Glitter Tips and Striping Tape

Happy Monday!

I've been itching lately to do a striping tape manicure, but I never seem to have the patience for it. But, today I desperately needed a mani pick me up, so it seemed like the perfect time to use it.

I opted for glitter tips, and one striping tape accent nail.  On every nail except for my ring finger, I sponged on Butter London West End Wonderland over my weekend mani of OPI Suzi Loves Cowboys. WNW is a major topcoat eater, so I followed it with 2 coats of Poshe.
 On my ring finger, I used Julep Zelda, which came in this months Julep Maven box.  Zelda is described as a pink champagne foil, and covered SLC in just one coat.

My cuticles are looking pretty awful, I'll have to tackle them tomorrow when I do my weekly maintenance.  They always seem to get like this whenever I begin to use Nail Envy again, I need to be a little bit more careful and avoid getting it on my cuticles. 

Butter LONDON order from Coterie

Hey Guys! Thanks to the lovely ladies over at PAA, for letting me know about this deal, I got 3 Butter LONDON polishes, and a topcoat for only $11! GURL I don't even... I love Butter LONDON, but I don't like shelling out $14 a bottle.  When I saw this deal I almost died.

Here's the three I picked out.

All Hail The Queen. I'm not as big as a fan of this as I thought I would be.  In the sun OH MY...you can see the holo-y goodness. Indoors, it's not that spectacular. Maybe with a coat of spectraflair, I'd like it better.  Formula was great, two coats.

Bluey.  This one was a little sheer, so I used three coats for it to become fully opaque.  Bluey is stunning. 

I love the little blue sparklies that come out in the sun.

And here's West End Wonderland.  Beautiful gold with some copper glitter.  Typical glitter formula, dried very quickly, and a definite topcoat eater.


So there's my Coterie order in a nutshell.  I'm not exactly sure how I'm feeling about the Hardwear P.D. Quick Topcoat.  I'll just have to see when I use it for a full manicure.  If I don't like it then at least I didn't spend $18 on it.  Which to be honest I can't see why anyone would spend that much. My go to topcoat cost's $1.74 at target and dries after on me than Seshe Vite did.

I hope you guys have an amazing day!

Pastel Challenge!

I started a new challenge that *hopefully* I actually can keep up with! Day #1 was pastels, lately I've really wanted to do a skittles mani so pastel skittles it is! I love all of the polishes used in this it looks super Eastery too!

I used ChG Lemon Fizz, Butter LONDON Teddy Girl, Hard Candy Sky and Revlon Minted and Lilac Pastelle.

Teddy Girl

I don't think cuticles could get any worse! It hasn't been that cold in Chicago at all, but my hands are still just so dry and disgusting.  Oh well, what can I do.  I've been using olive oil for my cuticles, and every single hand cream I could get my dry grubby hands on and still no luck.  Anyways, here's my attempt at tiny nubbin nail art.  I was going to do more polka dots, and then we got a call saying my brother came home and I lost all interest in any more polka dots! I used Butter London's Teddy Girl, and for the dots OPI Big Hair...Big Nails and Ya'll Come Back Ya Hear. 

Car Manicures

I needed to do my nails badly.  So I brought along my lap desk and my box of nail care staples to go apple picking in Michigan with my family and some family friends. This year has officially been the 18th annual apple picking for us!  The ride was about 2 hours long and for almost the entire way I did a striped tape manicure using Butter LONDON Wallis and Suzi loves Cowboys by OPI.  I've been in love with SLC since I got it.  It's the perfect chocolatey brown color, and on a more conceited note it matches my eyes almost perfectly! Wallis is currently my favorite military-ish green color that's in my stash, so I thought the combo would be perfect together.
I originally thought I'd be able to take a picture while I was out in the orchard, but I was became busy eating apples, stepping on the rotten ones of the ground, throwing said squished rotten apples at my twin, and climbing trees so unfortunately, this is a very badly taken cell phone picture and I do apologize. 

I also apologize for the state of my nails! They need to be shaped, and my cuticles need some lovin'! I've been covered almost every day in a special disinfectant to get rid of MRSA, which I spray over everything, helmets, shoulder pads, tables, wrist bands, and the footballs themselves.  I should probably try using gloves when I'm disinfecting. 
I hope you all have a great week!