Celebrating Earth Day 2013 With Zoya Josie, Rocky, & The Earth Day Exchange!

Hello Lacquer Luvers! Today is Earth Day and I'm celebrating with a few of the beauties from the Zoya Stunning Collection that I shared with you yesterday. My manicure today was totally inspired by these colors and the earth itself and I am really happy to share it with you!

I began with a base of Essie Feed Me followed by two coats of Zoya Josie. Josie is described as a grassy green cream which made her quite appropriate for today. I then applied one coat of Jordana Cosmic over Josie. Cosmic's blue, green, and silver glitters are like putting the earth, sky and clouds in a bottle, amazing!

My favorite flower images from BornPrettyStore's M72 plate and Konad Special Stamping Polish in White were stamped on all of my nails. I used Zoya Rocky and BM312 on my accent finger. Konad white and my new W104 plate by Winstonia  were used for the words "Earth Day."

Gotta love the macro shot!

How beautiful is that vibrant hibiscus? It's my absolute favorite flower and looked even more stunning (cheesy pun intended) than my manicure next to it.

Zoya is giving us polishaholics a way to do our part for Earth Day. By joining in the 2013 Earth Day Exchange you get to rid your old toxic nail polish in an earth-friendly way and exchange them for brand new Big5Free Zoya polishes! Please click on the link here for full details and hurry as this offer ends April 26. 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    

~*Pink Wednesday*~

Hello Lacquer Luvers! I hope you all are having a great week so far. I must say, I am in a GREAT mood today! It is Wednesday and you all know what that means - pink, pink, pink!! =)

I began my manicure today with a base of Essie Grow Faster. Once dry, I applied three coats of Island Fuchsia by Jordana. I LOVE this pink! It is a lovely shade that leans a bit towards a dusty purple. This pretty has opalescent shimmer in it that is just so much fun to look at. The formula for this polish is
great! I could've gotten away with two coats, however, Last Chance (the green I reviewed in yesterday's post) stained my nails so bad that I had to use 3 coats to cover it up.

Ooooh the shimmerrrr!! For nail art, I used a pretty flower design from BundleMonster's image plate BM221. I used my white Konad Special Stamping Polish for this design.

I can't tell you how much I love this manicure! The name Island Fuchsia & this particular design really compliment eachother. It gives off one of those tropical Hawaiian shirt vibes. What do you girls think of this manicure? Do you love this pink as much as I do? If you are wearing pink today let me know which color you have on in the comments below! I'm on the hunt for some new fab pinks and I know you all know of some great ones. 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

Pretty Peri-wink-le

Hello Lacquer Luvers! Today I get to share with you an oldie but goodie. While visiting family and friends during the holiday's I made a few trips to Sally's & this was one of the polishes that I picked up - China Glaze Secret Peri-wink-le. This beauty is part of China Glaze's 2008 Operation Color Collection.

For my mani today, I began with China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat followed by two coats of Secret Peri-wink-le. This dusty cream is essentially exactly the color of it's name - periwinkle. It's right in between being lavender and blue. The formula seemed a bit watery (not sure if it was just my bottle or if it's because it's an older color and the formula itself has changed). I was, however, able to reach full opacity in just two coats and didn't have much of a problem with application.

For nail art, I went ahead and water marbled all of my nails. For my marble, I used Jordana French Manicure polishes in White & Barely Pink. Barely Pink is a sheer polish & when you use it for marbling it has a transparent effect that allows the base color to peek through. Pretty cool, huh? To seal in my manicure, I used Essie's Good To Go topcoat.

I really like how this came out. It's simple but pretty. Secret Peri-wink-le is a very unique color in my collection and I can see myself wearing this alot in the spring. Do you ladies own this color? What do you think of my marble? 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