Luxecoat Swatches!

 Fun little Artsy-Fartsy InstaGram pic! xD

Hey lovelies!

I'm sure by now you've heard of the new vegan polish brand Luxecoat, and today I have swatches of three of their pretty polishes to show you! :) 

Remember my zebra-print acrylics? Well, a few weeks ago Luxecoat was having a contest on their InstaGram page, caled the LuxecoatStyle contest, and I entered them in it. And lucky me, I was one of the winners! =D 

So this past Friday, my prize package arrived, with these three beauties inside! 

They sent me Red Hot, Goldie, and Mint Chip! 

(Quick apology for the staining on my cuticles, that was completely my own fault because I've been a tad neglectful to them lately, and I think really any pigmented polish would stain them that way, since they're so dry and cracked. Icky! Tsktsk, myself. LOL)

First up, Red Hot! 

This is probably the perfect red for me, and I usually don't like red polish. But I would describe this as the perfect cherry red color! 

Red Hot is a super bright Cherry Red creme. I was really impressed by the formula, it was thin for a creme, but not too thin. It's opaque in two coats, and dries with a nice shine to it even without top-coat! It also dries so fast! They're not kidding with that "quick drying" label! :)

There was a tiny bit of staining on the drier parts of my nails, but nothing that a little acetone and a good buffing wouldn't take away. I would recommend a base coat for this reason, but really it's nothing unexpected for such a pigmented polish, and I would recommend using a base coat for any red polish anyways. :) 

Next up, Goldie! 

Goldie is a gorgeous gold shimmer. My camera didn't even fully capture just how shimmery this one is, actually had trouble focusing on it because its so sparkly! :) 

This one took 3 thin coats to be opaque, but the layers dry super fast so it's not a problem. It dries with a nice foil finish, and the formula is really nice. I'm in love with the shimmer in this one! 

Last up is my favorite of the three, Mint Chip! Not gonna lie, I saw this one on their website and was suuuper hoping it would be one of the ones they sent me, and I was so excited when I opened the box and saw it! 

Mint Chip is a beautiful mint blue/green creme. It has the same great formula as Red Hot, not too thick and not too thin. It's opaque in two coats, dries super fast, and dries with that nice shine even minus top-coat. I looove this color, it's absolutely stunning and one of my favorite colors! :)  

Overall, I was super-duper impressed with Luxecoat! The formulas are great, the colors are gorgeous, and they dry in almost no time at all! I love that they're DPB free and vegan too, that always scores extra points with me! I'm officially a big fan now! :)

So thank you so much to Luxecoat for choosing me as a winner, and sending me these beauties! <3 

You can check out Luxecoat's website here! :)

 

(DISCLAIMER: This is not a sponsored post; all the polishes in this post were sent to me as a contest prize, and all opinions are strictly my own.)

OPI Mariah Carey Collection - Pink Yet Lavender Swatch!

Hey lovelies! I have a goooorgeous swatch for you today! :) 

This is from the OPI Mariah Carey Collection, and it's a stunning glitter topper called "Pink Yet Lavender." 

The name is definitely fitting, because that's exactly how I would describe it's color! It sort of reminds me of the color of rose gold. 

Pink Yet Lavender is a gorgeous glitter topper, with a clear base with large "pink, yet lavender" colored hex glitters, and pink/lavender holographic micro glitter!

A bottle-shot to show it's prettiness close up! :) 

You definitely do not have to fish for the glitter at all, even the larger glitter pieces come right out on the brush, and I didn't find myself having to "place" the glitter too much at all either. 

The clear base is a little thick though, so you don't want to do too thick of a coat at once. Instead, I did two thin coats an built it up. Other than that though, I had no problems with this polish! :) 

I did a base color of Sephora by OPI - A True Romantic and then two coats of Pink Yet Lavender, and sealed it off with a coat of Seche Vite. 

I loooove the way this glitter looks! I got this from my sister as a birthday gift, and as soon as I pulled it out of the box and saw it, I was in love! 

I can't wait to try this with other base colors and see how it looks! :) 

More Birthday/Nail Mail!

