Snow Day!! Darling Diva Polish Snowball + OPI Blue My Mind

Hello hello! Today my world is covered in about 8 inches of snow (and still snowing, too!) and I have an actual university-approved snow day, hurray! I thought there was no better way to celebrate than a with a snowflake mani -- luckily I have the perfect polish just for that :) Darling Diva Polish Snowball is a mix of white hexes, bars, and microglitter, tons of iridescent blue flakies and large hexes, and white snowflake glitters. To make it look super wintry I layered it over OPI Blue My Mind, a bright electric medium blue shimmer. I adore how it turned out, take a look!

outdoors, shade

outdoors, snowvercast

 On my nails:
1 coat Innisfree Eco Peel-off Base coat
3 coats OPI Blue My Mind
2 coats Darling Diva Polish Snowball
1 coat OPI Topcoat
1 coat Seche Vite

I just love the way the blue flakies play with the blue base, it's almost magical looking! As for those snowflakes, aren't they so fun? Of course, I'm sure no one is surprised to hear they were a total PITA to apply... I also wish I hadn't placed them on each nail in more or less the same place, since scattering a bit is more visually interesting, but honestly I was just glad at the time to get them out of the bottle without worrying about placement. Also they still stick out quite a bit, but I tend to compare glitters like these more to accents like studs or rhinestones (you wouldn't expect topcoat to smooth those out right?) so I don't let that bother me too much. Overall such a fun and snowy mani! I have been easing slowly into spring already, but when it's 20 degrees out and a total winter wonderland, it's hard to not slide back into winter :)

indoors, natural light lamp - blurry but pretty I thought

 If you'd like to check out Darling Diva Polish be sure to visit their Etsy and Facebook!

outdoors, snowvercast

Have a great day! ♥

Darling Diva Polish Ti Amo + L'Oreal The Queen's Ambition

Hey guys! Today I am excited to share with you one of the first indie polishes I bought way back before I was really into the indie scene at all (barely even into the polish scene, actually!). When I got this lovely Darling Diva Polish I figured it would be perfect to save for Valentine's Day, and I was definitely right on the money there :) Ti Amo is a pink-tinted base full of red and white hexes and hearts, white microglitter, and awesome great big squishy white glitter! The squishy white hearts are absolutely the reason this polish called out to me -- even now, I have never seen anything like them :) I wanted both the glitter colors to pop, so I layered over L'Oreal The Queen's Ambition, my favorite black with silver glitter. I adore how this one turned out!

outdoors, sun

outdoors, shade

 On my nails:
1 coat Innisfree Eco Peel-off Base coat
2 coats LOreal The Queen's Ambition
2 coats Darling Diva Polish Ti Amo
1 coat Seche Vite

I just love those big white hearts! Of course, as you can imagine they were an ultra-pain to fish out of the bottle (and I totally gunked up the neck of the bottle trying, alas) but it was worth it, and I managed to find enough to have one each for my ring fingers and thumbs, hurray. They actually stuck down quite nicely with just the one coat of top coat, but after these pictures I ended up adding an extra coat of SV because some of the other glitters were still a little pokey. Such a cute polish! Glad I picked it up back when I did :)

outdoors, sun

 If you'd like to check out Darling Diva Polish be sure to visit their Etsy and Facebook!

 Have a great day! ♥

Sinful Colors Cinderella + Darling Diva Fancy Nancy

Hello, after more than a week I'm back! I've been battling several things this week, including two difficult tests to study for, a yucky bug problem and a pretty bad cold, but from here on out hopefully posting will be back to normal for a bit :)

Today I have a somewhat season-inappropriate but oh so cute! mani for you :) I have been admiring Sinful Colors Cinderella for awhile and recently decided to bite the bullet and get it. It is a lovely pale blue with tons of pinky-gold shimmer that almost seems like glass flecks to me. It was a bit of a nuisance to apply, very sheer and streaky, but so pretty it was worth it to me. I wanted to layer a bit of pizazz over it without covering up the lovely shimmer, so I searched through my stash and found the perfect glitter topper in Darling Diva Fancy Nancy! Fancy Nancy is full of mostly small and some medium hexes in matte and shiny, in light pink, hot pink, green, purple, blue, and possible more. There are also holo diamonds and white hearts. Despite sounding like a polish with a lot going on, it is very subtle and super cute! Check it out.

indoors, natural light

 On my nails:
1 coat Innisfree Eco Peel-off base coat
4 coats Sinful Colors Cinderella
1 coat Seche Vite
4 coats Darling Diva Fancy Nancy
1 coat Seche Vite

I kept on adding coat after Fancy Nancy because I just loved it so much :) The hearts were difficult to get out, but other than that it was a great glitter! Applied perfectly and super cute. I really love this mani, even though it screams spring... got to get to all that Halloween polish I bought soon!

If you'd like to buy Darling Diva polish check out her etsy!

indoors, sunlight (window)

Have a lovely day! ♥