a few days ago calls for the use of my newest untried polish. This was easy to pick out because I've actually only ordered one bottle of nail polish in the last month. Crazy, right?
I know these four pictures all look about the same, but I couldn't narrow it down for that reason! This is Enchanted Polish Congratulations. Three coats. The first three pictures are taken in the sunlight; the last one is taken indoors with flash. This is a holographic brown/peridot green/pink/bronze/orange multichrome. I can't even describe it. Needless to say, it is beautiful and the formula was just wonderful. I'm definitely not regretting this purchase!