Zoya Pixie Dust "Liberty"

Zoya Pixie Dust polishes continue to be a love lacquer for me. I know that's all that has been featured lately, but it's all I've been wearing lately.

Can you blame me for wanting to fully appreciate each of my six shades individually?

"Liberty" is a texture royal blue, with less silver glitter than "Vespa" or "Stevie."

The photo displays the color as a little washed out, thing deep sea royal blue. 

The formula on this polish was lovely with full opacity in two coats.

Available at Zoya.com

Layered Swatches: Essie "Beach Bum Blu", China Glaze "Techno", OPI "Save Me"

I feel like this is a kinda pointless post because i don't have an ultra high  resolution camera. This is more of a layered swatch post than a mani/nail look. I don't know, i promise you some actual posts of quality in the near-ish future. I feel like i just don't have the time for it right now. Please bear with me, as these are trying times.

For this mani...

Essie "Beach Bum Blu"

China Glaze "Techno"

OPI "Save Me"

Honestly, this mani is made up of polish that i just wanted to wear on a lazy day that i didn't feel up to nail art on. I began with Essie "Beach Bum Blu" from the Go Overboard collection. I will never stop loving the Go Overboard collection. There is just to much amazing in it. As always, i had no issues with this polish because Essie is amazing. However, i didn't like it as much as i thought i would, i feel like it's just weird on my skin tone.

 After my two coats of the flawless "Beach Bum Blu" i did one coat of OPI "Save Me" (Nicki Minaj 2012) and one of China Glaze "Techno" (Electropop 2012.) The idea of "Save Me" is awesome, the application is weird, in my opinion. I think it's just the bar glitter. I used to have tons of bar glitter polishes when i was younger, but they seem so unconventional and odd to me now. You can hardly see "Techno" amidst all the chaos of "Save Me." I was way way more excited about "Techno" when i saw it online, in person i feel confused and indifferent about it. Over all i'm just so far over silver glitter of any kind. Come on solid colored glitters!

"Anchor Nails" Feat: Essie "Go Overboard"

I've always had a secret soft spot of nautical looks, however I've never taken the action in that direction because it was to trendy, to hip, to fake. Secretly, i'd love to be a sailor. Not a sailor in he sense of being on a boat, in the ocean, out at sea. I do not like being out at sea at all. I'd love o be a sailor in the sense of those sexy pin up girls in tiny sailor out fits, in seductive red lip stick and stiletto heels. A sailor in the IAMX sense. This isn't my best work, but it was a start at trying something new.

For this mani...

Essie "Go Overboard"

China Glaze "Lush and Luxe"

Essie "Beach Bum Blu"

Sally Hansen "Whirlwind White"

Hard Candy "Matte Top Coat"

 I used two coats of Essie "Go Overbord" a very unique blue which I found looses a lot of stun power once matted. I sponged on "Lush and Luxe" on all my tips and painted my entire ring finger. With a dotting tool, i used "Beach Bum Blu" to make dots above the sponged "Lush and Luxe." With a dotting tool once more i used "Whirlwind White" to very carefully create my wonky anchors on each ring finger. I used the matte top coat to finish this look.

"Blue Skies" Feat: China Glaze "Kinetic Candy"

You know what I love? The warm. You know where it's perfectly warm right now? Southern California. You know where i live? Yea, you already know because i tell you all the time and my picture's back drops are clear blue skies. lolalolalolalo. Here's today's post :)

For this mani...

China Glaze "Kinetic Candy"

Essie "Trophy Wife"

Color Club "Sexy Siren"

Pure Ice "Wild Thing"

Rimmel London "Misty Jade"

Behold, from the Electropop Lights collection by China Glaze released for Spring 2012, here is "Kinetic Candy". This shade is nearly a baby blue, but has a little quirk about it that makes it brighter then a pastel. Like the rest of the collection, this is another creme that applies perfectly smooth in two coats. If there is one collection i can get behind and recommend to people, it would be Electropop.

With a makeup sponge i sloppily sponged on diagonal lines across each nail with Essie "Trophy Wife". Though "Trophy Wife" is a stunning teal on it's own, lightly sponged its weird and awkward...And if you look to my ring finger on the left photo you will see i messed my nail up. I will next show you how glitter fixes that problem.

"Glitter fixes everything", and this is proof. You can't even tell my nail was nicked after two coats of Color Club "Sexy Siren". This glitter polish was enough to blur out my horrid sponging and still let the color contrast show through. "Sexy Siren" is made up on a blue micro glitter, and while it's not a good polish to use on it's own, you could do wonders with layering.

Here is where i should have stopped instead of adding the smaller dots of Rimmel "Misty Jade" seen in the first photo. With a medium and small dotting tool i did two half circles of Pure Ice "Wild Thing" to create a simple design.

"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.

Zoya "Charla" and Essie "Set in Stones"

Recently, i took advantage of the Zoya new year's sale in which they were giving out two bottles of polish to any one who was willing to pay shipping. If you bought $25 worth of product from the site, you also got free shipping. In the end i got five bottles of Zoya for a total of $25. It was great. Especially since these are my very first Zoya polishes, i was excited.

This mani features Zoya "Charla" and Essie "Set in Stones"

Behold, Zoya Charla. This beautiful glass flecked blue it what i imagine the sky would look like if it was scattered with a million tiny diamonds. The picture on the left is more true to the actual color. Like any stunning polish i found myself endlessly frustrated not being able to capture the true hues and shimmer in the polish. This is three coats in sunlight. I did find a little bit of a transparent quality in this polish, but it seems necessary to get the bottom of the Caribbean sea look. Semi-sheer/semi-opaque i love Zoya Charla.

To the left, you will see the sparkly amazingness that is Essie Set in Stones in direct sunlight. To the right the same stunner in the shade. Essie Set In Stones from the 2011 Luxe Effects collection was released along with such favorites as "Shine of the Times" and "As Gold as it Gets." Set in Stones is a pure silver glitter made up up large circular and even more tiny silver micro glitters. Shown in the photos above is once coat. This polish offers instant glam with an exceptional drying time.

Thanks for reading <3

New Year's Day Feat: Orly "Le Chateau"

Hi hi. I'm excited to show off this mani. I actually kept it on for quite a few days. There is just something about "Snow Globe" that sucks me in no matter what.

For this look you'll need...

Orly "Le Chateau"

Orly "Stone Cold"

China Glaze "Icicle"

China Glaze "Snow Globe"

Sponge

I started out with two solid coats of Orly's "Le Chateau." Had this polish not been on sale i would have never taken it past the display. The Holiday Soiree collection from Orly this year had brought us many not drab colors and few i can not help but stare at. Something deep inside me loves this deep blue green jelly polish with a passion that burns like a smouldering coal under a rock at the base of a sea side volcano. You heard me.

Sponge sponge sponge.

With my makeup sponge i dabbed a tid bit of the beautiful "Stone Cold" from Orly's "Mineral FX" collection. I brought this down in a descending concentration to a tad past mid nail.

Again with the sponging i used China Glaze "Icicle" near the tips. I have recently discovered that i am some sort of awful at gradients. I'm still trying different techniques to better my blending and what now. but for now i dab a drag and it works to my satisfaction.

No, this isn't the same picture as before. Again with "Stone Cold" i used the tiniest bit near the edge where i used "Icicle." This helped the silver not take over so much since i wanted more blue in this. More blue brought out the blue in the base to make it appear less black.

At this time my fingers where covered in excess polish so it was about time to put on my glitter before i got to messy. "Snow Globe" a re-release form China Glaze for the Holiday 2011 collection. One coat was enough to cover up my sloppy gradient with out covering all my work.