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Today I'm trying out two new-to-me brands. This year at Cosmoprof, Ever After and Anonymous Lacquer teamed up to create a special duo, and this duo will be available for purchase today! I love both polishes so read below for why!

Ever After Sin City and Anonymous Lacquer Set Your Soul On Fire: Vegas Duo

Ever After Sin City: 2 coats plus top coat. In the bottle, this polish seems to be mostly a pale gold holo. Once I put it on, the multichrome flakes were aplenty and transformed this gold holo. There's also holo microglitter in there, and the combination of the finishes is lovely. It all laid smooth and one coat of top coat made the polish shine. I could be wrong but it seems there's also gold shimmer in there!

Ever After Sin City

Anonymous Lacquer Set Your Soul on Fire: 1-2 coats plus top coat. This is a super sexy, firey red polish. It's high pigmented so some nails were fine with 1 coats. It's slightly holographic, with a golden shimmer and some sparse gold flakes. I love this specific shade of red for me. It's more wearable vs. bright red nails.

Anonymous Lacquer Set Your Soul on Fire

Here are the two colors together. I wasn't sure they actually would go together since the multichrome flakes in Ever After are pink-based, but it's actually wonderful together. Red and gold is a classic combination for me.

Ever After Sin City and Anonymous Lacquer Set Your Soul On Fire: Vegas Duo

The duo will be available through the Ever After site starting today! The duo retails for $20 or you can purchase each polish separately for $11.

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I can't just look at a nail polish collection and not do art! I was browsing the Morgan Taylor web site and they actually had three nail art looks as suggestions for this collection. There's a spray paint look, a gradient with chevrons, and a graffiti look! They have a tutorial...and I didn't notice it until AFTER so I just winged it based on their photo! Let's take a look!

Morgan Taylor Street Beats Graffiti Art

I knew I wanted to do the graffiti nails as two accents since this would be my full mani (still wearing it!). My pinky has Street Cred-ible on it and my index has Hip Hot Coral. I did the reverse on my right hand for some fun. Then I dove in with my art!

I did a white base for my nails and using the 6 colors in the collection, I drew some random shapes. I changed around some of the shapes for whatever would fit my nails! Then I outlined everything in black and added accents of white. Topped it off with top coat.

Morgan Taylor Street Beats Graffiti Art

The Morgan Taylor Street Beat Collection retails for $9.00 a bottle and is available in Gelish as well. You can find them in CosmoProf stores, Ulta or online!

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Happy Hump Day! Today I'm sharing with you four of the polishes from the upcoming KBShimmer Fall 2016 collection. The collection releases this Friday, so here's some photos to help narrow down which to purchase. I have crellies, jellies, holos, and microglitters!

KBShimmer Fall 2016 Preview, Swatches and Review

Orchidding Me: 2 coats. I know most will love this polish. It's an orchid colored holographic polish that is vampy and definitely screams fall to me. It's super linear but it looks gorgeous in regular lighting and the sun. I hate when holos are dull indoors. But not this one! The polish practically painted itself on.

Orchidding Me

Orchidding Me, sunlight

Turning Pointe: 2 coats plus top coat. It really does remind me of ballerina slippers. I absolutely love this shade of in between pink and peach. It's part of their Mega Flame line and I love the unique color. It went on smoothly as well. Again, it's beautiful inside and in the sunlight. It's a sparkly neutral and those are my favorites!

Turning Pointe

Tiers of Joy: 2-3 coats. Depending on your nail length, you may only need 2 coats. Some of mine needed 3 so I mentioned it's between 2-3. This is like a vanilla cake colored base with pink, gold, and brown glitters in it. It's really interesting and although I'm not a crelly person, I love this. Of course, I had to matte it with KBShimmer Matte top coat and I love it more! The tiny square glitters are a nice throwback to early indie days.

Tiers of Joy

Tiers of Joy, matte

Fright this Way: 3 coats plus top coat. Lastly, this is a jelly based polish with tons of purple microglitters. I love this polish matte. The purple glitters pop, and by the way, make this an excellent base for nail art. It's definitely dark for Halloween. And if you order any of the polishes, you get free purple bat glitters while supplies last!

