Fall Leaves on Cheeky Chops

Since I felt kinda weird wearing around these yellow nails, and I'm too cheap to take it off immediately, I decided to go forth with some fall inspired stamping!

I used Butter London's Cheeky Chops as a base since I'd swatched it previously, and stamped on top with a Bundle Monster design in red, orange and brown.  I like it, but I thought it was missing something- so I topped it with my matte topcoat, and I like it.

Products used:

Butter London Cheeky Chops

Revlon Hot for Chocolate

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Sun Kissed

Gap nail polish in Admire

Essie Matte About You

Bundle Monster plate BM04

Swatch: Butter London Cheeky Chops

Well, this is definitely a yellow, and the brand/cost didn't change much about that.  The color is pretty, but very very similar to Sally Hansen's Lightening (which you can see here), though Lightening is a little bit more warm I think.  And Cheeky Chops still needed three coats (or maybe a 4th for good measure would've been nice) to go on opaque and you can still see all my gross nail ridges.  The good news is that, same as with Scoundrel, Cheeky Chops dried SO quickly- seriously, SO fast!  And I like yellows and I only have two or three in my collection, so I think this was a necessary purchase- I just think that I wouldn't buy it if it weren't on sale.  You can get similar yellows for a third of the price.

Yes, my pinky finger hurts like a mofo and 

I'm sorry you had to see this

Stamped White Lace on Bare Nails

Well, it's kind of exactly what the title says!  I was feeling a little lazy and a little frilly, and I didn't have a lot of time to spend on my nails.  I also wanted something work appropriate.  I settled on doing this simple design- lace tips stamped on my bare nails!  I think it came out very lovely and subtle.  I am sad that they are already looking a little worse for wear after only a day, but I guess that's what happens when the focus is solely on the tips!

Products Used:

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in White On

Bundle Monster BM18

Sally Hansen Double Duty Topcoat

Halloween Nails: Purple and Orange Glitter

I had to work today at my internship, so I decided not to use any stamps or anything super fancy, so I just stuck with some glitter.  I think it came out pretty nice- and it matched my outfit today (purple tights, orange shirt, black boots/skirt/cardigan).

Products Used:
Wet n Wild Black Creme
Revlon Facets of Fuchsia
Love & Beauty Rust

Purple and Orange Glitter Subtle-y Halloween Nails

Yesterday I showed off my new Butter London color, Scoundrel.  In celebration of my favorite holiday, I layered over Scoundrel with some Love & Beauty polish for a purple and orange Halloween color combo!  I love black and orange as traditional Halloween colors, but I love purple and orange together better, I think.

Products Used:

Butter London in Scoundrel

Love & Beauty in Rust

My First Butter London: Scoundrel

Last month I got an Ulta haul in the mail!  They were having some pretty sweet sales and I ended up getting three Butter London, three China Glaze and two of Ulta's polishes.  I just swatched my first one today.

Now I want you to reread that and tell me what's wrong with that statement.... I got my order a MONTH ago and am just now checking out my first one!  Ugh!  Internship is so time consuming (go figure, right?!)

Anyway, on with the color!

Pretty, right?!

Floral Mani and Updates All Around

I've been absent for such a long time.  There's two reasons for that...
1. I started my internship.  It takes up SO MUCH of my time and is SO stressful, that I completely chewed off all my nails into tiny nubbins... and THEN I started working on the cuticles.  Not only that, but I've been super concerned with what is appropriate for work, and what isn't as far as nails/nail art.  And I have a confession: I wore the same mani for two weeks in a row.  And I'm using the term mani here very loosely- I slapped on two coats of a sheer polish with no base or topcoat and just called that good- for TWO WEEKS.  By the time I took it off last night, the polish was only in the very center of my nail, and my ridges had actually worn through in some places!  It was disgusting.
2. I lost my Seche Vite!!!!!! I don't know how that happened :(  But I kept saying to myself "no point in spending time on doing my nails if I can't use my SV.  I'll do my nails when I find it."  I hardly even looked!  Well last night I tore my house apart and there's no sign of it, so I just did my nails anyway, because I'd finally reached my limit.

So anyway, like I said, I finally hit my limit last night and said "enough is enough!"  Plus I had just seen this tutorial from Rebecca Like Nails, and was all over it like white on rice.  I love a good floral mani, and even though I was a little nervous to wear it to my internship, I figured go big or go home.

Ugh those cuticles.

Products Used:

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Wet Cement

Maybelline Express Finish in Prompt Petals

ELF nail polish in Fuchsia

Revlon Emerald City

Sally Hansen Double Duty as topcoat

Bundle Monster Plate number BM14