Some past NOTD's

Hi all! How are you guys doing? Great, I hope! :) Today I have two past NOTD's to show you. I never got around to uploading them because every now and then I go out of town and I just got back in today. I decided to take a break from getting stuff put away to upload :) So here we go...

Hola chicas! Como están? Espero muy bien! :) Ahora les tengo dos NOTD's. Pase los últimos tres días fuera de mi casa pero ya volví y decidí dejar de guardar mis cosas para mientras para enseñarles esto! :)

My first jelly sandwich ever! New York Summer - Hot Atomic Red with OPI - Gettin' Miss Piggy With It layered in. (Decided to add a layer of Gettin' Miss Piggy With It at the end...wish I hadn't, but it still looked cool! Can't wait to try this again!)

and a not so pretty nail art. Got bored and drew some random lines with acrylic paint. This is 2 coats of Essie - Tart Deco.

Thanks for reading! <3

OPI - Don't Pretzel My Buttons + Nail Art

Hi! Hope you are all having a lovely weekend! I've been pretty busy with the family, which has been a nice change...so sorry for disappearing for a few days! After swatching/wearing all those foily Sally Hansen's I decided I was in need of a palate cleanser. I took a look in my neutral drawer and saw that I still had OPI - Don't Pretzel My Buttons untried and I've been dying to put it on! I was hoping it would be my perfect 'mannequin hands' polish but not quite...I still thought it was a pretty polish though! The formula on this was amazing and it took 2 coats to get it to look even.

Hola! Espero que estén disfrutando de el fin de semana! Discúlpenme por haber faltado unos dias por aquí...e pasado un poco ocupada pero ya volví! :) Después de haberme puesto los Sally Hansen's decidí ponerme un color neutral para cambiar un poco las cosas. Y termine escogiendo OPI - Don't Pretzel My Buttons para mi NOTD...y luego le puse un poquito de nail art! Espero les guste! Besitos!

OPI - Don't Pretzel My Buttons, 2 coats/capas.

and some random nail art using hex glitter and studs:

Sally Hansen - Tender Teal (270)

Here is the last of the 3 polishes I bought from the new Sally Hansen Diamond Strength LE collection. Tender Teal. This color is so pretty...but like with the rest of these I was not able to capture the awesomeness in a picture. Booo. :(

The formula on all three of the polishes I bought from this collection is good. A little on the thick side but manageable. As with All Aglow, this polish covered the nail beautifully in 2 coats. It looks even prettier with Revlon - Royal underneath but for swatch purposes I left that out today. Okay...on to the pictures!

Ahora les tengo el ultimo de los esmaltes que compre de la colección limitada de Sally Hansen Diamond Strength. El color que les voy a mostrar hoy es Tender Teal. Este color esta precioso pero me costo mucho tomarle fotos! Tendrán que confiar en mi cuando les digo que estos colores están bellos! :) Besos!

Sally Hansen Diamond Strength - Tender Teal, 2 coats/capas [natural light/luz natural]

Not a great picture but it really glows like this!

Cell phone picture but pretty close to what it looks like IRL:

and more bad pics to show the duochrome effect:

Bottle comparison between SH DS Tender Teal and SH HD Laser:

And an attempt at showing the color difference on the nail between the two:

and a random swatch picture:

L to R:

Tender Teal (2 coats), 1 coat of Tender Teal over black, Tender Teal (2 coats), 1 coat of Tender Teal over Revlon Royal.

Whew! Can you tell I struggled with these? lol It's okay...it was worth it. Hope it was helpful to some of you! <3

Sally Hansen Diamond Strength - All Aglow (280)

Hi guys! <3 I have another swatch of one of the new Sally Hansen Diamond Strength polishes! I decided to put on All Aglow today. It's a gorgeous red based purple foil polish. Sadly, in these pictures, it came out looking kind of like Zoya - Mimi, but it's different! Think of Orly Bubbly Bombshell's color with more purple in it and with a FOIL finish, not glitter! :) Or Essence - Break Through but with a foil finish. The application on this polish was great. I achieved full coverage with 2 coats and dried fairly quick with my SV.

