China Glaze Blitz N Pieces and Razzle Me Dazzle Me

Glitter glitter glitter glitter! China Glaze's new collection Glitz N Pieces is a delightful line of top coat glitters (although they are quite dense enough to be worn on their own). I got four from the collection, and I have two to show to to you today:

China Glaze Blitz N Pieces over China Glaze Creative Fantasy (from their Cirque de Soleil collection). Dark silver multi-sized glitter and black mutlti-sized and bar glitter. Woohoo! Sparkly! I love the layer effect. The formula is super-dense. You don't need a lot to make a layer. I think I might try wearing these by themselves, layered to full opacity. I have the distinct feeling it would look very cool.

China Glaze Razzle Me Dazzle Me over Essie Lady Like. I really like this one. Dusty pink glitter. I love dusty pinks. So I layered it over a dusty pink! Again, I want to wear this colour by itself. The glitter is so dense.

Overall, I really like this collection. The glitters are fun and dense. Next week I'll show the other two colours I got.

**Disclosure: These colours were provided by NailPolishCanada.

Nail Polish Party

For New Year's Eve Eve I had some friends over so they could use my collection and get some purrrrdy nails for their respective parties. It was obviously a resounding success! So I give you:

How to Have a Nail Polish Party

Step 1: Mimosas: This part is key. Slightly tipsy friends are more much more agreeable to fancy colours and designs and dots and such wonderful things.

Step 2: More mimosas: "Oh ladiesh, thish purple would loook amaaaaazing on you." *Hic* Also, snacks. Snacks are key. Might I suggest rainbow marble mini-cupcakes?

Step 3: Time for serious business.Direct them to your fancy Polish Station (it's extra official because you had your nephew make a sign).

Put out your tools and swatches like a catalogue, and take orders!

Step 4: Let them do their own base coat colours. You're no manicurist.

Step 4b: Clean up their base coats because they are not manicurists, either.

Step 5: "You're giving me carte blanche? OBVIOUSLY STRIPES ARE THE ANSWER!"

Step 6:"Dots. Dots are the answer for you."

Step 7: Top coats for everyone!

Step 8: Take pictures for posterity's (and blog's) sake.

Step 9: ?????

Step 10: Profit!


Congratulations! Follow up the painting with hilarious select episodes of Community.

Resounding success!

What was used:

OPI Ogre the Top Blue, Misa You're Too Delicious, Essie Matte About You Top Coat

China Glaze Aqualicious, OPI Shimmer and Shimmer

Sally Hansen Blue It, Essie As Gold as it Gets

Nicole by OPI Save Me the First Dance, Zoya Jem

Base- Zoya Storm.      
Thumb: Nicole by OPI Save Me the First Dance, OPI Goldeneye      
Index: OPI Luxurious, Butter London Scallywag      
Middle: OPI Let Me Entertain You, Nicole by OPI Save Me the First Dance     
Ring: OPI Goldeneye, Butter London Scallywag      
Pinky: Zoya Carly, Nicole by OPI Save Me the First Dance

Ombre Red



Hombre... for men.

 

 

That cowboy has nothing on Joey! NOTHING!

 

Where was I? Yes! Ombre nails! My sister didn't know what ombre was so she called them my "Hombre... for men" nails. Friends 4-Ever!

 



You know, when I'm trying to do an ombre manicure, I start thinking about how few colours I have. Hear me out! To do a proper ombre effect, the colours all have to have the same finish. I can't mix cremes, shimmers, foils and glitters. That would be silly. So I may have a billion reds, but I don't have a billion red cremes. And we all know that is a VERY big difference.

 

 

Hee hee, Hombre... for men. I'll stop now.

 

I used:

Pinkie: A England Lancelot
Ring: Essie Wicked
Middle: OPI Skyfall
Index: China Glaze Adventure Red-y
Thumb: Julep Delauney

*Note, Lancelot is a REALLY REALLY dark red. So dark that you can only see any hint of red under extreme light. But I still call it red!

Maybelline Denim Dash and China Glaze Lorelai's Tiara

Ever go through old things and find useful stuff you totally forgot you had? I do, all the time.
I was going through my pictures folder and found some pictures I had completely over looked. But I will give them their moment in the sun!

Today I have Maybelline Denim Dash from their Color Show collection. This is an EXCELLENT blue jeans facsimile. It's a matte finish too!

 

 

Then I decided to try an accent nail with China Glaze Lorelai's Tiara from their Eye Candy 3D Glitters collection. So sparkly!

But it looked out of place next to the matte Denim Dash so I covered it with Essie's Matte About You.

 

 

Pretty funk-ay, non? This was a fun manicure. I have to remember Matte About You More often. It gives such interesting new takes on manicures!

Essie Penny Talk

Ooooo copper foil!

This is part of the Essie Mirror Metallics collection. There rest of the collection is your standard gold, silver, blue etc. but this copper colour stood out to me. How often do you see this lovely metallic?

Alas, there are some noticeable brush strokes, but the colour! The colour! Perfecto!

Cheers!

Bikini So Teeny!

Hello all!

A quick NOTD for your: Essie's Bikini so Teeny, the star of their Summer 2012 collection. It is a lovely bright cornflower blue with a  very subtle shimmer. So subtle, I couldn't really capture it on my camera. I might have had a bit of a Rage Moment trying to do just that. Still lovely!

It seems to be a bit patchy in the pictures, but it looked quite nice in real life. Perfect for summer!