Manicure Monday: Spring Pastels

Monday greetings lovely Spring flowers. I hope you all had a terrific weekend, enough terrificness to carry over to combat this Monday blue. Those four days after the weekend is always the hardest to get through, but I'm sure we can make it. Right guys? Right!

For those who aren't already aware, Spring officially begun on March 20th, a mere three days ago. When Spring is mentioned, pastels automatically jump into mind. For me at least. :) Although I don't necessarily follow the "only wear dark shades" during the Fall/Winter, I still do look forward to Spring/Summer to finally rightfully sport pastels and bright neons. And that is just what I did this week. I've been sporting dark colors way too often lately so it is definitely time.

SPRING IS HERE, SO LET'S BRING ON THE PASTELS!

Manicure Monday: Green for St. Patrick's Day

Happy early St. Patrick's Day! :) It is actually tomorrow, but what the hey, I'll greet y'all again tomorrow. It it Monday again, so you lovelies already know what kinda post this is gonna be; put two and two together and we have a manicure post inspired by St. Paddy's Day!

Quick! From the top of your head, name a few things that comes to mind when I say the words "St. Patrick's Day". Annnnd GO!

Tic....toc...tic...toc...

Okay, so some of the things that immediately comes to mind are green, gold, pots of gold, leprechauns, the Irish flag, clovers... Those were mine. With that said, I'm pretty sure you can already guess a few things about today's manicure.

Well, I won't keep y'all waiting. :P My 2015 St. Patrick's Day inspired manicure!

Manicure Monday: Valentine's Day 2015

Hello Monday everybody! How was your weekend? Too short? Yeah... so was mine. Haha. Definitely cannot wait until the weekend is near again. Wooo!!

Can anyone tell me what this Saturday is? Well, for some, it is Valentine's Day while to others, it is also known as the Single's Awareness Day. Hahaha. Either way, there are plenty of chocolates and/or candies to go around for everyone, and everyone likes their sweets right? Another year that I will not be celebrating V-Day, last year being the first and this year being the second. But it's alright, it doesn't bother me because I am all for the festivities anyways. I will not be celebrating does not mean I cannot get into the holiday spirit. :P

Which is what this post is all about!! My manicure this week is totally V-Day inspired, pinks and reds and loads of hearts. So no mater if your single or taken, let's just beautify our nails for US! Yeah!!

Manicure Monday Mania of 2014

Monday greetings everyone!! Last Monday of 2014, which coincidentally also means the last Manicure Monday post of 2014. Yep, just like that, another year is coming to an end and a new year is about to begin. Bitter sweet to see 2014 go and 2015 come, but so is life.

In honor of the last Monday, I wanted to use today's post to basically go through all of the manicures that happened this year. If you have some time, please feel free to go though the list. Let me know which ones you like; any you'll try out yourself?

I will post this week's manicure tomorrow or Wednesday, I know, it will be a late post but we gotta do what we gotta do. With that that said, after this post, I will see you all back here for another Manicure Monday official post in 2015.

Hope y'all will enjoy!! :D

Christmas 2014

"Pink Popsicle" One Week UpdatePink Popsicle

"Keep Me On My Mistletoes" "Mr. Right Now"

Thanksgiving the Turkey

Manicure Monday: Thanksgiving the Turkey

Happy Monday all! D-3 until Thanksgiving!! Who else is counting down? LOL. Just thinking about the food is enough to make my mouth water... Ahhh... It'll be so worth it though. :P

As always, Mondays are for manicures and this week is no exception. I wanted to keep the Thanksgiving theme but not be too serious about it nor go all cray-cray neither. Whenever I think of Thanksgiving, turkeys immediately jump into mind, followed by the Cornucopia and pumpkins and all that stuff afterward. But a turkey though... the one still alive and gobbling away, not the one that's set as the centerpiece on Thanksgiving day. LOL. So that's where I got my inspiration from. I know that turkeys do not have color tail feathers... I am actually afraid to look at a real turkey. They're so scary and they look mean! But remembering back to elementary school, whenever this time of year rolled around, we would make turkeys using our hands, the fingers are the tail feathers and we would color them in right beautiful colors. Ahh, good times.

