imPRESS Press-on Manicure! :)

Hey lovelies! :)

Today I'll be showing you one of the imPRESS Press-On Manicures! :) 

I actually got these for my birthday from my sister, I'd seen the ads for them in magazines and everything but hadn't tried them yet. I looove the design she got me, the colors and detail are so pretty! It's almost like a tie-dyed floral! :)

I also love that they come in this cute little case, my sister and I both thought it was just the packaging at first, but when you open it up its actually a little plastic case shaped like a nail polish bottle! So I can even re-use it for storage or travel with any of my other falsies once I've used these. So fun! :) 

The imPRESS Press-On Manicures are basically like most other press-on manis, but they're actually really good quality. 

The way it works is that they're basically falsies, except you don't need to use nail glue! They have a little plastic strip on the back, and you peel it off and stick it on your nail, and viola! No dry time, just stick 'em on and you're good to go! I've tried plenty of other press-on nails, but most only last a few days before they start falling off or getting loose, but these lasted me a good 5 days, and even then they didn't fall off, I just took them off since they were loosening up. 

Removal is super easy, they peel right off, and unlike falsies with nail glue there was no damage to natural nail at all! The only thing I noticed was that my cuticles were a bit dry, but that's probably because I wore them for almost a week. 

Close-up look at the pretty design my sister picked! :)

These are definitely really good quality press-ons, and I would recommend them! The only other press-ons that I've loved this much are the Kiss Nails press-ons. So overall I was really imPRESSed! LOL! (Please excuse that terrible pun, I just couldn't resist! :p) 

Have a great day/night/whatever-time-you're-reading-this, loves! :)

Swatch Time + NOTD with Zoya - Phoebe!

Hey my lovelies!

So today I'm going to show you swatches of the third polish I got in Zoya's 4th of July sale, Phoebe! 

I've actually wanted Phoebe for a long time now, but every time I bought from Zoya, it was sold out. But this time around, I finally got lucky and they had it in stock! :)   

Phoebe is a gooorgeous blue matte shimmer, from Zoya's Mod Matte Summer 2011 Collection. 

I have one of the others from that collection, Mitzi, but they discontinued the third shade, Lolly, so unless someone has it and is wiling to sell it or trade for it, I won't get to own it. It's so pretty too! Matte hot pink! Sad Kate! :(  LOL

They also stopped making Electra from the Ornate Winter 2012 Collection, which I wanted sooo badly, but when I went to buy it in February I was too late. You snooze you lose with Zoya sometimes I guess. LOL :p

But anyways, more about Phoebe!

 3 coats, no top-coat!

Swatch Time!: Zoya PixieDusts!

Hey lovelies!

It's SwatchTime! I have some super pretty swatches for you today, Zoya PixieDusts!  

This past 4th of July (Independence Day here in America!) Zoya had another one of their awesome specials; if you bought the PixieDust shade Liberty, you got any other two shades FREE! :) 

So I did it, and I got Liberty, Stevie, and Phoebe. 

Zoya PixieDust - Liberty 

Zoya PixieDust - Stevie 

Zoya Matte Velvet - Phoebe 

So today I'll show you swatches of the first two, the Liberty and Stevie PixieDusts! 

Pixie Dust is Zoya's line of textured glitter polishes! These are the second textured polishes I've tried, I also tried one of the OPI Liquid Sand polishes. 

I have to say, I like Zoyas formula a lot better! I usually like OPI's formula the best, but Zoya's textured formula is really good! They dry super quick, and I love the way they look and feel. Both of the ones I tried were opaque in 2 coats! :)

What I liked better about the Zoya formula was that you can do more than two coats, and it still dries quickly, but with the OPI ones you can really only do 2 coats, or else it doesn't dry properly. That was really my only problem with the OPI formula though, was the drying time.

This is Liberty, the only one of the three that I paid for! Hehe :p  

Liberty is from the Summer PixieDust Collection.

Liberty is a super pretty dark blue matte textured glitter. It's a deep blue base, with dark and light blue, almost silver micro glitter. 

The only thing I didn't like about this polish, was that it does stain blue a little, especially during removal. I won't lie, I definitely got Smurf fingers when I took it off! LOL!

Other than that though, I have no complaints about this one! :)

This is Stevie! As soon as I saw this one advertised I knew I had to have it, it's soo pretty! :) 

Stevie is also from the Summer PixieDust Collection. 

Stevie is a gooorgeous lavender/pink matte textured glitter. It has a pinkish/lavender base, with silver micro glitter.  

I love these, I'm definitely going to be buying some more PixieDusts in the future, the Fall Collection especially looks really really pretty! :) 

Check back tomorrow for a swatch of Phoebe, the third polish I picked! :) 

Did you guys take advantage of this Zoya deal? Let me know in the comments what colors you picked if you did! :)

Super Mario Bros Nail Art!

Hey lovelies!

So over the weekend, I did my little sisters nails for her. She loves all the Mario games, she's always on her DS playing "Mario Kart," so she asked me if I could do some Super Mario Brothers nail art for her! :) 

So here's the result! 

(Note: it's a little bit messy. Art and cleanup are very difficult on small little child nails LOL! So sorry about that. :p)