Fright this Way

I can't wait to show you the nail art that I did with all four of these polishes. It's Halloween themed so stay tuned for it next month!

Which of the four is your favorite? Or do you just love them all? Turning Pointe is definitely my favorite of the four.

The Fall 2016 Collection from KBShimmer releases on August 19th and consists of 12 polishes.

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Born Pretty has so many fun and funky water decals. If you're looking for it, Born Pretty has it. I'm not sure what to call these, but they remind me of walking to school in a rural area, so that's where I'm going! They are so adorable so let's take a look.

Born Pretty Back to School Water Decals with Alter Ego Nail Polishes

First, let's take a look at what is in this adorable pack of water decals, since I didn't use every design. We had a school house, trees, foxes, flowers, ducks, sheep, hearts, clouds, bugs. It's such a cute set and I like how the images look drawn!

I began with a base of Alter Ego Lady Luck, a green polish with holographic glitters throughout. Then I dabbed Vegas Show Girl on my nails towards the cuticle. I will be posting both of these new polishes tomorrow on their own. But I created a sort of grass and sky look.

Then I cut out my specific designs, removed the plastic sheet covering on the decal, and put it in water for 20 seconds. They slide off the paper backing and onto my nail. I wanted this to look even more like a drawing so I matted the whole look. I can't help but think how cute these are! My only complaint is that I wish the sheep's body were white!

Born Pretty Back to School Water Decals with Alter Ego Nail Polishes

This water decal set can be found HERE and is A553. The sheet retails for $1.29 and you can easily get 2-10 manicures out of this, depending on how many decals you use at once.

Born Pretty has a large selection of stamping plates and other nail art needs. You can find all stamping plates and other nail tools HERE. If you want to place an order at Born Pretty, you can get 10% off your order with the discount code PDX31 at checkout. As always, shipping is free.

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Yesterday, I showed you some cute water decal art that included these two NEW Alter Ego polishes. Weren't they so pretty matte? Well here are the two colors on their own, and a mini review of some soap by the maker, so let's get to it!

Alter Ego Vegas Exclusives: Vegas Show Girl and Lady Luck

First, let's take a look at the soap sample, which is beyond gorgeous! I almost didn't want to use it because the pattern is so pretty. The soap itself is fairly simple, as it is an oatmeal soap. So if you are sensitive to scents, this would be a great soap. It felt moisturizing and didn't leave my skin feeling tight. Overall, it's a nice soap!

Alter Ego Vegas Exclusives: Vegas Show Girl and Lady Luck

Vegas Show Girl: 2 coats plus top coat. Then topped with matte coat. This is a glitter polish that is tiny glitters and it's so opaque in two coats! There's green, blue, and gold to my eye with tons of holo sparkles. I like the overall look with the other colors mixed in. It's a fun polish for sure!

Vegas Show Girl

Vegas Show Girl, matte

Vegas Show Girl

Lady Luck: 2 coats plus top coat. Lady Luck was the base for my nail art yesterday. It's a grass green base that almost has a jelly like feel, except it is completely opaque in two coats (yay!). There's some silver flakes and holo glitter as well. It's not as sparkly as Vegas Show Girl, but if that much sparkle isn't for you, then Lady Luck is!

Lady Luck

These polishes will be available soon. You can receive 20% off the polishes with the coupon code ehmkay nails. Minis are 8.5 ml for $4.50 and full size is 17 ml (much bigger than a normal polish) for $9.00.

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It's the weekend, so that means some gorgeous swatch spam. This edition will be show off the gorgeous new China Glaze Rebel collection, with some awesome names from the 90s. It will give you awesome flashbacks, and you'll definitely want to wear these polishes. Head back later for a 90s inspired nail art look!

China Glaze Rebel Collection for Fall 2016: Swatches and Review

Fresh Prince-ss: 3 thin coats plus top coat. This is a sweet pink creme. It's definitely a staple. I actually think it would be opaque in 2 coats, but the regularly 85% humidity is messing with my life. I like this shade of pink because it makes me tan.

