Summer Nail Polish Picks 2014

Welcome to my second seasonal nail polish post. I did post a winter nail polish recommendations that you can find here.
Since it is summer I decided to provide so many options because summer is the time for you to break out the colorful bright neon polishes and refrain from using the safe polishes even though I did include one that I enjoy all year round.

Peachy Keen | Tart Deco | Shrimply Devine | Purple Panic | Dulce De Leche

There are some weird cuts and we are jumps in the video but that's because this is literally my second video and I still have no clue what I'm doing so please forgive my awkwardness and there are a lot of bad takes like that this video.

Lemon Fizz | Re-fresh Mint | Wednesday | Barracuda | Bahamian Escape 

I have tried my best to take pictures of the mail polishes that accurately represent the color of the nail polish. You can also refer to the font color that may be a even closer representation. But I have included some swatches and you can see that the neon polish is a matte finish. In case you were wondering the background is a body shop logo because the colors were not showing up the way I want them to when I put it against the white background.

Anyways please leave a comment below this post or in my YouTube video on which one of these are your favorite colors.

Manicure Monday - Feb 10 2014

In the spirit of Valentine's Day, I decided to paint my nails pink! I used to think that I didn't buy many pinks because I like non-traditional colours.... until I swatched all of my pink polishes. I had like 15 pink polishes and about 15 blue/green polishes.

My nail polish obsession aside, I love this colour and I am sad because it is getting so clumpy now ):

It is like the perfect coral pink, it is a limited edition colour called Casting Call in the Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure formula. Happy early Valentine's Day :)

Manicure Monday - Jan 27 2014

A tad late... Well a week. I didn't paint my nails because I had an interview on Tuesday and that just continued onto the rest of the week. But I will be back on track !

Pre-plastic wrap

For this week, I decided to stray away from the usual single color or simply two colours with an accent nail. I decided to use one of the colours mentioned in the winter nail polish post. It was an interesting experience using the plastic wrap method to apply the sparkle polish. I messed up on the initial finger and had stamp over a layer of the purple polish to darken the nail.

My hand looks so chubby ):

I chose the purple because there are not many weeks left of dark polish. I actually don't really enjoy dark polish because of it's staining qualities, but they tend to be more opaque and thus require fewer coats of polish.

Polish used:
Sally Hansen Complete Salon in Plum Luck
Revlon Colourstay in Fall Mood

Favorite Nail Polish Shades for the Winter && Current Manicure

I wear polish all year around, except for exam time. My polish collection consists of approx 80 polishes? I have stopped directly buying polishes. But there are always some colours that I do not own. Today I was be sharing some of the polishes that I will be and have been reaching for during this winter (at least the types of polishes). 

The two main categories are jewel tones & glitters. I love jewel tones, but I never thought of wearing green polish on my nails. Then again, red and green polishes are essential for the christmas season. I am not telling to you wear both colours together, but that is up to you. The purple polish featured was a gift from my boyfriend two or three years ago. He also got me some other colours, but I like this one the best. I think he deeply regrets buying me nail polish.

Going clockwise from the pink glitter.

• Essie's A Cut Above (part of the Luxeffects collection)
• Deborah Lippmann's Cleopatra in New York
• American Apparel's Rouge
• Sally Hansen's Plum Luck in the  Complete Salon Manicure formula
• China Glaze's Exotic Encounters (part of the On Safari Collection in 2012)
• Essie's Set in Stones (part of the Luxeffects collection)

My current nails:

The base colour is OPI's Dulce De Leche (second row, first polish on the right) & a Asian polish layered on top from Nail Colordium (from The Face Shop) (first row, middle polish)

I will try my best to participate in Manicure Mondays in addition to my other posts!

Do you own any of these nail polishes?