Essie Summer 2014

Super fast post for the evening. I just spotted these bottle shots so I put them together with their color names and thought I'd share!



Any favorites?

Aly's Dream Polish: Salmon

Gift

I won a giveaway from Alisha at IG quite a while ago and she sent two beautiful polishes to me!
One of them was an Aly's Dream Polish which I've never tried before! The color is called Salmon and it's the perfect name for it. I was super impressed with the formula, it goes on like butter and was easy to control the brush so I had very minimal clean up. I wore two coats with topcoat in the photos below.





Thanks so much Alisha, I love it!

Simples: Nail Art from Muggle to Mastery

Nothing to disclose

I have joined a new group on Facebook lead by Debbie from The Crumpet blog, its called SIMPLES: Nail Art from Muggle to Mastery. Debbie's aim is to teach various nail art techniques and help us master them. I've been dabbling in nail art but it is quite intimidating so I thought this group would be perfect! She shows one technique per week, and right now we just began week two.

For the first week, the tutorial was for the Accent Nail. I've used Smitten Radiant Orchid for three nails, and then Colors by Llarowe Young Turks topped with Elevation Pata Puffer II as the accent nail. I had a lot of fun choosing the colors and experimenting on a nail wheel for the accent nail. I really like how it turned out!






For the second week, which just began Saturday, the tutuoral is skittle nails! Fun!
For mine, I chose a Memorial Day theme to honor the men and women who've died while serving in our country's armed forces. And while choosing my polishes, I took a look back and 'remembered' some of my older polishes. Index to Pinky: Orly Star Spangled, Lynnderella Snow Angel (an original franken from before she sold polish), China Glaze Dorothy Who, and China Glaze OMG.




I've had a lot fun with this group and would love it if you joined us! You do not need to be a blogger or have a social media presence. Just bring yourself and your polish! :)