Dollish Polish Expecto Patronum Black Roses

I love contrast in nail looks. It's fun to do and fun to look at.

For today, I took the delicateness of Dollish Polish Expecto Patronum and switched it up a bit by stamping a black rose design over top.

I have owned my bottle of Expecto Patronum since 2012! The formula is still great though, and fortunately for you Dolly still makes this polish.

Halloween Nails 2018: Zombie

For today's Halloween manicure, I went on the slightly gory side.

For my base, I used Dollish Polish Zombie Flesh. I first picked up this polish back in summer 2012. It still is as great of a polish years later.

Next I added red strips down my nails to represent blood. I used a red jelly polish here so it would seem more blood like.

Finally I added some black stitches. They don't have to be perfect :) I topped it all off with a fast dry top coat of course.

Green Mani March: Day 2

Welcome to day 2 of my green mani theme for March.

I love doing skittles style manis. I tend to stick to simpler skittles designs which means they are usually pretty fast to do. They also use quite a few polishes which is great because I don't like having untrieds (it spikes my anxiety!) plus I can feature a couple at a time which is especially great for larger collections!

Today's mani features 3 green polishes (and 1 non-green polish).

For this mani, I used Barry M Black Pistachio, China Glaze Re-fresh Mint, and Dollish Polish 1-Up.

Barry M Black Pistachio is a very dark green polish. It looks almost black, especially in my photos since I took them on a cloudy day.

China Glaze Re-fresh Mint is a super light, dusty mint green. I was expecting 3 coats, but it went on in just 2!

Dollish Polish 1-Up is, I believe, discontinued. It's most green hex glitters with some white matte hex glitters and white matte bar glitter. Any other glitter polish would work with this look as well. This mani is a great way to feature any glitter polish you have.

Space-y Blue Skittles with MoYou London

What's that? Skittles in the title again! Well, at least I tried to get creative with the first half ;)

This mani is sort of a combination of a few different things: wanting to use and feature Dollish Polish Expecto Patronum again as well as wanting to use some more of my new MoYou London images.

 

I started with a base of Dollish Polish Expecto Pantronum first. I used 2-3 coats.

To jazz it up a bit, I freehanded some tips using Barry M Silver Foil and added on some square blue rhinestones.

The images are stamped with Barry M Silver Foil as well and are from MoYou Sci-Fi 03. It's such a cute plate!!!! See????

(Image courtesy of MoYou London)

I love all of the images on there and need to find some time to play around with them. Advanced stamping, on top of galaxy nails, oh the possibilities!!!!

Springy yellow gradient

I've had the idea for this mani floating around for a while. I just haven't gotten around to it, but since it's finally spring (even though we got snow overnight....) I thought I'd finally do it!

I did a base of Illamasqua Load on all my nails. On the ring and thumb, I added one good coat of Dollish Polish Hylian Princess. I REALLY loved the mani at this point. Not that I don't love the outcome, but I just loved that so much more. I may end up sporting that some time soon.

Anyways, then I did a gradient of Zoya Pippa over that and stamped using a Bundle Monster plate (bad blogger! I'll put the name later) and Konad White. The flowers are super subtle and honestly the gradient looked better with out them.

Dollish Polish Zombie Flesh with gold leaves

I'm participating in a nail art challenge on Instagram and today's theme is gold. I used a base of Dollish Polish Zombie Flesh and stamped some leaves using Barry M Gold Foil.

Happy 4th of July!!!

Happy 4th of July to everyone! And Happy Independence Day to those of us living in the States!

Our town is celebrating with a parade and fireworks on Saturday so nothing too exciting planned here. I am going to finally put together our grill, and we're going to have chicken and veggie kebabs for dinner, yum!

What are your plans?

For today's mani, I started with a base of Zoya Phoebe. The formula is a bit thin, so I needed 3-4 coats. Fortunately, it's a matte polish so it dried super fast!

On my index and middle fingers, I added Dollish Polish It's A Me Mario! I used two coats and had to dig for the stars.

Enjoy your holiday today!!!!!!

Spring Daisies

I decided to add some nail art on top of Zoya Pippa.  Normally, I do my thumb and ring finger as accents, but I decided to mix it up a bit for this mani.

I love flowery manis, but I haven't done any yet this year! (At least I don't think so....) Pippa is such a perfect spring color so I knew flowers would look great over top.

I used a small dotting tool and added the white petals first using Wet N Wild French White Creme. Then I went back over top and added a dot of Zoya Pippa to bring it together. I tried to make some of the flowers off center, but I'm not sure if I quite like how that looks.

On my other fingers, I knew I wanted to add some glitter so I searched around in my stash until I found the perfect one: Dollish Polish The Koopa King. I painted one coat on my other nails. I love how the yellow and orange and green glitters in the polish add to the flowery feel of this mani.

31 Day Challenge, Part 2!: Day 2, Orange Nails

Every time I look on my Facebook feed, it seems like a new friend is getting sick! And my friends live all over the United States. These colds that are going around seem pretty nasty too. I've been trying my best to stay healthy so I don't get sick and that includes getting plenty of Vitamin C by drinking juice and eating clementines, yum!

This orange mani is inspired by all the juice I've been drinking! My base coat is Zoya Arizona. I love this orange, but it takes so many coats to be completely opaque that it makes me sad :(

I stamped on the oranges using Konad White Polish and plates BM04 and BM308. I haven't stamped in a while so it isn't quite as neat as I would like it.

