Painted Polish Painted Pines

Here is Painted Polish Painted Pines- say that 3 times fast haha! A stunning forest green jelly full of holo glitter! It is no secret that I adore the formula of Painted Polish, and this one did not disappoint! Smooth, sparkly, amazing.  This is 3 perfect coats.

 For fun I decided to try and water marble over it. It was surprisingly successful, in my opinion. While the clear polish did dull the holo sparkle, it was still a stunning and sparkly manicure.

OPI Angel With A Lead Foot 

OPI Nail Envy

Stay Sparkly,

A

Saturday Spam- Hanukkah Nails

Happy Hanukkah readers! As it is currently Hanukkah time I decided to do a few Hanukkah themed manicures :)

China Glaze Electric Beat

OPI Angel With A Lead Foot

Finger Paints Ho Ho Holiday

OPI Can't Find My Czechbook

Assorted Glitters

China Glaze Manhunt

Maybelline Precious Pearl 

LA Girl Splatter 

Painted Polish Buzzed on Blue

Painted Polish Drunk on Holo

OPI Funny Bunny 

Blue Hex Glitter

Hope you enjoyed these Hanukkah manicures :)

Happy Holidays,

A

OPI The Sky's My Limit

WOW!! That's really all I need to say about this. While I don't totally understand how this fits in to the OPI Mustang collection, I'm so glad they decided to release it. This is the most amazing polish, it is very similar to the VHTF OPI Catch Me In Your Net.  While I cannot compare them, I do know that these are not at all dupes, just similar ideas. 

This is 3 flawless, amazing, beautiful coats. 

Stay Sparkly,

A

Sea Lore Aquaversary

SeaLore Polish released Aquaversary to celebrate their 2nd anniversary as an indie polish line. Sea Lore was the first indie line I tried, and they have a very special place in my heart.  All of their polishes are inspired by sea life and mermaids.  Aquaversary is a smooth sea glass toned polish with a slight holo effect. 

Polished used for the mermaid:

OPI The Sky's My Limit

OPI My Vampire Is Buff

OPI Amazon… Amazoff

OPI Vant To Bite My Neck

OPI Race Red

Stay Sparkly,

A

Satursay Spam-KB Shimmer Swatches

Here are some KBShimmer swatches for your viewing pleasure! This is a brand that never ceases to amaze me.  So many new colors every collection, but the formulas are always amazing!

Eclipse

3 thin coats, great glossy formula and wear time! Perfect, creamy, glossy black.

Touch Of Glass

3 thin coats. pale icey sea glass like blue, almost minty blue.  slight silver shimmer.

Stonewashed

2 thin coats. With slightly thicker coats this could easily be a one coater. Dusty medium blue creme.

Shipwreck

Medium teal jelly base with purple, teal and orange/green iridescent hex glitters and tiny orange and green glitters.  Ring finger 1 coat over Stonewashed.  The jelly base is pretty sheer- this is 3 thin coats.  I prefer the look of one coat over a matching creme.

Holly Back Girl

 White crelly base and 3 sizes of red and green hex glitter.

Ring finger 1 coat over white.

What are your must have KB Shimmer polishes?

Stay Sparkly,

A

Silver and Blue Chevrons

This manicure was inspired by @cocosnailss on instagram. If you aren't following her you are seriously missing out. I hope chevrons stay popular for a while, because I love a good chevron mani :)

China Glaze At Vase Value

China Glaze Glistening Snow

Stay Sparkly,

A

Saturday Spam- Painted Polish by Lexi Swatches

Painted Polish is an amazing indie polish brand created by a lovely lady named Lexi.  She rocks at making this super pretty holo glitters in different color jelly bases.  Across the board, all of the polishes have flawless formulas, for being so glitter heavy all of them dry super smooth.

Black Widow Baby and Buzzed on Blue

Trashed on Teal

Black Widow Baby

Resting Witch Face

Painted Polish is having a restock tomorrow (11/30) at 5 PM Pacific Time! I don't know if all of these polishes will be available, but her stunning Holo-day collection will be. I know what I'll be doing at 5:00 tomorrow :)

Stay Sparkly,

A

Thanksgiving Nails

I decided to try a Thanksgiving color inspired water marble.  I love the look of water marbling, and I have to say my patience for trying them has grown :)

OPI I Sing In Color

OPI Coca-Cola Red

Nicole by OPI Promises In The Dark

China Glaze Stoked to be Soaked

Happy Thanksgiving!! Hope you all had amazing days with your loved ones. 

Stay Sparkly,

A

Orly Mirrorball

Orly Mirrorball is a silver linear holo speckled with larger holo glitter. This polish is part of the Holiday 2014 collection and it already has quite the cult following.  I am admittedly not the biggest linear holo fan, but this polish is AMAZING!!! 

full sun shot

shade

artificial lighting

This polish should still be available at Sally's/Ulta, I highly recommend you add this to your collection. The addition of larger holo glitter particles really makes this a special polish.

Stay Sparkly,

A

Zoya Swatches

I've never really been inspired by Zoya, but they recently had a great sale so I decided to pick up some of their Pixie Dust polishes to give them a try.

All swatches are 2 coats with no base coat, top coat used is Color Club.

Dahlia

 Dahlia with top coat

Sunshine

Sunshine with top coat

Arianna

Arianna with top coat

Noir

Noir with top coat

Overall I really like Sunshine and Dahlia and would love to try more of the original pixie dusts… Noir and Arianna, they are pretty and all, but didn't dry down to a very matte finish and just didn't wow me.

What other Pixie Dusts should I try?

Stay Sparkly,

A

Saturday Spam- Nail Art

I've been pushing myself to do more nail art lately since I was so uninspired the past few months. 

Purple Mix and Match 

OPI Vant To Bite My Neck and My Boyfriend Scales Walls

China Glaze Glistening Snow and What A Pansy

Silver Holo Hex Glitter

Chevron Vinyls from @teismom  

Candy Mani 

OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls 

China Glaze Fuchsia Fanatic 

Sinful Colors Endless Blue

Chrome Girl Endless Summer

 Neon Mix and Match

OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls

China Glaze Surfin For Boys, Flip Flop Fantasy and Neon and On

Polish Me Silly Chicks Rule 

OPI Coca-Cola Red

Sally Hansen Black Out

KB Shimmer Oh Splat!

China Glaze Manhunt

China Glaze Well Trained

Orly Rock Solid

Stay Sparkly,

A

China Glaze Wait N Sea

China Glaze Wait N Sea is a stunning bright turquoise color, it is slightly brighter and more green than it appears in pictures.  I accented it with Sinful Colors nail tattoos and Painted Polish by Lexi Drunk on Holo.  This was so fun and lovely to wear, and inspired me to order a ton more nail tattoos and water decals. 

Stay Sparkly,

A

China Glaze All Aboard- Fall 2014

China Glaze released a train inspired collection for Fall 2014.  Its a very interesting mix of neutrals and dusty colors.  I purchased two polishes from this collection, because China Glaze usually makes amazing cremes for their fall collections.  These two did not disappoint!!

China Glaze One Track Mind

China Glaze Well Trained

Stay Sparkly,

A

Leopard and Roses

I have been seeing this look all over instagram, so I decided to give it a try.  I felt these nails were really classy and sexy. 

Colors Used:

OPI Vodka and Caviar

OPI Toucan Do It If You Try

OPI My Paprika Is Hotter Than Yours

OPI Jade Is The New Black

OPI My Vampire Is Buff

Stay Sparkly,

A