Spring Nails

So China Glaze was recently on sale at Sally's so I felt the need to pick these two colors up from their City Flourish collection. My past experiences with China Glaze has not been good, but I loved the colours so I bought them anyway...

I should have known, China Glaze always has the prettiest colours and the worst formula, I found with "In a Lilly Bit" especially that it was very streaky and when you tried to put on the second/third coat it would drag off the previous coat.

Petal to the Metal is a darker neon coral and leans more pink than Flip Flop Fantasy, if that is to bright for you, and was a bit easier to apply.

With China Glaze you always need a glossy top coat because their formula just doesn't perform, however they have the best neon shades in the game, so will this stop me from purchasing China Glaze, no probably not. I'm a sucker for the pretty colours and just can't stop.

Just warning you guys, but won't these just be so cute on the toes?!

Revlon Nail Art Event

                                                       

 If you are following me on Twitter or Instagram, you may have noticed that last week I attended a Revlon Nail Art event. It was amazing, I'm so used to seeing UK bloggers always go to events, and never while I was sitting in my room and randomly decided to sign up for Revlon's: Revlon Selects program that 1. I would get picked and 2. that I would actually be invited to an event. So cool! Anyways, so a bunch of us were invited to Tips Nail Bar owned by the lovely Leeanne Colley, Revlon Canada's nail expert.

If you havent seen in stores Revlon has released three Nail art collections, Expressionist which has regular polish on one side, and a skinny nail art brush on the other, Moon Candy, which has regular polish on one side and glitterish polish that creates a "3D cosmic effect" and finally Neon with white on one end and a neon colour on the other, which you may remember from last summer!

They had plenty of delicious snacks and drinks for us, as we all introduced ourselves to one another. Then we got into the good stuff, they gave us each a goody bag of tools and introduced the collections to us. And then as pictured below we got to admire Leeanne Colley's skills as she demonstrated on Shawna ways to use each.

Then we were able to just run wild with the products and just play for a couple hours!

And this is what we got to take home! Clearly there is going to be a lot of Revlon in my upcoming posts, its amazing! So many new things to try! One of the coolest and most simple things that we were shown was how to create and easy ombre with this collection or just a striper you have at home.

The first picture below was done by Leeanne on me with Monet Monet where she literally just drew lines down the nails and focused more on the top to create the ombre effect, the final picture is my attempt at recreating it! So simple and so pretty, how amazing would this look for St. Patricks day if you just put a clover as an accent nail or left it as is. 

I had such an amazing time, and can't wait to show you guys the collections and want to say thank you to the lovely ladies at Revlon who set this up for all of us nail fiends. 

Lace and Neon

What I have been wearing the majority of summer is jean cut offs and crop tops. It may not be the classiest ensemble but when it is 30+ degrees I don't care.

The shirt I got on sale from American Eagle marked down to $9.99 and they had 30% off sale items! woop woop!The shorts don't come off as bright as they are, but I love them. And I'm obsessed with the back of the shirt with the lace detailing.

I always wonder when reading some blogs, how do they stand the heat in some of the layered outfits girls wear in the summer? What has been your guys' summer staples? 

Sponge Nails

As many of you have probably seen on all over Pinterest, I decided to try out the Makeup Sponge technique...

This is what I came up with and I quite like the technique, its simple and not overwhelmingly time consuming.

As you can see I put down a layer of white, and I made it sloppy because I didnt think it would make a difference, but it definitely does. You need to make the base layer opaque. Then i just pressed the sponge over the nail. To make it easier you could cut the sponge to fit your nail for less clean up, but I didnt bother.

I used Joe Fresh Butter, Revlon Perfect Pink and China Glaze Shocking Pink.

I think the best part of this kind of nail art is that it is just as simple to do the right hand as it is the left which is what I tend to struggle with with nail art.

Its super fun and can incorporate many trends like colorblocking, ombre, and colour trends like neons or mint or whatever colours are "in" at the time.