Guest Post Sunday: Pretty Purple Polish Favorite Polish

** Hey guys! Today is the final installment of my guest post Sundays...and guess who our guest today is! The lovely Alanna from Pretty Purple Polish. Not only are her nails perfectly manicured but the colors she showcases are even more beautiful. So...I'm just gonna step aside and let her do the talking!**

Hi everyone! I'm Alanna from Pretty Purple Polish. I was really excited when Nail Diva invited me to do a guest post about my favourite nail polish. I immediately knew which polish I would choose. Here it is:

Ulta3 - Orchid

1 coat

Orchid is a gorgeous purple shimmer. This is my favourite polish of all time (so far) because I love this shade of purple and how it looks on my skin tone. It's a one coater! It's made in Australia and it's cheap. This little beauty will only set you back $2! What more could you ask for? Unfortunately the Ulta3 brand is not sold outside of Australia so it can be a little hard for international ladies to get a hold of. 

Orchid is a colour that I can wear time and time again and never get sick of it. I've never finished a bottle of nail polish before but I think I'm going to need a backup of this.

Thanks for reading my very first guest post. I hope you enjoyed it.

* Thank you Alanna for giving some insight into a very lovely polish. Very worthy of being called favorite. I've never seen this brand before but if I ever did I would definitely get my polished paws right on it...lol.

Have a great day!

Seventeen Supreme Gray swatch and review

Hey guys! Whats up? Weekend Time! I love it. So today I want to show you another Seventeen Supreme Color which is a gray creme. If you've read any of my posts on Seventeen polishes you'll know that I'm not the biggest fan of them. And thats because they dont really consider quality control. I dont like it when a company has the opportunity to care for the quality of their products and neglects it. Thats not to say their product is awful, otherwise I wouldn't have any of their polishes. But its a shame that they have such beautiful colors that dont apply well. And can you believe their bottles dont have names?! tsk...tsk! Anyway today I'm showing you the gray color from Seventeen Supreme. 

As you can seen Seventeen Supreme 35 is a dusty blueish/gray creme which dries opaque in two coats but needs a third to even out the levels. You can see on my pinky nails that it hasn't really evened out well. Thats a big issue for me with these Seventeen creme polishes. And I say creme polishes because I dont have this problem with their glitter or foil polishes...those apply like a dream.

Its a shame really because their colors are beautiful and their prices arent so bad (3.5 Jd's or 5$). They aren't cheap as well so their quality should be better. The Seventeen brushes are fine and dont give me any trouble. Obviously application is a process because most of these polishes are on the thicker side. Drying time is average. Usually I dont keep these colors on my nails for longer than a few hours so I dont know how quickly they chip. Thats all I have to show you today!
xo Nail Diva

L.A Girl Grain and Polka Dot Edges

Hi! Hows it going? I have finals this week and the next, plus my brothers are coming to visit so I might be posting a little sporadically for the time. But I promise when I do get back to posting regularly I will be introducing a lot of new changes to avidlian, plus a giveaway is on the horizon..once I work out the kinks of shipping. So thats gonna be fun! Anyway today I have another older nail polish that I used in one of my designs here on my blog. It was my lace leopard mani, you can see it here. This polish acted as the base for that design.  So here is L.A. Girl in Grain.

L.A. Girl Grain a sheer goldish/silver color that dries to a pearlescent finish. I think the name Grain has some merit because it does remind of me of golden sand like that in Aqaba. But I honestly dont enjoy this color. I dont like pearlescent finishes especially when the color is so sheer! This took three coats and it could have used a fourth to even it more but I got bored with it. Also do you see how Streaky this is??? I mean...
As for this L.A Girl brush, its sooo tiny that you end up going on your nail with like 5 swipes to cover it...thats a waste of time!

I really didn't like this polish so I thought I would add something on it..I didn't know what so I just let my fingers lead the way..

My nails kinda look like kiwi's right? So I just used my little dotter and put some black dots around the perimeter of my nail. This is certainly a way that I would wear this color...but still its not growing on me too much. Ya live and learn right? Thats all for today. Peace and love!
xo Nail Diva

Guest Post Sunday: Copy that Copy cat Favorite Polish

** Hey Everyone! So I'm so happy to be welcoming Linda from copythatcopycat. She is a wonderful nail artist who draws the most inspiring nail designs and not to mention her sweet personality. She will be sharing with us her favorite polish of all time so stay tuned!**

Hi everyone! I've been invited to do a guest post on my favourite polish :) I'd like to thank Nail Diva for welcoming me on her blog and letting me be a part of it.

