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Autumn Stripes

Autumn Stripes, I love stripes but I don't have the patience it takes to make them perfectly straight like I prefer so I don't do them often. That is until I got my manicure tape from China. It took about 2 weeks and I got about 10 rolls for just a couple of dollars and no shipping. Pretty good deal if you ask me. So I chose to use Essie True Love again for the base and the following colors: OPI Chopsticking to My Story, China Glaze Trendsetter, Orly Sapphire Silk, and OPI Louvre me Louvre me Not. I wore this manicure for a whole week and that's along time for me lol. I almost added a black stripe over the top of all the stripes to give a framed looked but decided against it. I figured less is more.

Thoughts? Feelings? Concerns?

OPI Suzi Says Da! and Pure Ice Meet Me In Monaco

OPI Suzi Says Da! and Pure Ice Meet Me In Monaco, Get ready for Decembers posts! I've got a few gems coming up that I think you're really going to like. For those of you who know me personally, you know that I have been doing some serious hauling of nail polish in the last couple of months So much so that I had to put MYSELF on restriction and made a vow not to buy another single bottle of polish until the New Year. That's not that long, but during the holiday season with all the sales going on...that's a big deal for this nail polish addict. Anywho! For the rest of the month you will see posts on some of the new polishes I've acquired and I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.
First up is OPI Suzi Says Da! (old) and Pure Ice Meet Me in Monaco (new). I was disappointed in Suzi Says Da! because it's so dark it looks black in most lighting but should be a dark chocolate. Pure Ice Meet Me in Monaco was great though. I scored with this one and only $1.99 at my local Walmart. It has multi sized cooper glitter in a black jelly, and is easily opaque in 2 coats. The glitter was not too chunky and spread evenly with ease. Thoughts? Feelings? Concerns?

Label : Nail Art, Nail Polish, OPI, Pure Ice

Saturday, September 13, 2014 | tamil | Beri Komentar

Nail Polish Vintage yet Modern

Nail Polish Vintage yet Modern , This year my husband and I decorated the house in lights, and put up some fuss in the house in the way of decorations. Unfortunately we didn't get to partake in so many Christmas parties as we'd hoped. Our neighbors invited us over for a viewing in their backyard of It's a Wonderful Life. It was our first time going there for a social event and I wanted to make a good impression. So I set out to make a vintage yet modern Christmas tree art. I used Julep: Glen for most of the nails and then Cynthia Crowley for the accent nails. Both of these colors are absolutely glorious. The formula was great and dried super fast. My only complaint was that the Cynthia Crowley (green color with no name) was HORRIBLE to take off. Stained my nails something awful. The other colors I used on the tree and snow were: American Apparel Galaxy, OPI Golden Eye, Milani Black Sketch, Revlon Calla Lily. The shape of the tree was modern to me and the overall look with the OPI Golden Eye added a vintage touch. What are your thoughts? Feelings? Concerns?

Label : American Apparel, Cynthia Crowley, Julep, Milani, Nail Art, Nail Polish, OPI, Revlon

Thursday, September 11, 2014 | tamil | Beri Komentar

Nail Polish Winter Wonderland

Nail Polish Winter Wonderland, I love glitter. I've grown to love it more that I have discovered some wonderful Indie lines and the power of white felt and acetone. Now it's not such a chore to take off so I'm not intimidated to use it in most of my manicures. For this manicure I wanted to try the swoop design for just touch of glitter. The blue I chose was from American Apparel American Denim and it's a really creamy sky blue. The glitter was from the OPI Ballet collection called Pirouette My Whistle. This glitter is so soft and subtle; when paired with a light color it adds the right amount of bling without taking away from the color. I think I will try this design with a different color combination that is more bold to see the effect. I enjoyed the glitter side and non-glitter side of the nail as well. It's a great way to enjoy two colors at the same time. What are your thoughts? Feelings? Concerns?

