Fab Five for February

I found my self severely in love with a few many tons of polish through out the month of February, and i wanted to show you a few of my favorites. I've narrowed it down to my Fab Five, which i hope to be a reoccurring monthly segment on my blog.

BEHOLD! My Fab Five for February.

China Glaze "Dance Baby" , Essie "Armed and Ready" , Sally Hansen "Wedding Crasher" , Kleancolor "Holo Pink" , Barielle "Buddah-ful"

China Glaze "Dance Baby" from the Electropop collection.

I love this lacquer because it is the candy creme pink i have been dreaming of. Smooth and perfect formula gives perfect coverage in two coats. It looks much lighter in the bottle but on the nail is the perfect bubble gum pink.

Essie "Armed and Ready" from the Go Overboard collection.

This polish is difficult to appreciate if your not in person. Hidden below the much of the dark army gray green are tons of micro gold sparkles that only make an appearance in the sun.

Sally Hansen "Wedding Crasher" for the Diamond Strength line.

This is a favorite of mine because it's a glitter that can be worn alone or layered in top of pinks and purples to entirely change the whole look of the color. Pink and silver glitter sit in a highly pink tinted base with a dreamy formula similar to the rest of the Diamond Strength line.

Kleancolor "Pink Holo"

I feel like this polish is like "Wedding Crasher's" little sister. It is another glitter good for layering or to be worn alone. I wore this over "Dance Baby" and could not take my eyes off my nails. I have a soft spot for perfect pinks and glitter, especially holo glitter.

And lastly "Buddah-ful" by Barielle

This polish is...lets say unique. A light milky nude jelly base with green flakies and incredibly difficult to photograph. This is best layer over other polish but the nude base highly dilutes any color under it. I've yet to find the perfect pair for this polish but am no less infatuated with it.

"Pink Goodness" Feat: China Glaze "Dance Baby"

PINK! Growing up, i never liked the color pink. It was icky, to girly, and just not me. Then i became officially female and some switch in my brain was flicked. Now it's not my favorite color in the world, but it;s on the top five. Especially since it looks good on my nails. These are a few of m new favorite pink polishes all wrapped up into one mani.

 For this mani...

China Glaze "Dance Baby"

Kleancolor "Holo Pink"

Kleancolor "Mix Signal"

To the left natural light in the shade, and direct sunlight on the right. China Glaze "Dance Baby" has become one of my all time favorite polishes. If i had to pink one pink in the whole world this would be it. Electropop came with some amazing shades, but this one is the tops.

I layered one coat of "Holo Pink" and one coat of "Mix Signal" to get to this sparkly pink goodness.

I did mess these nails up a bit because the Kleancolor polishes take forever and a day to dry. I had squishy nails almost all day long.

Valentine's Day nails

Yea, i'm late on the whole V-day posting thing. But unlike a lot of you crazies who did an elaborate series of Valentine's day themed manis, i did mine the day before, half asleep. Whatever, i'm not as dedicated to this as some of you, this is just a hobby of mine. Be proud i've kept a blog going this long, it's actually been a little over a year now. Never did i think i'd still be doing this. I'm glad i am, because i don't regret a second of it.

For this nail look i used...

Color Club "Precious Gifts"

Color Club "Fame and Fortune"

Hard Candy "Matte About You"

China Glaze "Dance Baby"

This mani was done by using two coats of "Precious Gifts" covered by one generous coat of "Fame and Fortune," one of my new favorites. I then matted these two colors together and finished it off with glossy tips of China Glaze "Dance Baby."

New Milani Jewel FX Glitters

 

I've been dreaming of the day Milani would release new Jewel FX polishes. I was so taken with Gems and Gold and the resin-tastic formulas that look like drops of water with glitter stuck inside. I didn't get all of the new ones, because as a responsible adult, i must show some form of self control...I plan to get the rest of them by the end of the month, i have worked out a budget to do so.

Shown above

Lavender, Teal, and Hot Pink

Now i don't know how the other girls do it, but you're going to have to deal with my way of swatching glitter. In my opinion, the most reasonable way. Shown above is one coat of each polish on a nail wheel in the shade on a sunny day. I wanted you to be able to see how dense these glitters are. You could figure out how they'd build from this.

I the sun. Lavender and Teal are made up of larger hex glitter along with coordinating teeny tiny glitter, while Hot Pink is made up of pink and silver large hex glitters. As before, these polishes have the signature Jewel FX formula. If you have yet to experience the wonder of these polishes, you should probably run to Wallgreens, like now. They retail for under $5, so it's not too much of a splurge for such a luxurious polish.

"Glitter Sandwich" Feat: China Glaze "Sunshine Pop"

So...i uploaded these pictures like....days ago...and forgot to make a post with them, because i was hungry that day, and my giant jar of apple sauce was far more important at the time. I'm determined to empty it by the end of the week because i reallly want the jar its in. I have a thing for glass jars, and i don't have one this big yet....don't judge me. Enough about my apple sauce jar... This mani was my "glitter sandwich" for a Polishaholics weekly challenge. I took a rather unconventional approach to this well recognized method.

