"Seeing Stars" Feat: China Glaze "Smoke and Ashes"

OMFG HUNGER GAMES! Not really, still haven't jumped on the hype, i'm just buying the polish. Today i have an overkill look that i did for a Polishaholic Mani Monday challenge. I still don't know when to stop. The theme was Sun, Moon, or Stars. I chose stars because i had Kleancolor "Blind Date" with stars already in it.

For this mani...

China Glaze "Smoke and Ashes"

Color Zone "Unknown Blue Glitter"

China Glaze "Icicle"

Kleancolor "Blind Date"

Make up sponge

Striping brush.

 China Glaze "Smoke and Ashes" Capitol Colors 2012 (Hunger Games)

When i told people i thought i got "Stone Cold" and found out i had "Smoke and Ashes" i was kinda disappointed. However, like all the colors i've seen from the Capitol Colors collection in honor of the Hunger Games, this is a unique polish. I would describe "Smoke and Ashes" just as it's name. I picture wet (or hot rather) tar sprinkled with glimmer ash. You know at first how ash it really neat looking before you touch it or it blows away, "Smoke and Ashes" preserves that look. This it two coats, and this it the first polish in a while that has bubbled on me. You can see on my thumb in the left picture and on my ring finger on the right photo.

Color Zone "Unknown Blue Holo Glitter"

Before my trip to the swap meet i had never heard of Color Zone. This polish caught my eye because of the bright blue base and huge holo hex glitters. With a makeup sponge i added extra glitter to my tips going about half way down my nail.

China Glaze "Icicle" Holiday 2011

This is where i went to far. Originally i wanted thin silver lines mixed in with the glitter from my tips, but i was having issues with my striper brush and i ended up with fat silver kinda lines on the opposite side of my nail. I was annoyed.

 Kleancolor "Blind Date"

Now for the over kill. The reason i went for the stars is because this was for a Mani Monday theme challenge. I used my striper brush to individually place the stars on my nails. I picked all the stars off by the end of the night, because they stuck up, and bugged the crap outta me. Over all, i need to keep it simple. Hope you enjoyed this mani more then i did :)

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.

"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.

New Year's Nails Feat: Milani "Purple Gleam"

Happy New Year's every one! I'm so excited for 2012. I have big plans for this year and i can't wait to get it started. Also, my birthday is this month! Only nine teen, but still, another year older; another year wiser. I started off  2012 with this glitter bomb mani. Purple glitter with holo glitter and gold glitter and freeking rhinestone accents! Let's get to it. As alway, messy cuticles. For 2012 i'm going to do my best to step up my blog quality. Which means you should be seeing better pictures, cleaner cuticles, and more creativity. 

 

For this mani i pulled out some of my oldies. If you want to try this look you will need the following, or similar products.

Polish

Milani One Coat Glitter "Purple Gleam"

Kleancolor "Chunky Holo Teal"

Milani Jewel FX "Gold"

Quick Dry top coat

Tools

Tweezers

Assorted colors of rhinestones

 I began with two coats of Milani's "Purple Gleam." Though this is a "one coat glitter" i still had a few bald spots after the first coat. The second coat was more of a touch up then a solid layer. I am going to be using some thick polish so I did not want to many layers just to avoid long drying time.

To add a new dimension of glitter that wasn't going to steal the show, i used Kleancolor's "Chunky Holo Teal." This coat not only added a holo shine, but also evened out my previous layer of glitter.

I used Milani Jewel FX "Gold," one coat on each of my nails, hold the ring finger. The Jewel FX polishes though rarely used, are some of my favorites. They have a quality of thickness, sheen, shine, and glamour. It's like having jewels on your finger. Now the ring finger, that's havinf jewels on your nails.

On both my ring fingers i used a total of fifteen rhinestones. No particular colors in no particular order besides keeping the same colors in the same lines. To adhere these i used small amounts of top coat as glue to apply the stones one row at a time. I was careful not to overload my nail with too much top coats to avoid floating stones. I also added a small amount of "Gold" on the tips to fill on the spot where another row of stones would not fit. I finished with a layer of thick top coat over all nails.