Fresh Prince-ss

Don't Mesh with Me: 1 coat over Fresh Prince-ss and 1 coat over Purple Fiction. I wanted to see how this polish looked over light and darker polishes. I feel like this can be opaque in 3-4 coats, but I love it layered over a darker color. It sort of looks dirty over Fresh Prince-ss but it's amazing with Purple Fiction. It's a shimmery purple polish with a pink shift.

Don't Mesh with Me over Fresh Prince-ss

Don't Mesh with Me over Purple Fiction

Pearl Jammin: 3 thin coats. This polish is one of the stars for the collection, for me. I love the pearl blue color with the strong gold shift. I also think this polish would be awesome for a wintry look, and transitions into spring. It's unique for a mainstream as well---I feel like I need a creme version of this shade of blue!

Pearl Jammin

Holo at Ya Girl: 1 coat over Pearl Jammin and 1 coat over Blue-Ya. I also wanted to see how this polish looked over dark and light colors and I like it both ways. Like Don't Mesh with Me, I feel like this can be built up in 3 coats. It's a holo glitter in a strong gold shimmer base.

Holo At Ya Girl over Pearl Jammin

Holo At Ya Girl over Blue-Ya

Dope Taupe: 2 coats. I LOVE this griege color creme. It's just enough between beige and grey that it's super flattering and the forula was buttery. This is WITHOUT top coat. It's self leveling and beautiful. Another favorite for me.

Dopo Taupe

Y'all Red-y For This: 1-2 coats. This is a super pigmented red shimmer polish. Because of that, I had a bit over cuticle staining upon removal, so remove with care. I was able to actually paint 4 nails in one dip of the polish--that's how pigmented it is! I used two for the photos, but you only need one. A classic red with a gorgeous shift.

Y'all Red-y For This

Jagged Little Teal: 2 coats. Ah yes, I listen to Alanis Morrisette on the reg, so I'm down with this. It's a teal creme that is definitely more green than this photo, but it's a true teal creme for the fall. Formula was great and no staining on me!

Jagged Little Teal

Purple Fiction: 2 coats. This is a vibrant purple with a pink shimmer. I think any purple lover will want this and I especially love it with Don't Mesh with Me. Plus...the name!

Purple Fiction

Combat Blue-Ts: 2 coats. This is a rich cobalt blue matte polish and it's really an awesome color. You simply have to work fast when putting down your coats. I also suggest a ridge-filling base coat, because as you see below, it shows it all off!

Combat Blue-Ts

Combat Blue-Ts, with top coat

Teen Spirit: 2 coats. I feel like Kurt Cobain would like this nail polish. It's a dark blue polish with vibrant blue shimmer. But, it's amazing matte. Just look! All the blue shimmer glows when it is matte and bits of purple shimmer show through too. So much love there.

Teen Spirit

Teen Spirit, matte

Blue-Ya: 2 coats. This is similar in looks to Teen Spirit but it has a teal base with strong gold and green shimmer. After I saw how amazing Teen Spirit was matte, I did the same here. AMAZING. Matte-ing the polish just elevates the gorgeous shimmer against the dark base.

Blue-Ya

Blue-Ya, matte

Heroine Chic: 2 coats. This is a fun gunmetal brown metallic with gold and red flakes. It actually surprised me on the nail. It's unique and beautiful, and really, is the epitome of 90s grunge.

Heroine Chic

Heroine Chic, matte

So which are your favorites? Mine are Pearl Jammin, Combat Blue-Ts, Heroine Chic, and Dope Taupe. But I love how the darker colors look matte. It's a cohesive collection and definitely gets me in the mood for fall!

The Rebel Collection is available now with select shades at Ulta and Sally's. The complete collection will be at BeautyPlusSalon.com and retail for $7.50 each.

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Rainbow nail polish collections mean that I definitely NEED to do some kind of fun art. I already did a rainbow dotticure with the Westerosi collection, and now I have some sponging with stamping!

Paint Box Polish Westerosi Collection Nail Art with Born Pretty Water Marble Stamping Plate

First off, the plate comes with protective covering and has 18 designs. For $2.99, that's a great deal. The plate is a play on water marble designs, which I'm confident I can't do on my own, lol.

I added one coat of Paint Box Polish Winter is Coming, and then sponged on all the colors from the collection. You can see the full collection HERE. I added some Girly Bits Border Patrol around my cuticles and sponged on the other 6 collection from the collection.

