NOTD: Baby Blue and Fuzz!

Hey guys!

Just wanted to hop on really quick and post my nail of the day.

Direct Sunlight

Natural Light, Shade

Color Club Factory Girl 2 Coats
Fuzz-Sea from Sally Hansen - 1 coat on accent nail

I love this combo! Its really cute and summery. Still getting used to the Fuzzy Coat polishes, but I think this color combination works well. My accent nail has 2 coats of top coat over it to smooth it out over the fuzzies.

That's it today. Really quick post!

Thanks for reading!

Update on Liquid Sand + NOTW

So, I changed my nail polish last night. I managed to survive a few days and a Disneyland trip with the Liquid Sand on. It drove me nuts, but I found that as the days went by, much like matte nail polish, it started to kind of turn in to a satin-y finish and almost felt smoother... or I got used to it. Either way, the grittiness got better but I still hate these polishes. I'm not sure if I will actually ever wear this again, but I probably will with lots of topcoat over it.... we'll see how it goes!

I had some time to kill last night and decided to do a Valentine's Day mani and then I realized that my best friend still has my stamping plates... and since I'm terrible at free-hand nail art, I decided I wouldn't try to draw anything on my nails freehand. I just got a bunch of Valentine's colors and mixed them together and  got somewhat of decent Valentine's mani. Its not the greatest, but with the little time I had, it works for me! Here's what I came up with:

Thumb -  OPI If you Moust, You Moust with Sally Hansen HD Byte over it
Index - OPI Excuse Moi
Middle - Color Club Hot Like Lava with Essie A Cut Above
Ring - Seche Red with China Glaze Ring in the Red
Pinky - OPI If you Moust, You Moust with Color Club Tru Passion over it

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Color Club Halo Hues Collection

Hey everyone!

I know its been a couple weeks, been busy! But I AM making an effort to blog more :). So today I went to my favorite nail supply place and I found the Halo Hues (#1) Collection from Color Club. Pictures/Thoughts below!

Harp on It - 2 Coats.
Silver Holographic. I died and went to heaven. These colors really are amazing. I don't think I'll be able to say much about any of them other than AMAZING!

Angel Kiss - 2 Coats.
Seafoam Green Holographic. My favorite of these because its green! Do I really need to say much more? *drools*

Cherubic - 2 coats
Nude Halographic. This is my second favorite because I love the base color. Its really pretty and neutral in the shade, but it looks like this in the sun. Its amazing.

Halo-graphic - 2 coats
Pink Holographic. Its beautiful, and I don't even like pink! Its a very pretty pink though.

Cloud Nine - 2 Coats
Lavender purple holographic. I really love this one... it looks pink in certain light and purple in others but its still wonderfully holographic.

Blue Heaven - 2 coats.

This one is kinda weird, only because it looks silver most of the time unless you look closely. I do still like it, I just wish it was a deeper blue.

I made a haul video where I show these guys in the bottles in the sun, so if you're interested in that, check it out below:

The formula on these was great. 2 coats was enough for full coverage. Was a breeze to apply all of the colors and I'm just overall in love with these and I can't wait to get my hands on the second set very soon!

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200 Follower Giveaway!!

I finally made it to 200 followers so its time for a giveaway!!!

This giveaway will have 2 winners. One winner will receive the Backstage Pass collection from Color Club, and the other will receive Revlon's Whimsical!

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Ends April 8, 2012

Pre-Birthday Polish Haul

Hey, everyone! Tonight's second post is my Pre-Birthday haul from tonight. Tonight I went to the gym and then to my nail supply place and Ulta with my friend and I got myself some polish and she bought me some stuff. Thanks Princess Mari for my birthday presents! 

The first three are my presents from Miss Princess Mari :) She bought me my very first Butter London, The Dark Knight! I LOVE it!!! She also bought me OPI I Don't Give a Rotterdam and Thanks a Windmillion :) yay!! 

As far as what I bought myself, I got Zoya Maisie and Opal, Color Club Metamorphosis, Fly With Me, Tru Passion, and Sparkle and Soar and I also got a Jade glitter in Iced Blue.

Can't wait to play with these and especially my very first Butter London!!! :)

Thanks for reading, until next time!

Color Club - Revvvolution

This is a color I've wanted for a while and my nail supply place just got new Color Club racks and a whole new stock upgrade... so its in stock!

Color Club Revvvolution. Charcoal base with grainy holo running throughout. This is 1 1/2 coats. I say 1 1/2 cause some of my nails only have one coat and others have a little bit of a evening out coat. So yeah, I pretty much love this color, just like I was hoping I would!!! I'm so glad I finally found it and I didn't have to pay for shipping :) yay!!! I guess it was my lucky day!

