China Glaze Frostbite & OPI In True Stefani Fashion Swatches (and jelly sandwich!)

Today I have two swatches and a jelly sandwich for y'all!  The swatches are China Glaze Frostbite, a bright blue shimmer, and OPI In True Stefani Fashion, a silver holo glitter.  They looked so good together I decided to try Frostbite as a jelly sandwich and it worked great!


Ok first up is China Glaze Frostbite, a bright royal blue polish with a lovely metallic shimmer.  This polish applied really well, but it is definitely sheer...I used 3 coats to build opacity.  This is one of those colors that glows from within, I think due to the metallic shimmer.

Morgan Taylor Scene Queen Swatch

Today I have the most amazing polish I've ever seen, Morgan Taylor Scene Queen.  It is truly wonderful!  It looks like a silvery metallic nude and then it leans a champagne blush color. Seriously, I'm obsessed.

Can't Let Go & Miss Conduct

Not much to say about this mani other than I love it! These colors paired really well and the difference in textures worked great :)

Pink Purple Galaxy

Hey y'all, today I have my first "galaxy" style mani.  This isn't the typical color scheme for a galaxy (blue, black, pink, green etc.) but rather one based on Zoya Payton (my base color).   The idea was more of a twilight colored galaxy scheme but it didn't quite turn out like I wanted.

I started with Zoya Payton as my base, then sponged China Glaze Gossip Over Gimlets.  Then LA Colors Light Pink Metalic, and Zoya Reva.  I then sponged a little of the base color to blend it all a bit.  I dabbed Wet N Wild Coloricon Speak When Spoken To on the very center and topped it all with crack (China Glaze Fairy Dust) and Sally Hansen InstaDri.

Breast Cancer Awareness Nails

Hi Y'all! Today I have my pink Friday nails because October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 

This is one coat LA Colors Light Metallic Pink, 1-2 coats of China Glaze Material Girl. and the accent nail is China Glaze Holo Infra-Red, the ribbon is a mix of LA Colors Baby Pink and a little silver to get the color right, and then CG Material Girl for the outline. All are topped in 2 coats Gelous and one coat Sally Hansen Insta-Dri. 

Shade

Zoya Kimber, Sienna & Mimi

Today I got my Zoyas from the Color Your World promotion, 3 Zoyas Free, just pay $10 shipping.  I ordered Kimber, Sienna & Mimi, on January 11th and just got them today.  Normally Zoya has really fast shipping (I usually get mine in 2-3 days) but this was a huge promotion for them and they said to start with it could take up to 4 weeks.  

I'm really excited about these colors, they are bright and have glass flecked shimmer (my favorite!) I always have a hard time narrowing down my order from Zoya but these were all chosen for a reason. Mimi is what my son calls my mom, Kimber because I haven't bought a pink in a while and pink is my favorite, and Sienna because I only have ONE orange.

Here are all three...

 

With flash

 Without flash

Color Codes

Zoya Kimber

 Left: Without flash, Right: Flash

 Bottle Shot

 Zoya Mimi

 Left: Without flash, Right: Flash

 Bottle Shot

Zoya Sienna

 Left: Without flash, Right: Flash

 Bottle Shot

Nail Wheels

 Flash

Without Flash

 

Left: Flash, Right: Without flash

 
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China Glaze Water You Waiting For

Hi y'all! This is China Glaze Water You Waiting For. This was my favorite polish out of the Circle De Soleil collections. Its a beautiful blue, purple and turquoise glitter with a blue tinted sheer base. It has blue and turquoise micro glitter and purple small hexes. This polish has such incredible dimension, it looks like many, many layers. This is two coats and it looks like much more.

picture is blurry to show sparkle :)

Here is my mani this week, not exactly how I planned it but I like it none the less.

This is 2 coats China Glaze For Audrey (mine was very runny and kept flooding my cuticles and dragging) and the blue, teal and purple are from a LA Colors Modern Metallics set I got for Xmas but the colors aren't named.  Accent is one coat For Audrey and 2 coats China Glaze Water You Waiting For.  All nails have one coat Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Topcoat, accent nails have 2 coats.

The plan was to use the metallic teal like on my thumb but when layered over the metallic blue it turned too green and didn't match the accent as well as I would've liked. So I subbed the purple and like it better :)

*sorry the pictures aren't great, i had a hard time photographing this one.  im also learning a new camera still and sick all weekend so i kept forgetting to take some in natural light*

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China Glaze- It's A Trap-Eze!

Today I have for y'all a gorgeous mani that photographed horribly!  The color is more of a dark fuchsia than the red the pictures play it to be, so I'll try to photograph the bottle outside for more accurate lighting.  I got a new camera (Sony Cybershot) and it's a great camera, and my macros are looking a lot better.  But I can't figure out how to keep the coloring right, it seems to come out too high contrast.  Any hints? 

This is as true to color as I could get

Anyway, onto the nails! This is 2 very thin coats of LA Colors Modern Metallics Fuchsia (it's a no name polish from a set, I named it), and accent nail is one coat with 2 thin coats China Glaze It's A Trap-Eze.

I love both of these colors!  The LA Colors set I got had a few one coaters, including this one, had my husband not given me like 10 minutes to get ready including nails :)  These are great colors and not streaky or frosty despite being metallics.  It's A Trap-Eze is also a great polish that I've wanted since it was released.  It is packed with a ton of colors in small and medium hexes.  One coat would be sufficient but I wanted to even out the milky layer a bit.  The only issue I had with it was the formula was a bit chunky due to all the glitter but the payoff is worth it!

Left: Flash shows colors, Right: Shade shows the depth better)

*** Y'all please take a minute to also check out my jewelry page, the tab is at the top of the page.  Contact me if you'd like to purchase one, and Thanks for looking :)