Color Club "Fly With Me" and Finger Paints "Lemon Sour"

How are you all enjoying the new influx of makeup related posts? I know some of you must have been getting sick of seeing just nails. Today i have a fun and simple spring mani for you all using a new Color Club shade along with a Finger Paints new shade.

For this mani...

Color Club "Fly With Me"

Finger Paints "Lemon Sour"

Sally Hansen "Night Fright"

Doting tool

This mani consists of two coats of Color Club "Fly With Me" from the Spring 2012 "Take Wing" collection. On the tips i used Finger Paints "Lemon Sour" just using the brush in the polish. To top off this mani i used a large dotting tool and an opaque black for the dots connecting "Fly With Me" and "Lemon Sour."

"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.

Hardly Justified

You know those days when you find yourself angry with the world and snappy with your loved ones all because your dumb camera refuses to capture the clearly apparent beauty of your current mani. This was one of those days. I wasn't going to post this, but i'm bored.

For this mani...

Hard Candy "Beetle"

Sally Hansen "Lacy Lilac"

Kleancolor "Metallic Fuchsia"

Color Club "Very Merry Berry"

Pure Ice "Busted"

 Hard Candy "Beetle" was used with two coats as the base. With "Lacy Lilac" i sponged on the light purple to mid nail. The tips were zested up with "Metallic Fuchsia." To mesh together my sponging i used Color Club "Very Merry Berry." To add extra shimmer i topped it all off with Pure Ice "Busted."

Color Club "Fashion Addict"

As i've mentioned before, i recently participated in a Secret Santa gift exchange. I had the best Santa ever. I never expected to receive a holo at all. She sent me two. Granted, this is not GOSH or some fancy OPI, but this was something i could genuinely not get my hands on, and honestly didn't even know existed. So i was pretty excited.

Light rosy pink and super spectacular "Fashion Addict" made my heart skip a beat. I almost hated taking pictures of it because i became so frustrated trying to capture it's amazing. I wish i would have at least cleaned up my cuticles to make this even prettier. But i'm lazy.

Christmas Lights Feat: Orly's "Luxe"

Merry Christmas every one! As you've already seen from my penguin and candy cane manis, i've been in the holiday spirit...on my nails at least. But in reality, i'm not really spending my days in anticipation of Christmas morning, i'm far more excited for the New Year. There have been press releases left and right for fabulous new collections coming out. Many making there debut right in time for my Friday the Thirteenth birthday in January. What are you excited for?

For this mani i had to use a wide variety of polishes.

Orly "Luxe" 

Color Club "Gingerbread"

Finger Paints "Where Art Renoir?"

Color Club "Chelsea Girl"

Color Club "Twiggie"

Essence "Glamourous"

                   Color Club "Wham! Pow!"

And a few tools: Small paint brush, Small and medium dotting tools.

I started out with two coats of Orly "Luxe"

Luxe is a polish i picked up out of no where just because it said "New" on it and was incredibly shiny. I never had the perfect excuse to use this metallic gold polish, which was a shame because its silver shimmer and flawless formula makes it picture perfect for nearly any occasion. Gold can always be worn as a tacky accent or for class and sass. Since it's more of a white gold rather then a yellow Luxe is the ideal shade for some extra glam.

Over "Luxe" i used one coat of Color Club's "Gingerbread." This glitter comes from the 2011 Color Club "Beyond the Mistletoe" collection. With tiny gold and and holo glitter this polish livened up Luxe of just enough so that it wasn't going to be too much to put Christmas lights over. I didn't want my base to be to busy, but i wanted it to sparkle.

With a small paint brush and Finger Paints "Where Art Renoir?" i carefully created my light wires. This isn't as difficult as it looks. I placed a small drop of polish on a non-porous surface and got small amounts onto my brush. Starting from the edge of my nail at any point i slowly made curved lines that eventually looped near the middle. The secret to this is taking your time and not trying to rush. Rushing will result in thin lines and sloppy wires.

From here i used a medium and small dotting tool to work on my lights. To make the lights i used my non-porous surface to blob some polish. With my medium dotting tool i made a fat dot near the wire. Before my fat dot dried i used my smaller dotting too to drag out the tip of my light in the direction of my pleasing.

After using Color Club "Chelsea Girl" and "Twiggie" i used Essence "Glamorous" to add red lights. I could have stopped here but i wanted one more color. You can really use any color you please for the lights, but your life will be so much easier if you choose polish of a thick consistency and opaque in finish. Thick polish will cut down on frustration when making your lights.

