Holo Christmas Splatter & Stamping

Hey y'all!  Today I have my Christmas mani to share.  I had a dozen different ideas in my head, but once I saw this post from Copycat Claws, I knew what to do.  Of course, I HAD to do it holo style. 

I also had some new stuff I bought from BornPretty Store & wanted to try it out.

For the splatter nails I started out with Butter London Knees Up as my base then applied Darling Diva The Alchemist on top. 

Once that was dry I applied my liquid latex to protect the skin & used a small straw for the splatter.  The shades I used were ILNP A Fresh Evergreen and MakeUp Store Greta. 

The Alchemist is so darn pretty on its own that I almost didn't cover it up, but yanno...you can never have too much holo.

On my ring and pinky fingers I applied Nubar Reclaim as my base color & stamped over it with Butter London Knees Up.

With Flash

The stamper and plate were both from BPS & I'll have them linked below.  Of the 2 recent stampers I purchased from them, this one seems to work better for me. 

Stamper  |  Plate 

This was pretty quick and easy to do.  I absolutely LOVE it.  

butter LONDON Holiday 2014

Hey y'all!  Today I'm continuing with the press releases for holiday sets.  May I present to you the offerings from Butter London....and I want them all!

butter LONDON Lips & Tips
These sets include a full size nail lacquer coupled with a coordinating LIPPY Liquid Lipstick. Available in:

·         Gears & Cheers: Nail lacquer in Dodgy Barnett, LIPPY Liquid Lipstick in La Moss

·         Lockets & Lace: Nail lacquer The Full Monty, LIPPY Liquid Lipstick in Tea with the Queen

PRICE: $18

butter LONDON Heavy Metal Collection – Gilded Gears
These fashion-size lacquer sets include crème and glitter lacquers for a touch of sparkle. Includes:

·         Nail Lacquer in West End Wonderland, Earl Grey (NEW), Goss, Clockwork Heart (NEW)

PRICE: $28

butter LONDON High Fashion Lacquer Collection – Clockwork Couture
These fashion-size lacquer sets include crème and glitter lacquers for a touch of sparkle. Includes:

·         Nail Lacquer in Come to Bed Red, La Moss, The 444, Brown Sugar

PRICE: $28

The Posh Pout – 4 LIPPY Liquid Lipsticks

This set includes four long-wearing LIPPY Liquid Lipsticks that deliver irresistible, high impact colour and shine.

Includes:

·         LIPPY Liquid Lipstick in Toff, Come to Bed Red, Trout Pout, Yummy Mummy
PRICE: $28

Midnight Gander – WINK Eye Pencil Collection

Five extra soft pencils that glide on effortlessly to deliver stunning colour in a precise line that stays put all day.

Includes:

·         WINK Eye Pencil in Earl Grey, Inky Six, Indigo Punk, Union Jack Black, Brown Sugar
PRICE: $32

 

Steampunk Ball Lacquer Collection

A fashion-size lacquer set including crème and glitter lacquers for endless holiday manicures.

Includes:

·         Nail Lacquer in Full Steam Ahead (NEW), Pinkies Up, Brass Goggles, Baroness, Barkers, Bric-A-Brac
PRICE: $39

The Art of Alchemy – Bespoke Looks At Your Fingertips

A fashion-size lacquer set including crème and glitter lacquers along with a dotting tool and long striping brush to create the ultimate holiday nail art look.

Includes:

·         Dotting Tool, Long Striping Brush, Nail Lacquer in Cotton Buds, Brown Sugar, Pillar Box Red, Chocka, Goss, Full Steam Ahead (NEW)
PRICE: $65

Crème & Glitter Lacquer Duo

A full size nail lacquer duo – wear alone or layer for an edgy look. Available in:

·         Golden Yard: Nail Lacquer in Come to Bed Red, West End Wonderland, Nail File
·         Silver Expectations: Nail Lacquer in La Moss, Stardust, Nail File
PRICE: $15

Gears & Gadgets Ultimate Lacquer & Tool Trunk

A limited edition train case filled with every nail essential and 20 nail colours.

