Shredded Mani & May/June Haul

I'm going to start out with a mani and then show you most of the polishes I've bought in May and most of June. I'm sure I'm forgetting a few, but it's still a lot lol.

So my mani today is pretty simple. Nothing special, but I still think it looks awesome. I started with 2 coats of China Glaze "Love's A Beach" I forgot to take a picture before adding 1 coat of Icing "Shredded"

  

  

I really liked this mani. I did have a few C.O.D. moments where I picked at the flakes that didn't lay flat. That was minor, and totally something that I can deal with and work with. I think this would look awesome over so many different colors.

Ok now on to my haul pictures!!!

First a few things I picked up from Big Lots:

Color Mates "Cabernet" "Spring Fling" and "Fuchsia Flash"

 Revlon "Grapefruit Fizz" "Apple-tini Fizz" "Watermelon Fizz" "Pineapple Fizz" "Grape Fizz" and "Mint Fizz"

 O.P.I. "Just Spotted The Lizard" "Number One Nemesis" Sally Hansen "Multi-Faceted" and "Ring-a-Ding"

 Color Club - Blossoming Set

 Orly - "Swizzle Stick" "Steel Your Heart" "Green Apple" "Butterflies" "Prelude To A Kiss" "Oh Cabana Boy"

  

 China Glaze "Love's A Beach" and "Orange You Hot?" Icing "Shredded" "Rave Royalty" "Pampered & Primped" and "What Planet Are You On"

 The 4 Cos Bar's have no names, but you can find them at Target, O.P.I. "It's Totally Fort-Worth It" "Pirouette My Whistle" and "Shatter The Scales"

 Revlon "Sorbet" Magicolor This polish stinks to high heaven lol, and Sally Girl neon orange

Well that's it for today. Now you see what I have to have a blog sale lol. Thanks for reading and have a great day/night!

Pink and Purple Gradient

I'm really loving gradients. There are so many color combinations it's almost endless. I tried a different technique this time then I usually do. What I've done before is dipping small pieces of a makeup sponge into the polish, but this time I painted the polish right on to the sponge and I really like the result a lot better then how I use to do it, so I think this will be the way I go from now on :)

 I know that most people do a base coat using one of the colors in the gradient, but I like to be different so I use a different color lol

For my base coat I used 2 coats of essie "pink-a-boo" It's a very pretty polish, but the formula is kinda a pain to work with, well for me anyways.

 It's hard to tell but there is a really pretty blue and pink shimmer in it.

 For the actual gradient I used Orly "Oh Cabana Boy" and....

Cos Bar un-named purple. This is a new line they are carrying at Target. There is a total of 4 polishes, but none of them have a name :( Such a shame.

 I really like how this came out but I felt like it was missing something.

 So I added O.P.I. "Pirouette My Whistle" on my ring fingers....

 But I don't think it was a good choice :( I'm not totally happy with it, oh well they can't all be winners lol

It's still very pretty to look at, I just wish I would have chosen a different glitter or had just left it be.

Well I'm sure there will be a lot more gradients in my future so this is a lesson learned :)

Thanks for reading and don't forget to enter my giveaway that ends this weekend.