Monthly mani swap!

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Hey y'all! 

Today on the blog, I have my monthly mani swap to share with you. I adore how these turned out! I was paired with @crooked_mani over on Instagram. If you're not following her, you totally should be! 

Originals on the left, recreations on the right. <3

Right away when I was paired with her, I knew that I would choose her neon lead light mani because hello? Isn't is perfection? I love that she chose a bright neon mani to recreate as well. Great minds! Here's a solo shot of mine:

UberChic Beauty stamping plate and Shinespark Polish 90's Kids neon jellies 

I started with a white base of Orly White Tips and stamped over it with Zoya Willa using UberChic plate 3-03. I topcoated with Seche Vite and allowed it to dry to protect my stamping from smearing. Once it was dry, I set in with my jellies and a tiny dotting tool and carefully filled in the image with different colors. I only did the four nails you see here and it took me just over an hour! Worth it! I topcoated again to protect the design. My only regret is that I didn't use a blacker polish for stamping. My go to, holy grail black stamping polish is by Funky Fingers, called Black Knight. I had run out but wanted to get my swap mani done. Next time I do a design like this, I will definitely use the Black Knight.

I so love doing mani swaps and look forward to doing so monthly. Do you like mani swaps? I feel like they better me as a nail artist and push me to do things I wouldn't have normally tried otherwise. 

Thank you for reading! 

Love, 

Pish 

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Nail It! Magazine update!

Hey y'all!

Just popping in to give an update on a previous post I made about Nail It! Magazine. Here's the original post: Nail It! Magazine submissions!

Nail It! Magazine regularly accepts submissions from nail artists to feature in the magazine and one of the prompts they were looking for recently was NEON for the July/August 2015 issue. I submitted two, this one being my favorite:

And mine was featured! I am a published nail artist in Nail It! Magazine, y'all! I am so super excited and thrilled, and giddy, and.....BURSTING with all the happy things on the inside. It has renewed my love for nail art to feel validated in this community and business. To know that I am not only doing this for my own personal happiness but that other people out there think I'm pretty good at it! Shoutout to the maker of Shinespark Polish for making the beautiful neons that I used for this mani. <3

So that's it, just wanted to share my excitement as I said in my previous post on this subject that I would update you guys. I couldn't be happier and I plan to churn out some kickass manis to make up for the time I've been gone.

Have you ever been featured somewhere that you had always dreamed of? What's your big aspiration?

Thanks for reading!
Love,
Pish

Delush Polish Life's A Beach swatch and review

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Hey y'all!

Today on the blog, I have a swatch and review of 3 polishes from the Delush Polish Life's A Beach collection. This collection launched on May 29th, 2015 and consists of 7 polishes, all neon crellies! I wanted the whole collection because, well, I'm an addict! The first step in recovery is admitting you have a problem, amirite!? But alas, I knew that I wouldn't wear all seven shades so I picked my top 3. Keep reading after the break to see some swatches! 

Left to right: Babe Watch, Turn Over A New Reef, All Twerk and No Play

Top: All Twerk and No Play, bottom left: Babe Watch, bottom right: Turn Over A New Reef

I started with what I thought was going to be my least favorite out of the 3 I ordered. Not least favorite like I didn't like it but when I swatch polishes, I go in order from the bottom to my very favorite so that I get to wear my most favorite in the end. Anyone else do that? Just me? Oooookay. Moving on. 

So I started with All Twerk and No Play. I am going to be 100% honest with you and tell you that I bought this polish for the name alone. I do NOT love orange nail polish, particularly neon orange polish but I had to have it for that adorable name. Well, the joke is on me because I think this one wound up being my favorite. This polish is an orange leaning red crelly polish with almost iridescent pale blue hex glitter in varying sizes throughout. The glitter reminds me of seashells. Its shown below in two easy coats, no white undie, and Seche Vite topcoat. Look how gloriously bright...my camera almost exploded...

All Twerk and No Play

The next one I swatched is Babe Watch, a traditional hot neon pink base with bright blue circle glitters in varying sizes throughout and some large blue holographic circle glitters as well. As with All Twerk, this polish went on smoothly in two thin coats, no white undie, and Seche Vite topcoat. 

Babe Watch

The final polish I swatched is Turn Over A New Reef, another super cute name! This polish is a bright blue crelly polish with lime green micro glitter, square glitter, and hex glitter throughout. As with the others, I did two thin coats, no white undie, and Seche Vite topcoat. 

Turn Over A New Reef 

So what are my thoughts on the polishes that I own from this collection? First of all I will say that neons are always popular, somewhat overdone, and kinda basic, so when I saw this collection, it caught my eye because its different than the rest. I can tell that the maker put lots of thought into planning this collection out from the formula, to the colors, to the names. All 3 polishes that I purchased have a lovely formula with good glitter coverage. I didn't have to do any fishing, these are jam packed with glitter but not thick on the brush. I love that they don't need a white undie, because really, who has time for that extra step?

All in all, I think this is a great collection that stands out in a sea of neons for summer 2015. My only regret is that I didn't buy all 7. And who knows? I may just go back and get the rest!

Did you pick any polishes up from the Life's A Beach collection? What did you think of them? What's your favorite line of neons?

Love,
Pish

**I purchased these polishes myself and am in no way affiliated with Delush Polish. All opinions expressed in this post are my own.**

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