Chromatic Creation

Hey Everyone!!! Mondays are very much not my friend. I think I might have woken up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. I didn't have much interest in getting up and I was having a really weird dream. I was also in a pretty deep sleep when that stupid alarm went off. 

I have a few pictures of Bruce in his fort to make Monday a little better. I WILL get back to Monday Blues soon I just need to get a little more organized. I actually have a blue mani on today and it is Monday but it isn't ready for the blog yet. Anyway back to Bruce.

We had the dog food cases sitting next to the couch and he decided he was going to get behind them and hide so he would be ready for attack.

Now of course when I grabbed the camera instead of being in the stealthy observation position with his head now and his little eyes peering just over the top of the cans he decided he had to act like he was just hanging out and not stalking.

The little bug knows when I grab that camera and every single time he moves from the position I was trying to take a picture of. This is the closest to his stalking stance but he was much lower. I actually didn't notice him behind there at first. Sadly we had to take his fort down but I am sure he will find a new post soon.

So this month at Sally Beauty Supply Finger Paints are on sale Buy one Get one Free. I of course had to take that offer up and also see if they had their new holo polish out. I wasn't sure what to expect from this polish because holo and mainstream brands don't often go together. 

Finger Paints Chromatic Creation is one of the new colors in the newly designed Finger Paints line. Would you believe that stupid index finger nail broke even more and is now shorter than in that picture. I have no idea why these nails taunt me so. I used three coats of Chromatic Creation for this mani.

In the bottle Chromatic Creation looks like a silver polish. I saw no hint of holo at all in the store, my house or even outside on the way to the car. I don't remember if it was a cloudy day that day but when I wore this I only had a little bit of sun to work with. Inside my office the holo came out to play a bit. 

I saw some pictures about the internet of this one and in my opinion the pictures I had seen look a lot more holo than it looked on my nails. 

The application was really nice on this one though. I didn't have the dragging and balding that you have with some holo polishes. I didn't even wait very long in between coats and still no problem. This one doesn't apply as nicely as the Color Club Holos which are amazing but it is a lot better than the China Glaze Hologlam collection.

I managed to get some sun shots on day 2 of this mani. I will say I had applied this over my gel mani but did not use a top coat. I had no issues with the tips wearing off or chipping at all. I can't say for sure if having the gel mani base helped in that area but I was impressed that the polish still looked good.

In the sun you can see the holo better. In the shade it looks like a silver polish.

I took a ton of pictures of this one. 

I'm glad to see that Finger Paints decided to put a holo in their line up. Now if we could get companies to stop calling things holo that clearly aren't holo things would be good.

I finally had to give in and cut down my ring and pinky nails a bit. So far it has helped keep them from breaking which is good. I think this is the first time in a long time I have had all the nails on one hand be longish at the same time.

I didn't even realize until I just typed that about shortening my nails that I did it while wearing this mani. Duh. I guess you can tell which pictures were taken the first day and which were taken the second day now.

That's all for now :)

Purple for World Cancer Day

Hey Everyone!! Today is World Cancer Day and I did a purple mani to support that cause. 

I used a base of Zoya Mira from the 2011 Summertime Collection. I used three coats. Mira is a gorgeous purple. These pictures aren't very color accurate, purple is not the easiest color to photograph and Mira wasn't very cooperative.

This picture is more color accurate but I think Mira is a little darker in person. Zoya calls it a "blue toned medium purple with dusty lavender tones". I call it a very pretty purple creme.

I just noticed when I was editing these pictures I apparently had animal cracker crumbs on my fingers still. Oops. Sorry about that.

I used Bettina Polish in VIP for the stamping. I should have tested the polish before starting the stamping because VIP stamps very lightly. It is a nice subtle look which I liked but at some angles you couldn't even tell it was stamped.

I used Bundle Monster plate BM-H18 from the Holiday set for the heart design. I love the holiday set of plates! I really love the designs and they work really well. I think they are the best working plate set Bundle Monster has come up with so far.

That's all for now :)

Zoya Solange and Liberty

Hey Everyone!!! I have a quick post tonight. I am finally over my cold only for C to come home feeling like he is getting another cold. I am hoping I don't get sick. I still have a little congestion but I am pretty much better. I finally got Friday's mani from Zoya week edited and ready to go. I had a nice Broncos mani for Sunday but I took it off before the game ended. I only have one picture and I posted it on Instagram so I probably won't post that here. I am not a Broncos fan but I am a huge Peyton Manning fan so the game was disappointing not only because he lost but because the game was just not good. The commercials weren't anything awesome and I wasn't impressed with the halftime show either. The only good thing about the game was the cake we had at halftime. Hopefully next year is a better football year.

A quick picture of Bruce because he is such a cutie.

I love that cat!

I used Zoya Liberty and Solange from the Summer Pixie Dust collection for this mani.

I did a gradient type mani because for some reason I really liked these colors together. 

I absolutely love this mani. I kept looking at it. 

Both colors are so vivid and bright. It was quite a cheery mani. 

Where they blended the two colors turned a little green which I was hoping would happen. It was a little more obvious in person but was still pretty subtle.

I bet this would have looked awesome with top coat as well. I can't believe I didn't think of that before taking it off.