Today, I will show you my very first nail polish love. It is still my favourite colour of all time, even after seeing all these pretty nail polish colours, I still love this one. Let me tell you a little bit about the story behind this bottle. I was pretty young and I hadn't found my passion for nail art yet and my parents would always go to the markets every weekend and my mum will randomly bring home bottles of polish. One day she brought home this colour and it was so pretty and seriously, it was love at first site. It was my go-to colour, used so much that it had a measly 1/6 left of the bottle content. I left it untouched for a long time since I didn't want to use it any more and just a few days ago, I decided to revive it. Poof!

Here is the colour I speak so highly of!

 

Lovely colour. This is Elizabeth Arden Go Coral. Perfect for summer, even though it's almost winter in Australia. This polish pretty much made me a coral lover and its a fantastic shade for my skin and probably every other skin tone. 

So that's my all time favourite polish, and of course if any of you have seen my blog, I have to nail art everything haha! No exception this time :) I didn't know what to paint on my nails so I decided to do some white geometric kinda stuff and this is how it turned out.

 

 

That's all I have for you today, I hope you enjoyed this post! Thanks again to Nail Diva for inviting me to join her blog :)

Linda

 

*Thank you so much my dear, that was a beautiful post. I dont know if I've ever seen a nail polish from Elizabeth Arden...or maybe they just dont sell that in Jordan. Still good to know...it is a very beautiful polish.

 

Have a great day!

OPI Go On Green

Hey everybody! Whats goin on? So today I want to show you another color I've used in some of my posts without ever properly swatching it. It's Go On Green by OPI. I'm really trying to go through my polish stash before my massive shipment of polishes comes in. So this is just another one I found today and thought I needed to go through. This color is technically not green so I dont know why they named it that but anyway here it is...



OPI Go On Green



I really dont know what to think of this color. On the one hand its very summery and fun and on the other hand I dont think its flattering on my nail shape. The last time I tried it on I thought it really complimented my skintone and nail shape and now I dont really like it. Plus I've gained alot of ridges in my nails recently (joy!) and so because this color is super sheer you must use a ridge filler before or else every single ridge in your nail will be defined, just like my nails in these pics.

Go On Green is a sheer blue base with green glitter all throughout which gives it a duochrome appearance in lights although I couldn't get the green shimmer to show up in these pics but its very visible in life. This color required three coats to become like this but I would even go in for another coat because its actually very sheer, I have some VNL in my pics. Application was good and easy so thats a plus.

As for skin tone appropriatness if your skin is like me and looks super tan and nasty with sheer light colors dont go for this. I really didn't think it was flattering on me right now but it still is a very beautiful color. Thats all for now. Peace and Love!
xo Nail Diva

Jordana Supernatural

Hey girlies! Today I will be showing you a color from Jordana Nail Polish. I dont have many colors from this brand...actually I think this is the only one, I dont know exactly. But I do like the one I have. It is more of a winter and fall kind of color but I realized I've put this color is some of my posts without ever actually showing a swatch of it bare. So here is Jordana Supernatural by itself...

Jordana Supernatural

I think Jordana has a couple more colors probably based on the Twilight Series...I think one of them is actually called Twilight or Breaking Dawn or something and its exactly this kind of polish but in red instead. This was the only one I thought was worth getting.

Jordana Supernatural is a kind of sheer dark blue base with medium blue glitter packed inside. This needs two coats to become opaque but I add a third to show off the sparkle. I know that with some polishes (like Revlon facets of fucshia) the more coats you add the more the glitter disappears, but this isn't like that. In the end I added top coat to really make it shine and as you can tell from the first photo that it really gives off a sparkly shine.

Also what I like about this polish is that although its inexpensive (1.5 JD or 3$) its application is good, the brush is good, and the formula although sheer is extremely manageable. Therefore, I definitely recommend giving this company a try. Thats all for today!
xo Nail Diva

French Tip Hearts

Hey everyone! Hows it going? I feel like drawing hearts on everything today so  I drew them on the tips of my nails. Mind you, my lining isn't all too good...I dont know why but I couldn't keep my hand still. But it still fine to me.

