Watermarble in July

A couple of weeks I ago I had the urge to actually take the time and watermarble my nails which doesn't happen often since I'd rather sit and do two coats of one color, throw on some top coat, and viola! DONE. Choosing colors is always a difficult task no matter but this time I went with Pure Ice "Silver Mercedes" and Zoya "Neve." The one thing that was different this time though? I used Simply Peel Latex Barrier from Bliss Kiss to try and minimize the amount of clean up I would have to do after I was done because we all know how much of a horror scene the aftermath can be! At the end of this post I'll have a little review of that going on to let you guys know my thoughts and feelings about it.

I usually don't take photos of anything until after I'm done but this time I tried to get my set up and after I took off the latex barrier but I like my camera a little too much and don't wanna risk getting it nail polished. My set up for this water marbling event consisted of grocery ads from the paper, two bathroom Dixie cups, a water bottle that is room temperature, toothpicks, tweezers, my nail polish remover, my brush (which I now realized isn't in the photo..oops!), my base and top coats, the Simply Peel, and last but not least (and of course) my two nail polishes.

I'm usually throwing tape on all my fingers and working like a robot but this time I decided that since I was using this new Simply Peel that I would do one hand at a time. So I put on my base coat first, the latex barrier on the skin around my nails after that, and then filled my one Dixie cup with some room temperature water. Now I'm not a master at creating designs or anything like that (no sarcasm I swear! I'm working on my skills) so I tried to keep to doing basic designs so I didn't waste too much time, nail polish, or the small amount of patience I sometimes have for water marbling. I do have to say though that this time around I wasn't failing so hard that I was doing pretty well. Halfway through my left hand, however, it was clear that I wasn't fully awake and needed more coffee considering the fact that instead of dipping my naked pointer finger nail into the design I created, I stuck in my middle finger..which was ALREADY DONE. I actually think I did this at least twice or so which is embarrassing but now you all know and I can't take it back. YOLO. After finishing my left hand I proceeded, with caution, to take the tweezers and peel off the latex barrier from my nails. I realized that on my right hand I might want to do a huge layer on the pads of my fingers because there's nail polish getting there as well. Here's a quick shot I took after I took the latex off and now I wish I had a before photo..my bad:

After taking the Simply Peel latex barrier off

 After the left hand I of course did my right hand and I literally cannot remember to save my life whether or not I put a base coat on before. But either way what had to be done had gotten completed! Although I do have to say that I wasn't exactly all that crazy about my right hand but hey it happens right? So now I shall get out with the plethora of photos that I obviously took *enter charming, quirky looking smile here*

The left hand:

And now onto thee right hand:

On a quick side note of a thought that just came to my mind while plastering these photos on here..do you know how DIFFICULT it is to attempt to take a photograph of your right hand?! I literally had to sit down at the table we have on our back deck in order to capture my right hand because I definitely don't trust my left hand, standing up, with an expensive camera trying to take a picture. 

 Now onto my Simply Peel short review:

So I've been seeing a bunch of posts on Instagram about people using a liquid latex type of barrier on their skin while they're doing their nails resulting with a whole lot less to clean up afterwards. So naturally, after forgetting to for I don't know how long, I went onto Amazon and looked up liquid latex nail polish and decided that the Simply Peel from Bliss Kiss was good so I bought a bottle. It came in the mail, I got excited, opened the bottle....and the smell is gross, it's what I like to call "it smells like fish paste" and I've literally had that smell saying since elementary school (art class, don't ask). I used it once when I was just regularly painting my nails and I wasn't so sure I did it correctly so I decided that before I'd judge it, I'd try it a couple more times, and so I did. The biggest test was during this water marble and I have to say, I just wasn't impressed too much. Also DO NOT wear good yoga pants while using this either! I kid you not, I accidentally got some splattered onto my good yoga pants and I went to put them on the other day, after they had been washed, and it was SUCH a pain to try and get it on. Yeah yeah yeah I know, liquid latex, clothing, I am NOT that well educated when it comes to things like that. But either way, after putting it on during my water marbling, I accidentally touched two fingers together and they basically stuck to each other....uh no thank you! Also after I peeled it off from my hot mess of an after math, I basically felt like all it did was peel off from underneath the nail polish that was on top of it and then left the nail polish on my finger. It completely defeated the entire purpose of using it, why would I spend extra time to put this on if it's not really going to even take the excess nail polish with it when I peel the latex off? So my overall thoughts and decisions about this one is a NO and I'd rather try a different brand from someone else.  

