Fall Nails With Not Too Polished

Hey there! A month or so ago I was on a roll for some reason and won a few blog giveaways back to back. It was pretty surprising...I don't have the best of luck a lot of the time. But then again, I was entering giveaways left and right like a mad-woman: I guess it had to pay off sometime right?

One of the giveaways was from Liz at the Not Too Polished blog. She has her own line of polishes that she sells on Etsy and part of my prize was the polish of my choice from her shop. I chose a polish called Headless Horseman. I've been on a bit of an indie glitter polish kick lately and this one caught my eye right off the bat. It is a gorgeous mix of black, yellow-gold and burnt orange micro-glitter; small yellow-gold and burnt orange shiny hex glitter and random large black hex glitters thrown in here and there. I chose to do it over a semi-light base color so the micro-glitter would really stand out. For that I chose OPI Wooden Shoe Like To Know; one of the few polishes I was able to get from the Spring 2012 Holland Collection. I only got 4 from that collection but there are still a few more that are on my wishlist. Anyway, on to the nails! First the polishes...

 I love the pink shimmer in this polish! It's such an unexpected color with the brown but looks so amazing with it. And now the finished product.

I absolutely loved this manicure! It looks so Fall-ish. This is only one coat of Headless Horseman; it applied effortlessly with no dragging or fishing for glitters. I didn't even have to fish for the big black glitter pieces which was really great. I followed it up with 2 coats of Gelous and it was still a bit gritty; for some reason I can never get glitter polishes smooth now matter how many coats of Gelous or Posh I put on it. It must be something with my body chemistry or something. And this manicure wore like iron! I applied it on Sunday and by Thursday I had a miniscule amount of chipping and a bit of tipwear. I only took it off because I wanted a change. And of course I had to make a pair of earrings to match. I wore these puppies all week I love them so much.

So there you have my first Fall manicure of the year. This is my absolute favorite time of the year. I love everything about it...the smells, the light, the decorations, pumpkin everything! If you want to follow Liz on her awesome blog you can find it here. You can find her amazing polishes in her Etsy shop here. I'm in the process of opening up my own little Etsy shop for my jewelry creations; I'll keep you posted. But in the meantime if you are interested in seeing some of my stuff I have a Facebook page here.

Hope you all are having a fantastic weekend. I'm working on another Fall manicure today so I'll post that sometime this week.

'Til We Meet Again...

Rebecca  :)

*I purchased some of these products and won others in a giveaway*

End Of Summer Neons

So I decided to send summer out with a bang (when it came to my nails at least). This will probably be my last super bright mani of the season. I for one am super glad that summer is over; I've never been a huge fan. I suppose it is in large part due to the fact that I'm so pale I'm practically translucent. I can't be out in the sun for more than 5 minutes without turning into a lobster and I only have two shades of skin...super white or super red. And I can't stand being hot (although where we live it's foggy a good portion of the summer which I kinda love). And I don't particularly love the beach although I've lived on the coast of California my whole life. As I said, just not my favorite season. But I do love the bright colors of the season and I'm really glad that neons have made their way back into the spotlight. I really love them as nail polish colors. So for this mani I used China Glaze I'm With The Lifeguard, China Glaze Sun-Kissed and Pretty & Polished Valentino.

My camera could not quite capture the true colors of these; they are too bright. As with a similar mani I was inspired for the color placement by Carly of the Lacquered Lover blog. She commented on one of my Instagram pics that she thinks of it as the Carly so that is what it shall be named as far as I'm concerned.

I love the way this style of mani looks; and it's a great way to use more than one polish. And I am still completely obsessed with black and white glitters and need to get my hands on as many as I can. They look great over any color. And of course I had to make some earrings out of this combo (although they aren't quite earrings yet, I need to get some more posts). I decided to use most of my neon polishes and I absolutely love how they turned out!

Top row L-R: Sun-Kissed, I'm With The Lifeguard, Flirty Tankini

Bottom row L-R: Rose Among Thorns, Ride The Waves, Japanese Koi

(All China Glaze)

So, there ya' have it...my last super bright mani of the season. Time to bust out the fall colors.

'Til We Meet Again...

Rebecca  :)   

*I purchased all of the products myself*

4th of July Fun With Elemental Styles

Hello everyone! Sorry it's been so long since my last post; I really have no excuses except it's a teensy bit difficult sharing a computer and not having a functioning laptop anymore. Other than that, I've just been a bit lazy and uninspired I guess.

 Anyway, today I have a super sparklicious 4th of July manicure. It's from a new-to-me indie polish company called Elemental Styles. I really like the concept behind all of the polish names and colors. They are all based on elements from the periodic table. I had been wanting to get a red/white/blue polish but was having a hard time deciding which one to get. I saw a notice on the Elemental Styles blog that her take on patriotic polish was available and would arrive in time to wear it for the 4th. And poof! Just like that my decision was made for me. The polish is called 95 U.S.A-mericium. Americium is the 95th element and is a soft and silver-white in color (pretty appropriate) and is most commonly used in smoke detectors. And that my friends is your fun fact for the day.

95 U.S.A-mericium is described on the Etsy site as "a clear polish filled with fine red and blue glitter and ultrafine silver glitter! It's also got two sizes of matte white hex glitters." I decided to use a silver basecoat so the red, white and blue would really stand out and the one I chose was Goldie Lost. And here it is: one coat of Lost topped by 3 coats of 95 U.S.A-mericium:

I really love how this turned out. It's so sparkly and festive. 95 U.S.A-mericium was really easy to apply. There was so much glitter that I didn't have to fish for it at all and even the large white hex glitter pieces came out on their own without any coaxing. And because I've been making a ton of jewelry lately I decided to make a pair of earrings too.

I really love how these turned out also! Unfortunately I didn't receive the polish in enough time to make any to sell but I will definitely have them for next year!

You can buy the Elemental Styles polishes on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/ElementalStyles?ref=seller_info. I definitely want to get more of her polishes in the future. And you can check out the Elemental Styles blog here: http://elementalstyles.blogspot.com/.

I hope everyone is having a great day. Have fun and stay safe!

'Til we meet again.

Rebecca  :)

I'm Making Jewelry!

Hello everyone! I just wanted to let you all know that I have started making and selling jewelry. I've been seeing so much cute nail polish jewelry on Etsy and various websites but never knew where to even begin as far as obtaining supplies went. Then Rebecca from the Rebecca Likes Nails blog did a post about that very subject. I found some sites to order from and the rest, as they say, is history. As of now I'm just doing a few sizes of the glass cabochon earrings decorated with nail polish but I have a lot more up my sleeve that I'd like to try out. At some point I'd like to open a little shop on Etsy or Big Cartel but for the time being I have a Facebook page for it. It's called . . . .  wait for it . . . .  Bec's Baubles and it can be found here:   http://www.facebook.com/BecsBaubles. It includes everything you need to know as far as pricing, shipping, colors, etc... Here are some of the pieces I've done so far:

If you like what you see, head on over to the page and shoot me a message. I'll hook you up!

'Til we meet again.

Rebecca  :)