As you can see there are area where I lined over again and thats why it looks kind of clumpy but it really isn't noticeable in real life. For the base I used Color Club Incognito (love, love, love!) and then I use OPI Senorita Rose-alita to make the heart. Then I used black polish to create the lining around the heart. And thats it.
xo Nail Diva

Pink Glitter Gradient

Hey guys! Hows everything? So, today I thought I would show you a really cute design that I did and it was actually a gradient manicure. I dont usually do gradient manicures but its so much fun to do with glitter and it really makes pink pop. So I started it with pink polish on all my fingers and I wanted something a little different and so I put up a lighter pink on my ring finger. It was actually the Seventeen Super Shine color I swatched a couple of days back with the water marbling. Anyway here is what I started with...

It was really cute alone but still I wanted more and so I used Color Club Magic Attraction and slightly tapped it on the middle-top of my nails. Check it out

It looks like ice cream dipped in sprinkles. I absolutely adore it...so fun and girly. And very easy to create. I know that alot of people use the sponging technique to get the whole gradient look. I only use the sponge if I'm putting in different colored polishes but when I apply like glitter or something I just apply it on regularly with my nail polish brush but after I've removed alot of it. Then I repeat it again at my tips so that I get a little more glitter towards the top. And thats all! 
If your interested in the Zoya Share the Love Program (which is amazing) you can click Share the Love and read about it. Also if you click through here and make an account you automatically receive a FREE polish. Not too bad right? Have a great day!
xo Nail Diva

Guest Post Sunday: Dark Side of Beauty Favorite Polish

**Hey everybody! Today Avidlian is welcoming Nancy from Dark Side of Beauty who will be sharing her favorite nail polishes of all time! Her blog has some of THE best makeup swatches I've ever seen and needless to say my makeup wishlist has grown tremendously since I became her follower. How fun! In case you dont know I've done a guest post over at Nancy's blog a while back and she has become a very dear friend of mine in the process. Atleast I consider her a dear friend because she has been sweet to me ever since the beginning of my blogging process so I'm very thankful to her. Anyway so lets see what she's got for us today!**

Hello lovely readers of aviDliaN! My name is Nancy and I am the writer and editor of The Dark Side of Beauty. The Nail Diva has invited me to write a Guest Post! Thank you so much for having me on your gorgeous blog!

The Dark Side of Beauty is my own little place of the internet, where I can write about my experiences with makeup, nail polish, and everything in between. My blog is named after my two main obsessions: makeup and Star Wars. My main focus is on showing how anyone, even the geekiest of girls, can be chic. I love creating looks using all the makeup I buy, especially using indie makeup.

Although my blog doesn't focus on nail polish, I have a huge collection of nail polish from drugstore to high end. My cheapest bottle of nail polish is a Jessie's Girl polish that cost me $0.40, and my most expensive bottle would be my Chanel ones. What I look for in nail polish is pigmentation, complex or bright colors, and a smooth and easy to apply formula. Some of my favorite brands include: Sinful Colors, Zoya, OPI and Rescue Beauty Lounge. Sinful Colors is very inexpensive and easy to find in most drugstores. Rescue Beauty Lounge is more expensive (at $20 per bottle), but the quality is superb. Zoya, Color Club and OPI are not extremely expensive and they are easy to find in Salons. They also have an amazing range of colors.

Here are some of my favorite nail polishes:

1. Rescue Beauty Lounge Aqua Lily

 

This is my newest addition to my collection, but I am indefinitely in love with it. It is one of the only aqua colors that looks good on my nails and it has the most beautiful pinky-purple sheen. It goes opaque in two coats and it dries very quickly.

2. Sinful Colors Pink

An inexpensive, bright nail polish that is perfect for spring/summer. It is has a jelly-like finish and it goes opaque in 1-2 coats. I looove this very much. This is definitely my got-to bright pink.

3. Color Club Pucci Licious

One of the best purple colors out there. It is bright, inexpensive, and best of all can be opaque in just one coat. Purple is my favorite color and this delivers a very bright and in-your-face purple color.

4. Illamaqua Poke

Another gorgeous purple! Illamasqua's Poke is a bright purple with iridescent purple and blue shimmer. It is opaque in two coats and it looks fun and beautiful on the nails.

5. Deborah Lippmann Ruby Red Slippers

My favorite Lippmann polish! At $18, it is not cheap, but it was worth every penny. I love the glitter and the combination of red and black. It is a very dark and gothic color, yet still has some sparkle and glitter that will  uplift any mood. Every time I look at my nails when I wear this, it makes me feel very glamorous.

