Cult Nails - Let Me Fly

I really did let myself fly over the weekend. By finally cutting off around 7-8 inches of my hair. I've had it really long for about three years now. It was definitely time to say goodbye since I was dealing with terrible tangles and breakage. I was having glob conditioner in my hair and then comb through it with my tangle teezer just to manage it.

I went in with the intent of only cutting it just above my shoulders but next thing I know I'm agreeing to chop it into a short and edgy bob.

Here is the aftermath on the salon floor...

And here is the fantastic aftermath on my hair!

Short and sleek! Now on to my weekend manicure which was Cult Nails - Let Me Fly. A beautiful dark and dusty turquoise shade with flecks of silver shimmer.

My hairdresser and the sales lady at Ulta both complimented the color and asked what it was. Way to go Maria for creating a noticeable nail polish color!

I also gave my parent's next door neighbor girls manicures too, while I was visiting. The oldest girl picked Let Me Fly as her base color and then Cult Nails - Vicious as her polka dots.

The younger one picked Vicious as her base and the Let Me Fly for her polka dots and then on her other fingers, she had Cult Nails - Awakening as the base with a coat of Cult Nails Hypnotize Me.

Thanks for reading. :)

Valentine's Day Mani

I actually put this on last night and so far so good it's sticking to my nails. I used the Cult Nails Base/Top Coat which had been giving me problems in the past with peeling but lately it's been working great!

So Cult Nails released a new collection this month called Let's Get Nekkid! Unfortunately, this is not the time for me to be buying new nail polish. Huge sad face. :( I especially have my eye on Toxic Seaweed which has flakes in it. So while I was whining about not being able to buy Toxic Seaweed I realized I do still have another flake from Cult Nails.

It's Iconic, a really pretty deep berry with golden shimmer and red flakes. A classic from their inaugural collection back in February 2011.

I should of warned that my nails are pretty short at the moment. I usually have really bad peeling problems in winter. So I have been needing to keep them cut back short. The only blessing I have is long nail beds!

In this photo there is a bit of a surprise color appearance in the bottle! The red flakes shift to a lime green too.

Here is a time when my nails were much longer. I wore this in March of last year. Took it while waiting at an intersection near my apartment in Zurich. I was on my way to the Geneva Car Show. Which btw is overrated and crowded.

And here I am at Lake Geneva...

Cult Nails - Captivated

I wore this last week for two days. Cult Nails - Captivated is a polish packed full of glitter in a tinted orange coral base.

I used three coats for this and it's pretty opaque at that point. It's a bit gooey but I think that's to be expected of a glitter polish. Check out all the shades of glitter. I love the little specks of blue glitter and the gold really  contrasts nicely against the orange coral base.

The picture below is my favorite. So pretty and it just sparkles!

Cult Nails can be purchased online here for $10 a piece. But if you follow Cult Nails on Twitter you can watch out for discount codes they occasionally put out. They do have international shipping to most countries, but recently they have needed to change up what counties they can send to and how they can send it. They wrote about some of the issues they are dealing with here and here. If you check out and your country is not listed then contact Cult Nails as they are still adding to the list.

Cult Nails - Devious Nature

I need to get back on the blogging wagon. :) I've just been a bit busy and stressed. But hopefully things will start to get back to normal from now on.

At the end of May I received the new Cult Nails collection called A Day at the Races. I pre-ordered the whole set which included the new nail file. The glass file is fantastic so if your in the market for one I would recommend it. Here's a picture of the whole set.

L:R: Always Winning, Cruisin' Nude, Let Me Fly, Captivated, Devious Nature

Here are some close up bottle pictures... click for larger view.

Always Winning

Cruisin' Nude

Let Me Fly

Devious Nature

Captivated

So today I will show off my manicure of Devious Nature. Formula is great on this. I used two coats and it dried with such a shine. I took my pictures before I placed a top coat on so you could see how squishy it looks by itself. Devious Nature is a berry pink that leans a blueish purple. This is a great color for the summer and a very unique pink.

Cult Nails can be purchased online here for $10 a piece. But if you follow Cult Nails on Twitter you can watch out for discount codes they occasionally put out. They do have international shipping to most countries but recently they have needed to change up what counties they can send to and how they can send it. They wrote about some of the issues they are dealing with here and here. If you check out and your country is not listed then contact Cult Nails as they are still adding to the list.

Hope you enjoyed seeing a collection from a great new company!

