Nail Polish of the Week: Fash Pack

I forget where I heard it first, but I'd heard about the nail polish brand Butter London, and I definitely wanted to try it. However, I just heard about it and never really looked into where I could get some. Then I was browsing Ulta's website, and came across the Butter London line. At $15 a bottle, its my most expensive nail polish, but its definitely one of my favorites. I chose Fash Pack, which was described on the butter London website as "An edgy and unusual colour. Putty meets mushroom. Sounds strange and wrong, but somehow it works, like deep fried Mars bars. (an actual English delicacy)."

It delivered, I have finally found my long sought after Putty colored polish.  I am most def going to be wearing this color for a while. 

Earlier in the week, my nails were painted Essie's Chubby Cheeks, which is and orange/coral color. I think the picture made it look more orange than it truly is, but not by much. 

And I finally found something to hold all my nail polishes! Although, its already mostly full and I'll probably have to get something else soon. Oh well it works for now.

Nail Polish of the Week: Stealing the Scene

I know it has been a while, but truthfully I didn't paint my nails for about a month. GASP! Last week I went with Stealing the Scene from Essie its a metallic mixture of silver and gold... and after a while it just looked completely silver.  Nevertheless, its a great festive color.

And I misplaced my camera... so Iphone pictures for now. 

This week, I have my KISS Everlasting French Manicure going. I haven't grown tired of it yet and popped them all off, hopefully I'll keep them on a full week this time.

And my toes are a lovely shade of Envy, which looked especially festive with my red peep-toe flats. 

Nail Polish of the Week: Damsel In a Dress

This week's color is Essie's Damsel in a Dress. I got this color forever ago, and I think this is one of the first times I have used it. Anyway, its use was long overdue. I really love this dark almost black purple color. Its a great week before Halloween shade.

Nail Polish of the Week: Merino Cool

The nail polish this week was supposed to be Sew Psyched a sage/grey color from Essie's current Fall collection. However, life had other plans and my nails got completely messed up from some fabric adhesive. So the color for this week is Essie's Merino Cool, also from the current fall collection.

I'm not happy with how this picture came out. In person, the color is a darker purple. I love it its really pretty and neutral. I think I'll try to take more pictures later of this color, but in the meanwhile check out ByHillary's post on it, I think her color is more accurate.

Nail Polish of the Week: Lacquered Up

This week I wanted to stay away from the blues. In my quest to find the right shade, I have just been wearing blue tones for weeks. Over the weekend I had Sinful Color's Gorgeous. Its a metallic sometimes blue sometimes green color.

But I changed it up Sunday night. I wanted to put on KnockOut this bright red color... the perfect red, from 17 by Boots. I got it when I went to England in high school. Sadly it was all clumpy and I just couldn't use it. 

So I settled for Essie's Lacquered Up. It is a great candy apple red color, but not as awesome as the red in Knockout, I so wish I had asked my friends to get another bottle for me when they were in England a few months ago. 

The pictures shows more orange that it really is. 

Anyways, this week seems to be very busy. I am working almost every night, and I have a special interview Thursday which I will tell you all about later. Its gearing up for a busy week, but I have some updates planned so hopefully I can stick to it. There might even be an outfit post this week. 

Nail Polish of the Week: Red Nouveau

It is that time again for the nail polish pick of the week! I should really pick a day to just do this every week, I'll try to commit to doing this post every Sunday (a little something to look forward to).
This week's color is Essie's Red Nouveau, it was one of my Colors of Summer picks, and now you get to see it in action. Red Nouveau is a gorgeous red with a hint of orange.

Colors of Summer

So by now you probably have realized I have a tiny nail polish addiction. I only have about 45 colors at the moment, so not to bad. Except for the fact that I am constantly buying new colors.

Anyways, I love summer time because its a great time to just be bright and colorful. This summer instead of just posting what colors I am wearing that week (although I will prob continue with that). I have decided to do a post dedicated to my favorite colors for this summer.

So these all happen to be Essie colors, which surprised even me because I am such an OPI girl... but anyways.

First we have Lapis of Luxury... the picture above makes it seem lighter than it is, its more of a periwinkle blue. I actually have it on right now.  Its a good casual color, great for everyday wear and I think it gives off a fun and laid back vibe.

Next up is Red Nouveau, its a great red orange color, which gives a classy feel but not too done up.

Fruit Sangria, I have yet to actually wear other than to do a swatch of it. Its a fun pink color which I plan on doing when I go to the beach later on in the summer.

Splash of Grenadine is another color I have yet to actually wear, but its a soft pinky purple color.

AND I LOVE Mint Candy Apple, this is a great color and perhaps my favorite for the summer. It has this cool vintage feel and its not to minty, I want to say more of an aqua color. (That is me speaking ribbon colors from work.) MCA is actually from the essie winter collection, and I had seen it on this girl at Ulta, but they were sold out, so I kept going back and they finally had it in stock.

So those are my colors for this summer, what are your favorites?

Fashionista Diaries goes to Youtube...

So I wanted to make a tutorial on the Two Tone nail polish I did on the little sister the other day... and I thought that instead of writing it out I would do a video... So I made my first youtube video.... and I now have my own youtube channel... www.youtube.com/fashionicon01.

I am thinking of maybe doing some makeup tutorials... and maybe some sort of fashion related videos... but everyone should check out my youtube channel... I won't be updating it too often, but I hope to stick to it! 

The Two Tone tutorial uses both Essie colors Loophole and Over the Top. You could use any colors you wanted for this... but the little sister wanted her silver and black. 

So tell me what you think... should I quit youtube... or keep going. The video has its problems... but all things I can work on!

Nail Polish of the Week

Loophole by Essie

So I didn't buy Essie's Silver Bullion off of my wish list, because my local Ulta didn't have the color in stock. But they did have Loophole, and that is this weeks nail color, I have my beautiful silver nails! 

Ulta was having a buy 2 get 1 free sale on Essie so I also bought Steeling the Scene, a light gold color; and Damsel in a Dress, a deep Maroon/purple color.

 

Then I did the little sister's nails she wanted Black and Silver nails so this is how that turned out, I plan on doing a how-to post on how I achieved this look!