4th of July Inspired Manicure

Okay, here's a warning. This is a crazy red, white and blue skittle kind of manicure. A different design on every nail but I did it so I could decide what I wanted my 4th of July manicure to be. 4th of July has been one of my favorite holidays ever since I was a little kid but they seem to have gotten less "magical" the older I get. Its like that with Christmas too but that's a story for another time. Anyway, here's all the polishes I used:


L to R: Zoya Valentina, LA Colors Static Electricity, OPI Himalayan Hideaway, OPI Blue My Mind, Art Deco nail art polish in white, Stripe Rite silver glitter and Wet n Wild French White Creme. (Not shown is Zoya Armour topcoat)

Yes, that's red you see. I put aside my feelings about red polish and did it because whats a 4th manicure without red, white and blue? Sigh, I know. Anyway, here's what I came up with.

I think I'm going to go with the design on my middle or ring finger because I like them the best. I hope everyone has a wonderful 4th of July weekend! Be safe! :-)

LA Colors Phenomena

I went here before with Essie Pool Boy. That is a color similar to this one and I hated it so much on me that I mailed to my mother. When she got it, the bottle had broken :-( but the OPI Mod-ren girl that was in the same package was okay.

This is two coats + Zoya Armor. It's too berry-ish for me. Almost too close to red. And red makes me feel some kind of way. :-( Since it was only a dollar, I don't feel too bad about it. Maybe I can put it on my toes or mail it to my mother to replace her never was bottle of Essie Pool Boy.

-Lachelle

LA Colors Electric Charge

(The pictures of this one look dramatically different with the flash. The real color is best represented by the pictures indoors + no flash. Its more of a salmon pink in my opinion.)

Another one of the polishes I found at the drug emporium. What I like about these colors is that for a 99 cent nail polish they stay on pretty well with a coat of Seche Vite. My Atomic manicure stayed on for about 4 days with only small chips on my thumbs until I decided to change it to this. Electric charge is not unique color but it's a shade of pink I don't think I had in my collection yet. This is three coats + Seche Vite. While I was at it, I decided to do a pedicure with this color and I did a white flower on my big toe on both feet. I don't know why I don't soak my feet more often. Putting my feet in warm, vanilla scented water was relaxing and that combined with pushing back my cuticles helped me to have better results, in my opinion.

I wanted to do polka dots but I did a messy job on my left thumb and was discouraged. Oh well.

-Lachelle

LA Colors Atomic

Outdoor + No Flash (above)
Indoors + Flash

Now, this is the green I need in my life. This is everything I wanted my first green polish to be but wasn't with Form One Lime ( I knew I should have followed my instinct and gotten a creme instead of shimmer). I fell in love with this one on the shelf and I knew I had to have it. It even made me feel better about my new short nails. Oh yeah, as evident in the pictures, I have short nails now and it isn't even my fault! I was helping to fix a mistake of my coworker's (she knows who she is, grrr) and I broke my left index fingernail. I was really upset! Just because I felt like they were at a length I liked. So instead of having one silly looking nail, I had to cut them all. So back to square one. However, I told my coworker that there will be revenge. And it will be epic. Then I told her that she did it just because she wanted my hands to look like sawed off mitts like hers. Oops. That was mean. I guess we're even now?

Anyway, back to this polish. It went on smooth and this is two coats + Seche Vite. I also wanted to use my new nail art polish and I did a design on my middle finger on both hands. It was late at night and I knew I had to get to sleep, but I wanted to do something to this manicure.

Happy Friday everybody :-),
Lachelle

Nail Polish Finds-LA Colors

Today, I stumbled upon a dusty treasure chest of awesome nail polish. Let me tell you about it! Okay, I checked my e-mail at work today and saw that I had spent 25 dollars at Sally Beauty Supply in May so they sent me a coupon for 15% off my entire purchase. Cool, so then the plan would be to go there after work and get one polish. When I got home after work, I decided to take a short 30 minute nap :-) and then go to Sally's. After waking up and getting on the road, I decided to stop by the Drug Emporium which was in the same shopping center. Wow, I'm glad I never stepped foot inside Sally's because this place hit me upside the head with their selection! It looks like a innocent, old dusty little grocery/drug store but when I found their "professional nail care" aisle I had to stifle a shout of joy. Old (I'm talking Chicago collection) and new collections of OPI, including that Colorama one, China Glaze, Orly, CND nail treatments, Seche Vite, Sally Hansen, NYX and LA Colors....and I'm probably still leaving out some stuff. And all of it is fairly cheap! I got three polishes from LA Colors for 99 cents apiece, those LA Colors nail art polishes I have been wanting forever for 1.71 and some cuticle sticks. All for the price of one polish at Sally's. My total was 5.71! I'm heading back to that place soon, what I got was just the tip of the iceberg hopefully.