Aronda the M.U.A.Hair and Makeup Artist with a fetish for Nail Polish :)

While I’m still rocking my Minx, I did recently get my hands on OPI’s Holiday Wishes collection. I love sparkly polish and instantly fell in love with the one called Merry Midnight. It’s a vampy dark purple with gold and purple glitter and red sparkle flakes. It was really just bursting with sparkle!

This is definately a holiday shade that I can find myself wearing throughout the next year and beyond. Another purple shade to add to the purple takeover that is going on in my life right now..LOL. Enjoy!

I’ve been quietly eyeing Minx on celebrities and the fashion elite for many many months now. Cruising one day on twitter, I happened up a woman in Philly who does the coveted Minx Manicure as a mobile service. I was too excited once I got in contact with her! Luckily for me, she was able to fit me in and came over my house today to give me the wonderful glittery nails I have been salivating over!

I had a difficult time taking pics that would do the Minx justice, but I managed to take two that can show you the general idea. Trust me, they look like 1000% better in person! I got a mixed manicure with a plaid pattern on my thumbs, pinkie and middle fingers, and the chrome or silver finish on the other nails.

If you’re in the Philly area and want to be Minxed, Contact Philadelphia’s only “mobile” Minx service at PhillyMinx@Gmail.com. Tell her Aronda sent you She’s also on “the Book” at www.facebook.com/PhillyMinx

I was watching Monica’s show, Still Standing, and couldn’t help but notice her beautiful nails! She wore a tonal blue manicure that I thought was fun and looked really pretty, so I decided to try it. Just in case you didn’t see the show, here is episode #2. You can see her blue nails right at the beginning of the episode.

Ok. So I used China Glaze colors to copy this look and I think I nailed it pretty darn close! I used Shower Together for the dark blue and For Audrey for the light blue.

Here is the finished look. I really like it! I think I’m going to try to do another manicure using this same idea, just different colors. Stay tuned!

Keep Bouncing and Behaving,

ArondaMUA

Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a pink girl. I LOVE pink. However, I find myself all of a sudden surrounded by shade of purple. I mean it’s everywhere! My winter pajamas are purple. I’ve been wearing a lot of purple makeup. My puppy’s carrier is purple.

Alas, this new purple trend of mine has hit my nail polish stash. I ordered several new purples, and Yasmeen by Zoya has won me over. I think it’s possibly the most lovely purple nail polish I have ever seen.

It’s a rich, royal purple with a golden purple shimmer, and I’m smitten. It may be a while before you guys see another NOTD on this blog because I might be wearing this one for a while. I paired it with a ’Power Pinky’ using Zoya Penny which is a coppery glimmer that works well with Yasmeen. Zoya has done it again for me.

Keep Bouncing and Behaving,

ArondaMUA