Dreamy

Happy, happy Friday! Today I have such a gorgeous polish from Zoya to share with you, Dream. I was so close to missing out on this one late last year. Zoya doesn't ship to Canada so it is difficult (and expensive!) to add Zoya's to my collection when compared to other brands. I was cross-boarder shipping in late November and was hoping to pick up this beauty at Ulta, but when I found the display it was the only polish sold out completely! The sales lady even looked in the back for me... Luckily for me someone must have moved the last bottle to the core display and when I found it, I snatched it up super quick!!

Dream is a deep blue jelly generously sprinkled with holographic speckles of glitter. This is the same formula as Storm, Aurora and Payton. I regret not picking up Blaze, I am hoping to acquire it soon, hopefully for the earth day promo they have around the beginning of spring each year.

The formula was medium thick, I applied a few drops of thinner after the first coat. Other than that application was flawless and smooth. I only needed two coats for full opacity! Totally in love with this colour, I had been putting of wearing it for way too long. I wonder what other colours Zoya will choose to create with the same jelly/glitter formula, or if they even choose too. I will definitely be picking them up when and if I have the chance!

My Heart Light

One last modification to my previous layering of manis! It started with Sally Hanson Salon Nail Lacquer in Hearts on Fire, a saturated red Jelly on Valentines. I then sandwiched Sinful Colors Unwrap Me, a black and red/magenta glitter, in between Hearts on Fire on Saturday. Finally on Sunday, I added a simple Bundles monster stamp to my ring fingers from plate BM-411.

I stamped with Konad special polish in white. I love this design, I almost overlooked it at first glace. does that ever happen to you? You don;t even realize awesome designs that are included on your plates.... probably because you own too many like me...! If you created this design for the Bundle Monster contest last year, please let me know!

As you can see I applied the heart monitor design to line up with the smile line on my nail and I am happy with the simple yet elegant look.  you can really see the pop of magenta in the gliter, I love how it peeks through. A whole lot of red for me this past weekend, but I promise I will have a polish from the other end of the colour spectrum tomorrow!

Jelly Sammich

Woohoo! I love long weekends that end on a Monday, it's like two for one, loooong weekend and short work week! Today I have a jelly sandwich I did with a bright jelly red polish, Sally Hanson Salon Nail Lacquer Hearts on Fire, previously shown in my last blog post. This combo of glitter and polish was created on a whim and I love the end result! The glitter I used with Hearts on Fire is Sinful Colors Unwrap Me.

Unwrap Me was apart of Sinful Colors holiday collection this past Christmas. It is made up of black regular small and medium hex glitter and a sprinkling of red/magenta hex glitter. It contrasted well with the red base. I applied one thicker coat of the glitter over one layer of Hearts on Fire, dabbing to get even coverage of the glitter on each nail.

I then layered another coat of Hearts on Fire over the glitter. Once that was dry I added a final thinner coat of glitter on top and finished everything off with top coat. I am super in love with this combo! I mean, it has black glitter, black glitter is one of my favourite things ever! The red/magenta hex glitter is subtle, however it peaks through beautifully in most lighting, it reflects the light so well.

Hearts on Fire!

Valenine's Day has come and gone, but I have a few more posts coming up with Valentine themed nails. Today I have a deep red jelly to share with you, Sally Hansen Salon Nail Lacquer in Hearts on Fire.

Heart's on Fire was apart of the older Sally Hansen salon wear line, you know, the square bottles with the rubber handles. I have a good collection of these and the formula on this one in particular is just awesome. It is a deep red jelly that is super saturated with colour, it is deep and bright at the same time. One coat applied like butter and was just barely sheer. A second coat gave full coverage with the squishy jelly look I love!

I have never worn this polish before (I did apply it to my sister for her Pokemon inspired nails in this post if you are interested) but thought it would be perfect for Valentines, and I was totally right! True red is a colour I usually avoid unless it is super dark and vampy. there is some sort of glitter (Ruby Red Pumps) or finish I really am drawn to. This fantastic red jelly has easily made it to my list of wearable reds for me!

I have a few more looks coming up with this polish, one layering experiment and one stamping look. Stay tuned :)

Happy Valentines!

Happy Friday and happy Valentines day! Whether you celebrate with a loved one, family, friends or not at all, I hope you have a great day! My boyfriend and I plan on staying in tonight, I have a little something planned for dinner, but we'll we'll probably go out on Saturday so we don't have to rush around Friday night, although plans are still up in the air.

Today I have a simple valentine themed mani I freehanded on a base of my last mani, Sinful Colors Cream Soda. You can really see the spritz of silver shimmer better in these photos if you zoom in! I applied a medium/thick coat of glitter, Essie Jazzy Jubilant, to the ring fingers. It includes various coloured hex glitter and smaller red glitter. On the rest of the nails I freehanded a polka dot heart pattern.

I used Sally Hansen Ceramic Wear in White Ghost and my smallest dotting tool for the pattern. I started out by plotting out the pattern with the dotting tool on the nail. Then I made every other dot a heart, still using the smallest dotter. I wanted the pattern to look delicate and girly. I really like the final result :)

Cream Soda!

I used to LOVE cream soda as a kid, easily one of my favorite carbonated beverages (besides root beer!) as a child. I didn't have it a lot, but it was a treat when I did! To be honest I can't remember the last time I had one, which is probably for the best since it basically just sugar and water... But I digress, we are here to talk about polish... Today I have a Sinful Colors polish from their latest Spring offering, Cream Soda.

The colour caught my eye immediately but the name got me all nostalgic. Cream Soda is a light salmon pink coral which is just on the border of being a pastel, however I think it is a touch brighter. The finish on this one is interesting, a cream with a hint of silver shimmer sprinkled throughout. It is more visible in the bottle than on the nail, it's actually slightly visible on the nail in the  right light. The shimmer acts as the tiny bubbles and foam of carbonation in cream soda... or maybe I am reading too much in to the name!

I could have gotten away with two thick coats put opted for three medium ones instead. The formula was thinner than most creams but great to work with. 

Rosey

Yesterday I mentioned that I was inspired to purchase Orly Rage from a friend who happened to be wearing it. She actually layered a glitter over top for her mani, Essie A Cut Above. A Cut Above has got to be the perfect complement for Rage, it is a slightly deeper pink and I would describe it as more gold toned than
Rage for sure.

I layered/dabbed one coats of glitter over Rage and seriously was in love! What a perfect quick and easy mani for Valentines! I would have never thought of layering a glitter over a chrome but I honestly did not want to remove this polish combo!

Once it started chipping I even tried to fill in the chips with glitter and polish lol. Ultimately I did have to remove it once the chipping started again. I feel like I have been bored lately with my polish choices and this one really got me excite again! Definitely my favourite mani of the year so far!