JIOR COUTURE 'AS A MATTER OF FALL' COLLECTION SWATCH & REVIEW

Good morning! I'm very excited to be sharing some STUNNING polishes with you guys today! This is Jior Couture's 'As a MATTEr of Fall' Fall Collection. All of these polishes have shimmer and flakies...and as you can probably guess by the name of the collection, they have a matte finish.

**These polishes were sent to me for review. Please see my Disclosure Policy listed in the tabs above.**

Up first is Harvest. Harvest  is a beautiful lime green/mustard yellow polish, with shimmer and flakies. The formula for this one was a little thick (Sacha from Jior, emailed me and mentioned this could have happened, so I was prepared for it. Too much air got into the polish when they were packing them.) I just added a little nail polish thinner and it was as good as new :) 

One coat was a little sheer and slightly patchy, but once the second coat was applied the polish was completely opaque and self leveled.

I wanted to see what they would look like with topcoat so here you can see 2 fingers with Seche Vite topcoat. 

Bonfire is a beautiful, brick red with shimmer and flakies. This color made me melt :P I LOVE this shade of red! I think it looks great with my skin tone.

Again, I applied 1 coat which was slightly sheer, but by the second coat the nail was completely covered and the polish self leveled.

Here is Bonfire with topcoat...isn't it Gorgeous!?

Foliage is a stunning forest green with shimmer and flakies. I was totally gaga for this color! I normally don't really like or really dislike greens, I've typically been pretty neutral, but I REALLY LOVE this shade of green!

Again, I applied one sheer coat and then a second to completely coat the nail. For this one though, I decided to add a third coat, just to add more shimmer and flakies.

Here's the polish with topcoat (Does it make you think of Christmas? ...or is it just me?).

This deep purple polish is absolutely breath taking! This is Migration. I swatched this color too fast to really take in the beauty of it while I was wearing it. But the photos are so pretty! I'll definitely be wearing this one again :)

Again, I applied the first coat, and then completed the swatch with a second coat.

Here's the topcoat. <3 <3

Frost is a beautiful, gunmetal grey. This polish was one of those ones that at first I overlooked, like "oh it's a grey polish, ok nothing super special". But boy was I wrong! This grey with the flakies is mesmerizing!

I applied my first coat and then halfway through my second coat I realized I wasn't getting many of the flakies, so I shook the bottle and applied a third coat and I am so glad I did! You don't really notice how much the flakies enhance this polish until you realize you're not actually getting them onto the nail. Don't make that mistake if you buy these polishes for yourself! YOU WANT THE FLAKIES!! :P

This polish with topcoat is to die for! (Insert googly eyes here).

Last up is Scenic, a beautiful deep blue, shimmer flakie polish. You guys know I love my blues :D

I applied my 2 coats and then decided I wanted more flakies, so I added a third coat.

...And here's the topcoat, which pretty much knocked me out of my chair! LOL!!

I can't even put into words how IN LOVE with this Collection I am...even if I had not swatched these myself, all of the other swatches I've seen of them has just had me gaga. I have never been so IN LOVE with an entire collection before. And I'm slightly sad to admit this, for how much I love matte polishes, I almost liked these better with topcoat! 

Both finishes are absolutely perfect though ;)

So, do yourself a favor and get your hands on them! ...Well technically you can't atm because it's all sold out. But follow Jior Couture on Facebook and Instagram to keep up to date on when she'll have the entire collection restocked! Or if you only want a few of the polishes (which you'd be crazy not to get all of them, but who am I to judge? ;P), you can click the link below and buy the individual polishes now.

http://www.jiorcouture.com

31 DAY NAIL ART CHALLENGE 2015 (DAYS 1-10)

Hello :) I hope you all are having a nice, relaxing weekend. 

If you've been following me on any of my Social Media sites over the last 3 years you may remember that each September I participate in the 31 Day Nail Art Challenge. 

