Happy St. Patrick's with China Glaze Glittering Garland

Pin It  Last night I pulled a bunch of green polishes to pick one for my St. Patrick's mani. Oh that was so hard. Some many pretty shades!
 I find myself liking green a lot more than I imagined. I took a pic of my green stash and posted on Facebook. Got some suggestions there but I had to go with an untried one. I don't know about you but I tend to buy polish and they sit there for months until I can finally use them. Sad :( I know.
I picked China Glaze Glittering Garland, a forest green packed with green and gold micro glitters. It's gorgeous!! I know the name sounds so xmas but I had to wear that one. I actually got that polish from Sally's Beauty clearance basket for only $1.99 or $2.50, something like that, last December. I am so glad I did cause I remember back then I was hesitating on getting it or not. Dumb, yes I am. But not that much cause I brought it home right? Yay!
So back to today's mani and scrolling down to the pictures you will see what I came up with for St. Patrick's. Some stamping and some free hand strips.

This is my left hand (photo hand)

And my right hand that I haven never shown here before. So awkward to take picture of it. I am all crooked. But there you have, the designs. Big 4 leaves and little ones.

And for you to see the beautiful China Glaze Glittering Garland by itself ... I kinda regret of doing the nail art over it cause that polish is super awesome by itself, isn't it?

BC: Nailtiques

Base Color: China Glaze Glittering Garland

Stamping and stripes: ULTA Lotsa Luxe

Design: (L) RA - 116 / (R)M22

TC: SV

Priti NYC Fishbone Cactus

Pin It St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner. If you look forward to that fun holiday then stay on this page and see swatches of a pretty cool green I have today for you from Priti NYC. If you haven't heard that name before you should now cause this brand rocks in every single way. First I love that they are a "vegan" company. Totally 3 free and non-toxic. Love the look, the formula, the brush, application. Anyways, read here what Priti NYC itself have to say.

 

Priti NYC polishes are all completely non-toxic and made without toluene, dibutyl phthalate (DHB) and formaldehyde- all known carcinogenic ingredients. The luxury polishes are fast drying, chip resistant, contain a UV inhibitor, and are extremely durable and glossy. They are also completely safe for use on children and moms-to-be. Available in over 100 different shades including metallics, mattes, bright neons, rich darks, classic nudes, and everything in between, limited color selection due to ecological restraints has officially become a thing of the past. 

Since it's launch, the brand has expanded to include products such as soy nail polish remover, a recycled glass nail file, and the Priti Princess nail polish collection. The first line of non-toxic nail polishes for children, Priti Princess nail polishes come in 8ml bottles (as opposed to the 12 ml size of a standard nail polish)- perfect for the hands of tiny fashionistas. The Priti NYC Princess polish collection was named by the company's honorary creative director, Siena- who also happens to be D'Amato's 9 year old daughter.

Priti NYC is very active in working with various charities and events in the community that support both environmental and women's issues. The brand regularly collaborates with other socially conscious companies and charities, including Donna Karan's Urban Zen Foundation, Group for the East End’s Ecofabulous in the Hamptons, and Teens Turning Green to develop a private label polish exclusively for Whole Foods Market. 

Priti NYC is also a proud sponser of New York & Miami Fashion Week since 2005.  With the proud pleasure of creating custom nail colors for world-renowned designers runway shows including Donna Karan, Monique Lhuillier, Izaac Mizrahi, Carlos Miele, Tommy Hilfiger, Bebe, Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti, Tuleh, Bahar Shapar, Devi Kroel, Caroline Siekaly, G-Star, Marc Bouwer, Susan Cianciolo, Thakoon, Proenza Schouler, Rachel Roy, Victoria Bartlett, Wayne, Milly, Michon Schur, Issa London, Willow, Yuna Yang, Twinkle, Poko Pano, V Del Sol, Marysia, Vitamin A, and Crystal Jin, among many others.

 Priti NYC nail polishes retail price is $12.50 for a  12.6ml/ 0.43 fl. oz bottle. The mini polishes are $10 for a 9ml/0.30 fl. oz bottle. Which isn't too shabby for a "mini" bottle. It's still a lot of polish compared to the mini sizes from other brands. Priti NYC has tons of colors that you can choose from. You can also find other products by Priti NYC on ther website such as nail polish kits, safe nail polish for kids, nail polish remover, cuticle oil, nail files, all the good and healthy stuff for your nail care.