Hola! <3 Ahora les tengo otro swatch de unos de los nuevos colores de la linea Diamond Strength de Sally Hansen. El color que me puse hoy se llama All Aglow. Trate tomar una foto que les iba enseñar bien el color pero no pude! Este color se parece mucho a Essence - Break Through pero este es un color como...metallico? "Foil". Disculpenme! No se como se le dice en Español! :) Bueno...espero que les guste!

Sally Hansen Diamond Strength - All Aglow (280), 2 coats.

 

a bad picture I took trying to capture the true color:

 and a quick comparison swatch that I wasn't going to post because it still isn't showing the colors right! lol

L to R:

Zoya Mimi, 1 coat All Aglow over black, 2 coats of All Aglow, 1 coat of All Aglow over Essence Break Through

Planning on running out to get the rest of these because they are on sale right now at HEB! They are so pretty! :) Hope you all are having a great Wednesday!

Sally Hansen - Blue Frosting (230)

The SO and I decided we were going to make some bison burgers and so we headed out to HEB to buy the stuff yesterday. And anytime I go to HEB I *have* to take a quick look around the cosmetics area...and I found a new display of Sally Hansen Diamond Strengths. For $3.27 I knew I was going to have to take a few...so I picked up Blue Frosting (a light blue shimmer with pink/purple flash), Tender Teal (a blue shimmer with purple flash) and All Aglow (a purple shimmer with a hint of gold flash...but doesn't really show on the nail).

I even took off my second Gelish mani after two days to do some swaches for you all but they just would not photograph well! :( I haven't edited the rest of the pictures so for now I'll leave you with my NOTD using Blue Frosting.

Ayer fui a la tienda con mi novio porque queríamos hacer hamburguesas ahora. Cuando voy a la tienda siempre paso por la área de los cosméticos y encontré unos nuevos esmaltes de Sally Hansen! Los colores que compre son Blue Frosting, All Aglow y Tender Teal.

Trate de hacer unos swatches pero las fotos no me salían bien! :( Para mientras las dejo con mi NOTD usando el esmalte Blue Frosting!

Sally Hansen XW - Pacific Blue, 2 coats with 1 coat of Sally Hansen DS Blue Frosting

 Sorry for the horrible pictures...and as always, thanks for reading! <3

Kleancolor - Holo Blue

Sorry I haven't posted much. I'm still wearing my 'rockstar nails'. :( And it's totally killing me...I want to change my mani already! Maybe I'll paint over it today and see how it looks. :) I'm thinking I should try a jelly sandwich...seeing as how I've never done one before!

In the meantime...since I still have the same mani that was in my last post...I dug up a super pretty NOTfew months ago to show you! So here we go...take a look at the beautiful Holo Blue by Kleancolor!

Hola chicas! Todavía ando la manicura de el post pasado (porque es de gel y trato de dejármelo puesto por lo menos una semana). Pero no las quería dejar sin nada que ver! Me puse a buscar entre mis fotos y encontré una foto de uno de mis esmaltes favoritos que es de Kleancolor. Este color que les voy a mostrar se llama Holo Blue y me puse una capa encima de Essence - Forever Mine. Espero les guste!

This is 1 coat of Kleancolor - Holo Blue over Essence - Forever Mine from the Denim Wanted collection.

Again, as with any glittery polish...these pictures did not do this polish combination justice! It was so beautiful, sparkly, and jelly-like almost! Got tons of compliments on this one. If you don't own the Kleancolor Holo's...you need to get them because they are stunning in person!

Este esmalte es precioso y lastima que en foto no se ve como se miraba en persona!

Thanks for stopping by and hope you all have a great Thursday! <3 

Rockstar nails: Silver holo

Hey girlies! Hope you all have had a great weekend! (Or at least a better one than I did.) I've been at home in bed for most of it because I've been feeling pretty awful. :( but I'm getting better! :)

Anyway, as I removed my geometric mani a few days ago I was reminded of the many breaks I had on several nails. I probably could have gotten away with just polishing them as usual but I really didn't want to risk any of them breaking off completely (I can't stand having ridiculously uneven nails!)...so I made the difficult decision to give myself a gel manicure for reinforcement purposes as I've never really had much luck with the tea bag method of repairing a nail.

