Currently on my nails: Silver Sweep, Fairy Dust

Good Morning!

Today I woke up with the strong urge to do my nails so that's exactly what I did! Here's what's on my nails today:

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Silver Sweep with China Glaze Fairy Dust on top. Basecoat, 1 coat Silver Sweep, 2 coats Fairy Dust, Seche Vite Topcoat. Silver Sweep is just a regular chrome silver color. I love the Insta-Dri line. They dry pretty much instantly and for most colors, its opaque in just one coat. Fairy Dust I got last week and I hadn't actually tried it until now and I must say I'm absolutely in love. I have a couple of holographic glitter topcoats besides this one but this one the holographic glitter is so fine that it looks awesome. The formula was a little bit thick, but I'm sure thinner will fix that.

Here's a couple of bottle pictures: 

 Fairy Dust, Flash

Fairy Dust, No Flash

I didn't change my toes this morning. Most because I'm still obsessed with Flip Flop Fantasy and I don't really want to take it off! 

Thanks for reading!

Back to School manicure: Mermaid's Tears w/ Stranger Tides

So, today is the first day back to class... luckily I don't have class until 1:30 so I have some down time... what better way to kill time then a mani/pedi? :) Here's what I got on today:

OPI Mermaid's Tears. Base Coat, 2 coats, Seche Vite Topcoat. 

Ring Finger: Stranger Tides polka dots

With Flash

OPI Mermaid's Tears. Base Coat, 2 coats, Seche Vite Topcoat. 

Ring Finger: Stranger Tides polka dots

No Flash

I love the murky colors in the OPI Pirates of the Carribean collection and these 2 are my absolute favorites. The formula is great, really opaque and creamy. Quick dry time especially with Seche Vite. 

On my toes is my favorite for this summer, Flip Flop Fantasy from China Glaze... only about a month left in the official summer season so as long as its hot in So-Cal... I will be wearing this color!!!

Currently on my nails: Ivanka

Today's post is from Zoya.

Zoya Ivanka. Basecoat, 3 coats, Out the Door Topcoat. This is a gorgeous sparkly green color with gold flecks. This and Charla are my absolute favorite colors from Zoya. The coverage was good. The only reason I opted for 3rd coat is because I'm a perfectionist when it comes to my nails and I felt like a 3rd coat would really even it out but 2 coats was opaque. Dry time is really fantastic. Overall I love this color!!! Any thoughts? Now I gotta decide if this is going to be my first day of class color or not!

BTW, on my toes today I have Passion Fruit from Orly but I didn't want to take a picture of my feet... its a beautiful pinkish coraly red... I love it! 

Well I guess that's it for now!

Currently on my nails: The Real Teal

Here's what I just got done painting on :)

 The Real Teal by Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear. Basecoat, 2 coats, Seche Vite Topcoat. Top picture is with flash and bottom picture is no flash. This color is a gorgeous teal with teal shimmer.This is actually the first time I've worn this color but I've had it for a couple of weeks. I love this color... its beautiful I dunno why it took me so long to try it on! I'll definitely be using this a lot. LOVE it! 

I'm getting together ideas and supplies for some new nail art and blogs that will be coming soon. 

Ulta Neon Minis

Today's post is these Ulta Neons. I got these from Traci over at http://the-trace-face-philes.blogspot.com/. I also got OPI RENT from her but I haven't really used it or experimented with it too much to post about it yet. I really just wanted it because I'm a major RENT head (theater geek... yeah!) So without further ado... here's the neon minis.

From Top Left to Right: Sunbathing Beauty, Beach Bum, 

Bottom Left to Right: Bananarama, Surfer Girl.

2 coats for all, no top coat. I really love these colors... alot! my only problem is the formula. I actually thinned them some after I swatched them and they seem to be working better but yeah. As you can see, Beach Bum and Bananarama are really streaky. I wanted to keep them all at 2 coats each to show any difference in formula or streaky-ness. They all dry completely matte but they look very gorgeous with topcoat as well. I think I will definitely get adequate use of these for the rest of the summer. They're gorgeous enough for me to be able to put up with the formula issues.