Pretty Polished Pointers: 2012

Saturday, December 29, 2012

My top 12 Manicures of 2012

And so an amazing year is coming to an end. Here is a flash back of my top 12 favorite manicures of 2012. I hope you enjoyed reading my blog and continue to do so in 2013.

Be safe and live life in color!!

#12

My first blog post!

A St. Patrick's Day mani featuring Zoya Verushka, Gemma, Bevin and China Glaze In the Lime Light.

#11

My Icon Photo

I love Zoya Mitzi! A matte ultra bright neon. I feel it catches the eye and I don't see me changing it as my icon photo anytime soon. I love it that much :0)

#10

Dotty Owl's

Whoooo doesn't love owls. I sure do. This manicure was created using Zoya Shelby and Reagan!

Sugar Skulls

From a Sugar Skull Sweet Contest hosted by Pretty Face Happy Bank...AKA Cosmetish. I was one of the winners!

Fun and Funky using Zoya Wednesday and Trixie!

Cinderella likes Jelly Sandwiches too!

I love this combo. To this day it is the top manicure "searched" on my blog. This is using Sinful Colors Cinderella and OPI Techno.

AVENGERS

My family was very excited for the release of the new Avengers movie this year. I went all out with a manicure to match!

Sweet and Simple

FingerPaints Tiffany Imposter and China Glaze Techno.

Pink Love!

Stumbled upon a fabulous combination this day. Used Zoya Lara and Kleancolor Holo Pink to top her off!

The Black Knight

One of the first polishes I was lemming for the longest time. My very amazing husband surprised me with this baby one afternoon. I love this polish to pieces!!!

Raarrrwww

I love animal print!!! Using OPI Feeling Hot Hot Hot and Alpine Snow. This manicure also marks the first time I went round with my nails. It's cute although I prefer squarley rounded!

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With a huge accomplishment for me this year. I have officially graduated Nail Technology Schooling. This is a manicure that I am VERY proud of!

This client had super nubbins. I then sculptured her a long natural beautiful nail using Creative Nail Design (CND) clear sculpting powder. I then polished her nails a vibrant red using Nailtiques Red Moscow and added an accent of leopard print! What made me most proud was my teacher's (Ms. Jimi Bean) appraise as well as my clients!!

I hope you enjoyed looking back at my favorites this year as much as I did. Thank you to each and every 890 subscribed readers. Here's to 890 more!!

Enjoy!

Sandra

Monday, December 24, 2012

Naild'it Unique Nail Polish Rudolf Knows and No Elfing Way Swatch and Review

Today's review if from an amazingly unique polish creating artist Naild'it Unique Nail Polish.

Rudolf Knows and No Elfing Way are part of Naild'it Unique Nail Polishes Winter/Holiday Collection. This is my first experience with this maker and I am very honored to review these two beauties.

First up, Rudolf Knows: A red jelly with a great consistency. Rudolf Knows is filled with red and holographic hex shaped glitter. This is a magical polish. Some turns of the hand give the holographic spark a pink to purple and blue to green glimmer. I could spin my hand for hours. Fun and quirky name. Very fitting for this polish. The wear was great and I wore this color for 3 days free of any chipping. I only took it off to review Naild'it Unique Nail Polish's 2nd polish sent for review!

Here is Rudolf Knows in 3 thin coats with top coat.

Blur to show sparkle!

Beautiful Holo sparkle in the bottle

Blur Inside

Blur Outdoors

No Elfing Way: A clear based polish, No Elfing Way!!!!! The clear base shocked me. With this polish packed with different shapes and sizes of glitter, I was happily surprised. From green crescents, purple, pink, red hex and squares. So much fun is No Elfing Way. Can me worn alone or on top of a colored polish to add Christmas spunk. Can be worn as a jelly sandwich aswell. The possibilities are endless!

No Elfing Way alone in 3 thin coats with top coat.

No Elfing Way over black

No Elfing Way over Rudolf Knows. The Ultimate Christmas manicure!

Over all I am extremely pleased with Naild'it Unique Nail Polish. Each formula was great and artfully designed. HUGE kiddos to the creater. These are simply amazing and I will be ordering many more polishes from them in the near future!

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*Products in this post were provided for review. All opinions are my own*

Enjoy!

Sandra

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Introducing Zoya Nail Polish and Treatments Spring 2013 Collection

Zoya Nail Polish and Treatments

Spring 2013

Lovely Collection!!!

Lovely, just LOVELY!

Spring is awash in six soft and lovely new Zoya shades including three dewy metallics and three fresh blooms of cream. Poetic in nature, this collection is sure to capture the beauty of the season like no other....

ZOYA LOVELY – SPRING 2013

Piaf (ZP652) - Fresh Forsythia Yellow Metallic - Full Coverage (Originally designed for Fashion Designer Zang Toi)

GeiGei (ZP651) - Blushing Cherry Blossom Pink Metallic - Full Coverage (Originally designed for Zang Toi/SS13).

Julie (ZP650) - Soft Wisteria Purple Metallic - Full Coverage (Originally designed for Zang Toi/SS13).

Blu (ZP653) - Lucky Hyacinth Blue Cream - Full Coverage

Neely (ZP655) - Earliest Spring Green Cream - Full Coverage (Originally designed for Peter Som/SS13).

Jacqueline (ZP654) - Perfect Magnolia Nude Cream - Full Coverage (Originally designed for Peter Som/SS13)

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Enjoy!

Sandra