Sparitual Nurture Spring Collection Swatch & Review (partial)

Hey everyone!

Sorry for the unexpected break. Both of my kids got sick before the weekend, one with double ear infection and the other with the stomach flu. Thankfully they're a bit better now. 

I was sent three polishes from Sparitual's Nurture Spring Collection 2016 for review. The collection consists of six shades. I will be showing you Supportive (shimmer), Loving (creme) and Tender (creme). So let's get to it.

Supportive, Loving, Tender

The package came beautifully wrapped and with a small pouch with a pretty floral print on it.

Supportive no top coat

Supportive is a gorgeous shimmery purple and a one coater (two if you do thin coats) with great smooth formula. My swatch shows one coat no top coat to show that it has a matte type finish. I love it.

Macro 'Supportive' no top coat

Supportive with top coat

Macro with top coat

I prefer "Supportive" without a top coat. What do you think?

Loving

Loving is a gorgeous bright pink. My swatch shows three coats plus top coat. I loved this shade of pink but the formula was not so great. First coat was thin and runny, second coat was still patchy and it sort of self leveled by the third coat. I would still totally wear it though!

Tender

Tender is a beautiful teal shade. My swatch shows two coats plus top coat. Formula was pretty good. It could be a one coater if you do one thick coat with careful application. There is no staining with this as there is with other teals/blues.

Overall I enjoyed these shades. I only own one Sparitual and I really like it. Formulas from this collection seem to be a hit or miss. These do dry pretty quick though.

What do you think of this brand? Will you be getting any of these or from the rest of the collection? Let me know below. These should be available at Sally's, or Ulta.

Thank you for reading. Happy Tuesday!

Stained Glass BTN With Pish

I got the opportunity to do Twin Nails with my dearest friend Karen from pish.posh.polish. If you aren't following her yet you definitely should! 

We were inspired by a pastel stained glass phone case I found. 

Take a look at our collage. I love how they both turned out. They look so awesome together!

Here is my solo. We decided to make them matte and I love it! 

In between shot before cleanup

I started off with a white base and then on a latex free make up wedge I added little drops of different polishes and dapped it on my nail. I had to reapply polish on the wedge after every two nails. I did about two or three passes on each nail to make it opaque. Then I top coated and with my detail brush and black acrylic paint I started drawing in some lines. I sort of outlined where each color was. 

After I was done drawing the lines I waited for them to be fully dry and top coated with Zoya Matte Velvet top coat.

I really liked them that I did the other hand as well. 

Hope you guys enjoyed these as much as I did! Thank you for reading :)

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Red Flower Nails

Hey happy Tuesday everyone!

On my last post I said I was going to do a round up of all the Valentine's looks I did but you know what? I'm over Valentine's! Aren't you? I'm ready for spring!

Today's #twinsietuesdaynailart hosted by @99probsbutmynailsaint1 is red so I did some red flower nails instead of using a red base. 

Zoya Eastyn two coats + top coat

I used two coats of Zoya Eastyn. You can find my review of the Whispers Collection here.

Zoya Eastyn

With red polish and my small detail brush I drew some flowers near the top. I added some black centers and then did some white and red dots. They're not perfect at all but I still love the look! I did one coat of Seche Vite top coat and one coat of Matte Velvet top coat to make it easier to photogragh.

What do you think of this look? Hope you enjoyed this post.

Thank you for reading. Happy polishing!

*some items previously provided for review*

14 days of Valentine's + Collab

Hey Valentine's Day is finally here!

I have the final look for 14 days of Valentine's and I combined it with a collab I did hosted by 25_sweetpeas of Instagram. Let's take a look.

Zoya Arianna

I was actually not happy with how this turned out but I didn't have time to redo it.

I used two coats of  Zoya Ana as a base and Arianna for the "waterfall" look. I outlined the heart with red acrylic paint. Top coated with Seche Vite and one coat of Zoya Matte Velvet top coat to finish off.

Below is the collage for the collab. I love how everyone's turned out!

Vdaycollab2016

Here's the list of the awesome ladies who participated.

Polished_yogi

PolishandBeyond

nail_art_inspirer

coffeeandnailpolish

nbnailart

properly_polished

LaLaLoveNailArt

RockYourNails

Journailism

TheLittleCanvas

RuthsNailArt

Dsetterfield74

MyNailpolish_addiction

25 Sweetpeas

I was very excited to be asked to participate in this collab. I actually also participated last year. And I'm very proud of myself for finishing the 14 days of Valentine's series. It was tough but I did it!

Hope you guys enjoyed this post. I think I will have a full round up of all the Valentine's looks I did on tomorrow's post.

Thank you for reading. Happy Valentine's Day!

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Lace Nails

Day 13 of 14 days of Valentine's. This is where I run out of ideas! I tried to go for a sexy lacey look.

Let's take a look at what I came up with.

Hard Candy Lace Me Up

Salon Perfect Oil Slick, Sinful Colors Pink Forever, BPL-028,
Hard Candy Lace Me Up, Pink clear jelly stamper from bps, Seche Vite top coat

I used Sinful Colors Pink Forever as my base. On my two middle nails I stamped a chevron lace image using BPL-028 and Salon Perfect Oil Slick. I used this pink clear stamper from bps without any problems.

On my index and pinky I did one coat of Hard Candy Lace Me Up. Lace Me Up is a glitter topper with matte pink and black hex glitters in different sizes. I top coated everything with one coat of Seche Vite.

One more look. It was a bit hard to pose with this kind of bottle. I think I still need to work with placement with the clear stamper.

Let me know what you think of this look? 

Thanks for reading :)

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