I finished with my bright orange "Wham! Pow!" by Color Club. If you were wondering "Wham! Pow!", "Chelsea Girl", and "Twiggie" are all apart of the same Color Club collection called "Poptastic."

I used the orange to fill in any empty spots along my wire. I tried to keep my lights all on one side of the wire to avoid cluttering up my nail and making the image to confusing to take in at first glance.

I finished with  a top coat

Sugar Frosting Feat. China Glaze "Lorelei's Tiara"

Guess what every one? I'm in Colorado! My dad and i are on a mini vacation to Denver to see Social Distortion, back to back shows at the Ogden Theater. I'm excited for the trip, but being from Southern California, i am going to freeze my booty off! For example, it's basically winter here, and our lows have been around 50 degrees. Right now the high is like 48 in Denver. Wish me luck. Anywho. I have today for you another rather icy cold mani. I seem to have a thing for blues and silvers together lately. They're just made for each other!

For this mani i used

China Glaze "Blue Island Iced Tea"

China Glaze "Lorelei's Tiara"

Color Club "Sugar Plum Yum"

I received "Blue Island Iced Tea" about a month or so a go from a blog sale of another Polishaholic. When you buy polish from other people and try it for your self you learn why they sold it. Though this color is a stunning blue like the reflection of the summer sun on a shimmering lake, it has a kinda awful formula. It took me about three solid coats to achieve even this color and i still feels like it's rather sheer. However the silver shimmer and aqua amazing give me reason to put up with the formula.

When i first saw the Eye Candy swatches from the new China Glaze collection, i was rather unimpressed. Even now, you the reader looking at this picture may feel the same way i used to. Let me tell you this. Polishes such as "Lorelei's Tiara" were not made to be photographed. It's made up of tiny silver glitter and is popped up by bright blue hex glitter. On it's own it's a litter sheer but easy to build up. This is one coat over the previous "Blue Island Iced Tea."

You may have seen in my last post the other amazing Color Club glitter "Very Merry Berry." For this mani i used a similar glitter from the same collection called "Sugar Plum Yum." Also a chunky scented glitter, this polish sports purple and green not quite hex but not quite round glitter. With this i used a bit on the tips careful not to move to far down my nail.

And of course finished with a top coat.

Berry Sweet Feat. Color Club's "Very Merry Berry"

Good day my neglected lovelies. I'm going to admit, you have not seen a recent post due to a high volume of holiday lazyness. Yes, yes, the holiday season is supposed to bring out the busy bee in all of us and force out an ungodly amount of productivity. Yea, so far not happening. I have no plans to run around like a decapitated chicken, thank you. I don't have a lot to say, due to the fact that i'm ashamed of my sloth, so i'm going to get right to the nails.

For this mani....
Finger Paints "Pretty as a Portrait"
Orly "Twilight"
Color Club "Poptastic"
Color Club "Very Merry Berry" 

BEHOLD! My messy messy cuticles covered in the very lovely "Pretty As a Portrait" by Finger Paints. This is a pretty deep plum color like no other i own. Not only is this a classy color with a bit of spunk, but it also has a dreamy creme formula. As much as i adore glitter, i can never pass up on a good creme. It's a classic nail finish that seems to be rapidly fading in popularity amongst the glamorous glitters. I used two coats of this shade to kick stark my mani.

I don't know how many of you saw these in stores, but Orly has put out two light shimmer top coats for the holidays. This is the silver out of the gold and silver pair. "Twilight" is litterally the shimmer that's missing from any solid creme. It does not over power your color like a normal glitter but enhances its dimension by adding a subtle sparkle.

With a quarter of a foundation sponge i sponged on some of Color Club's "Poptastic," the name sake of the nifty neon collection Poptastic. I sponged this down about half way my nail. At this time i have a plum shimmer with a neon pink, turned not so neon going half way down. Looking at this picture makes me sad, because i had to chop off my nails and now i've got tiny nubbins. I miss my claws!

I have three amazing words for you right now. "Very Merry Berry." I searched high and low for the scented holiday Color Club glitters. This one dazzles with purple, blue, and pink convex glitters that add an unusual texture and an even more intriguing scent. I used this glitter over the whole nail to bring the separated components together. This is honestly one of my new favorite polishes ever. It's a huge pain to remove, but sooooo worth it.