Includes:

·         Twenty fashion-size nail lacquers, 4 fashion-size nail treatments, 5-piece Tool Set, Nail File & Buffer, 5 Scrubbers in a Train Case.

·         Nail Lacquers included: All Hail The Queen, East End, Brick Lane, Queen Vic, La Moss, Pink Ribbon, Trout Pout, Molly Coddled, Macbeth, Slapper, Lovely Jubbly, Giddy Kipper, Dubs, Knees Up, Baroness, Earl Grey, Petrol, Clockwork Heart, Brass Goggles, Right As Rain

PRICE: $150

The Apothecary Lacquer Set

Holiday ready nails are now easy to achieve with butter LONDON’s limited edition Apothecary Set. This travel-friendly collection of nourishing treatments acts like a medicine cabinet for your nails. Strengthen, protect, repair and hydrate for perfectly manicured nails on-the-go.

Includes:

•       Melt Away Cuticle Remover, Horse Power Nail Fertilizer, Nail Foundation Flawless Base Coat, Hardwear P.D. Quick Top Coat, Matte Finish Shine Free Top Coat, Handbag Holiday Cuticle Oil

PRICE: $39

Purchase at  butterlondon.com

Butter London Fiddlesticks

Hey y'all!  During a recent "I NEED out of the house" day I decided to look around at a few places.  I live in between 2 TJ Maxx stores & usually don't frequent the one closer to the mall.  Thankfully this day I did.  I scored an OPI for $3.99 and this beauty for $4.99.

This is 2 coats with a topcoat as usual.  It's a gorgeous raspberry jelly base packed with magenta glitters.  It absolutely needs a topcoat too.  

 Looking at these pictures I'm kinda sad that I cut my nails down right after taking this off. :(

I think these retail for $15, so getting it at 1/3 of the price was a steal!  It's like a pink version of China Glaze Ruby Pumps, which I adore.

Butter London & Nicole Miller Giveaway

butter LONDON and Nicole Miller want to spice up your summer style, so the fashion maven and beauty powerhouse are teaming up for an exclusive giveaway to do just that. From Wednesday, July 30 through Tuesday, August 5, you can enter to win Nicole Miller’s Flower Spike Denim Dress along with a set of bespoke nails that complement the edgy design hand-painted by butter LONDON’s Global Colour Ambassador Katie Jane Hughes. The winner will also receive the Colour Hardwear Nail Art Tool Kit and all seven nail lacquers, including favorites British Racing Green, Cotton Buds and Slapper, used to create the bespoke nail look.

CLICK HERE TO ENTER

"I really look forward to working with Katie and the entire butter LONDON team each season. The best part after our nail tests is when I get a sneak peek of the new shades – my nail polish collection has tripled since I've become a butter LONDON addict!" – Nicole Miller, designer

“These nails are the ultimate accessory to complement Nicole’s dress, but can hold their own with any outfit. I chose the colours and the design to mimic the print of the dress. The striping and ombré brushes from butter LONDON’s nail art tool kit were essential to creating the look. For an edgier look, try pairing them with an all-black ensemble.” – Katie Jane Hughes, butter LONDON Global Colour Ambassador

@butterLONDON

@KatieJaneHughes

@NicoleMillerNYC

#bLxNM

The contest goes live Wednesday, July 30th and runs through Tuesday, August 5th. The winner will be announced on August 6th.

Red Velvet Mary Janes & Polka Dot Tights

Hey y'all!  I've recently been finding inspiration for nail art from pretty much everything on Pinterest.  The day I sat down to do this mani I opened it and saw a pin of some red velvet looking mary jane heels with polka dot tights.  I couldn't find a good link for them, it went to Shoemint, but they weren't listed.  If you search for red mary janes on Pinterest, you'll find the one I'm talking about.

I used all Wet N Wild polishes for this mani.  2% Milk is the base, Black Creme for the polka dots, and I Red A Good Book for the tips.  Finished it off with a coat of Seche and done. 

I think it's gorgeous as is, but I had to slap on Butter London Matte Finish to make it look almost velvety like the picture.

Looking at this, I really want to do this to my toes.

What do y'all think?

