China Glaze Holographics Not In This Galaxy

Oh boy have I been sick! Ugh since Saturday I've had this horrible cough that makes me sound like a seal with all the yucky phlegm coming up. TMI? Sorry folks...

Well Saturday we ended up going to a fair even though I didn't feel well I had a pretty good time. My nails looked fabulous too what with all the sun we were blessed with that day. I had China Glaze Not In This Galaxy on, a rosy pink holo. 

The holo is not very strong but it still came out to play under my desk lamp. I wish I took pics of this on Saturday when the sun was out. 

The formula was not the greatest but it was easier than I thought it would be to manage considering what I've read on the blogosphere about these holos by China Glaze. I did use Poshe basecoat for peeling nails and let it dry completely before applying my first coat. It did want to drag but I used a light hand and let it dry completely again before adding my second and third which went on without any issues. 

This polish dried amazingly fast which was awesome since I did my nails right before bed. I did not use topcoat. 

Happy New Years Eve

Happy New Years' Eve everyone. I hope 2013 brings blessings of health, wealth and love to you all. I must say that 2012 has been quite an interesting year. Not so great but not so bad either. I am so grateful to be able to see another year come and go. Watching my beautiful daughter grow has been such a blessing. I wanted to enter our new year with lots of bling on my nails so here we have it. My very first attempt at real nail art.

 Can you tell that the design on my middle finger is a glass of champagne? I hope to improve my art skills in 2013 :)

 

I used a bunch of different polishes for this but I can't remember all the names. I know i used China Glaze Some Like It Haute, China Glaze Glistening Snow, China Glaze Angel Wings, LynB Designs Luxury Tax, an Icing polish and the gold glitter on my middle finger is a Julep.

 

Everyone has a blessed and safe night.

 

China Glaze Awaken

Hello readers. TGIF!!!!!!! I just worked 8 days straight and am so relieved to finally have a day off tomorrow. So of course with that said, we are getting rain all weekend. Gotta love New England -_-
So for grey skies, I have grey nails...or are they more like pewter? This is China Glaze Awaken.

 

Awaken is a gunmetal grey metallic polish that is a dream. This polish is so opaque you can get away with one coat. I used two because I am a two coat kind of girl. The formula was pure awesomeness! It pretty much stayed put...no issues here. China Glaze did a great job with this one. I'm pretty sure it would be great for stamping.

 



Haul Pics

I can't believe it's been so long since my last post and I promise to have some mani pics soon. I do have for you today some pics of my most recent haul. I was so excited to get pics of these when I got them that the quality is terrible. I'm still excited for it though. Well I'm cutting it short today. I'm going to see Shontelle sing on the Green tonight :) Hope it doesn't rain!

China Glaze For Audrey

Happy Tuesday my lovely blog readers. What a gorgeous day it turned out to be. I just got home from having a picnic with my love and our little munchkin at the park. Now its time to kick back with my kindle and enjoy the AC. After this post that is. The most awesome tiffany blue polish I own, China Glaze For Audrey was love at first sight...sigh. The first time I saw a swatch of this beauty I knew I had to have her. The first brush stroke confirmed my belief that she was made for me :) I know most of you have seen her many times before but she is a beauty not to be kept away. Check her out...

I used 2 coats with one coat of Seche Vite.

China Glaze Optical Illusion

This is the mani I am wearing today. I was sporting Revlon Whimsical which is a gorgeous dusty grey toned light blue but I got a little bored since I can't keep a mani for more than a few days. I layered one coat of China Glaze Optical Illusion and it jazzed my mani right up. ChG Optical Illusion is a multicolored glitter with some holographic microglitter in a light blue jelly base. I must say the formula on this was nice and surprisingly opaque. I bet if I wore it on its own it would have built up nicely with 2 or 3 coats. The holo was hard to capture with my camera phone since my digital camera met its demise :(

1 coat of ChG Optical Illusion over 2 coats of Revlon Whimsical and 2 coats of Sally Hansen InstaDry

Look at that Sparkle :-P