I have a minor catastrophe with my ring and pinky nails on my left hand. Right now they are hanging on by a silk wrap and gel polish but they are about to break really low. I think they are each split about half way across. I am trying to save them for as long as possible but I am betting I will be going to nubbins sooner than later. 

I kept thinking that this mani reminded me of something but I couldn't think of what the entire time I had it on. I think I just realized that it reminds me of minions. I am going to have to do some minion nail art with these colors.

I am loving the Pixie Dust polishes. I think they are my favorite of all the textured polishes I have tried.

That's all for now :)

Zoya Mosheen gets Breezi

Hey Everyone!!! I am going to make tonight's post quick so I can try and get my mani done for tomorrow. Hopefully I can get it done before bed. 

Today I have two Zoyas to show you.

I started off with a base of Zoya Breezi from the 2011 Summertime Collection. Breezi is a gorgeous cerulean blue. It is a little darker in the above picture because I took it in my weirdly lighted kitchen. This is a gorgeous dusty medium blue. I love blue so this one is automatically one of my favorites. 

I used three coats of Breezi for the base then one coat of Mosheen. Mosheen is from the 2013 Zenith collection. It is a gorgeous ice blue base with iridescent glitter mix. Some of the glitter is bar glitter which adds a unique touch to this one. 

I think Mosheen looked great over Breezi and gave it an awesome sparkly shimmer.

I really like this combination. I almost want to keep it on another day. I might have to stamp over it and go ahead and keep it. 

I had some issues with my cleanup and it was all wonky. I also have a couple of minor chips which means I should probably take it off but that blue is so pretty.

This picture is blurry but it showed how cool Mosheen looks when she sparkles in the light.

That's all for now :)

Zoya Channing

Hey Everyone!! Once again I got a late start on editing and posting because I had to wait my turn for the computer. I am going to try and get ahead a little bit this weekend so that I can get the posts up earlier. We will see how that goes.

Tonight I have Zoya Channing from the Fall Cashmeres and Satins collection. Channing is from the Satins part of the collection.

I used three coats of Channing. It is a gorgeous metallic rusty copper red shade. 

Since I can't leave anything alone I had to try some stamping over it. I really loved the color of Channing and thought gold would look nice. I was also too lazy to go look for a copper polish to stamp but I really like the way the gold looks so my laziness worked out well. I used Essie Good as Gold for the stamping. 

I stamped with Cheeky plate CH-44 from their 2012 Summer collection. I think these look slightly like brass knuckles which I don't mind at all. 

C was very upset because I hadn't shown him this mani last night and he says it is the coolest one I have done lately. He only noticed it because he came up behind me while I was editing the pictures. Perhaps he should pay more attention.

I really liked the metallic color combination for this mani and it was nice and bold and kept catching my attention throughout the day. Definitely one of my favorites.

I meant to take a picture of Channing without the stamping but I completely forgot about it. I will definitely be using this polish again so I will have to remember to get pictures of it then. 

That's all for now :)

Purple Pixie Butterflies

Hey Everyone! I hope everyone is staying safe and warm out there. I can't believe how crazy the weather is out there. I was hoping we would get some cool air down this way but it doesn't seem like it is going to happen. On a good note today we start Zoya week! 

I used two of the awesome 2013 Pixie Dusts for this mani. I used Stevie from the Summer collection and Carter from the Fall collection to create a gradient. It isn't perfect but I was pretty happy with how the gradient came out.

I used two coats of Stevie for the base. I really love the way the Pixie Dusts look. The sparkle they have makes me very happy.

I actually had to do this mani twice because I had a great idea the first time that looked awful. I guess it was not too horrible, according to C anyway, but after an hour I couldn't take it anymore and I had to start over.

This mani made me think of candy for some reason. Due to having to redo the mani twice I didn't bother stamping it last night. I couldn't stop thinking about how this mani needed butterflies on it so I decided to do some stamping before I took it off. 

I used Sinful Colors white and Cheeky Jumbo Plate 9 Wild at Heart for the butterflies.

The butterflies made it perfect! 

I couldn't leave it alone so I put clear on my ring and middle finger to show you how the Pixie Dusts look with top coat. Unfortunately I did this just before taking it off and it was already dark so I couldn't get a good picture in the light.

You can see a little bit of difference in the last picture but not enough. I will have to remember to take better pictures of the top coated Pixie Dusts next time. 

That's all for now :)

Candy Kisses

Hey Everyone!! I am late again. This should have posted last week for Smitten week but I wasn't feeling well at all and never got around to posting it. I actually just finished editing the pictures. I think we need another computer so I don't have to fight to get these pictures edited. I am finally feeling better but obviously not enough to get on the ball with everything. It should get better, I hope. 

Today I have Smitten Polish Candy Kisses. Candy Kisses is from the Confection Collection otherwise known as the totally awesome Willy Wonka collection that I loved.

I used three coats of Candy Kisses. It makes me want candy.

This is a gorgeous white base with different sized purple and pink glitter. It is awesome.

I love how this one builds so you can see the glitter that was in the previous coat but the white is still opaque enough that it looks white.

This would be a great Valentine's Day mani and I thought of different stamping ideas for this polish while I was editing the pictures. I am thinking I will probably be wearing this one again soon.

I think I am missing one polish from this collection and now that I realize I am missing it I am going to have to try and get my hands on it so the collection is complete. I hate it when I realize these things and then they drive me crazy.

That's all for now :)