See Sarah Swatch: June 2013

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Zoya Liberty, or How to Get Horrific Stains Off Your Nails

This polish.... Oh man. So stunning, but SO STAINY. I can't even handle it. I mean, I completely love this polish and would probably wear it again, but..... not for a long time. Okay, so gaze upon the gorgeousness.

I mean. Stunning, right? And I wore the crap out of it for 3 days. But then (FULL STAIN AHEAD, BEWARE):

DUNDUNDUNNN. This is gross. Like, what even. It would have stained my skin also, but I coated the skin around my nails with cuticle oil.

So then I put whitening toothpaste on my nails for just over 5 minutes anddddddddd

Still not great, but, buffer to the rescue!

Begone, demon stains!

Anyone have an easier way to get stains off your nails? Or any other polishes that are this... stainy?

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Twinsies Hit the Beach!

For this week's TT, we were charged with posting beach inspired nails! And I've had a sucky streak with nail art this summer, so I thought I'd stick to the usual and show you an early franken I made a few years ago. I was going through my collection recently and purging and found this polish, a nude that I made for myself, but with a little something extra:] If this had a name, I've totally forgotten it, but this is a warm nude with gold shimmer and iridescent blue microglitter :]

Amanda at Amandalandish
Amber at Nails Like Lace
Anna at Going to the Showing
Anne at Grape Fizz Nails
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi
Cordia at Seriously Swatched
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Heather at Peace, Love, & Polish
Katherine at Haul of Fame
Kelly at Tuxarina
Lakeisha at Refined and Polished
Maribeth at Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite
Marisa at Polish Obsession
Meredith at Polish and Charms
Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails
Rachel at Top Coat It
Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les
Sarah at See Sarah Swatch
Traci at DrinkCitra

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

TT: Textured Nails

I'm the absolute worst, I've been apartment hunting and forget to publish this post, but here's Sally Hansen Sweetie for our textured nails of the day! I had 2 coats on here, and the polish went on really well, no problems with thickness or anything (though I've seen reviews that say otherwise, so I'm thinking maybe batch inconsistencies?).

I like this shade of yellow a lot, and I'm still on board the whole textured train, so I was a pretty big fan of this polish:] I hear there's some new Sugar Coat polishes coming out, and I definitely have my eye on a few of them!

Friday, June 14, 2013

Rainbow Honey Fab Summer Set

*Polishes in this post were provided for review in exchange for my honest review*

Hey all! I have some wonderful polishes for you today from Rainbow Honey. These three are from the Fab Summer Set, which are sold at fab.com! The set would be three full sized polishes, though the ones I have today to show are minis. Sidenote, how cute are these new RH mini bottles? Love them.

Okay, the formula on all three of these is great. I used 2 coats of the shimmers and then topped them with Costa Del Sol. Both Tenda and Schrammi covered beautifully in 2 coats, and all the polishes were super easy to apply! CDS covered and spread really well, also. All in all, super happy with all of these:] I really love the copper shimmer in Tenda and Schrammi.. so beautiful.

2 coats Schrammi

Schrammi + Costa Del Sol

Tenda

Tenda + Costa Del Sol

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Belated TT- Neon Gradient

Sorry this is late, guys, but my computer totally pooped out on me and it only works in spurts. So here we are! Anyway, this week's challenge was to get marching orders from another Twinsie! So my orders were from Marisa at Polish Obsession and I was instructed to do a neon gradient! I used Orly Pretty-Ugly, China Glaze Too Yacht to Handle, and Wet n Wild Glowstick.

This was my first successful gradient! And I was totally obsessed, I wore it for 4 whole days. Only when it started chipping did I have the heart to take it off. I just love these 3 polishes together so much. Thank you for this challenge Marisa! I honestly never would have done this mani otherwise:]

Amanda at Amandalandish
Amber at Nails Like Lace
Anna at Going to the Showing
Anne at Grape Fizz Nails
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi
Cordia at Seriously Swatched
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Heather at Peace, Love, & Polish
Katherine at Haul of Fame
Kelly at Tuxarina
Lakeisha at Refined and Polished
Maribeth at Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite
Marisa at Polish Obsession
Meredith at Polish and Charms
Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails
Rachel at Top Coat It
Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les
Sarah at See Sarah Swatch
Traci at DrinkCitra

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Twinsie Tuesday: Blogger Inspired

Hey all! For today's post, we had to do a mani inspired by another blogger, and I went for the wonderful Sarah from Chalkboard Nails: http://www.chalkboardnails.com/2012/10/blue-and-pink-gradient-dots-tutorial.html?m=1. I based my mani on this tutorial! I used Orly Boho Bonnet as the base, and Zoya Yana and OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls for the dots:) Enjoy!