OPI- Designer de Better

Well Hello!!! Welcome back:-) For today's polish, I know I'm a little late to the party and you have probably seen this before but.. well, I want a turn! When I first saw this one I thought, eh another silver foil, boy was I wrong!

This is a silver foil, but it has a bunch of copper foil in there too. All blended up it gives the appearance of a champagne color. It goes on really thin, I used three coats to get it where I didn't see bald spots. Because the coats are so thin though, the don't take forever to dry. This polish doesn't really have a texture, but it benefits from a layer of topcoat to give it that smooth mirror look.

Color Club- Red Velvet

Hi guys!!! So this will possibly be the last dark wintry color I post for a while! I am really feeling my spring- summer polishes and feel the need to add some color to my life! I do love my darker colors, but I don't think I can give them their proper lovin in my current frame of mind. I did want to show this one though before calling it quits! I got this one a few weeks ago and it has sat while I use everything around it. I stare at it every time a do my nails so I decided it was time. I must must must use this next fall! So beautiful!

From what I hear this is a dupe for CG Lubu Heels, but I don't have it to compare, so if your looking to get one I'm sure there are comparisons out there! This is a black jelly base on the watery side. I doubted it's ability to cover in two coats at first, but surprise it did it! The red mirco glitter in this does not get lost and absolutely glows! I found this really easy to control. I really like everything about this one. I slapped on Seche Vite and was good to go. Removal was even a snap! So for now this one is getting put away but will not be forgotten!

NYC Sidewalks & Konad m60

So I told you I got the stamping bug, right? Well here is the next design I tried. This one is a personal fave, it makes me smile:-) I feel spring-y just looking at it. I got a sweater in these colors from Gap a few years ago and have loved this color combination ever since.
I started off with a base, followed by two coats of NYC Sidewalks, a nice medium grey cream. The name really describes it perfectly. It is a really nice color on it's own but once again I couldn't leave it alone. I used another full nail stamp on the Konad m60 plate, the paisley/flower one. For the design I use Sinful Colors white, then used my dotting tool to add some accents with Sally Hansen Xtreme wear in Mellow Yellow. This is an awesome yellow cream. I really really like the way this one turned out!!

Essence Forget Me Not & Konad m60

Hello again, and Happy Friday!!! I got the stamping bug again so my next two posts will be konads! Anywhozle... today's polish is Essence Forget Me Not. This was part of a collection called Blossoms. This is the only one I found, I actually spotted it in a display of other brands, and could not find the others anywhere in the store. My local Ulta is the only store I can find Essence in my area, and they have a less than stellar selection. It is usually empty and never has new colors:-( So I guess I should be glad I found this one, and at $1.99, I was a happy camper!
I adore this color, it is so pretty! I used two coats and it covered beautifully. It is a cream with a small amount of shimmer that isn't always apparent. It doesn't have much shine to it but since I always use topcoat, that isn't a problem.
I wanted to do something extra to this so I grabbed Konad m60, and decided on the graduated polka dots! I have a thing for polka dots:-) With this I used the recent fave Navy Baby.

Isn't Forget Me Not so pretty?!? They are one of my favorite flowers, so lovely and delicate!

 I thought this was cute, I'm a bit of a perfectionist so I couldn't wear this more than a day because the dots weren't straight, but I know I am my own worse critic sometimes. I did put this on in between giving my son horsey rides around the house so if I wanted perfect, that probably wasn't the best time, lol:-)

Wet n Wild- Night Prowl

Hi Guys, we've made it half way through the week!!! Hope you are all holding up ok:-) Nothing to exciting going on here (which is nice), so I'll get right to it...
I've had this a while, and I've seen it a couple times swatched, so I don't know why I waited so long to try it. I kept meaning to, then I would get new colors and this got put aside. So I finally put this on and WOAH:-) It's so pretty and for $1.99 everyone should have this!
It has a thin black base and magenta glitter throughout. The first coat went on really watery, then 2 more thin coats and totally opaque. Because the base is so thin, the glitter doesn't get lost, it glows through each layer. You can click on the pictures to enlarge and get a closer look:

Even though it was thin, it was pretty easy to control and as long as you don't get too much on the brush, it wont pool. I haven't tried that many Wet n Wild polishes but maybe I'll look a little closer next time i hit the drug store.

Essie- Fiji & China Glaze- Fairy Dust

Hello:-) Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I spent a good amount of time Saturday happily doing laundry in my new washing machine! Yay! You don't realize how much you really need these things until something breaks! I never thought I would be so happy to be washing clothes! It's the little things sometimes:-) We spent the rest of the weekend relaxing at home watching football, and going to my nieces baptism. That brings me to my girly mani, in baby pink!

 This weekend I thought since we were going to Lola's baptism, Fiji would be the perfect pink:-) Fiji is a really light pastel, with a nice creamy formula. It was a little streaky on the first coat but evened out nicely on the second. It was very pretty on it's own, and I apologize for not getting pics of it by itself. But I wanted to try CG Fairy Dust, and haven't been able to make up my mind what to put it over, so this I though would be perfect. FD has is loaded with holo micro glitter suspended in a thick jelly base. It went on a little thick, but it wasn't too hard to control. It needs to be that thick to keep the shimmer evenly distributed through the polish. I liked Fiji, and I loved it with Fairy Dust. It was so pretty and not so stark as Fiji was alone.
I have to say, capturing the effect FD had was really hard! You have to trust me that this is way better in person! You know what it looks like? A shimmery little pink tutu, the kind with glitter on it!

China Glaze- Techno

Hello and Happy Friday!!! I'm feeling kinda loopy tonight, I think this last week at work has my brain on overload! Anywho.. I wanted to get this up tonight. I usually schedule my posts for the next day because I write them up late at night, but I feel the need to do this now so you can see my new pretty!

Today I have China Glaze Techno over Sally Hansen Navy Baby (I have previously called this Rimmel, it is not, oops). I had a hard time getting the 'navy' to show up, it looks black in most light. None the less, I don't care, I loooveee this:-)

Techno isn't new, it was out with a line of China Glaze glitters before, but its being released with their spring Electro-Pop collection (which I also love). It makes any color interesting, with holo micro glitter and hex sequins. In the light you can see a rainbow of colors bouncing off the sequins like little mirrors. To me it looks like the sky on a really dark night with all the stars out. This is just so damn pretty.

I used Sally Hansen double duty basecoat, then one layer of Navy Baby. Yes, I said one! This covered so well I looked at it under every light in my house to see if it truly covered, and yep! It did dry almost satin though, but I didn't worry about it since I was putting Techno over it. You can see in the picture it bubbled a bit. Blame me, I shook it:-( Oopsie! On top of this I put one coat of Techno, then one of Seche Vite. It is so glossy! Seriously pictures do it no justice...and it would look great over so many different things! If you like glitter at all, this is a must buy!