Giveaway over at The PolishAholic!

Wow! Jen from The PolishAholic is having a HUGE giveaway to celebrate her blogiversary. You could win the ENTIRE OPI Texas collection, among other awesome prizes. Check it out: http://www.thepolishaholic.com/2011/03/polishaholic-1-year-blogiversary.html

Glitter glitter glitter!

I LOVE glitter polishes. I really do. But they're such a pain to remove that I only rarely wear them on my fingers. My solution is to use glitter polishes for my pedicures instead! Since glitter wears like iron, it means I hardly ever have to do my toes. So since I didn't hear any objection to posting pedi pics, here's my current toes. This was done with the Color Club Glitter Vixen collection. Colors are as follows: Tru Passion (purple), Sexy Siren (blue),  Object of Envy (green), Art of Seduction (red), and Sex Symbol (silver). Application on these was pretty good, they're clear bases that are jammed with glitter so it only took me 2-3 coats to get what you see here. Click to enlarge.

Bejeweled

This is somewhat of a swatch, but more like me playing around. I've been thinking about ruffian/moon/reverse French manicures a lot lately (more info here) and decided to do one with my existing Zoya Happi manicure. To do this, I placed adhesive French tip guides on my nails to give the black a nice clean line. Then I added my first coat of Zoya Raven, a beautiful inky black with subtle silver shimmer. It's very important to remove the tip guide immediately after painting this first coat. If you remove it when it's dry, it can ruin the polish! After that dried, I carefully painted on a second coat of Raven and I was done!. But that wasn't enough, oh no.. I had these Cina nail art decals (available at Sally Beauty) that are essentially rhinestones on a sticky back. I stuck them along the black line, smothered the whole nail in top coat to help the decals stay on longer, and presto! They're kind of edgy princess nails, I think. 

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Toe be or not toe be?

I couldn't resist the title, sorry. :) I wanted to know if, with sandal season coming up, anyone would object to me posting pedicure pictures? I ask only because I know some people are very grossed out by toes and feet. Let me know your thoughts!

Zoya - Happi

Hello there! I have another fun polish for you today. I noticed I've been leaning towards these iridescent colors lately, they're so pretty and fun. Zoya Happi is a light sort of blush pink with an amazing yellow-gold iridescence to it. It really just flashes and glimmers in the sun. The effect almost reminds me of mother of pearl or a pretty beetle wing. Even in low light you can see the yellow sheen on the pink, it's really very pretty. This is 4 thin coats. I could likely have done 3 and been okay but I hate having my nail line visible, even a tiny bit! 

I also want to say hello to all my new followers! Thank you so much for joining my little blog. I'm hoping to have a giveaway when I hit 50 followers. Please don't hesitate to comment or email me, I'd love to hear from you.

Color Club - Tangerine Scream

Hello there! Finally back with another swatch for you. This is Color Club's Tangerine Scream, released as part of their Summer 2009 Electro Candy collection. I have the whole set, so expect to see them all here sooner or later. This is a great color with a really cool blue-white shimmer that kinda shows up here. It's like most neons, kinda sheer, so I think this was 3 or 4 coats. Worth it though. Oh, and my pinky nail is stubby because I had a little break on Friday.. Sad, but at least I didn't lose the whole nail!

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Zoya Get Your Green On Promo

Hey! I'm hoping to have a new swatch up tomorrow, sorry for the silence. Busy busy week. Anyways, wanted to let you know about Zoya's Get Your Green On promo, running until March 7th. I HIGHLY recommend taking advantage of this if you like greens, I own both Ivanka (the glittery green) and Suvi (the blackened emerald green) and can't praise them highly enough. A note: Zoya always gets slammed with orders during their promotions and it may take your order quite a while to be shipped, but I think the savings are worth it. :) Click here for the promo item page. Add it to your cart and you're good to go! This offer doesn't include free shipping but it's still a good deal.

UPDATE: According to Zoya, this promotion is now sold out!