Showing posts with label China Glaze. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China Glaze. Show all posts

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Lazy Days of Summer- Pool Party

I hope everyone is having a great start to the weekend! I have the sixth LDoS challenge for you today! It's the Pool Party Challenge! I honestly had no idea what I wanted to do. I kinda just went for it. I knew I wanted to do a beach ball, that's about it. So this is what I ended up with! All of the colors I used will be listed above the picture.

For the beach ball nail I used striping tape and marked off an X with a line through the middle. I then painted each triangle so that the colors were diagonal from each other. I did a beach towel inspired nail as well. The remaining nails are Maybelline- Porcelain Party with China Glaze- Ride The Waves on top. Last time I used Ride The Waves it appeared opaque but in pictures you could see VNL so I put it over white. I love how squishy it looks! I think it's a pretty cute mani!

Maybelline- Porcelain Party and Fierce N Tangy
China Glaze- Ride The Waves 
OPI- Color So Hot It Berns




Be sure to check out all the other pool party nails from the wonderful laides below! Up next is a dotting tool mani!


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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Lazy Days of Summer- Flip Flops

I have another LDoS post for you today! The theme for this mani was flip flops! I was jealous of the ladies who had flip flop stamping plates! I had to get a bit more creative with my design. I actually suck at stamping so it was probably for the best. I used the perfect base polish, China Glaze- Flip Flop Fantasy. It's a super neon pink! So neon my camera flipped out! Sorry ahead of time for the non color accurate photos! It's more of a true highlighter pink then my camera shows.

Flip Flop Fantasy was a hot streaky mess. I lost count at how many coats I did. I think it was around five. Thankfully it did smooth its' self out! Only two nail supplies were needed, striping tape and gems. For this particular mani I used silver for both. All you have to do is use two small pieces of striping tape to make a arrow pointing towards your cuticles. Leave a bit of nail between the tip of the point and your cuticle so you have room for the gem. Add the gem to the point and your done! Tada, you have flip flop nails! At least I think it looks pretty reminiscent of flip flops! I think they are adorable!

Five coats of China Glaze- Flip Flop Fantasy
One coat of Poshe
Striping tape and gems
One coat of Poshe



Don't forget to check out all the other super cute flip flop nails! Up next is a mani inspired by your favorite beach towel! If only I could find my favorite towel....

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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Lazy Days of Summer- Summer Ombre

Finally, a new post! My power is on and running!  Today I have the second challenge in the LDoS nail challenge. It's summer ombre nails! This is actually my second mani for this challenge but my pictures somehow got deleted when the power went out. I was actually resizing them when the power went out so that's probably why. Oh well, I like how this turned out better! Now this was kinda hard for me because I tend to not purchase that many multiple colors in one color family. Blue seemed to be the only color family that I had a decent amount of creme polishes in. I really wanted to stay with the same finish for all the polishes. I'm not sure how summery is it thought. I mean blue is the color or water, right :P

Five fingers, five colors. The polishes I picked were Maybelline- Sapphire Siren (thumb), China Glaze- Ride The Waves (pointer), Julep- Jaime (middle), OPI- No Room For The Blues (ring) and Hello Kitty- Blueberry (pinky). Three coats of everything except Ride The Waves, which was four. I know in the pictures there is VNL but it's not there in real life. I think it's a pretty successful ombre, don't you? There's an extra picture including my thumb so you can see the whole effect!

Maybelline- Sapphire Siren
China Glaze- Ride The Waves
Julep- Jaime
 OPI- No Room For The Blues
Hello Kitty- Blueberry
One coat of Poshe




I hope you guys like it! I've been antsy to put a new post up! Don't forget to check out everyone else's summer ombres!




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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Holy Nail Mail!

It's nail mail time!!! I have a swap and some haulage to show ya! I had set up a swap a little while ago in one of the nail polish groups I'm in on Facebook, and the wonderful Traci from The TraceFace Philes had me! Did I mention how awesome Traci is? You should really go check out her blog! Besides the swap, I did a lot of buying this month. Some of which isn't show in the pictures because it's either for swaps or presents! I managed to get quite a few polishes off my wish list. Even the super elusive Nail-Venturous- FLOAM! *coughcough giveaway coughcough*

First up is my swap with Traci! In the same order as the picture, she got me China Glaze in Raydiant, Polarized, and Full Spectrum. Venique in Top Thong (am I the only one that thinks this is a rather odd name?). Anise in Wrapped in Clouds and Exotic Choice. Depend Cracked Effect in 5006 and 5009. H&M in Pink and Metallic Blue. Thanks again Traci <3


Next is my Zoya Earth Day order! Again, same order as the picture. Wednesday, Zuza, Shelby, Rory, Lara, and Reagan. Gorgeous much?


Finally, Nail-Venturous! Now these are from two different orders. Toxic and Pinkerbell I ordered from her Etsy shop and I got Floam from Ninja Polish. If any of you tried to order from Ninja Polish when they stocked a week ago or so, you know the site crashed and wasn't working pretty much all night. I was somehow able to put an order in that included quite a few goodies ;) Might I add that the OCD in me hates that the Etsy and Ninja Polish bottles are different...


I think it may be time to put together my next Melmer...
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