Essie The Girls Are Out + Julie G Crushed Candy Criss Cross Nail Art

Hello readers!

This mani is inspired by Jacki from Adventures in Acetone. She is such a fun nail artist and blogger and I love the texture criss cross idea she came up with. I decided to use Essie The Girls Are Out and Julie G Crushed Candy for my take on the look. It used lots of striping tape and patience!

My accent nail is the same Essie with Orly Be Brave. I think all of these polishes complimented each other quite nicely!

I am still loving the textured polish trend...what about you?

JulieG Sugar Rush and Tangerine Dream

Hi!

I am lucky today is Sunday because I have been SO TIRED today and this blog post is about as productive as I have been all day. I took 2 naps and still feel totally drained...I have 6 weeks left until my due date and I am really hoping this doesn't keep up until then!

But this is a polish blog and that's what you are here for so I have a quick mani to share with you! :) This is Sugar Rush and Tangerine Dream from the JulieG Gumdrops collection. I do like the texture polish trend...I can't say I am obsessed but I haven't had a chance to try any from Zoya, which seem to be the best, mostly because I try and wait for a promo to purchase them. Hoping for one soon!

Are you over texture polish or do you think they are here to stay?

Essie No Place Like Chrome + Nail Art

Good afternoon!

Continuing on in my installment of patriotic nail art today, I have somewhat of a fail to share with you. I like this design but my execution didn't happen the way I thought it would. I tried the hole punched masking tape as a stencil idea that I saw on Chalkboard Nails. My texture polishes didn't really translate on the nail as well as her's did. I have been trying to branch out with my nail art lately but you can't win them all I guess! ;)

My base is Essie No Place Like Chrome with OPI Get Your Number and Julie G Hot Cinnamon for the hearts.

I've got 2 more looks to finish out my 4th themed nail art so stay tuned this week!

JulieG Rock Candy

Hello!

This is the first of the JulieG Gumdrops polishes that I tried from my Groupon promo. These are the only textured polishes I own although I feel like there are more than ever coming out right now! I went through a phase of feeling like I had all I could have in my stash in terms of what I like and what's out there. And then the indie polish world exploded and the bigger companies have tried competing, new innovations in polish happen and there are more than ever out there....I feel like I'm drowning in all the new things! haha

Anyway! This is just a quick swatch of Rock Candy, a super sparkly teal green. I really liked wearing the texture trend for the first time but I don't feel like I need to get every one out there because I'm not just dying over it. Fun to own a few though!

What do you think about texture polishes? Are you loving it or leaving it?