Boogie Nights for Audrey

Behind again. Shame on this blogger.

The first of many manicures to come is this simple little cutie. China Glaze For Audrey with an accent of Ulta Boogie Nights. I love blue and gold together!

Sunshine and Bows

I hope you are enjoying what is left of your Tuesday, most likely Wednesday by now. I know I've absent recently, but I'm back and ready to blog.

Today, I have a cute design to share with you featuring some 3D nail bows.

Very 3D nail art. I started with China Glaze Lighthouse then added a full nail design with Essence Stamp Me! Black and stamping plate BM-310. Finally with a little nail glue, I added these cute black bows from the  Born Pretty Store. How cute are these?!

The bows come in twelve different colors with a rhinestone in the middle of each. Each set comes with ten bows. The bows stay on well when applied with nail glue. The bows (Item ID: 1675) retail for $2.38 on Born Pretty Store. They have a ton of other fun nail art related items as well. Shipping is always free worldwide. You can also use my coupon code AHL91 to save 10% on your order.

Disclosure: The product (bows) in this post were provided to me for consideration. All opinions are mine and honest.

China Glaze Whirled Away

I hope you are enjoying your Sunday! I was very excited when I saw that a mainstream brand came out with a black and white glitter. They have been extremely popular in the indie polish world. However, this particular one leaves a lot to be desired.

China Glaze Whirled Away is a clear base with black string, large hex, and white extra large hex glitter. The base is thick and the glitter is difficult to place. You do not even see only of the white glitter here because they were so hard to fish out. This is one coat and some fished out pieces over Pure Ice Super Star! and Claire's Lime Yours. If you want black and white glitter, in my opinion, you are better off going the indie route. I plan to.

China Glaze It's a Trap-eze

I hope you are enjoying your Sunday! I'm finally beginning to feel better. So, I decided to push through and post. If you're unsure what I'm talking about, see this post. 

Its a new year. I want to post more often and interact more often on Facebook and Twitter. I also decided that it would fun to have you all vote on what polish you would like to see me post about. So each week, I will choose a few from my stash and make a poll. The first one is already up on the top right of my blog.

China Glaze It's a Trap-eze is a milky white jelly filled with multicolored and multi-size hex glitter. I see white, fuchsia  green, blue, yellow, and orange glitter. The application is great and semi opaque in two coats. You could start over white for a more opaque finish. However, I prefer the jelly finish. It gives depth and has a lighter feel to it.

China Glaze Instant Chemistry

I hope you are enjoying your Friday!

China Glaze Instant Chemistry is a dark burgundy purple magnetic polish with a hint of shimmer. The magnetic quality in this polish is not as strong as the other I own from this collection. I tried a few different magnets. Perhaps its the dark color that leaves it lacking or maybe I got a bad bottle. Even with the iffy magnetic effect, the polish is gorgeous. I would happily wear it without using a magnet.

The application is great and opaque in one coat, though I used two because I've found its easier for magnetic polishes.

China Glaze Harvest Moon

I hope you are enjoying your Wednesday! I have a very pretty polish to show that just shouts Autumn at the top of its lungs.

China Glaze Harvest Moon is a copper metallic. The application is perfection and opaque in two coats. I absolutely love this shade for Fall.

Giraffe Print

I hope you are enjoying your Tuesday! Sorry again for my absence. Things have been crazy.

My little giraffe print nails. I wish they would have turned out better. They are part stamping and part freehand. I started off with two coats of Julep Alyson. Then I stamped on a giraffe print with China Glaze Mahogany Magic and BM-313. I had the ceiling fan and a stand fan going at the time, so the stamping did not transfer well. Thus the freehand. I got several compliments on them today though. One woman did not know about stamping. I have never seen someone that excited to learn about nail art.

Mahogany Magic is part of the China Glaze Capitol Colours Collection and retails for $3-6 at various stores and websites. Julep retails for $14 on their website. BM stamping plates are part of a 25 piece set (the 2012 one) that retails for $22 on Bundle Monster or their Amazon store.

China Glaze Fast Track

I hope you are enjoying your Saturday!

China Glaze Fast Track is a light taupe filled with gold shimmer flecks. The application is great and goes on perfectly opaque in two coats. It reminds me of Essence Irreplaceable, although Irreplaceable is a few shades lighter. Actually the similarities are the reason I bought this particular polish. Its the perfect blend of neutral and fun. 

