Good evening!!
It's been a crazy week, and quite frankly, I've been a little too tired at night to post, on top of having to get up early. BUT!!! Tomorrow is Saturday, and I always weekends off :) So, here we go!
Today's Texture Friday color is from China Glaze's newest collection, Sea Goddess. They finally, finally, released a sparkly textured collection. I picked up two of them about a week and a half ago, and wore one today, Sand Dolla Make You Holla.
First off, the name makes me giggles lol. I just love. This and the other color I got were the only two that really called to me after seeing swatches. Sand Dolla reminds me of the glitter loaded, white crellies that are so popular are now, except of course for it being a texture. Sand Dolla is loaded with green, blue, silver, gold, and fuschia sparkly hex glitters. The formula is..... weird. In the bottle, it appears to be white. On my nail, it becomes pinkish. It's also the only textured that I would consider a fourth coat on it, it can be that uneven. My mani was done with 3, then stamped using Bundle Monster BM-H18 and OPI's Miss You-niverse (which stamps like a champ!).
Yesterday, I did another throwback mani with, yes, Shatter. This time with colors from the Niki Minaj collection. The base color was two coats of Pink Friday with a coat of Seche. I then applied Fly using the Saran Wrap method and let it dry a few minute before applying Super Bass. Over that went another coat of Seche. There actually weren't white spots on the mani, that's my flash. We haven't had much in the way sun this week.
Wednesday's mani was directly inspired by this blogger. Mine wasn't a whole different: 2 coats of OPI Diva of Geneva, 1 coat of Nubar 2010, a coat of Seche, and a coat of OPI's Matte coat.
Tuesday's mani didn't turn out quite the way I expected. It started with a gradient of Zoya's Gie Gie, Julie, and Seraphina, which, by the way, was a right bitch to clean up. The gradient was....... softer? less vibrant? than I was shooting for, but no biggy, I liked it. I stamped over the gradient with Bundle Monster plates BM-H18 and H17 with Maybelline Blue Blowout, topped with Seche. The images were a little hard to capture, because of the weather again.
Good evening!
Sorry I haven't been around much this last week. We had a tropical storm pass through my area on Thursday, which pretty much scragged up the week. It also stressed me out enough to put me on trigger edge for panic attacks x.x Having lived through Hurricane Charley in 2004, it's not something I ever want to go through again. I know a tropical storm doesn't even compare to the tragedy in Oklahoma, but it's not easy for me. I do have some pretty manis to show to you.
I'll start off with today's Stamping Sunday. The theme was complementary colors off a color wheel. The first set of colors I picked weren't complementary, so I had to pick again. I settled on Zoya Josie and OPI's Pamploma Purple. Let me just say, I do not like how these two colors ended up looking together. I was really hoping PP would look more red toned, but it didn't. My stamping plate was Rica Glam-01, which I bought off Etsy. I thought making it matte would make the mani look better, but I think it just looks like zombie lips. I hate it, but maybe someone else will like it lol.
Now, I liked Friday's mani much better, even though Zoya Charisma was being difficult. I layered three coats of that over 1 coat of Zoya Purity to make pop. And it did! It just didn't want to go on even =\ So, I stamped over, using my jumbo Cheeky plate, Musical Notes, in Wet 'N Wild French White. Topped with Seche, of course.
Wednesday's mani was more simple, but just as cheery. Two coats of Zoya Darcy, one coat of Nubar 2010, one coat of OPI Matte Coat.
Good evening and happy Friday! Got any big plans for the weekend? I don't, other than chillaxing after some hellish customers this week.
Anyways! I have two pretty manis to show you, today's and Wednesday's. They're not especially fancy or complicated, but they are pretty and I like how they came out. I'll start with today's.
It seemed somwhat appropriate to start wearing some spring like colors, since we've had weather that's more like spring than winter here. Nothing says spring more than yellow, so I picked China Glaze's Sunshine Pop. It's not a bright yellow, but it's cheery and happy and warm :) I applied two, somewhat thicker coats (this is a little streaky, but no where near as bad as other yellows), then layered one coat of Nubar 2010 over it. Seche over top of that and done.
