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Yes, more neon nails! But this time using the entire China Glaze Lite Brites collection. That's right, I used another 12-piece set for one mani.


For my index and middle fingers I used every shade with the exception of Papa Don't Peach and We Got The Beet.


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It's not officially summer yet (summer solstice is June 20th by the way) but I've got some very summer ready nails using both Seashells (PixieDusts) and Sunsets (crèmes). I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've used an entire twelve-piece collection for a mani so let's get to it shall we?


My original plan was to swatch these collections the same way I've swatched other Zoya 12-piece sets, but then I got the idea for this mani.


My index and middle fingers are a water marble using all six crèmes from the Sunsets collection while the rest are all hand painted stripes using all six PixieDusts from the Seashells collection.


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It's that time of year again when Zoya releases their transitional collection of lacquers. What is "transitional collection," you ponder? Essentially, they're the collection that is released in between--hence the term transition--the winter/holiday collection and the spring collection. With all that being said, let us just move on to the nail art. Shall we?


I wasn't entirely too sure as to what I wanted to do with this collection, but ultimately I landed at attempting to water marble with the Whispers collection.

I was really hoping the transitional collections would be more satins like last year. (Press release HERE & nail art HERE.) But hey, this collection is still pretty decent on it's own.

Are you down with transition collections? Or do you prefer the jump from winter straight into summer? Let me know in the comments.
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The pics taken inside my lightbox don't do the holographic loveliness any justice.

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As you all know, I am an absolute sucker for neon nail polish so my hunt for Color Club's Poptastic Pastel Neon collection was on from the first day I saw them online.


Ever since, I've been heavily stalking my favorite local polish retailer until I could finally call those babies my own.  Weeks passed and I finally asked an employee when they would have them in stock. In short, her answer was, "don't know, we might, we might not." With my little polish tale tucked between my legs I went home and had to find them elsewhere.
A week or so later I find the entire collection online for $29 plus free shipping! And here we are with today's post.


I did a water marble--as non-uniform as it may be--on my index, middle, and pinky fingers. As for my thumb and ring finger, I sponged the colors on.

Press Sample Last Thursday night, in between Scandal commercials, I sat down to play with another set of nail vinyls. (That ended up being a fail btw.) So this time I started over, added in a water marble accent nails using the entire Barielle Colour Me Couture collection.


The lacquers in this collection varied in opacity (as you can tell from the sheer parts of the water marble), but my favorite shade is the green lacquer on my pinky, Boho Chic.

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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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Have you ever water marbled with neons? And then tried to photograph it? Tell me about it in the comments.
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Press Sample Tonight I've got a mani using three of Pixi Nail Colours most recent shades that is perfect for all the upcoming Christmas and New Year's souirees. You ready?


I started with a white base color and decided to water marble with Pixi Precious Pewter (gray with silver-gold micro glitter), Charcoal Celebration (deep charcoal shimmer), and my favorite, Deepest Dahlia (intense deep burgundy plum).


I really love this purple toned oil slick effect, so much that I've been wearing it for the past five days. What can I say? When I create a mani I really like, I find it really hard for me to remove it.


Pixi Nail Colours are retail for $8 each at Target, Target.com, and PixiBeauty.com!

What do you think of this deep oil slick look?
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Press Sample As some of you may know, me and water marbles have a hit or miss relationship. Sometimes they come out exactly the way I plan and others, well, just don't. While my intent for this mani was complete uniformity I ended up with a look that is, without a doubt, abstract.


I used four New York Colors for this mani. Three from the Long Wearing Nail Enamel line and one from the In a New York Color Minute Quick Dry line.

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Nothing To Disclose You ever find yourself just looking through your polish (read: making sure all of your pretties are safe and sound and nothing happened to them while no one was home for eight to ten hours) and just finding the perfect combination of colors? Well folks, that just happened for me.

Last night on Instagram, I shared this photo.
And the rest is what brings us here now.



I absolutely love the outcome of these nails. The slight unevenness of the black and white checker board and how it smudged a bit after I applied top coat seemed to fit in with the water marble turned out.



 I should probably mention what colors I used for this manicure eh? Here we go...


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Press Sample Yes, you read the title right. I have made the attempt at yet another water marble.

If you've been following me for the last two years, you'll notice water marbles and I aren't really besties. I don't try them to often, but without practice I'll never get better. Catch 22 much?

So with this post I try to bring out my inner My Simple LittlePleasures aka the Queen of Water Marbles!

I used four shades from La Couleur Couture for this look and they are 1963, 1964, 1968, and 1977.
I was pretty scared that my nails wouldn't come out great, only because I'm not very good with the particular technique in question, but I ventured on! What I found out is that these shades are absolutely great for water marbling. They spread so well and didn't dry immediately before I could make some sort of pattern in the center of the bullseye. I can't begin to tell you the numerous occasions I've encountered that by the way.

In the end I really loved the way this one turned out! Is it uniform? Nope, but that wasn't what I was going for.

La Couleur Couture (often referred to as la cc) is vegan friendly and retails for $14 on laccbeauty.com as well as Llarowe.


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