Phone Case Inspired Manicure

Hello Lacquer Luvers! I hope you all are having a fantastic week thus far. Today I have a pretty cool mani to share with you all. Last week I received a new phone in the mail after having to replace my old one. We got a new puppy a few months ago and let's just say she thought that my phone was her chew toy. Bad Cookie (our puppy's name)! So I got to upgrade my Samsung Dart to a Samsung Galaxy S Blaze. I love my new phone! We took a trip to the mall and I picked up a pretty case for it and it is the inspiration for my manicure today.

Isn't that cute?! I love the colors and the design of my new case. I have caught myself staring at it a couple times this week and thought that it would be a really awesome design to have on my nails. I got around to trying it today, so let's get to the mani, shall we?

For this manicure, I began with a base of Essie Grow Faster. I used 2 coats of Bettina Secret Garden as the base color for this manicure. Secret Garden is a gorgeous berry toned purple that looks amazing on warm skin tones. The application and formula for this creme is flawless.

I then got out all of my stamping plates and narrowed down three images that would help me translate the case to my nails. First I used Red Angel image plate RA-116 and Bettina Giacinto to stamp on the leaves. Giacinto is a gorgeous pink creme with purple undertones and is part of Bettina's new Flori Collection. Next I stamped on a couple of the same leaf images from RA-116 using Konad Special Stamping Polish in white on my nails. I then used the white special polish and RA-115 to stamp on a few scroll-looking images and my BM06 plate by Bundle Monster was used for the flowers. I completed this mani with a coat of Good To Go topcoat by Essie.

I am seriously loving this manicure! I think it goes really well with my phone case and the colors are all gorgeous. Sometimes I look at my stash of plates and wonder why I have so many. When you can mix and match them and be able to come up with something like this it all makes sense to have such a great variety. Have you ever tried to replicate your phone case on your nails? I would love to know what you think of this manicure so please leave a comment below. As always, I hope you all liked this post my dear Lacquer Luvers and I look forward to sharing my next post with you, xo!

~Jessica

It's Pink Wednesday!!!

Hello Lacquer Luvers! It's the middle of the week and that means it's PINK WEDNESDAY! Today I have a post for you all with a color that I used in a water marble before. I'm using one of the polishes Ty gifted me for Valentine's Day, Sinful Colors Oasis. I hope you all are ready for a pretty pink mani =)

My mani today began with a base of Essie Grow Faster followed by two coats of Sinful Colors Oasis. Oasis is a vibrant shade of pink that has some purple shimmer throughout it which gives it some depth. This color is really pretty and you can't beat the fact that it's easy to find at Walgreens for $1.99, right? The formula is good, I got away with opaqueness at just two coats & I really like Sinful's brushes.

Next I applied one coat of this Prisma Luminous Color polish over Oasis. This lovely has no name and although I do not have it, I believe it may be a dupe (or close enough) to OPI's Teenage Dream. I got this in a pack of 7 at Ross for $5.99. It's a clear base with varying sizes of glitter that are pink, silver, and larger pieces of holographic glitter. This lovely is great for layering.

For nail art I went and stamped two different flower images on my nails from the first set of plates by Bundle Monster. I used BM06 on my pinky, middle, and thumb fingers & BM03 on my ring and index fingers using Konad Special Stamping Polish in white. I topped this mani off with a coat of Good To Go by Essie.

I think this mani is cute and appropriate for Spring. I realized after reading a few other blogs that I haven't done a first day of Spring mani. I guess that's because it feels like Summer down here, lol! I would love to know what you all think of my Pink Wednesday manicure for the day so please leave a comment below. As always, I hope you all liked this post my dear Lacquer Luvers and I look forward to sharing my next post with you, xo!

~Jessica

Sunday Spam: Bettina & Nail Art

Hello Lacquer Luvers! For today's post, I want to share some of my previous photos with you. Before I began this blog, I created my Facebook & Twitter pages where I would share my nail art with friends. I wanted to share these photos with all of you, too!

In May of 2011, I went to the Miami Beauty Show which was held at Miami Beach Convention Center. It was my first time ever going to something like this and I was so excited. At the show, there was a booth that immediately caught my eye!

I saw this pink, & all of these pretties and immediately made my way through the crowd! The only other place I have ever seen Bettina before this was on Cristina's blog, Let Them Have Polish. I was really, really excited to see that they were there and making their debut in South Florida at the show. Here's a pic of one of

the displays there:

At the show, I picked up a few of these & my only regret after coming home was not grabbing one of each one they had! I have been wanting more of them ever since I left and when I recently found out that they were being sold at a local drugstore chain, Navarro, I made my where there! Every time I go out I try to stop and get a few of these. I am happy to be seeing them more around here & hope to start seeing the newest collections in stores soon.

So, on to the photos! Some of you may have seen these, some of you may have not. Either way, I hope you all are enjoying this post =)

Bettina Green Apple from the Candy Collection

Bettina Green Apple & Konad M63

Bettina Purple & Konad M64

Bettina French 3 from the French Collection, KleanColor White for the tips

Bettina Mojito from the Resort Collection

Bettina Mojito Feather Mani

Bettina Orion from the Stars Collection

Bettina Orion & BornPrettyStore M72, french tips with Wet N Wild's Ebony Hates Chris

Bettina Over Dyed from the Jeans Collection

Bettina Over Dyed & BM03 + BM06



Bettina Sand Blast from the Jeans Collection

Bettina Sand Blast & BM224

Bettina Purple from the Art Deco Collection

I will try to reformat my pics later so that the Bettina Purple photos are together, I am still new to this and trying to figure everything out =) I hope you all enjoyed this post Lacquer Luvers & I look forward to sharing tomorrow's post with you, xo!

~Jessica