Hey again lovelies! 

So now I have another post for you showing you another package from my birthday, this one from my sister Chrissy! 

So what was fun about this package, was that the gift wrapping is also a gift! 

My sister always comes up with cool ideas like that. :) 

This is what all the other gifts were in, and it's a super pretty little insulated tote bag! 

This is from Pampered Chef, which my sister sells. (If you're interested in buying anything, you can check her page out here: http://www.pamperedchef.biz/christinamarsden?page=home    ;) ) 

Not only is it super pretty, but the inside is insulated so you can use it to carry food, drinks etc., and keep them cold! :) 

And now for all the fun stuff INSIDE the bag! ;) 

 

First up is this set of Avon shower gel & body lotion, which smell amazing! It in the Cherry Blossom scent, which I love! Cherry Blossom is one of my favorite smells. :) Plus some Clinique eye-makeup remover, which is one of my favorite makeup-up removers, it works so fast! :) 

Next up, these cute little owl-shaped emery boards, pretty little flowery temporary tattoos(which will most likely get used for nail art purposes, tehe ;) ) and a cute little owl-shaped lip-gloss pot! :) 

The lip-gloss inside the little owl guy. :) 

Next up, the Nail Mail portion of the gift!! 

She sent this pretty little Flirt stamping kit, Kiss Nail Art polishes(which came with cute little stencils too!) and two gooooorgeous OPI polishes, Pink Yet Lavender, and Flashbulb Fuchsia! :) 

Flashbulb Fuchsia

Pink Yet Lavender 

Expect swatches of these veeery soon!! ;) 

And last but most certainly not least, this amazingly gorgeous Dragonfly necklace! It's a super pretty silver dragonfly charm, with little silver gems in its wings and a big aqua gem at the bottom! I love it, it's super gorgeous and totally my style. :) 

So thank you Chrissy for all of this fun stuff! I love it all!! :) 

Nail Mail & Adventures in Stamping!

Hello lovelies! This post is actually quite late, this is a package that my cousin sent me for my birthday... in June. whoops! LOL. 

Anyways, today I'm going to show you all the awesome fun stuff that my cousin Sarah sent me for my birthday! :) 

 

Here's everything all-together! I love that Love Park postcard! (I'm a Philadelphia girl, if you didn't know! ;) ) 

There's black and white Konad stamping polishes! (I realized I forgot to take a picture of them by themselves.)

She sent me a TON of awesome stamping goodies! I've actually had any stamping tools before, so this was definitely fun to get all this. 

Her sweet little note on the back of the postcard! :) 

So first, there was a box of Wistonia Store stamping plates, 20 image plates with 139 designs!! :O

Look at all of those!!! 

She also sent a Konad stamping plate, with cute animal print and other designs on it! :) 

And this pretty little pink stamper and scraper! 

And a roll of striping tape! 

Can I just say how much it made me laugh that the tape introduced itself to me? That made me giggle when I was opening the package! Haha! :p 

So thank you Sarah for all of this!! :D 

And now, for my adventures in stamping using all of these goodies! ;) 

Here's the first design I tried, I used a base of Sephora by OPI - Read My Palm and OPI - Pink Yet Lavender on my ring finger. Then I used the white Konad stamping polish and did some little flowery stars, and a little Panda bear! I obviously I was not too good at it yet haha! My pointer finger wasn't too bad, my pinky was terrible and my panda was a tad wonky. LOL :p 

For this one I used a white polish (I totally don't remember which one, FAIL lol, sorry!) for a simple French, and then used the black Konad stamping polish to do a few little pretty flowery designs, which actually weren't too bad looking, but completely smeared because I put the top coat on too quick. :( 

And then I used OPI - Flashbulb Fuchsia for a little butterfly, and then I put Pixel - Pixel Dust over top and a coat of Seche Vite.  

So that's my adventure in stamping so far! I actually had done a black and white mani with some stars, but I forgot to get a good picture before it chipped. Boo. LOL :p 

Have an awesome day everyone!! <3