Guest Post - Juicy Berries with Mommy Does Her Nails

Hello my pretties, The Great Chic One headed out and generously left me with a blog post! I've followed her for a LONG time now so I'm really excited to be here and sharing with you. That being said it's overcast, cloudy and basically not summery here. This led to shortened season of raspberries and to mourn the passing of this bright, summer treat I present you with this juicy manicure:

YUM! Base color is OPI I'm OK, You're Bouquet, then the raspberry base is China Glaze Ravishing, Dahling accented with China Glaze City Siren and stemmed with Wet N' Wild Undercover Graffitti and that is accented with Sally Hansen Green With Envy.

Bursts on the pinky and thumb to really bring out all the colors. Don't these colors all just play so gorgeously together?

Thanks for taking a look at my art and I hope you are all having a totally amazing summer :)


 I think these are amazeballz.  I totally wish I could write something on my nails without it looking horrible.  Y'all make sure to go follow Mommy Does Her Nails and check out her awesome nail art.  Her Hubby's Picks posts are amazing and the mani's she does on her daughter are adorable.  

 

Guest Post - Holo Houndstooth with Ranting Blogger

Hello Friends! I am super excited to be given the opportunity to guest post on Harri’s Blog! Today I have for you a mani I am super excited about.



Yay! I had never stamped over a holo before, and I wanted to see how it would look. Turns out I LOVED IT. The sun could not stay out long enough.  The pic above is in the shade, where it looks like a sparkly granite grey...it’s pretty like this too!


Look at the holo on my pinky!!! I’m dying inside, in a good way. First I painted my nails with 2 coats of Zoya Kelly. Over the top of that I used Hits Zeus, only one coat. Is anyone else’s brush on this super wonky? My bristles stick out of this hole in the side of the stick part of the brush...it’s weird. Maybe some day I’ll take a pic and post it on my blog.


This picture shows how Kelly still peeks through. That wasn’t my intention, but I wanted to conserve Zeus because the bottles are teeny! My hands look super giant compared to that. Anyway, I then used my holy grail black stamping polish (although I’ve never used Konad Black) Wet N Wild Fast dry in Ebony Hates Chris and I used Plate 322 from the new Bundle Monster set. Omg. Loving those plates by the way. If you don’t have them, you need them. No joke.

This pic is blurred to show the holo a little more. I love holos. I need more.

Do you like to stamp over holos? I like this monochromatic sort of look. I also have Dionisio and I want to try an opaque purple polish and try this look on that color!

I’d like to thank Harri for having me, and thank you to all of you for reading!

<3 Robyn





Thank you Robyn for helping me out.  I love this combo & might have to try some stamping over holo.  What do y'all think?  Be sure to go check out Robyn's blog & make sure to follow her while you're at it.  

Guest Post: Ginger & Liz polishes from Carinae L'etoile

Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to meeeee...Happy birthday dear me, happy birthday to meeeeeeeee

I'm excited to be a guest blogger on Trailer Hood Chic's blog. Every time I see her name I giggle a little because I am reminded of a song by Toby Keith called Trailer Hood. Go to You Tube and check it out - it is very funny! Anyway, what I'll be showcasing today is my all time favorite brand called Ginger and Liz. Have you heard of these gals? Have you tried any of their stuff? No?! I think you should. Ginger and Liz is this amazing duo who are friends that have this crazy love for nail polish. What I'll be featuring today are two colors - Ginger and Liz Dancehall Queen and Ginger and Liz Most Wanted.

First and foremost - the formula on this is TO DIE FOR! Ginger and Liz Dancehall Queen was a tad bit thick and goopy, but once on the nail it dried so fast and so smooth it was hard to believe that there was a slight application problem. Ginger and Liz Dancehall Queen is described on their site as "...This go to tangelo/melon shade is by far one of the juiciest shades introduced in the nail category this season. Dance Hall Queen is a crème bright tangelo nail lacquer with neon affects that makes for a gorgeous pairing with chunky jewelry and a fresh face with bronzed accents."  Neon this orange is! One can't say that it isn't, wouldn't you agree? This color was so bright and so incredibly neon my camera freaked out and didn't even begin to capture a fraction of how wonderful this shade is. Some may wear this color on their toes, but I like it on my fingers.

