Galaxy Nails!

Dear Polish Lovers,

This is a mani I did about a month ago, but I just had to share because I think it is just so stunning!  It is a galaxy design, let me know if anyone want's step by step instructions!  I used Sinful Colors Black, China Glaze Sea Spray, Color Club In Bloom,  China Glaze Dorothy Who?, China Glaze Techno, and China Glaze Fairy Dust.  I love the way this turned out!

Please excuse the little messies :3

-Polish lava

Sally's and Ulta Haul

Polish Lovers,

I have not bought nail polish in quite some time mainly I just have soooo many.  But Ulta was having a buy 2 get 1 free sale on professional brands so I stopped by to pick up 3 Zoyas.

From Left to Right: Lotus, (True Collection), Shelby, Reagan, (Both From the Beach Collection)

I was pretty excited to get some new Zoya's because they are definitely my one of my favorite brands!

Then I stopped at Sally's because I was running low on my top and base coat so I just picked up my usual Seche Vite fast dry top coat, and I usually use Nail Life Gripper base coat, but they were sold out, so I decided to get a ridge filling base coat instead.

Then I found I had a gift card I had forgotten about so I treated myself to some China Glazes :)

From Left to Right: Exotic Encounters (On Safari Collection), Seduce Me (Permanent), Life Preserver, and First Mate, (Both of which were from Anchors Away but are now permanent).  

I'm sure you'll be seeing these in upcoming posts but let me know if there are any swatches or comparisons you would like to see!

-Polish Lava

Accent Nails!

My fellow polish lovers,

I am so sorry I have been the worst blogger ever!  School was so crazy but now it's summer, and I will be posting more for sure!  I also just got a new camera so quality should improve :)

Today I have a simple blue combo (blue is my favorite color on my nails).  The light blue color is What's with the cattitude by OPI (shrek collection) and the dark blue is First Mate by China Glaze (anchors away collection but is now permanent at Sally's Beauty Supply).  Then I added some hexagonal silver glitters that i purchased off of ebay.  Simple but I've really been loving adding something different to my ring finger!!!

I hope you are all having a wonderful summer and I'll be posting soon!

-Emma xx

Quick Color: Essie One Day Without Blues

Long time no blog!

I appologize for being MIA for so long, its just high school is so busy!  Ive had loads of work with AP Classes and tons of music festivals and life guard training, gah you get it, no time to blog.  Anyway!  This also means I haven't had too much time for nail art which is a bummer because I do miss it.  But I'm going to try to make some time for myself to do it.  But for now, here is a swatch of Essie One Day Without Blues.  I don't think you can actually buy this because I got it from a promo when I got a pair of TOMS shoes a while back.  I've actually had it for about 3 months and never used it because I didn't think it was too stunning.  But when I applied it I was like OMG.  This has to be my favorite blue, it's even beat out Orly Snowcone.  LOVE!

The picture was from my iPhone so not idea, but its all I had on me.  

Hope to post soon!

-Polish Lava

Zoya Malia and Crackle

Hey Polish Addicts,

School is out for me so I should get back to posting about every five days! Woop.  So here is a quick post with Zoya Malia as a base, and China Glaze Black Mesh crackle on top.  I really like the way the crackle was applied because it wasn't too thin where you can't see enough base color, or to thick.

PS  Malia is like my favorite purple ever ;)

-Polish Lava

New Puppy and Simple Nail Art

Polish Addicts,

I have been the worst blogger ever -_-.  But my life has been busy!! For nails I have 2 coats of Orly Snowcone (tied for my favorite blue ever along with zoya yummy.)  and I just used LA Colors Art Deco in White and Gold Glitter to make simple little stripes.  I did a lot of peoples nails for proms and this was a design i used a lot.  Enjoy!

This is my new best friend.

:)

-Polish Lava

Update and Easter Nails and Fashion Blog!

Hey Guys!!!

So I know I haven't posted in literally forever.  And I'm so sorry!! But I have been so busy with school and traveling that I just haven't had time.  First, I created a little blog to share my new favorite thing (after nails) which is fashion!  I don't really want this blog to be too popular... but I just like it for even my personal self to just share my facination!! It's http://emmasfashionadventures.blogspot.com/ so go check it out!  Here are my easter nails!! Sorry for the weird pic.... I really didn't have time to go out and use my camera because it's also been giving me some trouble... so I took a picture on my macbook... weird I know but you get the idea!!  The pointer finger is Color Club Take Me to Your Chateau with white acrylic paint for the bunny and migi pens for the face, middle finger is OPI Rumple's Wiggin' with migi pens for the egg design, ring finger is China Glaze Lemon Fizz with migi pens for the face, pinkey Icing Casino Green and migi pens for the design, thumb is OPI What's With the Cattitude with acrylic white paint for the clouds, the grass is La Colors Art Deco Mint Green, and the eggs in the grass are migi pens.  Enjoy and I will get back to my normal posting and normal pics... lol.

-Polish Lava

My Little Monster Friends

Hey Polish Addicts,

I hadn't really done any cool nail art in a while so I decided to make little balls with eyes becuase I thought it would be cute.  I started with a white base and used migi pens for the lil friends.

-Polish Lava

Meteor Shower and Lightening Bolt

Hey Polish Addicts,

Today I have 2 coats of Meteor Shower by China Glaze.  I had heard different things about this color on the internet before I bought it.  When I got it, the color looked perfect.  It is a dark blue jellyish consistancy with many different glitter pieces in it.  The glitter is kinda chunky but with good topcoat, it's all good.  I used some crackle, Lightening Bolt by China Glaze.  I was kinda dissapointed that the glitter didn't really show to well with the crackle.... Oh well!

