EOTD: Flowers of Spring

Here's just a quick post with a look from today; though the weather has not been at all springy, I'm still pushing and hoping for it to rear its head soon! This look is very obviously inspired by the beautiful flowers of spring and I loved it. Let me know what you think!

I did this look with a lot of my Makeup Geek colours and a few from my 88 palette. I'll update this post later with a picture of the 88 palette to show which colours I used.

Used:

• NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk
• NYX Eye Pencil in White
• Pinks from 88 Palette
• Makeup Geek Sensuous
• Makeup Geek Purple Rain
• Makeup Geek Shimma Shimma
• Makeup Geek Sea Mist
• Anabelle gold
• Ardell lashes #305

Vote for this look here and/or here.

NOTD: Mint Ombre Spring Nails

I have been struggling with the weather going back to freezing after having a week of summer-like weather, so I had to do a nail in memoriam of the beautiful weather. It was actually an on-the-fly nail since I had intended on picking up one or two polishes from the Essie Resort 2012 collection today, but good ol' Shoppers Drugmart never fails to let me down! So that will have to be for next weekend.

I have also been attempting to get some good pictures of my makeup but nothing is turning out. So I'll have to work on that once I'm done this semester and have a bit more time on my hands (about 1 month!).

As for today, I have a mint green ombre gradient manicure and even though you can't see it, butterfly thumbs!

Used:
Gosh Miss Minty (base)
Sally Hansen Insta Dri Mint Sprint

What's your favourite spring-colour fashion trend so far? I'm loving mints and corals <3

Essie Lapiz of Luxury & Pure Pearlfection Swatches

It was so much like spring where I live the last few weeks that I need to get into the spring-polish mood and hope that this cold goes away! So after enjoying and loving my Gosh Miss Minty manicure for the week, I decided to go onto a beautiful light cornflower sky blue; Essie Lapiz of Luxury. This polish is from the Resort 2010 collection and I am so anticipating the Resort 2012 collection! They are gorgeousssss polishes.

Anyway, onto Lapiz! The colour is gorgeous and the application was decent. I did two thin coats and a fairly thick third coat. I probably could have got away with 2 coats if they were on the thicker side but when I did it, I still had VNL on the second coat.

Excuse my cuticles - I've worked a lot in the last week.

On top of Lapiz of Luxury I added my new Luxeffects addition to my collection - Pure Pearlfection. This polish is gorgeous. It's a pearly microglitter and it just reflects light so beautifully off the nail. It's the perfect addition to any nail polish.
This is a "gradient" effect, so its closer to 3 coats at the tip of my nail and 1 near the base.

Which of the luxeffect collection have you picked up? Which one is must-have in your opinion?

Gosh Miss Minty Swatch

So yesterday I got a mini haul because I just couldn't resist the spring colours out on the shelf! I got a beautiful minty green Gosh Miss Minty, a sky blue Essie Lapiz of Luxury, and a greige that I've been wanting Essie Chinchilly.

For today, I present you with the swatch of Gosh Miss Minty. It's absolutely wonderful and gorgeous and springy. It's very similar to Essie Turquoise and Caicos. This is the perfect colour for the "in" colours this spring.

The formula was thick and a bit streaky; it needed patience to get solid and some of my fingers could have used a third coat, but I decided to stick with two. It evens out pretty good by itself, which is good because it tended towards that ridged streaky side. It's definitely worth working for, the colour is amazing.

Are you excited for the spring collections?