Dancehall Queen shade

Dancehall Queen sun

Next up is Ginger and Liz Most Wanted which is described on their site as "...Most Wanted was inspired by the feminine yet edgy and cool mustard “it” colour that has hit the fashion world by storm, again. We created a harvest like gamboge-mustard hue with a crème finish that compliments all skin tones. Definitely a must try!" This particular formula and shade for me were a dream. I never thought a color like this could look halfway decent on me, but I was wrong! Intensely shiny before even applying a top coat, I fell in love with this while swatching. It was also fast drying. I just may have to wear it today for my birthday!

Most Wanted shade

Most Wanted sun

Thank you, Trailer Hood Chic, for letting me guest post. For more Ginger and Liz colors, make sure to stop by my blog - www.carinaeletoile.com . I'll be featuring more Ginger and Liz colors in the next day or two in addition to continuing my birth month celebration with yet another giveaway. Make sure to enter the one that's running right now and the one that will be up after this one ends.

~ Thank you Carinae for guest posting for me while I'm on vacation & HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!  I'm not a huge orange fan, but I'd probably wear Dancehall Queen on my toes. :D  Y'all be sure to go tell her Happy Birthday and follow her blog. 

Guest Post Starring Pat of Southern Sister Polish & Cashmere Or Loose Me

 Hey y'all...I have another exciting guest post to show you!  This mani rawks! :D

Hello again everyone! Thanks Harri for letting me come back this week to show this manicure off! Today I have Barielle Cashmere Or Loose Me. Which is a brown with copper shimmer...I don't usually go for brown polish but the shimmer won me over. This is a base coat with 3 thin coats of Cashmere Or Loose Me and a top coat.

I then thought it needed something because really I can't wear brown...it just isn't my color. I had to decorate but I really didn't know how. My friend recently sent me some feathers and I thought it would go lovely with the C.O.L.M. I had to  trim the feather so it would fit my finger better.

I put a regular top coat down stuck the feather down and trimmed the rest of the feather down with a small scissor (I have also done this with a small nail clipper). 

And viola a manicure I would wear for Thanksgiving!

Thanks again Harri for letting me come over from Southern Sister Polish . 

I hope everyone has a wonderful day! 

Patricia :)

Guest Post Starring The Crumpet - Watery Water Marble

Today I bring you a post from Debbie over at The Crumpet.  I LOVE this!   

Hi Goddesses

I’ve been a bit obsessed with water marbling of late.  It never fails to fascinate or captivate me, and this one is possible my favourite so far.

I asked Beth to choose the polishes and wow did she choose well!  A perfect combo, all China Glazes – For Audrey, Flyin High and First Mate.

I am not yet perfect at water marbling – FAR from it – and I still have no control over how each nail will look lol.  However, I think part of the charm of water marbling is the very randomness of it, so I don’t mind that every nail looks totally different.

The index and middle are my favourites (as they usually are, as it’s the 2nd marble I do) – there’s just something more watery about them.

 I am not a huge blue fan, as you may know, but this really had me transfixed.  Bright and happy and oh so beautiful.

Thanks and enjoy xx

Top Tip – if you’re ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give you plenty of contrasts and compares.

Birthday Week Guest Post Starring Pat of Southern Sister Polish & Techno Teal

Hi everyone my name is Patricia and over from Southern Sister Polish and Harri was nice enough to let me share today.  I started my manicure off with a L.A. Colors Hardener Strengthener (friends have told me this is a great base for holographic polish). I then had to pick out which holographic I would use after a bit of thought I picked China Glaze Techno Teal. I know there was a bunch of hype with the Tronica collection and everyone was let down because it wasn't holographic enough. I like the Tronica collection I like the colors, and even though the holographic isn't what everyone hopped for I still like them!..Ok enough of my rambling I used 2 thin coats of of Techno Teal.

I then got out my Bundle Monster plates and a picked BM201 with KleanColor  Metallic Black.

I love how this turned out! Thank you Harri for allowing me to share my manicure with everyone. I hope you have a great Birthday week!