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New Years' Mani - Confetti!

Happy New Year!!! I hope everyone is having a fantastic last day of 2011! As for me, I worked this morning and since I got home from work I've been singing along to musicals while swatching a few colors and doing my nails :) Its been a great last 2011 afternoon! Here's what I decided on for my New Year's mani!

This is a combination of 3 polishes. Layering Order is as follows:
Julep Nail Therapy
China Glaze Icicle
OPI Rainbow Connection
Color Club Wish Upon A Rock Star
Out the Door
Seche Vite

I wanted something fun, festive and of course colorful as my last mani of the year! What are your last manis for 2011? Let me know what you're doing below!!

Thanks for reading, until next time!

12 Days of Christmas: Day 8 - Icy Mixed Mani

Today's Christmas post is a mixed manicure with an icy theme. Snow, Snowflakes, and a snow man! :) Below I list everything I used.

Sunlight

Shade

Pictured above is everything I used: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Silver Sweep, Color Club Factory Girl, Color Club Cold Metal, China Glaze Lorelai's Tiara, China Glaze White on White, China Glaze Snow Globe, Wet n' Wild Black Creme, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Sun Kissed, Sinful Colors Queen of Beauty, NYC Starry Silver Glitter (Just used the blue glitter to accent a couple of nails), Salon Express Image Plate SE20.

I really love this mixed mani. It took me forever to do, though. I got a lot of inspiration from Cute Polish on YouTube and the rest I just played with until I liked how it looked. I really love this!! What do you guys think? Any tips and tricks to nail art? I'm fairly new at it... still just experimenting.

Thanks for reading, until next time!

30 Days of Untrieds - Day 27

Today's post is a color from Color Club's Back to Boho Collection. One of my favorites from the collection, actually now that I've tried it.

Sunlight

Shade

Voodoo You Do. 2 coats. Gunmetal Grey. I love, love, love, love, LOVE this! Its perfect. Application was wonderful and Its just an awesomly, perfect color! So glad I finally got around to trying it.

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30 Days of Untrieds - Day 11

Today's untried is my favorite color from the Color Club Back to Boho Collection that I recently got at Ross:

Nouveau Vintage. 2 coats. Brown/Bronze color with green duochrome. This color is so pretty! At first it reminded me of Warm and Fozzie but its much darker and Warm and Fozzie doesn't have the green duochrome. I really love how this color looks on me!! Yay for another happy untried blog post!

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30 Days of Untrieds - Day 9

Today's untried color is from Color Club:

Blue-topia. 2 coats. Dark blue jelly. Really love this color. Its so ridiculously shiny and wonderful. The only downside: It stains like crazy. There was a blue jelly massacre all over my nails and cuticles when I removed this. Definitely be very. very careful when removing this color unless you want to look like a smurf! Other than the icky removal, I love this color!!!

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Color Club Foiled Collection Swatches and Review

I know I'm a little late to jump on the bandwagon of this collection but I finally got around to picking it up at Ross so here are my pictures and reviews:

Sunlight (overcast)

Shade

 Perfect Mol-ten. 2 coats. Silvery green. I love this! It reminds me of a foil sea foam green kind of color. Its so pretty!!

Sunlight

 Lumin-icecent. 2 coats. Pale icy blue. My camera picked this up as silver but its a very, very pale blue. I wish this color was more like a non-crackle version of China Glaze's Oxidized Aqua because it just looks silver in most lights and I already have a few silver foils.

Sunlight

Shade

Foil Me Once. 2 coats. Light pink foil. Pretty but a shade I probably won't wear alone too much... don't usually wear pinks on my fingers. 

Sunlight

Shade

 Antiquated. 2 coats. Champagney/light bronze and under certain light you can see a strong flash of the silver base

Sunlight

Shade

Hot Like Lava. 2 Coats. HOT pink/magenta. As much as pinks don't usually catch my attention, I love this one so much!!

Sunlight

Cold Metal. 2 coats. True blue foil. This color is really saturated and the silver foil base almost looks like silver glitter in this color. Very pretty!

Overall, this collection is pretty fantastic. The formula was fantastic on every single one of them. 2 easy coats and on some of them, I could have gotten away with only one coat. The only color I'm a little disappointed in is Lumin-icecent, I wish it had a little more color to it so it didn't look so silver. Overall I'm very, very happy with all of these!

Thanks for reading, until next time!