Today I will be showing you Fishbone Cactus an opaque crayon green that dries matte. The finish to me is jelly and for you that like jelly polish this is a great one. I'm just not a huge fan of them cause for this one for example I had to apply 3 coats to get full opacity. It's a gorgeous unique color though. The application is effortless and its flat brush made my job easy. Really like Priti NYC nail polish brush. The bottle on the pictures below is a mini size. Now scroll down and take a look on these.

MATTE FINISH

But if you don't like polishes with a matte finish to it don't worry. Just add a layer of your favorite top coat to make it look shinny and glossy.

GLOSSY FINISH

Then just for fun I wanted to play with that gorgeous green and make it look even better with my favorite stamp design M64 in gold. I have gotten so many compliments of peple asking me " what polish is that?"  " Love that green!" " You nails look so cool!" I think this is a super awesome mani for St. Patrick's Day. It's a great shade of green, it's fun and it welcomes Spring in a bright colorful vibe.

Say Hello to Priti NYC at:
Website: http://www.pritinyc.com/
Blog: http://www.pritinyc.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lacqueredme#!/PritiNYC

Purchase: Are you in the US? CLICK HERE
               Outside of US CLICK HERE

You should definitely check out their facebook page. Priti NYC embrace the new fb timeline. I'm freaking out about changing mine. But Priti NYC's fb page with the new timeline and timeline header is my favorite right now and they are inspiring me a lot. Check them out!

My Sinful Colors Xmas Collection

I love to see what some companies come up with as their whatever something Xmas Collection. I was staring at these colors and thought of creating my own Sinful Colors Xmas nail polish collection. lolololo

Stay tuned for my own xmas collection direct from my nail polish stash :)

 LAST CHANCE - it's a deep cream pine tree green. And OMG super glossy. On the pictures above yeah, NO TOP COAT added. If you follow my blog your know I always say Sinful Colors polishes are a hit or miss. That one is a total hit. It's a must have it. I used 2 coats  for that mani.

 ALL ABOUT YOU -  a really cool gold glitter with some orange/redish understones to it. It looks so festive to me and also very very similar to what we have seen being released lately for the Holidays by NOPI and China Glaze. There you have an affordable dupe for those I'm talking about.

 SAN FRANCISCO - is a green elf shimmer color. I used 2 coats and I'm pretty positive I could have used another coat for full coverage. It's pretty and xmas like. Oh I love Xmas :)

RUBY RUBY - is a Santa Claus hat jelly red. Yeah you heard right. I mean you read it right. This red has a jelly finish. Just 2 coats and there you have a super pretty mani.

PS PS PS PS PS : Just reminding you guys that this collection was pulled off by me and is not something Sinful Colors released as a Xmas Collection ok? I just did that for fun. Sometimes we feel tempted to buy a whole collection of polishes just cause the So So Company released that "cool" collection and we do enjoy to see all of those colors together being called as THE collection. However, sometimes we do not realize we already have something really cool and/or similar to what just came out. And I believe we can pull out some colors and make our very own collection whith what we already got. Don't you think? Hope you guys enjoyed this post! Now go to your nail polish stash and try pulling out your Xmas collection.

Catrice Sold Out Forever

I'm a girl who loves green specially the mint kind ones. I have here Catrice Sold Out Forever. It's a cream mint (more mintsh in real life than on the picture). There is a sublte yet beautiful shimmer in that polish that I wish you could see that in pictures. With Catrice I don't know how I feel about them. Their formula is just so thin I always need 3 coats for full coverage and it takes forever to dry. I love their colors but I'm not amazed by the formula and application. I like their brush though. I have more Catrices so I need to wear the other colors and see if that's just an issue with some of their colors.

But here you have some pictures. For the flower accent I used stickers I got from a seller on Ebay from Shangai. Horrible stickers btw. Hated! They don't lay flat on your nails. Anyways ....

And now Sold Out Forever by itself:

Happy Saturday to you all :)

Monday Mani PaA - Monsters

Sorry I'm sooo late to post this. I'm having a hard time blogging. I promise I'll do better and try to post these things on time for you guys. I have so much going on right now.