Seriously, enlarge the meteor shower pics.  It's gorg.

-Polish Lava

Fun With Crackle

Hey Polish Addicts,

Here is a post using Broken Hearted from China Glaze Crackle.  It's a pink shatter and if you don't live in a hole, you probably know about this collection :)  The base color is Color Club Twiggie from the Poptastic collection and I'm totally in love with this mani.  It reminds me of watermellons in the summer time.

I like

-Polish Lava

Nautical Nails and HUGE Haul

Hey Polish Addicts,

I feel like it's been quite some time since I've done something actually cool with my nails.  So here are some nautical themed nails.  Base color is 3 coats of white cap by china glaze.  Then I made the plaid design on all fingers but the ring, with la colors art deco in Red and Blue Sapphire.  I used some golden steel beads to for and anchor on the ring finger and I don't think it looks half bad!

Now onto the haul part!!! This is a two part haul from transdesign.com!  Enjoy :)

 Anchor's away collection: L to R; Lighthouse, SeaSpray, White Cap

 China Glaze Glitters L to R; Meteor Shower, Electric Lilac, Carnival Lights, Medallion

 

China Glaze Glitters: L to R; Techno, Polar Ice, Nova, Shooting Stars

 China Glaze Crackle: L to R; Crushed Candy, Fault Line, Broken Hearted

China Glaze Crackle: L to R; Black Mesh, Lightening Bolt, Cracked Concrete

I have some great color crackle combos that I can't wait to post!!!

-Polish Lava

Teenage Dream with Hearts!!!

Hey Polish Addicts!

I've reached over 100 followers!!! Thank you guys so much :)  Anyway!  This is 3 coats of Teenage Dream by OPI from the katy Perry collection.  This is the only color that I picked up because none of the other ones really interested me.  I really liked it and I think this will be my valentines day mani.  Then I added some konad (pinky m65, ring and thumb m59, middle and pointer m3) using sinful colors black on black.  This is a little random story but so weird.  So I went up to my room to grab my camera to take a pic, and I turned on the radio and the song Teenage Dream was on.  I started freaking out.  Okay end of story :)

-Polish Lava

China Glaze Phat Santa

Hey Polish Addicts,

All of this snow... well.  I haven't really been inspired to do anything cool.  So here it is... Ugh. 2 coats of CG Phat Santa from the Tis the Season to be Naughty or Nice collection.  Its a deeper tomato red jelly.  I really like this!!! It looked nice and neat.  I just added some white stripes on my pinky using la colors art deco in white. *thats what I do when I don't know what else to do....*

Sorry for the lameness.

-Polish Lava

China Glaze Crackle Preorder Transdesign

GO GO GO!  China glaze crackle collection is available for preorder right now!! I am getting all of the colors along with sea spray because it's back in stock lol :).  They ship on the 11th which is totally great for me because origionally they were available for order on the 15th.  I have seen some swatches and I have a feeling that these are going to go fast!!!!!!

-Polish Lava

http://transdesign.com/

Zoya Indigo and Konad m64

Hey Polish Addicts,

I received Zoya Indigo like 2 weeks ago from that FB promotion and i decided to use it.  When I saw it in the bottle I was so excited because it was a deep blue which is always amazing, but it looked sooo packed with holographic particle glitter.  But when I applied it, the glitter was buried :( bummer.  So I added some konad using Clarie's Platinum and plate m64.  Don't mind the terrible konad, i haven't done it in like a few months so I kinda forgot how to do it. LOL.

-Polish Lava

Nfu Oh Flakie 56

Hey Polish Addicts,

This is 2 coats of Nfu Oh 56 over 3 coats of Sinful Colors Sanfansisco.  It was a pretty thick mani but the end results were awesome :).  God I love flakies.  I want moreeeee!  Enlarge the first pic to see how deep the flakies are.

Quick Funky French

Hey Polish Addicts!!

Quick Post!  2 coats of LA color art deco sky blue for the tips (freehand) and some clear for some little dark blue rhinestones in the half moon!  I like this :)

Stormy Nails

Hey Polish Addicts,

This was kind of a fail... but I figured I would post it anyway :/  This is three coats of China Glaze Recycle and then I used migi pens for the clouds and kinda filling it in with another white to make it look puffy and cloud like... then I used migi pen in yellow for the lightening and Zoya Yummy for the rain drops.  Eh... this is kinda bad :(

-Polish Lava

Snow Leapord Nails

Hey Polish Addicts,

Where I live we got like legit 21 inches of snow.  It's insane.  So I was inspired to do these snow leapord print nails.  I used 3 coats of CG white on white, Zoya Trixie for the silver spots, and a black striper from icing to outline the silver.  I like it a lot :)  Happy snow days :)!

-Polish Lava

Orly Royal Navy and Nfu Oh 52

Hey Polish Addicts,

This is a combo that I had swatched before and knew it looked amazing but had never done a full mani. Well here it is!  I used 2 coats of Orly Royal Navy which is stunning on its own.  Then I added 2 coats of Nfu Oh 52 which is a gorgeous blue/purpley jelly base with reflecting green flakies.  I wanted this to come out blue, because if you just use 52 on it's own, it has a more purple appearance which was not what I was going for.  I love me some flakies... Enjoy!
Enlarge for detail!
-Polish Lava