Ulta Devious with Sinful Colors Pinky Glitter Accent

I hope you are enjoying your Wednesday! I have yet another Ulta brand polish to share with you today.

Ulta Devious is a dark eggplant purple creme. It goes on smooth and creamy like butter, opaque in two coats. I used Sinful Colors Pinky Glitter as an accent over Devious. Pinky Glitter is a light pink jelly filled with holo glitter and shimmer. The glitter really pops over a dark shade.

Ulta polishes retail for $6 at Ulta, in store and online. They frequently go on sale for as inexpensive as $2. Sinful Colors retail for $2 at Walgreens, Walmart, Target, and various other stores (a complete list on their website.)

Barielle Myrza's Meadow

I hope you are enjoying your Wednesday!

Barielle Myrza's Meadow is a chartreuse green jelly like creme with small scattered holographic glitter. This polish is perfection. Definitely one of my favorite Barielle Shades. The application is perfection and opaque in three coats. The glitter catches the light nicely and adds a delicate sparkle to this lovely spring green.

Barielle retails for $8 on their website.

Kleancolor Holo Pink

I hope you are enjoying your Saturday! I'm a little behind on posting my voted on swatch. The new poll is up; please check it out.

Kleancolor Holo Pink is a pink jelly filled with holo micro glitter. The application requires some patience. The first time I tried this (a couple of weeks ago), I gave up because it was thick and would not layer evenly. I was more patient this time around and let the coats dry properly. The result was great. There is a bit of visible nail line after three coats, but nothing so noticeable that you would want more coats.

Kleancolor retails for $2-4 on various online sites.

Zoya Aurora

I hope you are enjoying your Saturday! I took advantage of Zoya's promo and received my order on Thursday. The sale ends on 1/13 at midnight est. You get three free and just pay $10 for shipping and handling, using promo code ZOYA2013. 

Zoya Aurora is a medium purple jelly with dense holographic glitter flakes. I cannot express how gorgeous this polish is! The application is perfection in two coats. The glitter flakes are small and flat. They do not apply like glitter or remove like glitter equaling easy application and removal. Aurora is a must have!

SoFlaJo Champagne Cocktail

I hope you are enjoying your Thursday! Today I have a gorgeous indie polish to show you.

SoFlaJo Champagne Cocktail is a silver holo with scattered holo glitter. The holo effect is much stronger than it appears in my pictures. It was cloudy the entire time I wore it, and indoor pictures obviously did not do it justice. I love the addition of holo glitter! It adds a little something extra to make this polish unique. Champagne Cocktail can be alone as I did, or used as a layering top coat. It took three coats to be opaque and has a wonderful application.

L.A. Colors Sassy Sparkle Glitter Tips

I hope you are enjoying your Friday! I meant to post this manicure earlier, right after Color Club Nouveau Vintage.

I was not ready to remove the lovely Nouveau Vintage, so I added glitter to the tips. Usually glitter covers up tip wear, but not this time. L.A. Colors Sassy Sparkle is a clear jelly base filled with small holo glitter.

Jessica Life of the Party

I hope you are enjoying your Saturday! I have a fun polish in a fun shape to share with you today.

Jessica Life of the Party is a purple jelly filled with small round holo glitter. The application is great, especially considering its a jelly full of glitter. Three coats gave it the opacity seen there. I plan to try it with a similar base color next time. Though I do love the jelly finish. And I absolutely love this polish. Its fun and colorful. The bottle is cute as well! Shaped like a light bulb.

Butter London All Hail the Queen

I hope you are enjoying your Sunday! I have yet another Butter London to show you today. Its the third and final one I got from my Coterie order (except for the matte topcoat).

Butter London All Hail the Queen is a beige creme filled with holographic micro glitter. The glitter appears silver, holo, and occasionally red. Incredibly gorgeous. Neutral with flair. The application is great and opaque in two coats.

Butter London retails for $14 and is available at several locations, all of which are listed on their website.

Sparkling Tips

I hope you are enjoying you're Friday! I seem to be solving all my polish related wear issues with glitter lately. I didn't have time to change my nails after wearing Zoya Skylar, so I did a glitter gradient to the tips. It freshened up the look and hid any tip wear. I wish I had decent pictures of right after it was done. I made the mistake of taking them in the kitchen. The lighting made my skin appear yellow and threw off polish color accuracy. I did not notice this until I had already taken my nails through a hard day. So the tip wear is very noticeable.

Despite the wear, I wanted to post them. It was such a sparkly combination. I literally got distracted by my own nails reflection in my laptop screen as I hit a key trying to wake it up from hibernation. 

