Beauty Blogazons Weekly Roundup - July 31, 2011

An experiment in frankening: Oxidized Copper Painted Pixies
Catrice Out of Space collection - swatches and review Nailderella Nails
Day Five Hundred and Thirty Four - Opi "It's MY Year" Daily Polish
Not Pink Wednesday at Midnight Manicures
China Glaze Tantalize Me Life and Polish
Candy Candy Candy I can't let you go Polish Pauper
Obnoxious Punktastic Nails Mad Manis
Blast from the past:  China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy! Polish Insomniac
Going From a Daytime to a Night time Look Royal Beauty Designs
My Favourite Crown Makeup Brushes Style Eyes
Deborah Lippmann It's Raining Men (My first Deborah Lippmann post!) Bookworm Nails
Napoleon Perdis Front Row Red Lipstick Review Addicted to All Things Pretty 
OCC Liptar-Hoochie Glitter.Gloss.Garbage

Catrice - Dirty Berry - Pic Heavy

This is one of my polishes that I recently received from my friend Kati in the Netherlands. It is one of Catrice's most popular colors, Dirty Berry #420. This is named perfectly, it's a dirty looking purple base with glitter. There are some scattered Holographic effects. My first Catrice and I'm in love. I've worn this polish 4-5 days now, Seche Clear base coat, 2 coats of color and Seche Vite top coat. I have no visible wear or chips. I'm looking forward to getting more Catrice polishes.

What do you think about this color? What Catrice color would you like to see next?

Barielle's Wrapped In Ribbon

Not Pink Wednesday! Deborah Lippmann's Fade To Black and Nfu-Oh #14

Today I was going to do a pink manicure for "On Wednesday's We Wear Pink", when a few friends suggested anything but Pink and a few said Black.  I do listen to what my followers and friends want to see, so today's mani is 2 coats of base, 2 coats of Deborah Lippmann's Fade to Black, 2 coats of Nfu-Oh #14 and 2 final coats of Seche Vite.  I used 2 coats of base coat to hopefully keep my nails from staining.  And I think you all know application of the 2 polishes are wonderful, I love both brands.  All the coats makes my nails a little thick, but I love that feel.  Anyway, lets just get to the pictures, you can click on them to enlarge them.  Excuse any little mistakes, I'm not use to applying really dark colors yet.

Yes, once again I stepped out of my box and I'm loving it!  What do you think about the colors and the combination of polishes?  What would you like to see me do next?  You can find a list of all the polishes I have on My Collection's page.  You can purchase Deborah Lippmann at www.deborahlippmann.com, high end retailers and online.  Nfu-Oh can be purchased from  http://www.fabuloustreet.com/ or from http://baldwinbeautysupplies.com/en/.

Beauty Blogazons Weekly Roundup - July 24, 2011

NOTD: Delicious Diamonds over Dull Duochrome (hehe) Drebel 

Re-Swatch: OPI DS Sapphire Life And Polish

LTHP shows us polishes with a great cause. Let Them Have Polish

Vintage Pink Lilly Pulitzer Print Nails: Bookworm Nails

Dr's Remedy Hot Hot Hot Summer Shades for Summer 2011 - Midnight Manicures

Blue Hydrangea by Nubar Nailderella Nails

Cotton Candy Skies Polish Pauper

Too Dupe or Not Too Dupe?  ChG Nova v. OPI Servin' Up Sparkle Polish Insomniac

How does Urban Decay's Meltdown hold up? Beauty Thesis

My Favourite Foundation Combo  Style Eyes

A-England: Avalon, King Arthur, Tristam Swatches & Review Nails and Noms

100 followers and a Giveaway! Painted Pixies

Make Up For Ever Giveaway Addicted To All Things Pretty

OPI Touring America Glitter.Gloss.Garbage

Fancy French Nail Designs - Guest Post by Tricia

Bringing you two Fancy French Nail Art Designs by Tricia of Tricia's Nail Artistry.


3D silver design:

1) Paint a french manicure

2) Add a silver smile line

3) Add some rhinestones (I used 1 large and 2 smaller) and 5 silver bullions

4) Finish with top coat. 

