Elle - Imperial Purple

So I'm a Kohl's shopper.  I love my 30% off coupons and I love my Kohl's Cash.  This past week I had $20 in Kohl's Cash to spend and this was a painful trip to the store.  I could not decide on ANYTHING!!  The clearance section wasn't doing it for me...  Shoes...  Purses...  NADA!!

So while wandering around makeup I found a tiny section of nail polish made by Elle.

It was originally $10 a bottle but I had $20 in Kohl's Cash!  So with everything I picked up (a pair of earrings and some body spray perfume) I grabbed a bottle.  Cost me less than $10 when all was said and done.

I decided on Imperial Purple.  This polish is really nice.  It's a nice thick polish with really good coverage.  The color was difficult to catch in a picture though.  When it was bright out our you were in direct sunlight it was different from when you were inside.  So I took photos with and without the flash and even a photo outside.

Enjoy!!

Inside no flash

Inside flash

Inside flash

Inside flash

Outside no flash

Bonus picture of my Corgi, Jack.  :)

Butter London - Bluey

Holy crap I love this color.  I took advantage of the Coterie Butter London deal and picked up this little gem...Bluey.

It went on like a DREAM!!  Great coverage and so much shimmer!!

Check it out!!!

I Freaking Love Pink..Revitalized

I was getting an itch to change my manicure, but didn't want to go through the whole process. So, I added some glitter on top of the pink. The glitter is from SinfulColors and is called I Miss You. It is a purple base, and it has a TON of sparkle...blues, purples and silvers. and, you get a lot of glitter right out of the bottle. This is 2 coats. It dries pretty fast, and it has a coat of Seche Vite to finish it off.

It reminds me of pink sequins...I just love the sparkle and shine!

Something Dark and Stormy

I am almost ready to move into fall colors on my nails.  I love dark polish.  I even like black polish.  While this manicure was originally going to be black with white stamping I found this while going through my nail stash.

This is called Metal Madness by E.L.F.  It's a steel grey with glitter in it.  

Very cool looking.  Very metal.

I figured I should stick with my original plan of adding white stamping to the manicure so I picked out a design.  I chose this one...

I had an important business meeting the following morning so I didn't want to do anything too crazy so I think I did okay.

Here is what Metal Madness looks like on.  It's pretty cool looking and I am happy with the coverage.  This is two coats.

And here is the finished manicure with the stamping.  I chose the pinky because it's a whole nail stamp design and I wanted to make sure it was going to fit.

Subtle with a touch of funky.  :)  Personally I love it and I really love E.L.F. nail polish.  It had great coverage, dries fast and is inexpensive.  $1.00 or $2.00 a bottle!  Can't beat that!!  :)

New Olympic Inspired Manicure...Kinda Sorta...

Well, I had some big plans with this new manicure. I had bought a bunch of Sinful Colors (before the issues of them using other people's artwork for their advertising) and had bought some awesome colors. So, I chose some lacquer from these to work on my next Olympic manicure. It kinda sorta worked, but not really.

Base coat is Sugar Sugar. The is a nice deep sparkly red. Only used 2 coats. Went on smooth and covered very well.

I had chosen a glitter polish called Hottie, and I planned to paint the top half of my nail with this color, and it was blue in the bottle, so I expected blue. Well...

You can see my confusion. There is blue in there, but it is not a predominant as the bottle would lead you to believe. This is 3 coats. The glitter is multi colored.

I like the look, but it is not the red/blue combo I was looking for, but still looks pretty kick ass :)

Can't wait to get my Indie polish this week. I am super excited to get my toes wet...or my fingers painted :)

Final Manicure Update!

I love to extend my manicure into a few days by doing something different to it to save time but to change it up. I have been playing with the same e.l.f. Cranberry and Dark Navy Manicure. You can check back a few posts and see where it started.

I decided today to add some alternating colored tips to complete the look.

I really loved how this turned out!

Ring Finger Art - Manicure Update

So, as I said last night, I wanted to add something to my Olympic inspired manicure. Well, I played around with some tape and crafting scissors and did some additional detail to my ring fingers. Not bad for a first try:

Ignore the dry cuticles...they are still recovering from the glitter removal from yesterday. I did the striping with scotch tape. I used a pair of scrapbooking shears to cut a pattern into the bottom one.

I like the look, it's subtle and ties in the 2 colors.

Simple Olympic Manicure - Go USA!!!

I wanted to do something patriotic in honor of the Olympics, but I don't have any fancy stamping machine, and I can't freehand nail art. I had to go with what I am good at. I had some new e.l.f. polishes I got a few weeks ago, and I had the perfect colors.

Introducing e.l.f. Dark Navy and e.l.f. Cranberry. I picked these because they are deep and sparkly.

I bought these during the 50% off e.l.f. sale so they were $1 each. I have had good luck with their polish, and you can't beat the price.

Now, I had to sit through the foil treatment to get my previous glittery manicure off. It went very well...whoever came up with that is my hero!

The great thing about this polish is I only had to do one coat. It was good because I was in a rush and was lacking any patience to wait for 3 coats to dry. 

I decided to alternate the colors. Simple way for me to use the 2 colors I wanted. I know there is no white, but I have plans for that over the next few days :) You'll need to come back and see what I have in mind.

Here are the bottle shots:

And, on the recommendation of my sister, I invested in Seche Clear and Seche Vite...I am loving them both!

Edited to add: I went back and did a second coat. I had visions of a manicure failure when I woke up tomorrow for work :)