Rainbow Challenge: Yellow!

Today we are on yellow for the Rainbow Challenge.  Yellow...ugh!  I like yellow and I think it looks great but finding an easy to work with yellow nail polish is a challenge in itself.  I actually really love the one I picked however, it is a bish to photograph!!!  This is from the same collection as yesterday's orange.  The 2012 China Glaze Neon collection.  This one is Sun-Kissed.  It is a neon yellow with beautiful shimmer in it. It is so impossible to photograph though!!!  

Again, see what yellow the other ladies picked for their favorite!

This first picture is from my regular camera.  It is much brighter than this.

This picture is with my phone and a flash, it just came out....odd.

This is another phone picture and this is probably the most accurate as far as color but you can't see the shimmer.

This one was kind of a fail for me as far as being able to photograph correctly.  But I do love the actual color!

~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?

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?

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

Fancy Phalanges

Manicurity

Happy Nails

9ml Universe

Light Your Nails

Nail Polish is Alive

Captivating Claws

Passion for Polish

Nail Pron

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

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

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

Shenailigans

Polished by Maddie

Samples by Entaeyen

Shelly's Sassy Nails

Nail Polish Anon

Beyond Beauty Lounge

Mixed Mama

PInked Polish

Manicurator

Peace Love Lacquer

Nails by Ms. Lizard

Polished Paradise

Enchanted Nails and Fluffy Dog Tails

Two Lacquered Girls

Enchanting Cosmetics

1 Tall Girl in Heels

Kyoti's Nails

Frugal Polish

Love and Lacquer

Spicey'z Nails

Sparkle and Shine Nails

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

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

Jessica Iridescent Eye, Chanel Peridot Dupe

Today I have one of the several Chanel Peridot dupes.  This is Jessica Iridescent Eye.  I've actually owned this for about two months and I have no idea why I haven't tried it yet!  It's lovely!  I used two coats and topped with Seche Vite.  The other dupes that I know of for this are OPI from the new Spiderman Collection Just Spotted the Lizard and Gap (yes apparently The Gap has nail polish!) in Gold Rush.  I absolutely love when I can find a dupe of a high end nail polish.  I have yet to own a Chanel but I do have several other polishes that are dupes of high end ones!  

You can really see the color shift in my pinkie in the above photo.

Do you have any of the above polishes?  I love this one!  I actually have an extra bottle that I will hopefully be included when I reach 100 subscribers on the blog here.  

GIVEAWAY to Celebrate 100 Facebook "Likes"

I just wanted to thank all of you that follow my blog and/or are a fan of my Facebook page.  I am still pretty new to this whole blogging thing but I really love it so far.  Thank you for taking the time out to look at a post or even to like my status.  I wanted to do a giveaway to celebrate 100 likes.  Also, I will be doing another giveaway once my blog reaches 100 followers so hopefully that happens one of these days.

A little note, this is open to the US only.  Unfortunately, shipping costs internationally are more and I can't swing that at this time.  I hope to in the future be able to do international.  I need to find out more about the shipping rules for polish in that regard.

The giveaway will end next week Friday.

Onto the giveaway

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Good luck!!!

NOTD: Another Accent Nail Mani

Hi all!  Today I have another NOTD for you with an accent nail.  This is Color Club Age of Aquarius with China Glaze Optical Illusion from the Prismatic Collection.  I love how bright this color is.  It is perfect for summer and I think it's going on my toes when I do my next pedi.

Thanks for looking!  

Amy

Heads Up!! Giveaway Alert!!!!

Just wanted to do a quick post about an amazing giveaway that Glam Polish is doing.  She is giving away 6 of the 12 polishes from the soon to be released On Safari Collection.  Go check out her blog and be sure to enter the giveaway.

Click on link to go to her giveaway  Glam Polish Giveaway

AMAZING!!! Fantasy Fire! Picture heavy!!!

So, I happen to be lucky enough to win Max Factor Fantasy Fire in a giveaway from Set in Lacquer. Check out her blog...it's wonderful!! For those of you that don't know, this polish isn't available in stores in the US.  I know its pretty available in the UK but I'm not sure if it is available elsewhere. This particular polish has been compared to Clarins 230, aka Unicorn Pee.  It is definitely not a dupe but has similar properties.  There are blogs out there that have done comparison.  If you're interested, just fire Google up!  

Showcasing this polish requires a lot of pictures in my opinion.  Also, this is more of layering polish.  I've seen lots of pictures of this and people tend to layer it over black and rich blues/purples.  I decided when looking through my collection to layer it over Essie's No More Film.  If you like somewhat darker colors, you need this polish in your life!  It's a blurple and it is easily a one coater!!  

Also, I have a swap in progress in which I will get getting a few more bottles of Fantasy Fire.  When I hit 100 subscribers, I'm hoping to do a giveaway that a bottle of this will be included.  

So, should we get onto the pictures?  

These first pictures are indoors.  You can see how it flashes red.

Outdoor bottle shot!  How gorgeous is that!

Wowza!!!  Isn't this amazing!!!  I can't stop staring at my nails!

Here is a thumb shot facing away from the sun.  You can see how if flashes green.

And here is a thumb shot facing the sun where if flashes red. 

If you can get your hands on this polish, get it!!!  It is amazing!!

Enjoy your Sunday!

Amy