Go Seahawks Super Bowl Nails

Well, as you may have guessed, I'll be cheering for the Seahawks today. This was a tough call. I am a Patriots fan too. My prediction is that it will be a close game. Anyway, enjoy the nails!

Products used:
Glam Polish Tinkerbell
OPI I saw you saw we saw Warsaw
Rica Whiteout
China Glaze Pelican Grey

*nothing to disclose*

Weekly Undies and Fails

Welcome to my weekly random post. Miscellaneous pics for the week.

Barry M Gelly in Olive. Two coats.

Another failed water decal attempt. KBShimmer Shore Thing and Sky Jinks. Illamasqua Grab. China Glaze Friends Forever, Right.

Ninja Polish Howling Blue Moon. 2 coats.

SquareHue Oxford Street. 3 coats. No top coat.

OPI You're So Vainilla. I found I've used this polish quite a few times. Great base colour.

Was that random enough for you? Talk about clashing colours. Thanks for stopping by.

China Glaze Strawberry Fields Swatches

Hello everyone. Hope all is well in your world!

Today I have Strawberry Fields from China Glaze for you. This polish is a re-release for this years Celebrate Courage set. It's a very nice bright pink with gold shimmer.

I used three thin coats plus top coat. The formula was thin and I still had some vnl in natural lighting. It did have a good shimmer payout though. This was more noticeable in person. It seemed to get washed out a bit in my photos.

I purchased this polish from Nail Polish Canada. China Glaze is available from too many places to list them all ; ) Thank you for visiting today. Hope you enjoyed the swatches.

Random Swatches

Hey there folks. This is a bit of a random post with some photos I had saved. Polishes I've used as bases, didn't like how they turned out etc. Not going into huge detail with each one, but thought I would just throw this out there anyways....

Julep Lissa two coats plus top coat.

Index and pinky are China Glaze Derailed. I tried water marble decals. My application of them didn't work. They were done with Derailed, Barry M Sugar Apple, MckFresh Do Ba Dee Goo Goo.

MckFresh Nail Attire Do Ba Dee Goo Goo. Blurple creme. I couldn't get good shots of this. The colour and my camera didn't get along. 2 coats plus top coat.

                           

So there you go. I told you it would be totally random! Have a great day.

China Glaze Don't Let The Dead Bite Swatches

Today I have swatches of Don't Let The Dead Bite. This is the only polish I got from the China
Glaze Halloween polishes this year. The rest just didn't look appealing to me.

This has a flesh toned nude crelly base with various shapes of red glitter. It applied really easily and I had full coverage in two coats. Photos below are with top coat.

These two photos are with OPI matte top coat.

I think I preferred it matted. Anyway, I liked this, but didn't love it. Formula wise there were no issues. It was actually quite flattering with my skin tone. I was surprised by that.
Thanks for the visit. Hope you aren't sick of Halloween polishes yet!

*purchased by me and all opinions are my own*

China Glaze Friends Forever, Right

Just a quick little post today.
This is China Glaze Friends Forever, Right from The Giver collection. I used this as a base for some stamping the other day. Although it isn't anything overly exciting, it is a decent polish. It's a VERY light baby pink. I actually had a hard time capturing the pink in it. This is two coats with top coat.

Told you it would be a quick post

*polish purchased by me and all opinions are my own*

Dexter Inspired Blood Spatter Manicure

Well, hello everyone! Welcome to my entry for the Nail Polish Canada Halloween nail art challenge. We were invited to share our grotesque nails. Not that you have to, but I thought I would try. Please note that I am aware that the polish is on my fingers. I purposely left it there as I thought it looked more realistic that way.

This mani is inspired by the TV show Dexter. He loved to splatter blood on paper. And I was a big fan of the show. (until the final episode, don't even get me started)

Products used were Zoya Purity, Revlon Fire, and China Glaze Velvet Bow. And of course, some straws! I need to point out that my husband walked in while I was doing this. I think he thinks that I have now completely lost it. Although he did point out that it really did look like blood to him. I guess that is a complement!

Sorry for all the picks. The sun came out and I couldn't help myself. Quite happy with how these turned out. I admit, I am not the most creative, so when a mani turns out like I had hoped, I get pretty excited.
If you are interested in participating in this challenge, please visit Nail Polish Canada. The link will take you right to the contest page.
Thank you for the visit. I hope you liked it.

