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I started of with three coats of Cult Cosmetics Coachella. Cult Cosmetics describes Coachella as a holographic top coat, but from my experience with it, it's easily built to full opacity.


After I was finished with my Coachella base, I went on to paint the top half of my nails with Cult Cosmetics Avalon.


Next, I diagonally painted a section using Cult Cosmetics Laguna.


Laguna, Avalon, and the white nail striper are in the Tribal Treasures Kit ($9.99), while Coachella is available for purchase separately ($9.99) on CultCosmetics.com.

For $19.99+shipping per month you can become a Cult Cosmetic member and get a new Blackbox delivered to your door.

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Nothing To Disclose If you've peeped the teaser photo I posted on Instagram & Facebook you may have seen this coming, but either way I'm sure you're going to love it!


 
Today brings us another member to the When Nails Imitate Art gang, and I chose Thug Wife by Sue Tsai.


About a month ago I was sitting at work at sketched out what design I wanted I wanted on each nail, and on Wednesday night I finally took the time to bring it to life.


I used a bunch of different lacquers so I'll listed them underneath the product porn pic. If you have any questions as to what shades I used on what nail, please ask in the comments and I'll tell you.


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Press Sample|Affiliate Link Along with getting ready for my first semester of college since January 2011, I've been catching up on previous Nail Art Society Kits, so today let's take a look back at May 2014 NAS kit







This kit was packed with goodies so I'm just going to list them below in no particular order.


I wanted something delicate but out of the ordinary; edgy but not super ostentatious. So I started by painting my nails with Jessica Surfer Boyz N' Berry.

After my base color was completely dry--I found out the hard way that using these pens while your polish is even slightly dentable is an absolute no-no. Unless you like really horrid looking smudges.--I drew half moons at the base of my nail beds using the Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen.


Because I needed to add something to make these nails more dramatic, I layered The Créme Shop Nail Appliqués over the entire mani to complete the look.

Quick note about these appliqués is that the removal instructions say, "[w]ash hands with soap and gently peel off." With that being said, these babies are really only good until you wash your hands, so plan your mani accordingly.


Nail Art Society is a monthly subscription box where you can have dope, pre-selected nail art goods curated by NAS Artists delivered to your door for $11.95/month. Fly nails your cup of tea? Sign up here.


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Since we're on the subject of wedding nails, click here to see the rest of my manicures dedicated to holy matrimony.
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Press Sample Earlier this week I sat down to water marble with neons. The water marble itself wasn't the issue, however, photographing said neon water marble was. But because I love you guys, I tried--really, really hard.


Before I started this water marble of Plum Sorbet, Tickled Pink, Haute Pink, Flamingo Flair, and Traffic Cone; I laid down two coats of Sugar Cube.

In real life the colors are more saturated and it's make easier to see the difference between the four shades used for this mani. For swatches of the colors individually click here and here.

Each shade Salon Perfect shade retails for $3.98 at Walmart.

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As of late, I've been going thru some screen shots on my phone and saw these nails by This Is Venice on IG, and at that moment I knew I had to recreate them. And here we are with another round of Swagger Jackin!



I used quite a few different polishes for this mani so I'll just list them with the corresponding pictures.



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Entice & Ignite
FALL 2014-COLOR SEDUCTION 

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Press Sample It's Friday! Now if only that meant anything to me other than I still have to be at work tomorrow morning. Anyway I've two nail art looks using Pixi Nail Colours.

The first is a Victoria's Secret-esque striped mani done in  Fuchsia Dew and  Pink Peony


The base color of Fuchsia Dew is much darker and less neon with a hint of gold shimmer, but my camera refused to accept the aforementioned facts. While Pink Peony is a a super opaque raspberry crème that reaches full coverage in one coat. (I wore it for a week with the intent of swatching it for you guys and then I went to bed and didn't take pics of it the next day.)

I almost forgot to mention that the two colors used are actually very shiny, but I added a matte top coat for a different look.


The second look is a border mani using Lime Lustre, Sizzling Sunshine, and Oh SO Orange.


When I first glanced at these colors, my immediate favorite was Lime Lustre, but that all changed once I applied Oh So Orange. Oh So Orange is a crazy bright neon orange that reaches full opacity in two coats without a base white base color. Oh and it dries to a shiny finish on its own. Girrrrrrrrl! Why can't every single neon nail polish be just like this? When I tell you I instantly got re-hyped about this polish just talking about it, I am not even close to kidding.

Pixi Nail Colour retails for $8 on PixiBeauty.com and Target.



Press Sample If you decide to only own only one Pixi Nail Colour make it Oh So Orange! You'll love it!
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