Swatch: China Glaze It's a Trap-Eze!

Hello My lovely lacqueristas!

Today I have for you one of my favorites from the China Glaze Cirque du Soleil Worlds Away collection. 

And that is It's A Trap-Eze!

Swatch: Liquid Crystal

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a lovely weekend!

Today I'd like to share with you Liquid Crystal from China Glaze. 

This is my first silver cap so I was pretty excited. I got this for my birthday back in November! :)

Isn't it pretty?

Swatch: Father Daughter Duo

So here is the other part of of my Christmas present from my awesome parents!

Before I continue, I have some items to address.
1. I changed my name from Never Naked Nail to Nails by Nicole. There is a shop and blog that go by that name.  I did not want to cause any confusion.
2. I created a Facebook page for myself. Please check it out and like it here!

This is the Father Daughter Duo from Maggy of Daily Lacquer. Its is another Sailor Moon based nail polish. And of course I had to have it.

This awesome duo features Tuxedo Kamen/Mamoru or in English Tuxedo Mask/Darien and his daughter from the future Sailor Chibi-Moon/Chibiusa or also in English Sailor Mini Moon/Rini.

This is a picture of them in the future. 

And here are the pretty polishes!

Happy New Year!

Hello my lovelies!

So today is the start of the new year! Happy 2013 everyone!

I have a little simple manicure to share with you today. It is pretty tame compared to some other stuff that I've done.

On to the show!

So I used the one of the prettiest that I have ever laid my eyes on. It is Essie's Butler Please. It is a solid color. No sparkles whatsoever. However, since I am more of a sparkle and shine kind of girl, I also used China Glaze's It's a Trap-Eze!. I promis that I'll have review swatches of each within the week. :)

Here they are:

Day 31: Re-Create a Challenge

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!

TRICK-OR-TREAT/PARTY SAFELY!!

Okay so today is the last day for my challenge! I'm a little sad and happy at the same time. I'm sad that it is over, and yet happy that I can wait a few days before I change my nails. 

On to my nails. I used a new color I picked up over the weekend as my base. It is such a beautiful purple. It is Sally Hansen Extreme Wear's Virtual Violet. I love this purple sooo much. For the yellow polkadots, I used Sally Hansen Extreme Wear's Mellow Yellow. For the cherry Blossoms I used Konad's special pink polish and plate m31. I also put a thin top coat of China Glaze's Make a Spectacle. I also put some spring green gems that I got from the swap meat a few months ago.

This was the outcome:

Day 22: Inspired by a Song

So today my song of inspiration was The Cuppycake Song.

You can listen to it here.

Cute, huh? This song is my best friends and my theme song! So anyway, for my base I used Sinful Colors's Cinderella. For the stripes I used Sinful Colors Nail Art's Fun Times and A Slice to go. For this cupcake wrapper I used Bizzare Blurple. The Icing was Island Girl's Pineapple Plantation. The sprinkles was Nicolreby OPI's My Lifesaver and the heart was Orly's Passion Fruit.

Day 21: Inspired by a Color

So today we're going to watch Hotel Transylvania. I'm excited.

As for today's theme, I looked through my polishes and found one that I thought would be real cute. For my base I used China Glaze's Strawberry Fields. I bet you can see where this is going. For the little strawberry leaves, I used Finger Paint's Sketch N Etch. And finally For the seeds I used Essie's No Place Like Chrome.

I think this was adorable!

I figured out halfway through that the less "seeds" there are, the better. Whoops. Oh well, lessons learned. 

Super cute today. :) Well off to watch the movie with my sister. 

Do you guys have a favorite fruity nail art?

See you tomorrow!!

Day 19: Galaxy

Happy Friday everyone!

Today is galaxy day! And this is the first time I've ever done this manicure before and I think it came out just lovely.

Today I used a bunch of colors, so prepare yourself.  Orly's After Party was my base. For the stars and nebula I used Island Girl's Pineapple Plantation, China Glaze's Make a Spectacle, Sation's Lemon Pearl, China Glaze's Endurance, Sally Hansen Diamond Strength's Twist of Lime, Sally Hansen Diamond Strength's All Aglow, and finally Scandal's Sydney Blue.

That was a lot, but the result was well worth it.

I think this was a huge success. I really loved it. I'll do it again soon for sure.  Do you guys like the galaxy manicure?

Well tomorrow we're heading to Seaworld for their Spooktackular event. It'll be fun to trick-or-treat around the park. Everyone should visit this month!

See you tomorrow!

Day 17: Glitter

Okay everyone, this is one of the days I am most excited for!

I love glitter, shiny things, glitter, Haha, did I say glitter twice? Anyway, today I went a little overboard with the glitter. I used Sation's Me, Myself & Me as a base. Then I used Scotch tape to make triangle . The triangles were China Glaze's Tinsel Town, China Glaze's Lorelei's Tiara, and OPI's You Glitter Be Good to Me.
These are the results:

Isn't it so glittery? The colors complimented each other well. And it just looks amazing. I keep staring at them. I think the shine was why I kept missing birdies in badminton.

