Manicure Monday: First Day Of Fall

Happy first day of Fall everyone! Time to revamp the decorations around the house and change up the beauty trends. Time to switch over to berry, wine lips and jewel-toned nails. Time to bring out the scarves and boots. Can anyone else smell the delicious scent of Pumpkin Spice in the air? It is definitely Autumn.

I seized the opportunity to do a Fall inspired manicure. What a coincidence that the first day of fall happened on a Monday when I usually change up my manicure? Although I love pastels and bright fun shades on my nails, I am more than ready to switch up the colors. Of course, I am also the type of person who hardly follows the trend. I'll probably end up rocking a pastel shade in the middle of Winter if I feel the need to. But since today is the first day of fall and I'm kinda bored with Spring/Summer colors, I thought I'd tone it done a little.

As mentioned, today's manicure is Fall inspired. I used colors closely related to Fall such as brown, red, orange and yellow. I did not pre-plan any of this and just kinda winged it as I went. It turned out better than I thought. :P

Wet N Wild Mega Last Salon Nail Color in Wet Cement

Sephora by OPI Nail Color in IM Beauty
Sinful Colors Nail Color in Clementine
NYC Long Wearing Nail Enamel in Big Apple Red

Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Diamond Shine Base & Top Coat

I did two thin coat of Wet Cement. I really have no complaints about Wet N Wild Mega Last's formulas. I absolutely love their wide brush, makes the application so, so much easier!

After the "Wet Cement" is completely dried., haha, I used different size of dotting tools to create the dots along my nails. If you do not own any dotting tools, you can easily use toothpicks or bobby pins to create the dots. Easy as that.

Hope y'all enjoyed this simple Fall inspired manicure. I had fun creating it. Now let your creativity run wild!

Thank you for visiting and thanks for reading. Please come back soon. I am almost 90% sure the Fall/Winter 2014 Beauty Trends will be up tomorrow. :)

Manicure Monday: The Lone Strawberry

Hey, hey, heeeeey! What's going on guys? How are y'all doing this fine Monday?

Welcome back to another Manicure Monday! :P Who here has the Monday blues? Nope, not me this week. I'm having a Monday GREEN! ;) Lime green to be exact. Haha.

This new shade is the latest addition to my collection. I picked this up last week while I was at Target. I was "just happening" to browse the cosmetic aisles when I came across some of the Pixi and Set products on clearance. Dear ol' Lime Lustre here was one of 'em. I believe the original price was $8? I picked it up for $2.40. The shade is so gorgeous, I knew I HAD to wear it this week. So here they are, my manicure for this upcoming week. Oh, and a strawberry to keep things fresh.

Pixi Nail Color in Lime Lustre
NYC Long Wearing Nail Enamel in Big Red Apple
Sinful Colors Professional Nail Color in Garden Party

Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Diamond Shine Base & Top Coat

This is my first time ever using a Pixi nail color. The formula is too thick for my liking. The thickness made application harder than most nail colors and also took forever and a day to dry in between coats. Other than that, it's a pretty good nail color. I could have stopped at one coat, but there were some unevenness so I decided to apply a second coat.

As for my lone strawberry, I applied the red nail color to 3/4 of my nail and waited for it to dry completely before moving on. Then I used Garden Party on the top 1/4 of my nail and overlapped  it with the red to make the leaves more realistic. I waited until that was thoroughly dried before I used Lime Lustre to add a little oomph to the leaves and dotted my strawberry as the seeds.

I did not use a top coat for my manicure with the exception of my strawberries. I want to see how well Pixi nail colors will fend on its own.

Alrighty, that's it for today. My mini haul post will most likely go up tomorrow. Just a few things I picked up at Target and Ulta the other day.

Thank you for dropping by for a visit and thanks a bunches for reading. Come back soon! :)