OPI Serena Glam Slam Duo — Pros & Bronze

Today I have the first polish of the OPI Serena Glam Slam Duo.

Pros & Bronze is a orangey bronze shimmer glitter. It's hard to explain. Lol. It reminds me of the bronze version of China Glaze White Cap, though P&B is opaque enough to be worn on its own.

Out of focus to show the pink / green shimmer.

This is 2 (or 3) coats of Pros & Bronze without topcoat. As you can see it has a bit of pink and green shimmer in the polish along with the lovely texture of the glitter / shimmer.

This is a super lovely color and is honestly the main reason why I picked up this duo. Heh. I bet this would also look gorgeous layered over a black or dark brown polish. It'd probably bring a wooden texture or something to it. I'll have to try it out!

Anyway, I'll have the other polish from this duo - Love Is A Racket - coming up in the next day or so! :)

Until next time~ :)

May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor — Hunger Games Nail Art!

Happy Friday! As you all probably know by now the Hunger Games movie is out! Unfortunately because I have to be a grown up and have a grown up job, I was not able to go see the midnight premiere like I normally would for a series I love. No worries though! My friends and I are going tonight.

So I did a special manicure to celebrate! :)

I tried to do a fire and ember manicure to represent Katniss as the Girl on Fire but I'm not sure how "firey" they actually turned out. Lol.  I used 4 polishes from the China Glaze Capitol Collection and 2 Zoya polishes to create this look. Everything is explained after the pictures! :)

Left hand.

Right hand.

Now, I actually like the flames on my right hand so much better than my left despite my left hand not being dominant so my "drawing" was not so good. Unfortunately since it was later when I finished this, I have no pictures in daylight. I'll have to come back and edit those into the post.

I started off with CND Stickey base coat then did 1 coat of China Glaze Smoke and Ashes, which is a black base polish with dark blue and green shimmer. It's a very pretty color! Then I added a layer of China Glaze Luxe & Lush to represent the embers of the fire. I then used a nail art brush and Zoya Sooki and painted on the shape of fire, went over that with Zoya Reva to add some bling, then added accent of China Glaze Riveting, then on top of that added a bit of China Glaze Electrify. Finished that off with a good coat of Seche Vite, and voila! "firey" nails. Hehe.

Overall I'm pretty happy with it! I wish I could have painted the flames on better but I'm proud of what I was able to do.

What about you guys? Did you go to the premiere? Are you going see it today or this weekend? Are you wearing anything special on your nails for the movie? Let me know!

Until next time, my dears~ :)

Pretty and Polished — Martian Salad

Hello lovelies~ I have another Pretty and Polished polish for you today!

Martian Salad is a medium grassy green holographic polish.

 

Formula is great. It is a bit sheer so I used 3 thin coats for full coverage. I think next time I'll try to layer this over a similar green so I don't use as much product. Again this is a tiny bottle so I hate to use more coats than necessary. Heh.

Pretty and Polished polishes can be purchased from her Etsy shop.

Until next time~ :)

Pretty and Polished — Party On My Yacht

Monday is here already! Bleh. Lol. I am not fond of Mondays only because the weekend is over and it's back to work!

Today I have a lovely little polish from Pretty and Polished.  You've probably seen this polish posted on several nail blogs recently. And for good reason!

Party On My Yacht is a white based polish with green, gold, and purple micro glitter and it also has sparse blue holographic bar glitter. This reminds me of Mardi Gras but it also reminds me of vanilla icing with sprinkles! :)

This is 3 coats of POMY (haha). It says you can get full opacity with 2 coats but for whatever reason I couldn't. I think next time I'll layer this over a white base to save polish. This is a mini bottle so it's tiny!

Formula wise this is pretty good. It did get a bit stringy / gloopy when I was polishing my nails, but it does dry very fast so that's probably why!

I have two more of these babies to post and I'm excited about it! :)

Pretty and Polished polishes can be purchased from her Etsy shop. Mini bottles (7ml) go for $4.50 each and she has some full sized bottles (15ml) and those go for $8.00 each.

Until next time~ :)

All That Glitters — Don't Pinch Me

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Here's my quick mani to celebrate.

I used Sally Hansen Golden-I as a base and layered the lovely All That Glitters Don't Pinch Me on top.

Don't Pinch Me is a sheer green base with small and large green glitter along with medium and bar gold glitter. I used 3 thin coats of Don't Pinch Me on top of 2 thin coats of Golden-I. I then added a coat of Gelous and topped that off with Seche Vite.

Pardon my poor pinky nail I knocked it twice while doing this manicure. Luck was obviously not with me! Lol.

What do you guys think of my St. Paddy's Day mani? I think it came out pretty good. :)

All That Glitters polishes can be purchased at her Etsy shop for $8.00USD each. She has a wide variety of beautiful glitter polishes!  And this is the first of 3 that I have from her.

Hope you guys have an awesome weekend!

Until next time~ :)

A England — Tristam

TGIF! So happy it's Friday today! Another week come and gone. It seems to go by so fast, doesn't it?

Quick question! I'm trying to make sure my blog doesn't still have the annoying captcha  as well as moderator approval. I made everything moderated so you wouldn't have to type captcha. If it's still showing up, please let me know! Thanks. :D

It's also St. Patrick's Day weekend. What are you guys wearing on your nails? I'll be posting my St. Patty's day mani tomorrow. :)

Today I have another A England for you guys. :P There's no way anyone can get sick of seeing these beautiful polishes. Lol.  This one is from The Mythicals collection. I never really managed to get that collection due to spending my money everywhere else, but eventually I want to own more than one polish from this collection.

Tristam is a beautiful, deep, rich blue holographic polish. It does have a bit of a purple tone to it but this is definitely more blue than purple (blurple?)

This could be another one coater if you're careful with application! But because I'm usually always in a hurry and it's kind of habit, this is two coats, no top coat.

You can still purchase the Mythicals collection on A England's website, Llarowe, and Ninja Polish. Prices vary on all sites.

Until next time~ :)

A England — Ascalon

Happy Wednesday! Today I have another from the A England The Legends Collection.

Ascalon is a grey holographic with a bit of a lavender duochrome to it. This really is a beautiful color. Unfortunately I wasn't able to capture the duochrome flash with my camera but it is there!

 

A bit out of focus to show the holo more.

Again the formula on this was perfect. 2 thin coats to full opacity. If you're more careful with your application you can get away with 1 good coat of this.

A England polishes can be purchased from their website (free worldwide shipping!), Llarowe, and Ninja Polish also offers them now.

Until next time~ :)