Northern Star Ghoulish Fancy

If you saw my post yesterday, you'll know that I had these water slide decals on for that design. I decided I wanted to recycle my accent nails for at least another day because these water slides are just too cute! I decided to paint the other nails with Northern Star Ghoulish Fancy! I love Northern Star and I wanted to try another of her new polishes. Turns out she has new bottles too. Ghoulish Fancy is a teal blue with some blue shimmer.

Northern Star Polish Marsala!

It is no secret that Northern Star Polish is one of my favorite indie brands. Today I have Marsala! Marsala is the Pantone Color of the Year and a beautiful maroon with a brown undertone. In some light it looks like it has a blue shimmer.

Northern Star Polish One With The Shadows

Northern Star Polish came out with a Vampire Collection last year, and I couldn't wait to grab at least one of them! I decided to pick up One With The Shadows, which is a great blue toned grey. I think it is a gorgeous color, and I always love the quality of Northern Star Polish.

Work Wear Wednesday: Negative Space Tutorial

Guess what day it is?! It is again Work Wear Wednesday! Today I have a fun and really simple manicure to share with you. I really like playing with negative space in manis and I decided to do a simple intro to negative space for those of you who haven't tried it or maybe haven't tried it because you have stained nails (I have a solution for that!). I hope you like it! Tutorial is at the end of the post.

Nail Art: #31DC2014 Day 18 Half Moons

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Last post today, I promise! I created some nail art with all three polishes from the Northern Star Macbeth Collection in conjuction with the 31 Day Challenge. I just reviewed the Macbeth Collection, so be sure to take a look at that! The challenge today is half moon mani, so I created one with these beautiful fall colors! I started with a base of Hurly Burly and added a coat of Cauldron Bubble and finally added dots of Toil & Trouble.

Northern Star Polish Macbeth Collection Review!

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Northern Star Polish is one of my favorite indie brands and I am so glad to be able to bring the MacBeth Collection to you today! This collection releases TOMORROW, so be sure to look out for that. I have Toil & Trouble, Hurly Burly, and Cauldron Bubble. I just posted about some cuticle oils she sent, one of which is releasing along with these polishes tomorrow, so be sure to check out that post!

Review: Cuticle Oils from Northern Star Polish

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Northern Star's cuticle oils are amazing, I really think they work well. I was lucky enough to receive a few from Kristin and I am sharing them with you today! I already own Appletini and it has been one of my favorite go to oils and I own quite a bit! One is already available, one is in conjunction with the Macbeth Collection (being released tomorrow), and another will be released next month. 

Nail Art: #31DC2014 Day 2 Orange

Slowly but surely I will get caught up in the #31DC2014 challenge. In the meantime, I will be posting more than one post a day to do so, hopefully that makes you more happy than anything else! Day 2's prompt is the color Orange. I wanted to use the color Beach Baby from Northern Star Polish which I also reviewed for her a while back (Summer Collection Review). It is a really interesting tangerine type of orange rather than a typical orange with some micro shimmers in it. I combined a couple of negative spaces and white stripes all over to create this sort of skittle mani. I used acrylic paint for the white.  

Nail Art: #31DC2014 Day 1 Red

I decided to participate in Chalkboard Nails' 31 day challenge, and I am already super late! So, I will be posting a series of challenge posts and hopefully catch up by tomorrow. For day one, the prompt was a color: Red. I love red nails, I know some aren't a fan of it, but I have always loved red nails. Red is a lucky color after all! I received this really unique and lovely color, Burning Embers from Northern Star Polish a while back for review (Summer Collection Review). I thought Burning Embers would make a great base for nail art for day one! I then added a stamped image from the Born Pretty Store Plate QA 88 which I also previously reviewed (Turquoise Stamping). Also, if you would like 10% off at the Born Pretty Store use code: HANDX31. I used Zoya Pepper for stamping and it worked surprisingly well.

Swatch and Review of Northern Star Summer Collection and Cuticle Oil

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Introducing (part of) the Summer Collection from Northern Star polish! Kristin sent me four of her very soon to be released Summer Collection along with one of her scented cuticle oils. I received Appletini! I have to say the first thing I noticed was that she packaged all of these products really well, each polish came in its own box, was well wrapped in bubble wrap and tissue paper, if you order, you will see.