Paint Box Polish Westerosi Collection Nail Art with Born Pretty Water Marble Stamping Plate

Then I chose one stamp from the plate to use for my water marble. I have never had issues with Born Pretty stamping plates, and I feel like this one works fine. What I do currently have issues with is my stamping polish. :( It seems the extreme heat waves we have been having has caused my stamping polishes, especially black, to dry up. I thinned it a bit, but it was still a sticky mess. I stamped with silver stamping polish, and all the images picked up. So the plate is awesome, my black stamping polish is not. Unfortunately, silver did not show up well over this.

Paint Box Polish Westerosi Collection Nail Art with Born Pretty Water Marble Stamping Plate

I have really wanted to see what the Westerosi collection looks like matte. Well, it looks awesome!

Paint Box Polish Westerosi Collection Nail Art with Born Pretty Water Marble Stamping Plate

This tamping plate can be found HERE and $2.99. I like the variety of designs; I did play with them separately but I was determined to use this stamp. Too bad humidity had other plans.

Born Pretty has a large selection of stamping plates and other nail art needs. You can find all nail stamping plates and other nail tools HERE. If you want to place an order at Born Pretty, you can get 10% off your order with the discount code PDX31 at checkout. As always, shipping is free.

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Let's start off your week with a collection of 6 gorgeous holographic shimmer polishes from Cupcake Polish. Inspired by luaus and the islands, this collection reminds us to enjoy the rest of the summer! And if that weren't enough, I have a coupon code for you at the end of the post for when you order this collection!

Cupcake Polish The Luau Collection

Before I start, I wanted to mention that I used top coat on ALL of the polishes. These are not your standard holos and have gorgeous shimmer, so the top coat elevates the shimmer without diminishing the holo.

Sand By Me: 2 coats. I just have to say how much I love this polish, both indoors and out. It's a golden orange color that is just so flattering with a gold and pink shimmer. I love this polish. It's definitely my favorite and if you can only get one, get this one! I have absolutely nothing like it in my stash.

Sand By Me, direct sunlight

Sand By Me, artificial lighting

Hula Do You Love?: 2 coats. This red is so vibrant. I love that it's more red-orange than straight red. There's a strong gold shimmer. Again, I don't have a red holo this shade WITH shimmer. The shimmers make these totally special. Make sure you wear a base coat--this polish is very pigmented and did stain my nail beds.

Hula Do You Love?, direct sunlight

Hula Do You Love?, artificial lighting

Here Today, Gone to Maui: 2 coats. This is a beautiful shade of grass green, but with holo and shimmer, it's emeralds. It totally reminds me of palm trees on islands. The gold shimmer is beautiful and the holo even freaked out my camera. And a plus, no staining at all.

Here Today, Gone to Maui, direct sunlight

Here Today, Gone to Maui, artificial lighting

Lei Me Down: 2 coats. This is a vibrant purple holo with iridescent blue glitter. It's the only one that has chunkier glitter, but it's still smooth. Because of the glitter, it was a bit thick to apply. Next time, I will probably add thinner. I like addition of the glitter.

Lei Me Down, direct sunlight

Lei Me Down, artificial lighting

The Tiki to My Heart: 2 coats. This one is a bright pink, but it is not neon. I compared it with my bottle of It's Not What You Pink and they are very different. This holo also has a subtle blue shimmer to it.

The Tiki to My Heart, direct sunlight

The Tiki to My Heart, artificial lighting

Be More Pacific: 2 coats. This name made me laugh. It is such a perfect ocean blue on your nails. It looks like jewels on my nails!

Be More Pacific, direct sunlight

Be More Pacific, aritficial lighting

So what do you think of the Luau Collection? I think the inspiration is spot on! My favorites are Sand by Me, Hula Do You Love, Here Today, Gone to Maui, and Be More Pacific. Yes, I realize that's 4 out of 6! These also go together beautifully for nail art--check back tomorrow at 8:30am!

These will retail for $13 and will be available August 28th at 12:00pm CDT. You can use the coupon code COSMOPROF2016 for 15% off your entire purchase. But HURRY, because this code expires on September 1, 2016.

