Tagged: Couture

2014 Holiday Gift Ideas: Gel Polish Starter Kits

Part 2 of my Holiday Gift Ideas series is about gel polish starter kits.  If you’re thinking about getting into gel polish or know someone else who is, this may help narrow down the options.  Most of the kits that I’m writing about today are meant for the at-home...

Blue Gel Polish Swatches

I had planned to post my medium pink swatches today, but I desperately need a break from pink!  I’ll have the rest of my pink swatches for you within the week though.  So I’m shifting the focus to some true blues, meaning they don’t lean green/teal.  I also have...

Rainbow Foil Nails with Gel Polish

I’ve been wanting to play with nail art transfer foils again for a while.  I’ve only used them one other time, you can see that mani here.  I had an idea in my head of a rainbow pattern with foils, though it didn’t turn out exactly as I had...

Guest Post: Key to My Heart design by Manic Talons

Hi everyone!  I’m Michelle from www.manictalons.com.  When Andrea invited me to write this post, I may have squealed just a little.  Or a lot.  Ok, it was a lot.  I spent the next few days trying to decide what I could possibly show you that Andrea hasn’t already covered. ...

Ooh La La French Nail Design

I created another nail design using the Messy Mansion stamping plates that I received.  This one was created with plate MM06, which is one of their round plates with some gorgeous French patterns.  This plate has three full nail patterns and 14 smaller ones including a poodle, chandelier, ribbons,...

Comparison of White Gel Polishes

I’m often asked how the Gelish whites compare to one another.  Until this week I only owned Sheek White and Snow Bunny, but I also picked up Artic Freeze so I thought I would show you how all of the whites that I have compare side-by-side.  Each swatch stick...