April 2012 | Nails Beautiqued

SOFLAJO Buttercup Swatches and Review

Another fantastic Indie Polish brand is SOFLAJO. The owner is Jody Alu she is very creative has been making personal care items since the 1980's. Her polish collection is proof of her creativity. Today, I have for you a shimmery buttery yellow gold and the name of it is Buttercup from the Spring Flowers Collection. It's very saturated and the formula flowed nicely on my nails only needing 2 coats.

Mini bottle 5ml $5.00 also full size bottles are available for $10.00

No topcoat was used

I was curious to see how Buttercup stamps. Very impressive see for yourself.

Sinfulcolors Black on Black, Konad plate M51

Buttercup serves two purposes it's a very pretty polish to wear alone or you can stamp a lovely design with it.

SOFLAJO Esty shop here

and her website can be purchased here

Also, don't forget to like SoFlaJo on facebook

product sent for review

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Posted on 5:51 PM by Nails Beautiqued

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Another Preview from Bundle Monster...BM308

From reading on Facebook most are in a hurry to get Bundle Monster's new collection. I'm patient I can wait. I'm actually liking how they are whetting our appetite's with these teasers.

My favorite designs are the fruit slices and flower pots. What are yours?

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Essie Navigate Her

It's Friday, Yay! Where has the time gone April is almost over. I'm wearing a soft mint green today. It's a yellow undertone light green that was easy to put on only needing 2 coats, very creamy. Essie Navigate Her is from the Essie Navigate Her Spring 2012 Collection. I like it and think it's lovely.

I'm happy that I picked it up because I like the way it looks with my skintone.

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Hmm! I could go for a bowl of pistachio ice cream right now, it almost matches my nails *-*

Now I'm itching to put some nailart over it. Naw, I'm going to enjoy it today but maybe tomorrow.

Do you like this shade of green? Do you have it in your collection?

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Posted on 6:00 AM by Nails Beautiqued

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Ancient Turquoise

I love old ancient jewelry and especially turquoise. Here I have the look of jewelry on my nails.

OPI Mermaids Tears, OPI Over The Taupe, OPI Dazzled By Gold, Essie Marshmallow

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Slab of turquoise in matrix showing a large variety of different colouration

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Posted on 7:39 AM by Nails Beautiqued

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Zoya Surf Collection 2012 Review and Swatches

Here is part 2 Zoya Surf Collection. This collection is full of bright foil/metallic finishes that are fabulous vibrant to wear this Spring/Summer and you will get noticed while wearing them. Lots of fun.

Zuza a gorgeous teal blue/green foil. I love the color and it looks so much better in real life.

Rory a rosey colored pink that reminds me of english roses.

Meg lime green apple green very silvery and has lots of shimmer to it.

Carley a grape purple metallic that you wouldn't think to wear in the summer it's okay because it's gorgeous!

Kimber a strawberry pink with gold shimmer it's more of a shimmer then a metallic.

Myrta an orange coral that packs a punch it's beautiful

The formula on these are good. I mean they are easy to apply you just only need 2 coats for them to look opaque. I didn't use a topcoat on these swatches. My favorites from the bunch is Zuza, Carly and Myrta. This set is a perfect pair to the Beach Collection.

See Zoya Beach Collection here

These can be purchased at Zoya.com

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Posted on 9:59 AM by Nails Beautiqued

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Teal Tuesdays...To Teal To Handle

Hello Everyone,

It's Teal Tuesdays, Facebook Challenge is *Circles*.

You know how you have all sorts of ideas spinning around in your head so you put bits and pieces together to come up with something creative? Well, it's bits and pieces alright. Lol! I don't even know what to call this design. It does have a retro feel to it and I tend to be drawn to retro/vintage looks. My base color is Confetti To Teal To Handle. I think that's a good name for my design. Ha *-*

My middle nail broke down to the quick so it looks super thick with nail polish on it. (sorry it happens)

The middle and ring fingers I placed the white polish about a quarter of the way up and halfway up from the sides. Did the samething with the teal polish, but letting some of the white show. For the index and pinkie fingers I did somewhat of a patchwork effect.

Here I added the dots on middle and ring fingers and a sparkle topcoat on index and pinkie fingers. Confetti, To Teal to Handle has some gold shimmer mixed in it.

Here I used Konad Image Plate M65 it's a full plate. I placed the green polish in a slanted position because I didn't want the image on the whole nail. I also stamped it on at an angle.

The circles are showing more so on my index finger.