Without further adieu, I'll like to introduce y'all to Thanksgiving the Turkey and all his bright tail feathers. Haha. Gobble, gobble.

He looks like a deer in headlights all shocked and wide eyes. Haha. I totally did not mean to do that. I am not complaining though, I think it adds character to Thanksgiving the Turkey. :D

Nirvana, Cover Me In Petals, What's Your Sign?, IM Beauty, 24 Karat, Rise & Shine, Big Apple Red

 

TURKEY - Sinful Colors Professionals Nail Color in Nirvana
ORANGE - Sephora by OPI Nail Color in Cover Me In Petals & What's Your Sign?
YELLOW - Sephora by OPI Nail Color IM Beauty & Sinful Colors Professional Nail Color in 24 Karat
GREEN - Sinful Colors Professionals Nail Color in Rise & Shine
RED - NYC Long Wearing Nail Enamel in Big Apple Red

Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Diamond Shine Base & Top Coat

I applied two thin coats of each nail colors for every one of my nails. As for the top glitter coats, I applied only one thin coat. And that's it. Very simple and easy but it shall entice the children on Thanksgiving day. LOL.

Thank you for joining me yet again and thanks for reading. Please come back soon! :)

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Manicure Monday: Pink For The Cure #Pinktober

Hello Monday all! Hope y'all had a great weekend. One day down, four more to go until the weekend again. Haha. :P

As y'all may know, October is the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we also call it Pinktober because pink is widely used and symbolizes breast cancer.

All of October, whenever I wear makeup, I would incorporate something pink in honor of Pinktober. By far, I was able to keep my words on that. Since today is Monday and I usually switch up my manicure today, I thought I would do 'em pink for the cause.

As women, I urge you guys to go get yourself checked, whether self exam at home or go get a mammogram done. Be aware of what could happen guys. Because...

Self exam yourself will only take a few minutes, but it could save your life.

Moving along, today's manicure is all about pinks, accent with a pink ribbon.

Sinful Colors Professionals Nail Color in Pink Poppys
Sinful Colors Professionals Nail Color in Pink Forever
Sally Hansen Hard As Nail Xtreme Wear Nail Color in White On

Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Diamond Shine Base & Top Coat

Pink Poppys is the slightly darker pink on my thumb while Forever Pink is the lighter of the pinks on the other three fingers. Each shade took one thick coat to get that result, including White On.

I used a medium sized dotting tool, dipped it in Forever Pink to create the pink ribbon. 

Thank you for visiting and thanks for reading all. Enjoy the rest of your night. Please come back soon! :)

And always remember guys...

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: Prime Purple

Happy Monday everyone! Ugh, I know, I know.. It's Monday, I shouldn't be this enthusiastic about Monday. But you know what day it is today! Manicure Monday!!! :D

I'm feeling the Monday's purple today y'all. Not blue, but purple. In fact, Prime Purple to be exact. This is one of the new SILK formula from Sinful Colors. It basically is a matte finish is what SILK is.

Sinful Colors Professional Nail Color in Prime Purple
Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Diamond Shine Base & Top Coat

It was such a pain to remove the previous color. I redid my nails a couple of days ago for the funeral, so it still had somewhat of that staying power of newly applied polish. The fact that it was nearly black didn't help either.

I had to scrub my nails real good to get rid of all the products left behind. It somewhat stained my nails already, even though it was barely applied days ago.

Any who, I applied a base coat afterward to protect my nails from this week's manicure. Still using the Sally Hansen Diamond Shine.

I applied two thin coats of Prime Purple to my nails. If I would have done the first coat thicker, I think I could have left it at that. My nails were fully covered evenly. It took no more than 3 minutes to completely dry to the matte finish. This formula seems to be a tad thicker than their original. It's a little frustrating to work with, maybe it's just me this time. I'll give it another try before I completely judge it. 

Too jazz it up a little, I took my Seche Vite and applied it to the matte finish at random, like a horizontal, vertical and diagonal strike to have some contrast of shine and matte, It doesn't show up well with this shade. Maybe on a darker shade it will.

But yeah, that's it for this week's manicure. I'm really loving this purple. It makes me cheery looking at it. What do you guys think?