But, forgetting how bad I'm being ... Monday's challenge was MONSTERS. Immediately the Frankstein mani that we can see all over the internet popped in my mind. Free hand nail art for me is a big challenge so I decided to do the Mr. Frankstein as an accent and stamping on my other nails to make it quicker.

 Do you guys like this mani? Have you guys tried this design before?

And below is a swatch of Sinful Colors Innocent. I was laughing so hard I couldn't stop when I read the name. It's so not that polishes. This colors is not quite a neon but reading that its name is Innocence it c\kinda screams at your face. Love it!

BC: OPI

Base Color: Sinful Color Innocent

Stamping: WnW Black Creme

Design:

TC: NYC

And next Monday is Halloween!!! Are you guys partying any where? Have you decided on your costume? Planned your mani? Or you don't really care for Halloween?

Monday Mani PaA - Green for Depression Awareness Month - updated

Green for Depression Awareness is the theme for today's Monday Mani. I decided to start the mani without really thinking what I was going to do and I think it came out cute. As far as the them I didn't know October was the month to host so many health issues awareness. That's great that I got to learn this through polish. Depression has been a big public health issue lately that if we haven't experienced that ourselves I bet you know somebody that is or have been dealing with it. So, let's light up the green color for awareness of depression. If you wanna read more about it click HERE.

Source: Ladyjen3 on Polyvore

Oh and if you are wondering what polish I used... this is RIMMEL - Rags to Riches, a shimmer metalic olive green. The formula is just super good. I thought that would drag or be streaky but nope, just great. Plus I love RIMMEL brushes. They make application so much easier. Then I did some green dots over gold dots. I'm not an expert at dotting but let's pratice right?

Drop me a line in the comment box and let me know your opnion on this mani.

Have a wonderful Monday you all!!!!

UPDATE: A follower posted these questions on the comment box. If those are your questions too here are the answers.

* Why green?

The ribbon for Depression Awareness is green.

* Why the dots?

Nothing to do whith the movement. Just my take on the challenge.

Halloween Series 2011

Halloween spirit is here. Love it but I don't know why I don't really participate going to parties, dressing up and all that. But I guess I'll have to dress up my nails with some kinda of nail art, stamping or just colors.

I know I won't be able to come up with a bunch of ideas of Halloweeen scared manis for you guys due to time and also lack of creativity. But check it out HERE on the contest we are having on my fb page. There are 19 great entries there that you might feel inspired by for sure.

Until Halloween I'll be posting a few manicures I can come up with here.

This is is super simple and totally gives me the Halloween feel. The colors and also the texture. I didn't think crackle polishes would become such a hit but I gues they came to stay. I still see I bunch of people wear thos polishes and posting swatchings of them and all. I, myself, am not a big fan of crackles. But I was glad I had this black one from Sally Hansen - Ink Splatter to use on this mani. I don't really like the crackles from Sally Hansen cause of their brushes. It's to thin and that makes evene harder the application because crackles themselves are so hard to apply. This is just my opnion. Maybe you can master that way better than myself.

And if you ae wondering what green is that here is a picture for you. This is one of my favorite green from MILANI - Original. Love it!

Hope you guys liked this simple Halloween Manicure look. It's simple and quick. Do you like it? Is that Halloweenish to you?

OPI - Jade is The New Black

I have here OPI Jade is The New Black. Isn't beautiful? It's such a beautiful cream green. I love OPI polishes. Such great formula, very good brush and the aplication is amazing! I agree that Jade could be the new black lololo But yeah, this color is a MUST have it in your nail polish collection.

Then, I think I told you here that I was out of town for Labor Day. I went to the Brazilian Festival in Utah. I was craving some brazilian goodies. I then decided to do something brazilian on my nails. Take a look of Brazil's flag.

Source: Informe-se 2012

It's beautiful huh? I love the colors on the brazilian flag. I came up with this then.

What do you think? The funny thing about that was the attention I got from my nails. I met some of my brazilian friends there and they wouldn't even give me a hug or anything it was just "Hey girl, let me see your nails!!!" But I still felt loved :) We also had a Manicure Party during my stay and we all had a blast. I will post the pictures soon!