For this mani...

China Glaze "Sunshine Pop"

Nabi "Black Glitter" striper

Blue Cross "Black and Silver Pumpkin"

Essie "Waltz"

SUNSHINE POP!

I don't like yellow. On my. Okay, i lie. I've never worn yellow before. I love this polish though! I love ALL the Electropops. If there is one collection i adore, it's this one. Sunshine Pop is from the Brights portion of the collection and is one out of two shimmers. This is two solid coats. Out of all the the shades i have used so far this was the most temperamental formula, but honestly, it's not bad at all.

I took my Nabi "Black Glitter" striper and made various lines of random lengths from the tips of my nail to about half way up. I enjoy this. And i do believe you'll be seeing a lot more of this type design from me.

I used this Halloween Pumpkin polish made up of silver micro glitter and black round glitter all over my nail. I had to use two coats because this is a weak glitter. I'm not incredibly fond of it.

I then sandwiched it all between Essie "Waltz." I never use this polish because it's so sheer, and odd, and i don't have a used for it other then this. When i bought it i thought it was more opaque. That was forever ago, before i was addicted.

Cult Nails $5 Sale! You just have to do one thing.

As some of you may or may not have heard, Cult Nails, an indie nail lacquer company  is plotting a $5 sale. However, the sale can only be activated it their Facebook page reaches 5,000 followers. Now you have two options if you want to get your polishes paws one some of these fantastic featured polishes. You can either pay $10 a bottle (plus shipping)

Or you can "like" the Cult Nails Facebook page and help spread the word to activate the $5 sale!

CULT NAILS FACEBOOK

CULT NAILS WEBSTORE

I want this sale. Like now. 

:)

Cute Blog Award

It's been a minute since i've received an award on my blog. You know, due to my lack of posting, poor quality in posts, and so on. But it's a new year bitches! And i'm settpin' up my game!

I'd quickly like to give a shout out to Ashley from "Follow the Yellow Polish Road" and Kirsten from "Geeky Owl" for tagging me for this award. Thank you girls, it means a lot to me :D

For this award you:
1. Link back to the person who awarded you
2. Answer the award questions
3. Tell something about yourself that you haven't told anyone on your blog yet
4. Award as many blogs as you think are worthy of this award
5. Make sure to let those you gave this award to know that you awarded them.

The Award Questions:
1. What is your go to makeup product?
I love makeup, and if you're an old follower of my blog you know my go to for fabulous is Sugarpill.

Other then that i'd die with out my lip care products, not so much color but moisturizing.

2. What was your favorite fashion trend of 2011?
Pea coats. I can not get enough of those dang things.

3. What is your favorite dessert?
Starbucks Carmel Machiato ice cream. It's the shit.

4. Favourite color?
Purple. If you knew me in real life, it would be painfully obvious.

5. What is your middle name?
Marie, like every other white girl in California

6. What was the last song that you listened to?
"Walk" by Bad Religion

7. Cats or dogs?
Meow, I love my kitty cat.

Something about myself that you don't know:

I have caught or been directly handed a total of eight drum sticks at various concerts.


I'm going to be honest, i haven't been paying attention to many blogs yet...So bear with me as i tag the few i frequent.
Sirena Sparklestar
Confessions of a Glitterholic
Lacquered Me
Sekhmet's Purple Castle
Makeup Zombie

"Stars and Spots" Feat" China Glaze "Aquadelic"

I had heard rumors that those smelly Kleancolor metallic polishes are excellent stamping polishes. I didn't believe it, but after trying five different polishes every time i got to do a stamped design i gave it. I had a Purple Metallic just sitting in my rack, i feel dumb for letting it be idle for so long.

    For this mani...                                                               Bundle Monster Plate BM20

                    China Glaze "Aquadelic"                               Medium double end dotting tool

               Kleancolor "Metallic Fuchsia"

               Sally Hansen "Green with Envy"

I began this mani with two creamy coats of China Glaze "Aquadelic" from the Electropop collection. These photos are in natural sunlight. This polish is a baby blue aqua. It mostly reminds me almost a powder blue, but glossy. Much like the rest of the Electropop set, the formula was as perfect as can be

Using Bundle Monster plate number BM20, the star pattern and Kleancolor "Metallic Fuchsia" which is actually purple i stamped my design on each nail. I'm not to great at stamping, and in addition to my lame stamping skills, the image on the plate was to small for me nail. -_- annoyed.

 I used my dotting too and Sally Hansen's "Green with Envy" to fill in the empty spaces with green dots. I then put a smaller dot of Aquadelic inside each green spot to create green rings, not very good green rings; but green rings never the less.