Watermelon Nails

Julep - Drew & Leah

I had an event I was a part of that was centered around fruits and veggies. I thought it would be festive for me to have some appropriate nails. The seeds a little messy but I thought the colors were perfect!

NOTD - butter LONDON's Trout Pout

Over the Earth Day weekend there was a special on butter LONDON nail polish at our local Dillard's and the makeup department employee had me at FREE butter LONDON.

Buy 2 get Come to Bed Red FREE

butter LONDON winners are...

Trout Pout - a bright pink salmon color
Bossy Boots - avocodo
Come to Bed Red - a very sexy red

I decided to go with Trout Pout first because I wanted to know if it is a close shade to Julep's Alicia.

Proven in the following pictures, it doesn't really come close. While Alicia may be very close to a salmon color that I am currently obsessed with, Trout Pout is a lot more orangey-pink than I would like.

Two layers

One layer

Also, I am finding that this brand is a little streaky which can easily be fixed with a better brush. The brushes for these lacquers are a little skinny and doesn't cover a whole lot of nail in one stroke. I found myself having this dip the brush 2-3 times per layer.

Overall, it's a very fun color and perfect for Summer!

NOTD - Kelly by Julep

With flash...

Without flash...

I wanted something more calm on this particular day. I chose Kelly from my Spring mystery box and looking at the bottle, I thought it looked a lot like their Penelope but this is a little less pink and more peachy to me. It's a very nice neutral shade.

I put two coats on to achieve this level of opacity but next time I'm going to try just painting one coat to make it look more natural.

This is a very nice choice on days you don't want loud, screaming nails. Those days are few in my world...

NOTD and Gouda Gouda Two Shoes Review

So, this is my NOTD, as well as, a very surfaced review on OPI's Gouda Gouda Two Shoes shade from the Holland Line. 

I decided to wear this shade today because I just started a new job and I have to network. I've always dreamed of a job where I could be in the background, never talk to people, and get paid a good amount of money. That's not where life took me. I have to talk to people. Everyday. To say the least, I do enjoy it. SO, I didn't want to wear the usual eye-catching shades that I'm used to because I had a meeting today and I didn't want my crazy nails to distract anyone. The woman I met today actually had bright crazy nail polish and I would have LOVED to gush about them with her but I had to digress. She obviously had a thing for lacquer but we had to stay professional... bleh...

When looking at the bottle you can see specks of tiny gold dust within the muted pink. It obviously shows in the picture as well but wearing it all day and also staring at my nails, you don't really see those gold specks. Maybe if you were out in the sun, but I work in an office and florescent light doesn't do anyone any good. 

I bought the whole Holland line because the colors are so pretty when looking at them all in a row. Now, actually wearing one shade at a time, that's different and as I've come to realize, a little boring. The shade stood out to me at first... or maybe I didn't wear the right outfit today... 

I know my mom would LOVE this shade. It kinda reminds me of the Revlon shades she used to buy when I was growing up. 

China Glaze... Hunger Games...

I did. I bought the whole line. There wasn't any debate about which colors I wanted the most. I went ahead and asked an employee, "Do you have more? Or else I'm taking this whole display." 

Aren't they pretty? When reading my fellow bloggers blogs, most liked the Hook and Line from my observations, but I was more excited about Stone Cold. I don't know, I have this thing right now for matte. I did, however, wear Dress Me Up as the first lacquer from the line...

Ahhh... that's nice. Loving it! I just came from a nail polish spending spree so, I won't be wearing this for too long. I can't wait to try this baby...

Luxe and Lush... you are next. The flecks remind me of the kind of cellophane most people used when I was growing up in the 90's. I remember it covering gift baskets or the cellophane grass that lined Easter Baskets. Huh... that gives me an idea for Easter nails...