Over Zoya Skylar, I did a quick glitter gradient with Color Club Beyond the Mistletoe. It is a clear base with light green and holo glitter. The light green complimented the steel blue Skylar rather well in person.

Skylar is part of the Zoya True Collection and retails for $8 on their website. Beyond the Mistletoe is part of the Color Club Beyond the Mistletoe Collection. It retails for $4-8. I purchased mine in a collection set of all six for $8 at Ross.  

Bright Gradient

I hope you are enjoying your Saturday! Today, I have a bright fun combination to show you. I wanted some cheer me up nails, so I decided to do a bright color and holo glitter.

I started with Color Club Limelight, a bright green creme, as my base. The application is great. All the brightness of a neon without needing to layer it over white. It was opaque in two coats. Once it was mostly dry, I sponged Color Club Golden Coast on the tips. I love Golden Coast. Its a clear base with with small gold and holo glitter.

I purchased a small bottle of Seche Vite to see how it compares to my Poshe top coat. I wore this manicure for truck day at work. We are talking eight hours of unloading boxes, opening boxes, stocking shelves, and whatnot. It takes a toll on my nail polish. Yesterday I only had two tiny chips. Normally I would have major tip wear and chips. I'm going to test it with another polish later and see if it was a fluke.

Fingers retail for $2 or 3/$5 at Five Below. Cosmetic Arts retail for $2 at Ross (I'm unsure where else they are sold, if anywhere else).

Rainbow Favorites Day 3 - Yellow

I hope you're enjoying your Tuesday! I have another part of the rainbow challenge to share with you. Just like the last two days, I debated over two polishes before I chose one. Its hard to pick just one.

Finger Paints Psychedelic Sunshine is a yellow jelly packed full of holo micro glitter. Its rather sheer, even for a jelly. Normally I would use a matching base coat, but decided to just wear it alone this time. If you want to see what it looks like with a yellow base coat, you can check out my original post here. The application is good, once thinned a little. What you see above is two coats. 

Psychedelic Sunshine is from Finger Paints Summer 2011 Peace, Love and Color Collection. It is not available at Sally Beauty Supply anymore, so if you love yellow and are lucky enough to see a bottle, snag this beauty.

If you want to see what other polishes the other lovely bloggers are choosing, check them out. :)

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Fancy Phalanges

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Football and Fingernails

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Kelly’s Kolors!

Lacquer Dreams

Lacquer or Leave Her!

Liesl Loves Pretty Things

Light Your Nails!

Manicurity

My Life in Polish

Nail Polish Lane

Nailpolish is Alive

Nubbin Nails

Of Color n Music...

Passion for Polish

Polish and Such

Sincerely, Obsessed With Polish

So You Think You Can Paint

The Rantings of a Nailpolish Hoarder

Ulta Material Girl

I hope you are enjoying your Tuesday! I have a pretty polish from Ulta to show you today.

Ulta Material Girl is a magenta purple jelly with micro holo glitter. The application is good and opaque two coats. I know it appears a little gritty in the photos. I should have added a second layer of top coat. 

Ulta Nail Lacquer retails for $6 at Ulta.

Sunshine and Blue Flowers

Its Stamping Sunday! Very late on Sunday, but not Monday yet. The theme is "something with glitter."

What is better than bright yellow glitter and blue flowers? I started off with two coats of China Glaze Sunshine. Its a canary yellow jelly with small and micro holo glitter. Then I stamped on flowers with Sally Hansen Pacific Blue and plate BM12. It stamps very well.

Sunshine is part of the China Glaze Specialty Collection. It retails for $3-6 at various stores and websites (including Head2Toe Beauty, and Amazon. Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear retails for $2-3 at Walgreens, Walmart, Riteaid, Target, and Ulta. BM stamping plates are part of a 21 piece set that retails for $18 on Bundle Monster or their Amazon store.

Comparison - Color Club Candy Cane vs Wet n Wild Sparked

Battle of the pink glitters! While looking at my nail wheel one day, I noticed that two of my pink glitters looked very close. Possible dupes. So I did a little comparison.

Each picture is index/ring with Color Club Candy Cane and middle/pinky with Wet n Wild Sparked.

One coat each

Two coats each

Two coats each with a coat of Wet n Wild Hallucinate over Sparked

As you can see Candy Cane covers much more opaque than Sparked, even after the first coat. With a second coat, Sparked is more opaque, but still not equal. In the bottle, the only difference appears to be the lack of holo glitter in Sparked. On the nail, you can see that are very close. To really see the potential, I layered one coat of Hallucinate over Sparked.