Fast Track is part of the China Glaze Capitol Colours Collection. Its currently on clearance in most stores. It retails for $3-6 at various stores and websites (including Sally's Beauty Supply, Ulta, Head2Toe Beauty, and Amazon).

China Glaze Snow Globe

I hope you are enjoying your Thursday! I had little time to do this manicure. So instead of starting from scratch, I added glitter. Glitter makes everything better.

China Glaze Snow Globe is a clear base filled with iridescent glitter. It has the same appearance as flakies. Glitter, but lies very flat to the nail. Absolutely gorgeous! I want to layer this over everything. Here I have it over Funky Fingers Power Chord.

Snow Globe is part of the China Glaze Let It Snow Collection and retails for $3-6 various places online.

Owls

I hope you are enjoying your Tuesday! Today, I have my first design using the new Bundle Monster set. You have no idea how much I have been wanting a stamping plate with owls. If I can get my hands on a cute penguin plate, my life will be complete.

How cute is this?! For my base, I used three thin coats of Essie Turquoise & Caicos. Then I stamped on my owls with China Glaze Mahogany Magic and plate BM-309. Both owl designs are on there. You can clearly see the single owl. The full nail design is two different owls and flowers. The full designs are large. Big enough to cover my thumb and more.

BM stamping plates are part of a 25 piece set (the 2012 one) that retails for $22 on Bundle Monster or their Amazon store. Turquoise & Caicos is part of the Essie Resort Collection and retails for $8 at Walgreens, Walmart, Target, Ulta, and several other stores. Mahogany Magic is part of the China Glaze Capitol Colours Collection and retails for $5-7 at various stores and websites (including Sally's Beauty Supply, Ulta, Head2Toe Beauty, and Amazon. It is (or should be) on clearance at most stores.

Rainbow Favorites Day 7 - Pink

I hope you are enjoying your Saturday! Today is the last day of the rainbow challenge. And today's color happens to be my favorite polish color. So picking just one pink polish was hard. I couldn't pick just one, so I chose three.

China Glaze Sangria, Claire's Candy Shop, and Love My Nails Palest Mauve. Sangria is a hot pink shimmer. Nothing especially unique, but oh so pretty. Candy Shop is a pink jelly packed with multicolored and multi-shaped hex glitter. I promise it lays and appears much more flat than in the photo. For some reason, the glitter looks bumpy here. But if you look at my previous post with this polish, it looks perfectly smooth. Palest Mauve is a pale mauve pink creme, just as the name implies. Its a tad more mauve in reality and has been a favorite pink of mine for a long time. I even went as far as to grab a back up bottle of it. The application on all of these polishes is great. They all require two coats for opacity, though I added a third of Candy Shop for more glitter.

Claire's retails for $5 in store. China Glaze retails for $5-8 a bottle at Sally Beauty Supply, Ulta, and various other stores/sites. Love My Nails retail for $1 at Bari Cosmetics.

Doing this challenge has been so much fun. I hope everyone has enjoyed seeing my favorite colors. I know I have enjoyed seeing what other bloggers chose.

If you want to see what other polishes the other lovely bloggers are choosing, check them out. :)

~on beauty stuff and what else’s...~

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Happy Nails

Kelly’s Kolors!

Lacquer Dreams

Lacquer or Leave Her!

Liesl Loves Pretty Things

Light Your Nails!

Manicurity

My Life in Polish

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Nailpolish is Alive

Nubbin Nails

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Passion for Polish

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Rainbow Favorites Day 4 - Green

I hope you're enjoying your Wednesday! I have my fourth day of the rainbow challenge to show you today. It gets harder to pick each day. I have over about forty greens. Hard to pick. I went back and forth between three. Zoya Apple, China Glaze He's Going in Circles, and Color Club Holiday Splendor. I could not resist the holo.

China Glaze He's Going in Circles is a light green linear holo. The application is good, especially for a holo. It took two coats to be opaque. 

It retails for $10-20 depending on where you purchase it from. He's Going in Circles is part of the China Glaze Kaleidoscope Collection. Being a silver cap holo is what affects the price.