Thank you for visiting and thanks for reading. Please come back soon! :)

Manicure Monday: Cookie Monster Nom Nom Nom

Hello Monday everyone! Hope y'all had a great weekend. Now are we ready to take on the week? Let's go! :P

Something rare, absolutely rare happened to Arizona today. We broke the record (within our state) of most rainfall within a day! From my room, I first heard the rain at around 1:45-ish AM, I went out to check outside at 5 and the streets out front were flooded. FLOODED! That NEVER happens in my area. By morning when I watch the early news, it had been reported that we received 5 inches of rain in just a few hours. That, is insane! Although it isn't falling at the moment, we are to expect more rain falls before the day is over. That's fine, just please... no more black outs! :|

Two weeks ago, a follower on Instagram requested I do "cookies" on my nails. Unfortunately, last week wasn't the best week of my life, and I was in no mood to do anything special. I do feel better this week and I should fulfill my promise to that follower. :)

What's cookie nails without our favorite monster that loves to feast on cookies? Cookie nails for Cookie Monster to nom nom nom on!!

Sinful Colors Nail Color in Nirvana
Sinful Colors Nail Color in Endless Blue

Wet N Wild Mega Shine Nail Color in Black Creme
NYC Long Wearing Nail Enamel in French White Tip

Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Diamond Shine Base & Top Coat

I started off by applying a top coat to my nails to protect and strengthen my real nails. This will prevent my nails from being stained by the dark nail colors.

I started off by applying Endless Blue to my thumbs in one thick coat. This Sinful Colors Nail Color is very pigmented and applies evenly, one thick coat will be enough.

I used Nirvana on the rest of my nails, creating cookie shapes. I alternated the designs, one full nail, one half. On my index finger, I decided to create a cookie that's been bitten into. After the first coat is completely dried, I applied another layer, this time, a thin coat. Immediately after, I took a damp beauty sponge and started stippling the wet nail color. I wanted some texture to my "cookies".

After everything has been dried, I used a dotting tool to create black dots for the chocolate chips. Try to not make it to a perfect circle, because obviously chocolate chips melt to irregular shapes.

As a final step, I went back to the damp sponge, picked up some Nirvana and lightly stippled it over the chocolate chip. You don't have to make it even, just a few stipple here and there. 

As for our little Cookie Monster, I used the brush of the black nail color to create his mouth. I used the biggest dotting took I own to create his eyes. After the white is dried, use a smaller dotting tool to dot his googly eyes. 

For extra details, I use some other dotting tool with Nirvana on it to make cookie crumbs.

Please keep in mind that you can substitute dotting tools with you do not own them, a toothpick, bobby pins are all great substitute. 

Thaaaaaank yooooou for visiting and thanks a whole lot for reading. Hope y'all enjoyed this monstrous manicure. Please come back soon! :)

Mini-Haul: K-Mart & Target

Hi all. How are you guys doing? Short week this week, don't blink because it'll be Friday again if you do. Or do blink. Lol.

We continue with another beauty post, yet another mini-haul of items I bought last week. Majority of everything was bought at K-Mart with the exception of two nail polish that was bought at Target.

Alright, let's go!

EYES

TOP (left to right)
No Scalpers Allowed, Standing My Camp-Ground , Lost My Wristband
BOTTOM (left to right)
Sun-Set To See, Who's Carpooling?, Something To Rave About

Wet N Wild Color Icon Eyeshadow Trio in (limited edition)
- Sun-Set To See
- Who's Carpooling?
- Something To Rave About
- No Scalpers Allowed
- Standing My Camp-Ground
- Lost My Wristband

Here in Arizona, Wet N Wild are sold relatively everywhere, however, not all the stores displays the latest products or limited edition items. I can always count on seeing new displays at Walgreens, CVS and K-Mart. I was able to pick up these new limited edition trios at K-Mart, I believe these six are the complete collection. 

I honestly have more than enough shadows to last me two lifetimes but I cant. Stop. Buying. More. It is rather an ill obsession. Thank goodness these trios were cheap.

Out of the six trios, my favorites would have to be Something To Rave About, No Scalpers Allowed and Lost My Wristband. The shadows seem to coordinate with each other well. As for my least favorite, I'd choose Who's Carpooling? because the shadows seem to contrast each other too much. I went ahead and picked it up anyways because I thought the shadows were beautiful and I could use it for other things.