I am doing it again this year, but instead of posting each design individually I will be posting them in 3 different posts (10 designs at a time). It's quite difficult to do my nails everyday, let alone take photos, edit them, add them to all of my Social Media sites and then write up a Blog post...so this year I'm doing it a bit different and I'd love to know whether you like it this way, or the way I've previously done it...so please feel free to give me some feedback :)

DAY 1 - RED NAILS

I kept this design super simple and used one of my new polish from LondonTown. You can see the plain swatch of this beautiful polish called Lady Luck in my previous Blog posts, here. I stamped over the top with Funky Fingers Black Knight and BornPrettyStore Plate BPL-024. I liked the matte look of the black stamp against the shiny red polish so much that I decided not to topcoat the design.

DAY 2 - ORANGE NAILS

This design was inspired by @thenailpolishchallenge. I have never done an Ikat design before this, but always wanted to...so I went searching for a design I liked, and then made it my own :)

The colors I used were Essie Fear or Desire, OPI Don't Bossa Nova Me Around and black and white acrylic paint.

DAY 3 - YELLOW NAILS

I love yellow and grey together! So for this design I kept it simple using China Glaze Happy Go Lucky and OPI Suzi Takes the Wheel, along with some Palm Tree Stickers I received from the BornPrettyStore.

DAY 4 - GREEN NAILS

I'm not sure if this is a design that is also considered Ikat? but I've seen it a few different times and decided to give it a try. The 2 green polishes I used were Everlasting Meadow by Royal Polish and The Jungle Look by Ulta. The white was painted on using watered down acrylic paint.

DAY 5 - BLUE NAILS

I have NEVER been more IN LOVE with a design than I am with this one!! <3 I was inspired by a design done by +LemmingsPolish. She created a design similar with multiple colors and it is by far my most favorite Nail design ever!! I recreated it with the only (similar) glitter polish I had, free handed the scales with white acrylic paint and then placed all of the charms where I wanted. The glitter polish I used is by Julep called Carly, and I applied a base color underneath by Royal Polish called Robin's Egg.

DAY 6 - VIOLET NAILS

I realize this design is more white than purple, but while I was playing around with different stamping designs I came up with this beauty and couldn't not do it ;) I applied Fancy Gloss Frozen Berries over each nail and then stamped the image with Funky Fingers Gesso and BornPrettyStore plate BPL-024.

DAY 7 - BLACK & WHITE NAILS

I created this design a few days before the 31DC started, but decided to save it because I knew there was a day for Black & White Nails. I used Funky Fingers Black Knight, Lace Floral Stickers I received last year from the BornPrettyStore (which I also used in last years 31 Day Challenge, see that design here. It was day 26) and Pearls from Ebay. I decided I really wanted more of a Vintage look so I finished it off with a matte topcoat.

DAY 8 - METALLIC NAILS

I've never been a fan of this day in the 31DC, it always stresses me out for some reason, so I kept this design simple using 2 different silver polishes from Bundle Monster and a stamp from BornPrettyStore, BPL-022.

DAY 9 - RAINBOW NAILS

RAINBOW!! :D How can you look at this and not feel happy? I used quite a few colors for this design...as you can already tell ;P I started with Funky Fingers Gesso then applied all of my colors to my stamping plate, which was Winstonia plate W203. The colors I stamped with are all from Liquid Sky Lacquer, Meet Cha at the Pink Kitty, Pass the Salsa, CAUTION: Party in Progress, Private Charter and The Passion Club.

DAY 10 - GRADIENT NAILS

 Surprisingly, for such a simple design, this is now my most liked design on both FB and IG. I wanted to keep it subtle, but it didn't quite feel finished until I added China Glaze Fairy Dust. Fairy Dust can literally enhance any design! The 3 colors I used for the gradient are also from my previous post (see here), LondonTown Murray Me, The Full Monty and Mauve Over.

I hope you guys enjoyed this post and look forward to more!

Have a great night! :)

LONDONTOWN LAKUR AFTER HOURS (FALL) COLLECTION SWATCH & REVIEW

Today I have the After Hours Fall/Winter Collection from LondonTown Lakur to share with you guys :) I fell in love with these polishes from the second I opened the package they came in <3 I've been wanting more neutral tone polishes and these ones are To Die For!!

**These polishes were sent to me for review. Please see my Disclosure Policy listed in the tabs above.**

Up first is Murray Me, a beautiful cream/nude polish with a hint of a pink undertone. The application was seriously like butter! (Insert googly eyes here :P). 

