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."

"Muted" Feat: Sally Hansen "Lacey Lilac"

Good day lovelies. I do help you are doing well. Today i have for you a rather muted look that still has a fun flare. I think this would be a good mani for the workplace, or anywhere you want not to be to obnoxious with your nails.

For this mani...

Sally Hansen "Lacey Lilac"

Finger Paints "Pretty as a Portrait"

Orly "Mirror Mirror"

Orly "Twilight"

 Sally Hansen "Lacey Lilac" Xtreme Wear

I began with two beautifully creamy coats of this perfect purple. Lacey Lilac, along with many others in the Xtreme Wear line. The formula on these are perfection, and the price is penny pinching awesome (under $3.) My nails were kinda jacked up when i did this mani, hence the lumps and bumps on my thumb and pinky fingers.

Finger Paints "Pretty as a Portrait" Core

With the brush from this bottle i covered less than half of my nail diagonally. I loved this polish for layering over another because of the opacity and shiny creme formula. The sheen is obviously brighter and sets it a level up from Lacey Lilac. With a dotting tool i made an average of three dots along the diagonal half.

Orly "Mirror Mirror"

I bet looking at this photo you're all like, oh,...what changed? I added yet another diagonal layer of Mirror Mirror. This polish is freeking rad. Formula is A+, opacity A+, color is A+. It's straight gray. I never thought i'd buy a gray polish, or even use this more than once, but i love Mirror Mirror. I've fallen for weird nail color like this and grays and kind of a favorite of mine.

Orly "Twilight" Holiday 2011

For whatever reason i'm not holding Twilight in these photos, I'm sure you can live with this. The final step for this mani was to coat it all with a shimmer top coat. Twilight is a silver shimmer top coat that i like to use in conjunction with blues and purples. I think the silver adds a little something extra that would never shine with out it.

"Layerd Swatches" Feat" China Glaze "Fast Track", Finger Paints "Flecked", and China Glaze "Optical Illusion"

I know nothing about the Hunger Games. I have seen it on Facebook. I have seen it on the television. I have heard about it every where. I even meant to read the book, but didn't. What i do know about the Hunger Games is that there is a polish collection in honor of the calamity. Why didn't Harry Potter get a collection? Here's "Fast Track" covered in fun things.

 China Glaze "Fast Track" from Hunger Games 2012

When i see "Fast Track" i think of the little square thing that i put on my dash bored, it beeps when i go on the toll roads and gets me out of sitting in traffic on the 91 freeway. What this has to do with this...Hunger Games, i don't know. Just kidding, but i'm still going to think of my fast track. "Fast Track" is a medium tones nude polish mixed with gold micro glitter. I used two coats and got seemingly perfect coverage. Since this is a nude, it allows room for error in application. I had no issues with formula and actually really like this polish. It's unique and unlike anything in my collection. I adore these odd colors.

 Finger Paints "Flecked" Special Effects 2012

There was such a huge commotion over these Special Effects flakie polishes before, during, and after their market release. "Flecked" is the more green one, and one i though i didn't need because the green in similar to Essie "Shine of the Times." This is three coats of "Flecked" and i did not expect it to come out like this.

The photos show quite the opposite of the real reflection of the flakies in the sun. In the sun they're bright green and appear dense and full. In the shade they tend to disappear momentarily and flash back into color when they catch enough light.

China Glaze "Optical Illusion" Prismatic 2012

Then i got bored of all my subtle shininess and covered it all in my new glitter. I got this polish at a swap meet, at which i also bought a guinea pig. I was unsure what these were at first because i have yet to see the Prismatics in person. This it one coat of "Optical Illusion" the more green of the collection over "Fast Track" and "Flecked"

Sparkling Feat: Orly "Oh! Cabana Boy" and Finger Paints "Motley"

Good day! Observe; how long it took me to post this new mani. Please peek at the date on the photo,...and now, the date on the post. I'm slow. But guess what? YOU HERE! And i love and adore each and every one of you for wasting your free time actually READING my blog. I wish i could give you al giant awkward hugs and give you chicken yogurt. 

For this mani!

Orly "Oh! Cabana Boy"

Santee "Emerald"

Sally Hansen "Black Diamonds"

Finger Paints "Motley"

Dotting Tool

Imagine; a tropical island. Warm sun lightly toasting your skin as the UV rays beam down on you and your unprotected flesh. Salted sea water covering your sand sunken toes, lounging under an umbrella right out of a fruity cocktail, and your cabana boy with overly feminine soft hands gently polishing your nails a shocking pink. You cabana boy is also wearing a light pink polo shirt and hot pink short shorts.

"To add some corresponding shimmer to the blue duo-chrome of the pink," Cabana Boy will begin "I am going to used some Santee "Emerald" over the pink." He reaches for new polish then, with his girlish fingers he guides Black Diamonds across the corner tips of your nails, lightly twisting your comparably positively repulsive, calloused, dry, common woman's hands. Delicately, he dots along the corner tips.

Finally, you get to take a picture to capture the Motley flakies Cabana Boy used over Black Diamonds only to find that you have suffered terrifying tip wear from digging for clams to smuggle on the plane home, to pretend like your in paradise when you return home to your cluttered abode in your kitty pool full of sand and you natural light sun bulb for photographing your nails.

Kush Season

I'm very proud to introduce one of my latest frankens "Kush Season." This color credit goes to my lovely boy friend who designed and named this shade. I recently got in a bunch of franken supplies and he was kinda almost excited as i was to make one. This is his color and despite what i wanted to do to it, i let it be his creation. In the end it became a bright gold green with blue glitter and a bit of holo glitter in the mix as well. Now were no professionals, but i think we did an alright job with this one. Regardless, it's still my new favorite polish ever :)

 

 

A lot of the blue glitter ended up sticking to the sides of the bottle but there was still plenty mixed in with the actual polish. I kinda liked the way it all stuck to the side. At one point it was all concentrated in a ring in the center of the bottle, it was neat.

The blue glitter defiantly takes the stage over the green but to the right you can see more of the scattered holo in the back ground. The gold flecks in the green take away from a lot of its potential.

Fun part! I left this color on for about a day before i could no longer fight the urge to add to it. I wanted more gold in the polish to begin with so i though a gold and black leopard print would be perfect, i was right.

For this mani i used...

Frankened "Kush Season"

Finger Paints "Where Art Renoir?"

Wet n' Wild Unknown mini copper

I started my spots by making blotches of copper close to one corner of my nail. Following those blotches i half way surrouned them with "Where Art Renoir" and added tiny dots of that in between to create a leopard feel

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.