With every year, new amazing nail polishes are released. I am looking forward to what other colors will be released this year and see what other amazing polishes I will add to my collection. Thank you Nail Diva for having me here on your blog today and thank you all so much for reading :) You have a fantastic blog here, so keep up the good work!

~Nancy <3

*Thank you my dear, I have just taken a very important lesson on some nail polishes I must own!! I'm sure everyone has appreciated this as much as I have and that was the point of the guest posts so hopefully thats done its job. Thank you again Nancy. Its been a pleasure having you here.*

Bows...Bows...And More Bows

Hey! So, I've come to realize that I have an ever-growing love of everything bows. I want on my clothes, I want it on my jewlery, I want it on my hair, and I definitely want it on my nails! Every single nail...muhahaa. I really have fun drawing bows on my nails and dotting them and seeing how they come out in the end. Sometimes it is hard to get the shape to come out right, but its never bad enough so that I need to repeat...atleast in my opinion. And this is how it came out.

Nude Bow Manicure

I used Color Club Incognito as the base....which I absolutely adore! Any lady who loves nail polish should really add this to her stock because it is amazing. Perfection. And then I used a regular peachy/pink polish to draw on the bows. Then I outlined it in black and added white polka dots. Its so awesome to walk around with a billion (more like ten) bows on your nails and wave them all around. Good times! Thats all for today.

Also, if your interested in Zoya's Share the Love program you can head over here and read about it. And if you click through here and make an account and you will automatically get a FREE Zoya nail polish. Great way to start out if you dont have any yet!
xo Nail Diva

My First Water Marble

Hey guys! Hows it going. So I was supposed to actually post this yesterday but I got into an accident and ended up getting home pretty late that I was too tired to do anything but sleep! If your wondering nothing really happened in the accident and I ended up knowing the guy that hit me. The car was pretty scratched up from the side and needless to say my mom had a fit but all is well. Anyway, recently I've really been seeing some cute water marbling designs and had a growing desire to try it. So finally I decided to do it on an accent nail and see how it ended up. I love...love...love it. Water marbling is my new fave! Check it out.

Ok so its not the best water marbling ever done. But it was literally my first attempt and I thought it came out pretty well. As you can see though, my fingers were so dry and nasty but I was really in rush to take these pictures and leave so please forgive me.

Anyway the base color on all my fingers is Seventeen Super Shine in number 286 which is a medium pink creme. On my ring finger the base is seventeen Supreme in 09 which then is water marbled on with Seventeen Supreme in 30 (mint green), Seventeen Supreme in 279 (baby blue), and Seventeen Super Shine in 286 (pink).

I gotta say, I really dislike Seventeen polishes. Their formulas aren't great, they are always streaky if they are light colored, they get goopy with time, and take forever to dry. The only reason why I have so many polishes from it is because they always have different spunky colors that I cant easily find in Jordan. But hopefully that'll change soon! I tried to do some more water marbling on my thumb and it came out amazing! But I dont have it pictured. I will definitely do more water marbling and if you haven't gotten into this trend you Must! So thats all for today.

xo Nail Diva

Lizard Manicure

Hey girlies! Whats going on? So today I want to show you this design that I did which I really liked. It came out looking like lizard skin but you know not in a creepy nasty "what the hell" kinda way. It came out looking interesting in different. So I'll show you what I first started out with. This is just the base color alone.

This is Sally Hasen Xtreme Wear in Green With Envy. Alot of people complain that the brushes on the Xtreme Wear polishes arent the best. For me all the Sally Hansen polishes work great even when the brushes aren't too even because of the round tipped shape. I dunno I never have problems when applying this...I dont even do a clean up afterwards. This isn't a go to color of mine by any means. I guess I'm old school like that. But I keep looking at my nails and it seems pretty cool and it doesn't really clash with my skin which I thought it would. Then I thought this would be a great time to try out the graffiti (crackle) polish I bought from Turkey a year back. And the coolest thing happened!

Tell me that doesn't look like lizard skin? I used Golden Rose Graffiti Nail Art in 063 on top of Green With Envy and it came out soooo awesome. I love it!
This is definitely a summery design and just really is fun. I know that not alot of people would like this or even want to look at it but I appreciate how cool the effect is on it. And I know that crackle polish has lost its luster but it is an easy alternative when you want something cool but dont have time to go all out on your nails. And just a reminder you guys if you click HERE and make a Zoya account you automatically get a FREE polish! So thats all for today!
xo Nail Diva