Nail Polish Spotlight: Revlon Flirt and Julep Sienna

Hello hello everyone!  Today the spotlight is going to shine over one of my favorite combos for spring!

 Julep Sienna (a light gold metallic polish) and Revlon Flirt (a bright pinky purple creme polish)

Revlon Flirt is a gorgeous color but the application was a little patchy and it took three coats to reach full opacity.  Julep Sienna is gorgeous!!!  I absolutely love this gold and the application was flawless.  I only applied two coats to reach full opacity.

I've been loving accent nails for a while and love pairing cremes, metallics, and glitters together!  What are some of your favorite accent nail pairings?

Thanks for reading!
Crystal ❤

Indiana trip+ NOTW

I'm Back!!!! I had a wonderful time in Indiana, but I missed y'all so much!  My sister doesn't have Internet so I was Internet-less for a week, which was really hard!  Lol

First, I want to show a few pictures from my trip and later I'll show some pictures of my nails during the week!

This trip was very monumental to me.  Why?  Because it was my first time EVER on a plane!!  My family never travels by plane because of the cost and we've never had to travel anywhere that was farther than 12 hours away, yes we've drove 12 hours straight from my home in Texas to New Mexico!  I had mixed emotions about the trip, but I was excited to experience something new.  I'm deathly afraid of heights so for the first half of the trip I sat by the isle and didn't even think about looking out the window!  On our connecting flight I decided to sit by the window so I could take some pictures. 

I took this picture right after we left Chicago!  The view was so beautiful!!!

Click the "Read More" button to see more pictures from my trip and to see the polishes that I brought with me!

Nail Polish Spotlight: Revlon Whimsical

Hey guys!  I was looking through my pictures and found a bunch of photos of polishes that haven't made it onto the blog yet!  I hope to get all caught up soon, hopefully in the next few weeks!  : )

First, I want to let everyone know that the winner of my "Birthday Giveaway" was announced and she did contact me!  Congrats again Ashley A.!!!  I will send your prize out tomorrow or Monday! : )

Okay now onto this post!  Today the nail polish spotlight in going to shine over Revlon's Whimsical!

 I applied 4 coats of Whimsical over 1 coat of Sally Hansen's "White Out".

Revlon Whimsical is a sheer blue-grey polish with various sized blue, pink, and iridescent glitter.  When I first saw this polish in stores I wasn't really a big fan.  I could instantly tell that it was sheer and it wasn't worth $4 to me.  Later, once I got into nail polish community on Facebook, I find out that this polish was an exact dupe of Deborah Lippmann's "Glitter in the Air" and that it looked amazing over blue/teal polish.

I bought Whimsical while Revlon was on sale at my local grocery store and was still on the fence about it, but hey I only paid $2 for it so I wasn't complaining!  I tried wearing it by itself, which was an EPIC fail.  Then I decided to apply it over a white polish, which is what you see above.  The glitter did spread nicely, but I had an issue with the color being a little uneven.  Now I'm going to be honest, I don't like this polish!  I wore this mani for 3-4 days and it never grew on me.  I don't know if it's that fact that I had to apply a bazillion coats or if I just didn't like it over white.  Next time I think I'm going to wear it over a blue, pink, or purple polish and see if I like it better.

Here's a close up shot!  (Excuse my poor clean-up job.) 

Bottle Shot 

 B.K. says hi!!!

Do you guys have Whimsical?  If so, what is your favorite base color for this polish?  Tell in the comments below.

Thanks for reading!  Follow and share if you like!

Crystal <3

Nail Tutorial: Vintage Roses & Polka Dots + Giveaway sneak peek!

Hello everybody!!! Today I'm going to attempt a nail tutorial via blogger!  I usually do my nail tutorials on my youtube channel, CDesigns92, but my computer decided that it didn't want to work anymore! Any who, I'm going to show y'all how to create a cute vintage nail design with roses and polka dots!

The inspiration for this design came from a shirt that Kellster, Kellstermakeup on YouTube, was wearing in one of her videos, you can see it HERE.

Click the "Read More" button to see the tutorial for this vintage manicure!

June Nail Polish Haul + Swatches! (Picture Heavy post)

Hey y'all today I have a LOT of polish to show y'all!!!  Last month I went on a nail polish no-buy and "tried" to not buy any polish for the whole month!  Let's just say that lasted about three days, sad I know, but after my little fall to temptation I got right back on track and didn't buy anymore polish the rest of the month!

Let's get onto the polish shall we!!!!

Here are the polishes!!!

Click the "Read More" button to see all of these polishes up close and personal!

Nail Polish Spotlight!: Revlon Popular

Hello peeps!  Today the nail polish spotlight is going to shine a B-E-A-utiful Revlon polish!  What's her name you ask...well read the title! Lol I crack myself up! XD

Anyways, back to the polish.  Revlon's Popular is a light pale pink polish with mutli sized silver glitter.  I first heard about this polish when Revlon came out with I believe 50 new permanent polishes, Popular being one of them, earlier this year.  I saw it at my H-E-B and and thought ,"Why not they're on sale! You can't go wrong with sales!" (great logic right?)  I'll be honest, I wasn't too impressed with Popular once I swatched it, but when I did a full mani with it I fell in love!!!

Revlon Popular- 3 coats

I also love the way this polish looks matte!

This polish is just wonderful!!!  I thought that it was going to be sheer after I applied the first coat, but I was pleasantly surprised that it was completely opaque after threes coats.  You could apply a light pink polish as a base color if you don't want so many layers of glitter.  I love the way that the polish gives a "sandwiched" look to your manicure!  As far as wear ability goes, the polish did last a good 4 days before I had any chipping, but the polish did crack a little.

Overall, I think this is a beautiful polish and a must have for any pink polish lover!

Do you have this polish?  If so, what do you think about it?  Have a picture of a mani?  Post a picture on my facebook page!

Thanks for reading!

Crystal

Revlon Colorstay Nail polish review! (Wordy and Picture Heavy post)

Hello my fellow nail polish addicts!!!  Today I'm going to share my thoughts on Revlon's new Colorstay nail polish!  I've heard some mixed things about this polish, some people hate it and some people love it.  I was curious about this new line of polish because it claims to be like gel nails and are suppose to last 7 to 10 days without chipping.  I'll be completely honest, I didn't believe that claim one bit, but since I'm a sucker for polish I thought I would give it a chance and pick up a few colors.

From L to R:  Cayenne, Rich Raspberry, Bare Bones

You can watch my review of these polishes HERE!

Click the "Read More" button to see if this polish lives up to its claims!

Simple Spring Neutral/Neon Tape Nail Art

Hey guys!  Today I'm going to talk about a recent mani that I did the other day.  When I was looking through my pictures of nail designs I drew up, I wasn't really in the mood to do anything to detailed so I thought it was the perfect time to try out a tape mani that I saw on Pinterest (the most AWESOME site on the planet!)  The picture I saw used a black and nude polish, and it was cute and everything but I wanted to do something bright and Springy!

Ombre Mani 101: Tips and tricks

Hey y'all today I'm going to talk about a nail trend that has been all over Pinterest for a while.  I'm talking about Ombre manicures!  Surprisingly I just discovered this nail trend via Pinterest in February!  In this post, I'm going to talk about this trend and give you some tips and tricks to achieve an amazing ombre manicure on your own nails!