When using rhinestones or other larger decals, I would suggest using a small drop of glue to adhere it to the nail.

Here's another one.

1) Paint nail pink

2) Add white tip

3) Add rhinestone to form a smile line

4) Finish with top coat

This design is very easy to do and rhinestones can be substituted with any form of nail decals.

Smaller rhinestones looks amazing when done in this design.

What do you think about them?  Let Tricia know what other nail art designs you would like to see.

Dr's Remedy Hot Hot Hot Summer Shades 2011 *pic heavy*

Tonight, I am reviewing Dr's Remedy Hot Hot Hot Summer Shades for 2011.  There are 5 new shades this year.  Three shimmers and 2 creams.  With each polish, I started with a base coat and 2 or 3 coats depending on how opaque each polish was.  Application was easy.  I was very pleased with the odor or should I say lack of odor with these polishes.  I am very sensitive to smell and some ingredients and found Dr's Remedy very pleasant to work with.  On to the pictures, which can be clicked to enlarge.

BOLD Baby Blue:  an aqua-meets-turquoise 

take on every boy's favorite color.

NURTURE Nude Pink:  a delicate,

damsel-in-distress barely-there beautiful.

GLEE Gold:  a shimmer-infused

coin of perfection.

LOVELY Lavender:  a pale purple with

matte depth and charm.

TRANQUIL Tangerine:  a bold, but

wonderfully-wearable, slice of juicy delight.

Dr's Remedy is a line of doctor-inspired cosmetics that is dedicated to using clean, hypoallergenic ingredients.  Enriched with naturally occurring antifungal ingredients like tea tree oil, garlic bulb extract, vitamins C and E, and wheat protein.  Dr's Remedy Enriched Nail Polish is free from harsh toxins to promote healthier, stronger nails and the first-ever nail polish on the market approved by the American Podiatric Medical Association.

Dr's Remedy is available for $17 online at www.remedynails.com or by calling  1-877-323-NAIL.
Please go "like" their Facebook Page @ Dr.'s Remedy Enriched Nail Polish.

What do you think about this new collection?  What's your favorite color?

Summer Time Nail Art Mani - Guest Post from Karine of Nailderella

Hi there~

Summer has just begun and I wanted to do a mani to celebrate it!

To achieve this summer mani, I used Simply Smashing (OPI) as the base color. It's abright and shimmery yellow-green nail polish that was launched for the Australian Open and is part of the Serena Willliams collection. It has a foil metallic finish and is rather on the sheer side. So you have to use 3 coats to reach full opacitiy.The application was really good, flawless. It's really bright and you've got the impression it's glowing from the inside. 

I love this polish like crazy. When I first saw it either on swatches or even when I had the bottle in my hands, I believed I wouldn't really like it but when I had it on my nails, it was love! It's a very unusual color!

Simply Smashing (OPI), 3 coats, without top coat

Then, I used a make-up sponge to create a gradation using orange (Lana - Zoya) and red (Sarah - Zoya). I put some polish directly onto the sponge, sponged once or twice on a paper and then onto the nails.

Simply Smashing (OPI), sponged with Lana (Zoya) and Sarah (Zoya)

Finally, I took my Konad (M29) and BM (01) image plates to stamp pineapples, palm trees, suns and a "Aloha".

For the pineapples and the plam tree, I used Teas-y Does It (OPI) for the brown shade and 102 Catch Me (Klean Color).  For the red designs, I used Sarah (Zoya).

In order to achieve a bicolor stamping, I apply a green color on the leaves and a brown one on the fruit as shown underneath.

And here is the final result!!

I will also show you  my right hand because I did the same design but all in red and I liked it, too!

You can click on the pictures to enlarge them!

To see more of Karine's manicures, check them out at Nailderella.  Thank you so much Karine!

Nail Art - Red Ginger Flower - Guest Post by Bookworm

For my guest post I painted red ginger flowers on top of 2 coats of Essie's Mochacino. I have attached the photos of my nails and a picture of a red ginger flower so the readers can see what I was aiming for.

I hope you like it :)

Bookworm


You can find Bookworm's blog at http://bookworm-nails.blogspot.com.


What do you think about this mani?  Please let Bookworm know :)