Happy 4th of July! Patriotic Mani

Hey guys! Happy Fourth of July!
Not super happy with how my mani turned out, kinda messy D:

Shout out to my girl Karin from http://www.rinsnailfiles.com/!
Happy birthday sweetie!! <3 <3

Not sure why they look grungy probably from lotion, oops :P
Plus I didn't clean it up too nicely (Ambien kicked in last night lols!)

Index: I started with two coats of Zoya-Purity, then taped my nail with scotch tape to make the square with Essence-Just Rock It . I made the stripes with the red Sinful Colors striper. Dotting tool for the dots/"stars".
Middle: Base coat is one coat of Zoya-Sooki, used scotch tape to make "Fireworks" (failed haha) I used Zoya-Trixie, and then Essence-Just Rock it again.
Ring: Zoya-Purity, Zoya-Trixie, Essence-Just Rock It & Milani-Sail Away. I used a black striper to outline it.
I added some glitter from the cupcake from Milani- Red (584) and Lynnderella-Bibbity Boppity Boo Blue.
Pinky: Base Zoya-Purity, Zoya-Sooki and Sally Hansen-Co-Bolt Blue stamped with Bundle Monster Plate BM 301 (Sooki) & Cheeky Plate CH 04.

Whew! A lot! lol

I hope you guys are having a wonderful Wednesday!
<3 Sarah!

Black and White Stamping Mani

Happy Sunday!
This mani didn't come out perfect, haha but it's okay!
I used Milani-White on the Spot for the base & Wet n Wild-Black Creme to stamp!

     
As for the stamping, here are the plate images I used!
(R-L) From DRK-A Plate, Cheeky CH15, BundleMonster B10

:) Have a good day guys!

Stamped Rainbow Water Color Mani! Cheeky plate CH16

Hey guys! I wanted to do something colorful! I couldn't choose just a color or so :) So I used a BUNCH!
The stamping wasn't sticking much to my nails, so I added a coat of China Glaze Adhesion Base Coat and it worked MUCH better! Unfortunately I didn't think to do that until the left hand : ( Still came out pretty good!
Reminds me of Tye Dye! For this mani I used the watercolor technique!

The colors I used are
Yellow:  Happy Go Lucky
Green: China Glaze-Gaga for Green
Blue: Nubar-Blueberry
Aqua: China Glaze-Aquadelic
Purple: China Glaze-Gothica Lolita
Pinks: OPI-Kiss Me On My Tulips & China Glaze-Dance Baby

Orange: OPI- A Roll In The Hague
Red: Milani-Rapid Cherry
White: Milani-White on the Spot (Base color)

 

Hope you all love it! Sorry about the lack of cleanup!! It's not too horrible though, I didn't clean it and whatever came off in the bath is all I did haha! I had to get up early the next day! (Yesterday)

-Sarah <3

New 2012 Milani Nail Lacquer shades Part 1!

Hey guys! Today's post is of some of the new 2012 Milani polish shades!

But if these aren't you're cup of tea don't worry there are many more posts to come! ;)

 & for swatches!

 

Three Coats of Milani-Silver Stilettos. This can completely be opaque with two coats (You'll see later)
This reminded me a lot of Zoya-Trixie, it isn't just Metallic it is shimmery too like Trixie is.

 

This is Milani-Signature Gold, I used two coats and they went on super smooth. It's a bit brush-strokey but that doesn't really bother me. I don't have many golds so I'm really happy to have this one enter my collection!

  

Milani-Teddy Brown, again two coats! I love these kind of colors kind of taupe-y grey's.
If you can't tell by the photo this one went on smooth and wonderful too! Great formula!!

 

I think this is my favorite of this bunch..I don't have many shimmer free browns and I love the darkness and richness of Milani-Dark Coffee. (As well as the name since I LOVE coffee!) But what it really reminds me of it chocolate! When I put it on (again 2 coats and fantastic formula) it looked like melt-y dark chocolate! I seriously wanted to lick it LOL Maybe that is just the foodie in me but man, it's making me craze some just looking at it!

Before I took off Teddy Brown I decided to try a little nail art! I knew people would be wondering if or how well the metallic shades stamp! It didn't stamp perfect but I 100% blame that on myself and I think these are great for stamping! I'm just slow with full nail stamps and aligning them : /
But first I stamped with Cheeky plate CH8 then I used a striping brush to make a stripe of Dark Coffee down the center of my nail. Followed by using a small dotting tool with the other three colors along the line.

 

 I wanted to do a really quick comparison of Trixie and Silver Stilettos, just on a nail wheel but here you go! 

 

 Zoya-Trixie is on the right, Milani-Silver Stilettos, left. (Two coats of each)
They aren't 100% dupes, Trixie is more shimmery and they aren't the same *exact* shade.
But if you want an awesome silver similar for a drugstore price I definitely recommend this one!

You can Purchase Milani products from http://www.milanicosmetics.com/
For $4.99 each, or from Drugstores such as Walgreens, CVS, etc
Which often do deals for BOGO's so I highly recommend picking up some Milani's if for some reason you haven't already!

I hope you all have a fantastic day! <3
-Sarah!

The Milani polishes above were sent to me for the purpose of a 100% honest unbiased review.