31 Day Challenge: Galaxy Nails!

Helllooooo! How are you all doing? I feel like I have done nothing but the busy mom/wife thing for the last few days. I finally got a few moments to sit down and play with polish today, and put together a little mani for the 31 day challenge prompt - galaxy nails! I have never done galaxy nails before, and I was super nervous, but it is so dang easy! Seriously, it took 30 min to do one hand. When I did the tribal nails, I spent about an hour and a half on just five fingers. Big difference.

 

Oh, and if you follow me on InstaGram (you totally should, btw), you may have seen a pretty bad nail break that happened last week, and the resulting nubbinization of my nails. It is hard doing nail art on shorties, so bare with me.

 

 

Used:

 

Revlon - Urban (base)

Essie - Play Date

Sally Hansen Insta-Dry - Butter-Fly Stroke

O.P.I. - MBSW

China Glaze - Glistening Snow (thinned with a clear base)

 

Dotting Tool

 

I followed the directions from Sarah of Chalkboard Nails (who is beyond awesome) to do these, and yes they are fairly simple to do. So don't feel overwhelmed, if you want to try them! I think my problem was being a little heavy handed with the sponging. Regardless, I am really pleased with the result! Yay, galaxy nails!

 

Water marble is next (lord have mercy on my soul!) and I hope, hope, hope my little nubbies are up to that challenge!

Fashion Friday #9

Hey y'all! Today is another edition of the fashion inspired collab between Camille from Pretty and Punk, and myself. This week features a structured dress with some great accent pieces!

 

 

 

Inspiration Look

 

Used:

 

Essie - Brooch The Subject

Julep - Ingrid

 

Born Pretty Nail Studs

 

I love the tailored simplicity of the look, as well as the pop of color from the belt. The resulting mani, is probably one of my favorites that I have done so far. Maybe it's the studs. Either way, I think it's totally on trend and very wearable.

 

Hope you guys have a great weekend! I will be working on my galaxy nails for next week! Yippee!

31 Day Challenge: Half Moons

Hello everyone! Today is #18 on the 31 Day Nail Art Challenge, and that means Half Moons!

 

Please Note: Post contains affiliated links.

 

 

Used:

 

Zoya - Ziv

Color Club - Wild Catcus

 

Nail Stickers

Born Pretty Studs (link)

 

Half moons aren't really my thing, but I still wanted to do something pretty. My original color combination didn't work out, so I chose green and gold. Honestly, I'm not really feeling it. I do like the studs, cause anything with studs are that much more awesome. These are from one of the Born Pretty stud wheel, and I love them.

 

So what do you think of studs? Love 'em or hate 'em? My husband thinks they are super gaudy!

 

Fashion Friday is back tomorrow, and then Galaxy Nails!!! Excuse me while I faint.

 

Please Note: Products shown were purchased by me for my own personal use. All opinons are my own. This post contains an affiliated link. If you click the Born Pretty link and purchase a stud wheel, I will get a portion of the sales allowing me to buy more polish! For more information, please see my disclaimer.



Julep June Box - BoHo Glam

Hey everyone! I have my June box from Julep to share with you all, today! I have skipped the last couple of months, but couldn't pass up on this on. For June, it was all about nautical preppy & bright classic colors. The bonus was Julep's version of the newest trend in make up; BB Cream. Or as Julep dubbed it, DD (dynamic do-all) Cream. I stuck with my BoHo Glam box picks for this month.

 

 

Please Note: Products shown were purchased by me for my personal use.

 

 

Julep June Box - BoHo Glam (DD Cream in Light, Dianna & Lexi)

 

 

 

Julep - Dianna

 

Dianna is described as a mint green cream polish. I would say it is more blue the green, but none the less gorgeous! I really love colors like this, especially for summer. Formula was good, pleasantly thick, flowed nicely onto the nail, no dragging or streaking. Average dry time, which I am seeing a big improvement from Julep. The quality/consistency has been great in the last few boxes, compared to the first few I received.

 

 

 

Julep - Lexi

 

Lexi is a bright sunny yellow crelly (cream/jelly hybrid). For a yellow, this is pretty dang awesome. The color is crazy bright and so happy! Total love. Formula was a huge surprise, and I think it is because the polish is a crelly. The first coat was a tad streaky, but leveled really nicely. Second coat smoothed it all out. A bit thicker than Dianna, but not problematic at all. Overall it was super easy to work with for a yellow.



 

 

 

Julep DD Cream - Light

 

This is where the excitement for my box ends. I was so looking forward to the DD Cream. To preface, I am not a make up blogger, so forgive the pictures. I ordered the lightest option, being "Light" because I am super pale. Most of the time, I am pretty on base with light foundations, but this one was waaaaay off. Look how dark it is! It totally gave me orange face. So disappointing. Other than the horrid color, the cream itself is really good. It covers well, blends well, is buildable, and feels so nice on my skin. No oily residue, just a lovely soft glow. If they make a "Fair" shade, I will probably get it. But, c'mon. There is no way I can pull this color off.

 Oh well, can't win 'em all I suppose. More 31 day challenge tomorrow!

Please Note: Products shown were purchased by me for my own personal use. All opinions are my own.

If you are interested in signing up for your own Maven box, click here. Don't forget to use the code "PENNY" to get your first box for one cent.

 

Polish Days: To Boldly Go

Hey y'all! It's time for another addition of Polish Days. This month's theme is "To Boldly Go" and anything that might entail. There are a lot of different ways to interpret this, but I immediately thought of constellations!
 

 

 

Used:

 

Revlon - Royal

China Glaze - Glistening Snow

O.P.I. - My Boyfriend Scales Walls

 

Dotting Tool

 

Just a quick clarification before I get into the details of the mani. Glistening Snow doesn't look like this straight out of the bottle. It is a full coverage holo glitter, but I mixed it with a clear polish I had to thin it down.

 

Anyway, I tried to recreate some more well known constellations, Cygnus the swan on my index finger, little dipper on my middle, cancer the crab (my birth month constellation) on my ring finger, and Orion's belt on my pinkie. Love, love, love how it turned out! It may be hard to take this one off.

 



 

 

Be sure to check out all the other participants! For more info and the sign up link, click here to go to the Polish Days main page.