Twinsie Thursday - 80's Funk!

Hey lovelies!

Get ready for another Twinsie Thursday with Samantha from Southern Sparkle Nail Art!! 

Hello Lacquer Lovers!

I’m back! Yes, I’m back for another Twinsie Thursday! The theme was the 80’s! As a child of the late 90’s I had some research to do, but I hope that y’all like what I’ve come up with! The color scheme was purple, black, yellow, and white.

I used a different technique for this design! In fact, the design had been painted 3 days before! If you have guessed already, I made my own nail stickers! I will have a super in depth tutorial on how to do that on my blogSunday, so if you would like to see that please stop on by!

I used ProFX Quick Dry Top Coat, a unnamed Color Club Yellow, an unnamed Color Club Purple, Wet n Wild French White Crème, Sinful Colors Black on Black, China Glaze Whirled Away, and Sinful Color Clear Coat.

For the index and pinkie nails I painted 2 coats of my base color and 1 coat of China Glaze Whirled Away. For my middle finger I used tape to make a chevron and used my dotting tool with Sinful Colors Black on Black. For my ring finger I used tape to make a chevron pattern and used my dotting tool with Wet n Wild French White Crème and Sinful Colors Black on Black. I top coated and I was off!

I thought it looked very neat with a black and white filter, so I thought you may want to take a look!

I used an artificial white light to show the true colors.

You can see Lothwen's creation here!

Thanks again for having me Lothwen! We will have to do this again soon!

Thanks Samantha! I really love your take on it, and I love how we both thought triangles! Whirled away goes PERFECT with this, good thinking! We will make this a monthly thing :D

xoxoxo

Captain

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Franken: Back to being princess

Hey lovelies and in particular my baby sister, who's celebrating her birthday!

Today I present you the present for her. A frankened pretty pink princess polish with silver and holo glitter, and some iridescent hexes and some fuchsia micro glitter and a pink shimmer :

Swatch-It Sunday: Essence "Only Purple Matters"

Hey there!

Quick swatch from the new Essence Nail Art collection: the glitter topper "Only Purple Matters". It is truly packed with glitter, so I tried two coats on its own and well look at that! It is opaque! I find it gorgeous :D 

Daylight:

Direct Sunlight:

I heard some people found the application to be hard, but I had no problems; as with most glitters, one just has to dab properly. I also swatched one easy coat over Catrice "Purple Reign", which is also very nice:

Daylight

I'm very happy with this polish and I highly recommend it!

xoxoxo

Captain

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FoF: Baby Elmo - manicure for a two-year-old

Hello lovelies,

Today I show you the cutest mani I have ever done: Elmo on my friend's two-year-old daughter. She's my favourite little princess, together with her six-month-old sister. And on my birthday, she let me paint her nails with her favourite Sesame Street character: Elmo. Her mom had shown her The Lieutenant's Nails that I had done a while back, and ever since she remembered. 

We had a picnic together as well. And some phone conversations. It was all there in the basket.

Now all this is tricky business, since she does not quite understand the danger of nail polish getting EVERYWHERE, but she was really really good at sitting still and holding out her hands so that I could paint them. I did as few layers as possible and sealed it with Seche Vite, so that it would dry asap. Yes she is a natural at this and I expect this was the beginning in a long line of manis :D 

IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!!! And her mom told me that she liked it too. <3

xoxoxo

Captain

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Preppy French Tips, That's What I Mint!

Hey lovelies!

This is what I'm actually wearing right now! 

Different Dimension: Another Brick In The Wall - Swatch & Review

Hello lovelies!

Today I present: Another Brick In The Wall by Different Dimension. I acquired this pretty from Llarowe, with the gift certificate I won from Essie from iheartprettypolish.com. She has recently taken an hiatus from blogging, but continues to support nail polish bloggers. She's the best! Thank you so much, Essie, for helping me to get my second indie ever! <3

Now onto the pretty. Another Brick In The Wall is glitter topper with medium and large neon pink hexes, medium and little neon squares, black and white rectangles and black and silver holo micro glitters. Doesn't that sound just amazing? I know! So look at it!

FoF: Pink Cherry Blossom

Hello lovelies!

Today I have a summer design I did for a friend. It's a simple cherry blossom, inspired by Robin Moses. 

Tutorial Tuesday: Inverse Glitter Gradient!

Hi lovelies!

Quick Tutorial for one of my favourite and most versatile designs, that always works! The Inverse Glitter Gradient: