So Juicy and Loud

I LOVE this neon, so awesome! I purchased Color Club's Tangerine Scream a while back now and only picked it out to wear yesterday!

This light and bright neon has a sprinkling of superfine shimmer which in the bottle looks teal/green but on the nail come off as white/yellow/green depending on the lighting.

I find that in direct lighting the shimmer is more of a yellow/golden colour. It reminds me of this old Sally Hanson polish I have that I wanted despirately to be opaque! The formula was so thin, but the colour is beautiful in the bottle, light orangey coral with a gold shimmer. So summery! I think it is one of my first polish posts as a blogger... My, how my nails have changed since then!

Back to this polish, I used 3 coats and it applied perfectly. It dried to a matte finish like most neons, so I topped it with a coat of Seche Vite which gave the perfect amount of shine :) Neons are doing it for me lately.

Bows!

A simple mani refresh today. Just stamped some bows from my Konad dupe plate M59. I believe I picked this up from Born Pretty Store.

To stamp I used Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Whirlwind White.

The Finger Paints polish is still not colour accurate :( It's actually more of a fuchsia neon.

Glowing

Today I have a new neon! It's actually one of the polishes I picked up in THIS haul for my sisters birthday. She want too crazy about the colour so I traded her another Finger Paints I hadn't worn yet. This is Finger Paints Pink Perspective.

The shade totally freaked out my camera, it shows up red when in real life it is a deep pink neon, a bit closer to the bottle colour in my photos below but more magenta than red. Application was awesome, it was like applying a cream polish and only two coats were needed to reach opacity. As all neons do it dried to a matte finish, although this one was more suede. I also find that with neons I need an extra coat to get the polish extra glossy, but that was not the case at all! Wear so fat has also been fantastic, no chips yet :)

Speaking of neons I finally found the China Glaze Summer Neons for sale on Amazon so I picked them up. I cannot wait for then to arrive!

Fish Scales

Another sea related nail post... Surprised!? lol I think I have gotten it out of my system now. Since Revlon's Ocean Breeze had a slight duochrome I thought it would be the perfect base of a fish scale/mermaid tail inspired mani.

I had my eye set on plate RA-111 from Red Angel's latest collection from before I even purchased them! To stamp the pattern I used my new Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Jumpin' Jade. I love how the Insta-Dri polishes work with stamping, so perfect. Plus I picked this up for one dollar at the Dollar Tree! Not bad for a stamping polish ;)

This one almost even looks like dragon scales or something! I really love this pattern and will have to try it again soon :)

Happy Friday, have a good weekend!

Scent of the Ocean

I just noticed a theme here with the polish and nail art/designs I have been wearing lately, they all have something to do with the beach! Yup, I love summer! Although I honestly feel like the weather for May and June have been reversed, it has been nothing but grey skies and rain the first few days of June :( Oh well, it should warm up soon. Keeping with that theme I have an oldie Revlon, Ocean Breeze.

Ocean Breeze is appart of the first set of polishes I got when I started hoarding, now my tastes have changed a bit and I find this colour to be a bit out of my comfort zone. It is a green, teal, blue light duochrome with a slightly frosty finish. It's not so much frosty as it leaves behind brushstrokes if not applied carefully. This is what I don't like, but this is a beautiful colour.

At a reasonable distance on the nail it looks really cool, but up close the brush strokes bother me, so stamping will probably happen tonight. I know of a way to get rid of brush strokes but didn't have the time when I originally applied the polish.

I almost forgot to mention that this is apart of the scented collection, to me it just smells fresh. Not too strong or overpowering, I actually quite liked it! I could even smell it once I applied a coat of Seche Vite to even everything out.

Ocean Gradient - complete with crushed seashells

Today I have a mani refresh with Essie's Turquoise and Caicos, a gradient refresh to be exact. I used Essie's Lapis of Luxuxy with a sponge and dabbed it on the top of the nail. I have seen many different ways of doing this on you tube and other blogs, but I found the easiest way for me was to apply the polish directly to the sponge and dab it on the nail.

I started out dabbing the polish the max hight of the nail  wanted the gradient to reach, then with each pass after i moved close to the nail tip. I think I went through about three passes per nail.

At this point I hadn't added a top coat and wanted to add a little sparkle, so I used new glitter I got from Nabi, Large RoundG Glitter and applied a thick coat to get all the glitters on my nail. I would say this is fairly similar to Kleancolour's Black Chunky Holo without the murky brown base and heart holo glitter! I didn't want to use the heart for this mani so I made sure to pick them out.

I kind of wish I applied the glitter in a gradient as well but am happy with the overall look :) reminds me of the ocean and the opalescence of the large glitter reminds me of seashells reflecting through the water, while the smaller glitter is more like the shine off the water.

How do you do your gradients?

Small Haul

Hello, hello. Last week was a slow week for me post wise. I didn't really have any new nails to share and was short on time. I did however pick up some polish over the weekend that I'd like to share.

I snatched up a couple more Nabi's including another magnetic. From left to right I have Wine and Clear RoundG Glitter.

While in the states over the weekend I spotted some Sally Hansen Diamond Strength and Insta-Dri polishes at the dollar tree. Unfortunately they were not in the same double packs as the Nail Prisms they were single packs. I picked up Jumpin' Jade.

I was hoping to find the new summer neons display from China Glaze at Sallys, and I did... With only one polish left! Luckily it was one if the many I wanted, Orange You Hot? I hope to acquire a good portion of the rest of this collection very soon :)