Label : American Apparel, Nail Art, Nail Polish, OPI

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Essie School of Hard Rocks OPI The Living Daylights

Essie School of Hard Rocks OPI The Living Daylights, I started hauling more glitter because I felt like my collection was lacking in that area. So I picked up a few polishes from the new OPI Skyfall 007 collection. I was trying to think of a way to use this glitter that has not already been done. Many people just put it over one of the other colors in the collection, or bejeweled one nail or used it in a gradient. So i figured I would use OPI The Living Daylights as a french tip color instead. I have had Essie School of Hard Rocks for some time now and never used it before. It's such a beautiful color in it's dusty periwinkle blue/gray. The formula was thin but consistent and opaque enough in 2 coats. OPI The Living Day Lights is a multicolored hexagon shaped glitter in a clear base. Although a little thick, it was very easy to spread and I achieved the look I was going for with little effort.

Thoughts? Feelings? Concerns?

Label : Essie, Nail Art, Nail Polish, OPI

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Nail Polish Opi Pretxel My Buttons and Fanchromatic Stealing From Charity

Nail Polish Opi Pretxel My Buttons and Fanchromatic Stealing From Charity, The next company I bought from on Cyber Week was Fanchromatic Nails. They are another Indie polish line that I discovered from Chalkboard Nails. She was wearing Between Two Worlds and Pack of Freaks and they were both so unique to my collection I had to have them. In addition to those I also purchased 3 minis of Heart of Gold (which is similar to Between Two Worlds), Dire Wolf, and Stealing From Charity. I wish now that I had purchased a big bottle of Stealing From Charity because it's really a gem. I got this one particularly to accent a nude color. With all the dark colors I was wearing I wanted to do something soft and feminine.
I started with OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons which turned out to be another great nude in my collection that I didn't know I would like so much. Then I added Stealing From Charity in a V-shape at the tips. This is a great rose gold with small and large gold round glitter. It went on pretty easily and was full opaque in 2 coats. So I decided I have to use this sparingly since it's only a mini. I would repurchase from this company as well because the colors are unique and the quality of the polishes are great as well. Stay tuned for future posts with Between Two Worlds and Pack of Freaks. Thoughts? Feelings? Concerns?

Label : Fanchromatic Nails, Nail Art, Nail Polish, OPI

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OPI Black Satin & Boho Turquoise

OPI Black Satin & Boho Turquoise, A long time ago I found this site on Ebay that sells glitter and I got this one called Boho Turquoise (or something like that). I ordered 2 others that I didn't like as much and made the mistake of adding them to a cream based polish and they were lost never to be seen again. I learned my lesson and put this glitter into clear polish because I didn't have the proper suspension base. I am in love with this glitter because it combines so many of my favorite elements. It's in the order of My Ten Friends "Dirtball" but it's not the same in formula or size glitter. The brown and turquoise elements are there along with small gold glitter and holo hexes. It went perfect over OPI Black Satin which is a gorgeous deep gunmetal gray. What are your thoughts? feelings? concerns?

Label : Indie glitter, Nail Art, Nail Polish, OPI

Wednesday, September 10, 2014 | tamil | Beri Komentar

Nail Polish 100th Post!!

Nail Polish 100th Post!!, My goodness, 100 posts in less than 1 year. I never even thought I could get to this point. I thought I might loose the love of polish by now at the rate I was acquiring it, but my hobby gives me so much joy and is my creative relief, so I will continue to share and enjoy all my beautiful polish. Incidentally I am up to 724 polishes as of today and that doesn't count what's coming in the mail to me :) . This might sound like a lot to some of you but this is completely normal in the nail polish blogging world. I'm fortunate to have a supportive husband who doesn't give me a hard time about the time I spend on my nails, and I have no (human) children yet so I have more time than the average working mom to indulge in my nails.

For this 100th post I have a combination of OPI Live and Let Die and Milani Signature Gold stamping design. I used a plate I got from Amazon.com and chose the circles because they reminded me of gears. I forgot to take a pic of OPI Live and Let Die on it's own but if you google images of it you can see it's a gorgeous deep teal with gold shimmer. It's from the James Bond collection and truly unique easy 1 coater. Please forgive me for just having 2 pics. These were the best I could get.

Thanks for following and your kind words.

Autumn Stripes

OPI Suzi Says Da! and Pure Ice Meet Me In Monaco

Nail Polish Vintage yet Modern

Nail Polish Winter Wonderland

Essie School of Hard Rocks OPI The Living Daylights

Nail Polish Opi Pretxel My Buttons and Fanchromatic Stealing From Charity

OPI Black Satin &amp; Boho Turquoise

Nail Polish 100th Post!!

OPI Black Satin & Boho Turquoise