Holiday NOTD

Happy Holidays! I hope you and family are enjoying the Holiday Season. I've been busy with last minute preparations for the big day but wanted to take a moment to share my current nails with you. It doesn't look very Christmas-y to me but it's still cute.

The design was done using the new Red Angel Amazon plates. RA-107 to be exact! Base color is Essie Splash of Grenadine topped with China Glaze Mrs. Claus. Stamped with Konad franken (Konad Green + Konad Mint Green). I'm glad I found a use for the greens. I always thought Konad Green was too dark and Mint Green was too light.

Excuse the shrinkage. This was day two and Poshe tends to shrink on me. Either that or my nails grow at a very rapid pace :)

And that's it for today. I'll try to post more Christmas manis soon. Until then, Happy Polishing!

Essie Luxeffects Swatches and Dupes

Tonight I have a few swatches of Luxeffects. I ordered them online before I realized I have a lot of dupes. The duplicates are swatched on my ring finger.

A Cut Above - large and small pink hex glitter in a clear base. Some enchanted evening is on the ring finger.

Pearl Perfection - white shimmer topcoat. I have China Glaze White Cap on the ring finger which is more golden.

Set In Stones - small and large silver hex glitter in clear base. I have Today Was a Fairytale on the ring finger. It's less dense and has a smoother application (must be the diamond dust ;)

Shine of The Times - clear flakie with golden highlights. I have Hidden Treasures on the ring finger. Its also less dense.

As Gold As It Gets - golden shimmer topcoat.

And a few bottle pics of duplicates.


Hidden Treasures and Shine of The Times

Some Enchanted Evening, A Cut Above and Sparkled (not a dupe, color reference)

Today Was a Fairytale, Set in Stones and Sparkling Diamonds

I was so excited to see Essie expand their horizons and include more glitters in their line but I was disappointed with the number of duplicates in this collection. It's great if you've been looking for a less expensive option to the Lippman polishes or a back up to Hidden Treasures, but not so great if you own the dupes.

Halloween Mani 2 - Happy Pumpkin

Hello everyone! I hope you're having a great week so far. I should have gotten this up sooner but I had to meet with my daughter's teacher to review her progress in class. It's been a loooong day for me but anyways here's my second Halloween mani.

This is very simple and easy to do. For base colors I used Revlon Tangerine and Essie Marshmallow. Both colors are lovely but I stopped counting coats at 5, lol. I stamped with the happy pumpkin from Bundle Monster (BM224) then added Uninhibited on top of the orange. Uninhibited is very thick! I made the mistake of using full coverage on the pointer finger. For the others I dabbed the glitter on and you can actually see the orange underneath.

Have a great night and happy polishing!

NOTD: Essie Splash of Grenadine

Just a quick post to share my NOTD, Essie Splash of Grenadine, the perfect pink. I stamped with China Glaze 2030 using Dashica's Beauty Big Image Plate A.

It was difficult to capture the colors with accuracy but here's a closer view.

I really liked the way this turned out. What do you think?

The Color Lilac

Last week I picked up one of the new Finger Paints. I thought I wanted the orange shimmer but when I saw them in person Aren't You Glad-iolous followed me home. I'm not sure what the name is supposed to mean but I laughed a little when I read it. Usually my new polishes sit in storage for awhile but I was anxious to give it a try. It's a thick and gorgeous blueberry-lilac cream.

To my surprise it went on with one coat and dried in about 15 minutes. This is the first time I haven't used a quick dry in months! I topped it off with Essie Matte About You and stamped with one of the old school Sally Hansen chrome polishes, Royal Purple Chrome.

Here she is au naturel. Just lovely!

Floral & Teal Mani

I'm in the process of organizing my nail polish today. We'll, I've been trying to organize it for weeks now with no luck. I originally purchased about 10 clear plastic bins, because I wanted to see the polish. But since Michael's had a clearance sale I snatched up a Melmer. I'll be putting it together later today.

I want to try to organize by color instead of brand. I think I have a lot of similar colors, so this will help to alleviate dupes, allow me to select colors faster and hopefully speed through my untrieds (which is massive). I think I need a Melmer for my untrieds alone :)

Anyways, today I wanted to share another foil with you. It's transparent so whatever polish color you select will show through. I choose white.
The full foil mani may be a bit much for most. But it's great as an accent nail. Here it is featured with Essie Turquoise & Caicos.

(indirect light)

(direct sunlight)

PHD Sponge Challenge and Twilight Saga Nails

Good morning! Hope you're having a great Saturday so far. My girls are on "10" today as usual, lol. They're outside playing right now, so I have a chance to upload a few pics. And the great news is I have a baby sitter for today, woo hoo (happy dance).

Here is the mani I completed for Polish Hoarder Disorder's Summer Sponge Challenge.

Products Used:
Color Club "Take Me To Your Chateau"
Essie - Turquoise & Caicos
Orange acrylic paint
Kiss Nail Stencils

I also forgot to post my Book Cover Challenge design. DH's computer was acting up again and that slows down the upload process.

For this design I used all acrylic paints, except for the face color. I thought these nails were creepy and wore them out for the movie (ha ha). Next time I'll matte the faces so that you can see them better. I think they turned out "okay" but not as nice as I would have liked.

That's all of the pics I have for now. I've restored and updated his computer again, so hopefully that's the end of my little computer drama. I have more pics to share and will try to get them up as soon as possible.

Thanks for stopping by and have a happy polishing day!