Tropical Summer Nails

Summer is in full swing and so many of us are headed to tropical places for summer vacations. Here are my nails from my tropical vacation.

Hawaiian Hibiscus

After all the festive and party nails, its time for some colorful tropical nails. If you follow me on Instagram, and seen my Insta stories, you would have already seen them and the reason I created them :)

I freehanded these design using various Zoya nail polishes and my previous Hibiscus nails are the inspiration behind these, you can see them by clicking HERE.

Hibiscus

It's been super cold, rainy and gloomy here. And I have been sharing a lot of Winter nails so I decided to take a break from them and create some pretty and colorful tropical designs on my nails. So I came up with these red and yellow Hibiscus nail art. I am really happy on how these turned out. These I created freehand using polishes - Zoya's Purity, Rekha, Darcy, Willa, Tilda.

Hula Hands Polishes

Apart from Island Girl polishes (which I have reviewed already) I also found Hula Hand polishes in Kauai, Hawaii. Now this is one brand I had never heard of before. Curious, I bought 2 polishes so I can try and review them. I bought them back in December and was lazy to try them out and got around trying them now so here are there swatches and review.

The first polish is called Hang 10. The color is deep purple with a silver shine to it when exposed to the correct lighting. But I didn't like the smell of this polish. It is very very strong. Also I wasn't impressed with the quality of this polish. I am glad I bought only 2 bottles for trying out.

The second one is called Treasure Isle. It is gold glitter with some really big hex glitter particles in it. Again the smell of this one is too strong too, I guess the brand itself is like that. One thing is for sure, I won't be buying polishes from this brand again.

Island Girl Polishes

Hello Lovely People. As you all know I was on vacationing in Hawaii last month and while I was shopping at ABC Stores in Hawaii, I came across these Island Girl polishes. Priced at $2.99 a piece, I went "Whaaaaaa..." and couldn't decide what I wanted to buy. So finally I had it down to 6 nailpolishes and 1 cuticle oil (which was too cute a bottle to leave behind). So here is my swatches and review of the polishes that I bought

The Island Girl polishes are priced at $2.99, so I wasn't expecting much of them, but to my surprise they turned out pretty well. The formula is easy to apply for all the polishes and lasts 4-5 days without chipping. I have even tried some nail art with these polishes which has lasted even longer.

I was lucky enough to find some holographic shades(I am a sucker for Holographic Polishes) in this polish brand. This one has no name only a number 1807A and is a lovely Grey holo polish. You will soon see me using this as part of a nail art.

The other holo polish I found is a lovely Blue shade which goes by the number 1804A. It looks so beautiful in the sunlight and I can't stop staring at it.

The third polish is a lovely dove grey shade with again no name but a number 1518. I love this formula, very smooth and easy to apply. I got the below results in just 2 coats.

Next is a beautiful ice pink shade called TROPICAL GIRL(M1806). I really like how it looks both inside and outside in sunlight (pic 2 below).

The fifth polish is a maroon-ish pink shade called TROPICAL DREAM(M1801). This formula is easy to apply but it isn't a soft polish - meaning it has a rough feel to it.

Last is a pretty soft pink shade called BIG ISLAND MAGIC(P1201). This is my least favorite one. Though the color is beautiful, the formula is really really bad. I applied 3 coats for the below pic and it still was not fully opaque as you can see.

Of course, I had to share the pretty cuticle oil bottle pic too.

What do you think of this post? Would you like to see more polish swatches or you are interested in seeing only Nail Art in this space? Let me know in the comments section below.

Hawaiian Flowers

Hello Friend's, if you follow me on Instagram, you know about my recent trip to Hawaii. Before I left on vacation, I wanted to paint my nails with some Hawaiian nail art and this floral design is what I came up with. The polishes that I used to create this nail art are OPI's Non-Stop White, Zoya's Darcy, Sinfulcolors Sunset, Orly's Yellow Submarine and Butter London's Jaded Jack. I got a lot of compliments from strangers on my trip, for this nail art and I had this nail art on my nails for 9 days (which is very unusual for me). Hope you all like this deisgn.

Couldn't help but take picture of my nails with some of my favorite Hawaiian Flowers, white Plumeria and yellow Hibiscus