Zoya "Aurora"

Can I just gush for a second about how amazing this polish is? Of course I can, it is my blog, I can do what ever I want.

When I open the color chart sent with my pixie dust Zoya order, the polish Aurora stood out brightly among all the colors.

I could not imagine a more perfect polish, perfectly represented by the photo in the swatch chart.

There are a few things about this polish that I particularly love.

One, ultra high-gloss shine. You hardly need a topcoat with this polish because it is so shiny.

Two, embedded glitter in the polish. This formula is so perfect that it leaves you with a smooth finished. Unlike many other polishes which dry with minimal texture due to the glitter pieces.

Three, overall dimension of the polish. I got lost in my fingernails while wearing this. The gloss, the glitter, The cool last smooth finish.I just cannot. I love it so much.

To add a little style to this manicure, I used a dotting tool to place a few dots on my tips. The color used on my tips is by Orly and is called "Decades of Disfunction ." 

"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.

"Spring Flowers" Feat: Essie "Play Date"

Happy almost spring except the freeing down pour and stupid cold over the weekend! Yet again,  find myself lagging on post, but what's new. I'd like to shout of to the new followers before we jump into this look, thank you all for paying attention. Now before my fingers freeze, lets begin.

 For this mani....

Essie "Play Date"

Sally Hansen "Mellow Yellow"

Sally Hansen "Sun Kissed"

At the center of this delightfully fresh nail look is a new favorite of mine, Essie "Play Date" a perfect nearly pastel purple creme that will blow your mind in person. This is two coats of Play Date and i had no problems with application or dry time.

With a dotting tool i painstakingly created three to four "petals" with Sally Hansen "Mellow Yellow." The Sally Hansen Extreme Wear line has become one of my favorites for nail art. They have thick, creamy, and very opaque formulas that allow you to create a design the first time with out going over it or using white as a base. They come in a wide variety of bright colors and i recommend all of them.

Finally, i used Sally Hansen "Sun Kissed" and a smaller dotting tool to make my orange dots on each petal and the center.

"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.

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."

Sally Hansen "Wedding Crasher"

BEHOLD! My new favorite glitter polish, "Wedding Crasher" by Sally Hansen from the recent revamped Diamond Strength line. "Glass Slipper" seemed to steal the show at first form this line, but there are so many more dazzling gems in the collection. It seems every time i'm in a drug store i end up leaving with another part of the collcetion. In these photos i have it over Zoya "Zara" because i muffed up that mani by being to impatient and not letting it dry. In addition to being a perfectly stunning fuchsia glitter, sitting in a perfectly fuchsia jelly base "Wedding Crasher" offers a full coverage glitter mani, with out being a full coverage glitter. Since it sits in a pink jelly base, it covers up the empty spaces a pure glitter would leave. Because of this quality you can use two coats and have full glitter.

Personally, i love this glitter over purple. I started with a purple "Zara" mani and used "Wedding Crasher," one coat over the top. Like my saying "Glitter fixed everything" goes, all the bumps, knicks, and smudged spots were instantly covered with a fantastic fuchsia vale. I highly recommend this polish. It has a WONDERFUL formula and can be obtained at a reasonable price. The Diamond Strength line is one i look forward to owning much more of.

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.

Orly "Close Your Eyes"

Hey hey. I just have a quick post for you today featuring a beautiful color i received in a Secret Santa from Polishaholics. I never even knew this color existed, i was entirely stunned when i saw it. I have a billion shades of purple, but none are quite like Orly's "Close Your Eyes." The name is a total love too. 

Now that i think about it, this is a sort of wine color. Lightly shimmered with a fabulous glossy sheen, this is one of my new favorites. I would have never picked this up for myself because i have dramatic taste. I like bright and bold. But this is sassy and classy.

A gold shimmer in this polish livens up the deep wine plum shade. This photo shows two coats in natural light. It offers very nice coverage and a dreamy formula. However, i tend to have and issue when trying to get Orly polish to dry on the go. This one was no different, as you'll see in the next photo.

See, i messed them up because it took forever to dry. I still love it enough to try and fix it. However, it was obviously not a good enough fix. So i did what any girl would do. I put some glitter on it.

Introducing Milani "Diamond Dazzle." This was a glitter i picked up on a whim months and months ago. Originally i was going to use it to add a little fierce to my frankens, but never got around to it. I'm glad i never wasted it, because this is freeking beautiful. A very spread out silver holo micro glitter. This is only one coat, but it was enough to mask my mess.

And there you have it. Orly "Close Your Eyes" and Milani "Diamond Dazzle."