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I showed you swatches of The Luau Collection yesterday and it had me feeling like Hawaiian flowers--or whatever I consider to be Hawaiian flowers! The colors go so well together, so I wanted to do some art.

Cupcake Polish Luau Collection Hawaiian Flower Nail Art

I started with a base of Sand By me, which is my personal favorite of the collection! Then using Hula Do You Love?, The Tiki to My Heart, Be More Pacific, and Lei Me Down, I dotted on flowers by simply doing 5 dots in a circle. Then I went in with Here Today, Gone to Maui and added a dot in the center of each flower and some leaves. It is SO easy! Topped it all off with top coat.

Cupcake Polish Luau Collection Hawaiian Flower Nail Art


Cupcake Polish Luau Collection Hawaiian Flower Nail Art

Cupcake Polish Luau Collection Hawaiian Flower Nail Art

The polishes of the Luau Collection will retail for $13 and will be available August 28th at 12:00pm CDT. You can use the coupon code COSMOPROF2016 for 15% off your entire purchase. But HURRY, because this code expires on September 1, 2016.

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Today I have a NOTD with the new Seche Premier Colour line. This line is brand new and is available now! It's a new system of polish that is at Sally's and Ulta. So let's check it out.

Seche Premier Colour Gifted

Gifted: 2 coats. This is a berry leaning red creme that goes on super smoothly. I used their base coat, which is thin and a bit sticky, so it reminds me of a bonding base coat. The polish itself cures in sunlight, so I feel the base coat helps with that. Then I used the Sealant top coat, which is NOT Seche Vite. You could use Seche Vite, but to ensure you have a lasting manicure, use the Sealant. The Sealant dried pretty fast.

I have to say, I love how this applied. I really like the grips of the handle of the brushes. It helped to make a really clean manicure.

Seche Premier Colour Gifted

And because the color is called Gifted, I had to add some bows to my nails!

Seche Premier Colour Gifted

The Seche Premier Line is available now with select shades at Ulta and Sally's. In October, Sally's will have the complete line of 72 colors.

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It's almost the weekend! And for me, the final weekend before I go back to teaching. I have a full weekend of plans and it will be fun, and then I'll be in full teaching mode! I still have SO much to show you from new brands at Cosmoprof to fall collections, so I'll still be around. Today, I'm showing you two polishes from the new Pirate's Booty Collection from Glisten & Glow. This releases TOMORROW, August 26th and the entire collection includes holos! So let's take a look.

Glisten & Glow Pirate's Booty Collection: Wench's Wadrobe and Blackbeard's Booty

Blackbeard's Booty: 2 coats. This is a blackened linear holographic polish that has gold flakes in it! The gold flakes are sparse but they are there. You can see them more easily in the shade or inside, but as you can see, outside, the holographic flare is so strong! I'll definitely be reaching for this polish for Halloween looks!

Glisten & Glow Blackbeard's Booty

Wench's Wardrobe: 2 coats. This is a blackened purple navy. Sometimes it appears more blue and sometimes it is more purple. It has a great formula, and again, a very strong linear holo. These polishes just blinded my camera!

Glisten & Glow Wench's Wardrobe

Then for fun, I did a gradient of Blackbeard's Booty over Wench's Wardrobe. It's subtle because they are both dark colors, but still pretty!

Glisten & Glow Pirate's Booty Collection: Wench's Wadrobe and Blackbeard's Booty

The Pirate's Booty Collection features four other polishes and releases August 26th at 9pm EST. Check out the links below for more information!

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Hope you've had a great day! I posted a nail look earlier today but I really wanted to share a beauty company today! I've been wearing their eye shadows the last few weeks and now want to share with you some of the colors! I have another palette to show you, but this one is my favorite and these colors are amazing so you need to see!

Ittse is a beauty company based out of San Francisco. I've shown you the company in the Cosmoprof recap HERE. It's a build-your-own palette company and they will be releasing lip colors too! For now, I have 9 eye shadows and two colors for complexion. I'm going to focus on the eye shadows for this post. Basically, with all of their products, you can have a whole face in the palette beyond mascara!

Here is the packaging! It comes with adorable product stickers and each eye shadow is labeled.