Butter London Knackered

Hey y'all!  Sorry this one is kinda late today.  I have had some serious insomnia & other issues(both of which I'm used to) show their ugly heads lately.

Today I have Butter London Knackered to show y'all.

This is 5, yes you read that correctly, coats of Knackered with a topcoat.  This is an extremely sheer polish that is probably better when layered over a cream.  The purple & murky green duochrome look so pretty with the tiny holographic glitters.

Overall, I liked this, but will definitely not wear it alone again.  5 coats, granted they were thin, is just too much for me to still see a little visible nail line.

Do any of y'all own this?  If so, what have you layered it over?

Kawaii Nail Lacquer - Black Widow

So if you've read previous posts, you'll know that we were stuck home for Christmas as the boys had the flu.  One of the few things that made it better was a sale from Kawaii Nail Lacquer. 

I've had several of her polishes on my wishlist FOREVER! In fact, now I have more.  My son loves to pick out polishes for me and he's a HUGE fan of The Avengers.  Every day when he comes home from school he has to watch The Super Hero Squad on The HUB.  I think he's watched every episode ever.  That being said, I had to go with 2 polishes from The Avengers collection.  Black Widow and Iron Man, which I'll swatch soon. 

Enough babbling....ON TO THE POLISH!!!  

This is 2 coats of Black Widow over Butter London Pillar Box Red + a top coat.

Description from the Etsy shop: "Black Widow has Red Hex's small and large, some red stain matte red hex, a long with black small and large Hex's. Also has various red bar glitter, Small silver hex's and a small amount of Silver shards thrown in."  It's pretty spot on.

I wasn't sure how I would feel about shards and bar glitter, but it's not enough to bother me and I didn't have to dig to get the glitters out.  It applied smoothly, though you can see where I didn't move it around much in a spot on my middle finger. 

I will definitely be getting more Kawaii polishes in the future and you should too.

This retails for $8.00 in her Etsy shop.  You can shop HERE or visit her Facebook page HERE

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Butter London Pillar Box Red

Oh how I love my reds.  I don't know why I didn't wear this sooner, but OMG it's amazeballz.

I got this and 2 others(which I still need to swatch) when Coterie opened.  And it's so gorgeous that I had so many pics.

Above is 2 coats with a top coat.  This is a bright red that has a slight pink base to it.  I would call this a crelly because it's in between a cream & a jelly.  For some reason my eyes are seeing the pictures as an orange based red, which this absolutely is not.  You can see the pink in the bottle between my middle and ring fingers on that 2nd pic. 

I will definitely be wearing this a LOT & make sure you check back tomorrow to see me use it as undies.  :D




~Note: These items were sent for my 100% honest review/opinion. Click HERE(affiliate link) to visit Coterie.com. 

Our first MABB meet-up

Last weekend I went and met some gorgeous ladies for lunch.  For our first gathering, me and 3 other ladies met up at El Porton in Roswell at the suggestion of my friends friend.  I totally forgot to break my phone out of my purse to take pictures, but we had a blast.

Pam of Pammy Blogs Beauty, Mandy of MandysSecrets, Ashley Elizabeth of Ashley Elizabeth's Beauty Blog, and myself.  Don't ask why my face looks so red....I have no idea.  Also, photo credit goes to Mandy for this. :D


While waiting on our food, we handled some group business and chatted away.  I have to say that the grilled fish tacos and grilled shrimp tacos I had were amazing.

I also forgot to take a picture of my nails with my camera, so here's one I took after with my phone.  This is Butter London British Racing Green and China Glaze Glitter All The Way.  I hated having to take it off.

After we enjoyed our meals, we pulled out our bags of product that we brought with us to swap.  We each picked a few things and packed the rest up for Mandy to take to a local women's shelter after the holiday.  I hope they enjoy the LOAD of pretties we have for them.

I was so nervous the entire time sitting around these beautiful and talented young ladies.  I seriously wanted to bottle the scent of Ashley Elizabeth's hair.  They really made me miss my long hair....so I'm not getting it chopped off AGAIN.

Enough rambling.  A few ladies weren't able to make it, as they were under the weather, so I look forward to seeing them at our next meet-up around March.

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