Candy Stripes

I know everyone is in full swing

with the holidays and their Christmas mani's 

but I just couldn't help but squeeze this last

gem in before I go all ho - ho - holiday!

CANDY STRIPES!

 

 

I'm such a sucker for pretty girlie shades, 

and I've been a huge light pink kick in particular. 

So I started with a light pink base color,

China Glaze in Dance Baby

Once dried, 

I cut several pieces of nail art striping tape

placing them onto the nail in a horizontal stripe pattern. 

Using the following 3 shades,

Barry M. in Mint Green

Orly in Purple Crush

Color Club in Disco Dress

and a sponge, 

I sponged the colors onto the whole nail, over the tape.

Then removed the tape, applied a top coat and vola!

 

YUMMY! 

It reminds me of

something Katy Perry would wear, and SO I'm loving it in all this

sea of Red & Green!

   

Holy Holo Fishnets, Batman!

I LOVE holographic polishes, I mean, who doesnt, right?

But seriously, I'm borderline obsessed with having them all,

so naturally when Color Club announced their 

Halo Hues collection, I was all over that!

The overall intensity of this collection is really awesome and 

the first shade to stick out for me was

Halo-graphic, a gorgeous soft pink.

So I decided to grab for it with this weeks mani.

As my base I used China Glaze in QT, from another

great holo collection, OMG collection.

Then I sponged down the center of each nail with Color Club's Halo-graphic.

I then topped it off with a fishnet stamp from the X-large Cheeky stamping plate B and, 

VOILA! 

 

China Glaze QT and Color Cub Halo-graphic 

 I'm seriously in love with my fingers right now.

HOLO-RRIFIC!

Saran Wrap Nails

Today I have Saran wrap nails!

This creative and simply technique 

is hugely popular, but believe it or not,

this is my first time trying it out!

I decided to go with one of my favorite 

color combinations, brown & turquoise.

I started with Sinful Colors in Nirvana, 

a delicious milk chocolate brown cream.

While waiting for it to dry, I tore up small pieces of Saran

wrap and crumpled them up.

I topped it off with China Glaze in Aquadelic,

one of the best minty turquoise creams out there in my opinion.

While its freshly wet, I took a piece of the crumpled

Saran wrapand lightly dabbed it onto my nail, creating an

almost soft crackle finish. 

LOVE IT!

Here's the end result.

 

Super cute and EASY!

Have you tried Saran wrap nails yet?

What kind of color combinations have you tried? 

1500 Follower Giveaway!!

Wooohoooo

1500 followers!

You guys rock!

With Spring just around the corner, 
and SO many amazing new & bright collections coming out, 
I thought it would be fitting to give one lucky winner a chance 
to nab one of these new collections!!

To thank each and every one for you for being a loyal follower,

One lucky winner will win the entire

China Glaze ElectroPop collection!

So, now for the rules :

* You MUST be my follower/subscriber to my blog.

* The giveaway is open to EVERYONE, including
international followers.

* Write a comment to this post letting me know which new collections
you are most excited to see and grab!
Please be sure to include your name and e-mail 
so I can contact you if you are the winner!


* Only 1 entry per person!


The winner will be chosen randomly, 
using Random.org
and the giveaway will run now,  
February 7th,
until 
February 15th.

Winner will be announced on Friday, February 17th!




GOOD LUCK!!

Getting My Holo Fix

So a couple weeks back was my birthday,

and not only did I get some amazing gifts, 

but I was also lucky enough to get some cash too.

(You can never go wrong with the green stuff)

So I decided that rather than blowing my money on nonsense,

I would get some polishes to add to my collection.

But oh no, not just any polishes! 

Holographic/prismatic polishes that I have an obsession with.

These are highly coveted holo polishes.

I have been lemming for what seems like ages for these

and now they are mine!!

MWAHHHHH!

I paid an arm & a leg for these, 

but they are SO worth it!!

So yeah, I was one of the poor saps that saw 

the China Glaze OMG collection and thought,

" Do I really need anymore polish?, Nah, I won't get them"

Yeah, I know, stupid move, because they sold out, 

and then I realized, I MUST HAVE THESE!

