Carols By Candlelight

Catch, catch up, catch up!

Today I have my festively green and red Christmas nails! I already posted about the base polish of this mani, Sinful Colour, Mint Tropics, and have used two glitters as toppers... can you guess which ones?

The bottle you see in the photos is Oopsie Daisy, Carols By Candlelight. I used one light coat of this as my first layer over Mint Tropics. Next I used my new favourite Christmasy glitter, Sinful Color, Holiday Rebel (bottle not pictured). The difference between the two glitters are shiny verses matte glitter. Carols by Candelight has a mix of matte red, green and white glitters (with a few sneaky holo green glitters) while Holiday Rebel has a mix of shiny red and green glitter with some silver holo glitter as well.

I absolutely love this combination, its so bright and festive and glittery! And I have been all about glitter the last few months! This mani wore fantastically and I did not want to remove it.

Next year I will have to try this same glitter combo over white or as a white jelly sandwich :)

Tropical Christmas

Merry (belated) Christmas!!

I always tend to get sidetracked around this time, my how time flies! I can't believe it has been a week since I have posted. Oh well, time for a little catch up! Below is a green I just could not get enough of, Sinful Colour, Mint Tropics.

This is probably not a shade of green you would typically associate with Christmas time and winter holidays, its light and bright... and it's from a summer collection.. But I just purchased it (haul post to come soon) and loved it. The formula was perfect and if I remember correctly, what you see is two thin coats.

The shade of green was difficult to photograph correctly, however I did digitally edit the colour for as much accuracy as I could. I found that my camera (and other swatches I have seen online) tend to wash the colour out, making it appear as a mint green, which it is not. As you can see from my photos it does have yellow undertones.

Longevity and wear of this polish was fantastic, I loved every bit of wearing it, just ask my boyfriend! lol. The only downside to this polish is it stains, a lot :( My nails have been stain free for a long time so this was really disappointing. 

I will post more on what I am wearing on my ring finger in my next post.

Merry Christmas Eve!

Wow, December has just flown by, before you know it, it will be 2015!

Today I have a very festive nail polish combo with Orly, Meet Me Under the Mistletoe and Tinsel. You can see more information on Meet Me Under The Mistletoe here and here. Tinsel is a glitter topper made up of red hex glitter and thin, green bar glitter with a holo flash.

It's only fitting that an evergreen shade of polish be paired with Tinsel, the thin bar glitters remind me of pine needles! And the small red hex glitters also remind me of holly berries!

I love the mix of red glitter I the green base and the flash of the green holo bar glitter in certain lighting.

Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

I am feeling my green polishes lately! Glitters and greens! Today I have a holiday polish from a few years back, Orly, Meet Me Under The Mistletoe. This Gorgeous shimmer has been featured on my blog before, so I will keep this post short. It is a deep evergreen shade with duochromatic shimmer flakes. So great or the holidays!

lamp light

I only needed two coats for opacity, the first coat was thin, but the second evened everything out. Such a beautiful shade on it's own, but I have bigger plans for this as a base...

camera flash

natural light

More to follow soon on a mani refresh!

I Was Frozen Today!

Hardly... All the snow we received last week is partially melting. I am still hopeful for a white Christmas, can you believe it's less than a week away?

Happy Friday by the way! Today I have a mani refresh with Essie, Blue Rhapsody, a frosty baby blue chrome polish. I decided to make it extra blingy with a coat of Essie, Stroke of Brilliance, a medium blue glitter topper with various sized hex glitter. In person my nails look positively frozen! 

The glitter also helped to cover up any tiny imperfections in the chrome base. I know now to use a good, thick base coat the next time I wear this, or any other chrome polish for a smooth and even application. I really liked this chrome and glitter paring and the look overall.

Christmas count down, only 5 days left!

Blue Rhrapsody

Today I have an icy blue chrome to share with you, Essie's Blue Rhapsody. I'm usually not a fan of chromes on their own but decided to give it a try, I mean the shade of blue is freakin' gorgeous. I was inspired by the falling temperature and snow for this one!

Blue Rhapsody is a light blue chrome polish that looks smooth and metallic in the bottle. On the nail it requires some effort in order to get it to smooth out to a perfect finish. I found that if I went over the same spot on the nail more than once i got some pulling. The application reminded me much of an true holo shade. I used a regular basecoat, but I know now for next time to use my Nfu Oh Aqua Base instead. I am wearing a fake nail on my right middle finger due to a painful break (not pictured) and it applied flawlessly to that nail only!

The second coat went on a lot smoother but it was difficult to get perfect application (on every nail but the falsey!). The polish was fully opaque in two coats and what you see is the polish on it's own with no base. I have plans to add a glitter topper to reduce the teeny tiny imperfections, although in my photos they appear a lot less.

My Picks for Festive Christmas Glitters!

I love Christmasy festive glitters! After going through my collection to pick out some polishes to rock through December, I came across some awesome red and green glitters, check out my favourites below!

Orly, Tinsel
The latest red and green polish for me this year is made up of multiple sized red glitter and thin holo green bar glitter in a clear base.

Sinful Colors, Holiday Rebel
I picked up this glitter last year (2013) while in the States. It is made up of red and silver holo hex glitter and various sizes/shapes of red glitter in a clear base.

Oopsie Daisies, Carols by Candlelight
I was lucky enough to win this polish from the indy seller in 2012. It is a mix of matte red, green and white glitters of various sizes and green holo hex glitters. What sets this apart from the others in my list are the matte glitters (in true indy fashion) and use of white glitter. Unfortunately I don't this this polish is available anymore, looks like Oppsie Daises has been on a break since late spring.

OPI, Fresh Frog of Bell Air + Gettin' Miss Piggy With It 
Both of these glitters are apart of the 2011 Muppets collection (not to be confused with the Most Wanted collection released this year). I decided to group these together because I always planned on wearing them together but haven't yet.

Fresh Frog of Bell Air is a green based glitter with larger silver hex glitters scattered throughout, where as Gettin' Miss Piggy With It is mostly the same while having larger red hex glitter as well.

China Glaze, Party Hearty

This is THE ultimate go to Christmas polish for me. Since it was released in 2010, it has been on my nails almost every single Christmas! It is made up of multiple shapes/sizes of green glitter, small hex glitter and white gold glitter in a clear base.

So there you have it, unintentionally my fave red and green glitters though the years, in order from 2014 to 2010. What is you favourite red and green glitter to wear around the holidays?