Cult Nails - Quench with Special Guest Kiko 232

I'm back today with another Cult Nails polish. This time it's Quench a lovely blood red jelly. My favorite color is red so I'm very partial to red nail polish. Quench is so squishy and applied very nicely. This is probably my top red at the moment. I had a problem when I flooded the cuticle on my index finger. Totally my fault but almost impossible to clean up this type of red without staining everything. So sorry it's a bit stained around my cuticles. :(

I've acquired a lot of nail polish recently. I've been wanting to start trying layering over the different colors with Kiko 232. So that's exactly what I did by putting one coat over Quench. Kiko 232 is a white iridescent flaked glitter. Very lovely sparkle finish, but I'm not sure if I like it over red. I think it will look better over pastel colors.

Kiko nail polishes can only be found in Kiko Cosmetics stores in Italy, Spain, France, and Germany. They retail for 3.90 Euros. I wish they had a store in Switzerland.  Milan is about 3 hours away from Zurich and I really think a store like Kiko would thrive, but I guess they have their reasons.


As I said yesterday... Cult Nails polishes retail for $10 and shipping is reasonable. I messed around on the checkout to see shipping prices and for the US 1 polish to ship is $3 and 2-4 polishes were $5. For Europe shipping for 1 polish is $6 and 2-4 polishes are $8. The shipping prices make me happy since companies often overcharge you for shipping.

Maria has expressed that Cult Nails will have a few promos every once in awhile so if you would like to keep up to date with that you should sign up for Cult Nails email updates on the website's front page or keep up with Cult Nails' twitter.

Cult Nails - Living Water

I've talked about polishes from Cult Nails before. It's a new polish company created by Maria the blogger of R3 Daily. I was really impressed with the first color My Kind of Cool Aid and now that I have the rest of the collection I'm even more impressed!

Living Water is a deep teal blue jelly with bits of emerald and icy blue glitter. Very pretty and unique. I had to use three coats. This could easily be two coats, but I was using a Sally Hansen treatment as a base coat and those make for a patchy first coat. Otherwise application was great and the brush is really nice.
It dries a bit gritty which is normal for a glitter polish.

 
I used Orly Sec N Dry as my top coat, but I noticed that the next day that the finish was sort of gritty again. I think it was a top coat issue Sec N Dry is a fast dry and not meant for a really shiny finish. So keep that in mind when using. Sadly, I was out and about trying to catch sunlight for the pictures before I noticed that I needed to put more top coat on it.

Direct Sun

This is my favorite picture of my manicure.

Cult Nails polishes retail for $10 and shipping is reasonable. I messed around on the checkout to see shipping prices and for the US 1 polish to ship is $3 and 2-4 polishes were $5. For Europe shipping for 1 polish is $6 and 2-4 polishes are $8. The shipping prices make me happy since companies often overcharge you for shipping.

Maria has expressed that Cult Nails will have a few promos every once in awhile so if you would like to keep up to date with that you should sign up for Cult Nails email updates on the website's front page or keep up with Cult Nails' twitter.

Cult Nails - My Kind of Cool Aid

I've been a reader of Maria's blog R3Daily  for a few months now. I started reading right around the time that she announced the creation of her own nail polish line. I've been following along as she blogs about the process and was happy to hear that on January 11, 2011 the first color from Cult Nails was available for purchase. I ordered without hesitation and four days later My Kind of Cool Aid arrived to my house in Wisconsin. How amazing and brave was it for her to create her own nail polish line!


The bottle is a stylish round shape with a black cap. The brush works very nicely and you shouldn't have any problems with it. The Cult Nails logo is adorable. If I had taken a picture of the back of the bottle you will find all the ingredients listed. Her polishes are Big 3 Free which means no toluene, Formaldehyde and Dibutyl. Cult Nails polishes also do not contain Phthalate or Camphor. Along without those nasty chemicals the polishes are Vegan friendly. Maria also uses recycled and reusable packaging. She uses cotton balls for extra padding!!

My Kind of Cool Aid is an awesome lavender gray described on the Cult Nails website as "gravender." It's a gorgeous color with a tiny bit of silver shimmer that I had a slight problem capturing with my camera. The formula is buttery smooth and takes two coats, but looks almost perfect at one coat.

The last two pictures were taken in lower light and appear slightly darker.

Cult Nails retail for $10 a bottle over at their online store. The next two colors Iconic and Living Water will be available the 1st or 2nd week of February when the shipment arrives. You now able to pre-order them. I've made my pre-order now my only hope is that they arrive in time before I head back to Switzerland. :)