I've been lucky enough to find a couple here and there, 

but 2 in particular I couldn't find except for E-bay.

So I splurged and grabbed QT and LOL

QT is a Fuschia holo.

The one thing I can say about the OMG collection

that you can't say about many others and that is, they look

BETTER on the nail than in the bottle.

Pure. Pink Love.

LOL is a deep Purple holo.

I was surprised to see the color, most swatches I've seen

portrayed the shade of Purple to be much brighter.

Still, this an AMAZING shade, and I am not

disappointed in the slightest.

Again, the vibrancy of the holo once it's swatched is really striking.

Next, I picked up My Private Jet.

I'm sure most of you polish lovers know that OPI has 

reformulated this shade for reasons I cannot understand. 

As I know, the older formulation had a much more vibrant holo.

My Private Jet is a blackened-Brown with a subtle holo.

Though I am bummed about this being the new formula,

as apposed to the old one, 

I'm still happy to have it as part of my collection.

Lastly, I went for the OPI Designer Series collection

I'm pretty open about my general distaste for OPI.

I think they are extremely over-hyped, and over priced

for a polish formula that is just MEH to me.

( Sorry to all you OPI lovers!)

But, with that being said, they do from time to time

hit the mark with a certain color, 

or in this case, and entire collection.

I picked up DS Coronation, frankly because 

I am obsessed with finding the perfect, "in your face" Silver holo.

While it missed the mark in that department, 

it is still vibrant enough that I'm happy to add it to my collection.

From what I am told, Nfu-Oh #61 seems to be the

kick-ass Silver holo I am looking for, but it is sold out.

:((

Incidentally, if you are looking for a dupe for this shade,

try Milani's 3D Holographic polish in HD.

While swatching Coronation, I placed it on my color wheel

next o HD and it was virtually identical.

And lastly, the final polish I picked up was

DS Glamour.

This is one shade that is completely 

worth the hype & every dime I paid.

If my house was burning down, this is one of the 

things I'd run back into the flames for. 

Seriously.

This polish is so drool-worthy, I haven't even brought myself

to put it away, it's just sitting on my desk, 

making me smile each time I lay eyes on it.

Here are swatches.

So what is your favorite holographic/prismatic polish??

What polishes are must haves that you would recommend?

My Channel Background

MyWeezyLover, a YouTuber subscriber, like my background on my main channel page so much, she asked if I could do a nail design to mimic it.


Here's my background

And here's the nail design

PRODUCTS USED:

PRO Nail Systems Base Coat

H&M polish in - Bella's Choice

China Glaze in - Something Sweet

Sinful Colors in - Cream Pink

"Franken" in - School Bus

L.A.Color Craze in - Black

L.A.Colors Art Deco in - Black

Hurricane Nail Striper in White

China Glaze Fast Forward top Coat

For full tutorial on this look, please visit my YouTube channel

www.youtube.com/user/dollface22772

Early Spring...or just wishful thinking

Today I decided to combination my two latest obsessions...or perhaps it's three. 

Green Polish

Holo Polish

Moonicure's

Because I am SO damned tired of winter, the snow and dull,gray days....I grabbed for China Glaze's "L8R G8R". This awsome spring green Holo.

But, that wasn't enough for me, I then took Claire's "Evergreen" and gave myself a moonicure.

*WARNING*
L8R G8R DOES stain nails. It is essential to use base coat when wearing this polish.

Ahhhh, that's more like it. I'm really into these two-toned moonicure's lately. They are so simple, but so pretty. So, for now at least, I can pretend, if only for a few minutes that it's actually Spring outside.

Here's a couple other Holo's I grabbed.

From Milani's new line, this is a "Hi-Res", a light purple Holo.

And China Glaze's "Rated Holographic", which I believe is from the OMG Collection, as well as "L8R G8R"

 

I'm very pleased with all 3 of these, and I'm sure Ill be picking up more.

In the meantime, I hope this Spring moonicure holds me over till the sun finally comes out.