I know I can still paint over this and remove it with non-acetone but I feel like it looks chunky when I do that. It's okay though...I prefer chunky over broken nails! Anyway...to make myself like it a little more...I went for glitter...and lot's of it! These are my 'Rockstar Nails':

Hola chicas! Espero que estén disfrutando del fin de semana. Yo pase casi todo el dia en la cama porque no me sentía bien. Pero ya ando mejor... :)

El Jueves después de quitarme la manicura que andaba decidí hacerme una manicura con esmalte de gel porque tengo varias uñas quebradas y quería evitar que se me quiebren mas. Entonces aquí les tengo mis uñas al estilo 'Rockstar'. 

 I used the Gelish Foundation base, polish in Vegas Nights with WnW Fantasy Makers silver holo glitter scrubbed in, and two coats of Gelish Top it Off.

and a random video I shot for fun. Wasn't meant to be posted but after looking at the pictures...I realized they didn't do this mani justice. It's the only way to show how shiny and sparkly this is!

Hope you all enjoy they rest of your weekend! xoxo

I'm so excited after logging in and finding several new followers! Hello and welcome to you all! :) I feel so pumped after reading all of the lovely comments from you guys...thanks so much!

I am currently naked (lol...just took off my 'geometric mani') and having trouble deciding which untried to put on next! So for now...I'll leave you with some past NOTD's. Hope you like them!

Estoy super contenta después de haber visto que tengo nuevos seguidores! Hola y bienvenidas! :) Ahorita estoy en el proceso de quitarme la manicura geométrica que puse el otro dia y ver cual esmalte usare hoy...entonces para mientras las dejare con unos NOTD que tengo en mi photobucket que todavía no les e enseñado. Espero les guste!

Revlon - Naughty aka Perplex, 2 coats/capas

 

Then I decided to make it a Robin Moses inspired mani by using The Best Glue Ever and Martha Stewart glitter. Using a watered down version of TBGE and a striping brush I made vertical lines on my nails and then scrubbed in red, green, and holographic glitter. After adding the glitter...my lines didn't look like lines anymore so I added a few black lines using black acrylic paint and a striping brush. This looked so cool IRL! Thank you Robin Moses!

And here is a random swatch of Maybelline - Cool Couture, 2 coats/capas. I felt like this looked so blah on me...maybe it needed some stamping. :(

Okay...now I'm off to rummage through my untrieds! Thanks again for subscribing! xoxo

Polish Days: Geometry

Hi girls! So I decided to join the Polish Days group! I figured it would be a good way to motivate myself to do a little more nail art. (I have tons of nail art stuff I never use!) Sadly...I totally thought the day to post was today, Sept. 5th and it turns out it was due yesterday! Ugh. Horrible way to start.

It's okay though - I made a simple design and I'm posting it today and that's all that matters! So yesterday's Polish Day was supposed to be geometry themed. I could not come up with something more creative for the life of me...so I asked the SO for some help for the accent nail and the rest was just random placement of colors sectioned off with acrylic paint.

Hola! Espero se encuentren bien! :) Hace unas semanas atrás decidí ser parte del grupo Polish Days con la idea de motivarme a usar mis cosas que tengo para hacer nail art. Pense que el dia para actualizar era ahora pero parece que fue ayer! :( Esta bien...por lo menos logre hacer un diseño simple y se los estoy enseñado ahora! :) El tema esta vez fue geometría. Espero que les guste!

Here is my base color which was Essie - Play Date, 2 coats.

 

And then my random design. The black is one by Rimmel and the sparkly stuff is Holo Chrome by Kleancolor. The lines and accent nail were done with acrylic paint.

Thanks for stopping by! // Gracias por leerme! :)