Nail of the Day! Video & Blog Info! :)

Hope you lovelies are all having a great day! Click the video to watch how I achieved the nail look in the post below! I'll tell you what products I used, and how to properly use them! :) 

VIDEO

PICTURES & Details

Products Used For This Look:

-Target brand "up and up" acetone nail polish remover (Target)

-Nail brush (You can get them at any drugstore, Target, Walmart, or Ulta)

-Just a minute 60 Second Manicure Scrub by True Blue Spa (Bath and Body Works)

-Sally Hansen Instant Cuticle Remover (Maximum Strength) (Target, Walgreens)

-OPI Natural Base Coat (Ulta, Target, www.opi.com)

-Essie: "Off the Shoulder" (Target, Ulta, Walgreens,  www.essie.com)

-Wet n' Wild "Flossy Flossy" (Fergie Line)...on accent nail (Walgreens)

-Sephora Nail Polish Corrector (Sephora)

-Revlon Quick Dry Top Coat; 960 (Target, Ulta, Walgreens)

-Sephora's Stimulating Lavender Cuticle Oil

-True Blue Spa Glycolic Acid Cracked Heel Treatment "Heel of Approval" (B&BW)

-LaCross nail clippers 

-nail file (Sally's Beauty Supply, Target...you can find them anywhere!)

-Tropical Shine mini 4-way Buffer (Sally's Beauty Supply)

-Toe Separators (Target, Walmart, Walgreens, Ulta) 

-Lush's "Lemony Flutter" Cuticle Butter (Lush, www.lush.com)

Today's nail look! 

(Not the best manicure I've ever given myself, oh well!)

Holding Wet n' Wild's Fergie polish in "Flossy Flossy" (Used on accent nail)

Another view! 

*Trio of Awesomeness!)*

-True Blue Spa: Just a Minute: 60 Second Manicure Scrub

-True Blue Spa: Glycolic Acid Cracked Heel Treatment "Heel of Approval"

-Lush's Lemony Flutter Cuticle Butter

Essie's "Off The Shoulder" 

Wet n' Wild (Fergie line) "Flossy Flossy"

O.P.I. Natural Nail Base Coat

Revlon Quick Dry Top Coat

(I REALLY like this quick dry top coat; it doesn't make polish peel like a lot of other ones do.)

Revlon Quick Dry Top Coat : 960

Sally Hansen's Instant Cuticle Remover 

(Maximum Strength)

-Target's "up and up" acetone nail polish remover

-Sephora Nail Polish Corrector

-Sephora Stimulating Lavender Cuticle Oil

Nail Goodies!

Lydia's Tip: Don't forget to keep your nail tools clean by sanitizing them after each use! Be sure to swipe all nail tools with an alcohol pad after each use to nix bacteria in its tracks! 

Nail of the Day!

It's mani/pedi time again! Here are the products I used in today's pictures: 

-Sample of Sally Hansen's Nail and Cuticle Hand Cream -(I got this for free! It was a bonus item attached to a Sally Hanson salon manicure polish a few months back when I was at Walgreens. It works pretty well; I've used the entire tube up!)

-OPI BaseCoat (one coat)

-Essie's "bikini so teeny" (two coats)

-Essie's "pure pearlfection" Luxe Effects topcoat (two coats)

-Revlon Quick Dry Top Coat (one coat)

-Sephora Nail Polish Corrector pen

-Toe separators (I'm can't remember where I got these from; I've had them quite a while! (Maybe Target or Ulta?). I had to be careful with these since my right pinkie toe is broken, but I was still able to work around it). 

Essie's "Pure Pearlfection" luxeffects topcoat (left) and Essie's "bikini so teeny" (right)

Indoor lighting (The color is really a little darker than the picture conveys)

Natural outdoor lighting (The polish is appearing true to color here)

Another view in natural lighting...

I am VERY pleased with these polishes! No streaking, bubbling, chipping, clumping, or any issues like that! Very good quality polishes; this is one of the main reasons I prefer Essie compared to most other polishes. (The "bikini so teeny" polish can be just a tiny pinch runny,not streaky, just a little runny, so apply with a light hand. I would recommend letting it dry a bit between coats!) The "Pure Pearlfection" luxe effects top coat is absolutely gorgeous and gives the perfect amount of flattering shimmer to any polish. I LOVE it! 

Product Review: Nail Polish - Sally Hansen's Salon Manicure: "Barricuda"

I am a nail polish addict. I go through nail polish like some drug addicts go through crack. (Sadly, I'm not even joking!). Along the way, I've found quite a few brands and shades that I tend to favor. My favorites include: Essie, OPI, Butter, Revlon, and Zoya, and some Wet n' Wild shades.


About a year ago, I tried out one of the Sally Hansen Salon Manicure polishes at the urging of a friend who insisted the shade was "The perfect Tiffany's blue!". So, I bought it and tried it out. Although I liked the color, I was not impressed with the performance. That polish sat unused for quite a while, until I decided to pick it back up again today and give it another try.

Now, I am certain: I HATE IT! 

It is quite possibly one of the worst nail polishes that I have ever used...EVER! (This, coming from the girl who enjoyed painted fingernails in Kindergarden!). It is horrendous! It is a terrible polish to try and work with to achieve a uniform look on each nail. (I know the picture below isn't the best, but after a gazillion attempts to make this polish "work", I just called it a day!The accent nail color is: "Revlon- Blue Mosaic"- I LOVE that polish, but it looks horrid in the picture below because I tried to work with it on top of the "Barracuda"- yeah, not so much!) Check out my nails: you can clearly see bubbles all over the place! (I always roll my polish gently before I use it to prevent bubbles; I never shake it.)

Why I dislike this polish:

-It streaks

-It bubbles

-It smudges

-It does not apply evenly

-It takes numerous coatss to get one opaque coat

-It wears/chips easily

(Do I REALLY need to continue?) 

The ONLY positive: it is a pretty blue shade. 

I'm not sure what happened when they designed this polish, but something went horrifically wrong! Now that being said, I actually like the Sally Hansen Salon Effects line. I have numerous other shades that are absolutely stunning, apply well, and wear well. (As a matter of fact, the last "Nail of the Day" that I posted, I was wearing one of them!). I have NEVER had an issue with any other shade from that specific line, only the "Barracuda" one. I'm not sure if I just got a "dud" or what. Either way, I thought it was worth mentioning in my review today. There are countless other polishes on the market in "Tiffany blue" shades that look gorgeous AND preform well. So, given that, I would recommend skipping "Barracuda" and instead going  with a different brand when it comes to this shade of blue! (My guess is that maybe the very first "Salon Effects" to hit the market weren't the best; I have four other shades from that line that I absolutely LOVE and they preform well. (I purchased those recently, so maybe the newer ones are better in their formulation? I don't know!)