Cosmetic Cupcake Pink For October Giveaway!

A lovely blog that I follow Cosmetic Cupcake is having a giveaway. She hosts an annual giveaway in October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. To enter click here, and here's a look at what you have a chance of winning...

H&M Hello Kitty Corall Summer

Good Morning Babes and happy Saturday! Today I have Corall Summer for you from the Hello Kitty Collection by H&M. I have been lemming for this for months and recently got it in a swap :) . Corall Summer is a dusty blue with just a teeny tiny splash of teal cream polish. An absolutely amazing formula that dries fast to a nice shiny finish. In these pictures I used 2 coats to reach opacity, and no top coat.

And just to add a little bit of fun I added 2 coats of Revlon's Blue Mosaic from the Limited Edition Expressionists Collection, and INM Out the Door as my top coat. Blue Mosaic has a clear base packed with small blue, silver hexi, green hexi, and blue hexi glitter.

I absolutely love this polish, and it looks much better in person! What do you think of Corall Summer and Blue Mosaic? I also changed around the way my page looks, I wanted something simpler as far as color scheme. Like? Thanks for stopping by :)


Kisses
Marketta

NICKI MINAJ IS GETTING HER VERY OWN OPI COLLECTION!

*GASP* I LOVE NICKI MINAJ! So you can imagine how crazy I'm going that she's getting her own collection with one of my favorite polish brands! I love seeing my sistas doing big things :) . The collection by OPI and is slated to hit shelves in early 2012! Check out what I'm going to get my hands on the very first day! :)

Edit: So apparently people were just running around trying to throw something together in excitement and had a few wrong pictures and names, but I went to OPI's fb page and here are the real colors below the picture of Nicki.

 L-R: Super Bass (Shatter), Metallic 4 Life, Save Me, Fly, Did It On Em, Pink Friday.

I'M GETTING ALL OF THEM! Are you as excited as I am about this collection, I LOVE NICKI! I'm especially excited about Save Me, doesn't it look like fun in a bottle?! Metallic 4 Life, Save Me and Pink Friday look pretty fun to!


Note: I got the picture and official names from OPI's fb page.


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Marketta

OPI He's My Boo

Good Morning Babes! Today I have OPI He's My Boo for today's mani. Yesterday was just a horrible swatch session, so I threw this on because I couldn't get it right. I will definitely have to make up for that today. He's My Boo is from the Spookettes mini collection, its your regular standard orange tone. This polish is a cream but the formula is very streaky and didn't even out until 3 coats. Dry time was ok but not the best, however it dried to a very glossy finish. I used a pumpkin water decal that came in the set, Nubar 2010 (this polish is thick, try very thin coats) just to see how it would look, Seche, and then I mattified it. It was very thick because I did a lot but I said I would post whether I like it or not because I'm learning as I go, so here's how it came out...


My decal has a wrinkle in it :(



With Nubar 2010



Mattified and I bumped my ring and pinkie finger

 It looked better before 2010 and matte. Eh bleh hopefully lovely things come to me when I swatch today. How do you like He's My Boo and what I experimented with it? Thanks for stopping by


Kisses
Marketta

Pumpkin Patch Manicure

Good Morning Babes :) ! This past Sunday we went to the pumpkin patch and had so much fun that I wanted to start off my Halloween mani's with something fall but still Halloween. There were pumpkins all over the place and leaves all over the ground, it was just all so pretty. I used all Bettina: Art Deco Brown, Nature Trees, Resort Sunrise, Resort Starfish, and Metallic Copper. I stamped with BM 210 and BM 224 using Konad special black polish, with Seche as my top coat. Art Deco Brown is what I used as my base, the formula is AMAZING, only took one coat to reach opacity, and dried super fast. Then I sponged (using a piece of makeup sponge) orange, yellow and green in no specific order and I didn't care if they were the exact same, I actually wanted each nail to look a little different. I used plate 210 with copper, then stamped slightly to the side using black for all fingers except for my ring/accent finger. On my ring/accent finger I used plate 224 and black. Here's how it turned out...


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And just for fun I used Essie Matte About You to see how it looked mattified. Love It!

Here's a swatch of Art Deco Brown on its own. As you can see there's a raindrop on my index finger lol, it was starting to rain but I was determined to get at least one decent picture. Below are the colors used and the pumpkin that my little monster picked out.

How do you like my pumpkin patch manicure? I think it came out ok for my first sponging attempt :) Thanks for stopping by ;-)~


Kisses

Marketta

Lovely Little Things Giveaway

Lovely Little Things is having a giveaway, click here to enter. There will be 2 winners for this giveaway, and here's what you have the chance to win:

Pink Wednesday Candy Manicure

Good Morning Babes! I wanted to do something cute with a pop for today's Pink Wednesday, so I chose a candy mani that I kept going back to look at over the past couple of months. I finally did it when I realized that I actually have the same exact colors, so for my first I'm going to play it safe and try someone else's before I get creative on my own :) (I have plenty of creams, glitters, and jellies). I saw this idea here on Tara over at Nails in Nippon blog and I immediately fell in love. I used 1 coat of OPI Sparrow Me The Drama, 2 coats of OPI Teenage Dream, 1 coat of OPI Guy Meets Gal-veston, and Seche as my top coat. With base and Seche that's 5 coats, so be patient with drying even with Seche. They jelly definitely seals the deal, but it does look pretty before the jelly :)  Here's how it turned out for me:


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With flash



No flash



Inside with no flash

 If you look at the originator post you will see that it looks completely different on a different skin tones. I loved this and I didn't want to take it off, so I will definitely be re-doing this on a fun weekend :)  What do you think of how this candy manicure came out on me? Thanks for stopping by!


Kisses
Marketta