French Manicureeee

Not to toot my own horn but I think I did a pretty amazing job with this manicure. I have never done any if you could call it 'nail art' so considering this was my first time it came out pretty spectacular.

I used a trio of polishes that came from ELF cosmetics.  It is a french manicure kit that comes with a clear, a white and a nude polish. Here's a picture of the package...

and here is the swatch picturess...

Okay I'm sorry but I just can't get enough.  I am so proud of myself for doing such a great job ahaha. The whole kit only cost me about $3 about 2 years ago when ELF was supposedly changing their packaging and made everything super cheap.  As many of you know, ELF is still super cheap even with the new packaging and for that I have to say that the quality was pretty darn good. The polish as I said was pretty old but still worked perfectly, no thickening or anything of that sort.  

I guess you could say I cheated a little, I painted the white first (after I added the BC) which was sort of messy and then I cleaned it up with a little ELF eyeliner brush and some nail polish remover.  Then I painted the nude and topped it off with the clear TC from the trio.  I don't really care if I cheated or not, It looks bangin hahahah.

Hope ya like it as much as I do!

Finally a China Glaze!

Oh heyy, I'm on spring break, I am not working and I only have a little bit of homework...therefore I will be posting TONS! First off, how fancy am I...my first China Glaze. EVER. I was so excited when I bought this polish last week in a mini haul you have no idea.  Believe me, there are more where this came from..this is starting to become a staple in my lot!

Today we have Oxygen by China Glaze. (sorry I can't put the name of the polish in the color, it would disappear! lol)

Eeek, dry cuticles! So I realize that there is a shadow in this picture but it kind of works to my advantage and I'll tell you why soon.  Anyway, remember in a past post I swatched a light pink color but I said I was hoping for something whiter/more opaque? (if you don't remember, its here).  Well, I found what I was looking for! This is pretty much a white polish but with the slightest pink tint to it (you can see the pink tint on my pointer finger and the color it looks like in most lights on the other fingers).  The application was awesome, totally a great first impression.  It was a great consistency, if anything a little watery, covering evenly in three coats.  As you can tell, there is still a little bit of visible nail line but nothing that was too bad, I figured four coats was a little too thick so I kept it at three. 

I love the name of this polish for some reason, and so do my suitemates hahah. Every time one of them picks it up I'm like ITS CALLED OXYGEN hahha. I'm lame. Whateverr.

Okay well talk to you guys again tomorrow! Happy painting =)