Cuccio Colour Sun Kissed and Some Stamping

Happy New Year! I hope you all had an amazing holiday season and were able to spend some quality time with loved ones.

The last couple of months have been kind of weird for me. There was a ton of drama in the nail community and that, coupled with my own depression and anxiety, really soured nail polish for me. I just was not feeling it. At all. I was picking my cuticles hardcore, my nails kept splitting and breaking and I had zero motivation to take pictures or formulate sentences.

Anywho.

While at Cosmoprof I had the privilege of attending the Tips & Sips event hosted by Nail Pro, Nail It! & Katie Cazorla. One of the vendors at the event was Cuccio Colour and they were insanely generous - we received their ASP Gel line, some body care items and like three different collections.

I finally got around to trying a few and let me just say, I'm impressed. The colours are great, the formula was so smooth and easy to apply and I enjoyed the brush as well. I was wanting something softer but still interesting so I decided to wear Sun Kissed (from the Nudetrals collection) which is a pinky peach shade with gold shimmer and teeny tiny silver glitter. It's so pretty and feminine and a perfect palette cleanser without being boring.

Shown here is three thin coats topped with Glisten & Glow HK Girl.

I wore Sun Kissed by itself for a day and then decided to use one of the crèmes to test out stamping. I love the combination of pink/champagne and purple so decided to use Count Me In to stamp with. After looking through my paltry stamping plate collection I decided on a pretty dahlia image on plate 4-01 from Uber Chic. All in all, I'm pretty happy with my novice stamping attempt.

Have you tried Cuccio Colour before? If not, I highly recommend tracking some down!

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Watercolour Nails Using a Plastic Bag

Nail slump over? Mayhaps. I've seen this technique before but I saw another tutorial on Instagram or Facebook (for the life of me, I can't remember where) and inspiration struck.

 

Example of tutorial on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/451556300108347590/

I purchased the Washed Out collection from Finger Lickin Lacquer (now Bohemian Polish) last year and have wanted to do a watercolour mani with them ever since I saw Polished Pathology's swatches. It ended up being super easy and I love the way it turned out.

I used two coats of Revlon Spirited as the base then dabbed blobs of three colours on each nail.

Have you tried this technique before?

China Glaze : Amateur Nail Art

When I had my giveaway, so many moons ago, several people commented saying they wanted to see more nail art. I'm a tiny bit afraid of nail art. I've done roses and leopard print and those are pretty easy, but when I tried free-hand painting? That's a different story and, frankly, I don't normally have the time to do intricate nail art so I admire the talent of others.

A while ago I purchased some chevron nail decals from Make It Sticks Designs but I had yet to use them. Last night I decided to take them for a spin and use a couple of the China Glaze colours I'd picked up from a local lady who was destashing.

It turned out... not horribly. The decals were easy to apply (but did need some coaxing off the sheet) but I could use work on my spacing and placement.

I used China Glaze Pool Party for the base colour which is a hot pink neon and Champagne Kisses for the chevrons which is a rose gold micro-glitter.

Can we talk about Pool Party for a minute? In the bottle and in all swatch pics I've seen, it's definitely a pink neon (I tried to get my photos as close to accurate as I could), but on me it is ORANGE. It's not the lighting or anything else and I've polled several people and it's 100% a neon orange. Strange, no? I don't get it.

Shown here is three coats of Pool Party with Champagne Kisses dabbed on for the chevrons. I used HK Girl for a quick dry top coat and Gelous to try and smooth out the glitter, hence the bubbles.

Happy Friday!!

China Glaze can be found at beauty supply stores (like Chatters or Sally) or online through retailers such as Nail Polish Canada.