Well, what do you think? Aren't they lovely? I love them, and I will definitely do swatches on each of these soon. Also, I'm  using a peel off base-coat today. Hopefully it'll come off clean after work.

See you guys tomorrow! :D

Day 15: Delicate

So today was delicate print.

And I was art blocked. I had no idea what to do. I was gonna use my Konad stamping, but I misplaced my rubber stamper. Oops.

I did so something that I thought would be delicate and cute and simple and sweet. I used China Glaze's Cloud Nine to do a lovely simple French tip. Then I added a lovely gem flower to the accent nail.

I think this design came out lovely. It looks delicate and simple.

Well this post tonight was short. this design was cute. It wasn't my best, but it is pretty.

Tomorrow is tribal and I am not excited for that. Ugh -.-
See you guys then.

Nail Supply House, L.A.

So yesterday I visited the Nail Supply House in Los Angeles.

Oh my goodness! I don't think I've ever seen so much nail polish in one place. OPI, ORLY, and China Glaze oh my! The front of the store was covered in nail polishes.

I walked in and I was amazed. Honestly, I didn't know where to focus my eyes.

Beware: This post is picture heavy.

Do you see this? The walls were lined with polishes and there were boxes filled with more!

China Glaze is $2.75!! That is a super awesome thing!

 And look at all that Orly! Isn't it beautiful?

They were some other gems that I didn't get to take a picture of. Essie is about $4 and OPI is around $5 with the Designer Series at $8. There were more, but I can't recall much probably because the fumes in that store were so strong.

When I finally left the store an hour later I made out with 28 bottle of nail polishes and some other things. I was broke when I left, but I was happy.

 Aren't they so pretty? I love them. They make me smile. :)

China Glaze

Cloud Nine, Endurance, Make A Spectacle, Cast A Spell, Golden Meringue, Bizarre Blurple

Scandal

Olive Pearl, Romantic Brown, Pure Lavender, Sydney Sky

ORLY

Aspen, Smolder, Flare

Seche

Enamored and 2 Seche Vite Top Coats

SATION

Me Myself & Me, Lemon Pearl, Strawberries

OPI

DS Indulgence, The Living Daylights, DS Opulence

Essie

Loophole, Stroke of Brilliance, E! Live From The Red Carpet

Misa: Decadent Drifter

CÃCEE: Arvis

Color Club: Perfect Mol-Ten

I recommend anyone living in the area to definitely visit. And here is a tip. If you talk the owner, be friendly and ask questions he'll give you some awesome freebies :)

So many lovely colors! After my 31 day challenge I will definitely make some swatches for all you lovelies!

Check back later today for my flower nail art post.

See you later!!

Day 6: Purple

Today is purple! I love purple!! I am so excited for today! I finally get to use the China Glaze's Electric Lilac. I saw it on a another blog and realized that I had to have this purple. My heart broke a little when I found out that that is was a limited edition one from last year. However, I did find the bottle on eBay so I'm happy. 

Ahhh! My dumb camera! This is a color that looks lovely in person. Its such a light lovely lavender color. The picture makes it look gray. Trust me folks, if you can find this color try and get it! It went on a little sheer so I have 3 coats of it on. 

So what do you think? Isn't it just beautiful? I love purple and now I can't stop staring at my nails. 

See you guys tomorrow!

Day 3: Yellow

Hey everyone!

So today is yellow! I wasn't too excited for this day since yellow isn't a color I can pull off. When I looked through my stash, I realized that I only had 1 yellow. The original yellow is a Sally Hansen Extreme Wear, Mellow Yellow. It is waaaay too bright, so I mixed with a little bit of white from Island Girl's Pineapple Plantation. The end result was this lovely pale yellow.

You can't really tell how lovely this color is till the next photo. It was dark when I took this photo last night...

The yellow didn't really do it for me... It seemed boring. So I fixed it with glitter. I did a French tip with Tinsel from China Glaze's 2011 holiday line.

And it came out beautiful! I got a ton of compliments today on this color combo. It was just lovely. The little sparkles sparkles really complimented the pale yellow.

In the end, I really loved yellow. It made today look bright.
Well, I'm off to work!
What do you guys think of this color?

Day 2: Orange

Orange you glad I didn't say banana? :)

Anyway, today I'm sporting the lovely China Glaze, Cross Iron 360. This was with the 2011 Halloween line. I realized that today was the first time I've ever tried it on. And I must say, that it is lovely!

Look for yourselves!

 Considering That I haven't opened this bottle since I bought it last year, it went on extremely smooth.

 I love this orange, but I felt it was lacking something...shiny! So to solve that problem I layered Claire's Little Dipper over my China Glaze.

Isn't just lovely? I will definitely be wearing this combination more often.

So that was orange! I found this color surprisingly beautiful. I recommend that all of you guys buy these colors.

What do you guys think?

See you guys tomorrow for yellow! :)