Monday PaA - Animal Print/ Animal

So I really you hope you had a better weekend than mine. I was sick in bed. My period came out killing me almost literally. My whole body hurt and I couldn't enjoy the weekend. I went to a rodeo though. I am not a cowgirl. But I was looking for something to do to drift my thought of having pain to other things. I couldn't stay for too long (too bad cause it could have been so fun). I got to see the little 8-13 year old boys to rid mini bulls. That's so crazy! And the funniest party and the best for the guys I bet was the bikini barrel race. If you are not familiar with that neither I was until then. Girls in bikinis (young to old, slim to fat) ride a  horse who runs like crazy racing around barrel in the field. Those girls, even the ladies are fenomenal. I could never ride a horse like that.

But anyways, I tried to find fun but my body was just a jerk to itself :( Sad.

I was affraid I wasn't able to do my assignment with the PaA wich theme's for today was Animal Print/ Animals. The first thought it came to me was of zebra, leopard or the famous lady bug you can see all over the internet. The I thought. That's too obvious. Most of the people would do that. I am not trying to compete or anything but just to challenge myself in make me do something else. For this design I came up with I must tell i can't take credit for it. I remember that I had seen that somewhere I don't recall. It was even before I got into stamping. So if you are seen this design and you did it in the past ---> the credit is all yours. Just shoot me an email. But the lady bug's eyes are mine. She looks totally real, doesn't she? 

So, there you have it. I'll come back tomorrow!

 

BC: SH
Base Color: NYC 110 - Luxury Lime Creme
Design: BM 13 / BM119
Stamp: ULTA  Urban Jungle / RIMMEL 320- Rapid Ruby
TC: SV

Monday PAa - Fruit

Oh I had such a good weekend. Hang out with my friends Nani and Lis and her baby boy who has the most cute eyelash ever. Oh boy, I envy his eyelashes. Seriously! The Friday night I had some friends from Utah over. I cooked for them but ... uhmmm wasn't happy with myself. But it's ok. On Saturday Nani came over with her hubby, brother-in-law and Mabel and we had a blast. I even did her nails. That was the first time I had ever done other people's nails. It turned out really cute. I'll post a picture later.

For now, you don't even need to scroll down to see that supposed to be kiwi-mani lololo

The theme from PAa group this week was FRUIT.

Seriously? I did not like. I'll need to try it again so I can feel proud of myself.

I attempted this ugly kiwi as you can see. For me it looks like a smashed spider on a green floor  - laugh. I am so bad doing free hand designs on my nails. I should have done some stamping you know. It's always safe ... at least for me. But I promise I will try it again and do better. For now that's what I could do.

BC: NYC
Color: NYC 110-Luxury Lime Creme
Sponging: Sally Hansen White On
Stripes: LA Colors Black
TC: Color Club 0-60

Green Apple from Sinful Colors Swatch

TGIF right!!! Yeaeyayey I love Fridays.

So here is a swatch of a shimmer green from Sinful Colors. I have tried this before but didn't get too excited like now. So I got to have a picture for you guys. I liked so much I didn't even want to do any stamping or anything. This green is like those mint greens you can see all over lately but not too bright. I would say it's more subtle than the others. It has this shimmer tone to it that I love and surprisingly the formula, brush and everything is really good. Usually I don't "love" all the Sinful Colors nail polishes. This one I totally recommend.

BC: Essie

Color: Sinful Colors 947- Mint Apple

TC: SV

Monday PAa - Sponging

Like I said last week I am gonna try a system on blogging over here. I really hope this work.

Mondays are the Monday Mani PaA. Today we all have the SPONGING theme. And I came up with this one. I posted color by color. I used a Sally Hansen HD polish. I absolutely love the formula. Not streaky at all. When I saw it at the store I was kinda reluctant about it cause I saw the brush and I didn't really thought it would be a good one. But I had to bring it home cause it on a clearance box for a dollar and something plus I had a coupon. So why not?? And now I am wondering if there were any othe HDs left in that box. I should have brought all of them. That green is so bright and pretty that it makes me smile.It's such a gorgeous holographic. I am very pleased with this mani and can't stop staring at my peacock design. What do you think? And again, sorry about my pictures. I'm still not happy with them :) If youa re reading this and do great on your nail pictures please give a hand here.

BC: Essie
Color: Sally Hansen HD 13-Resolution CLICK HERE to buy it
Sponging: PURE ICE - All Night Long
Stamping: ULTA Lotsa Luxe
Design: BM 212 CLICK HERE to buy this plate
TC: SV CLICK HERE to buy