NAIL ART TUTORIAL: AMERICANA!
Check out Danielle’s latest entry for MTV Fora‘s Humpday Nail Art – inspired by all things red, white & blue for the 4th of July! With bold pops of colour, this all American nail art design has these Canadians in love with our neighbours South of the border. Check out the full tutorial here: Humpday … Continue reading
NAIL ART TUTORIAL: SPACE ODYSSEY
We recently received the new Essie Metallic collection (!) & we could not wait to play around with the beautiful shades(stay tuned for the collection swatches later this week). Today’s tutorial is a great example of getting a little carried away – so many brights and a plethora of polka dots, it has a Space/Neon/Dizzy … Continue reading
TRENDING TIPS REPORT: GREYSCALE
Feeling grey? Not with these looks! Although we’ve been seeing brights & neons pop up everywhere – we can’t deny our love for a good grey, especially one with a little shimmer/glitter thrown in. After the grey merge of ’09 we we’re hooked & our love affair still continues! Our favourite brands are still introducing … Continue reading
NAIL ART TUTORIAL: THE GIRL ON FIRE
May the odds be ever in your favour! What kind of nail art blog would we be without a tribute to Hunger Games? We were huge fans of the books & we can’t wait to see the movie. We recently were asked to film a segment on Much Music’s New.Music.Live (so exciting!!) for their ‘Hunger … Continue reading
SWATCH REVIEW: FINGER PAINTS – GUMDROPS & LOLLIPOPS
We are so excited to share with you Gumdrops & Lollipops, Finger Paints’ Spring line. If you follow us on twitter you’ll know just how often we visit out local Sally Beauty Supply – a little more often than we should. The last few FingerPaints collections have caught our eye and this one is no … Continue reading
NAIL ART TUTORIAL: SPRINKLE CUPCAKE
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Today we took a classic cupcake mani and added a little Valentine twist and sparkle. We’re sad to end the V-Day edition on PYP – but we can assure you there will still be tons of pink & red in the near future (our favs). Hope everyone’s day is filled with … Continue reading
TRENDING TIPS: TRUE, PURE LOVE
Love is in the air on Polish You Pretty with today’s Trending Tips Report – True, Pure Love. It didn’t take us long to figure out that we wanted to feature our favourite local shop, PURE Home Couture in today’s Valentines Day inspired post – we adore this store and absolutely everything it has to … Continue reading
NAIL ART TUTORIAL: CALIFORNIA WAITING
All week we’ve been looking into planning a vacation as we are desperately trying to escape this cold weather, and although our hunt continues, for this post we decided to send our nails on a little trip to paradise. Now instead of closing our eyes and visualizing being somewhere with warm sun and sand we … Continue reading
NAIL ART TUTORIAL: HEART STAINED BOX
We popped into our local Sally Beauty store recently and spotted a display that was so ‘us’ we couldn’t help but buy the whole collection filled with pinks & reds, Valentine’s Day isn’t too far away right? We weren’t sure if this was a collection or just an arrangement for the holiday, titled ‘I Heart … Continue reading
NAIL ART TUTORIAL: WALK ON WATER
Do you ever see an idea and it’s just so simple and brilliant it blows your mind that it hasn’t been done before? Insert Tips Nail Bar‘s design for the Lucian Matis show back in October (HOW are we just seeing this now?). We watched this video well over 20 times, the design is so … Continue reading
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