Twin Nails - Purple Holo with Black Swirls

Hi guys! I teamed up with my actual twin sister (@tiranaki on IG) for "bestie twin nails" so I'm calling it "twin nails". After some back and forth we settled on "purple holo with black swirls". My nails are on the left and hers are on the right.

Pretty & Polished - Petal Pusher

Pretty & Polished is one of my favorite nail polish brands for lots of reasons. One of those is the fact that they really care about their community and will occasionally have special polishes whose profits go straight to help out local charities or people in need. Keeping in mind with that, they wanted to do something special for October, being Breast Cancer Awareness month, that went beyond simply donating money to a charity. They wanted to do something to help out actual patients. One of their loyal fans suggested the marvelous idea of putting together a care package box to hand out to chemo and radiation patients. I for one, love this idea. Not a lot of people know that chemo can destroy your nails, they might not fall out but they can become extremely brittle, and your skin becomes severely dry and sensitive. I know this because of my mom, I've talked about her breast cancer journey before. She's always painting her nails now and using cuticle oil because it really helps them not look as bad. In short, it helps to feel just a little pretty and polished when dealing with cancer. It might seem trivial to some, but in my experience, it lifts morale. And so the idea for the Cancer Care Package was born.

Bellaluna Cosmetics October Birthstone Polish

Hi guys! Today I have the new October polish in Bellaluna Cosmetics' Birthstone series. Every month, she releases a new polish inspired by that month's birthstone. October is Opal and the polish is called Fauxpal. Swatches and review below!

Pretty & Polished Fall Glitters - The Holos

Hi guys! Today I have part 3 of the Pretty & Polished Fall Glitters, The Holos. The Fall Glitters collection includes 3 holographic microglitters; Gussied Up Gold, a gold holo, I Can See Your Holo, a silver holo, and The Skies Are Falling, a blue holo. The three polishes had pretty much the same formula and dry time, so I'm going to mention it here instead of below the swatches like usual. Application and formula for these polishes is excellent, smooth and creamy. They dry in about 5 minutes with topcoat. Although they have a slight textured feel to them from all the microglitters, it's not gritty or bumpy and just one coat of regular topcoat smooths them out. These polishes don't cause any staining on skin or nails. The only word of caution is to be careful not to get any on your skin, or you will have to deal with all the glitter stuck on you during clean-up. Swatches are all 2 coats with topcoat for shine, since these dry to a demi-matte finish.

Pretty & Polished Fall Glitters - The Flakies

Hi guys! Today's post is part 2 of the Pretty & Polished Fall Glitters, the flakies; Don't Flake On Me and That's Crantastic. I have lots of pictures for these two, that's mainly why I have them in their own post.

Pretty & Polished Fall Glitters - The Crellies

Hi guys! I really excited for today's post. I have the entire upcoming collection from Pretty and Polished to show you! It's an 8 piece collection, I've spent about two weeks swatching and editing, and I ended up with 30 photos. Since that's way too many photos for one post, I'm breaking it up into 3 separate posts. The Fall Glitters consists of 8 polishes, 3 glitter crellies, 3 holo microglitters, 1 glitter flaky, and 1 thermal crelly with flakies. On today's post you'll see the crellies.

Floral Stamping with Bellaluna Cosmetics

Hi guys! As I showed in the Bellaluna Cosmetics fall collection swatch post, 4 of the 5 colors stamp really well. I had to do some stamping to show how they work. You can find the video tutorial below.

Fall Stamping Decal

Hi guys! Today I'm going to bring you the tutorial for the decal accent nail on my swatch of Near Dark from Bellaluna Cosmetics. I used all the colors from the collection as well as M Polish Elizabethan to stamp with. The image is from BP-48 and I used the jelly stamper from Chelle We Stamp. Scroll below for the video and step by step instructions.

Fall Water Marble Nail Art Tutorial

Hi guys! Today I have the first in a series of nail art tutorials I did using the new fall colors from Bellaluna Cosmetics. Below you'll find a video tutorial and the step by step instructions, enjoy!

Bellaluna Cosmetics Fall 2015 Swatches and Review

Hi guys! I didn't have a post last week but I'm making it up this week with a bunch of stuff! I have swatches and a review of the complete fall collection from Bellaluna Cosmetics, as well as video swatches. My next few posts will feature nail art and video tutorials using these gorgeous polishes. On to the swatches!