Rainbow Fish Scale Gradient with Zoya Island Fun

Purchased by Shelby Lou
Press Sample 

Fall polishes are already starting to pop up everywhere, including Zoya's! I love fall, really, but summer barely got started here in Buffalo. So I decided to buck the system and do a completely summery mani with my summer Zoyas.

Shelby Lou Nails
Rainbow Fish Scale Gradient
Zoya Chantal, Demetria, Jace, Cecilia, & Talia
Love, Angeline Stuck On Love Nail Vinyls
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I started with a base of Zoya Chantal, one of my favorite nude polishes for my skintone. It's nice and bright without being too yellow on me. I wore this as a base for a few days and got great wear from it.

Shelby Lou Nails
Rainbow Fish Scale Gradient
Zoya Chantal, Demetria, Jace, Cecilia, & Talia
Love, Angeline Stuck On Love Nail Vinyls
(with flash)

I used Love, Angeline Stuck On Love Nail Vinyls for my fishy scales. I snipped the sides in a couple places and used a liquid latex barrier to protect my cuticles. I sponged a gradient of Zoya cremes from the Island Fun collection in Demetria (a red-orange creme), Jace (green), Cecilia (Teal), and Talia (blue). I only had to do three passes with my make-up sponge for this super-saturated coverage. I know I received these cremes as samples, but seriously, the more I use Zoya for nail art the more I love Zoya's formulas.

Products:
Zoya Summer 2015
Love, Angeline Stuck On Love Nail Vinyls

Are you ready for fall polish or still clinging to summer like me? I might still rock some summer colors into September, but can still legally start eating pumpkin-everything and watching Hocus Pocus. Have you loved your cuticles today?

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

While I am not Irish I still enjoy decorating my nails for St. Patrick's Day! My husband is 1/4 Irish from his mom. He randomly gets red hairs in his beard, which is extra weird because he is very dark skinned with black hair haha. I also believe St. Patrick's Day was around the time my husband and I dated for the first time way back in 2005 (holy crap we are old) because I remember it being a stupid date for an anniversary. Anyway, here are some St. Patrick's Day polishes I acquired this year and wore from late last week until today!

Shelby Lou Nails
Pahlish Fields of Gold
Multiple tones of golden flakes, gorgeous!

Shelby Lou Nails
Pahlish Fields of Gold
Check out that holo!

Shelby Lou Nails

Contrary Polish Shamrock & Roll

*This is not color accurate. Bottom picture is closer but not quite

Shelby Lou Nails
Contrary Polish Shamrock & Roll
Just a hint of VNL at 4 thin coats, not noticeable in real life.
*Not color accurate, the color near the moon of my index finger is closest.

Shelby Lou Nails
Renaissance Cosmetics Prototype 71
Shamrock from Love, Angeline
I adore this microglittered crelly!

Shelby Lou Nails
Renaissance Cosmetics Prototype 71
You can see the hint of shimmer in this picture, love it!

What is on your nails for St. Patrick's Day today? Don't get pinched!

Have you loved your cuticles today?

HPBloggers Presents: St. Patrick's Day Dotticure

Purchased By Shelby Lou

I am getting a holiday mani up before the holiday, go me! I love green polishes and my new edition of OPI Damone Roberts 1968 was begging to be worn last week. This was recently re-released and I almost missed out. Luckily my nail gal @joyrserio somehow knew I would be a failure and picked up an extra for me. You have to help your girls out in this life!

Shelby Lou Nails
St. Patrick's Day Dotticure
OPI Damone Roberts 1968
Rica Whiteout, & Love Angeline Decal

For this festive mani I started with a base of OPI Damone Roberts 1968. I suck at dotticures and apparently I can't stamp them either... I used a tiny dot image from MoYou London but my dots didn't stamp too well. So I took a small dotting tool and redid all of them with Rica Whiteout. At first I thought I was clearly being anal-retentive, but it ended up being a genius guide to do perfectly-spaced dots! I will be trying that again. I also stuck on a Love, Angeline shamrock that I picked up last year and never used. I wish it stood out more, but I still like it.

Shelby Lou Nails
St. Patrick's Day Dotticure
OPI Damone Roberts 1968
Rica Whiteout, & Love Angeline Decal

No, I'm not Irish. At least not a lot. But any excuse to wear green! Make sure you check out some of the other lovely manis from the Hobby Polish Bloggers.

Have you loved your cuticles today?

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Zoya Dillon with Love, Angeline Nail Shields

Yesterday (Sunday) I helped host one of my best friend's bridal shower. It was one of the best I've been to! Maybe because I'm in the wedding party? I am her Matron of Honor. The big day is June 1st which is just before my three-year wedding anniversary. I'm basically reliving my big year in 2011 hehe. I'm still trying to figure out what I want for my nails and I think she is letting me do hers. I think she should do a funky french with a pale purple tip or just straight up wear Picture Polish Majesty. We shall see, anyway here is what I did today!