If you want to see what other polishes the other lovely bloggers are choosing, check them out. :)

~on beauty stuff and what else’s...~

9ml Universe

atlcatsmeow

Captivating Claws

Fancy Phalanges

Fe’s Nails

Football and Fingernails

Fresh Air & Fashion

Happy Nails

Kelly’s Kolors!

Lacquer Dreams

Lacquer or Leave Her!

Liesl Loves Pretty Things

Light Your Nails!

Manicurity

My Life in Polish

Nail Polish Lane

Nailpolish is Alive

Nubbin Nails

Of Color n Music...

Passion for Polish

Polish and Such

Sincerely, Obsessed With Polish

So You Think You Can Paint

The Rantings of a Nailpolish Hoarder

China Glaze Sun Worshiper

I hope you're enjoying your Thursday! Today I have an incredibly neon polish to show you today.

Looks like two completely different polishes, I know. China Glaze Sun Worshiper is an orange tinted cantaloupe neon. The neon finish was incredibly hard to capture. The second picture is the best I could do. And its after a day of work. Trust me, this polish is eye catching. My brother did a double take at my hands and exclaimed, "Damn that's bright!"

This is one coat of white and two thin coats of Sun Worshiper. Most neons really pop if layered over white. Plus they reach opacity quicker.

China Glaze retails for $5-10 a bottle at Sally Beauty Supply, Ulta, and various other stores/sites.

China Glaze Broken Hearted over Mahogany Magic

I hope everyone is enjoying their Thursday! I also hope you are not tired of crackle yet. I cannot help but like the texture, despite how I felt about it when the trend first started.

I started off with two coats of China Glaze Mahogany Magic, a milk chocolate creme. For my crackle, I used Broken Hearted, a hot pink creme. I wish the pink had popped a little more, but I do like this combination. The application on both of these is very good. Both went on very well. And so far this crackle has not thickened up.

China Glaze Crackle Glaze retail for $3-6; they are on clearance, so the prices and availability vary. Mahogany Magic is part of the China Glaze Capitol Colours Collection and retails for $5-7. Both can be found at various stores and websites (including Sally's Beauty Supply, Ulta, Head2Toe Beauty, and Amazon. 

Celebration with Cupcakes

Its Stamping Sunday! This particular Sunday we are all doing designs to help Beth's (Debbie's daughter) birthday. I decided to do a cupcake, polka dot, and stripes design.

Rightie is making an appearance because I like the chocolate cupcake. I started with a base of Sinful Colors Easy Going, a very light pink creme. On my index fingers, I stamped cupcakes using Cosmetic Arts Sky High, China Glaze Mahogany Magic, and plate BM14. On my ring fingers, I stamped polka dots using Sky High, Konad Yellow, Sally Hansen Raspberry Race, Wet n Wild Lavender Creme, and plate BM19. For my pinky, I stamped stripes using the same polishes as the polka dots and plate BM20. To add the finishing touch, I layered a coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust over each nail.

Sinful Colors retail for $2 at Walgreens (online/in store) and Target (in store). Cosmetic Arts retail for $2 at Ross (I'm unsure where else they are sold, if anywhere else). China Glaze retails for $5-10 a bottle at Sally Beauty Supply, Ulta, and various other stores/sites (Fairy Dust is Core collection, while Mahogany Magic is from the Colors from the Capitol Collection). Konad Special Polish (for stamping) retails for $6.80 on their website. Sally Hansen Insta-Dri retails for $3-5 at Walgreens, Walmart, Riteaid, Target, and Ulta. Wet n Wild retail for $1-2 at CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Ulta, and many other stores, all of which are listed on their website. BM stamping plates are part of a 21 piece set that retails for $18 on Bundle Monster or their Amazon store.

China Glaze Sangria

I hope everyone is having a great Thursday! Today, I have a manicure to show that has been sitting in my nail folder for what seems like forever. I usually post within a few days of doing a manicure, but occasionally a couple get stashed away in the folder.

China Glaze Sangria is a hot pink shimmer polish. Not especially unique about it, but I cannot help but love a good pink. Its a perfect pink for Summer. The application is great and opaque in two coats.

China Glaze retails for $5-10 a bottle at Sally Beauty Supply, Ulta, and various other stores/sites.