RED AND FLASHY

I am sooooo pleased with how these turned out. This was my first time working with the stripe tape and it wasn't hard, but would have been alot easier with a helping hand I think. It was a little difficult to try to size, stick, cut - it was a bit much for one hand to handle. But I think they turned out ok. The tape isn't exactly as I want it on some nails, but I can live with it.

I am hoping that this will last through the weekend. I have had a little pealing up on some nails, but I have just tried to go back and reinforce with more top coat. I can't deny how shiny the silver line is though, so eye catching :)

I used Finger Paints - Curator's Coral for the base, and PA - Q9 for the glitter accents on the sides. The silver stripe tape I got online from Transdesign.

FINGER PAINTS - BECOMING ONE OF MY FAVES!

I have really been loving Finger Paints here lately. While I think they are a tad on the expensive side, I love to scoop them up during sales and clearances. I got these for a mere $1.99 each. Actually I got them for free with a gift card, lol! I am loving each of the shades I picked out!


I'VE BEEN FRAMED
(This had awesome hidden shimmer not noticeable until on the nails!)






SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
(Just look how this one GLOWS!)






CURATOR'S CORAL






PINK CRAYON






Check out your local Sally's for their stock of clearance Finger Paints!

FINGER PAINTS SAPPHIRE SHIMMER OVER LOREAL WATERS EDGE

Here I layered Sapphire Shimmer over Waters Edge to see what it would look like. I like the outcome, I think it looks really pretty.







SAPPHIRE SHIMMER on it's own


WATERS EDGE on it's own

FINGER PAINTS

Look who was on their swatch game last night!! I got a little extra time by keeping Banana busy with a busy bone - wooot! Also my Mom has been keeping him during the day and he was super tired out when I got him last night, "Granny" must have put him to work!

Anyway - I have these swatches, plus the Loreals, plus a franken PLUS a konadicure - that's right, I'm the sh*t!!

WICKED GLITTER
This was fairly dense glitter, but I think it would work best over a base color. Shown is four coats, but I think with a base coat you could get away with 3 maybe 2 coats of this. I liked it, but I wasn't wowed by it. I think I'm more of a solid color glitter than with 2 or more glitter colors - it starts getting distracting at that point.





SAPPHIRE SHIMMER
Hmmm - not what I expected at all! Shown is four coats - so this isn't buildable on its own. This is also a jelly base. At first I was majorly disappointed but after the fourth coat I kind of liked the way it looked, VNL and all. I did layer this over a base color and will show that to you in another post today.




ART APPRECIATION APRICOT
Wow, that name is a mouth full! I liked this color and it applied really nice. I love the gold shimmer that goes throughout. A very nice color, and I'm pleased I snagged it for $1.99.
***MOM - this is the color that I think might be what you are looking for for your upcoming pedi.




BLISSFULLY BLUE
This was very difficult to work with and I think you can see it in my crappy application. I think it was too thick and I should have thinned it down and then applied it again, but time wasn't on my side. Thought the color was just ok, I was hoping for something a little more pastel and a little less bright, but it is still a nice color.

NEW NAIL POLISH COLLECTIONS

Hey there gals! Got some new nail polish collections I wanted to spread the word on. I just renewed my Sallys card, so I had $5 bucks to blow, plus Sallys has all their nail polish buy two get one free - great deal, huh!

I noticed that Finger Paints had THREE new collections up, one was all neons - nothing to unique or special, so I passed on those.

Then a had a two bottle collection of glitters - so DUH, I got both of those! Don't they look really familiar to a certain Alice in Wonderland collection put out recently?? Not exact dupes, BUT very close in similarities.

The third collection was based on Heaven or Clouds or something, with about 4 blues, a opal type glitter and a silver. I got a baby blue that looked interesting to me.



Sapphire Shimmer, Wicked Glitter, Blissfully Blue, Art Appreciation Apricot

Then I saw that Loreal has a 3 polish collection of blues. I picked up two of them. What you can't see in the pics is that lighter blue (High Tide) actually has micro silver shimmer going through out it!! I'm just praying it shows up on my nails.

I just happened to notice the shimmer because as soon as I get to my car I always pull out my nail polish purchases and look at them in the sun, lol, do you all do that? Well when I did, the shimmer was super noticeable - so wooot!

I also have a great franken idea for the greenish blue one (Waters Edge) that I hope I can pull off tonight and show you all in the morning.


Waters Edge, High Tide

Have you ladies seen these collections? Have you gotten any yet?

FINGER PAINTS - SWATCHES

(Click to enlarge to read polish names)


I swatched all the new Finger Paints shown above, with the exception of the last one, Icy Iris since I just swatched that one last week.


SUMMER 09 COLLECTION
YELLOW BIKINI
This was a really nice yellow. It was pretty opaque and I didn't have any streaking issues that yellow polish is know for. It also has awesome shimmer that makes this polish look like it is just glowing.







FALL 09 COLLECTION
HONEY HANDBAG
This color was just meh on me. Some browns have a tendency to bring out the red in me and this one did that.






BERRY BELT
I can't get enough of this color. I know I have probably have at least 5 other colors similar to this, but I am so pleased every time I put one of these type colors on. Plus they look great on me!






PLUM PUMPS
Loving this!! This is sort of a dusty looking mauve. I think it is a great fall color. I picked this polish up several times at Sally's but never got it. It's hard for me to shell out almost $5 for a single bottle of polish, so I was really pleased to see that this was still left with the clearance polishes.