Mundo de Unas Mexican Pink stamping

Hello there. Back with another challenge mani this week. Our prompts this week were three colour gradient - pink. Since I did a gradient last week, I decided to go with the pink.
And I do need to point out that this falls into the nail fail category. I just wasn't getting a good transfer from stamp to nail. Not sure what the issue was. I didn't spend a lot of time on clean up knowing I wasn't going to be wearing this for any length of time.

My base is China Glaze Friends Forever, Right from the Giver collection. I stamped with Mundo de Unas Mexican Pink with Messy Mansion plate MM39.

There you have it, another #52wpnmc complete. Participants are from the facebook group Crumpet's Nail Tarts. Don't forget to check out the other bloggers contributing.

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Duri Brush 'n Go Top Coat Review

Today I have an inadvertent top coat review for you. This started out as just doing my nails, that were then ruined by a new top coat I tried. Blah. Angry nail lady alert!

I recently bought a bottle of Duri Brush 'n Go from my local Winners. I love Duri Rejuvacote, so I thought I would give the top coat a try.

The description on the box, verbatim.
Dry and shine wet look top coat is recognized for extremely short drying time, brilliant gloss and best nail polish sealer. Brush 'n go dries nail polish layers through including base coat, creating a uniform solid coat. This top coat never yellows due to unique formula combination. Brush 'n go could be applied on wet nail polish without dragging or streaking. Use Brush 'n go and "always sexy wet look nails" will last and last.

My mani started off good! These are four polishes from the China Glaze The Giver collection. The zig zag nails are a base of New Birth topped with Community. Ring finger is Capacity to See Beyond. Pinky is the same topped with The Outer Edge.
I did my tape removal and clean up before applying the top coat. It was at least ten minutes. (This was a full two hand manicure.) I do load my brush with top coat. As you can see, it was ruined. Sad panda. I really liked the look of these nails. So much for their claim of no dragging or streaking. It failed miserably in that department. It also left brush strokes. I'm not sure if I have ever had that happen with a top coat. Plus dry time was more in line with a regular top coat opposed to a quick dry.

So, overall opinion... This stuff sucks! Don't bother. Avoid. Save your money. I think you get my point. Has anyone else tried this top coat? What were your thoughts?

*purchased by me and all opinions are my own*

Summer Gradient with China Glaze

Happy Summer everyone !!
Today I have a colourful gradient for you. Of course, my gradients are still a technique in progress, so I ended up stamping over it. Which also wasn't perfect, but it was still nice and bright.
The gradient was done over a white base using China Glaze Petal To The Metal, Metro Pollen-tin, and Be More Pacific. Stamping was done with Mundo de Unas Mexican Pink and Konad white using plate MJ XXV. I know the clean up isn't perfect, but my poor cuticles couldn't handle anymore acetone.

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I need to mention that the plate I used is a test plate that I received from a giveaway. The plate I have is a bit different from the one on the site, but this design is on it. The rest of the products were purchased by me. 

I hope you enjoyed! Cheers.

China Glaze Lotus Begin and Born Pretty water decals

China Glaze Lotus Begin from the City Flourish collection.

I'm really not to sure where to start with this one. The photos are deceiving in my opinion. The formula for this polish is truly terrible. It's chalky and streaky and uneven and terrible. Did I say terrible. I meant TERRIBLE. I used three coats and it was still uneven. I then added two coats of top coat trying to get it to level off, but that only helped a bit. I realize it isn't that noticeable in the pics, you'll have to take my word for it. I like the colour of this polish though. To me it is like a neon and a pastel had a baby this is what you would end up with. Does that even make sense?

So, I wasn't really diggin' it and decided to add some feather water decals that I got ages ago from the Born Pretty Store. I applied the middle finger first and it was sliding all over the place, so it was easy to get it where I wanted it. Applied the ring finger and it wouldn't budge? Have no idea why. The application process was exactly the same. Now I had an oddly place feather. Oh well : )

Thoughts on this polish? I know I have read some mixed reviews on this collection. So far, I'm not impressed. Maybe some of the other shades with turn out to be better. The decals I liked. I find decals to be a simple and fun alternative to do it yourself nail art. Anyone can manage water decals and there are a ton of design options available.

Thank you for the visit and I hope you enjoyed!

*products purchased by me and all opinions are my own*