I finished with one coat of Dollish Polish 1-Up to represent the green leaves and white pith of oranges. I love love love the combo of 1-Up with orange polish and I'm sad I have to take it off :(

I took a close-up with my macro lens so you can see the prettiness of 1-Up.

Here are some more orange manis for you to enjoy.

Top Polishes of 2012

Several bloggers have been doing lists of their favorites polishes/manis/products. It seems the end of the year always brings these best of or countdown lists. Well, I decided to do my own! It was so fun reviewing through my blog posts and seeing the awesome manis I did over the past year.

I've decided to bring my list up into two different posts: one with just my top polishes and another with the top nail art designs I did.

For today, I have my top polishes of 2012. These aren't polishes that necessarily came out this year, just polishes that I collected this year. I tried to narrow it down to 10 but couldn't quite do it. So here they are in no particular order, my top polishes of 2012!

Candeo Colors Sprouse: A perfect blend of black, silver, and white glitter, a hint of blue, and silver microshimmer. It applies beautifully with no need to dig out or place glitter.

Zoya Isla & Dollish Polish It's A Me Mario!: This is a two-fer! Zoya knows how to do red polish, and Isla is no exception! Dollish Polish really hit the scene this year with her amazing polishes, especially her glitters. The Mario collection was super popular, and you can really see why here!

Zoya Phoebe: Phoebe is stunning neon blue matte polish. I'm a sucker for matte polishes, and this neon one makes it super fun.

Dollish Polish Expecto Patronum: I couldn't help putting another Dollish Polish on this list! I love these milky white polish bases with glitter. Expecto Patronum is jam packed with tons of teal/aqua glitter.

Candeo Colors Jellybean: And another Candeo Colors!!! This one is based on the same concept as the milky base with glitter, except it's a milky light yellow with glitter.

OPI Chop-sticking To My Story & Dollish Polish The Koopa King: Here's another two-fer and another Dollish Polish (I told you it was her year!). Part of the reason why I choose this mani is not just for the color but the combination of colors. Both polishes play of each other nicely without one dominating the other.

Enchanted Polish Across the Universe: I don't even know what to say about this polish! Holo, color shifting, and named after a Beatles song, drool!

 Smitten Polish EMERAHGERD CANDY CORMS: I really am obsessed with these milky bases. This time we have another white with candy corn colored glitter.

Nicole by OPI Khloe Had a Lam-Lam: My favorite polish of all time. Hands down. I love green, dark colors, and dusky tones. This polish has it all including a great formula. If only it wasn't that weird Nicole by OPI bottle...

ManGlaze Santorum: I bought this color on the suggestion of a friend, and I'm so glad I did. ManGlaze makes the best matte polishes around. Santorum while being a totally gross name is beautiful dark brown matte polish with tons of micro shimmer. Try this one topcoated. Seriously.

Dollish Polish Dino-mite Yoshi

For my final Dollish Polish to show you, I have Dino-mite Yoshi.  I layered 2-ish coats over OPI The "It" Color. As usual, the formula for this Dollish Polish was great.

Dollish Polish The Hero of Time

Today I have the other half of the Legends of Zelda Duo from Dollish Polish.  You can see Hylian Princess here.

I put The Hero of Time over Nina Ultra Pro Mossy Britches.

Dollish Polish 1-Up

A while back, I managed to get quite a few Dollish Polish polishes. I love them all. I've already shown you all quite a few during the 31 day challenge, but I want to show you the rest.

For today, I have Dollish Polish 1-Up.

I layered it over Ulta Encore Pink and Zoya Bevin. While I do like it over Bevin, I really LOVE it over Encore Pink.

I know I've said it before, but get yourself some Dollish Polish if you don't already have some. The formula is great and the glitters are easy to put on: no digging or dabbing with these babies.

Onto the photos!

31 Day Challenge: Day 24, Inspired by a book

Today's theme is Inspired By A Book.

Today inspiration comes from the Harry Potter book series, mostly because I wanted to use this awesome polish.  I used Dollish Polish Expecto Patronum for this mani.  First I applied one thin coat to lay down then foundation and then used 2 slightly thicker coats to build up color.  I LOVE the polish. I'm sad I have to take it off :(

I know I have featured quite a few Dollish Polish here during this challenge, but she does make amazing polishes. The formula is wonderful and the colors are unique. If you don't have any of her polishes, I recommend you get some.

Check out some other manis inspired by books below.

31 Day Challenge: Day 21, Inspired by a color

Today's theme is Inspired By A Color.

I love green polish. I don't wear a lot of green in real life, but I love it on my fingers. So of course for today's challenge I had to use a green polish. I kept it simple today.

I used my new Dollish Polish Zombie Flesh. I used 2 coats of it plus a normal top coat (Sally Hansen Insta-Dri to be exact). The polish dries fairly quickly and isn't gritty.

Check out other manis from today's challenge below.

31 Day Challenge: Day 14, Flowers

Today's theme is Flowers.

I am really excited for today's theme because there is a ton you can do with flowers! You can stamp, freehand, or use stickers. You can make them realistic or abstract, romantic or funky.

For today, I started with a base coat of 2 coats of China Glaze Light As Air and 1 coat of Dollish Polish Hylian Princess from the Legend of Zelda Duo.

The rest was freehanded. First I added the leaves which were done with OPI Don't Mess With OPI and highlighted with OPI Stranger Tides. Then I made a circle with the main flower color, Sinful Colors Amethyst. Finally, I highlighted the flowers with Rimmel Wild Orchid and then Rimmel Wild Orchid mixed with white.

Check out some other flower manis below.