Next is The Full Monty, which is more of a tan nude. It's a very unique color in my opinion, but I really liked that it matches my skin tone. 

Mauve Over is my absolute favorite of the 4 polishes!! To me it's like the polish that older ladies used to wear all the time (I'm not meaning to sound rude or judgemental when I say that btw, it's just the only correlation I have to this color)...And even saying that it's a color I have actually wanted for a long time because I think it's so gorgeous! 

Funny story: My grandma was watching me paint my mom's nails when we were visiting her one time and she was AMAZED that we were using more than one color on the nails! Because she is one of those ladies that has only ever used 1 color for all of her nails. I thought it was funny and totally cute! :P

And last up is Lady Luck, a gorgeous, deep, vampy red! This polish is creamy, and luscious and any other word that relates to those :P

 Each one of these polishes was almost opaque in 1 coat, 2 coats covers perfectly.

LondonTown has now become one of my favorite brands! They're formula for EVERY SINGLE ONE of their polishes is absolutely incredible! Seriously! Of all of the polishes I've tried so far from them, I am just amazed at the beautiful formula. They are consistent and I HIGHLY recommend them!

Find these polishes and many other beautiful colors here:

 http://www.londontownusa.com/shoppe-products/2/lakur--enhanced-colour

BORN PRETTY STORE: FLORAL NAILS, FEATHER NAILS & CONVERSE NAILS

Long time no see huh!? I apologize about that. I have been very busy with nail art, I just need to be a little more consistent with uploading my photos and adding them to my Blog, it's a lot more difficult than it sounds.

In my absence (from my Blog) I have had some time to review a few different items from Born Pretty Store and I'm really excited to share some beautiful nail designs with you :)

**The products used in this post were sent to me for review. Please see my Disclosure Policy listed in the tabs above.**

I created this beautiful Advanced Stamp Floral design using BP 73. The polishes I used were Sinful Colors Hip to be Square, OPI Hot Fun in the Summerlime, and Funky Fingers Gesso and Black Knight.

Link to Above Plate

I wasn't too happy with this design at first because sometimes I struggle with water decals :P ...but I really do love the way it turned out now! The decals I used were W17.

Link to Floral Decals

This design was done pretty quickly because I needed to redo my nails but I didn't want to spend much time on them and I LOVED them!!! I couldn't stop staring at my nails :P The polishes I used were Sinful Colors Tempest, Hip to be Square, Royal Polish Carnation Creation and Funky Fingers Black Knight. The Feather image is from plate BP75.

Link to Feather Plate

This image was fun to create, but the full nail design was difficult to come up with. I didn't want to spend so much time creating the Decals for every nail and I didn't want to do anything to the other nails that would take away from the stamped nail...but I think it turned out fun :)

The polishes I used were Liquid Sky Lacquer Jalapeño Business, Private Charter, The Passion Club, Meet Cha at the Pink Kitty and Pass the Salsa, along with Funky Fingers Gesso and Fancy Gloss Midnight Moon. Converse image from plate BPL 022.

Link to Stamping Plate used Above

And last up, my beautiful "Love" Sunset design. This stamping plate is really fun! It really sparks your imagination and I had a really fun time playing around with it.

Polishes used were Sinful Colors Devious, Tempest, China Glaze Happy Go Lucky, Royal Polish Carnation Creation, Essie Fear or Desire and Funky Fingers Black Knight. Plate used BP 71.

Link to Plate

All of these plates are so fun and so easy to use! I highly recommend them! And the decals (if you're not as challenged as I am when it comes to using them) are easy to use as well.

I hope you enjoyed these designs and look forward to more! (I do have more!) And don't forget to use  code "UTG10" for 10% off of your entire order at

 http://www.bornprettystore.com

LONDONTOWN USA COUPON CODE!!

Hello lovely ladies! I just wanted to let you know that LondonTown Lacquer is having a 20% off sale! It ends tomorrow so make sure to head over to their website and grab yourself some gorgeous polishes! :D Make sure to use the code "LIVEINLAKUR" at the checkout!

Check out the polishes I've reviewed here:

4th of July Collection

Spring Collection

HAPPY SHOPPING!! :D

http://www.londontownusa.com/shoppe-products/2/lakur:+enhanced+colour