NAILS

TOP (left to right)
Endless Blue, Matte About Blue, Prime Purple, Silver Solution, Nirvana
BOTTOM (left to right)
Peach Babe, Wet Cement, Kelp Yourself

Wet N Wild Mega Last Salon Nail Color in Wet Cement

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear Nail Color in Peach Babe & Kelp Yourself

Sinful Colors Nail Color in
- Matte About Blue (SILK)
- Silver Solution (SILK)
- Prime Purple (SILK)
- Nirvana
- Endless Blue

So Sinful Colors came out with a new SILK polish. From the display, it just seems like they're matte polishes. Imma have to give them a go and I'll get back to y'all on that. I picked up three from the collection.

As for the other shades, I thought they were gorgeous and couldn't refuse them. Wet Cement will be perfect for Fall as Peach Babe and Kelp Yourself will be gorgeous for Spring.

Thank you for the continuous kind words and thoughts. I appreciate everything, thank you so, so, very much! <3

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

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! :)

Manicure Monday: "IM Beauty" In Bright Yellow

Monday greetings all! How is everyone doin' ?

I welcome you back to another Manicure Monday. My manicures have been very abstract lately so I want to go back to simplicity today. Just one color, that's it. I'm in the mood for a BRIGHT, in YOUR face color. Orange? Red? Yellow?!

Sephora by OPI in IM Beauty
Sinful Colors in Sapphired Up

Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Diamond Shine Base & Top Coat (not pictured)

Last week I used It's Hippo To Be Square which only needed one coat for a full coverage. This week, I am using IM Beauty, another creme formula from Sephora by OPI. Sadly, this nail color took me three coats for this even, full coverage. The shade is beautiful so I don't mind the extra coat honestly. Other than needing three coats, this nail color does not differ much from the other nail colors. Applies very creamy and evenly, drying time is within three minutes.

All ten fingers in yellow can look a tad boring, so I left my ring fingers as accents. Simple does not mean boring guys. I had forgotten to paint a coat of blue before I applied the glitter but that's okay. I did probably five or six coats to get the glitter flakes to completely cover my nails.

Alright y'all, that's my nails for the week. Show me what's on yours!

Thank you for visiting and thanks for reading. Please come back soon. :)

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MEN CRUSH MONDAY #MCM

WINNER

SONGS OF THE DAY

Too much feels! They FINALLY made their debut, one year overdue. But to YG standards, this is on time. Still cannot believe WINNER finally debuted. The album is nothing short of AMAZING. Proud INNER CIRCLE!

Manicure Monday: "It's Hippo To Be Square"

Hello Monday wonderful peoples! How was your weekend?

Arizona received some "rain" again last night, enough to wet the ground... and that's about it. Nonetheless it's rain so I am not complaining. Because of the rain we received over the weekend, the temperature really dropped today, to only 98 degrees.

Let's kick off the week with a new manicure shall we! The 12th bottle of Sephora by OPI I ordered from Hautelook finally arrived Saturday, the shade is of a lilac called It's Hippo To Be Square.

Annnd that is what's on my nails today!

Sephora by OPI in It's Hippo To Be Square
Sinful Colors in Sizzling

Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Diamond Shine Base & Top Coat (not pictured)

I was utterly surprised how crazy pigmented this polish is! One thin coat was enough for my manicure. That's it. One thin coat of even application, even coverage, opaque. This took no more than 4 minutes to be dried. I love it so much!

I tried using tape at first, but that didn't really work out so I ended up just winging it free hand. It would have been a lot neater with tape but I kinda like this too, it adds personality. Haha.

I used Sally Hansen Diamond Shine as a base and top coat. I think I am almost finish with it, after this is used up I will purchase a different base coat to try. Is there any ones you might recommend?

My manicure this week is simple with a little bit of edge. I am pretty content with it, love It's Hippo To Be Square, love the color combo and love the simple design.

Hope y'all enjoyed this little manicure post. Show me what's on your nails this week! :P

Thank you for your visits and thanks a bunches for reading. Please come back soon! :)

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7 Years With Girls Generation (SNSD)