Rue's Nails of the Week for the last week of July.

I know it's late. Have you ever not painted you nails for a while, and it seems like every time you try and paint them, they look horrible? This has been the problem I have had. Since I hadn't painted my nails for two weeks, I had gotten out of the habit, so every time I painted them, they looked bad, and I didn't want to post them. With that, this week's looks there are only two.

Look 1: Hyde Park Jelly Sandwich Accent 

Polishes Used:
L'oreal Hyde Park
Pure Ice It's Complicated

This manicure is in honor of the birth of the Royal Baby. Since Hyde Park is in London, and if I am not mistaking the baby's home will be close to Hyde Park.(If I am wrong about this, please comment below). Now on what I used to get this look.

L'oreal Hyde Park is a green. It's very sheer, but become opaque with about three to four coats depending on application. It only took about three coats with this application, but I have worn this before and it took four.

First, I do not thing this polish is considered a jelly polish. Then you may ask how could I get a jelly sandwich out of it. Here is a closer look at the accent nail.

Pure Ice It's Complicatied is a multi-colored glitter polish with small hex glitter, medium size hex glitter, and larger hex glitter. In my opinion, I do not like this glitter polish. I have other polishes that I get more glitter off of from than this polish. I do love Pure Ice though as a brand just not this glitter polish. If you want a swatch of the glitter on it's own, comment below. 

I believe the reason that I was able to achieve the jelly sandwich effect with this look is because I didn't wait of the glitter polish to completely dry, so when I applied the green over top, I was able to mix the green in with it. I do not recommend this because glitter did come off on the brush from the Hyde Park brush. I did clean it off before putting it back in the bottle. I did like the look though. 

It took three coats of glitter to get the glitter pay off you see in the picture.

To finish off this look, I topped off with Seche Vite Top Coat.

Look 2: Wet n Wild Love

Polishes Used:
Wet n Wild Wild Shine Teal Slowly and See
Spoiled by Wet n Wild Pet My  Peacock
Wet n Wild Fergie Mermaid Curves

I am in absolute love with this nail color. I have nothing like it in my collection. This is a new polish from Wet n Wild Wild Shine. This is Teal Slowly and See. It's from their new collection Pop Art. The collection has five other colors in it:White, Blue, Purple, Green, and an Orange, but this one is the only one I felt I didn't have one like in the my collection. After looking at the collection more, I am end up getting the green, the purple, and the white. Plus these polishes are only 99 cents, and most of the time you can find them on sale at Walgreens or Rite Aid for 69 cents. Basically a steal.

Teal Slowly and See is a Creme Polish. It took two coats, but I think some people may be able to get away with one. I would suggest two coats.

For the accent nail, I used two different types of glitter. After painted my nail with two coats of Teal Slowly and See. I let it completely dry, and I then added my first coat of glitter Spoiled by Wet n Wild Pet my Peacock, which is a large blue and silver hex glitter in a clear base. I was going to stop with that, but I did not like how it looked. I wanted sparkle, so I topped it with Wet n Wild Fergie Mermaid Curves which has small hex glitter in blue and silver,  even smaller glitter in blue and silver and is in a blue base. I did two coats of it.

I topped all the nails with my Seche Vite Top Coat.


Rue's Life 

• My fan in my room broke this weekend, and now my room feels stale. There is no air circulation at ALL. I will be buying a new fan soon. 
• I am going to look at a car soon, keep your fingers crossed that everything will be in place and I will maybe get it. 
• Lily found a tube of mascara today, and she put it on her eye. She had the right idea where it goes, but she looked like a raccoon. She was so cute, but she should definietly not know where it goes. She's not even two yet!
• I have been at my job for two years. It doesn't seem like that long ago, which also means that I been out of college for over two years. 

Peaceful and Happy thoughts, 

--Rue.