OPI Texas Sorbet Guy Meets Gal-veston

Hello everyone! I'm sure by now most of you have seen the awesomeness that are the new OPI sorbets. These are technically jelly finish polishes but they are really well done and they look so yummy and juicy!

This is Guy Meets Gal-veston but many other bloggers have already done swatches so I thought I'd show you what I created with these polishes! These are amazing for gradient manicures because they are so sheer but build up really well.

For this manicure I used 1 coat CND Stickey base, 1 coat of Rescue Beauty Lounge Underware, 1 coat of OPI Guy Meets Galveston over the whole nail (makes a beautiful neon light pink!), a second coat of GMG over the bottom 2/3's of the nail, and a 3rd coat over last 1/3 on the tips, followed by 1 coat of Poshe fast dry topcoat. It was pretty simple and the sorbet dried pretty quickly so it wasn't as time consuming as doing something like a scotch tape manicure would be!

Here is a terrible picture but a nice representation of how gradient the polish looked!

St. Patrick's Day Patchwork

Hello lovelies! St. Patty's Day is the anniversary of my heart surgery as well as the birthday of my bunny Dusty Clover! I wanted to do a St. Patrick's Day manicure with China Glaze Mistletoe Kisses on all my nails except for the ring fingers and then do a silver nail with a green shamrock on my ring fingers, but it did not really work out the way that I wanted it to. So...I tried something else I had been wanting to!

First, I used CND Stickey base coat and then one coat of Zoya Trixie and let it dry. I did not put a topcoat over this layer but I sort of wish I had because when I taped off the nails there were a few bald  patches left that I had to cover. Anyway, after Trixie dried, I used one piece of tape on each nail and covered about half the nail on a diagonal in varying directions. Next, I painted on China Glaze Jolly Holly and took the tape off. After about 5 minutes I used Poshe Fast Dry top coat over this and let it dry about 10 more minutes. When it was dry I taped off the nails again on diagonals in varying directions. I tried to cover part of both the green and silver parts. Then I painted on China Glaze Mistletoe Kisses and took off the tape. After about 5 minutes, I applied another coat of Poshe.

I definitely need more practice especially on the pinky nails but it turned out really pretty and unexpected for St. Patty's Day!