Stop Flirting and Where's my Chauffeur???

Hello and happy Sunday!!

I apologize for not having a post for yesterday, my usual schedule of posting every other day has been going pretty well until Saturday morning when I went to put the post together. The polish I had swatched/wore was a beauty. It was one of the new Pure Ice Polishes that are exclusive to Walmart and limited edition. I won't go in to much detail about it since I plan on re-swatching it and posting it eventually. I thought the photos came out well but when I pulled them up on the computer they looked horrid. In the end I had to trash those pics and start from scratch.

So that's where today's manicure came from. It took me all day to decide what to put on Saturday and I decided I wanted some glitz but not all out in your face glitz.

I started out with my base coat of course. Besides using the matte top coat I also did a layer of Orly Bonder before hand because my nails were fraying a little and I always noticed Bonder seemed to help with that.

After my base was dried, I applied one of my newest untireds, Essie's Where's My Chauffeur?. This is from the Essie Winter Collection and you can find it wherever Essie Polishes are sold, it was the only one that stood out to me, the other colors are ones that either I have from a different brand or just not me.

Count 'em 3 coats to make WMC opaque. The formula is nice, easy to handle, the only thing I noticed was brush drag if I didn't let each coat dry completely. The color of this polish can be compared to China Glaze Aquadellic although I feel WMC is a little more dustier, which I think Jen from the Polishaholic has swatches up on her blog.


OK now for now for the glitz! In the new Pure Ice Polishes, there are two glitters I purchased that seem to resemble the OPI Muppet's Polishes. The one I added on for the sparkle is called Stop Flirting it is a blue glitter with larger silver hex glitter mixed it. I believe the OPI polish it resembles is Gone Gonzo. I don't own that polish so I cant do a side by side comparison.

Stop Flirting is actually a smooth glitter, I added three coats to my ring finger over WMC  and even with out top coat it was smooth. That is a huge plus in my book!

Okay so I hope you enjoyed this post! Stay tuned for the next one soon.
<3 Nicole

NOTD: Follow the butterflies!

Hello!! Happy Thursday!

Is anyone here a Harry Potter Fan? I am! I prefer the books to the movies, but that's a discussion that would take up a lot of time! Anyway for those of you that are fans know that in the second movie Chamber of Secrets, that when Harry and Ron are following the spiders, Ron says " Follow the spiders? Why couldn't be follow the butterflies?"

 I don't remember if its the same in the book or not and I have no idea where my copy is to cross reference. Today's manicure is inspired by that line. It came to me while I was changing my polish this afternoon.  I wanted something bright but with a pattern. Pulling out my stamping plates I started wanting   alternating flowers and butterflies but then the first set of butterflies ( which looked like little cartoon butterflies)  smudged and all went to pot. So I took it off and tried a different type of butterflie that looks more elegant. Viola! Success!

For my base color I went straight for my China Glaze Aquadelic, the bright blue is exactly what I needed to make this icky weather seem more bearable. Not to go off track here but... yeah the nice weather got me sick. Allergies and a cold all packed in my body together. There are times I feel fantastic and other I just want to curl in a ball! Thanks to Flonase though I am doing much better and think I will live.

Anyway, Aquadelic is an awesome two coat bright blue creme that just makes a perfect palette for a black stamp. Breaking out my Wet n Wild Black Creme, I went to work.

Here's the result!

All of these photos are with out flash, in natural sunlight coming through my window. Its too cold and windy to go outside today :(

The little dots around the butterflies are free handed with a toothpick!

Hope you all like this! Thanks for stopping by and reading!

Talk to you all soon!

Nicole.

P.S. I just noticed that my blog turned 1 back on Sunday the 18th and I never acknowledged it! I'm so excited that my little blog is a year old. I have accomplished a lot and met so many new amazing people and made some awesome friends as well! With out readers or my new polish friends I don't think my blog would of made it to a year old! So Thank you to everyone who has visited-read-and subscribed! 

Nails Of The Day: A Teal Zebra.

Happy Saturday!

