The Fancy Side

So if y'all follow me over on Instagram last Friday you got spammed by my backstage NYFW experience. I was lucky enough to be part of Team Cirque and got to go backstage to prep and apply nails. Backstage at NYFW is crazy, it's barely organized chaos. For every model there is at least two makeup people, a hair stylist, coordinator, press, photographer, nail person and more. There were 25 models in the show, so imagine how many people were working together to pull the show off. 

This was the look I wore backstage. Since I was on Team Cirque I wanted to wear one of Annie's beautiful creations. I started with a base coat and applied right angle nail vinyls to create a negative space. The black is two coats of Zoya Willa*. After removing the vinyl guides, I added Cirque Le Invader to the bottom half of the nail. Finally I matted the whole thing. 

Hey y'all! Who is excited for the holiday this week? I'm pretty pumped about delicious food and family time. But it isn't quite Thanksgiving yet. So today #TheLacquerRing is here to show you something fun. As you may remember from earlier this month its my turn to pick. I did teal for my color prompt and for my art prompt I chose Comic Book nails. 

I wanted to do a look that shows old school comic book styles with a fun Wonder Woman accent nail. I'll let the look speak for itself. I'll list colors used after the photos. Wonder Woman isn't my favorite nail, but I love the way the others came together. 

Alright Ladies (and Gents) we're back for another round of #StampingSaturdays. I love these weekly link-ups. I feel like they really push me when it comes to making designs every week. This weeks look may be one of my favorites. First lets take a look at the base polish though, because damn, it's pretty on its own. 

This is Dollish Polish "You Know Nothing Jon Snow" from her Ultimate Fandom Collection. I was lucky enough to meet Dolly in person a few months ago, and I asked her to pick out six "must have" polishes for me. This was one and boy is she right. YKNJS has a winter white base filled with black microglitters, silver/white microflakes, and blue/green glitters. Over all it gives the feeling of a snowy cold night. 

Two things inspired me this week when chosing a design. 1. Its been bitterly cold in NYC and the rest of the state has been getting hammered with snow storms. 2. The pretty I already had on my fingers. I used Zoya Willa* to stamp on the bare tree forms from BM-407. I then used China Glaze The Outer Edge to add some piled up snow around the bottom of the tree trunks. 

What do you think? Part of me wishes I'd used a matte topcoat on this look, but I didn't think of it in time. I really love the overall snowy effect this look gives off. Don't forget to add your stamped look down below!

Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee

*some polishes in this post were provided for review, all others were self purchased

Do you ever have an idea that when executed makes you giddy with happiness because it worked out exactly like you wanted? This is one of those looks for me. I was recently whining to my mom about my job and she told me "every cloud has a silver lining." She's right of course and this manicure was born out of that advice. 

I now have the other half of the Zoya Wishes collection for you. These polishes are all color matches for the Textured half of the collection. One is a creme, one a metallic, and one a liquid metal. 

Zoya Willa is a beautiful black creme. This is a basic staple polish for any collection. Look how glossy it is. This is two coats with no top coat. I love love love this black polish. It moved to the top of my list. 

Zoya Haven is an eggplant purple that has lots of micro shimmer in it. Zoya describes this as a liquid metal polish. I've used 3 thin coats for this swatch. 

Zoya Prim is a light cornflower metallic blue polish. This one has a tendency to be a bit streaky during application. I've used 3 coats here to get even strokes. This one isn't my favorite, but I can see it working well as a stamping polish. 

Willa is my favorite from this group, with Haven as a close second. What are yours?

Enjoy & until next time, Amy Lee

*polishes were provided for my honest review