Wednesday's mani was a little more subdued but just as pretty. It started with two coats of Zoya Jo. I absolutely like this periwinkle blue, and my camera finally captured it. Then I layered one coat of Orly's Twilight (which I finally found this past weekend at Marshall's!) over that. Twilight gave it just the right amount of sparkle without looking like glitter :)
Good afternoon! So, yeah, today's post is gonna be a big one, since it's been 10 days since the last one. BUT it also finishes up the challenge I had going, so yay me! Gotta love veing busy with family and work :P
Let's see...... I left off at "a color from your favorite collection", which was an easy pick. I think my collection, so far, is the Katy Perry collection OPI released January 2011. It's one of two or three that I actually have all the colors from. The color I chose was Not Like the Movies (duochrome version). Of course, I had to Shatter it, too. Sorry for the blurry first pic >.<
(Sorry for the blurriness in that one too!)
Alright, after that was "a color that is a glitter". I kept seeing people in the Face Book groups I'm in rave about Lorelei's Tiara from China Glaze, so when I saw it on clearance at Sally's, I snagged it. I didn't want to completely glitter bomb my nails, so I thought I would do glitter tips over a matte base color. For that I used Zoya Loredana matte. I'm thinking it might not have been the best idea, but it's not truly hideous either lol. The glitter tips might have looked better with a black base instead.
Next, I have for you is "a color that is pastel". One thing I don't have alot of is pastels, but I had bought Kinectic Candy from China Glaze about a month ago. Let me just say, I love this color. I don't know why, but I think of a blue mint whenever I see it. I topped it off with the scattered holo goodness that is Fairy Dust, also from China Glaze.
"A color that you used to hate but now like".......... That could only be the color green. For years, I used to refuse to wear green; my parents loved to stick me in that color, and pink, when I was a child. I didn't really start wearing green until 5 or 6 years ago. For this challenge, I picked Gaga for Green from China Glaze topped with Call me on my Cell-ry from OPI.
This next challenge was originally called "a color that you would wear at your wedding". Well, I'm already married, and I had boring French tips for it, so I changed to if I ever got married again. I would definitly chose I Vant to be A-Lone Star from OPI. It's such a pretty pale blue, you could almost call it a neutral lol.
The next two challenges I switched around to accomadate Pink Wednesday. For that, that challenge became "a color that is easy to apply". For me, the whole Zoya brand are easy to apply. For this, I chose Katy, which I just love. Again, sorry for the blurriness of the first pic.
The next challenge is one I found to be a little morbid, "a color that you would wear to your funeral". I ended up pairing Max Factor's Fantasy Fire with OPI's Blue my Mind and liked how it turned out.
The next challenge was prolly, by far, the easiest one for me to decide on, "a color that is hard to apply". Hands down, that would have to be Lemon Fizz from China Glaze. I love the color, but I absolutely hate the formula. I think for this mani I used 3 coats of Lemon Fizz under White Lightning, also from China Glaze (Crackle Glaze), and then made it all matte with Matte-ly in Love from Hard Candy. Needless to say, I was a little disappointed when I got a huge ass chip the next at work xD
Ok, on to "a color you think is sexy"! In my opinion, red polish in general is sexy. Anyone can wear red, it's just a matter of finding the right shade. This was a hard one to pick for, because I have a lot of red polish. When it came down to it, though, I picked something that fit with the warm, summerlike weather we've been having here in Florida: Zoya Sooki. I admit, I really did buy this color just for the name, but I am glad it does look good on me :P I topped Sooki with Nubar 2010. Honestly, this mani wasn't as orange my camera seemed to want it to be.
A few more to go!!! This challenge called for a color that is new. Well.......... that's a pretty wide range right now, because I had gotten alot of new polishes last month. I picked one that I got on my first trip to Ulta last month, though; it was kind of an impulse buy, but I didn't regret getting it. "It" is Grape Juice from China Glaze.
Glittering Garland from China Glaze fit the bill for "a color you didn't think you could pull off". Alot of greens have too much yellow in them to look good with my skintone. GG almost does but not quite. I pleasantly surprised at how nice it looks on me. Also, it stamps well!
Last, but not least, is "a color that matches your favorite outfit". My favorite outfit consists of a geometic blue, white, and grey skirt with a blue top. The color I picked also ties with Autism Awareness Month, which is the month of April. So, to start that off, I used Color Club's Blue-topia and stamped over it using Red Angel plate 108. I know the stamping looks a little messy, but that's not something I screwed up. I had a hard time picking up the image off the plate; it always looked like I overflowed it or something.
Sorry for the blurriness in that last one!
So there you have it! Now, I'm gonna try to do the majority of April in blues for Autism Awareness, but I will mix it up a little. I should also be able to post more often now as well. Thanks for reading!