After taking a good look at each nail, I would have to say that they are very very close, but not dupes, even with holo glitter added. Candy Cane is slightly more hot pink than the Sparked/Hallucinate combo. Different enough to justice owning both, but close enough that it would make a good substitution.

Nabi Cute Punky

I hope you enjoyed your Friday. Today's post is coming in a little late. So late that its technically Saturday here, but better late than never.

I layered two coats of Nabi Cute Punky over one coat of Wet n Wild Nocturnal. Cute Punky has two sizes of small lime green glitter along with holo glitter. I would not consider the smallest glitter in it to be micro, but between micro and small. The glitter shows more gold than green when layered over the dark ink blue Nocturnal.

Nabi Nail Lacquer retails for $3-5 online. Nocturnal is part of Wet n Wild's Craze line, which has been discontinued. As with any discontinued line or collection, there was usually bottles to be found online. 

Color Club Blossoming Collection Skittles

I hope you are enjoying your Wednesday! Today, I have the entire Color Club Blossoming Collection to show you today.

The Blossoming Collection consists of five cremes and a glitter. From thumb to pinky, I used Blushing Rose, Sweetpea, Lavendarling, Blue-ming, and Hydrangea Kiss. The first two pictures are two coats of each, no top coat. Then I did a layer of Diamond Drops on each. 

Blushing Rose is a light pink creme. It would make a nice soft neutral. Sweetpea is a dusty mauve creme with more purple than pink. It does remind me of its namesake (unlike some shades). Lavendarling is dusty purple creme. Blue-ming is a mint turquoise, more green than blue despite its name. It is the brightest of the collection. Hydrangea Kiss is a dusty blue creme, reminiscent of the flower its named for. Diamond Drops is a shredded/shattered holo glitter. It looks like shards of glass reflecting a rainbow of colors. All of the cremes have wonderful application, opaque in two coats. The glitter was a little hard to get evenly spread out on the nail, but nothing that careful application doesn't remedy.

The Color Club Blossom Collection polishes retail for $4-8 individually. Sets of seven (topcoat included) retail for $8 in store at Ross and Burlington.

Sugar Plum Fairies

I hope you're enjoying your Monday! I have another manicure to show you for Monkey See, Monkey Do. The challenge just started last week. Its a nail challenge for Monday (though mine will be on Tuesday since I already do one for Mondays) where we take inspiration from or recreate a mani done by someone else. Anything you see on blogs, Facebook, Pinterest, or anywhere else online. 

I was inspired by a lovely design I saw on Pinterest by Milily. For my base, I did two coats of Cosmetic Arts In Bloom. Its a very light lilac creme with great application. For the tips, I sponged on Color Club Sugarplum Fairy. I love this glitter so much. It is a clear base packed with light lilac and holo glitter. I've found that for glitter, it is best to paint the polish on the sponge.

Cosmetic Arts retail for $2 at Ross (I'm unsure where else they are sold, if anywhere else). Sugarplum Fairy is part of the Color Club Beyond the Mistletoe Collection. It retails for $4-8. I purchased mine in a collection set of all six for $8 at Ross.  

Please check out the other lovely bloggers participating in this challenge. :)

Amber Did It

Angelina's Nails & More

Beauty Bumbles

Dressed Up Digits

Fancy Phalanges

Fanning the Fumes

Geeky Owl

Gnarly Gnails

Jen's Painted Tips

Kawaiinize Your World

LeSamowen

Macabre Manicures

Maquiclub Girl

Nail Polish is my Crack

PishPosh and Polish

Polish Crazed

Polish Lover

Tales of Knit and Nails

The Clockwise Nail Polish

The Crumpet

The Manicured Monkey

The (mis)Adventures of a Wanna Be Martha

Toxic Vanity

Funky French Glitter Bomb

I hope you're enjoying your Monday! The Monday Nail Art Challenge is here again. The theme this week is Glitter Bomb. I have done many glitter filled manicures so I wanted something a little bit different. A funky french glitter bomb.

I absolutely love this glitter combination. It reminds me of my high school colors. Though I think it will remind most people of LSU. I used L.A. Colors Nuclear Energy and Pure Ice Cheatin as my purple base. I did one coat of the former and two coats of the latter. Cheatin has blue glitter, along with the purple. I free-handed the gold tips using Color Club Gingerbread Man and Funky Fingers Golden Coast. Along with the gold glitter, there is also holo glitter. The applications on all of these polishes is great.

L.A. Colors retail for around $1 and can be found at most Dollar stores. Pure Ice retails for $2 at Walmart and Bari Cosmetics. Funky Fingers retail for $2 or 3/$5 at Five Below. Gingerbread Man is part of the Color Club Scent-suous Collection and retails for $4.