Halloween Skittles!

Happy Friday!! And happy long weekend to my fellow Candaians, this week is our Thanksgiving :) I cannot wait to fill up on turkey this weekend!

Moving on to my mani, I loved Lightmare so much that I didn't want to remove it entirely just because a few nails were chipping. What I decided on doing was keeping it on the nails that were not chippy and doing some Halloween skittle nails as a mani refresh.

With lightmare on my ring and pinky fingers I applied the following to my nails:

Fright Night Claw Polish, Sinister - Middle finger. This is THE perfect black creme polish, plus it comes in a cute coffin bottle :)

China Glaze, Papaya Punch - Pointer finger. A bright yellow based orange creme.

Ulta Salon Formula, Concrete Evidence - Thumb. A medium grey creme.

On op of each nail I added either some stamping or glitter:

Pinky - Bundle Monster plate BM-201with white polish over Lightmare.

Middle - Bundle Monster plate BM-201with white polish over Sinister.

Pointer - Unnamed pumpkin polish from Rite Aid (label reads "Chunky Nail", however I have another polish purchased this year with the same label).

Thumb - Nabi, Black Flake over Concrete Evidence

I am loving skittle nails, perfect for when you cant decide on one particular colour, design, glitter, etc!

Glitzy Skittles

Happy, Happy Friday! What a busy week it was, especially getting back in to the groove from my trip. Thank God for the weekend and beautiful summer forecast :)

So...I did it again, picked off a good chunk of my mani before I intended on switching it up. I like to get full wear out of my mani's, so even though I picked off most the polish from my nails I decided to do a fun and easy Skittle refresh!

I had actually planned on doing a skittle mani before the chips started, so here was my chance!

My ring fingers were glittery before the chips, I spiffed them up for a wedding ;) I applied two thick coats of Cult Nails Walk of Shame.

I decided to leave my pinky nails orange since the polish wore there the best, this of course is OPI, Y'all Come Back Now, Ya, Hear.

The middle finger has a white chevron pattern stamped over top the orange. (my other hand has the reverse, orange on white, I picked the orange off that one too!) I used Sally Hansen Whirlwind White for stamping and Bundle Monster Plate BM-201.

The pointer finger is simply white to match the middle finger, again I chose Sally Hansen Whirlwind White.

Finally, for the thumb I applied a pretty gold foil to match the gold glitter on the ring finger, OPI Glitzerland.

This is my first skittle mani which utilizes, for the most part, a different colour on each nail. I am pretty happy with it :)

Pastel Skittles

Hello ladies,

Today I have a very spring mani to share with you today. I have never really done the "skittle" look on my nails other than one time I can recall as a teenager. Even then it wasn't quite right, I only owned a few polishes and it was hard to find the right polish and finish that worked well together.

Now that my polish collection has fully expanded, I have many polishes to choose from which I can group together to use for one mani. For my spring skittle mani I used the following polishes from pinky to thumb:


Color Club's Take Me To Your Chateau, a very light pastel blue.

American Apparel's Office, a very light pastel green.

American Apparel's L'esprit, a medium toned pastel purple.

American Apparel's Summer Peach, a very light pastel orange.

China Glaze's Lemon Fizz, a light yet bright pastel yellow.

All of these polishes applied wonderfully with the exception of Lemon Fizz. I have always had application issues with this polish. Once I added thinner application became easier. Other than the China Glaze polish I have never worn any of these polishes before, although I was very happy with them :) If applied carfully I could have gotten away with only one coat, but I chose to go with two.

I love the way this turned out, after applying this I went for a walk with my brother to pick up a PS3 game and got a compliment from the cashier :)

This was just the base for my Easter mani which I will show you tomorrow. What do you ladies think of the skittle look? I really enjoyed the pastels because I feel it as a softer take on the usually bright skittle I have seen in the past.