Hope all of you are having a fabulous weekend! It snowed here back on Wednesday and Thursday, so the ground is covered in white stuff. I thought it was all over yesterday because it wasn't snowy anymore and BANG when I'm leaving work at 10pm its a freak blizzard. It was that blinding snow that is coming right at you when you drive, so it looks like that really old Windows screen saver of stars. Roads were covered and I did about 30MPH all the way home praying to just be able to see where I was going.

I hate New York! No snow all winter and then this! On a brighter note it will be 65 as of Thursday!

Today I bring you a Nails Of The Day post. I have so much stuff to share with you lovely readers over the next few weeks, about sixteen untrieds to get through. Plus of course purchasing new polish when I see it. I feel like I need to catch up to everyone who has like hundreds of bottles and I'm only up to maybe 150, (I haven't counted in a long time).

Today I started with my absolute number one of teal cremes, in fact I think its the only teal I own that's a creme, Sally Hansen's Complete Salon Manicure in Fairy Teal! It is by far the best teal ever! I applied two (not thick) coats of the polish, if you really wanted to you could try just one.

This polish is not runny its just perfect. I think it has to do with the brush size too. My other SH Completes have a much bigger brush and this one is smaller and makes it easier to keep from getting polish on the sides of my fingers. The color I would describe is a dark and dusty, but its shiny and in the sun it really stands out even though there is no shimmer.

Then to bring it alive some more, I stamped on it using the Salon Express Kit plate  SE11 the zebra stripes. I stamped them with China Glaze's Aquadellic. The contrast of the light blue against the dusty teal is nice. Its not over the top stand out, it just gives it that extra kick.

I had a lovely surprise yesterday in the mail, from Adri of Morie's Nail Art. She sent me a package with 6 lovely holo glitter polishes, five of which are exclusive to Costa Rica where she is, called Adoro. Adrianna if you are reading this I wanted to say again the polishes are beautiful and a huge THANK YOU!!

I hope you all have a fabulous second part to your weekend!
Nicole.

Valentines Day Manicure!

Happy Valentines Day everyone!!!!

I hope you all are getting to spend it with the one you love even if its your cat!

I came up with this design after posting my Simple Valentines Day French Manicure, I loved having a french manicure but the red was too bright for me, so to tone it down I started with Aquadellic as my tips. I was fairly pleased with it too, most of them are all the same length and I didn't mess it up. So to make it Valentines Day-esque, I stamped two different heart designs from the Salon Express Kit. For the stamps I used Love is a Racket! I do love this color for stamping and my toes, it has such pretty red glitter flakies throughout that just give it that right sparkle!

At this point I thought I was done, topping it off with a coat of SH Insta Dry Top Coat and SV to even it out.

Here is what I came up with!

Okay I love this design the way it was... but I couldn't help myself so I added one coat of Finger Paints Twisted, from the Special Effects Collection. I did take pictures but you can't see the flakies since they are not on a dark background. Which is fine but trust me its so pretty in person.

Now that I have practice my french manicure skills I think wearing one every so often will become a regular thing! French Friday's perhaps? Who knows.

I hope you all enjoyed this manicure. I can't wait to show you stuff from my shopping haul on Thursday! Talk to you all very soon!

Nicole

Nails Of The Day! Aquadelic and Whimiscal Man!

I feel like when I say the title to this post that it should be with that hippie vibe! Oh and while holding up a peace sign!

Happy Superbowl Sunday! If you live in the states of course! Today I finally broke out my Revlon Whimsical! I didn't have any blue polish to pair it over, and definitely did not like the look of it by itself, its a milky polish that is just too sheer, you could see major nail line :( It would probably take like 8 coats to become opaque!

So I took China Glaze Aquadelic as my base color. I can't rave how much I love this color and the name! Its like a robins egg blue creme that just stands out on its own, and 2 coats makes it perfect,  pairing it with Whimsical was a good choice!

Valentines Day Nail Art !

Hey!

Happy Thursday! The weekend is almost here, not that I get much of a weekend because I practically work every weekend! Hopefully that will stop soon!

Today I have the first of what I hope to be 3 Valentines Day inspired nail art. I am hoping to have two more up next week!

Valentines day is not all pinks, reds, and whites, you've seen those candy hearts that have those messages on them? They are blue and green and orange and yellow as well! So For this I sort of took that idea and made it my own.