Zoya Dillon is one of those shades that I fall for every. single. time. It is described by Zoya as "a mint green metallic with silver shimmer." The accent nail is a base of KBShimmer A Touch Of Glass and a Love, Angeline Stuck On Love Nail Shield in Mermaid Scales with one generous coat of Dillon over the top. I sealed it all with CND Air Dry for a shiny finish.

Zoya Dillon
Accent of KBShimmer A Touch Of Glass, &
Love, Angeline Nail Shield in Mermaid Scales

Dillon had a perfect formula--I expect no less, Zoya! I didn't have to do much clean-up, which is good because this has major sparkle herpes potential. I removed it with the tin-foil method to be on the safe side. A Touch Of Glass was also good. I used two coats and had enough coverage for nail art, if I wore it alone I'd probably do three.

Zoya Dillon
Accent of KBShimmer A Touch Of Glass, &
Love, Angeline Nail Shield in Mermaid Scales

Whenever I use something new for the first time I only do an accent nail. This keeps me from feeling overwhelmed haha. I've never used Stuck On Love Nail Shields before but I have to say they were amazing! I re-stuck it a few times while I got the hang of it and it still worked perfectly. I have really curvy nails and found that lining up the pattern on top of your nail then smoothing it down from the middle out worked best. I used only half of a nail shield for my accent nail (preserve all the nail shields!). You do have to "weed" them out yourself but only a few of the scales stuck and I used pointed tweezers to get them out no problem.

Overall I am so pleased with this mani! What's a color that gets you every time? Have you rocked a mermaid look yet?

Products:
Zoya
Love, Angeline
KBShimmer

Have you loved your cuticles today?

Happy Valentine's... weekend? With Love, Angeline

I am using the weekend for my Valentine's Day manis because I am a failure during the week. What did my husband and I do for Valentine's Day? Ordered in and watched House Of Cards. Anyone a fan here? All I have to say is WTFFF HOUSE OF CARDS.

I digress, on to the polish!

Love, Angeline is a lovely indie polish company that turned just one year old on Valentine's Day. She is having a Birthday-Versary celebration so make sure you check out her facebook page for all kinds of promos. A new blogger collection was just released plus all the classics are available.

Love, Angeline
Pass Me The Sweet Hearts

Here is Love, Angeline Pass Me The Sweet Hearts, a white jelly with pastel glitters and hearts. I did some placing with a couple of the hearts but for the most part this is how it comes out of the bottle. I did a thin basecoat of Essie Marshmallow and two coats PMTSH. Accent nail is OPI Pink Friday with a couple white studs. I topped the whole thing off with two thick coats of KBShimmer Clearly On Top.

Love, Angeline
Pass Me The Sweet Hearts

PMTSH is so delicate and perfect. Love, Angeline's formula is to die for--I've already collected a few of her jellies and I can't get enough. Polish-making is an art and some indies just have it down from the very beginning. I expect big things from Love, Angeline!

Love, Angeline
Pass Me The Sweet Hearts

Products:
Love, Angeline

Have you loved your cuticles today?

It Starts: Valentine's Day Mani with Love, Angeline & Vivid Lacquer

It's time for Valentine's Day manis! I love enjoying pinks when the doldrums of winter start to set in--where I'm from it's been known to snow in April. My husband and I never really celebrate this holiday. First of all, we are usually working. Cats would eat our flowers, at the very least knock them over and make a mess. We used to do cards but I've banned those this year because they are just way too freakin' expensive. Would it be wrong to order in and watch Shameless? Clearly I am not the romantic one in this relationship teehee.

So here's what I wore today!

Love, Angeline Ta-da!
Butter London Trout Pout accent with image from Vivid Lacquer 009

White Base: Cult Nails Tempest
White Crelly: Love, Angeline Ta-da!
Accent Nail: Butter London Trout Pout with image from Vivid Lacquer VL 009 stamped with Konad Special White

Love, Angeline is a new-to-me indie, and I might be in love. Ta-da! is a perfect white crelly with pink and gray glitters in a variety of size, shapes, and finishes. I did a little fishing and dabbing, which I figured I would need to do so I used a base of one coat Cult Nails Tempest (a great one-coater white for undies). I topped it off with two thick coats of KBShimmer Clearly On Top for a glassy smooth finish. I have one other Love, Angeline polish to try right now but I'm sure it won't be my last!

You already know how much I love Vivid Lacquer. When stamping a fine line image like this I paint the whole image with the polish to make sure it's all filled in.

Selected Products:
Love, Angeline
Vivid Lacquer

Have you loved your cuticles today?