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Monday, June 25, 2012

Rainbow Favorites Challenge: Orange!

Welcome back to day two of Rainbow Favorites Challenge. Today is orange. I don't own many oranges but the one I love it the most recent one I purchased. It is China Glaze Orange You Hot? I love that it is bright but has a little bit of shimmer in it at the same time! It is from the China Glaze Neons 2012. Again, see the list of ladies below and see what their favorite orange is!

~on beauty stuff and what else's...~
9ml universe
atlcatsmeow
Captivating Claws
Fancy Phalanges
Fe's Nails
Follow the Yellow Polish Road
Football and Fingernails
Fresh Air & Fashion
Happy Nails
iHeartPrettyPolish
Jolien's Kingdom of Polish
Kelly's Kolors!
Lacquer Dreams
Lacquer or Leave Her!
Liesl Loves Pretty Things
Light Your Nails!
Manicurity
My Life In Polish
nailpolish is alive(:
Nail Polish Lane
Nail Pron
Nubbin Nails
Of Color n Music
Passion for Polish
Polish and Such
Sincerely, Obsessed with Polish
So You Think You Can Paint
The Rantings of a Nail Polish Hoarder
To Polish or Not?

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Rainbow Challenge! Favorite Red!

Hello! I am partaking in a fellow blogger challenge that Lacquer Dreams came up with. We are picking our favorite polishes from the color of the rainbow starting today with red. I am really not much of a red person. This is my favorite though. This is Zoya Sooki. I did sort of a glitter gradient with Wet N Wild Rockin Rubies! I unfortunately ran out of sunlight for these pictures. It really looks so much better in natural light. Tomorrow is orange and as of this moment, I haven't figured out what I will be wearing yet! See list below of other bloggers involved in this challenge!

Check out the reds these other bloggers picked!

Lacquer Dreams

i Heart Pretty Polish

Nubbin Nails

Football and Fingernails

Liesl Loves Pretty Things

Follow the Yellow Polish Road

On Beauty Stuff and What Else's

Joliens Kingdom

NOTD: Spoiled Distant Memory

I think I've said it before but I'm on a green and blue polish kick. I recently picked up some more Spoiled polishes at CVS as they were on sale for 99 cents. The brush on these is like a MOP!!! If you are interested, I showed a brush comparison in THIS blog post. I decided to deal with the brush as this color was just one that I really liked. I took my time and didn't even do cleanup on this one. Enjoy!

The above photo is without top coat. This does dry semi-matte. It has a beautiful slight shimmer!

Hope everyone is having a good week so far!

Amy

Friday, June 22, 2012

Floam!! (again)

This is my second post with Floam. I had an urge to wear it for some reason. This time I layered it over Sally Hansen Pacific Blue. I had shown my friend a picture of Floam and she said she liked it but would like it better if there was more blue...this is probably what inspired me to wear it. I had Pacific Blue as an untried. Why? I don't know as it is a beautiful bright blue that is a one-coater! If you like blue, get this one!

Also, Ninja Polish posted yesterday that they are hoping to have a new batch of Floam and Sticks and Stones in the next few days so keep an eye out of you are searching for either one. A good way is to go to the sight and sign up to be notified when the one(s) you want are back in stock.

Photo time!

Say hi to Buzz Lightyear! My son loves when he looks at my pictures and sees his toys in them!

Have a good weekend!

Amy

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Try It On Tuesday

Hello polish lovers! So I recently noticed there was a group of bloggers that are starting something new called "Try it on Tuesday". The idea is to use a polish in your collection that is an untried. I happen to have a lot of untrieds so I LOVED this idea. It kind of serves two purposes for me. First, it helps me try my polishes that I bought and liked enough to keep yet have never tried. Second it also gives me a little push to blog. I sometimes get overwhelmed with not knowing what kind of manicure to blog about (and of course my life keeps me busy!)

Onto the untried polish that I used. I am not a big fan of pinks for the most part. But I had bought Essie Peach Daiquiri as it looked nice in the bottle and online looked good as well. Plus I am a sucker for Essie polishes. I just love the cute square bottle and I tend to like the formula of most of the ones I have tried. I quite like the brush as well! All in all, I do like this color. For me, it will probably be more of a toe color.

So, onto the pictures! Also, read to the end to see other bloggers participating in Try It On Tuesday!

Jilltastic Nail Design

Enchanted Nails and Fluffy Dog Tails

Sparkle and Shine Nails

Monday, June 18, 2012

Gradient Featuring Zoya Pinterest Trio and Nubbs!

I filed down my nails recently as I had a complete break on my middle finger. I don't even know how I did it. I was just going about my day and looked down and my nail was missing. I didn't file my nails down as short as the middle finger as that is just too short for my liking.

I have been wanting to try a gradient manicure using a sponging technique that I saw on The Nailasaurus Blog. Seriously check out some of her gradients, and other nail art for that matter. She's awesome! They are perfect which is why I was inspired to try it. I think mine turned out okay. I kind of wish the colors I picked were a bit more contrasting. I had used two of the colors out of the Zoya Pinterest Trio that I got for free...just paid shipping. Not a bad deal! The colors I used were Myrta and Kimber. I don't know how Zoya has those names but they don't have an Amy!!! I almost didn't post this as I really struggled with cleanup on this. Sponging is a bit messy and my cuticles are a little dry so it made it hard to remove some of the polish. I figure if I put this as a post in my blog and I do another one at a later time it will be nice to see if I improve! :)

Thanks for stopping by to look. Hope you have a good week!

Amy

Monday, June 11, 2012

Jelly Dotticure Sandwich??!

So I recently got some dotting tools off of eBay and I wanted to play with them. I also have been wanting to use a couple of jelly polishes I have from the OPI Texas Collection. I had refrained from using them before as I had that bruise under my one fingernail and that would have shown right through. I then was thinking jelly sandwich....but why not use the dots as the "meat" in the sandwich!!? I really love the way this turned out. I haven't seen anyone do it before, although I am sure it's been done somewhere! I used China Glaze Surfin' for Boys as my base, then I used Essie Play Date for the dots with a larger dotting tool. I then used OPI Guy Meets Gal-Veston on top lastly topped with some Seche Vite.

This is the photo that you can kind of see that it looks like the dots are suspended in the jelly goodness!

Thanks for looking! I am hoping to get on here a little more soon. Life has been really busy but I realized I really enjoy doing this blog thing. :)

Amy

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