Zoya Blu and ILNP Atlantis

I've been more into Zoya lately than I used to be and "Blu" is one of my favorites because it basically matches the sky perfectly. It's one of those colors that makes me feel a lot more elegant than I really am, which is..not so elegant in real life. At the current moment I've had a handful of I Love Nail Polish's chrome flakies, which are AWESOME, and decided to use "Atlantis" for my accent nail to switch it up. I did a couple coats of "Atlantis" on my accent nail just so there was a little more coverage but so that you can also still see some of the base color. It was a little hard to make sure that there was a little bit of the chrome flakies pieces all over my nail so I would take the brush and just tab some places to try to get more in a certain spot.

Neve by Zoya

Blue, blue, blue. Can't help but always have a blue nail polish on every other week because it's one of my favorite colors (duh). It's been a while since I've gotten a new post so let's get to work and start on some nail photos! "Neve" by Zoya is a great blue color that is becoming one of my favorites, it just has something about it that grabs me. It's one of those colors that isn't too dark and not too light but seems to be more in the middle. It goes one nicely and I'm always amazed to see what a difference there is between one coat and two coats.

Water Marble: Zoya "Song" & Pure Ice "Silver Mercedes"

My first statement with this post must be "For once water marbling worked for me!" There has been a long, long period of water marbling absolutely hating me and never wanting to work on more than 1 nail. So this time I was glad it worked! It might just be the temperature of the room that I was in but I've been using a room temperature bottle of water and a Dixie bathroom cup. I had three nail polishes picked out but one didn't seem to want to cooperate so I decided to just go with "Song" by Zoya and "Silver Mercedes" by Pure Ice. I don't feel like this is one of my best water marble designs that I've done so far in my nail polish life but I do hope to learn more designs and get better!

Zoya: Hazel

This week has been a long one with having Monday off for Memorial Day, anybody else feel like this week was never going to end? Thankfully the weekends are for relaxing and hanging out before going back to the good ole grind Monday morning. Sunday is a trip to the Museum of Science and Industry which will be a long day, so here's a post for the weekend! One of the things I love to do, besides my nails of course, is to read books and I realized this after the fact, but this weekend's nail polish "Hazel" from Zoya fits perfectly for the upcoming Friday movie, The Fault In Our Stars.

"Hazel" is a lighter metallic blue along with some gold flakes thrown in there. I love the chrome type of feel that this nail polish has. Some of the time it also looks a little bit like it has some holographic effects to it as well. It's been a while since I've used this color and although the polish does seem to get a smidge thicker when you start doing the second coat, it's still a great color. I also the like the fact that the name is Hazel which is one of the main characters in a great book-to-movie adaptation which comes on June 6th! If you'd like to know what the heck I'm talking about, you can go to Amazon or Barnes and Nobles to purchase the book :)

Zoya Nail Polish Haul

About a week and a half ago I was doing my usual scanning on Instagram when I came across a picture one of the accounts I follow posted: Zoya nail polish promo! I find these types of things and then BAM! I'm off searching the websites and figuring out what I'm going to purchase. This time I ended up purchasing 6 new Zoya nail polishes, which is my highest amount in a very long while, and once I get the time I'll be doing a nice big swatch fest of them all! For now I'll just share the ones that I purchased :) I'll be using the photos that are posted on each page from Zoya’s website since they've got the photos down already.

The first color that I decided to get was "Areetha" which is a fabulous metallic lilac color and I just knew I had to get it. I'm pretty sure it matches the dress that I wore (very shortly) for my Senior Prom 5 years ago….man that makes me feel a little old. Either way I love this color.

The second nail polish I grabbed was “Indigo” which is a darker blue with some holographic glitter and it reminds me of the night sky from the photos online. I love the color blue and the photos I saw we’re definitely sellers for me. The bottle in real life though is darker than what it shown but I still love the color.

The next nail polish I got was "Rihana" which is a darker shade and the color reminds me of a dark red wine with a little purple mixed into it. I love having dark red type shades like this because it makes me feel a little more elegant and fancy.

Next up is "Anaka" which for one, has a unique name, and two, who doesn't love having a bright pink/fuschia color on their nails? I always seem to tend to go more towards blues, purples, and pinks, and this falls into that category! Which brings me to my next nail polish.

"Aurora" is a fabulous purple color with holographic scattered in it and my oh my, it's beautiful. I remember when it first came out and everybody seemed to have picked it up besides, of course, me. Then I realized how brilliant it was and now I've finally got it in my grasp! Muahaha. Evil laugh done.

Last but not least is "Noel" is more of a shade darker than a sky blue but it's metallic and it just looks kind of heavenly! Like I previously stated, I love blues and this totally falls into the blue category and I just had to make it part of my collection.