Patricia from SouthernSisterPolish

~ Thank you Pat for this amazing mani.  I might have to try this with one of the others from the Tronica collection.  I haven't stamped in a while.  

TOODLES Y'ALL!!!

Birthday Week Guest Post Starring Jens Painted Tips & Sexagon!

Hey everyone I'm Jen from Jen's Painted Tips (http://jenspaintedtips.blogspot.com/). Harri has asked for holo guest posters. I am here to show you China Glaze Sexagon. This polish is SOOOOOO great. although extraordinarily thin. I needed 4 coats to get it nice and opaque. But it's ok, I don't use it that often.

On to the pretties!!!

 There you have it. Happy Birthday, Harri!!! Have a good week!!!



TY Jen for making me drool over this polish and for starting my birthday (it's tomorrow) week off with a Holo Bang!

TOODLES Y'ALL!!!

Birthday Week Guest Post starring The Manicured Monkey & BK 20 Black Holo

Happy Birthday to Harri!!! Here's a black holo for you (get it, black, over the hill.... holo week... *crickets*)

I really love a good holographic polish :) One that's black and one coat is awesome as well.  This is BK 20 and I actually used two thin coats (you could get opacity in one if you want). The one thing I love most about this polish is that it has diamond dust in it so it has much more holo-y goodness. The linear holo rainbow is strong on this polish, you can see it has blue, green, red/orange, yellow. I added SV as a top coat and you can see it didn't dull the effect. I've actually never had a holo that's been dulled by a top coat. This polish came from Hong Kong in a swap I did but I hear if you search hard enough you can find it in the U.S. now (by search I mean the internet, not in stores). 

Happy Birthday again to Harri and thanks for letting me invade your blog today :) 

~The Manicured Monkey

Thank you Kristin for making me realize I need a black holo.  AND that I'm getting older tomorrow :p  

TOODLES Y'ALL!!!

*Football Friday* LA Tech with Amanda

Hi Y'all! Amanda here filling in on FOOTBALL FRIDAY! cause Harri is sick *sadface*

I wanted to stay neutral this week with a crazy out of left field mani! My Alma Mater: Louisiana Tech!
Just a few quick facts about LaTech!

1. Tech is located in teeny tiny Ruston, Louisiana; Home of Karl Malone (I met him once at a chinese food buffet!)
       Ruston also has some of the best peaches I've ever had in my life!
2. Tech is in the WAC: Western Athletic Conference, which includes teams like Hawaii (?!??!) Boise, and Fresno
       Our colors are red and blue and we are the BULLDOGS!
3. Louisiana Tech became the first IN THE WORLD to award a degree in NanoSystems Engineering 2007 (the year i graduated!)
4. When you graduate from Tech you get an engraved brick that goes into a huge walkway recognizing every graduate from Louisiana Tech University.
       as of May 2011 the bricks go up to the graduation year 2000

For this mani I used OPI Alpine Snow and OPI Red and Blue shatter. For the logo I used Zoya Sooki and China Glaze First Mate.

even tho our team tends to flub up a lot, I'm still a proud supporter!
GO DAWGS!

*NOTE from Harri*
Thank you Amanda for doing this for me, I really appreciate you staying up late to get this done for me and showing a Dawg of a different color. ;)  For those of you who ask "Who is Amanda?", she's a non-blogging polish freak that I met through one of my FB polish groups.  I'll be meeting her for the first time & dragging her with me shopping on Black Friday as long as she doesn't have to work that morning.  She did an awesome Steve Jobs tribute mani recently, I think she needs to start blogging!

I was feeling better yesterday and took pics for part of my next review, but I woke up this morning feeling the crud again.  SO, I'll try to get that done this weekend for y'all.  AND, I have to get my giveaway prizes mailed out as all the winners have replied. 

TOODLES Y'ALL!!!

Guest Post at Midnight Manicures

YAY, it's posted.  Recently I've shown you a few colors that I'll put pics of below.  My guest post uses those those 2 colors together as well as an added one.  So, go over and check it out HERE (click that word)

Fantasy Makers Purple Potion by Wet N Wild

Pure Ice Heart Breaker

Don't forget to comment on her blog

TOODLES Y'ALL!!!