Fashionable Bows

Evening to you all! Today I have a little nail art mani consisting of little black bows on a greige-y background. I did this manicure to match the dress I wore for my school photos (even if you can't see my nails in the photos... but hey, a true nail freak needs to have matching nails right?) So yes, going into my last year of high school, totally in denial! Got my textbooks, locker, pictures, all that fun stuff. School starts on the 4th, when does it start for all the student followers out there? I'm probably going to get more excited as the week goes by and we get closer to the first day. That's usually what happens anyway! So here are the pics of my mani! Once again, excuse the dry cuticles, I'm going to have to buy some good cuticle cream or oil soon. Any suggestions?

3 coats Joe Fresh Putty + black striper + Seche Vite topcoat

Details on my dress - yay for fashion ;)

If you've already started school, hope you have a wonderful start to the year! If not, are you ready for the summer to end?

Thanks for reading!

Mandy

Burberry Nails

Good afternoon everyone! I'm feeling a little under the weather this weekend, which is too bad since here in Canada it's the Victoria Day May long weekend - and the weather in Montreal is absolutely gorgeous, but I'm stuck inside. I finally got around to trying a nail art design that I've been contemplating for a while, but I was nervous about execution: Burberry Nails! I'm actually ecstatic about how these turned out - and they weren't extraordinarily difficult either.

Here are my Burberry Plaid nails in the sunlight.

I used Zoya Avery as the base, the formula was a little thicker than I'm used to with Zoya polishes but it wasn't necessarily hard to work with. I then used my LA Colors Art Deco stripers in white and black, and finished off the look with Quo by ORLY Red Hot and a thin striper brush.

Keep reading for more photos!

OPI New York City Ballet - Swatches and Review

Hello! Today I have five of the six shades from OPI's annual SoftShades collection to show you, and this year's theme is the New York City Ballet. Though I have never been a fan of sheer shades like this before, I have to admit there are a few winners in this collection, and don't even get me started on how perfect the glitter is.

A word of warning, this post is going to be extremely picture heavy!